skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what it is in US culture and society that makes it so hostile towards anyone and anything even vaguely suspected of a crime, but this sort of thing is shockingly common, even when dealing with children. Here's another case I encountered a few weeks ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Brown_case – there are so many things wrong with the entire thing, starting with charging an 11-year old as an adult(!!!) but what really takes the cake is:

"Presiding Judge Dominick Motto of the Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, Common Pleas Court initially denied decertification and transfer to juvenile court because Jordan would not admit his involvement in the crime."

"We're going to punish you harder because you claim to be innocent" What kind of backward clinically insane shitcunt logic is that?! Especially when we're talking about a 11-year old?!

It's no surprise that the "kids for cash" scandal could have continued for years, because the entire system is rotten. In any half-way decent system giving 3 months detention to a 14-year old for making a MySpace parody page of a teacher should have set off every possible alarm bell, and that it didn't is pretty damning for the entire system. Also: what kind of school brings this matter to a judge in the first place...? This along is pretty crazy.
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I poop, on company time.
Wonderful opportunity to kill two birds with one stone: legislatively require that all large scale AI training be powered with carbon free energy only. Not with “carbon offsets” or other scam like bullshit, but by actual, real energy derived from solar, wind, hydro, or nuclear.
I know I will burn karma for this but what the heck: If you don't like it, don't buy it. That their sugar-added products are not sold in Switzerland or Germany is simply because people there would not buy them enough to make profit. There is nothing unethical about adding sugar to a food.
I've got no idea about finances and would like to invest a meaningful part of my money in ETFs. Because I'm so clueless I assume I cannot really go wrong with a ETF that is tracking the MSCI Developed World Index.

My problem: I really really really hate Nestlé and don't want to invest even a single penny in them. What can I do? I assume they're in the included in the index. There are ESG-weighted alternatives, but Nestlé managed to get quite good ESG ratings, so I presume they're included there as well.
It's also aquired taste: after enough time on a 0-added-sugar diet, you don't miss the sugar anymore.

But it's a kind of "fast attack, slow decay" thing: you get hooked in no time, but it takes ages too lose that craving for sweetness.

No doubt food companies are very aware of this. Get 'em young, and... who cares if it ruins people's health, as long as it's legal & makes nice profit.
> But I want to stress rather that it is a pressure rather than the only contributing variable. That there are more variables with similarly strong pressures, such that by fixing voting we shouldn't expect to have a stable system with multiple parties overnight.

I'm not sure that's the case, at least if you're willing to extend "overnight" to something like "over two or three election cycles."

If we were to adopt e.g. approval voting, the immediate effect would be that existing third party candidates who currently get ~1.2% of the vote would be able to get 20-30%, because voters would no longer have to be concerned about "wasting" their vote on a non-major party candidate they might actually prefer. In a small number of districts, like Libertarians in parts of New Hampshire or Greens in parts of California, the third party candidate might even immediately win.

Which in turn would change the nature of the very next election, because the media would have no excuse to dismiss a candidate who got 30% approval in the previous election when the losing major party candidate only got 32% -- or 29%. Then third party candidates get into the debates and have the opportunity to turn their 30% into 55%.

Moreover, it doesn't take a lot of seats to make a difference. Suppose the Republicans have 48 seats, the Democrats have 49 and a third party has 3. Those 3 seats are all either of the major parties need for a majority, so the third party would have a significant amount of influence.

> You can of course become just enough representative. This might be a helpful video to visualize this issue

Isn't this exactly the thing which is solved by cardinal systems? If you put candidate A, B and C or policy A, B and C all on the ballot together and have people rate them, there is no longer an ordering problem because you're not holding separate votes for A vs. B and, B vs. C and C vs. A. If Policy A gets a higher average rating than Policies B or C then it will always win when they're all on the ballot until voter preferences change.

The people choosing which candidates or policies make it onto the ballot have a lot of power, but that's always the case. Even if 100% of voters agree that Policy A is the best policy, if the only policies on the ballot are B and C then nobody can vote for Policy A. Obvious solution is to allow any policy or candidate onto the ballot that can gather a threshold number of signatures, instead of giving control over this to some manipulative autocrats.
My smooth brain might not understand this properly, but the idea is we generate embeddings, store them, then use retrieval each time we want to use them.

For simple things we might not need to worry about storing much, we can generate the embeddings and just cache them or send them straight to retrieval as an array or something...

The storing of embeddings seems the hard part, do I need a special database or PG extension? Is there any reason I can't store them as a blobs in SQlite if I don't have THAT much data, and I don't care too much about speed? Do embeddings generated ever 'expire'?
At this point especially considering the article we’re commenting on, it would be amazing if there weren’t spam shills and bots - they go where eyeballs go

There is an enormous vested interest to not let this become public and should make you question the concept that conspiracy can’t exist somehow
The obvious answer is stairs. It seems like right now Spot is getting the most use as a highly mobile camera platform for automated inspection in industrial environments. Many of these have a lot of stairs.
If you’re in a team lead or staff (most places) kind of position you can’t…
Sorry I didn’t include that as well, but it’s the same category of “cheap high calorie”, and nestle is still not alone in that. That’s most cheap baby formula producers
Fun Facts About the April 2024 Cisco Attack Data
A light analysis of attack data. Also available with nicer formatting but trackers at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/fun_facts_about_the_april_2024_ci...
Tried to replicate Chinchilla paper and discovered discrepancies
You're thinking of Diet Coke. Aspartame absolutely does have a taste, but it has also been studied an absolutely insane amount over literal decades and nobody can ever actually pin down a negative health effect from it.
In my experience, medium has a lot of resources about Deep Learning written by different users, and they implemented as a company a recommendation algorithm for their articles, which i liked it very much.

With just a google search i did, medium + recommendation algorithm this article appeared [1].

Also if you haven't tried medium's recommendation engine, i strongly suggest making an account and ticking a box somewhere for email recommendations.

[1] https://utsavdesai26.medium.com/recommendation-systems-expla...
There an interesting line of thinking i've heard (apologies, i forgot which podcast i heard it on), that states that forecasts of electric load growth due to AI are overblown wildly, since they are based on very recent data that only reflects the early-stage explosive growth, and neglects to consider eventual efficiencies that tend to get built into such activities.
Electrification of other more 'boring' areas like transport, heating/cooling etc are order of magnitude higher at least.
True, the Segway was not a scam at all. It was just amazingly overhyped and that's what killed it as a consumer product.
Needs more "delve"
If you’re the one with $56b then you’re free to decide that. In this case though you’re not on the giving or receiving end of the deal; your opinion really doesn’t matter.
> in a somewhat treacherous pun on ‘Multics’

It is both fascinating and amusing to note that significant innovation came from talented peoples' frustration with software-development complexity, bureaucracy, and paralysis.

Are we any better, half a century later?
Every article I have seen doesn't even provide numbers, which makes me think the claim is totally bogus if they are unwilling to quantify it. Plus there is massive flexibility in training on where and when it is run, they could easily pair it to areas and times of oversupply.
The Lowest Pay US Workers Will Accept for a New Job Soars
Is this release a pleasant surprise? Mistral weakened their commitment to open source when they partnered with Microsoft.

It's nice they're using some of the money from their commercial and proprietary models, to improve the state of the art for open source (open weights) models.
It doesn't even need to be fake/busy work. It might just not be quite what's needed by the business or customer and see little/no use.
The Katerra Team Rides Again: ONX Homes
The Space Shuttle wasn't a boondoggle because it was a truck; it was a boondoggle because it was an incredibly expensive truck. It failed utterly at the ostensible and valid reasons it was constructed, to make access to space cheap and routine.
You can't find a brand because people don't buy it because it tastes awful.
As a mod of a larger subreddit this comment makes me laugh. Good mods are invisible. In fact I do everything in my power to not use my power for bad, and only to help people out.
Err ... no ... the "nuclear" part comes from "nucleus", in the general sense, and the expression long predates nuclear technology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_family
No one is moving anything. Does the linked article talk about chess? Or matters like war, business, health care, and hiring? The context of what's being discussed here is political and business decisions, not games like chess.

No one in this entire thread claimed that having more data is bad. This is also not what the fallacy is about and no one is against having good quantifiable data.
If you ask ChatGPT to give you a cosine similarity function that works against two arrays of floating numbers in any programming language you'll get the code that you need.

Here's one in JavaScript (my prompt was "cosine similarity function for two javascript arrays of floating point numbers"):

function cosineSimilarity(vecA, vecB) {
if (vecA.length !== vecB.length) {
throw "Vectors do not have the same dimensions";
}
let dotProduct = 0.0;
let normA = 0.0;
let normB = 0.0;
for (let i = 0; i < vecA.length; i++) {
dotProduct += vecA[i] * vecB[i];
normA += vecA[i] ** 2;
normB += vecB[i] ** 2;
}
if (normA === 0 || normB === 0) {
throw "One of the vectors is zero, cannot compute similarity";
}
return dotProduct / (Math.sqrt(normA) * Math.sqrt(normB));
}

Vector stores really aren't necessary if you're dealing with less than a few hundred thousand vectors - load them up in a bunch of in-memory arrays and run a function like that against them using brute-force.
Theseus: GPU-Native Query Engine
Prior to cell phones being powerful enough to just shove megabytes of JS at them and expect them to work it out, the web had a lot of little subsets like this. I'm sure it wasn't really "the web", but a few pages that used HTTP to access them but if you strayed outside that set it completely disintegrated. I believe I saw some Palm Pilot optimized web sites, there used to be web sites optimized for mobile devices back when that meant something, there were some Dreamcast-optimized sites, etc. It is probably better to imagine it as access to their bespoke services over HTTP, and they were all pretty useless as they lacked any network effect.
Amazing... I have this stuff in my own bathroom, and assumed it was some sort of synthetically generated random pattern, e.g. a type of ceramic or concrete tile with coloring swirled in or something. To be honest, I find it a bit ugly and didn't understand why anyone would design a tile to look like this.

Can't wait to get home and actually look carefully. I suspect I'll appreciate it a lot more knowing what it actually is.
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> However modern content on modern, decent, LCD panels and especially on OLED panels, blows CRTs out of the water.

You can find some modern screens that do better at certain things than others but compared with what most people have CRTs are still likely to have better color accuracy, better contrast, zero motion blur, no dead/stuck pixels, far better viewing angles, no fixed resolutions, higher refresh rates, and zero backlight bleed. It's not all nostalgia (although I really do miss the degauss button) but CRTs were also before DRM, data collection, and ads being pushed at you and it's hard to not be nostalgic about that.
The success of Dilbert is largely due to its accurately documenting the path that Multics followed. ^_^
Regulatory capture, regulations in general, patents that shouldn’t have been granted, lawfare, access to capital..
I use both kinds very frequently so I can comment on this. The main difference is that SLA strength is more uniform and FDM strength is very directional.

And the strength of the output is highly dependent on the material for both printers. The typical resin is extremely brittle, but rather heat resistant. But you can get flexible or tough material which are both less brittle but also less rigid.

So to answer your question: not necessarily :) nylon-like SLA materials are pretty good for usable everyday items if you don't mind the slight fidelity losses (still better than FDM)
I signed up, paid €1.50 and was only then told I wasn't eligible. I can imagine they're going to be doing a lot of €1.50 refunds
I agree that Rockband almost certainly does render a whole frame before scanout. So, yes, there's necessary latency there between the input processing and game logic and everything and the output. Higher refresh mitigates that, but that's not really an option on the kinds of gaming machines Rockband runs on; hopefully it's all locked at 60Hz, because that's what TVs run on (unless maybe ew PAL, but ew), and all the machines have a 240p mode, if they're not cool enough to run 480p or better.

But modern displays add unnecessary latency on top of that. HDTV CRTs often did too. Input devices sometimes add latency too. It's really not too awful as long as it's consistent, real musical instruments have latency too (especially pipe organs! but organists manage to figure it out). It's not as much fun if you need to hit the note when it's visibly far from the 'goal' section, or if the judging becomes visible a long time after the note --- shortening the feedback loop is good.
Why is Mario so jumpy?
I hope to one day find meaningful work I am compensated for, or have accumulated enough wealth such that compensation is no longer relevant. Thanks for the reply.
Let the price go up. Increase welfare programs to compensate for poor people getting hurt. Charge for pollution at the source. The market will figure it out if you lay the incentive landscape properly.

The hard part is getting 100 million fools to vote for it.
I've jumped from a small ish CRT directly to LCDs, but I've helped a friend move the same 16:9 huge diagonal CRT TV twice. We still reminisce about those two back breaking experiences.
Look at a Beatmania IIDX Lightening Cab or a Sound Voltex Valkyrie cab. Modern flat panels are are providing better rhythm gaming experiences than CRTs ever did.
They have a robust material library, silicone, polyurethane, glass filled polymers etc. The material is not really a bottleneck at this point. I have used their ESD material which was slick, even the weirder materials are super easy. Obviously at scale the parts will make more sense with injection molding but if you need a couple thousand of a part this seems much cheaper and easier.
I published this pretty comprehensive intro to embeddings last year: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/23/embeddings/
To solve a particular position, I just use level-by-level breadth-first search until a level contains two values that are reverses of each other.

To explore the entire state space of possible initial positions, I use a number of tricks; I'll be writing that up pretty soon. I've explored through n=12 already, and expect to finish n=13 and n=14 pretty soon. I'm not sure if I'll be able to do n=15.

And by the way, I've found a position for n=14 that requires 206 moves to solve.
> The site would be wonderful without moderation as that's already covered by the voting mechanism.

Tell me you've never moderated anything popular without telling me you've never moderated anything popular.

Even 4chan has some moderation these days.
My understanding is he grew up in Park City.
> every fan niche like comicbooks is full of bot accounts in training (building up karma with low effort posts and repeat copy posts from previous days from other posters)

If such things exist in subs I visit, I don't see it. Either the reposts are downvoted so I don't see them, the repost is the first time I'm seeing it making it a good post from my perspective, or they aren't reposts and the bots are making good contributions.

I definitely notice the astroturfing accounts in the subs that are marketing profitable (usually lifestyle subs like fitness, fashion, cooking, investing, etc), but not every sub is profitable or even open to product endorsement. At least, I very rarely ever see such things in the video games subs I visit. I'm not even sure how you could mix in such posts into a sub like /r/rimworld.
Most people are not ready to have an honest discussion about the correlation between race and IQ. It sadly gets muddied by various political ministrations. But it seems like a genuine effect that should be studied more. If we truly want equality of opportunity, we must understand what is causing certain races to be on the left side of the normal distribution. Is it nutrition? Social status? Lack of parenting? A combination of these?

Bostrom's only crime there was hoping for an honest, curious, and intellectual discussion.
Don't forget the heartbreaking betrayals:
"I just figure out my husbands supporting a child molester, and even taking their side"
"My wife of 10 yearz told me none of the kidz r mine, banged all my friends in giant orgy, then they beat me up, put me in a hospital. Anyway I was also fired"

Pretty new, but now 80% of reddit goes to reddit to vent all relationship problems. I think it was less of a problem 10-20 years ago, but ~5 years back we started to see more and more.

We can probably blame /r/relationshipadvice, /r/aitah, etc., etc., etc. It really makes me want to never be in a relationship again.
Vector databases are used to store embeddings.
Yes, you are right, but theoretically, it's easier to prove the forgery if you have copies of the newspaper stored in multiple places. I think we need multiple archives of newspaper articles stored in an archival medium. We can't trust crypto signatures to be future-proof.
It's mostly for distance running. Humans get about 70% of energy back in running. Cheetahs, about 90%.

Variable compliance muscles are desirable, but hard to do. A pneumatic cylinder with adjustable pressure on both sides will do it, and Festo builds a lot of that for industrial automation. Two opposed springs pulled on by two positional actuators will do it, but that's kind of bulky. There's a hack called a "series elastic actuator", which is a rigid positional actuator with a stiff spring on the end. When it gets some pushback, the spring compresses, and the motor frantically tries to move the positional actuator before the spring bottoms out. This allows you to simulate a spring with off the shelf screw jacks.

Those new direct-drive motors are a good solution. Direct-drive pancake motors have been around for a while, but they used to be about a foot across. Now they're smaller. Probably a spinoff of drone motor technology.
To be clear, there’s a big difference between taking 4x as long to do something useful, vs actually doing nothing, or something of negative value ;-)

If you’re fast and working remote, you can still achieve seemingly normal output while reclaiming much of your time
> I would say mods are a little to heavy handed.

Some mods are, but the only reason people really think this is because the heavy-handed aspects are the visible ones. Nobody really sees mods removing random spam threads and comments, that's the whole point. Good modding is mostly invisible.
I don't think he was suggesting it's a moral failure, but I'd agree if he meant (and I think he did) that it's a personal failure. This idea that nothing is anybody's fault any more and nobody is to blame, logically leads to nobody being responsible, even for themselves.
Outside the EU?

Looks like they make it incredibly easy to pay with no pre-verification, so yeah, probably a lot of refunds.
Watch some youtube videos of people turning while in a wheelie. The counter steering helps lean the bike, but it's the lean that makes you turn.
> I can't ready my city's sub because it's always the same tired politics posts instead of "what are some good restaurants" or "here is a photo of a building I've never seen before".

I find it funny, that I am completely opposite. I would very much prefer the local news/politics/crime, as this directly affects me and my life - e.g. don't go to the highway today, because protestors block it. Vs. the boring similar photos I've probably already saw like 100 times from a slightly different angle or they are not interesting at all and author highly overestimates their photography skill.
EV startup Edison Motors seeking affordable space to thrive
Some white people did for a couple decades in a very small region. No one else.
Interesting, because I still think lcd monitors BLIND ME a lot more than the old CRTs.

But then when you're programming with a black background with the brightness turned way way down on a crt, there is very little light shining into your face.

Maybe oled will fix that, but it still has some growing up to do.
You can also store vectors or matrices in a split-up fashion as separate rows in a table, which is particularly useful if they're sparse. I've handled huge sparse matrix expressions (add, subtract, multiply, transpose) that way, cause numpy couldn't deal with them.
American Neuschwanstein‘s generally look like Disneyland
People say things like this, but the subs I frequent largely seem fine. I'm sure there are bad actors somewhere in there, but they don't seem prominent to me.

> every single parenting/mom sub is inundated by formula companies.

Okay, if it's every single one, show me all the formula company inundation in r/daddit. Should be easy if they're absolutely everywhere, like you say, right?