skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While in amateur, I’ve been mountain biking a long, long time.

Nobody cares about grams on a mountain bike. The environment you’re riding in is so hostile that you really can’t tell the difference.
Thank you, those insights are invaluable! This is a specific and potentially dumb question and I completely understand if you can't answer it!

The practical motivation for MoEs is very clear but I do worry about loss of compositional abilities (that I think just emerge from superposed representations?) that some tasks may require, especially with the many experts phenomenon we're seeing. This is an observation from smaller MoE models (with like top-k gating etc.) that may or may not scale, that denser models trained to the same loss tend to perform complex tasks "better".

Intuitively, do you think MoEs are just another stopgap trick we're using while we figure out more compute, better optimizers or could there be enough theoretical motivation to justify their continued use? If there isn't, perhaps we need to at least figure out "expert scaling laws" :)
> but with the forces and water/dirt involved, I am not confident they'll succeed in the first few iterations.

Air isn't perfectly clean or dry, either. I would bet that DJI has some clue as to how to protect the most sensitive components in a way that can survive _lots_ of vibration.
Different people? Original C and Unix software projects used hard tabs for indentation, and that carried forward into the age of the BSDs. Almost all Unix ecosystem software was tab-indented until relatively recently. Some GNU projects were notable early exceptions, though using spaces for indentation was the least objectionable aspects of their indentation style, and more understandable in that context. By my recollection, it was the increasing popularity of C++ in the 2000s, which was at that time centered around Windows stylistic culture, that initially brought the proliferation of soft tabs to Unix/Linux, followed shortly by the Python community, which for whatever reason gravitated toward soft tabs notwithstanding the earlier preference (including that of Guido) for hard tabs.

It's not obvious in modern editors or code browsers, but the Linux kernel, much (most?) of the base Linux user land, and the various *BSD projects (kernel and user land) still use hard tabs for indentation.
There are carbon fiber E-bikes, perhaps it’s “few” but there are people paying to have a more light bike since the extra weight up and down hill isn’t as fun
Millennium bank is Polish TIL

What's up with Portuguese and Poland? (Millennium, Biedronka, what else?)
Controversy over manipulated images in Nobel laureate's publications
More discussion here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzhcDh3tcS4
The Internet seems like a small place, and lately, I always find you talking in a demeaning way about the South of Spain and/or its people. :-)

I usually wouldn't engage further (as most people don't when faced with your harsh statements), but as a "hick farmer from Andalusia" myself, and your history on this topic, it hits too close to home.

You probably think you don't need to, but maybe consider checking how you are perceived and how you come across to people when you write the way you do.

This is my last interaction with you here or in any of the other platforms where we cross paths.
Realizing the spec for C++23 is about two-and-some-change-times the length of the King James Bible has really reframed my thinking on this language.

For good or for ill, I don't really trust anything that long to be something the average human can wrestle down. And when you mix in undefined behavior and the fact it's still used on safety-critical systems... It's a bit horrifying really.
> what people say they want: a cargo bike, a fixie, a mountain bike, a folding bike, a... etc.
> what people actually want: a moped that is emotionally and aesthetically a bicycle

what people get: must set up an account in china to enable your bike for riding, letting DJI map the rest of the world where the drones can't fly.
I would love to hear your thoughts on how distributed systems lead to deep, narrow and isolated abstractions. I can think of some obvious reasons but it seems like you’ve put more thought into this than I!
This is terrifying and would be an instant no if a potential employer asked me to do it. Instant red flag.
the british one was only on for two series with 14 total episodes whereas the american one was on for 9 seasons with 201 episodes... it's safe to assume the worldwide insanely popular one is the one being talked about. I loved the british one and wish it were longer too.
No way, I mean… the press man, the press, UN etc.

/s
> Actual trail riders spend hundreds to thousands shaving grams off their bikes.

Spending hundreds to thousands to shave "grams" is not a thing among real trail riders.

Actual trail riders are generally pretty smart about the tradeoffs. If they see a product that is "hundreds to thousands" more expensive and brings no benefit other than shaving a few grams, nobody will buy it.
Isnt what BOLT does done _once_ before distribution?
Django-allauth-UI: auth templates for Django
Their YouTube channel has only 4 videos uploaded in the last 3 years: https://www.youtube.com/@ProgrammableMatterProject

Only a single working "Catom" is ever shown, all of the other presentation materials show only crude computer 3D renderings and simulations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_brain

But also, see the rest of my comment. The onus is not on me to arrive with a better explanation just because there's a bad explanation on the table.

If I come home and find a cookie on my counter, and someone said "I think that a space alien teleported the cookie there" and I said "I think that's unlikely to be the correct explanation." And then that person asked "Well, what's a better explanation?" and I said "Maybe someone broke into my apartment, felt guilty, and left a cookie there." and then grilled me on that counter-explanation.
Hmm. Looking at https://github.com/redoxcode/micropython-stepper/blob/main/s... it looks like they basically run a fairly tight loop in Python using a Timer (which uses the hardware timer on ESP32 and RP2040, likely), poking the step pin in Python in the Timer callback. There is no specific timing for the step pulse, they just turn it on and then immediately off. I guess this works because the micropython implementation does fast attribute access and function calls.

On a microcontroller, you could use PIO or I think the RMT peripheral or even just interrupt-driven pin poking.

That's good for many use cases, although I strongly suspect it would fall over once you tried a very high step rate with microstepping (I run at 800-6400 step/sec) but I will try this out both for my lightweight test steppers (which use AccelStepper) as well as my microscope (which uses FluidNC). The scope will make it quite clear if we lose steps as I have a visual reference (the microscope slide has a calibrated fiducial marker).
“The least you could do is…”.

Being a fan of some journalists doesn’t justify being this aggressive. There are nicer ways to say this.
Beavers, back on tribal land after 100 years, could aid California's ecosystem
> Rogers staff relied on the company’s own mobile and Internet services for connectivity to communicate among themselves. When both the wireless and wireline networks failed, Rogers staff, especially critical incident management staff, were not able to communicate effectively during the early hours of the outage. Rogers had to send Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards from other mobile network operators to its remote sites to enable its staff with wireless connectivity to communicate with each other

ooops. that's actually quite funny

in case you didn't know, Rogers is one of canada's "big 3" telecom providers. The outage in 2022 basically crippled our economy for a couple days (most ATMs / interac didn't work)
Txtai – A Strong Alternative to ChromaDB and LangChain for Vector Search and RAG
And like NPM or PyPI it's still at least marginally better than downloading compiled packages from opaque file servers. For example we avoided using the H3 (https://h3geo.org) extension for that reason. Safer (but slower) to use Python UDFs with the official H3 Python library than to fetch a file from an R2 instance, which is what the instructions currently state on Github (https://github.com/isaacbrodsky/h3-duckdb/blob/3c8a5358e42ab...)
Definitely not legal.

These are popular with a subset of DIY builders because the laws aren't really enforced, so they can get a small electric motorcycle that passes as an e-bike while not adhering to the requirements for a vehicle that powerful.

Some will try to claim that if you set the bike to the lowest power then it's legal, but of course they'll quietly switch the power to whatever they want when riding.
When that person is in their early 20's that's a fair assessment. When that person has been in industry for 20 years, it is not.
The website you are visiting might be breaking it. There are many sites which will force that option to grey out upon right-click.

This is by design.
Conversely? Who mentioned there being a performance impact?
Your LunaCycle probably weighs > 70lbs!

The Amflow PL bikes lists in the press release as 43lb which isn't "revolutionary" but 850W and 600Wh battery is way more than the other really light MTBs. And those other ones are really expensive.

I'm looking forward to seeing price. I wish they had shared some specs regarding noise, it sounds like they have put some effort into optimizing that as well.

I like my 1500W LunaCycle, but would eagerly trade for a bike that weighs 2/3 as much and is a bit quieter
You said all that (which I agree with), but you didn't provide a link:

https://www.irrawaddy.com/in-person/interview/war-on-citizen...
Yes to this.

Lately I feel like we have built a society with expansive software infrastructure, where that software is doomed to be crappy and inhumane because our society actually couldn't afford to build this quantity of software well.

So another hypothetical fantasy solution would be a lot less software, like being careful about where we used software, using it in fewer places, so that we could collectively afford to make that careful intentional software higher quality.

Certainly a society like that would look very different, both in terms of the outcome and in terms of a society that is capable of making and executing a decision to do that.
From the Netherlands: US Office, as growing up, that's the version we had on the Comedy Central TV channel.
My case:

online vs offline: targetting 4h online per day: work + social

humans vs AI: rate of human chats >> rate of AI chats

I'm curious about how the rest of the world splits its time.
I think Earthsea and Hainish are both great, but I don't like any of her other stuff, and don't like this TTC (or really any of the English translations I've seen) either. They all lose the poetry which is obvious at a glance in the original. I only know a few words of Mandarin and can't read the glyphs at all, but I've picked my way through with a dictionary and MTL - the structure of the original is obviously not reflected in any of the English translations. I think English is just too explicit and doesn't have enough "overloading" to capture the depth.
Not optimally.
This paints abstraction like an evil, but it's an unavoidable tool for any human-made software to reach certain capabilities

Rich Hickey said something along the lines of "A novice juggler may be able to juggle two or three balls, but the best juggler in the world can only juggle maybe nine balls. There isn't an order of magnitude difference in human ability, we hit a ceiling quickly." If we are to surpass those limits, we have no choice but to abstract

Of course there may be bad abstractions or too many abstractions in a given case, which is what I think the author is mad at. But that's an important distinction

This part is also plainly false:

> It is no longer easy to build software, and nothing comes with a manual.

Making software has never been easier or better-documented
> restructure the global economy to drastically reduce CO2 emission

agreed except that is almost certainly _not_ going to happen until there is a catastrophe of enormous proportions in _industrialized_ nations (tragically, millions dying in Botswana, Bangladesh or Bolivia won't move the needle)

so in the meantime we need the alternatives to put off that catastrophe for as long as we possibly can
Cloudflare needs to work on improving their trust in the marketplace, rather than spending time on these puff pieces.

Recently the news about them has made trusting them really hard.
When you go back and fix it. And it corrects it again.

Flames. On the sides of my face.
Need a renewables feasibility index that accounts for the amount of solar, wind, hydro vs climate and typical weather. And bin plot population vs that.

Seems obvious that Norway, Washington State have lots of hydro. Places like Spain and California have lots of steady sun. Scotland, no sun in the winter but lots wind all the time. Those places renewables aren't problematic.
As uuid v7 hold time information, they can help bad actors for timing attacks or pattern recognition because they contain a time information linked to the record.

You can guess the time the system took between 2 uuid v7 id's.

They can only be used if they're not shown to the user.
(so not in the form mysite.com/mypage? id=0190854d-7f9f-78fc-b9bc-598867ebf39a)

A big serial starting at a high number can't provide the time information.
The problem here is that auto increment ints are guessable.

The size of that problem depends on your situation
Feedback HN: This is My Resume, Cover Letter for Blockchain Startups(yea I know)
I've always laughed at that. Part weight in grams is just a marketing gimmick to differentiate products to charge higher prices.

Even tour de france folks have a minimum weight they can't go under, and they frequently weigh several kg over anyway.

For casual riders, you could save several $k equivalent on your super-lightweight-bike by just losing a few pounds or trading jeans for shorts.

personally, I would love if all the bike lights had a standardized bus and connector so headlight/taillight/etc could power off the bike battery. (I know some bikes have an output but think more like a standard USB connector and maybe a dashboard setting, not running bare wires under the hood and using a proprietary app to set things up)
Agree :).
Many websites will also prevent highlighting text as well. Reader mode is helpful for that.
Well I agree with that, I only asked what the better explanation is because you said it’s “not currently the best explanation.”

So far I don’t think you’ve shared a better one, and I don’t think you think you have either.
Use Crockford encoding to reduce this. It has readability and dictation considerations too which makes it ideal for things humans will interface with.
its funny how people are down voting this when it's exactly the approach rust uses
From the bug report:

1. Open https://www.google.com/ in a tab

2. Open https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/ in the same tab

3. Click on Go back button (or Alt+Left Arrow)

4. Click on Go forward button (Alt+Right Arrow)

5. Select some text

6. Right click

It doesn't seem like it's a website doing something it shouldn't be and breaking RFC. It's really a bug in firefox.

Also, the scope is very specific and kinda justifies it being low priority. Maybe.

Note that there is another reproduction step sequence that I chose not to put in this comment for the sake of simplicity.
The first day of the 1st Century is Jan 1, 1 AD.

The point is that some days got skipped over the centuries, but there's no need to make the Centuries have weird boundaries.
I've definitely seen initializer lists recommended as best-practice in safety-critical code.
Again, semaglutide solves this pretty well with a credit card; not even that if you have The Good Coverage.

Reorient yourself, the frame has shifted.
> Making the FPS higher, might require some creative hacks. Making a 3D model look exactly like your vision might require highly technical knowledge about your tools.

Of course everyone in a knowledge economy needs to use technical skills and also be creative. That is not what those job categories mean.
The most valuable ai company in the world should expect nation states to peek inside.
Which is not a great loss in itself, as panpsychism is a useless theory that offers no insight into the working of consciousness, nor evidence or experiments to gather it.

It's not much more than a philosophical fantasy tale.
Because the bug involves sending and receiving messages to multiple other processes. Each webpage you visit is potentially in a different process, and each of those processes maintains its own selection state (that state is visible to javascript running in the page, and you don't want to leak what you copy on this page to any other, so it would be hard to put it anywhere else). There is only one context menu though (in the main process), so it has to send a message to the content process to find out if anything is selected or not. It seems that somehow the message is going to the wrong content process, to a page where nothing is selected. The context menu itself then displays exactly the right thing, based on the data it got back.
OK, fair. I will stop saying shysters, hucksters, and charlatans when referring to Hinton (https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/why-neural-net... and https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chat...). Perhaps "doomsayer" is the most apt term?

Altman, however, whenever I read what he says, I think falls within the "snake oil salesman" spectrum, although again, that's not precisely the word. A person who intentionally overstates the capabilities (and future capabilities) of a system with the intended goal of personal gain.
It's the duty and responsibility of a properly implemented browser to not allow a "website" to break basic UI functionality because it pushes some javascript. I don't care about how Safari and chrome and edge do it. Firefox should not follow their lead.

This is a fine example of why people install plugins like ublock origin and similar.
I hate to brake it to you, but its a problem in more ways than just that.
The changes in traffic volume were pretty small (although NI a bit higher). I don't think comparing to only one week earlier tells too much. They should have compared at least 8 previous Thursdays to understand how much variation is normal and how much can really be attributed to something special.

For other measurements where they noted several 100% of increase that much scrutiny seems unecessary.
This is a pointless hit piece. There is no expectation of encrypted data storage for a desktop app. Now if they were not keeping data safely on their servers, now that's another matter.
What are 'Flock' cameras, and why are hundreds coming to California?
One serious issue with that is that injected sulfides do not stay around long. If we use them to cause cooling or to stop warming before we have started reducing CO2 emissions or at least are firmly and irrevocably on a reasonable path to doing so we'll have to keep injecting sulfides.

If we use the sulfides to mitigate the effects of warming without addressing the causes and then stop with the sulfides all the warming that was countered by the sulfides happens over a short period.

That would probably be much worse than having not used the sulfides at all. If you get some particular amount of warming spread over 20 years that's probably easier to adapt to than if you get that same amount of warming over 2 years after 18 years of no warming.
I'm not surprised by "8 months" part. There were bugs not fixed for decades.
I built a checking program in C# to mainly use as a check register and balancing tool. Doesn't do double entry accounting. Also build a simple notes program in both C# and python that can use the same data file. Also did a cheap and dirty internet radio player on an old Rasp. pi. Used one push button to cycle thru a list of internet radio feeds. Plus an led that flashed the index of the list which gave me an idea of which station I was on.
I switched to Edge because of this bug.
Yeah your friend is flat out wrong.

Its actually silly how many people (in Europe at least) think they can forbid you from recording them “because copyright”.
Because that's 22 million which could've bought rather a lot of solar panels and batteries, which would be more then adequate to run the system and much more transferrable in application.

Or you could invest it, make way more then 22 million over that timeframe and do even more.

Cost is a proxy for resource consumption, and in this case it seems like this was incredibly inefficient.

Edit: at current prices you build a 22 MW solar plant instead, for example.
Or just hold down shift, at least in Firefox. This avoids sending the events to the javascript on the page so that the user can act on the page without being blocked, while still using a page’s own context menu if it really does provide a useful one (Google Docs, for example, has one with actual editing actions in it).
Why do you say "most users just use google" to login? What is this based on?
Firefox does it best here, because you can hold shift to get the original context menu back when the page blocks it or provides their own.
The people capable of financing such a project are the kind of people who would think "I'm not going to waste this massive eruption on an unpopulated area".
That's Not What Ships Are Built For (2019)
I would love to get feedback, especially if you have experience hiring for a CTO or tech leader position. The companies I am applying to typically want the person to represent them at conferences and events, but also tech leadership and strategic guidance for the developers, aligning them with its goals etc.

I'm exploring going back to full-time employment after years of running my own startups. I've spent the last decade building what I thought was really needed, bootstrapping (about $1.5 million in revenues) and raising startup investment (another $1.5 million). Not huge compared to a unicorn company, but overall I guess not bad for a startup founder...

The last few months, the investors I had been speaking with ALL started facing upstream liquidity issues, and I started looking around for a CTO position in the industry, where I can use my skills. So I've put together these docs. After so many years, I don't know if they're standard or not, but I am guessing they can be improved. I'd appreciate any feedback :)
If the article is indeed based off another article, I think that is really the very least it could do without risking being called out for plagiarism.
Carbon (usually in rocks like limestone) that is subducted is returned to the atmosphere by volcanoes.
Ants are hella cute. Sometimes I would get ants coming into my home, and it was fun watching them try to find food somewhere. I tried to keep it clean. Were these the recon teams sent to find stuff?

Sometimes I’d bring them to my desk and it was cool hanging out with some ants. I eventually caved and bought some sugar cubes. They seemed to LOVE them. I chipped them into smaller chunks, and watching ants yeet them on their “shoulders” and carry it back home was so cool.

Then somehow they’d just not show up again for many months. But I was always glad when I’d start seeing them come back.

Why are they so cute :o
What news are you referring to? (I probably missed them.)

I agree, the report did not contain anything exciting. However, in case something exciting had happened, it would be useful to have data what happened.
Based on comments elsewhere in this thread and some re-reading of the definitions of those terms, I think those weren't quite right. I'm mulling over doomsayer (Hinton), and hypster (Altman). It's very similar to the folks at Google Quantum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmut_Neven) who claimed quantum supremacy over a toy benchmark.