skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I hate is this whole Cybertruck debacle is just providing grist for the EV haters. Tesla hasn't just screwed themselves, they're screwing up an entire market segment. I'm getting to the point where I despise Tesla. They made EVs cool, and then their CEO has run them off the rails. Even more maddening, 14,000 people are now paying for Musk's gross incompetence. Musk is the one who should be fired.
The philosopher David Thorstad keeps a blog with critiques of EA and related ideas. His writing strikes me as fairly patient and in good faith. (Or at least, it's more measured than some of my own comments on this thread!)

He wrote this good dissection of the Bostrom email controversy, and why the apology doesn't cut it:

https://ineffectivealtruismblog.com/2023/01/12/off-series-th...

That said -- it did happen way back in the 90's. There has to be a place for forgiveness, even for imperfect people offering imperfect apologies. My sense is that there's plenty of other things to criticize that are more recent and more central to this general school of thought.
> Is it?

It's part of the standard HIV therapy, which means it's being given to literally millions of people on a regular basis.

A generic version is approved in the US, and probably elsewhere, which means that more than one company is making it.

It's a WHO-listed essential medicine.

Short of ibuprofen or something, that's about as "at scale" as it gets for drugs.

> The crux of the issue seems to be that this can't be reliably crystalized under gravity and the issue of "disappearing polymorphs" can be avoided.

Apparently it can be crystallized reliably enough to support heavy use.

There was a bad problem in 1998 where a more stable, but less potent, form was showing up. Apparently if there's even a tiny bit of that in a batch, it propagates and ruins the whole batch, so forward microcontamination was ruining all the batches. I think that was the first time anybody knew that that form even existed.

My guess is that that is happening in approximately zero batches right now. But even if it's ruining half the batches, throwing them away is still cheaper than trying to do it in space.
> and battery life was short

In the mid-'90s and 2000s phone batteries lasted longer than they do today, assuming the regular usage of the day.
These fines seem incredibly low to me - they're slaps on the wrist!
They have newsletters going back to 1977, I can't find any evidence they are satirical.
Certainly. Something with AI will make this all seem like the best of times.
An old-time hang glider pilot has been keeping his website up-to-date since the very early 2000s, complete with rotating gifs, hidden SEO keywords, index pages, photo albums, and more goodies!
Fair enough. Although I will say that titles seem to work in concert with thumbnails these days (for better or worse). Based on the thumbnail, I knew what it was about before I started watching. Of course, this assumes the viewer was previously aware of what the thing is; anyone who wasn’t wouldn’t be helped by a name either.
Yes: https://cyc.com/archives/glossary/subl/

Also see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMMiaCtOzV0
That was the claim with a lot of the software in the past, but open source won in many places in the end.
Way easier to just electrolyze olivine, of which we have plenty.
Downside is that you actually get more silicon and magnesium out of it, and those are higher strength each than the iron you get from each chunk of rock.
I.e., if you wanted to use them to make a bridge, it'd be mostly of something like silicon fiber reinforced magnesium instead of steel.
Unless refining them to sufficient purity turns out to be too difficult to be worth it.
They knew it at least before they delivered the first units.
There's probably a good argument to ignore rule breaking and little deceptive marketing if the student outcomes are good but it looks like in-aggregate that they weren't and that students were better off taking a loan and attending Oregon State's Post Bac in CS or Hack Reactor.
I could not read from the text how multiplication with CSR format works in the context of optimization.

The key missing piece for me is that how to utilize CSR format to find the numbers to do multiplication, in other words, how does CSR format helps with picking the numbers to multiply with the vector.
> literally everything is in your head.

yes it is. in some form. specifically, in model form.

most things are modeled by our heads. our culture, for the most part, teaches all of us how to do this.

so i'm saying color is a lot more like "flavor", or "texture" in a broad sense.

the funkiest difference is that in the frequency viewpoint, color is linear. however in color theory it's a wheel!
there are different people who value different things.

some value more control

some value more responsibility

some value more recognition
Of possible interest to we few, we happy few, we band of brothers who recall Kuro5hin.
There was a super arcadey flight… I don’t even want to call it a simulator… game, Crimson Skies, that IIRC featured a Zeppelin carrier as your home base. I think it was fun, although I must have been around 10 when I played.
Another parasite fighter concept that actually got to prototype and flight phase was the XF-85 Goblin. It's... pretty adorable actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_XF-85_Goblin
Helium airships are not particularly flammable.

They don't deal with rough weather well, though.
Most of them seem to be convinced it was because of finally getting infected (just scroll around this page for a bunch of examples), and I think they're half right. Late 2022 there was a paper about how the mRNA vaccines caused the body to produce more IgG4 antibodies*, which, simplified, are a sort of "stand down" antibody meant for things like dust and pollen.

I think in at least some people the mRNA vaccines appear to work by suppressing symptoms (which also explains Pfizer's 95% effective, in that trial they only tested people who actually showed symptoms first), but actually they allow the virus to run rampant when the person is eventually infected. So the association is with the virus instead of the vaccines, and they assume it would have been worse without when we just really don't know.

* https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.ade2798
If your article truly refuted Bloomberg News's findings, why haven't they issued a correction or retraction?
Haha thanks! :) As far as I understand I had to implement the memory reads and some other things the opposite way to what is considered a proper approach.

Would love to have that code reviewed by someone who actually knows stuff about Metal - this is my first gpu programming attempt
You work for someone else, he works for himself. He can do what he wants, you can’t. Apples and oranges.
> Also, just to twist the knife further, old reddit users can't open full resolution images hosted on reddit anymore. Click a link and you get thrown to this url:

Do you use RES? If so, try updating it to the latest version and see if this still happens.
Yes I think that’s the case. Google does a better job of indexing Reddit than Reddit does for sure.

That’s why I still type the search in Google rather than Reddit. That seems like something Reddit could and should fix.
Meta AI claims to have a child in a NYC public school
This is specifically talking about alternate app stores through Apple's new official way of doing it. If we're talking about alternate app stores in general, even AltStore itself was before AltStore PAL
which ideologies?
One of the gems of my retro collection is my 36" Sony WEGA which has a native 720p resolution.

HD image which works with the many retro light gun games.
If you google “Park City Utah homes” you will see hundreds of larger and more eye-catching houses, not sure what all the fuss is about. Maybe just demand they get a better architect?
It's disappointing that California's Bureau for Private and Post-Secondary Education (BPPE) continued to approve this boot camp. I thought the rationale for creating the bureau was to discourage scams in job training.
Numpy might not be able to handle a full o(n^2) comparison of vectors but you can use a lib with hsnw and it can have great performance on medium
(and large) datasets.
They’re always turned down as much as I can without losing contrast and I do have light in my office.

It’s still not the same as a black screen that’s not emitting light.

You said it yourself actually: lcd monitors do require ambient light to not be painful. CRTs could do without.
At what quantization?
CPI includes housing, food, cars, & energy.

You're welcome to check an alternate metric (eg Truflation), but they're all quite similar to CPI.
Thank you for the suggestion. Adding a video is a very good idea, but unfortunately we do not have it now.

Instead, I can offer you a streamlit demo, showing what can be built with Desbordante:
https://desbordante.streamlit.app/

And here are links to Python source code which runs inside it:
1) Typo miner: https://github.com/Desbordante/desbordante-core/blob/main/ex...
2) Deduplication:
https://github.com/Desbordante/desbordante-core/blob/main/ex...
3) Anomaly detector:
https://github.com/Desbordante/desbordante-core/blob/main/ex...
This is 1000% the reason.

It almost self-selects for the worst type of people. You not only have to have tons of free time, you have to be willing to be "paid" for your work in the small amounts of power you can wield in an online discussion board. In theory if you have a few people they could contribute a bit of time and have it covered... but like you say, the weirdos "out-spend" them on time and muscle their way in.
that's a great point. I'll add an option to show/hide the L1. Thanks!
> One could argue Varda shouldn't have gone forward with only a verbal agreement from the FAA in hand, but that's hardly "not having their shit together".

Yeah, it really is. They took dumb chances and endangered their mission. You can't cut corners on that kind of thing.

... and that's assuming you fully accept their version of events.
Apple is only doing this because the EU forced them to, so unless the US forces them to as well, it will never happen. App Store is Apple's golden goose and they would never give even a slice of it up voluntarily
This is one of those situations lending support to the corporate death penalty. Allowing name changes like Worldcom, Spectrum, and so on to write off some liabilities while operating as if nothing happened.
Pretty sure they're talking a few years earlier than mid-90s. Think brick-like phones, not phones that fit in your pockets.
Admiral Moffett was killed in 1933 when the airship Akron crashed at sea. Moffett Field in California is named after him.

After airships were seen to be impractical, the navy switched its planning to use seaplanes. Originally intended also to be bombers (hence the PBY designation for "Patrol Bombers") they proved their worth in recon and rescue roles in WW2. Their ability to operate from unimproved islands (via seaplane tender ships) was somewhat overshadowed by the unforeseen speed with which the Seabees could build new forward airbases, and by the enormous expansion in US Navy aircraft carriers in the latter stages of the war.
Well, UK isn't in the EU.
true, your cities are literally built out of skeletons
Treating public school as public space with public rules creates a huge class divide with the private schools. Short of actively shooting up the place, I can't think of a single rule you could break at the private university I went to that could result in law enforcement getting involved. I knew of at least one kid who got caught with most of a kilogram of cocaine, who got off with little more than a slap on the wrist.

In contrast, a kid at my brother's public uni got arrested for petty vandalism. It's an extremely stark class divide.
> never mind the same is true of nuclear; not even France is fully nuclear powered

This seems somewhat bad-faith: nuclear does supply the majority of France's power, and since nuclear is a "base load" part of the mix, it would be inefficient to get 100% of power from nuclear rather than a peaking-friendly mix that includes e.g. hydro and gas.
When I’m working a project I enjoy or is particularly challenging in a fun way, I’d say it’s 90. I’m basically fully into it, but I do need breaks. When it’s something more mundane or doesn’t interest me as much, I lose some of that passion. I get very excited about learning new concepts and being able to apply them to build or improve on projects.
While reading your comment, I kept having the vague feeling that your idea of "theoretically computable" (within the given memory bounds) will still leave some exponential time and/or space complexity, and so effectively will still be "practically not computable".

Your last paragraph then seemed to confirm that, i.e. there was no particular shortcut for this specific case that would make it any different from general Kolmogorov complexity.

In that sense, isn't your comment itself also "only a theoretical curiosity"? As we went to from "uncomputable", to "theoretically computable under the given constraints", to "practically uncomputable"?

While suffering from lack of rigor, I think a lot of times--probably even the majority of times outside purely cs-theoretical treatments--when we colloquially speak of "uncomputable", we are always talking about practical computers without an infinite touring tape, and so actually mean "practically uncomputable".

Because, yes, while everyone immediately understands that actual computers don't have infinite memory, at the same time everyone understands that "exponential time" is still "never" in practical terms.
> how options trade; with periodic auctions

Former options trader. This improves dealers’ profits.

Consider a once-a-day auction. The person who puts in an order at 9:35AM incorporates five minutes’ information. The person who does so at 3:55PM, all but five minutes’. Anything material that happened at Noon is extracted from the early order and benefited to the late one. If the orders are unsealed, the later order can incorporate the early order’s existence.

With options, that means the high-speed late order has better information about the underlying stock than the orders preceding it. So it generates risk-free profits from them.
Let me put it this way, programming isn't the interesting part of the problem. Those who are still fascinated by programming likely haven't seen the bigger picture. Hey, I used to be that guy once! But really though, all the interesting bits have been figured out by the time the programming starts.
It's a false trilemma, as there are othe possibilities: he did not actually exist historically, or he was a wise, nice guy and others made up all the God stuff over the years, or he was a nice guy trying to help people and he thought tactically the mystical claims would allow him to help more people. One can probably imagine a bunch more or less realistic possibilities given a little while to think about it.
Wow, just tried it and you're right. So much clutter and BS to get to an actual result.
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Doesn't really matter. If the model is generally more capable and released, then it's trivial to teach it a few more things.
Aha that’s a gem, it’s like that crypto company listed “audited by <some famous reliable auditor >”. They do not mention they failed the audit, but they “did” get audited.
Am I crazy, or do fines never come close to matching damages? Or jailtime? I'm constantly seeing rulings or indictments where an article says "defendant faces $1500 in fines or two years jail time", as if those are in any way equivalent. Were all the fine quantities written up in 1875 and just never got updated?

In this case, defendants are accused of conning "at least 11,000 income share loans" "carrying an average finance charge of around $4,000", but their fine is $164,000? A fraud of $44M just for the financing charges produces a fine of $164K? As I missing something?
Tesla to Cut 14% of Buffalo Staff in Latest Layoffs
Thanks for the explanation! Appreciate that you took the time to give an example. Makes a lot more sense why we reach for specific tools for this.
I'm based on Ecuador. I contacted them through their chat and their support email, exchanging about 50 messages so far.
> A lot of stone countertops though are actually cheap composites

That still call themselves granite? Quartz is the well known man-made composite, but it tends to be a little more expensive than granite, not less.
This is such a stereotypical HN comment. Everything is easy, according to HN armchair quarterbacks. Setting up a nonprofit organization? No problem! :eye roll:
My use of illusion was not intended to diminish the significance of music. To the contrary, I meant to distinguish it as an exceptional perceptual phenomenon which reveals important aspects of the inner workings of human experience.

Somehow, the physical situations of our bodies become perceptual experiences. Usually, those perceptions are mere descriptions of the physical world, for physically navigating it. Some exceptions exist, such as music and optical illusions. The translation from air pressure fluctuations to a tree branch falling is one type of experience, the link to love or hope is another. Rather than being insignificant, my sense is that music understanding will prove to be an emergent capability available in whatever architecture might produce humanlike AGI, because it connects human perception and cognition too thoroughly to not be baked-in. Going further, building models to understand music would be an excellent step toward embodied AI with humanlike cognition.
Bicycles of World War II
Why despise them? If you mom put more sugar in one of her recipes because she thought it made it more tasty, and she got compliments on it when she served it, would you despise her?

It doesn't take malice to add sugar. It only takes people choosing to buy
No, this is nowhere close to it.
Wow! This is relevant to me, as I'm embarking (pun pun pun) on a project to annotate Tim Powers' book Declare, in which votive anchors from the bronze age (and later) play a significant role. This articles give a ton of useful historical context, not to mention a list of references. Unexpected find, thanks for posting it.
It seems every time Apple tries to makes some kind of automation tool for the every-man it’s difficult to figure out for people who know how to write actual code, because none of the normal conventions are there. I ran into this with Automator as well as Shortcuts.

I don’t care enough about Shortcuts to get good at it, but would probably use it more if the learning curve wasn’t so steep. It seems odd to me that I need to put more effort into learning Shortcuts than a programming language.
More familiar with the "Twice" version. But what I meant was that the reply looked more like a "mine's longer" type contest. Missing the most famous of the jokes, for NTSC, is a weird omission for someone in the industry.

We always used Never The Same Color. I worked at five stations in four states, and never heard the "Twice" version until the commercial internet became a thing.
Yeah, you can't fill that guy without pouring it in. It just isn't happening with a new vat. The supply costs are indeed the worst part, too. However, we've had FAR from perfect, repeatable results with it. The Elegoo Saturn is DEFINITELY more consistent and repeatable. And yeah - lower end machines are kinda nuts. One moving part, etc. It's funny - they're a superior technology. How do we know? Form themselves went to mSLA on the 4 as compared to the SLA of the 3 with the complicated optical carriage.
We're going to solve this problem with bombs. I've been saying this since the mid-90s and have not been dissuaded.
LCDs still can not change resolution away from native max, without screen getting blurred. As I recall, LCDs started to get wide adoption about 2004 or so. It has been only 20 yrs. Why can't they make them to be able to run on resolutions other than native? CRT could do that with no problems.
I've downloaded the data for every model on Huggingface and, if nothing else, flan-t5-xxl is the largest encoder (discriminant) model in terms of total file sizes. To be clear T5 is an encoder-decoder model. But the shift in focus to decoder-only has made it so encoder and encoder-decoder models have been, for lack of a better word, neglected, in terms of training focus.
AI and robots like this may be how the wealthy will replace the problematic plebeians.
Biggest red flag for me is Austen has basically become a full time right wing reactionary on X/Twitter
One of many things I learned from [0] is that the vast majority drownings happen in crowded pools with a ton of floaties. It’s so easy to miss a kid falling in. Those floats are supposed to keep kids safe, but they’re a lot closer to being death traps.

[0] http://spotthedrowningchild.com/
Have you been abroad since before June 23rd 2016?
Case in point: Watch an actual Mario speed running world record video, and the human players there are jumping around a lot while running around flat sections with no obstacles.

As I understand, the jumping (at least in this case) does nothing to Mario's horizontal speed at all, so they basically just do it for "fun".

The difference is that the human players know that they're doing something inconsequential for variety, while the fuzzer has no "idea" (i.e. no concept) that the jumping does not matter, or even that it is "jumping". More generally, it does not know nor care that this particular part of the input is irrelevant. It just found an input that works, and sometimes that happens to include a useless jump.
Focusing only on the grid is bad faith; if one includes non-grid energy use, France doesn't even get 50% of its energy from nuclear.
And the human ear is mostly insensitive to phase of those overtones, so you can have waves with visually very different waveform that sound identical.
App Store has this quirk where, when a brand new app releases, it doesn't show up in search results for a bit. So if you're ever trying to find an app that just released, try going to a link instead of using the App Store's search
Reddit would be an absolute, unmitigated disaster without moderation.
It has the NTSC Subcarrier of ~3.58Mhz, and that limits color resolution.

Let's say you're displaying a 640x480 screen on a TV. Your chroma information is sampled from an area about 2.1 pixels wide. So even if the signal is continuous, your color information is the result of sampling a boxed area centered on that pixel.

And because you don't want the wave pattern to be displayed as luma, you also take the average luma of that area. Now you have a blurred fat color pixel, but it can be positioned anywhere continuously.
"Convention over configuration" and it seems to be a dying philosophy unfortunately. Ember.js is probably the closest in the JavaScript world.
"is based on light frequencies" is still true, right

"is based directly on light frequencies with no other transformation" would be wrong
> Specifically, we explore the potential of self-training models on their own outputs, akin to how humans learn and build on their previous thoughts and actions.

I'd argue this misrepresents even how humans learn. We learn from our previous thoughts and actions along with the reaction of the environment to them. That's more like reinforcement learning.

There are situations where someone can purely learn from their own thoughts - i.e. an author gaining more insight into their own characters as they imagine the story, or a mathematician building a proof in their head. But even those need real-world inputs from time to time: The author will be influenced by other stories they know and/or experiences they had in the past, the mathematician will write things down at some point and may gain new insight by actually looking at the formula/graphs/etc instead of just imagining them.

So I'm very sceptical that even humans could basically create infinite new knowledge by continuously "learning from their own thoughts".