skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the vision-list I understand that I'm not the target audience since I'm not afraid of my version control system, but I kind of think that maybe I'm also not unique in that I do a lot of swearing and insecure stuff and nasty tricks locally in the repo when I'm developing and it sort of seems like a really, really bad idea to stream it to a remote server...?
I find it interesting that it's called a Swedish car company when it's owned by a Chinese car company and none of its cars are produced in Sweden. Is national attribution of companies meaningless?

Maybe every company should open an office in Sweden and call itself Swedish.
>Devil's advocate: sell replacement drop-in boards and reuse the chassis.

Apple's response if regulators push for that: "Sure, that'll be 1600$ for the board please. (on an 1800$ new machine). Oh, and BTW, the board is paired to your iCloud account so you can't then re-sell it on the used market, for your own protection of course. You're welcome."
I would invite you to read the rest of the explainers, which go into deeper differences: https://elv.sh/learn/scripting-case-studies.html

Re "cosmetic" - I'd agree that the extent syntax matters is more limited compared to semantics, but that limited extent can be a lot of the daily experience with a language! I've ported many bash scripts to Elvish and I still find it liberating to not have to write double quotes everywhere for my script to handle whitespaces correctly.
Wow that is crazy that it is between chance and 1/phi.

In the linked MSE post, it has now been proved that the probability that the largest root is real is at least 6.2%

And! at least 1/10th of 1/phi. Hahaha! :)

I think the link of phi with number theory is natural in the sense that the primes are not random (as is commonly mistaken) but arise recursively from prior primes: they are exactly the 'gaps' not hit by multiples of prior primes, so there's a kind of 'natural growth' pattern that we would expect to reflect some manner of e and phi

It's a very fundamental pattern of magnitude. Truth beauty et all
They are not created by a trillion dollar company as advertising to sell more product.
Right, but the whole reason people are so excited about SpaceX is because they're making the costs of doing stuff in space drop like a stone.
I thought Apple did a great job of providing an ad that makes a bold statement (which is the ultimate goal of advertising).

In other words, I think Apple crushed it (pun intended).
Hey everybody! I've created a tool that takes a simple prompt (even just a sentence) and creates a highly optimized prompt, applying various best practices from Prompt Engineering.

Feel free to try it and let me know what you think!
It's the first version, so I hope to improve it in the upcoming weeks. :)
Thanks!
There's a bigger (but related) problem than text quality:

With a usual game environment, the devs create a whitelist of actions the player is allowed to perform. If there's no combat, they simply don't give the player the option to perform violent actions. If they don't want the player to vault barriers they just don't include a jump button. Vehicles and buildings are props by default and only become intractable because the devs consciously chose to make them so. Devs have generally gotten very good at implying what's out of scope, so players generally don't even attempt actions that are intended to be impossible.

In LLM world with free-text entry, controlling what's on-theme becomes a blacklist rather than a whitelist, as the player can choose to input anything. Including things for flavour or lore reasons now becomes more difficult, as a whitelist is finite, while the blacklist of undesired actions is practically infinite.
Indeed, leap day, leap hour, leap minute, etc is a distinction without a difference because either way the solution is the same: do absolutely nothing and let future humanity decide how much drift it can tolerate.
"A strange loop is a paradoxical structure where the highest level emerges from the lowest level, and the lowest level, in turn, gives rise to the highest level."

This is saying the same thing twice; does the author mean that the highest level emerges from the lowest level, and the highest level then gives rise to the lowest level?
Management versus Technical Track
We had grooved concrete here some decades ago. Luckily they got rid of those as the noise was much worse than normal surfaces.
The biggest thing that makes me wonder about this ad is: "why?". It certainly costed more to make than an average ad, regardless if it was CGI or real, it should be obvious to anybody who has ever itneracted with humans why crushing a bunch of instruments and tools they use would be a bad idea, all to get it mention more often thanks to society's backlash? Apple isn't some newcomer who needs all the attention they can get, every man, woman, child, dog and cat who can afford apple products has heard of them and I doubt hearing about the brand new iPad pro a million times more is going to change their decision to buy it or not. Most of their userbase is people up to their eyes in the apple ecosystem, all they have to do is send a push notification about the newest iProduct, initiate the planned obsolescence procedure, and watch the cash pour in, the rest would just need to see an ad about the amazing new health app or whatever with a suttel subtext of "and if you don't buy this you're a poor low-status chump lol". But again, I don't run a trillion+ dollar tech company so what do I know?

This also reminds me of those 4chan pranks where they tell people that the new software update made the iPhone waterproof or they can charge it by putting it in a microwave. This time they wouldn't even have to make fake ads: "look, apple said new iPad can't be crushed, post a tiktok of yourself stomping your iPad nothing can go wrong!" (disclaimer: the previous text in quotes is in quotes for a reason; don't do that to any of your devices. There's no warranty to the extent permitted by law, etc etc).
Or better yet, sell the stacked SOC + RAM modules. Any good repair shop can replace BGA devices.
Already exists, same as is used for any other soundproofing. Rockwool insulation, resilient channels and a second layer of drywall, mass loaded vinyl, acoustic panels and tapestries (can hide some more mass loaded vinyl in there too), acoustic adhesive, scored screws to kill floor squeaks. They're all quite expensive but hey! Very DIY accessible.

For exterior noise the biggest bang for the buck is replacing windows. I had some soundproof windows put onto my previous house and you could close the door on a parade going by and not even know it was happening.
I don't think it would change.

Illegal immigration and asylum abuse get the most headlines because that allows the most sensationalist take.

But if you look at the anti-immigration trends in countries like France or the Netherland, or perhaps Germany, they are driven by legal immigration over decades.

I think it's also a mistake to focus on the economy. First because contributing to the economy as a whole does not mean it benefits everyone. For instance, it can keep wages low or lower. Second because when people object to mass immigration they often look at the impact on society and the disappearing local culture and the impact on housing and infrastructure.

The same mistake was made in the UK during the Brexit referendum: the 'remain' side focused on the "economic benefits" of immigration, completely missing the actual concerns of the people.
Apple M4 benchmarks suggest it is the new single-core performance champ
It's a bit weird to write that the Romans of Constantinople "claimed" to be the "heirs" of the empire; as far as they were concerned they simply were Romans and their empire was obviously the same empire as Augustus', albeit with a change of capital city and so on. And given that they were Romans and the Emperor of Rome did become the Emperor of Constantinople, you have to do some work to argue against them.

In particular, very unsurprising that they'd share continue to like the same colours of shoes.
Why you can hear the temperature of water
We should be commending the honesty!
By running an ad blocker you are forcing them to create more ads, to make up their losses.
Any “increase” that’s below inflation is actually a net decrease.
I play guitar and I didn’t find it painful to watch. I thought it was a cool idea illustrating all those instruments being compressed into a tiny device.
It’s clearly not a professional technical analysis though.
It was a rhetorical question. I can't force people to feel a certain way but I can certainly say that they're being overly dramatic.

And right, exactly, none of these things are actually extinct yet, so why dramatize? And if at some point they die off, it won't be Apple that caused it. It will happen because people stop caring, practising and using the things in question.
Hi, I read the post. The numerical approach gives the data. But the proof of the result uses analysis. I was talking about the proof. Thanks.
We had a similar thing with a malignant AirBnB host next to our living place. Plus issues with water leaks on their side. The host company and AirBnB made it clear their business was rentals, not taking care of the property or community on which they profit.

I used to be happy with AirBnB as an option when I travel, now it is my last resort if I can't find a hotel room.
This maybe https://www.ntu.edu.sg/eee/news-events/news/detail/-noise-ca...
Honestly it’s Stack Overflow that’s really the "noob" level programming discussion, with 95% of questions incredibly elementary, whether "professional" or not. cstheory.stackexchange.com is more analogous to mathoverflow.com in that it’s about research-level questions.

I think Math Overflow was the first overflow instance after SO, so it has a sort of a special status and its own domain. *.stackexchange.com came later to meet the growing demand for more instances.
They should have just run the video in reverse and it would have gotten the same point across and been a lot rosier.
Don't people who loose their hearing generally choose operations to regain it if they can? Who would know better than people who have tried both.
Rappel sounds very similar to Clojure’s transducers in spirit and implementation.
> an artist would use the AI as a tool to convey his meaning.

I'm not sure why this is shoved in as an aside near the end of the comment. This is how it's used. This is how it'll be used to create games.

Does anyone think that, what, ChatGPT is going to poop out an entire finished game and we'll release that? Or would artists use AI as just another tool to create their art?
A very under appreciated aspect of Telegram’s protocol is that it’s designed by very, very weird people. Telegram scooped up a lot of winners of ACM ICPC contests in Russia, some of whom I’ve personally met, and the design of the protocol is exactly in line with the code these people generally write.

It’s really a showcase of how very high IQ and outstanding mathematical abilities mix with a distrust of existing technologies and a lack of expert intuition coming from more normal industry experience.

Just try implementing MTProto, or at least read the low-level docs, and you’ll see for yourself. Crypto isn’t the weirdest part. The whole thing is an attempt to define a binary protocol in terms of grandiose mathematical concepts most of which didn’t even end up ever used in the actual protocol. And there’s zero thought given to what’s actually important, making a bullet-proof syncing between server and client states (and that results in numerous bugs to this day).

Can’t discount malice, but I don’t believe that’s the case.
I don't follow your reflections. Reflecting the graph of a polynomial p(x) along the x-axis means replacing p(x) by p(-x). What do you mean by reflecting "across the bottom/top of the curve"? Reflecting along the y-axis? This would mean p(x) is replaced by -p(x).
I typically let Chrome suggest one, but that menu item wasn't available here (because I was not inside Chrome, obviously).

These restrictions do not add security in practice. People just add `!` or `1` as necessary to make the thing shut up. All it does is make signup harder.
Venus' rotation is quite weird, could it be the result of an impact?
> at the end of the day this pollution is a direct consequence of us average Joes neverending consumerism.

However the subliminal advertising of big companies causing manipulation of weak human minds is what drives the never ending consumerism. Take away the ads, and the buying of crap will drop significantly.
I challenge you to manufacture a well-sounding and nicely tuned piano and then reconsider the term "low tech"
Any word can be given a definition, that’s how we communicate. A non-circular definition is a way to define what you mean by a term to another person.

Again: scientific method does not explain. Religion or philosophy are about explaining. Scientific method is about experimentation and making testable predictions. What experiments we perform is determined by how we understand the world, and if there is any subsequent explanation about “how things really are” (a.k.a. “the underlying principles”) then it has nothing to do with scientific method which does not make such claims by design; that is untestable/unfalsifiable beliefs and a product of either philosophical or religious thinking.

Since you insist on using specific words “explain” and “discover”, rather than more conventionally used in science “predict” or “model”, it implies they mean something different to you. I have provided the meanings of “explain” and “discover” I am familiar with, as it applies to the discussion at hand (which is about the philosophy of scientific process, underlying principles and truths about objectively existing reality). If you refuse to identify the meanings you are using those words in, I take it that you concede whatever point you had.
>director reached for something deep, couldn't get ahold of it

Translation/writing/dub wasn't very strong at the time, I can see how ppl feel now (and felt at the time) the headiness/philosophizng was filler for robot tanks and augment porn, but it was all there in the source manga by Shirow. IMO reaching for something deep about is what the series is all about, just explored more competently in shows like SAC where they had many hours to deep dwelve into many subjects.
Hmmm, war is often fought under a 'banner' that is different from the fundamental motivations. This the the classic "Jihadi's Dilemma": you need to craft an ideology to recruit those willing to die in the name of it.

Race has been a reliable 'cause-de-celebre' in the US politik for long eras, seemingly. I think you ought focus less on these superficial causes and more on fundamental ones: economics, resources, capital.
> The MathOverflow corporation is completely independent from Stack Exchange and its mission is to ensure the continued operation of the site in a manner that meets the needs and expectations of the community.

Does it make it more or less hostile than Stack Exchange?
1. It's not a problem, it's the point.

2. It looks like you're implying the ad is somehow a piece of art. It's not, it's an ad.
I just realised something terrible.

This code is ADTs for C.

At some point somebody's going to call it CADT and jwz will explode.
What do you mean with reflection across the bottom/top of the curve?

With combination you presumably mean taking (polynomial+reflected polynomial)/2?
Now with image generators its even easier to fake the listings and show any kind of unique room and setting in photos.

Moving forward, how will we verify that the photos are real for the real life use cases like this?
They have apologized! Send them to re-education!!! Cancel the execution.
Chat with Llama 3 on a Playdate
> The Apple M4 chip is the fastest single-core of any consumer chip

> Compared to an Asus Zenbook 14 OLED (UX3405MA) with an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H and 32GB of RAM, Apple said M4-powered devices could “deliver the same performance using just a fourth of the power.”

Yes. Very fast. /s
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Heh. This is an interesting comment. Imagine if we didn't know about relativity - we would have discovered it as an annoyance/weird quirk instead as we ran into it.

Reminds me of that story about the self-evolving chip that was tasked to learn how to classify tones and instead took advantage of specific flaws in its own package.
Even if so, that metaphor was not executed faithfully, and for a company like Apple that is bad.

But more so there is an unmistakeable 'destruction is cute' aspect to the ad that is uncalled for, that is what the reaction is toward.
> if Apple actually cared about the environment they'd release new models every several years instead of several times yearly

Thankfully last year’s model still works and is supported for several years. Nothing prevents you from ignoring the new models and act as if they didn’t exist.

Auto manufacturers release many new models every year and most people do not buy them all. Nor do they wish that appliance manufacturers stopped releasing new models so they could keep their fridge for longer.
> Ultimately, the question trying to be answered by the authors is not "does x code, when applied to y dataset, create z outcome?" but rather "how is z outcome created?"

Maybe, but the question asked by the people in the field, and even general public, is different: we're asking, "is this even real, or are they exaggerating or plain bullshitting us?". It's a reasonable question to ask when the results seem groundbreaking, and there's lots of money or reputation at stake.

Consider if they came out and said, we've invented machine converting electricity to mechanical motion with near-zero energy loss at room temperature. The design is complex, and uses exotic materials no one outside few megacorps could reasonably afford to get, and we just plan to use it to sell mechanical work as a service, so you're never gonna see how the thing is built (unless you're really important and sign an NDA) - but trust us, it works. Wouldn't some questions about reproducibility be warranted in such a case?
I actually have Crafting Interpreters on my shelf!

It looks like APUE might be the ticket to fill in some of my gaps though. Thank you for the suggestion.

Escape sequences should be fine (famous last words?).
Universities should be forced to publish their unemployment, underemployment, and successes of their recent grads.

In high school the local university was doing a presentation and they said their grads were 92% employed. I immediately asked the obvious question, 'since unemployment is 4%, university makes you less employable?'

They had no answer and so I got to follow up. If I got a physics degree, how likely is it that I would get a job using the degree. They were a biologist, but knew how to answer. "If you get a physics degree, you'll need to get your phd otherwise there's no jobs for you.'

Boy did I ever get in trouble.
Negative sentiment is more general than toxicity in my understanding - but it does include it. The fact that the study found HN consistently negative does not surprise me, one of the ways HN is negative (the most disruptive and which makes me post here less often) is indeed toxic comments. But I am still here (in the comments no less) so the benefit still outweighs the pain.
From the article:

The messages show the Chinese citizen and the collective members reacting in real-time to the vulnerability being detected.

“I don’t understand. Which idiot discovered this?” the Chinese citizen claiming responsibility asked.

“Looks like it’s being dug out,” a fellow said.

“Bullshit”, he replied. “F---. How did he find out?”

The Nightly can also reveal that the cyber infiltration operation may not yet be neutralised.

“And not just this one”, he said after claiming the XZ attack.

“It’s okay. I have another open-source thing. It’s also been poisoned. Still can play with it. F---ing hell,” he told another hacker collective in further messages also discovered by The Nightly.
Beautiful! Phi always seems to show up when there is crowding.
Imagine being so deep in the woods in anti-victim-culture culture that you concoct an association even in such an unrelated complaint like this distasteful ad.
It’s not my place to tell anyone how they should feel about anything, but the number of comments here suggesting people had a strong emotional reaction to this does kinda worry me. How do those of you who feel so strongly about this ad get through daily life? If I was feeling so upset about something like this, life would be pretty bad. Genuine question.

EDIT: I appreciate the amount of good-faith discussion on this comment. To be clear, if your reaction to the ad was along the lines of ‘this is distasteful and I don’t like it’, I totally get that. I’m referring to some of the comments I saw that likened it to ‘stress inducing’ or ‘like watching someone’s arm get cut off’ which are much more emotive.
links are indeed the best. It is hard not to click on the comments however, which is a roll of a dice.
Queue replacing rear "window" with screen to show what's in front... wait a few years for companies to monetize with ads of course.

https://news.samsung.com/global/the-safety-truck-could-revol...
> then 4C is unavoidable

Is this estimate of yours based on anything or just gut feeling?

I like to draw a comparison with world wars. As a fraction of GDP, the world spent more on WW2 than what is needed to solve climate change. Having such a war was also hard, took real effort, people cheated, pointed fingers, etc. Also, lot of people died. But we did it anyway.

So it's an important and interesting question what exactly it takes for countries to go into emergency mode and take action on such a scale.

Working it out seems really hard though. To get to something like your "4C" figure, you would have to look at what kind of catastrophes and damage need to happen to force how much investment into a solution (I guess this is very hard, one would consider a number of possible scenarios), how soon we expect such catastrophic consequences to happen at places where a lot of people live, how much action we can reasonably expect they will take, and how much that action will actually help.

The people that The Guardian asked presumably also tried to take all of this into account and arrived at less than "3C".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc

Omg. It's like the Apple X indie-horror-movie crossover.

Hmmm, this is why Steve Jobs is needed. This ad is such Ballmeresque

— meaning Tim must be asleep at the wheel, or, more likely, on his Vision Pro while his Tesla takes over directions. haha! :)
More specifically, IIRC, he peed himself after getting word that the astronauts were safe, and mission control was celebrating.

Poor Bill. He was a great character.
> The group that whines about this kind of thing will find a reason to whine regardless of content.

Serious question - do you feel that all complaints in society are from the same group? And that group is, "the group of people who complain?" That doesn't seem a bit circular to you?

Do you think that kind of attitude might blind you to who is complaining about what and why?
Was ist das für 1 Developer?
You use Budan's theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budan%27s_theorem to certify that there's exactly one (or exactly zero) real root in the interval (r - ɛ, r + ɛ]. As long as your guess r is within ɛ of a root, this allows distinguishing between real and complex roots even if you don't have the exact value. (There are instances where Budan's theorem cannot give an answer, e.g. most obviously if there's more than one root in the interval.)
I'm not the person you're asking to, but in case you're interested in another opinion, I also no longer use ad blockers. I think it's fair to consume content in the way the author intended, especially because it seems that ads often give the author or the platform some revenue. That said, I do refuse to browse sites where the ads get too annoying. So I just close the tab and go on with my life without it. It turns out I rarely need most of the stuff that I come across randomly.