skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
seems like 1-106cm is fine, and then it stays incorrect up until 199cm, at which point it's correct again.

Truly a bit of a wtf.
Why does it matter? Do you think it's impossible to commit suicide in that way? Do you think that the coroner has less information than you do about whether this is suicide or not? Do you think the coroner has less training and knowledge than you do in this area?

Or is it just that conspiracy theories are fun?

For reference, it is rare but not extremely so that people commit suicide with a gunshot to the back of the head. And in fact, you can find studies like https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38471138/ that explicitly go into ways to distinguish between a suicide and a homicide in such situations.
System Tests Have Failed
Interesting, because the (at least the official) context window of GPT-4o is 128k.
Oh, it's very easy, really, but getting people to accept what it will take won't be.

Don't make a federated protocol. Basically every issue with email can be traced to it being federated.
Google search has got noticeably worse recently. Unit conversions (like the linked one) have been broken for weeks. They got rid of the “map” link for a while - so suddenly there was no easy way to search for a business and then view it on a map. They messed around with product search to make it less useful. I suppose this is a case of product managers justifying their existence by changing things.
Is the answer not supposed to be ~47.24 inches?
This is an interesting thought experiment, but I really want e-mail to stay mostly as it is today, except with a nicer way for me to make sure SPF/DKIM/etc. are enabled sanely for small domains.
I accidentally grew some big crystals from copper plating electrolyte (copper sulfate). Nice blue color.
A similar problem befalls any name that gets well associated with Western collectors. Fake HMT watches are all over eBay as well.

If you think you're getting a genuinely 20-30 year old, still in working order Soviet era mechanical watch that runs well (meaning it was serviced by a human) for like $30-$60, no way.

You can buy Vostoks new from Russian factories direct today, and those will be guaranteed to be real, plus they have not changed much since Soviet times, even the designs are the same. It's kind of kitschy like that.

If you genuinely want to buy a vintage Soviet watch like this collector, it's best to find some catalogs, make sure the watch you want was actually produced by the given company. Find pictures of the movement online, and ask your eBay seller to show you the watch with the case back taken off. When it comes to Frankenstein watches, I don't really care if the dial is repainted, so long as the movement is real and from the era.
I am all for hobby investing. I like playing with numbers (no sarcasm intended) and stock picking as a hobby is understandable as is sports betting.
Yes -- the key is a marginal cost for each call that is higher than what they earn on average per call. And that would not be a lot.
> No one wants email to work better than it does from a performance or function perspective.

Hard disagree. Email sucks in just about every way.
> putting a Johnson & Johnson ad (say) in front of some furries

A very real possibility when advertising on DeviantArt. But a no-adult-content policy would have (probably) satisfied adsense terms but would not have eliminated (most) of the furrie content on DeviantArt.
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I think brackets are needed in the sentence, otherwise it is ambiguous?
How do you know what piracy websites do or don't do with your data?
it's in the article if you read it
They never took off because we discovered, to our surprise to some extent, that gradient descent through back propagation works better than expected if you give it the right learning media and the right input and output encodings. It took a ton of fiddling ("graduate student descent") to figure those out.

Back then everyone thought it was doomed to get stuck at local minima, but it turns out that has a lower probability of happening if the search space has enough dimensions. It works well enough to make the sand talk back to us and now that particular design has sucked all the air out of the room.

Nobody has tried EC at anywhere near the scale of GPTs/LLMs because that amount of compute is expensive and at this point we know those will at least work.

I still think EC is fascinating and would love to play with it some more at some point, maybe trying it combined with back propagation in novel ways. Compute only gets cheaper.
I don't even think you need a conspiratorial angle here.

Boeing has a lot of whistleblowers. At least 30 active whistleblower cases that I can find, let alone the hundreds of others they have had and closed in previous years.

So on one hand, it makes no sense that Boeing would just target a couple, especially from their non-beleaguered divisions.

And on the other hand, it still does not reflect well on Boeing that they have such a large pool of whistleblowers that coincidences like this could be very likely legitimate.
I have an LicheePi 4A but it looks like it didn't make the list.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=120cm+to+inches
> How do mailing lists work?

If they keep the original From: header they would not work, as the sending (mailing list) server would look like a forger, so the ML software would have to do a rewrite that header.

If you wish to keep original From: headers, then ARC would have to be incorporated into this proposal:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_Received_Chain
With no need to actually imitate anything in particular, you could simply chop away everything except the most basic linguistic functions and claim you are a non-native preteen. And who's to say otherwise? In fact that's literally the exact "trick" that yet another mockery of the Turing Test used when claiming they'd overcome the Turing Test. In fact shall we not just take it to the next level? You're 5 years old - and simply respond by randomly pounding various keys on the keyboard on occasion. Boom - didn't see that coming, now did ya Turing?

Passing the test will not be a benchmark because the test has been passed, but because of what passing the test ought entail. People often complain about shifting goalposts on AI, but that's not the issue. The issue is doing exactly what you're doing here and creating worthless goalposts to begin with. And so of course when you cross them, the first thing that happens is that they get inched forward somewhere closer to something reasonable, before you even have time to uncork the champagne. Why not simply skip this nonsense, and start with a reasonable goalpost to begin with? Because it's too hard? Well obviously - that's why it's a goal, and not next month's scrimmage point!
> I think we are long past the era when kids would run off for miles into the countryside, unaccompanied by an adult.

That's horrible. In my country it is still possible. Maybe not "miles" into the field, but a few hundred meters, sure.
> the Kowloon Walled City

Where would the people who lived in Kowloon Walled City have lived instead, had it not existed? That's the question. Four drafty walls and a roof that sometimes leaks is better than none.

> building code didn't exist and the outcome wasn't a magical utopia for lower income housing

Well, yes, a magical utopia isn't going to exist no matter what we do.

> those levers should not include letting people build sketchy shacks piled up on top of each other

In the US, building codes mandates a floor in building quality (and therefore the price) that goes far, far beyond "sketchy shacks", and zoning in large parts of the country simply forbids high-density (and therefore more cost-effective) residences.

As a concrete example of the former, the 2020 National Electrical Code mandated that outdoor HVAC units (e.g. the condenser that sits outside of the house) be protected by ground-fault circuit interrupters. This turned out to hopelessly front-run market reality, because existing GFCI breakers caused nuisance trips all the time when applied to HVAC equipment; so much so that the NFPA walked it back and issued an exemption to this rule until late 2026, when hopefully better breakers can be on the market. But in the meantime, this caused additional expense, delays, and uncertainty in homebuilding. This is just one minor example out of countless additions to the various building codes in recent years.

Of course, the people who write such codes like to say that "every line is written in blood". But remember, making something safe, like anything else, doesn't come without a cost. There is no free lunch, and everything is a tradeoff. We can build an amazingly well-insulated, net-zero house that is very comfortable to live in, has no VOCs, will never cause an electric shock to an occupant, will not catch fire, etc. for $5,000 a square foot; but approximately nobody will be able to afford such a house.

> The government as a whole has many levers it can, should, and does pull

Often times they're not levers, they're ratchets ;-)
Lindy’s closed six years ago.
Yeah its an art not a science for sure. Those questions and how you think the answers will play out should inform the inputs you use for your model. DCF modeling is not a silver bullet to predict a stock price thats for sure.
> That works for a while, but like clockwork, something breaks- a plugin updates incompatibly, Neovim updates incompatibly, an external binary the plugin relies on updates incompatibly...

Just avoid upgrading plugins until necessary. I've no idea how old some plugins are; I only upgrade when necessary (e.g.: when neovim upgrades, or when I need some new feature).
Ah, gotcha. Feel like I've got the existing MX stuck in my mental model. Honestly with all of the existing DNS record based "authentication" with SPF, DKIM, DMARC its already a mess for bulk senders too lol.

Thanks for putting these thoughts together :-)
Among soviet ones Belarus produces it as well from 1950s up until today.
I wonder about the potential for varied immune responses across different populations.
The best thing you could do to accelerate the rollout of MX2 (or any email replacement) is to have Congress bless it as a secure channel for Private Health Information
They can't even mention the NDA exists!
> This argument still baffles me - when we are talking about the US, things requiring a bit more space is laughable.

There tend to be fairly good reasons for why so much land is seemingly unused. You also can't just build a wind or solar plant anywhere, there's areas where either the construction is not feasible, far too expensive, or is too remote. Or just not usable for that type of power generation. You also need access to the labour to build and maintain the facility, and that's going to be harder if you're too far from a population center.
RISC-V is pleasant to write and simple enough to write an reasonably performing interpreter for I guess.

Note I am not OP and I do not endorse this message.
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Simple systems built on simple rules creating universally complete computation behaviors are both unintuitive to and underrated by common man.
I don't think there's any legitimate reporting about that - I'm pretty sure it was internet hyperbole.

It was with his own gun with a note written in his own handwriting to a person by his own accounts suffered from PTSD.
He means adjusting the screws / levers that regulate how much or how little of the wound spring to let out at a time. Slight changes to that tolerance can "adjust" how fast or slow your watch keeps time. You can pop the back of a mechanical watch off and adjust these parts with a tweezer and put it back together, then see if the time is kept better.

There's also machines that can detect the time keeping accuracy to help you adjust a watch's timekeeping this way
> But something doesn't have to be backwards compatible to be a "replacement".

Yes it does. Especially when it's the size of projects like ffmpeg. Just because you replaced c++ with rust in your tiny hobby projects doesn't mean you have the experience, nor the qualifications to say what it entails what it takes to do it at this scale.

You come across as extremely unexperienced.
Nawh, they're using ATM over finches. Those squeaks and chirps you hear outside are actually your packets.
Reminds me a lot of the reduceron, sans FPGA.
Email is not federated

It is decentralized
Do you see any credibility difference between these two?

"The US Supreme Court says that five factors weigh strongly in favor of overruling Roe and Casey."

- and -

"Page 43 of the ruling - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf - states that five factors weigh strongly in favor of overruling Roe and Casey."
Microsoft has done more damage to HTML email than everyone else put together. They’ve single-handedly held it back by at least ten years (maybe fifteen), and created tens or hundreds of thousands of jobs.

In Outlook 97, they used the MSO renderer (Microsoft Word) for editing and presentation. It has an incomplete and buggy implementation of HTML 3.2.

In Outlook 2000–2003, they did the obvious sensible thing: ditch that, and use MSHTML (Internet Explorer).

In Outlook 2007, they switched back to MSO, for reasons that never made a skerrick of sense to me (their explanation was vague nonsense that included the word “security”, but the articles that discussed it vanished from the web long ago so I can’t point you to any). I believe they still use the MSO renderer to this day. Windows Mail still embedded MSO. I think that the new Outlook client they released last yearish? was still using MSO, though I’ve heard claims to the contrary as well.

The MSO component has had, I think, approximately two changes in the last 28 years, one of which was supporting high DPI (… which it does imperfectly) and the other I forget.

Since one of the major email clients is still using a dodgy implementation of 1997 web standards, what incentive have other providers had for supporting newer stuff?

We’re slowly getting places, but when you contrast it with the web’s pace, in both backend and frontend (e.g. HTTPS deployment, and new CSS/HTML/JS features)—well, it’s very obviously a completely different environment.
My old photos appeared on an iPad I sold
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In New Zealand I understand they only hibernate between 2 and 5 years. Growing up I heard them all the time. Hence my surprise to hear of these really long hibernation times in other places.
The entire reason SGD works is because the stochastic nature of updates on minibatches is an implicit regularizer. This one perspective built the foundations for all of modern machine learning.

I completely agree that the most effective regularization is inductive bias in the architecture. But bang for buck, given all the memory/compute savings it accomplishes, SGD is the exemplar of implicit regularization techniques.
Robert Dennard, IBM Inventor Whose DRAM Chip Changed Computing, Dies at 91
I'm not afraid of the viruses per se, I trust in my immune system. It's more the extreme intricacy of the whole damn meatbag. Kinda like looking up at the stars in an ultra-dark environment and seeing more stars than you've ever seen before. I get a little dizzy. Don't get me started on math.
All I’d like to see from AI safety folks is an empirical argument demonstrating that we’re remotely close to AGI, and that AGI is dangerous.

Sorry, but sci-fi novels are not going to cut it here. If anything, the last year and a half have just supported the notion that we’re not close to AGI.
MX records don't send messages. Assuming that “sent to them via SMTP” is meant… well, moving all messages to ‘junk’ isn't a good idea: it needs to be restricted to messages sent on or after that time. But why not just respond with “554 No SMTP service here” on opening the connection?
https://archive.ph/0L2tP
I still hope to see text/markdown as an officially supported content type by email clients.
Especially in Germany where it is either via letter or Telefax.
Microsoft Releases DOS 4.0 Source Code but It Doesn't Compile [video]
I'm not an expert on this stuff at all, so assume I'm stupid and ignorant when I write the following. As I understand it, HIV has actually been useful to develop a delivery mechanism for some therapies that have excellent potential. Would this kind of vaccine cause such therapies to become ineffective?
> could something similar also work in C without taking away that minimalism?

maybe automatic reference counting? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Reference_Counting
I like those goals, and some of the new features seem to contradict that mentality.

E.g.: the commenting feature in core. This could perfectly well be done by extensions, and it the kind of thing that doesn't feel like it should be in core at all.
What about Wave?
Which third party does Apple sell your profile to or your data to?

What do they do with the content of your emails for advertising?

Which credit card networks at which retailers feed that same profile?

So it’s certainly “more true” with, well, every other vendor you can buy a phone from in a telco store or big box store.
And require that if any colours are set, both foreground and background are set. (I've seen too much breakage with assumptions about one or the other.)
In the context of differential geometry, π is still π even in the context of non-Euclidean manifolds.

The distinguishing feature (again, in differential geometry) of non-Euclidean geometry is that it has non-zero sectional curvature. One way to measure sectional curvature is to measure the circumference of a small circle and check how it deviates from what would be expected of a Euclidean circle.

Euclidean circumference: C(x) = 2 π x.

Circumference taking sectional curvature into account, for small x: C(x) = 2 π x - (1/3) K π x^3 + O(x^4), where K is sectional curvature. (The negative sign in the second term means circumferences are smaller than Euclidean when curvature is positive, like on a sphere, and are larger than Euclidean when curvature is negative, like on a saddle.)

Curvature can then be measured by taking the third derivative of circumference at 0: C'''(0) = -2 π K.

π can still be computed by taking the first derivative of circumference at 0: C'(0) = 2 π, independent of curvature.

So even non-Euclidean geometry respects the value of π.
By the way, a classic:

> A functional programmer is one who calls their variables `f` and `x`, and their design patterns "zygohistomorphic prepromorphism".
Email is absolutely federated.

"A federated protocol is a protocol (defined next) that makes it possible for servers to communicate with each other, regardless of who is running those servers."

Federated is not a synonym for Mastodon instance.
Exploring biotic and abiotic methods for PET plastic upcycling
Many YouTube comments seem to have understood this clip as a dismissal of AI in general. And, regardless of whether thats accurate, I disagree with this standpoint. It's not easy to defend this particular example. But seeing how Rainworld uses synthetic animation to simulate an alien, yet somehow familiar ecosystem, makes me excited for whats next.

From a Review by Matthewmatosis [1]:

> Not long after setting out, I found myself staying in a quiet place, just moving Slugcat around various obstacles as smoothly as I could. [...] What was happening on screen looked like an animal testing its limits so as to build survival skills. It was then that I knew that this system was a resounding success.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Un2L5tF1w
I understand that the inspiration for this talk comes from the fact that Doom is using 3.141592657 instead of the correct 3.141592654 in the source code. John Carmack admits that he incorrectly recalled the ten digit op pi.
Dentists near the end of their careers tend to be very honest and less interested in unnecessary upcharges.
>A standardized HTML specification for email

There is no reason why this couldn't exist in the current e-mail technology. In fact, as someone who has written HTML, I'd rather not have HTML anywhere if possible! It's a terrible, nonsensical technology. A simple XML format for display text/images would be much easier to deal with, and also easy to transpile to a HTML/CSS subset. I'd like to hope that e-mail will last longer than HTML!

I think the biggest problem with e-mail is that the lack of inter-provider communication protocols, something that distributed social media (the fediverse) has. For example, there is no way for a provider to know whether or not an e-mail sent was opened, so EVERYONE uses tracking pixels! Like, just put this into a protocol already! The problems you're talking about with HTML support are simply because there is no way for a provider to announce what HTML it supports, partly because this depends on the client that opens the e-mail, not the server that stores the e-mail. But even then, seriously, this should really just be a setting per account and if you use Thunderbird it announces to everyone "hey this dude uses Thunderbird, so don't use fancy HTML!" and if you switched to something else you would just start getting different e-mails. You can see why this wouldn't work with HTML, since HTML is a terrible language that has no actual support for being displayed in a zillion different clients despite what it claims.
And how is this different than Google using its monopoly in browsers to push its other properties?

Are we going after one “monopoly” to help another one?
The goal of neovim is to be a minimal, extensible base editor. If you want something with all the bells and whistles, you probably want one of those distributions like lazyvim (disclaimer: haven't tried that one; I just know that it's a popular one).
https://rationalbreaks.vercel.app/

Per the comments someone made a web app for this already
I think the ecosystem is definitely moving in that direction.

I also think a lot of the ambiguities could be fixed with new RFCs gradually.
Graph database research on Meta's social media platform election spending trends
The US broadly does not have residential building codes; that's a job that is generally left to the States.

And some States have not elected to enact building codes, leaving that responsibility for bodies like cities and counties.

And some cities and counties within those states have also not enacted building codes, or they might even do their own thing.

So, it's largely impossible to generalize a thing like that in the US, where we've got 50 different states, ~3,000 counties within those states, and nearly innumerable cities within those counties.

A person in Chicago, Illinois (home of the Great Chicago Fire) will have a very different set of rules in their area than a person in Meigs County, Ohio (which is approximately "what rules?") would.
Speaking of parallel computing, any book or series of books that can help an engineer learn parallel program and go from zero to hero? Ideally the books will cover both intuition, in-depth details, and theories. Something like The Art of Multiprocessor Programming by Herlihy et el for concurrent programming, even though the book arguably still has too steep of a learning curve.
The flip with Chinese characters in the middle tripped me. I guess they wanted to look like “complicated”…