skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please try harder not to succumb to the strawman fallacy, you're arguing a point I didn't make.

The base truth is that the Cass review excluded a large portion of the research based on evidenciary standards which are higher than we'd apply otherwise.

Citing her Q&A with the Kite Trust is great but that doesn't undo the fact that she designed her review to exclude trans people as much as possible. There were zero trans clinicians, trans academics or even trans users of healthcare services included in any part of the study.

Within her purview for study quality she decided to include the work of a known transphobe who was caught out in 2018 posting essentially hate screeds on an anonymous twitter account[1] -- why was his work included but not a >> SINGLE << trans person could sit in on the review?

1: https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2018/10/26/transphobic-tweets-...

> You can of course confirm this yourself by reading the report and the systematic reviews commissioned to inform it, rather than listening to social media bullshitters.

And now I see why you decided to spin up a fresh account for this. I'm done, I don't believe in debate with people who mistake debate for online shitfling. Have a good one.
Nobody disagrees with any of that. The reason we reject their best estimates is because they weren't scientific. At all. In any way. Not even a little bit.

We've all read the transcript but to repeat it:

Majority Counsel: “Do you recall when discussions regarding, kind of, the at least a 6 foot threshold began?”

Dr. Fauci: “You know, I don’t recall. It sort of just appeared. I don’t recall, like, a discussion of whether it should be 5 or 6 or whatever. It was just that 6 foot is—”

Majority Counsel: “Did you see any studies that supported 6 feet?”

Dr. Fauci: “I was not aware of studies that in fact, that would be a very difficult study to do.”

It's not obvious how this could be any clearer. He states unambiguously that it wasn't a best estimate based on science, whether contemporary or pre-existing. Science doesn't even get a look in here. He didn't even know where the number came from. It became global policy but nobody can figure out why or how. He even seems to reject the idea that the question can be answered scientifically at all.
The comment I reply to is.
I have never practiced leetcode puzzles or memorised solutions to them. I don't understand why you jumped to this conclusion.
Not sure if the question was asked with sarcasm or not, but, me being me, I actually tested it here as soon as I read it: It's instant. OnMouseDown event, if you will.

Using KDE Plasma 6.
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Forbes AI 50 List: The most promising AI startups in 2024
Bare bone functionality and half of the hardware not working. No thanks, keep your apple computers, they are going to be in a landfill soon anyway.
Why should a job be an exam? For someone who has worked at both FAANGS and startup, I've never found a job that remotely matches a leetcode problem.

Most companies are building products anyway.
Who would have though that importing a crazy ass cult wouldn't result in shady businesses starting to happen around such a cult.
> It would also reduce land costs in urban centers.

That does not necessarily follow: some folks may prefer to live in an urban area (only) because they work in said urban area, and so want shorter commutes, but I'm sure plenty live in urban areas because (e.g.) like the amenities.

As a sysadmin I can easily do remote work, but would still live in an urban centre.

As per Jane Jacobs: people do not live in cities, they live in neighbourhoods. I think most folks who live in urban centres do so because they like the lifestyle first, and a shorter commute may be just a nice bonus. There are also lots of folks who 'reverse commute': live in the city and work in the suburbs.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_commute
I'm not sure if Germany is the best example for public transport anymore. There are some other European countries that are doing it really well, e.g. Switzerland or the Netherlands.
Some dimensional reduction is always possible, due to the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma. For example, for 8 billion data points, reducing to 1400 dimensions enables preserving distances within +- 50% (that can probably be tightened a bit) regardless of what the uncompressed data is.
If there's a few large landowners and many tenant farmers, I think there would need to be lots of police/military in order to uphold that property arrangement. Otherwise the tenants just start taking land.
That seems similar to opencv on a tpu?

Think many will be disappointed when they realise this is a different flavour of ai than what the hype cycle is about
I understand that some cloud providers (now) scan stuff you put into cloud storage. This could be a problem if you're dumping terabytes of stuff. Maybe a million monkeys on a million keyboards might never trigger a false positive on modern sophisticated scanners; but now make it a billion or a trillion.
> I doubt the vast, vast majority of people are going from zero driving to more driving like a NYC > to suburbs migrant

Going off property prices, it’s not negligible. (And going off labour prices, RW is clearly anti-agglomerational [1].)

[1] https://econ.vt.edu/content/dam/econ_vt_edu/seminars/fall-20...
Hyacinth is Sandra's nan, 100%
> Our approach involved a live-action shoot using different variables and customizations.

What does "live-action shoot" mean in this statement? Wouldn't this just be "still photography"? When I think of live action, I think of people or at least ... action?
Show HN: Mentals – How I Implemented CPU Logic into LLMs (Open-Source)
For the last four months I have been experimenting a lot with LLM models in an attempt to simplify the creation of reasoning chains without using an auxiliary programming language. The idea comes from the control unit in classical processors. I see LLM as a more complex ALU, but the models lack a unit that can perform more complex sequences of prompts, including loops. In psychoanalysis there is a concept of the central executive system, which is somewhat similar to the control unit in CPUs.

> The central executive is responsible for controlled processing in working memory, including but not limited to, directing attention, maintaining task goals, decision making, and memory retrieval.

My first thought was that it would be possible to implement a prompt for the LLM that would perform the functions of the central executive. As a result, I came up with this prompt structure:

https://ibb.co/nCTD9X5.

The data in the green blocks changes depending on the active prompt. Prompts can refer to each other using a reference table. This makes it possible to build graphs of prompts where prompt is a node. The idea can be extended to dynamically created prompts that are added to the initial graph and form new graph segments (in the process of experimentation).

Github: https://github.com/turing-machines/mentals-ai
The list of what is gathered: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetr...

As you can see, it is system data and basic crash reporting, something that helps with the health of .NET ecosystem and has no monetary value.
> There are countless stories of small businesspeople suddenly being locked out of their bank accounts because their transaction patterns looked suspicious

This doesn’t sound like one of those stories. Remains to be seen once the prosecution and defense make their cases in court and a judge or jury rules on it.
I knew that newspaper name tickled something in the back of my head.

> It was started by Chinese-Americans affiliated with a religious group called Falun Gong.

Ahh yes, “religious group” aka cult, and that’s why no one in the company looked twice at the 400%+ increase in revenue.
On a reasonably fast connection, I hit the increment button and it took almost two seconds for the counter to increment. Is it immediate for everyone?
Certainly, people can come up with all manner of perceived injustices. Spitting on someone is considered a crime in many jurisdictions however. It is not the same thing as someone legally owning a vehicle that you do not like.
In some jurisdictions, the losing side will have to cover the cost. In some jurisdictions there are also small claims courts, which do not need legal representation.

It’s clear that it caused financial distress whereas as happy paying customer I want SourceHut to continue existing.
I disabled JS with uBlock Origin and the site became usable again. What a bizarre idea to have this animation running by default.
Due to the inherent constraint of JSON, the exact use case would matter a lot for such comparisons. Simdjson is generally faster when you only want a well-formedness check or a very small proportion of a large input JSON, but the "well-formedness" for JSON would be a small subset of the "well-formedness" of binary formats, and a partial parsing performance is often dominated by language bindings instead of underlying parsers (it is a wise move that simdjson also has a JSON pointer support for this reason, because that greatly reduces FFI overhead). Binary formats in comparsion tend to have a generally flat performance profile.
There's no panic; people just aren't accepting the lack of security and privacy being presented.

If this is tame compared to a few years from now, then the path we travel to get there will be lined with these types of implementations. Now is the time to push back before it gets to that point.

As for the freaky stuff I do: talking to friends, family, coworkers, banking and financial transactions. I don't use it, but online healthcare is becoming more and more prevalent. I search for things that are of interest and impact to me and my family.
Hard to say how the numbers ultimately work out. I guess we'll have to see what the net numbers look like for large cities in a few years. Anecdotally I do see a fair number of people I know who were living in cities, in part because it was convenient to their office, who moved out--including to rural locations--once they didn't need to regularly go into an office any longer.
That link doesn't validate your assertion, unless the stat is deeply hidden.

I did see "professional", which has all sorts of categories, including "manager" and all sorts of sciences, etc. "Manager" can be someone managing a cleanup crew, a job site, scientists can be on boats, or in the woods, architects at construction sites, on and on.

A Walmart has several managers, some of which have no office. A Burger King has a few managers.
> I will ask you verbatim one of those quad tree/number theory/inclusion exclusion principle questions

Why don't you list them here to illustrate your point?
Urban densification is definitely more eco-friendly than most suburbanization.

The emissions of cars for the US is much higher than most people expect at 1.7 billion tons, while air conditioning is about 117 million tons. A/C also peak matches solar, which makes the emissions for it easier to cut.

Heat is harder to get numbers on, but I also think most oversized suburban houses are in the sunbelt these days, plus I don't think a home office swings it too much from the baseline heating to keep the pipes from freezing.
> is better for the environment

I'm not sure that is always the case. When everybody is in the office, you save on shared resources such as lighting, printing and heating.
Also, a certain percentage of remote workers will take the car during the day anyway, to buy lunch or groceries.
It's hit and miss, but I still largely like it when I have to interact with it.

I just re-registered to postal vote from overseas, and the information and links were a labaryinth, often sending me in circles.

Out of exasperation – since I thought my use case didn't match what I was looking for – I clicked the big green "Start" button on the wizard and it worked swimmingly.

When re=applying for a passport in the recent past it was great too, even allowing me to upload a photo from my phone.

Perhaps they have focused on some key interactions that would typically be seen as complex.
25 years and I haven't had drivers blocking my usage

On the other hand I'm sat next to someone really struggling with getting a windows machine to talk to a network at the moment, half an hour of "General failure"s, then eventually they got it working but the system clock was months out

So much more complex than linux it's crazy. Windows will never be ready for prime time until you can literally plug in and load a webpage like you can with a linux box.
I remember at 15 being annoyed that I couldn't figure out a way to have a textbox which I could use to input and run any arbitrary code while my own code was running to debug it.

Like being able to type "println(x)" to get the value of x.

Took me a quite few years to discover the intricaties of the so-called debugger :D
I loved that I got tricked into learning something about Chinese!
Are Floating Cities the Solution to Rising Seas?
It's all that same it ever was: https://bit.ly/tisodeft
what's your address? what's your salary? how much do you have in savings? where can I download your browsing history? income tax forms? do you have kids and if so, where do they go to school?
>> Yes, you're not allowed to do that under someone else's name, that's what the crime is.

>But that's the objection. That's a stupid crime. The only reason anybody wants to do that is that they can't open one under nobody's name, even though there are legitimate and innocent reasons to want to do that.

It is far from true that the only reason people falsify identity in transactions is because KYC laws require identity. You should learn more about what criminals actually do.
I think the website itself has that product. But why would it be enabled on their blog... I don't know.
<not this paper approach>

This is one of the key prompting in a lot of Enterprise cases. You can currently prompt LLMs to add a confidence score along with their responses.

Especially when you are using LLMs for downstream NLP tasks.

The confidence score can be a great indicator also for applying a two-tier model approach!
Why? I don't work for free.
Care to give links for that? Last I heard about it they had a property in NY and their leader had only one wife. I googled to see if I could find anything about their DC ranch but didn't found anything.
It's instant for me.
You'd be surprised how much self-perception and reality can differ. Lots of types that think they're the best allies ever and then show a total lack of empathy (especially if someone's different in their immediate family) that'd need a reality check.

Though usually the intersection of people running DEI initiatives and those people make a large set. Assimilated gay people love talking shit about how trans people make "us" look bad.
YC investors, like all other investors, are only interested in making money. You don't make money by paying people twice as much interest as everyone else. Something is fishy.
That's quite neat actually! Had no idea :O
Gotta do something with all those GPUs
As a hiring manager I HATE leet-code tests, and they do nothing to differentiate candidates, but a take home in the era where people run chatGPT beside the interview window, or have someone else do the interview for them? Not a chance. You are 100% correct that it is way more representative, but the prevalence of cheating is ridiculous.
I used to have 2.5hrs to work and up to 3.5hrs getting home. Combo car, train, shuttle, and some walking. Did that for years. I work from home now.
There is a 4: working in an inflationary and non-free market country such as Argentina.

That is not only about savings (3) but business transactions.
Infrared Infrastructure
Yea, that'll make my commute shorter. Walking and bicycles. What if instead we add some damn lanes so that busses can reduce their transit time without cutting into what's available for the rest of the traffic?
I'm confused about the "AI" part. Are vector databases, in themselves, AI? Are embeddings?
IFF was basically that on the Amiga:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_File_Format

Unfortunately with the Amiga itself being a niche platform, the idea didn't catch on.

It also sort-of requires a central registry for the top level FourCC codes (basically reserved magic number for each file format).
When the data is generated on CPU shoveling it to the GPU to do possibly a single or few vector operations and then shoveling it back to the CPU to continue is most likely going to be more expensive than the time saved.

And CUDA is Nvidia specific.
Geometric mean in Numpy vs. J:

(Copied from some forum, since I don't use Python much)

import numpy as np

def geo_mean_overflow(iterable):
return

np.exp(np.log(iterable).mean())

Or,

from statistics import.
geometric_mean

geometric_mean([1.0, 0.00001, 10000000000.]) # 46.415888336127786

In J, since I don't know K:

gm=:#%:*/

Even shorter than Python whether it's a canned lib routine or created from composing simple functions.

And I don't need to format code on HN in J because it's so short anyway, besides I don't know how!
It sure is. I could also be questionied on:

- CPU/GPU architecture

- graphics/shader programming ( I do enjoy graphics programming, but I have been asked these questions despite not applying for graphics roles)

- GPGPU

- traditional software engineering (programming patterns, architecture)

- netcode (I never applied to a network engineering position. I in fact actively avoid that part of the stack)

- general industry questions (what kinds of bugs can appear on shipping build that may not appear on debug builds?)

- a myriad of gameplay programming paradigms

- coding tests in Unity, despite applying for an unreal engine position (this has in fact happened twice now. I know Unity, but come on: can you imagine getting a javascript test for a c++ position?).

I've been asked all of these in some capacity over the years. At what point is it on me for not being some sort of omni net/graphics/engine gamedev that can answer any question on the fly, and not on the company for being paranoid about professionals studying for the skills they are clearly seeking? If someone can "study for your interview", why wouldn't you want that person? That's what they do on the job after all.

> I’d really only want to get into game dev early in my career or as an independent creator.

I'm already 8 years in, so a bit late for that. My plan is eventually to go indie, but I need a bit more time in my career before making that jump.

Despite the common advice c. 2022, getting a boring cushy tech job right now isn't very viable, so may as well stick to what I'm actually getting interviews for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganja
I'd grant you that the US government acts like an authoritarian regime, but communist is a laughable accusation.
In my experience, the best kind of assessment for Software jobs is a reasonable take-home project that involves a private repo that you fork, work on adding a feature or fixing a bug, and then send a PR.

It's much closer to day to day work than code challenges are, it doesn't involve the stress factor of an interviewer staring at you while you work on a leetcode, and you can have a followup technical interview to discuss the take-home in more detail.

The most recent take-home experience like this that I saw was with Clipboard health, and I thought it was a great experience. If I remember correctly, they used Woven Teams to automate the process.

https://www.woventeams.com/
Explain why someone would want to open a new empty bank account in someone else's name other than because they couldn't or don't want to open a new empty bank account in their own name.

That's the crime we're talking about here. Not committing fraud so you can steal someone else's money, but only lying about your name because you don't want to give your name and the law prohibits you from not giving a name.

The problem isn't even that it's illegal to open a bank account in someone else's name. The problem is that you're prohibited from anonymously opening a bank account.
Every vote you get with non-policy arguments means you can make fractionally more policies to benefit yourself instead of your voter base.

This is in fact exactly what happens, just consider the ANC in South Africa, US politics or like literally every conservative party in Europe ever.

Which is why any politician is harmful to democracy that primarily competes with non-policy arguments, appeals to tradition/emotion/faith or similar, and any such appeal or argument is a bit of a red flag for the politician in question (to me, but trying to be objective about things).
I think it depends what games you play. Steam actually allows you to return a game if it doesn't run on your system (in fact they have a very generous return policy indeed). GOG is a bit more strict, and a bit more hit-and-miss, but also Mostly Works (tm).

The unifying factor is steam and/or heroic games launcher (and one or two others besides), which set up your system to run a particular game.

Most of the games I've bought in the past year or so Just Work (tm). Obviously YMMV.

When it comes to GOG, hilariously, sometimes installing the windows version _on linux_ is the easier option, what with wine/proton forming the universal compatibility layer.

I'm sort of wondering if we might evolve to a point where there's proton-for-windows, and then everyone can just target proton exclusively.
Indeed! Overall, I'd even say look more at Japan or Singapore for much better QoS there [0].

Switzerland recently decided to stop German trains on one of their line, because it was too unreliable and was making local trains late.
Most of the hardware is supported now. My old HP laptop disintegrated within a few years and became landfill, but my 9 year old Mac is indestructible and runs anything I want. Linux, Windows, macOS. Also repaired it myself (new battery, new left speaker). The latest Macs are built like tanks and will easily last 10+ years.
> Ultra High Density Living is just the most eco-friendly way of living for the masses.

You do not need to go to "ultra high" density, à la Manhattan or Hong Kong.

Once you get to densities of Paris, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Munich, Brussels—in the 50 people per hectare (20 per acre) range—there are diminishing returns:

* https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter4/environment...

I would not call any of those "ultra high" (though perhaps others would?).
Don't be smart and use web standards
During my PhD studies, we have developed a JSON parser for FPGAs [0] that could in theory be turned into silicon if somebody really wanted to. In our evaluation we showed that it is a magnitude faster than at least the AVX-256 version of simdjson that was available at the time on a single JSON document.

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3533737.3535094
Yet it's a first step to tell bots something, not a HN post.
>> I am both eastern european and asian, so I hope to be exempt from any scrutiny.

This only works if because I'm western and white I must ALWAYS be scrutinized.
The study I linked has 2200 detransitioners, an order of magnitude above the ~240 or the 100 you've referenced.

What the studies kind of suggest more is that if you pull your sample from somewhere like a detransition website you're likely to get a biased result which doesn't map to the sentiment of the larger population.
The anxiety!