skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this the best version of you? Seriously.

You know well that you commented in bad faith on my original reply TO SOMEONE ELSE in agreement with him/her. I was interested in a discussion around the real challenges involved in self-publishing, starting a business and similar. These are challenges expressed by the OP, and which virtually everyone faces.

Then, you jumped in and, instead of engaging with the substance of my comment, decided that you'd make yourself look "smart" by dismissively condescending to me with a snarky comment. It was unwarranted and is up there for anyone to read, as much as you'd like to pretend that it's not.

So, I called you on it. As I said then, it was smug and dismissive. And, I'll add here, rude and trollish. Yes, you look bad. And, if you don't like looking bad, then the right thing to do is to own-up and apologize instead of doubling-down. The latter is the behavior of a spoiled child.

You want to offer up advertising as an alternative, then just say "What about ads?" or similar. Could've been an interesting discussion around the challenges there for startups. Instead, you snark, "someone should invent ads...blah, blah...".

It's not too late to acknowledge that you were wrong. But, if you truly don't see the difference, then I'll repeat here for you: it's not my responsibility to teach you how to talk to people.

So, I'm done replying to this silliness. If you want to accept responsibility and apologize, then I'll accept your apology. Otherwise, no need to waste your time.
Was is meant with high fat diet? Combined carbs and fats like in donuts? Ketogenic/low carb high fat diet?
I've been tested to 22+kHz, autistic, and older. It was the worst era.

Some of the awful roars of noise I've heard while older people called me a weirdo. CRTs, early checkout scanners, some audio systems.

And back when "as seen on TV" electronic dog whistle trainers were all the rage? Torture.
Please forgive me for double dipping, and read my other response on the soliton/topological defect matter.

Re: stability / realism

My concern comes at a point even before yours - the solution given is in a spherically symmetric and perfectly flat space time without any actual matter to bend the gravitational tensor. If it were moving through space with an undulating and assymmetric mass/gravity field, we might expect the shell itself to deform in random ways as it encounters ripples in space. There's no force that would restore it to spherical symmetry, so it might drift and disperse into some weird blob. The extra degrees of freedom of the curved space may even let the solution wiggle and diffuse into an ordinary solution, so that it no longer represents a topological defect in the solution space.

The shells certainly wouldn't remain concentric in my thinking, and might not need to. In my thinking I don't see that the shells necessarily need to impose forces against each other when they pass through each other. Imagine an onion shell where the onion layers are free to phase through each other and become a bit wibbly wobbly.

Eventually you have a space with many topological singularity walls of this kind of passing through each other. This random "space lasagna" is actually much more realistic than concentric shells. A problem I see though is that we might need concentricity to induce a centrally directed attractive force keeping galaxies together.

Ie, why does random isotropic space lasagna bind together spherical galaxies and clusters?

Actually modeling this more realistic and chaotic version of the topological defect solution could be very exciting! Of course it's no more satisfying than dark matter, because we don't know what would actually cause the singularity lasagna solutions to form in the first place, instead of just ordinary solutions.

But wait there might even be a problem before this!

Re: the dirac delta s term.

In the definition of the modified shell model on the first page, we have a constant term s such that sδ(R-r)=1 if r=R. This might be nonsense.

First let's point out that R-r=0, so this implies sδ(0) = 1. But there is no real number s such that sδ(0) = 1 is finite, since d(0) is not a real number.

But okay, maybe s is a distribution that transforms the dirac delta distribution into the kronecker delta function. If so which distribution is it?

The Fourier transform gives us a clue. Let k be the kronecker delta at 0

k(x) = 1 if x=0, else 0.

s now scales δ into k:

sδ = k

Applying the fourier transform we get

F(sδ) = F(k)

F(s) * 1 = 0

where * is convolution and 1 and 0 are constant functions.

Note that F(k) = 0 because F(0) = 0 and k = 0 almost everywhere.

Now

[F(s)*1](x) = 0 for all x

Which implies

∫F(s) = 0.

So we know that s can't be a constant, and its Fourier transform has a vanishing integral.

This isn't enough for me to reject s, but I'm puzzling as to what it actually is. What do you think about this?
> There's another factor that sometimes is in play here: tax treatment.

Indeed. I wish I could "insure" my car's maintenance using pre-tax money.
>That's the magic number. There have to be four competitors of significant size before prices go down. There are both EU and US studies substantiating this.

source?
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Yes, the article is partly discussing semantics. But given that the general public is mostly clueless as to how LLMs work, these attempts may bring some positive result.
Cash is “messy.” Employees can mess up change. Bills can get stuck to each other. People can pass you fake bills. Robbers can steal the drawer. Insurance rates probably go up. For businesses with a high number of cash transactions (ie, strip clubs), it’s best to hire an armored courier to transport to bank.
And some lines about big data are not so big anymore either..
Check out the Sniper in Mahwah blog. Most of this space is proprietary, but the author uncovers a lot of the landscape from public records.
Hardly, the study it self refers to which subtypes they are talking about in the conclusion:

> the biological bases of two subtypes of ASD social and brain development—profound autism and mild autism.

The Methodology section actually specifies they are using DSM-V (sic) and “Mann–Whitney U to test ASD clinical subtype differences in symptom severity” as well as that they test for IQ. They also specify which instruments they used to test symptom severity, neither of which actually measures subtypes of autism.

This is highly confusing as DSM-5 does not have any subtypes of autism. It has 3 severity levels for two of the symptoms criteria which is used to specify the accommodation needs. Those symptoms criteria is social communication and repetitive and fixated behavior. Intellectual ability is not on this severity level, instead psychiatrists are instructed to specify whether or not autism is accompanied with intellectual impairment. Further if you look at their table 1[1] you can see what they mean by the two subtypes, which is basically, low IQ vs. normal IQ.

This is actually much closer to ICD-11 where one of the 8 subtype of autism is 6A02.0 - without disorder of intellectual development and with mild or not impairment of functional language. So it looks like the authors used DSM-5 to diagnose autism, and then used the philosophy behind ICD-11 amend the DSM-5 diagnosis. Note that the ICD-11 approach has been heavily criticized as researchers have shown pretty thoroughly that there is hardly any correlation between intellectual ability (or IQ) and other symptoms of autism. That is the only reason to specify intellectual impairment at all is so that autistic individuals with intellectual impairment need additional accommodations for their disabilities.

I suspect what happened here is that the reason they specified these two supposed sub-types of autism is political. That they basically took what used to be called Asperger’s and said that was one of two subtypes of autism.

1: https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...
> where random gene modifications are just not probable enough to drive evolution. 3 billion DNA pairs cannot evolve randomly, there is not enough time and matter in the universe to randomly try successful generations of life forms.

As a biologist, I don't think this really follows. From my perspective of studying life, 3 billion DNA pairs can definitely evolve randomly - it's not even really that hard. Eukaryotic life just happened to get that because the fitness deficit from the retrotransposons weren't too bad. On the contrary, I can't actually see how bioelectric could drive evolution - only the creation of more complex structures
> how is it possible that we see such incredible investments in LLMs?

Profitability doesn’t require accuracy, generally speaking. Bullshitting often is a successful strategy, as politics and marketing amply demonstrate.
Sure. Compared to traditional broadcast over airwaves or even a download to a device that can play audio without having to stream it from the server, audio streaming is the least efficient and the least convenient form of audio delivery. When you have a transmitter, people adding a thousand new radio receivers in the area does not increase your cost as a broadcaster, adding a thousand clients requires more bandwidth, and more infrastructure. I never understood why audio streaming became as popular as it did when better forms of distribution were available.
It’s all about realistic introspection. People with a disorder often prefer the disorder to change. I think it is a personal decision. If one feels the need to be closer/understand an individual or is not satisfied with the quality of their human relationships than understanding personalities including one’s own can help.
Eh, there's examples of every permutation:

;; Lisp
(setf a (xor b c))
;; Kanren
;; Unification instead of mutation.
;; Therefore these are equivalent:
(== a (xor b c))
(== (xor b c) a)
# Contrived untested Raku example
$b ^^ $c ==> my $a;
% Amberjack
b xor c -> a
// Java
var a = b ^ c;
At least you recognised your addiction/distraction and are trying to kick it. Hope it sticks and hope you can salvage your education.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1799457232607985698.html
You're talking past me. I understand that getting research done requires social infrastructure. Do you understand that I don't consider that research?
Yes, rectangle would also be degenerate. Basically any configuration where adding an epsilon weight somewhere generates a non-epsilon shift so to speak.
I do not know why you are down-voted, but one thing not being mentioned. I expect your Credit/Debit Card Company is selling what you buy to Data Brokers so they can build a profile of your buying habits.

If the place does not take cash, I will not buy the item. I would love to order Pop Corn and told no cash. They would have to toss that item, thus loosing money.

But I have yet to run into one of those places where I live.
Got it, it was length issue. Thanks pal.
> thankfully this isn't how it works.

Care to elaborate what lowers this probability down to "computable within adolescent age" levels?
As I understand, the worm cells act differently because the worm is placed in a solution which interferes with their electrical messaging, so it makes sense that the offspring growing up in the same solution would grow with the same defects as the parents. I think that's all there is to it.
AFAICT, the official name is “kdb+”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdb%2B
It's not about the size of the mill, but the capital cost to build a new one. No one is willing to invest the capital in building new mills because the old ones can always undercut their prices and kill them long before they turn a profit. It's the economic equivalent of a prisoner's dilemma.
Indeed, they do not evolve randomly. There’s this thing called natural selection that is relatively crucial.

Your interpretation of bioelectric effects as summarized in this article seems to have missed something. The bioelectric network is itself an expression of the genes involved in development. It’s not a separate magical force.
> It's like audio streaming, the most ineffective form of audio distribution, but for a while it seemed like a good idea.

You dismissed it a bit too fast, didn't you? People are listening to streaming music everywhere - it is the new default. Even traditional radios stream over the internet. Is it efficient? Hell no. Is it popular? Extremely, even though a part of the population (including me!) prefers alternatives.
And https://github.com/leona/helix-gpt

It's also just an LSP, even though it has helix in the name.
This makes writing a compiler or writing an OS kernel look like child's play.
Ooops, I guess I missed the part where he said "in tests". That makes it a bit better, although when it triggers, it'll still need someone to triage why the test failed and either nudge the date up / delete the test / do the refactor. While that's going on, potentially you'll miss other failed tests because your overall build is red, or maybe you'll force someone to backout their change for no reason and stop other checking in that day. I actually worked at a place where if the build ever went red, all commits since the last successful build had to be backed out and nobody was allowed to check in again until the build was green again. This sounds drastic, but having lived with it for a couple of years, it grew on me - it stopped the repeated "Oh, that's just a one-line fix" that then broke something else and so on... Better to immediately revert the change and re-commit when you're sure everything will work. We also disabled and/or removed tests that will intermittently fail due to a fault in the test, and created an issue to write a better test if it was still relevant. The GP's test would have just deleted when it was discovered, rather than achieving its aim of getting someone else to do the refactor.

The best approach is still to do the refactor straight away if it's genuinely needed, or else create a task in your issue tracker to do it a later time if it's going to require resource that you don't have right now. Then PM can prioritise it accordingly, not have to react to an arbitrary timebomb placed in the code, which will invariably be discovered at a time that's not good for anyone.
Not sure who's to "blame", but I was super surprised a few days ago when I installed Kubuntu 24.04 (minimal), and Python was missing. Was fine though as I strictly use via pipx and miniconda only, but still surprising.
#1 agent on swe-bench wrote 7% of its own code
I sincerely hope I never have to touch code like that.

I have messed with code to save and restore AVX-512 registers, and this is about the only thing I like about AT&T syntax: there’s a uniform way to specify the instruction size that works when the instruction has no operands. I’m looking at you, XSAVE, XRSTOR, SYSRET, etc. The manual has no useful syntax to offer here.
So basically what Sciter does?
So now everyone should acquire as many IPv6 addresses as possible so they can spread their services over many /64s so if their server gets compromised and put on a blacklist somewhere they can just burn that /64 and move on to another?
Bruisable Onions: Anonymous Communication in the Asynchronous Model
For thought: Can DNA reason and plan?
This is true for the AOM encoder, but SVT-AV1 is actually pretty darn fast in my experience!
Decentralized Science NYC
Uhm… How could it be that?
The estate tax doesn’t mean too much.

“Generational wealth” is generally a myth. The second and third generations burn through any inheritance and sprint back to middle class rather quickly.
Art is often enhanced by the constraints of the medium in which it is realized.

wow thats cool. Lego should pay him lots of money for the plan and sella few kits of it.
> There is a non-trivial amount of engineering work required to go from Usb 1.0, to 1.2, then 2.0, and then all the way to 3.0

Yes, and this in the context of a thread about a device originally marketed by Cypress (Anchor Chips) as “EZ-USB”. All this engineering work was done by Cypress for a device sold at a few dollars or so in quantity.
Hardware wise most of these sig cap devices were reference designs clearly heavily using reference libraries.

This isn’t bad, but the whole point of these relatively expensive (compared to say a bare 8051) devices (which is literal pennies) is to save all this R&D money.

It also isn’t bad when someone takes this same off the shelf design and put it in a slightly shittier packaging and sell it closer to cost.

This “infamous” line is silly as this microcontroller line existed nearly a decade before it became a thing in low-end/hobbyist sig cap devices. It originally was produced by a company called Anchor Chips in the late 90s and bought out by Cypress. It has been used in a lot of shit.
My immediate reaction is that the media just needs something to talk about.
Phone Notifications Received in 30 Minutes of Class
Oh boy do I have news for you: It does work, and has been done before.
It's just illegal now.

It's also a lot harder to pull of in today's hyperconnected world with easy travel between towns etc in the context of food, but the strategy works.
I just added a magic URL in my app that GitHub calls whenever a commit is pushed and the server does `git pull` which in turn causes pm2 to reload the app. So committing anything shows up in production in seconds. Great for smaller projects.
So what would you do if translating from a language that puts the main verb at the end of a sentence, into a language that doesn't...

Feels like there will be plenty of cases you can't just get around.
interesting project! what are the advantages of this over pushing to a normal ssh server with a server side git hook?
> And the worst part is, for all the rise of "overachievers" going into these jobs, services and products in society just seem to be getting worse and worse.

Sounds natural, as the profit-driven corporate machinery is getting more qualified and more obedient workforce than ever before!
I don't know how people can still be making this misguided comment. Predicting tokens well requires reasoning and planning.

"Brains are impressive and have their uses, but we shouldn't pretend like a muscle controller can somehow reason and plan."
I'd get ready for the mid-life crisis.
You are ignoring one important factor, streaming services can only stream what they are allowed to and if the artists and their labels decide to use a different distribution channel, streaming will become a thing of the past. Spotify has reached the point where they no longer know what to do and will soon be replaced by a competitor, not necessarily one that's streaming audio.
A browser engine is a compiler. Or, more properly, it's at least two compilers (HTML + CSS -- you can outsource JS to V8 or whatever).
> CEO is being told from the markets, board, consultancies, Gartner etc that you need to have a Generative AI strategy. What that means in practice is irrelevant. You just need to throw it all against a wall and see what sticks. If you don't then the risk is you get left behind.

I can confirm this is the default view at many companies, just the usual FOMO - the irony being this happens even in the companies that are valued for not delivering computer-generated content. Using AI they actually take a greater risk than not doing that - but well, the CEOs somehow are convinced they have no other choice.
Do people really pay $12 for this?
Electrifying everything makes about 75% of that energy demand unnecessary as it was waste or avoidable inefficiencies of fossil fuels.
I hope you're joking about wanting to become a "fluffy quadruped". Or, if not, I see why we had asylums.
i’ve been wondering the same about twitter / earthx audio spaces. the public ones are playable to the public and are transcribed with automation in real time.

many people listen to spaces after they’re over like a podcast or other form of broadcast recording.

searching public twitter space transcripts would allow us to find more relevant things to consume perhaps.

same with youtube. i wonder whether anything is logging and indexing these with a non-internal program; cursory searches seem to imply that it’s unlikely.
That works against a large new entrant. No industry is going to lower their massive collective profit just to shoo away a small new entrant.
Ugh, here we go.

Not all that stable: honestly an outright lie. Windows is stable. Linux is stable. Mac is stable. They’re all fine.

Ads for Apple products: they absolutely can be disabled and never come up after the first time they’re dismissed. By the way, not all Linux is non-commercial and the most popular distributions like Ubuntu and Red Hat are commercial distributions.

https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-once-again-angered-users-by-plac...

I think the parent comment to yours was saying “more standard” in the sense that more software (especially commercial software) knows what to do with a Mac and works well with it. There are a whole bunch of commercial applications that have a Mac and Windows version but no Linux version.

macOS is also only one distribution while there are hundreds of flavors of Linux. If you’re on a Mac then someone targeting your platform knows what components you have. People who make accessories consider your existence and test their products with your platform.

Finally, most people aren’t web developers. But even if they were, I would argue that making your workstation exactly match the production server environment isn’t going to work that well even if you’re on a Linux desktop and is probably the wrong approach anyway. If I’m using an Arch Linux workstation and my application is running on Amazon EKS backed by Amazon Linux, there’s no possible way to make my container environment perfectly match the production technology.
References to XML or SOAP have almost become extinct.
They forgot Adobe. Oh, and Protools. And I’m sure many others.
Socket.dev is not built around this but makes use of this.
I personally believe there's something to this, but sadly this one is "in mice".
As powerful as KDB is, finding people to make use of it is almost not worth it. But as it tends to be entrenched (usually via poor reasoning), you usually are screwed when some company or project uses it. I personally would just quit and work somewhere else or on something else.

It's about as isolated as mainframe engineering; great on paper, great in closed off circles, but practically dead in the tech community at large.
It doesn't matter what your microphone can do, because your sound card does the filtering and digitization.
I love AT&T syntax.

I originally started with Intel syntax when learning assembly since it was just in my textbook. I sometimes ran into weird syntax issues I didn't yet understand.

For example, why "mov eax, [ebx + 2 * ecx + 4]" is allowed, but not "mov eax, [ebx + ecx + edx]" (1)? Or maybe "mov eax, [ebx + 3 * ecx]" (2)? Or maybe "mov eax, [2 * ebx + 4 * ecx]" (3)?

As long as it is a math expression it should work right? Why did the compiler keeps telling me the expression is invalid?

Later when I learned about AT&T syntax, everything started to make sense. The syntax ensures you cannot construct (1) and (3), and when trying to use (2) it explicitly tells you it expects 1, 2, 4, or 8 but got 3.

I started to use AT&T syntax since then.

In my opinion, there is one most confusing part about AT&T syntax, which is the condition based instructions. I guess the original author of the article did not do much programming with AT&T syntax so they did not notice.

cmpl %eax, %ebx
jae label

Now tell me if eax is bigger, should you jump to label?

Instead, with Intel syntax it is pretty straight forward. The "jae ..." following "cmp ebx, eax" translates to "if (ebx >= eax) goto ..."

(BTW, the cat or whatever following your mouse pointer is super annoying)
They did for my project. Code compliance number driver of cost by a longshot in change of use renovation project. The sprinkler system and the 4’ vertical lift cost as much as the 12,000 sq foot building on 1 acre.
a.k.a. the Great Firewall of the United States of America