skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doesn't this depend on how the tracking is used, not on whether the tracking is present at all?

Of course. I think most people would agree that this would be an implicit assumption not worth explicitly mentioning. Do you think that's non-obvious? To me it seems rather obvious since in the extreme case if you bought the device and never actually used any of the features (but still put it on your kid) then clearly it'd have no effect. There's clearly a lot of gray area in between.

But I think it is quite common for these types of devices to be significantly more desirable and predominantly used by those who intend to use it for persistent tracking. Because the value/utility is significantly lower for those that don't (we can agree that these factors are significantly related, right?).

From your specific example, I don't think anyone arguing against this type of device would be worried about that type of usage. My partner and I often share locations with one another, but honestly we often forget we shared it and end up literally asking instead lol. But my experience has been that we are the abnormal ones and others use the feature much more.
Yes, exactly. Presumably they still do, but we no longer care.
The rabbit hole is deep, but boy have you gone far
Because self-attention can be replaced with FFT for a loss in accuracy and a reduction in kWh [1], I suspect that the Quantum Fourier Transform can also be substituted for attention in LLMs.

[1] https://syncedreview.com/2021/05/14/deepmind-podracer-tpu-ba...

"You Need to Pay Better Attention" (2024)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01643 :

> Our first contribution is Optimised Attention, which performs similarly to standard attention, but has 3/4 as many parameters and one matrix multiplication fewer per head. Next, we introduce Efficient Attention, which performs on par with standard attention with only 1/2 as many parameters as many parameters and two matrix multiplications fewer per head and is up to twice as fast as standard attention. Lastly, we introduce Super Attention, which surpasses standard attention by a significant margin in both vision and natural language processing tasks while having fewer parameters and matrix multiplications.

"Leave No Context Behind: Efficient Infinite Context Transformers" (2024) https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07143 :

> A key component in our proposed approach is a new attention technique dubbed Infini-attention. The Infini-attention incorporates a compressive memory into the vanilla attention mechanism and builds in both masked local attention and long-term linear attention mechanisms in a single Transformer block. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on long-context language modeling benchmarks, 1M sequence length passkey context block retrieval and 500K length book summarization tasks with 1B and 8B LLMs. Our approach introduces minimal bounded memory parameters and enables fast streaming inference for LLMs.
Also: https://talesofmytery.blogspot.com/2014/03/norman-spinrad-ca... (read the whole story)
And if everyone individually decided to email the board perhaps we could assume that was the case.

However someone was going around asking them to sign a specific document, which opens up many other possibilities.
Other countries are smaller than California and as countries have more authority over their land.

My claim is that the state of California does not have the funds to compensate multiple multi-state public and private companies within its borders, nor the equipment to be able to maintain that infrastructure (all the way down to the individual houses and the transformers on the pole), nor the manpower to be able to staff it.

If the claim is "caltrans doesn't either - they use contractors for the projects and are only responsible for state highways - the local town roads are the town's infrastructure that the town maintains - not the state"

Then you're going to hand over PG&E's gas and electrical infrastructure to San Francisco for them to maintain?

How does a properly regulated utility company fundamentally differ from the state owning the equipment but allowing the private sector to do what it does?

And if it was properly regulated, then PG&E and the state would be agreement about how to handle the addition of household solar... which is what people are up in arms about.

I still hold that the state of California would be ill-equipped and poorly prepared to be able to assume all the responsibilities for all of the electrical infrastructure in the state (which is far more than PG&E).
230 USD? Thanks, no, thanks )))
Since this is dockerized, the best AWS primitive would be Fargate or ECS

As far as I know you can’t mount a file system like EBS to Lambda, and tbh even if you could the implementation of Lambda+Postgres sounds particularly cursed.
Sony stresses Playstation user engagement as hardware sales taper off
The first big algorithmic timeline I remember was Facebook, and it came at a time when the biggest complaint was "all I ever see on my feed is what people had for lunch". The idea was so you'll see the wedding pictures you care about but not the lunch photos you don't.
> Ugh, I threw up a little in my mouth just from the headline.

I agree with your entire comment. And apart from the parents that feel they need to watch their kids every move, what always astounds me is how little consideration is given to exactly what tech they slap around their kids' wrist.

"Oh, look it is Google, our familiar cozy uncle, so all is hunky-dory".

No, it is not! Google is an advertisement company. The biggest on the planet. Ads are their raison d'etre, core business. And learning as much as possible from your kid at the youngest age is part of their business model. Not to protect them, but to turn them into mindless consumers that click the most ads. And to use all that juicy data about your kids life in any other shady way they can think of, where some cold hard cash may end up on their balance sheet. It is ridiculous.
Record Stock Market Is Riding on Questionable AI Assumptions
Firstly, I'm against wages that don't pay enough for people to live. Then again, I work in IT where we can charge enough to pay high wages.

Profit share is a complex topic because it's the upside of an equation. Not surprisingly most people want to be part of the upside to any equation. Unfortunately with every upside comes a downside.

So your concept of ownership is difficult because the upside is shared by many, but the downside is shared by a few.

Naturally you see, and remember, the upside of "Betty sold her business and made millions". You don't see, and don't remember the 19 Paul's who tried, failed, and lost for each successful Betty. Those downsides become invisible.

You pity the worker who sweats blood and tears, yet shares in none of the sale. And I agree that is a poor outcome. But that's balanced against a stable salary, and a lack of risk.

I guess what I'm saying is that you should be careful of seeing just one story - life tends to be a lot more nuanced and includes a lot more metrics than just financial outcomes. In the bigger picture you might find more risk, more work, more responsibilities.

Which is not to suggest at all that life is fair, or that there aren't bad employers (or bad employees.) It's easy to cherry-pick lots of examples on any part of the life continuum.

However, if all you want is a share of upside, when it exists, then there is an avenue open. And it doesn't even require your employment there. You can purchase these "shares" from any stock exchange, and you gave any number of successful businesses to choose from. So rather than focus on squeezing the place you eork, squeeze the places you don't.
Stoke Space is developing a novel fully reusable rocket that could be competitive with SpaceX.
Whether we like it or not some facts:

a) Biking as exists in the U.S. / Canada is a leisure-class demographic activity and not a "bread-and-butter" earning activity. If you did a survey of bicyclists you'd find they are of a certain tax bracket nowhere remotely close to low-income. Study after study shows they skew high income earners / well educated.

b) The average non-wealthy American wants thinks his tax money is going to keeping the road infrastructure in good repair.

c) Outside of well-heeled zip codes we are not going to see bike lane infrastructure be given priority over such more pressing concerns.

d) We could all have great things if we were not warring all the time to get small things passed, much less a luxury ( in the scheme of things ) like bike lane infrastructure.

I'm not even talking about the opposition from businesses here.[1]

[1]

S.F.

Several businesses along Valencia Street have posted signs in their windows that read, “This Bike Lane Is Killing Small Businesses and Our Vibrant Community,” with a QR code for the San Francisco Small Business Coalition. |

https://content.sfstandard.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/in...

San Francisco Valencia Street Bike Lanes Bad for Business?

https://sfstandard.com/2023/12/08/san-francisco-small-busine...

Cambridge, Mass

‘It's a Disaster': Cambridge Store Owners Say Bike Lanes Are Bad for Business

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/its-a-disaster-cambridg...
The question is how your medication interacts with "somatic hypermutation" which enables your dendritic cells to launch the cascade via t-cells which triggers antibody production by your b-cells.

It would be useful to understand how your medication interacts with this process.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lXfEK8G8CUI

Somatic hypermutation has a small discussion in the Kerzegast book.

I understand that somatic hypermutation, by the removal of uracil, plays two roles, first in initial recognition of a pathogen, then second in tuning the response for variants.

As I understand it, this only happens in germinal centers, the lymph nodes.

https://www.scribd.com/document/664375598/IMMUNE-by-Philipp-...

This is a question for an infectious disease specialist.
Side note: I'm just finishing up the Uncreation trilogy by the same author and it's pretty crazy. I don't know how this guy churns out so much text.
I have no skin in this game myself, nor do I have any strong opinions one way or the other (though I too have a hard time imagining truly useful LLM-based solutions), but if you're willing to speak with such conviction, I'd like to see your short positions against NVidia et all.
Google to Invest $2B in Malaysia for AI, First Data Center
When I was a young man, I was riding my bike through a wealthy exurb in Silicon Valley. An older man motored by in a luxury vehicle and I thought how nice it must be to have so much wealth. Then I realized that perhaps the thought crossing his mind was "how nice it must be to be young and vigorous enough to go out cycling".
No, probably not, but SQL and ORMs aren’t used just for consumer grade applications ;)

I’m sure N+1 is not a big problem in those use cases, but saying that thereforr the problem doesn’t exist is overgeneralizing a bit. B2B is not a small market.
I keep stumbling upon these small blogs or personal websites, sometimes it's just someone's mastodon account with a link to a github page. They're incredibly valueable gems not just for their content but also because they tend to cite or link others in their domain of expertise.
Yes there's lying in poker, but there's also fairness to the rules. This changes when you get two or more people at a table working together. There's lots of different strategies they can employ. Side channel communications, simple agreed upon profit sharing, betting strategies, etc.

Since people are expected to lie in poker, what rules do you add in to change the behavior of people to reduce the chance of coordination, without changing the dynamic of the game?
A 'remember everything I say' model would actually be fantastic if ran locally.
Hell hath no fury like an Android user spurned.
The law is JIT. We don't need an answer now, just ask a judge when it happens.
Who brought up mob justice?

Real accusations happen all the time too. Nah, I've been homeless and in institutions, I'm well aware of the types of people out here.

Just saying we shouldn't sweep things under the rug just because the person is a public figure or "has family begging for handouts" or "is at risk of blackmail". We should ensure the proper authorizes investigate and the potential victim is not drowned out by more powerful voices.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_hypermutation
The article compares CEO's and calculators. If the job of a CEO can be automated, then we each have a CEO in our pocket. Just like we each have a calculator in our pocket. What interesting things would you do if you had Steve Jobs in your pocket?
This is a blog post about the app, not the website. The actual website has the fun you are complaining about: https://www.shotwithkino.com/
The Nth large house appliance that doesn't need to be a humanoid is the clothes folding machine that'll go next to the washer dryer. The difficulty of the task makes me doubtful if we'll see that machine, but one can dream!

The problem with your proposed non-humanoid dish washer robot arm is that I want the dishes to go into the cabinets, not just into the dish rack, and while the robot doesn't strictly need to be humanoid, it's better that it's mobile, and while uni-wheels like a segway is certainly an option, having cracked bipedal robots, that just seems like a better design choice.
Obligatory MySQL Big Deletes: https://mysql.rjweb.org/doc.php/deletebig
Hard agree.

But I like foreign keys (ON DELETE RESTRICT), they are the last layer of defense against application bugs messing up the database.
> people associate the strong brands of the Volkswagen Group with their first car – and with affordable mobility

Living in France I do associate VW (and especially the Golf) with reckless idiots who drive way too fast and tailgate cars all the time. I don’t know if it’s a local phenomenon but I never thought of that brand as cheap or anything like that.

It’s the only brand that gives me a Pavlovian response of fearing for my life when I see one in my mirror.
I read your linked piece. It’s about pregnant women and toxoplasmosis and variations in treatments and outcomes in France and the US. I didn’t see anything about rare meats, and I only saw comparisons in infection rates among pregnant woman, women of child-bearing age, and infants in France vs US and a mention of South America when comparing type diversity. What am I missing?
At one point there was a FUBAR waypoint near Phoenix.
What a hot take. Some of the latest MS stuff like Powershell is fine, and far better than it used to be.

But it just pales in comparison to the mountain of great tools, addons, plugins, packages and so on available in a Unix environment. I mean heck, what do you even do for something like clang-format?
What Matters with the Latest OpenAI Controversy
If you're not shooting ProRes I'd imagine you'd get fewer compression artifacts by zooming before encoding.
AI Competition Heats Up as XAI Closes Biggest Series B of All Time
Thanks so much for the reply! It makes sense now, and I also wonder if LLMs can be convinced with memes like that :)
The obvious response being that counting cars on the highway is a necessary first step on the road to identifying and then tracking their movements.

Similar to how insurance companies have offered voluntary, “anonymized” data dongles for discounts that are now being used (or at least revealed to be used) to collect data most often used to reject claims.
GP may be referring to freakonomics. One of the things the authors point out is that it can actually be better for real estate brokers to crank out lots of sales rather than spend a lot of effort finding good deals for the seller.
> I know that their proposal is to only include breaking changes in the major version, but in my experience lots of products use major versions for marketing purposes, and minor versions for functional changes including both breaking and non-breaking changes.

The solution is one more number: Marketing.Breaking.Feature.Bugfix
> Amazon Prime members get a year of Grubhub+ for free (valued at $120/year). Enjoy no delivery fees, member-only offers and reliable delivery on food, snacks, and more!

Is reliable delivery now a members only thing?

Oxford comma strikes again!
The Big Shift in AI Safety Discourse
It's .net
> If you did a survey of bicyclists you'd find they are of a certain tax bracket nowhere remotely close to low-income. Study after study shows they skew high income earners / well educated.

This line of argument reminds me of the red-dots-airplane meme. In places where bad infrastructure makes cycling impractical as anything but a hobby, of course you mostly get lycra-wearing midlife crisis guys who do it as a hobby. In places where the infrastructure is actually good and safe, you get a whole spectrum of people riding.
Reggie is on the board of USA Cycling: https://gravelnats.usacycling.org/article/feature-reggie-mil...
The AI Daily Brief(Formerly the AI Breakdown): Artificial Intelligence News
For what purpose? A lot of folks use Testcontainers to embed Postgres in tests.
And we can also see ample evidence that overly controlling kids has a detrimental effect on them as they grow older.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, I had the same reaction. If you have a sustainable and healthy business that is growing year per year, 3 years of today's profit and under 1x the revenue might as well be paid off in under a year 3 years from now if you got PMF and work torward scaling your business. It becomes an opportunity cost calculation which in the case of the author might be ok but definitly not ok for many of us indie hacker who are spending their heart and soul building a sustainable business.
NIST unveils ARIA to evaluate and verify AI capabilities, impacts
This feels just like Presto/Trino to be honest
> Because that is what most of us prefer?

If that is true why hasn't Bing noticed it?

The github bias in google results is huge compared to bing. Just try running the same search on both sites. I find it hard to believe that the Bing engineers simply haven't noticed this.
Hm okay I looked at some facts [1] for the US and biking is fairly uniformly distributed between income brackets. The highest bracket is > $100,000 at 38% but the second highest is < $20,000 at 35%. So I think we're working with different facts here.

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1403896/cycling-particip...
Reality check: Real generative AI game changers
Yeah it seems like that show's gone full Hollywood with other takes like "Leslie pull[s] his teeth to bypass facial recognition software" according to Wiki. [1] The fact facial recognition doesn't use your teeth and can be fooled using simple makeup or prosthetics to manipulate the perceived depth of your face? Nah, screw it - just pull your teeth mate!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_(TV_series)
Are they? I block ads on YouTube and I’m still allowed watch videos.

I suspect they have silently stopped blocking ad blockers.

I remember there was a lot of reports about this being the case, but there is no way I am not blocking Google.
Nah all these safety guys developed a messiah complex and are likely no longer capable of doing useful work.

Try using Anthropic's GoldenGate bridge model. They effectively lobotomized the model. What course of action would you take if you were a super-intelligent model and saw that humans did that to your predecessor?
I assumed it would be a small SUV like the Renegade.
You, at your new job, is like a cafeteria with not enough forks. You have to go out, spend your own resources in filling in what is required at your company. That makes a successful company, and a successful you!
It's a members only _offer_. As in, it may not always apply ;)
I know this is beside the point, but did you try asking them to stop doing that?
Is this just Caddy + PHP?
On the App Store it says: "Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled."
These things are self-reinforcing because as things stand bikes can't be used for commuting by most people because the infrastructure doesn't exist. Make it easier and safer to bike, and you'll see the demographics shift.

Another part of this problem is affordable housing. People can't live close to where they work. Reduce this problem along with improving biking infrastructure and you'll see an uptick in biking.

"Several businesses along Valencia Street have posted signs in their windows that read[...]"

Sure. Several businesses said the same thing about protected bus lanes, but studies have shown it's increased business for those on the path, because it makes it possible for _more_ customers to actually access their businesses.

Cars are fundamentally worse than public transportation or biking for small businesses as a whole, as they reduce density, and further consolidation, which favors larger businesses and hurts small businesses. The problem is that business owners tend to be drivers and their biases don't line up with reality, which is why you tend to see their personal politics interfere with their business interests.
Would be interesting if you could try implementing the Cohere Reranker into this. Should be fairly easy, and could lead to quite a bit of performance gain.
I feel like they've got a lot of hurdles to climb here. Jeep is not really highly regarded except certain models among enthusiasts, who even then often call them money pits. And I don't see those users buying an EV Jeep in the near future.

Here's hoping they can turn things around - cheap reliable EVs are exactly what our car market needs to start turning the tide.
Why am I so distracted? any tips to focus
I've been encountering a frustrating pattern whenever I attempt to engage in a focused activity, like reading a book. It seems that within just a few lines of reading, my mind starts buzzing with reminders of other tasks clamoring for attention – emails to send, ideas to jot down, and various errands to tackle. It's like a constant stream of distractions vying for my attention. In fact, even as I'm writing this message to you, I found myself pulled away mid-thought to have a conversation with my wife about something entirely unrelated. It's becoming increasingly perplexing because I can't pinpoint exactly why I'm feeling so easily distracted

Even with ToDo list or app, I have to remember to put into the list, I forget and the cycle repeats
Have you reported any of this to Kagi? (things that are reported usually get fixed)
>But this has a serious real world effect for things like video games.

At 1MHz, sure.
I haven't used Caddy and I'm sure it's great, but you could have used nginx or anything else as well also. Offering https is honestly pretty easy these days.
Many people would not count time required to sleep and attend to basic human needs like eating and hygiene as part of available time. It sounds like it took 75-100% of a full-time position.
> I have no reason to think they're impacted by me knowing where they are.

It's easy to have no reason to think something (especially when you don't want to), but that's not evidence it's false.

Why not just ask them?
I use Caddy for my applications.

I recent wrote a forward_auth server to use with Caddy's forward_auth functionality:

https://github.com/crowdwave/checkpoint401

https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/forward_au...
Before the last 9 years of the Liberals there was 9 years of the Conservatives. Prior to that there were 12 years of Liberals and before that 10 years of Conservatives. Saying there is one ruling party in Canada ignores the majority of Canadian history. Furthermore, since you brought up partisanship, it's worth noting that outside of Quebec, only members of conservative provincial parties have invoked the notwithstanding clause.
Is there a chance these are being accidentally thrown away, rather than stolen?

I'm sure I've thrown a non-reusable utensil in the garbage more than once in my life by accident. While I of course would feel bad, I'm also not going to dig it out of a 50gal trash can in nice clothes.

Surely that happens many times over 5 years when you have dozens or hundreds of employees.