skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds, to me, like a really bad and convoluted way of storing pub/priv in a password manager, and hoping the software implementation gets it right when it's trying to manage these things for me because I'm too dumb to manage passwords and too hobbled by bad IT policies that want to change my passwords every 4 weeks.
This is great! I added the link to my list of free game dev resources: https://github.com/aaron9000/c-game-resources

Is there a tool you used to create these materials that you would recommend?
I think this a caricature or at least a shallow view of computationalism. Nobody is claiming that the universe is a computer of the same kind as the ones we have. Instead, I think, it claims that the universe has to necessarily be computational in order to be real - everything has to be computational to be real, otherwise how can it ever be implemented.

On your "divine command" bit: I don't think any theory has a good claim on the ultimate ontology of reality, so I don't see how one view is better than another. It's all some kind of divine command at the moment. Computationalism at least constrains the necessary properties the divine must have.
It turns out that money laundering is still money laundering even if you do it in a fancy, machine automatable way. It stuns me that people thought they had somehow beat the system by building technology like this. The government is going to be like, pretty ruthless in chasing it down.
Yeah, it's a lot of work, I agree. You have to spend 2-3 hours a day filling out applications. More if you can muster the patience for it. But if you commit to 5 applications per day (admittedly that's a heavy workload) that's 150 applications a month. You should be able to get at least 5 offers to interview out of that. And of those 1/10 will offer you a job. Which means you will be picking from 4 job offers.

That's all a bunch of bullshit numbers but you get the idea. It's a lot more work to get a good job than most people think.

I'm trying to paint a clear picture. I have an enjoyable job. Enviable even. When I hear people bitch about 5 interviews with no good offers, I feel bad for them. The expectation needs to be that this is the case. The solution is to adjust expectations to match reality. If you're trying to say it's hard to get a job, I agree. I'm going further. It's way harder than you think. But it's not impossible. I did it. Most people did it.

And we all complained the whole way too.
>>It's like my subconscious is still seeing the full face.

Very interesting; that reminds me of a phenomena I learned about in a college neuroscience class, from studies of people who are cortically blind, as in their visual cortex is dead/nonfunctional, but their eyes and the rest of their brain work (e.g., from a brain injury localized to the back of their head where the visual cortex is located).

You can also present them with a forced choice test, such as a panel with big stripes either horizontal or vertical, and require them to say if it is horizontal or vertical. Of course the initial response is "I can't see it, so I can't say". But with a forced choice, they get it right something like 85% of the time — obviously far better than the chance results we'd get with blindfolded subjects.

It turns out that (at least the working understanding at the time) is that the brain has different circuits that use info from the optic nerve to tell the eyes where to track and look. E.g., this will get the eyes to track moving objects, or focus along the edges, etc. When those are still working, the brina can still somehow subconsciously access some of that knowledge from those different brain areas.

I wonder if this is relevant to the phenomena you described?
RIPA 2016 was to legalise practices exposed by Snowden. The "regulation" part in the title is just newspeak smokescreen. They regulated themselves.
Not sure if this is part of what you’re observing, but on ArsTechnica, ther article is presented by default, and you have to click to get to the comments.

On HN, the comments are presented by default, and you have to click to get to the article.
That's the whole point of joining a union it turns a unilateral contract negotiation, where one party has no leverage, into a bi-lateral contract negotiation. The worker's leverage in the negotiation is to withdraw all labour halting production. The downside is that you don't get paid while you are on strike and it only works really well in industries where there is a labour shortage or it takes time to train up new workers who need experience and qualifications that are hard to obtain: pilots, train drivers, doctors, police all have very effective unions in the UK at least.

The difficulty that the amazon workers face is that they turn up and a screen says pick up these things from these boxes and take them over there, put them in other boxes, stick postage labels on and put it in the back of the truck. It doesn't take much training to do, so workers who unionise are very vulnerable to being fired until enough have joined the union to hold an effective strike.

Unions are always going to naturally form in a pure libertarian society where the only rules are freedom of contract. Usually they are restricted by government regulation.
The thing is her definition of „understanding“ isn’t actually „understanding“ but rather surface level intuition.

Personally I only accept „understanding“ once I can explain it and reuse it in a different context. But I am not self centric enough to deny that there absolutely are plenty of people who love to memorize without having an abstract understanding. And they are doing just fine.
Ask HN: What's Up with This HN Article?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40169178

It is on the front page, it has 30 upvotes, it's not flagged, but it seems impossible to comment on it. Is it just me?
I have a job with Linux again, so I set up a dev vm, and I've got prod hosts on gcp that run our application in a container...

On prod, I have to use ifconfig, because ip isn't installed. On dev, I have to use ip, because ifconfig is 'obsolete'. Same deal with netstat vs ss. Those are the big ones for me.

I don't particularly care about the progression of firewalls on Linux, it seems like one day it will be back to one, but FreeBSD has always had three and I use two of them simultaneously, so how can I complain?
I think a device which outputs a distribution of answers is still a computer. The information is an answer and needs to be computed. Determinism and repeatability isn't a requirement for defining computation.
Do software companies have good margins?
17% of what market?

TFA says:

In December, Reuters reported that Temu was successfully challenging U.S. dollar stores like Dollar Tree and Dollar General Corp., accounting for nearly 17% of the market share in the United States. According to data analytics firm Earnest Analytics, this compares to 8% for Five Below, 43% for Dollar General and 28% for Dollar Tree.

So... the discount store market? OK.

The unscoped headline makes it sound like it's 17% of US GDP, or some such. And the article doesn't actually clarify that, except by noting those specific competitors. It talks about the effect on Amazon, but that's not included at all in the list above.
> it smells of 'pre-crime' to charge them more for something they didn't do

Ignoring the fact that reckless driving is an actual crime and thing they did, not "something they didn't do", it is also probabilistically the thing that leads to collision damages. Insurance companies are probability companies first and foremost. It absolutely makes sense for them to charge more to cover behavior that is more likely to lead to payout.
One thing that surprised me, as a juror, was that nobody ever simply submitted a piece of evidence. Each of the hundreds of exhibits was presented with a person on the stand attesting to its provenance, under penalty of perjury.
Any schlub can slip the tech at your autoshop a $20 to misread the odometer. Need more work to fake a digital reading.

This is all around the bigger issue here is how we fund road work: often it's done with a state tax on gasoline sales, so the more you use the roads the more you pay for them. Worked great, reasonably fair, even somewhat punished heavier vehicles (road wear is something more-than-linear to weight, and heavier cars generally need more gas). And then those pesky non-gas electrics came onto the scene.

So you now you have a system and a bureaucracy funded by a not-terrible pay-as-you-go tax, and suddenly lots of users don't need the thing your taxing. What's a bureaucracy to do?

Well, if you're in a state that thinks EV's are woke propaganda and an existential threat to your truck-based manliness, simple: you charge absurd annual registration fees and say "well, we gotta get the equivalent road tax somehow, so lets do it all at once upfront and ignore any of the equity talk about turning a pay-as-you-go into a massive flat upfront fee because only libtards care about equity."

Other states say "alright alright, we can split this registration fee into 4 quarterly installments" and they deal with the extra paperwork of now "keeping your registration up to date" is much more complicated.

No sympathies for Orwellian government-must-observe-your-odometer all the time, but I also see how it's a bureaucracy that was built around one system that worked ok struggling to adapt to a new technology.
> 2020s are off to a great start on that front

Recommendations?
https://docs.stripe.com/api/versioning

A versioned API. Which means more APIs to maintain, until they are removed.
Any autodidacts, self-learners or life-long learners?
Hoping to collect some user feedback as we build a personalized learning product at WorldClass (https://getworldclass.app/). Think Duolingo but for any topic, with a way to interact with your lessons in real-time and keep track of your knowledge as it grows.

If that’s something you’re interested in, please follow the link below to the survey.

We would love to hear from you! This is not a sales pitch; we just really want honest feedback.

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When I moved close enough to work that I didn't drive there anymore and reported that to my car insurance company, my premium was cut in half. So yes, it does happen.

But I wasn't driving a car that was spying on me for that. It was just a recalculation based on my self-reporting.
It’s only a matter of time before Alexa and other agents use better customizable voices.

Audiobooks could have voices read by characters rather than a single narrator faking it. (If even)

You have a cold but still want to give a speech without coughing.

Low bandwidth transmission of audio: transmit just the text and use local voice model to replay it.

Talk to your loved ones after they’re gone.

Hilarity and comedy.
You should have seen how hard Facebook had to fight to control social media, especially on iPhone. They almost lost it during the transition to mobile - it took billions in acquisitions and hiring.
Similar in my case. I'm beginning to like math just now because after years of software engineering I'm seeing commonalities in math and software engineering. Math feels like "creating a software systems for numbers" where I also am the compiler at the same time.

From an intellectual perspective (different than my engineering perspective), I'd label mathematics as quantitative philosophy. I like philosophy too.
You're suffering from Xi Jinping Derangement Syndrome.
I hear this a lot but it hasn't generally been my experience. The only site I've personally come across that supports webauthn/passkeys but doesn't support multiple is the AWS management page. Which I essentially bypass by just configuring SSO and using an IdP which does support it.

Every other site I've come across that supports these things supports multiple. What common sites support only one or two?
> The private keys can't actually be stored in the HSM though, because you need to be able to back them up.

Every actual HSM I've ever used allows some sort of encrypted export. But actual HSMs are expensive and PKCS#11 is a terrible API so they suck to use.
Smart TVs really do seem to be the worst of the worst when it comes to vendor abuse. I'm not surprised that's where Google is piloting this nightmare. Closed systems with generally low tech users, I suppose it should be expected.

New and innovative ways to make things horrible for users.
Virtually no one who calls themselves socialists in America are actually socialists. They’re social libertarians and neoliberals cosplaying as socialists.

You can’t have a workable left-wing movement that prioritizes social libertarianism because workers invariably will be more traditional than elites. You can’t tell factory workers they can’t say this or that and that they need to learn to like foreigners. You can think it, but you can't say it, and you certainly can't call them "racist, sexist, and homophobic." If your platform morally reforming workers and their manners becomes core to your platform, then it's not a workable left-wing platform. All you'll do is split the workers and push them away: https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/postcard-from-the-hispanic-....

What you'll end up with is a coalition where economic left-wingers are the rump of a neoliberal party. The neoliberals will never give the left-wingers anything, because they don't have to. Neoliberals have no reason to do anything other than pay lip service to leftists who can't actually unify and rally the mass of workers.
Looks interesting! I feel like Qwen has always been one of the most underrated model families that doesn't get as much attention as other peers for whatever reason. (maybe b/c it's from Alibaba?)

I've been working on https://double.bot (high performance coding copilot) and the number of high quality OS models coming out lately has been very exciting.

Adding this to Double now to so I can try it for coding. Should have it done in an hour or two if anyone else is interested. Will come back and report on the experience.
This has a VERY simple fix - get a new insurance company. Most companies slowly raise rates on customers who don't shop around. I'd actually recommend most people get at least one insurance quote at least every other year.

Every time my rates go up by a non-trivial amount I get some quotes from other companies and I'm always able to lower my cost for comparable insurance by at least 20%. I'm paying less for car insurance than I was 10 years ago and I've raised my coverage significantly.

It's really that easy if you don't have any tickets or claims.
I can relate to that. I tried a 4K dual monitor side-by-side setup some time ago (on a Windows PC), but my initial excitement at the available screen real estate was soon replaced by fatigue from eye and neck strain. Turning my head several times a day and forcing my eyes to refocus on a new target left me sore after a day's work.

Command/Tab is now my preferred way too. I've also come to really like Stage Manager on Mac and I don't feel like I need another screen anymore.
If I had a buck for every time someone like that was "known to the authorities" I'd have quite a bit of money.

This is a pretty blatant power grab, rather than anything actually positive.
Impressive, this is some of the most absolutely batshit crazy ranting I have seen in quite a while, and one of my hobbies is talking to crazy people.

I assume “grays” is riffing on the alleged alien type, and truly the whole master plan is like a caricature of a conspiracy theory.

Yes fellow humans, you enjoy your so called “banquets” do you not? Prepare to submit to my rule!
Well, perhaps nothing was seen. Because the post says:

"I do think it’s true that Apple silicon changed this equation. Perhaps even, as a rule of thumb, by a factor of 2 — that an Apple silicon Mac with 8 GB RAM performs as well under memory constraints as an Intel-based Mac with 16 GB. But base model consumer Macs have been stuck at 8 GB for a long time, and it’s impossible to look at Schaub’s charts and not see that regular increases in base RAM effectively stopped when Tim Cook took over as CEO. Apple silicon efficiency notwithstanding, more RAM is better, and certainly more future-proof. And it’s downright bizarre to think that come this fall, all iPhone 16 models will sport as much RAM as base model Macs. (Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray on virtual memory: “Memory is like an orgasm. It’s a lot better if you don’t have to fake it.”)"
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/how-not-to-release-historic-sou...
Happening on multiple articles, a Friday deploy?
To those unfamiliar with Noah Smith, he is a leftist and very, very blue.
Balaji is a clown, a few years ago he was calling bitcoin a battery, because you can sell it and buy electricity with the money you got.

By this logic everything is a battery, a $100 bill is a battery, ...
Can you describe one of your problems? I've had very smooth sailing with systemd and I like not having to play games with pid files and pgrep like I had to in the 90s.
It's a bad faith argument. I'm not as familiar with the other markets, but this would mean avoiding all Japanese cars. Which is a bad idea if you also want a reliable car and/or value.

I'm just familiar with the data collection and the flow of data to insurance companies for JDM cars. A quick look at an EFF article and you should probably also avoid every car manufacturer.
I’m in the same place.

I feel like most of the replies to your comment talk about the technical aspect of it.

What’s stopping me is that I don’t have a mental model of the management of the passkeys for the whole lifecycle of my account. Can I use it cross platform? Can I allow someone else to use the same account? What happens if I lose or don’t have access to my phone or laptop? What if I die, can my spouse log in my accounts?

With username/password, it’s very clear what I need. I could write it on paper and give it to someone and it’d work. I feel more at risk of losing access to my accounts if I were to switch to passkeys, because I don’t fully grasp their long term lifecycle.
The follow lie, and why it's worse than ever
So driving around a private race track is reckless driving (something that should the person have a wreck doing, their insurance would not cover)?

This is a question of informed consent and due process. Of course we should do everything we can to prevent [bad thing] but within a system of constraints (e.g. laws, rights, etc.). Why don’t manufacturers put a big sticker on the window of their cars saying that all your driving information would be sold to auto insurers, potentially resulting in higher insurance premiums? Because they would sell less cars (or people would buy cars that don’t do this) - so instead they do it surreptitiously.

So at the end of the of the day you just have to ask yourself if you an “ends justify the means” type of person…
"Consent" given through fine print isn't actually consent in any meaningful use of the word. The law doesn't agree, and that's a problem.

I don't think a standard EULA really addresses the issue. A big part of the issue is that for consent to be meaningful, you need to be informed clearly and completely exactly what you're being asked to consent to, including exactly how your data will be used and who it will be shared with.

It would be hard to standardize that. I don't think I've ever seen a EULA the actually gave the information needed for informed consent.
I was hoping it would be voice transfer so the voice actor would give all the intonation and emotion and the AI would take that and make it sound like the author. Reading text with AI is getting better but yes it’ll be worse for a long time.
Well, the goal here is to help people who don't like math learn to like it, or at least find it interesting enough to learn.

I think that people get slotted into the likes math or doesn't like math category quite early in life, often because they don't have an on-ramp to finding it interesting. They then spend the rest of their education avoiding it because "they're not a math person," when in many cases they probably just needed a bit more context/history/philosophy/something interesting to get them on the right track.
I think it's worth it, although it might be best to wait for the next iteration: there's rumors the M4 Macs will support up to 512GB of memory [1].

The current 128GB (e.g. M3 Max) and 192GB (e.g. M2 Ultra) Macs run these large models. For example on the M2 Ultra, the Qwen 110B model, 4-bit quantized, gets almost 10 t/s using Ollama [2] and other tools built with llama.cpp.

There's also the benefit of being able to load different models simultaneously which is becoming important for RAG and agent-related workflows.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/11/m4-ai-chips-late-2024/
[2] https://ollama.com/library/qwen:110b
IIRC, if a representative posts on one instance and a constituent replies on another, the original poster is unlikely to see the reply. Not a good way to communicate with constituents.
There’s always Debian.
Quaternions makes it hard to imagine why gimbal lock would even have to be a problem.

Normally it happens because we have to solve a rotation into potentially redundant roll, pitch and yaw factors.

In Q, you can just write the axis of rotation as a unit vector quaternion v = v1 i + v2 j + v3 k. That pure vector quaternion represents a 180 degree rotation around v. Other rotations around v are interpolations between v and the identity rotation scalar 1:

w = a1 + bv,
where a^2 + b^2 = 1.

This is a circular analogue of linear interpolation. Indeed, if t in [0, 1] is our rotation angle, we observe:

a = cos(pi t)
b = sin(pi t)

And we can reduce

w = a + sqrt(1-a^2)*v

Where a \in [-1, 1].

This representation is so nice. There is no need to solve roll, pitch, and yaw. Just pick unit rotation axis v, then twist the scalar knob a to set the rotation amount.

This is quite human!
humaneval is generally a very poor benchmark imo and I hate that it's become the default "code" benchmark in any model release. I find it more useful to just look at MMLU as a ballmark of model ability and then just vibe checking it myself on code.

source: I'm hacking on a high performance coding copilot (https://double.bot/) and play with a lot of different models for coding. Also adding Qwen 110b now so I can vibe check it. :)
I'd like to know what education reformers would say to the subtitle

> Sorry, education reformers, it’s still memorization and repetition we need.

It seems needlessly confrontational, and misses what the article is about. The article asserts that practice and repeated use of math is important. I don't think it's really suggesting that we should go back to how math was taught in the US 40 years ago.

But maybe I'm just out of touch with math education reform: In high school I was graded on how fast I could do matrix multiplication, and thought matrices were kinda stupid. Then I learned about linear algebra and coupled oscillators in college and thought they were awesome.

So I'd assumed the educational reform was about removing the busy work from math and focusing on what you'd actually use it for. Am I wrong?
Getting the Current Time in C#: A Guide
Notice how it's never men doing stupidly risky stuff to try to look young and beautiful.

The societal pressure on women to look young and beautiful is ridiculous. And influential women actively promoting such garbage is part of the problem.

Men get former Mr. Universe's modeling "eat right and exercise." (Arnold in case you aren't getting the reference.) Women get this kind of crap.
I think it’s ironic that when we rewire a virtual neural network, we call it training and the field is called by machine learning, but when humans learn something, train themselves, they call it rewiring their brain. At some point the reductionist language just obscures the point and makes it less accessible