skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting model. Reminds me of all the methods of breaking down game players (e.g. honers vs. innovators, Jimmys vs. Timmys, etc.). I'm very lucky to work at a small shop that can't afford the other three sectors; there are too few of us, each of us needs to impactfully improve our part of the product stack. In fact, we each basically have full ownership of our part of the product stack. Yes, I know, bus factor. But when we're a team of 7 with a fair number of software components all connected together, each one needs a clear vision. Also luckily, we do team interviews; it's fairly easy for us to suss out BS and identify matching competent people who fit the pragmatist mold.
PyPI: Expanding Trusted Publisher Support
In my career, it's a term I would never apply to myself and I roll my eyes a bit if someone else used it to describe me. In general, I'd say it's "supposed" to mean someone who is smart about understanding and anticipating current and future trends. But I find it a bit cringey in general.
I’ll be you ten bucks they got rid of people who bring up bad news and kept the yes-men. A company that doesn’t know what’s broken is doomed to mediocrity.

But some people want to play music while the ship sinks. So they arrange for the most pleasant rest of the voyage they can, instead of saving as many people as they can.
Certainly an emblematic first world problem. No actual problems left in your world? Make one!
When the promoter gets paid by the industry that makes the product without disclosing it.

I have nothing against paid promotion whether for butter, blueberries or cigarettes, but it should be made clear who is promoting it.
And the cloud seeding
The intention for "nothing before super" is clear, but that rule never delivered on its promises. Because all those footguns are still in place, in field initializers as well as in function calls inside the super() argument list:

class Sub extends Super {
int field = footgunA();
Sub() {
super(footgunB());
}
}

It's a zero merit headache factory and good intentions alone cannot change that.
I have been running LXQt for years. A really great desktop environment!
Function Hub for LLM Agents
I doubt that the philosophy faculty would take CS Lewis' opinion seriously into consideration. He was a decent storyteller, but not much of a philosopher.
The HN headline, "Future of Humanity Institute shuts down", sounds cynically funny, in context of current problems/challenges.

The grandiose name Oxford chose now sounds like they've determined the situation is hopeless.
Thanks! How much more cumbersome does the lock make it to use Tailscale?
I'm literally laughing out loud at my desk right now XD
Non-sequiter, but the 80s era Dallas skyline is a fun throwback
Plant Vogtle's reactor 3 took 14 years to build. Reactor 4 is finishing up this year (15 years).
Maybe you forgot RT being banned?
Marques didn't trash anything. He gave the thing a fair and honest review. It's just that the pin is not very good. The company making the pin should have done a better job in the first place or they should have kept expectations for their first gen in check and then planned to take in feedback to make a much better second gen device.
An aside for that common ASU slander: It's a huge school (55K students on the main campus alone). It can have both a party scene and a good education. I remember it having quality departments in engineering, business, design (and there's a neat interdisciplinary program for those three), and journalism.
Seems at first glance to be the same type slippery eel org as the 'Future of Life Institute'. They seem to have far more in common under the covers than just similar sounding names.
That’s how a lot of people got started with Kali! It was bundled with the original WC2 CD. WC2 didn’t support battle.net until much later, as Diablo was the first Blizzard game to use it.
Fringe benefits not specifically excepted are also taxable wage income in the United States, but I don't think employers are forced to gross them up at the highest marginal tax rate or are otherwise discouraged from giving them out in lieu of cash.

The USA's income tax agency, the Internal Revenue Service or IRS, has a whole booklet to help employers figure out how to withhold taxes for fringe benefits:

https://irs.gov/pub15b - Publication 15-B, Employer's Tax Guide to Fringe Benefits

It discusses the de minimis exception mentioned in the originally linked page, as well as exceptions for some meals - important if your employer gives you free or discounted cafeteria lunch or restaurant lunch discount coupons.
It isn't a smear. His qualifying remarks indicate that he's either too stupid, arrogant, or bigoted to understand or care how context works, and thus has no business running a hot dog stand, much less an institute. Even disregarding that, publicly revealing his thoughts and framing them in such a fashion shows he has no common sense.
'Quantum internet' connection achieved in historic breakthrough
But quietly choosing not to enforce the law still leaves citizens in the dark about what they are supposed to do. It sounds like the IRS would like to be able to say "air miles are not taxable", but they probably don't have the legal power to amend or override whatever law it is that gives rise to the suggestion that they are. I'm not a US tax expert but I've seen other regulators take a similar approach.
Wow, you're exhausting.
My very rough understanding from reading the article (I could be wrong, I'm not a researcher) is that this is accomplished by the key insight of Kawayabarashi and Thorup (2015), which is that min-cuts must have low conductance. So it seems that you can partition the graph into well-connected components (perhaps by measuring the conductance of edges?) and preserve the min-cut of the original graph in the new reduced graph where you contract each the partitioned components into a single node.

Unless you're asking about the randomized graph sparsification of Benzur and Karger, in which case the output is correct with high probability [0], but like with many randomized algorithms, is not guaranteed to be correct.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_high_probability
Anyone who's been through divorce knows this as well
> it is a variable and at least one you can control.

But that's the thing. You can't control it. Colleges aren't admitting you with that crippling mental disability you were born with no matter how much you wish it to be so. You aren't likely even going to be allowed to graduate from high school. And guess what? The economy won't put much value on you either for the same reason the schools don't want you.

Your idea that the kid with Down Syndrome will see his symptoms go away if only he manages to attain a college degree as poorly analyzed data suggests is a fun idea, and one I wish were true, but that's not how things actually work in the real world.

Only if you are already economically valuable might colleges accept you into their hallowed halls. Of course, that questions: If you are already economically valuable, why not delay college until you have reaped some economic rewards to pay for it? It is not like there is a rush for a college education. I expect there will still be colleges to attend when you are in retirement.

Of course, when you get right down to why people attend college, it is for the curated dating pool (even if they don't like to admit it). Yes, there is somewhat of a rush to find dating partners while you are still comparatively young. For sure, dating in your 80s isn't quite the same. But then that questions why dating requires such a high cost? Surely there is a better, more cost-reasonable, way?
Get really surprised now, and realize that people actually live that way.

What was stated was literally true and has nothing related to the interpretation your filters create.

If you cannot see that the original statement was literally true, your world model does need expansion (should you be interested about grasping reality, and you should).
Priced out of America: more Americans say the only way to get ahead is to leave
I'd love to see a modern system that had all the niceties like GPS, music, bluetooth but with an evolved multi-function display (MFD) with keypad entry. Touchscreens in cars are a terrible idea.
I have been doing this for years and I think it's the best output per hour worked strategy if you have a clear exit plan outside scaling the so-called ladder
PostgreSQL Roles and Privileges Simplified
What Bostrom said is that he completely repudiates these remarks and that they were disgusting. Leave it at that.
Could Elon pay the 10 % of his staff by taking a personal paycut from 56 Billion to One Billion USD ?
It dual-booted into W95 or NT4 when I tried to do serious work. MatLab could suck up memory like you wouldn't believe.

Also, I think what made me pull the trigger was that RAM prices unexpectedly dropped by quite a lot just as I was about to buy, so I probably figured I might as well do a little future proofing.
Insanely spot on, for once (most of organizational analyses are not).

Another fun thing pointed out in the article is the obsession over weeding out poor performers, ie the lazy ones. My theory is that it’s done solely to scare everyone else to work harder, whatever that means exactly. It’s about creating a culture of constant busyness which is only really a good proxy for work in domains that don’t require long term thinking. For engineers, it’s detrimental.

If you wanna go after the ones who are contributing the least value, why obsess over the lazy? There are sooo many examples of people who added huge negative value, from the rockstars who create an unmaintainable mess to some product manager that re-steers the ship and changes something that was completely fine the way it was. Especially when they leave the mess behind which opportunists often do. Dead weight is nothing compared to the whales that swim towards the bottom and drag the rest of them down.
Qualitative pretty much.

I've never been willing to say/write something I believed to be manifestly untrue just because an employer wanted me too. But I've certainly avoided certain topics that I might have been willing to address more candidly under different circumstances.
An academic would need to be incredibly stupid to think that that's a good thing to say in writing or out loud. The idea that you can "just" say these things is almost entirely the purview of people who coincidentally just so happen to not say or refer to all of the contextual and explicative ideas around them, making pointing to IQ without them essentially meaningless at best and racist at worst.

It's also not really "accurate or mild", as Bostrom himself stated in his apology for the email that:

> I completely repudiate this disgusting email from 26 years ago. It does not accurately represent my views, then or now. The invocation of a racial slur was repulsive. I immediately apologized for writing it at the time, within 24 hours; and I apologize again unreservedly today. I recoil when I read it and reject it utterly.
Not just journalists, but the average person too. It's quite frustrating.
Center for Effective Altruism is different from FHI
No. Many of us are working hard, trying to get real work done. And spending 20-40 mins a day checking Hacker News :)

Seriously though, don’t you feel bad by not pulling your weight? Someone has to get your work done.
I'm not sure that when the robot overlords look through their training data if they will decide that "huytersd" was being serious of facetious. This may not have the effect you were looking for.
FWIW, the 128k context window for GPT-4 is only for input. I believe the output content is still only 4k.
And he emphasizes in this post how he finally came up with a good way to explain it, and to read that explanation you need to buy his book.

His old content is great though.
Agree. It's bizarre how everyone jumps to the conclusion that increased demand for electricity is a bad thing and can only be solved by limiting its use. The amount of electricity available is determined by how much we choose to produce and we're far from the theoretical limit on production. The obvious answer should always be to build more generating capacity whether that's nuclear, solar, hydro or anything else. It seems to be a uniquely Western perspective as well since everyone else in the world is busy increasing their generating capacity as a matter of course. We should be doing the same and laying the legislative groundwork to make it easy to build more power plants instead of trying to shoot ourselves in the foot over and over again.
Besides, they’re really not that scary once you get to know them well. Take a deep dive into digital signal processing for example, and you become well comfortable with them, and understand how “the real world” fits into them quite neatly.
I suppose you didn't read the link. It's not complaining about usability of deployed .NET apps on Linux, it's complaining about the openness of the tooling and community of the .NET ecosystem.
Overview of C-Level Salary Levels in the Ukrainian IT Market in 2023
Nothing has to push them. These countries want to go nuclear. The only thing preventing them is the threat of american intervention. Japan and South Korea had secret nuclear programs that we put a stop to. Canada, Brazil and Mexico will never be allowed to own nukes. No nation in the western hemisphere will allowed to own nukes outside the US. As for germany and the netherlands, we'd sanction and isolate them if they ever developed nukes. They could have nukes, but their economy would be in shambles like north korea. If taiwan went nuclear then it would be the end of taiwan and both the US and china would take them out.
The video chooses a very slow injection moulding machine; creates a mould that only produces two parts per cycle even though the machine could clearly handle far more; then has to use four of their machines and a human to match its pace.

Yes, 3d printing is vastly faster if you measure the time for me to get a part from the machine on my desk vs ordering a mold and shipping the results from Shenzhen. But that was true of the Form 3 et al. The speed of the printer makes no real difference, and they are bing disingenuous in suggesting it is approaching the throughput of the machine they are comparing it to.
It's because the people who run the site tolerate it and ban/warn people for making comments like yours.
As usual disabling JavaScript by default is the way to go, but for firefox at least you can make sure that dom.webgpu.enabled is set to false in about:config (this should be the default) and check for gfx.webgpu.force-enabled and if it's there make sure that is also false.
I'm in this trap right now a little bit. After a particularly egregious instance of feeling passed over for a promo, how can I trust that the next jerkoff won't do the same thing?
I did not know that... That's very disingenuous! We'll make sure to keep this in mind as we make our own comparisons. We haven't tuned ParadeDB at all in our published ClickBench benchmarks, so it should be more representative
As someone who cares about his work, has strong professional ethics and wisely chooses his employers to not end-up in such environments, no I don't.

The worst places for me are precisely those where you can get by with 1~2h of work a day because no one cares and the company's culture does not value the time and skills of his workers.
`pamac`, an unofficial third-party GUI frontend for the Arch Linux package management system is recently broken because the underlying API by Arch Linux got updated. The update I refer to came with the package `pacman` (not to be confused with pamac above).
I like this one a lot: "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing."

I frequently see newer programmers trying to learn as many languages as possible to list them on their resume...what they don't realize is that learning syntax is pretty much irrelevant to programming skill. Choose one language, master the building blocks, then choose another that works completely differently. Do this two or three times, and all of the sudden you can write in any language you want because you understand the fundamentals.
> I remember reading about how in Chicago someone had noticed that kids who did better had more books at home, so they decided to give poor kids books.

The problem here was not trying to infer causality from population-level data, but rather insufficiently controlling that data for correlated variables. If that study had controlled for the income and education of those kids' parents, it would have been much more able to predict the actual impact of giving kids books.

This visual essay thing doesn't present a particularly detailed data analysis, but I wouldn't be surprised if the original study, being properly academic, did dive into this kind of regression analysis.
More proof this version of AI is just a fad
Recent and related:

MKBHDs for Everything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40059835 - April 2024 (173 comments)
GraalPy
I have no idea why the hell people are being so hard on you. I haven't had good fresh blueberries, but it is well known that food tends to be better when you get it fresh from the place where it is grown. I can certainly vouch that tomatoes and strawberries that you get at the store are but a pale imitation of what you get if you can get them fresh.

Maybe blueberries are an exception to this trend, but I doubt it. I'm 100% willing to believe that they are way better if you grow them yourself or get them from some farmer who grew them himself.
Yeah, it's easy to write this off as "haha AI being AI", but this is content posted as top trending news on the front page of one of the most visited websites in the world, one which is probably the primary news source of hundreds of millions of people. Today it is a mostly harmless sports article, tomorrow it will be about elections, geopolitics, social issues and everything else. If you were complaining about unreliable social media, watch it go on steroids in the coming years.
It was USAA. I don't know if this matters, but it was a Visa card.

For the record I'm very pleased with USAA overall and I think quite highly of them.
Thank you for mentioning paleoclimatology! Not sure if what I'm doing with ERA5 data is that rigorous haha, but one of my favorite plots is https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:All_palaeotemps.svg (still have it hung up in my office haha)
You know, topics like this are not always black and white. There is a full-range, nuance and discussion.

I'd also wager that the downvotes here are because this flame-bait kind of comments are not appropriate for HN, or if they are appropriate then some might not think it's contributing to the discussion anyways.

Me, I think the refusal by some to admit (or accept) that the full-context post adds to the discussion and to instead double-down and cry more racism is definitely not constructive.

I'm honestly getting tired of these "race card" low-blows and one-sided thinking shutting down conversation.
Warning Affects Human Perception and Engagement Regarding LLM Hallucinations
My advice is to do the exact opposite of what this article recommends you to do. You will not look back fondly and proudly on all the half-assed things you did to just to have fun, whatever that means. Writing a blog post to rationalize it will not help either.
With SO-DIMM you gain expandability at the cost of higher power draw and latency as well as lower throughput.

> SO-DIMM memory is inherently slower than soldered memory. Moreover, considering the fact that SO-DIMM has a maximum speed of 6,400MHz means that it won’t be able to handle the DDR6 standard, which is already in the works.

https://fossbytes.com/camm2-ram-standard/
>so we focus on these things and disregard soft skills like the ability to work with other people.

Because it's been shown, time and time again, that people can't really judge "good" soft skills versus "bad".
Acidic actually
How is this "both accurate and mild?" If anything, it makes Bostrom seem even more racist, harkening back to the 20th century notion of scientific racism, which, regardless of whether you put a pseudoscientific spin on it, is still racism.
NYPD probably has an order for 10k of these things, for your protection of course.
Does the sign up process work again? Has been broken forever and a day on Firefox?
ParadeDB and Hydra are completely different. We're tackling the same problem of bringing analytics inside Postgres, but using different approaches.

ParadeDB integrates industry standards like Arrow, Parquet, DataFusion to offer columnar storage + vectorized processing. Hydra is building on top of Citus Columnar.

You can read about our approach here: https://blog.paradedb.com/pages/introducing_analytics
Complex numbers you just go sideways as well, and if you multiply you not only stretch or squish your path to the origin, you also change your angle to it by adding both angles together. Exponentiation is then doing this continuously, so you end up walking in a circle. That’s it.
Both are true and feed each other.

My state passed a democratic ballot measure to set up a non-partisan redistricting committee. When it came time to instate new district maps, our state Senate pretended to consider the committee's maps, and voted for their own maps; despite the vocal outage of nearly every citizen who shared a comment on the situation.

I can't coordinate with my "community", when my senators have declared it to include downtown SLC, Tooele, Beaver, Cedar City, St. George, etc. To contrast, Utah County (the most consistently Conservative area in the state) basically gets its own district.
Could this be used for maximum cut?

Maximum cut at one point was an important concept in IIT which is a somewhat debunked but still interesting theory of consciousness
Guy Callendar, the engineer who discovered human-caused global warming
> Someone has to get your work done.

That's often the problem, in that it doesn't truly matter if the work got done
Violet Beauregarde aka Big Blueberry™
No, it's unrelated to quantization, they just weren't using the instruct model.
The idea that education, one of the most long term profitable things for a society to have in it's electorate, isn't highly subsidized is insane to me. Yea, it costs a lot of money, and you want market incentives driving decision making, but even when people study something like art history, a university education makes people smarter. A subsidized system will easily pay for itself in the long run.
Said no Necromancer, ever. :D
So if you don't have "complete" data, you just start winging it? I never understand this argument.

You measure what you can, that moves you forward.
How does this full-track, 3-wheel snow bike even turn?
I think anyone who read about the building or operation of the Large Hadron Collider has a faint understanding of Higgs. To explain the boson educators tend to mention the field as well.
Its not your work unless you own the company
1. I was responding more to the commenter than to the quote.

2. That is, in fact, what I assume.

3. That was really tangential to my point, so I probably should have just left it out.