skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, we actually order many boxes of a similar thing (Huel) every month. It's about half of our monthly food intake (by calories).

As a kid I used to dream about being able to photosynthesize. I'd love to never have to worry about food or beverage intakes again.
Feels less great for all the people in the pool that you kick.
Which part of this article is something other than Ad Hominem?
Star Citizen must be AAAA then with all that feature creep!

Jokes aside, it still feels very subjective to me. Eg I wouldn’t point to CoD as a shining example for any of that. Their in-game launcher sucks, the voice chat is 2003 cell phone quality, the graphics are nice but not groundbreaking, and the stability of the game/servers is worse than most of the indie games I play even after installing mods.

CS:GO has better voice, better stability, and now you can shoot holes through the smoke from grenades. Servers are also 128Hz, where CoD just went from 20Hz to 60Hz (just in time to be out of date again).

COD is the poster child of scope creep to me. It has half-assed support for just about everything under the sun. I wouldn’t really call any part of it “developed”, though.
Naming Things Is Hard (Game Genre Edition)
Haha, CQ2 doesn't mean anything, and no, it has nothing to do with ICQ.
Well hi, also fellow Texan here. State law requires hospitals to take in and treat any patient with injuries “incompatible with life”. This means a fake name is unnecessary, you can give the same name. You may be asked about a previous bill but that will in no way preclude you from getting treatment.

I’m pretty sure there is a moral to this story..
Guns make violence worse, so regulate them.

The prime actor in violence is a person, and that person still has the capacity for violence without a gun.

But let’s still prefer they don’t have one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Albini
A little landscaping and gardening will not just increase your net worth, it will also increase your quality of life.
> devouring monster

I think this misconception exists because of how many people don't understand gravity. Crossing the event horizon would involve a huge amount of delta-v to de-orbit, unless you were extremely unlucky with your initial velocity.

Most people think that they behave like stellar vacuum cleaners: you'll get sucked in if you're simply in the vicinity of one.
+1 for “any underlying process”. It would be interesting what use case they had in mind.
If you're a scientist who works in protein folding (or one of those other areas) and strongly believe that science's goal is to produce falsifiable hypotheses, these new approaches will be extremely depressing, especially if you aren't proficient enough with ML to reproduce this work in your own hands.

If you're a scientist who accepts that probabilist models beat interpretable ones (articulated well here: https://norvig.com/chomsky.html), then you'll be quite happy because this is yet another validation of the value of statistical approaches in moving our ability to predict the universe forward.

If you're the sort of person who believes that human brains are capable of understanding the "why" of how things work in all its true detail, you'll find this an interesting challenge- can we actually interpret these models, or are human brains too feeble to understand complex systems without sophisticated models?

If you're the sort of person who likes simple models with as few parameters as possible, you're probably excited because developing more comprehensible or interpretable models that have equivalent predictive ability is a very attractive research subject.

(FWIW, I'm in the camp of "we should simultaneously seek simpler, more interpretable models, while also seeking to improve native human intelligence using computational augmentation")
Adults could potentially protect themselves, children absolutely can't.
You just described every successful entrepreneur in existence.
This is not a reasonable way to infer the sentiment of hundreds of millions of people in different countries, different business, different situations, etc, etc.

Disguising it as an "observation" is even more ridiculous.
Microsoft Announces $3.3B Investment in Wisconsin to Spur AI Innovation
I don't understand why you would need custom firmware. It seems like you could go a long way just implementing back-ends for popular ML libraries in openCL / compute shaders
That sounds nice, but I have no idea what such an update would look like.

The future envisioned by DRM is an attempt to deal with the problem of copying through structural rather than legal means. Would an update to the law restrict DRM by putting transferability requirements in place (that is, any DRM scheme needs to have the option to irreversibly transfer the content)? Would it put further DMCA-style restrictions on attempts to circumvent DRM?

I don't really like any of these options. I think music is the closest thing to where we have "solved" this problem -- streaming music is inexpensive enough and widespread enough that music piracy is essentially a non-issue.

For a while it seemed like video was going in a similar direction, but now with the balkanization of video platforms and the increasing cost of access to materials, we're slowly reverting back.

Books, especially ebooks, have been totally blocked from this path by the publishers, who managed to successfully defend their pricing moats and make ebooks more expensive than their physical counterparts. Piracy seems (anecdotally) less widespread just because ebooks (especially Kindles) don't make it easy to bring your own content.
Or a miniature ticker tape printer, so your texts can come out your pocket like a telegram.
I'm a very happy user of SteerMouse for years now. The logitech app was very unstable (and increasingly bloated) to just be able to customize a couple of things for the MX Master 3.

SteerMouse does all that, is hidden away in preferences where it belongs, and It Just Works™
So the method I chose was mapping and intersecting.

What happens is that for each day of the week, time, and mood, there are genres that fit most with these times, according to general data I had found from various articles over time.

I then get the users selected inputs and lay out all the genres. I see if there are any intersections/patterns in all 3 and if so, I store that for use to find movies. If there are no common genres, I map only the mood to the day then the mood to the time, as I think mood is the most powerful factor, and see intersections there and store them.

Then it's just a simple search for movies of that genre with the provider and that's all.

If you have any further questions feel free to ask.
I have had a similar idea for the past few years: less an AI model that takes in a photo and generates a video, more a movement planning tool given a 3D model of the wall.

Echoing some of the other comments, I think it would be more interesting to not just see a single avatar climbing the problem, but to see many possible approaches to the same problem, even for climbers with the same body type. This way, even skilled climbers that are stuck on a problem can consider alternate beta/techniques that they may find easier to execute.
Maybe; AI chess engines have improved human understanding of the game very rapidly, even though humans cannot beat engines.
Is this crankery? Seems like most of the content on the website ia written by one guy, but it tries to give the appearance of a large foundation. His bio says he works on "Unification Theory."
The Ukraine-Russia War is leading to an autonomous arms race. Many interesting examples and much faster iteration than the traditional Mil-Ind complex. Fully expect Ukraine to be a leader in drone warfare, if you don't consider them to be already
No, in those legislations you absolutely can, the moral rights supersede the license (not that I'm necessarily happy with that)

In the case of open source software, it could be some use which reflects badly on yourself.

Here in this scenario, the angle could be that using it for training in AI could affect the integrity of the content produced
Black mirror a few years ahead of its time, yet again.
Thank you again! This is definitely something to start from!
Navigating platform engineering: big picture
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nassim_Haramein

> Despite his claims, Haramein's work is ignored by mainstream physicists because it is pseudoscience with no evidentiary support. Few scientists bother to respond Haramein because even the most basic review shows his models to be based on flawed mathematics and wrong assumptions, with “proofs” that quickly become circular and self-referential. His self-promotion and outreach is considered cult-like, and like many pseudoscientists, he is good at impressing people with little to no understanding of modern physics, scientific research, or skepticism.

So, in answer to the headline, no, probably not.
What I see a lot of too is poor quality hardware causing crashes - eg poor quality power supplies, actually faulty memory, memory that is marginal at the speeds that it's sold at (eg fine at the standard JEDEC speeds, but fails at the XMP speeds), but also poor cooling - eg not enough airflow in the chassis paired with a modern GPU.

I had a PC that was having inexplicable game crashes, but only in stressful games - swapping the power supply from an existing ~10 year old one (which was still rated as enough capacity for my hardware) to a brand new ATX 3.0 unit resolved it.
not OP, but for us, LLM's just aren't good enough yet to write analytical SQL queries (and they may never be good enough using pure SQL). Some more context here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40300171
I think it would be crazy to believe that 50% of people at Google do "no real work." Or if not crazy, definitely stupid.

Why? First because it's a proposition that doesn't have any fixed meaning. What counts as real work? Many work initiatives in tech are inherently speculative. If the speculation pans out, then the airhead VCs will call it "real-work" in retrospect. If it doesn't, then they condemn it as fake work. Even Theranos, which was a scam, spent a lot of money TRYING to be more than a scam. They failed, but it was real work to try to make her dumb idea a reality. VCs loved Theranos, didn't they?

The other thing that bothers me about this is the idea that investors should be given their money back instead of Google, you know, trying to use that money to make their company more successful. Besides all that, there is a value to employing lots of tech people even if you aren't having them do very much.

Why, you ask?

Because if you don't employ tech people, then the upper working class collapses even more than it already has. This is not good for society.

Somehow rich people must be made to understand what rich people in the late Roman Empire never understood until the Visigoths, Vandals, and Huns, wiped them out: that naked self interest without any civic responsibility leads to the collapse of the very systems that protect you.
> Why only 16 of the possible 18 tiles would ever have the Whammy, I have no speculation.

They used slide projectors to change the board. Each projector advanced at the same time. They only had three options in each projector. It's unclear why they only chose three options, probably for production simplicity. They would switch out the carousels on the projectors between rounds, with more whammys in subsequent rounds.

So the best guess is that they wanted a certain whammy ratio and leaving two squares with only good stuff would achieve that. Also it made for good TV, when it was possible to earn an extra spin on every board configuration.
I wonder what the comparison is in J/kg? I could see lithium & capacitor hybrid systems being viable in EVs.
The cybertruck's battery housing is full of plenty of deadspace, and if these caps have 1/10th the energy density you could squeeze in an extra 10+kwh of storage.
Caps typically have a much longer lifespan, so I could see them acting as a great buffer for the rapid charge/discharge of regen braking.
Really you've never seen a comment of yours bounce around negative and positive on polarizing issues? It's kinda cool to see, makes this platform feel more solid than others.

> celebrity loyalty

You must have missed that meme https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/477/624/072...

It was in response to the insufferable worship happening in comment sections everywhere. I wonder how much he was paying for PR each month back then, and what agency he uses. At any rate, that there was a good meme.
Use pip, Luke!

https://docs.pola.rs/user-guide/getting-started
Meh, I am not that impressed by the reflexes. I counted the number of video frames in the youtube video (https://youtu.be/WltjaxiowW4?si=KkVJPy_e7ALQulE-) and each square stays lit up for 8 frames, or 270 ms. This is quite long. If you memorize the particular pseudo-random sequence (as Michael did), it's pretty easy to hit a given square reliably.

The key insight and most difficult trick is not having fast reflexes, but actually discovering the pseudo-random sequence is not completely random, and memorizing it.
I guess ClassicPress [1] needs some love by those who prefer the classic editor and how WordPress used to be before the introduction of Gutenberg.

[1] https://www.classicpress.net/
Suggested reading: Dogs of War, by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Essentially a biotech cyborg variant on the theme of mind control meets Island of Doctor Moreau.
Not exactly related to the article, but reading it triggered a sudden realization: vampires are just big capacitors. If you put a stake through their heart, you connect all the plates (possibly many layers of them) and they are vaporized into a cloud of dust.

Well, dust and steam, which could be where the whole "turning into mist" comes from.

I got nuthin' for blood and bats.
And CEOs with $18,000 egg chairs lined with this.
Quantization is reducing the number of bits to store a parameter for a machine learning model.

Put simple, a parameter is a number that determines how likely it is that something will occur, ie if the number is < 0.5 say "goodbye" otherwise say "hello".

Now, if the parameter is a 32bit (unsigned) integer it can have a value of 0-4,294,967,296.

If you were using this 32bit value to represent physical objects, then you could represent 4,294,967,296 objects (each object gets given its own number).

However a lot of the time in machine learning, after training you can find that not quite so many different "things" need to be represented by a particular parameter, so if say you were representing types of fruit with this parameter (Google says there are over 2000 types of fruit, but let's just say there are exactly 2000). In that case 4,294,967,296/2000 means there are 2.1 million distinct values we assign each fruit, which is such a waste! Our perfect case would be that we use a number that only represents 0-2000 in the smallest way for this job.

Now is where quantization comes in, where the size of the number we use to represent a parameter is reduced, saving memory size at the expense of a small performance hit of the model accuracy - it's known that many models don't really take a large accuracy hit from this, meaning that the way the parameter is used inside the model doesn't really need/take advantage of being able to represent so many values.

So what we do is say, reduce that 32bit number to 16, or 8, or 4 bits. We go from being able to represent billions or millions of distinct values/states to maybe 16 (with 4bit quantization) and then we benchmark the model performance against the larger version with 32bit parameters - often finding that what training has decided to use that parameter for doesn't really need an incredibly granular value.
No, not "whatever I want." I described taking my daughter out of a public school and legally homeschooling her. I didn't see any reason to explain that or discuss it with the school administration. If I quit a job I don't have to go to an exit interview. Same thing.

As I mentioned we moved to Oregon soon after taking our daughter out of public school. Oregon legalized homeschooling in 1985, before my daughter was born. Texas legalized homeschooling in 1994, the same year we made that decision. We didn't see any need to deal with the public school bureaucracy -- that would kind of defeat the point of homeschooling.

I think parents will generally choose to do whatever they think will best protect their child, or help their child succeed. If you don't understand that "focus" I will guess you don't have children.
Legal without the trailing slash in vi!
So this is where my tax dollars are spent. Building “killer robot dogs”. Smh.

It’s shit like this that make you think twice about paying taxes; and sympathize with “tax dodgers”.

The waste in government isn’t in Medicare, Social Security. It’s in the military industrial complex.
Our Breville makes good espresso for 1/4 of the price of that machine. (We have a separate grinder, so it's a semi-manual process to grind each day.) So much depends on the quality of the beans you buy and how you store them.
I suspect that ML will be state-of-the-art at generating human-interpretable theories as well. Just a matter of time.
Yeah I'm not talking about no access ever, I'm talking about the (very sad imho) situation where you see toddlers mindlessly staring at their tablet watching random videos/tiktoks while ignored by parents for hours, even if the mom or dad is nearby and and could be interacting with them.
Telemetry. Dashboards. The application is knowing when a signal is anomalous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observability_(software)
> Perhaps the opportunity here is to provide a quicker feedback loop for theory about predictions in the real world. Almost like unit tests.

Or jumping the gap entirely to move towards more self-driven reinforcement learning.

Could one structure the training setup to be able to design its own experiments, make predictions, collect data, compare results, and adjust weights...? If that loop could be closed, then it feels like that would be a very powerful jump indeed.

In the area of LLMs, the SPAG paper from last week was very interesting on this topic, and I'm very interested in seeing how this can be expanded to other areas:

https://github.com/Linear95/SPAG
I missed your concern about pure anonymity in the whole process, the answer is NO.

You can't have such a system that is totally anonymous, it is private but not anonymous. This means it is largely anonymous but for instance law enforcement might be able to track you down...I happen to think this is a good balance though I am sure not every one agrees.
Ignoring hundreds years of history is moving goalposts. Greetings from a country that almost overnight gained 5% of population from Ukraine (very welcomed by me).

Ethnic tensions brought some of Europe's worst atrocities, not prosperity. Even in last 25 years, the Balkans are still sore.

Post Industrial Revolution we had two world wars and many revolutions. Does your neutral debating place look like Europe's history?
very spot on

for those who want to watch

Metalhead
Black Mirror: Season 4, Episode 5
If what you truly enjoy is stealing from others then it's time to reevaluate your life.
When facing off against an army of ML engineers and psychologists?

It is obvious that even adults are suffering negative consequences from social media, and if it isn't obvious, take a look at any of the studies showing the negative impact on adults of social media usage.

Every single consumer is outmatched. The only winning choice is to not play at all.
I'd like to see authors find another way to make money rather than selling by copy. I've thought about this a bit, though nothing seems like a slam dunk.

- QR code or similar embedded in books, for people to tip

- Patreon style subscription for your favorite authors (like how some youtube channels do it)

- Use it as a loss-leader to go on "talks" tours (like musicians)

Not perfect ideas, but something has to change. Our laws today are creaking under the load.
Their website has:

>The mission: solve traffic, enable rapid point-to-point transportation and transform cities

via cheap tunnels. Maybe they won't get there but it's an interesting goal.
Children at school use a screen for school work starting in middle school (and sometimes even in elementary school). It is very difficult for parents or teachers to always supervise this. I think the adults should educate the children of safe online behavior but like other real world experiences they need have the independence when being online too.
I was an iOS dev for 7 years before G, then iOS app for Android watches for a year or two, then Android proper for...4 years? 100% cosign on the UI toolkit being.......ugh. There's a general saying internally at Google "$X is deprecated and $Y isn't ready yet", and I think that applies here, but I don't know Android UI as well as I'd like before damning it:

I wrote Java + layouts for the one big UI feature I did, then was one of the first to do Kotlin, then moved to Flutter* from then on.

In that vein: I cannot describe intensely enough how much I disliked Kotlin, and I get the vibe compose is not quite ready yet and isnt really moving the ball forward, as much as it's happy to be at general parity with SwiftUI. I really wish Flutter "won", it's such a beautiful and pleasant experience. Your job is a different job with hot reload.

* Note: that was very unofficial, im almost certainly the only person who did on Android who was writing flutter, and it was because I ended up doing design system heavy work where having a web app to show designers things became paramount, no one was expecting much work on Android proper from me