skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are the activation functions truly different, or just different parameter values to one underlying function?
No, I just provided you the literal technical definition of "heritability". It should be immediately apparent to you why lipstick is (highly) heritable and hand count isn't†; if it isn't, you're the one working from the "colloquial" understanding.

† lipstick: highly dependent on XX vs. XY; hands: set by highly conserved Hox genes, variation virtually entirely due to environmental factors.
> I've stopped assuming that the stock market has any real meaning

Perhaps, or perhaps the media coverage is what lacks any real meaning. With 401k's and index funds, a substantial portion of the US and other countries populations are invested in the market passively, without having any real understanding of it. Hearing about the ups and downs will always be popular ways to sell attention, and the average person isn't well equipped to become meaningfully educated in market movements; until (/ if) the passive investing bubble pops, that will always be the case. I think even well intentioned, news media's coverage of the market will always be superficial with a hint of gloom and doom, because that's how we're all wired to greater and less degrees.
Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages
Git' is a preexisting word; it'd be pretty strange to pronounce it with a soft G.

It certainly was when I heard it.
The US is not comparable to W Europe or the EU on this topic, since neither of those are political units responsible for a healthcare system. However, that brings us to your next point

>scale is also a matter of division...

This is a great point. However, for whatever reason, we have never seen a successful single-payer system in a US state. Even very blue, wealthy states have not achieved this.

>scaling a system to support 5x...

Again, the data does not support this. I don't have a reason why, just observing that it's not supported by real life.
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Are you sure it wasn't because of the US embargo on Cuba? Companies outside the US often participate(d) as well, because they want to do business with the US and US companies.
What is the story with rust and cryptographic side channels? I imagine the layers of abstraction (e.g. an iterator may have arbitrary O) would make it harder to see those?
> Some group shut down over 50% of car dealers in America in June/July. That's warfare.

You're not entirely wrong but also "Someone broke half the car dealers IT backends, this is WAR" is possibly the most American statement I have ever heard, holy cow.

I CAN'T CONSUME PRODUCTS! TO WARRRR
Roughly equivalent to the rise in sea level because of displacement from offshore oil drilling platforms and wind turbines. Which is to say, immeasurable.
WebGPU is not yet performance competitive with CUDA, in part because the cooperative matrix multiplication ("tensor cores" in Nvidia-speak) extension is not done yet. That in turn depends on subgroups, which are pretty far along (but not yet shipping).

That said, you can do machine learning in WebGPU, and, if your goal is to ship in a browser, it is viable.

I personally think the performance gap can be closed with some engineering effort, and that WebGPU has the potential to become a real contender, but it's too early to say for sure. Certainly CUDA has a major head-start.
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why is this voted down? isn't it legitimately part of the story? gov't waste is gov't waste.
I've also seen this on Delta on ATL-PHL. I had guessed it was limited to relatively short flights - because why waste a number on a short flight, and because there's less room for irregularity where you end up with both flights in the air at the same time - but it looks like at least SLC-CLT on Delta and DFW-SEA on American do it.
That's interesting. I wonder if it's related to the corporation. My local McDonald's hires people who seem to be mostly in their early 20's. OTOH, the Dairy Queen that's just a few minutes down the road seems to rarely have anyone older than 19 or so working there. Average age at DQ seems to be around 16.
I get that it's easy to suggest solutions but hard to implement them. I just don't see how the security situation gets better without escalating the response. Does anyone else? How does this get better?
I think third-party hosting is the best place for solving this problem. The host’s software, which is open-source, would hash whatever models they’re running. Then, include signed hashes with the request. This could be compared with the hash of the model whose test results were published. This should be fine for at least open-weight models.

It becomes a differentiator for the hosting companies.
It's called directional drilling [0] and is related to milkshakes [1]

0 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directional_drilling

1 - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a5d9BrLN5K4&pp=ygUddGhlcmUgd2l...
To be fair, that's actually one of the things that I've liked about it. Pushing me to study more on a week-by-week basis is at least theoretically valuable, no?
> Do you think this is still true?

Personal opinion, when intra org reciprocity is not discussed or measured, quality plummets as a necessary response to stress/burnout feedback loops at every scale.

Coming to terms with this """insight""" etc. was tl;dr life changing and exactly how is still an open question
Probably caused by students doing past papers and practicing.
Once I had tried coca tea in Peru, it was clear what the taste of Coca-Cola comes from.

What became funny was the series of "tasters" who claimed they had figured out the formula with other ingredients like cinnamon, etc.
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Yeah I'm deep into AVR, never got into the fancy architectures like x86 and this sounded bananas to me. In my world a register is a register is hardware.

Hell, by sidestepping GCC's register allocation one can substantially increase performance if you arrange your data into registers that your ALU or other peripheral likes best. Prime example, RAM access can be twice as fast if you load your target address into the X/Y/Z register with LD instead of letting GCC emit the LDS instruction. You'd do something like store a pointer to a very important struct that you want to access many times very quickly.

I honestly have no clue if a similar concept exists on modern x86. I'd assume that you are explicitly meant to not care about things at this level and it's all handled behind the scenes. It's crazy how much the x86 CPU does for you, but I find it much more fun to tweak things close to the bare metal.
Yes, correctly identifying the perpetrators would be very challenging.
Great if renewable, but is there a hidden freshwater consumption cost here?
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Ooh ouch, I need to lay down. While I am healing I shall come up with one of those trendy JavaScript libraries I keep hearing about; like an aged rocker dating a young model I shall become nuanced, taken up, revered, established, lived and then hated…repeat.
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A point of view I haven't seen expressed yet: if I was the athlete, I'd value a terribly written letter by a child above one written by the parent of a child, let alone by AI.

It's the same reason I value the handmade cards my niblings have made me. They're barely legible, objectively bad, and that's exactly what makes them special. Half the store-bought cards are pretty quickly destined for the bin, but those are staying on the mantle.
For arguments sake, could it mean the arrangement of specific atoms on the first storage medium for the digital file? Therefore a duplicated copy or screenshot would not count?
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but unless your criteria for efficiency and quality is bringing back slavery then we're not going to compete. The DEI requirements are a cherry on top of a pie-in-the-sky request that wouldn't meet it's goal with any demographics staffing it.

If we want to get serious about ramping up domestically produced chips, the state has to do it itself. People piss and moan about Intel but it's not like Northrop Grumman could do their job any better. The best way for the US government to realize the scale of their requests is to fix the problem internally, instead of pitching it as a bidding war for Goofus and Gallant.
This is the weakest comeback— come on you can do better, I believe in you.

But I guess that makes sense coming from someone who thinks the peak of human intelligence was before we used tools. /jest
I don't understand why all of their hubub is about tokens per second (which relies on a lot more than just hardware) instead of FLOPs/memory bandwidth/etc.
...and because of the extreme gains in those stocks (like NVDA) those are the ones getting sold to facilitate the unwinding. This is the "tails we lose" part. They still win of course.
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This is a little vacuous. Why are you signing? Why are you encrypting? Those are different operations. What are you trying to accomplish? The biggest problem with PGP is that its most popular use cases tend to be people bodging this old clanking command line tool into cryptosystems that (a) PGP wasn't designed for and (b) purpose-built cryptosystems are much better at.

One of the reasons age is so constrained is that the problems best served by direct simple file encryption are quite narrow.
I didn't see mention of copyright, which is by far the most contradictory and complicated set of laws we as middle class citizens run a foul of on an everyday basis.

Why is that?
For additional context, here is the popular post for when they first gave a public demo of their API:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39428880
I think so too. Also, what's the point of using git with commit messages like that? https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/visual_astar_python/com...

LoL.
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They definitely had some turnover on the software side with people going to Anthropic and Rain.
And aggressively hijacks the browser preventing page refreshes, reader mode, etc. on iPhone.
Isn't medicare effectively a single payer, because the rates are mandated and can't be negotiated?
>> A former Nvidia employee, whom 404 Media granted anonymity to speak about internal Nvidia processes, said that employees were asked to scrape videos from Netflix, YouTube, and other sources

Most videos on Youtube are wide open and fair game. The US Supreme Court categorizes the site as "gate up" with no protection of content requiring logins or anything of that nature - if you request the content from the server, the server gives it to you. YouTube has gatekeeping mechanisms in play, allowing sales of content requiring login. Those are bound by ToS.

NetFlix is gate down. That means use of the content is subject to jursidictional relevance of terms of service - in various parts of the world, this means different things, but assuming it's in the US, that means violations of the ToS can result in Netflix shutting down an account - anything beyond that would require a crime of some sort to be committed. Training an AI model would seem to be protected fair use.

Having copies of streams, and other technicalities are supercilious garbage gotcha laws. Let's disregard these for the moment. They serve to allow the exploitation of individuals.

NVidia would be guilty of training an AI system on videos which have been paid for, ostensibly through Netflix's system of revenue distribution based on streams and so forth.

I don't see a moral or ethical problem with this. I see a regulatory and legal problem, wherein technology has far outstripped the relevance of laws that are founded in quill and parchment era principles, barely updated to handle publishing of physical media, and are completely unequipped to handle digital data protections and reasonable individual rights. There's nothing bad faith about what NVidia is doing. There are vested interests in demonizing AI, because it threatens a bunch of concentrated wealth that only exists because it can exploit artists at scale, and sell to consumers at grossly overvalued prices.

We need a complete overhaul of copyright and intellectual property laws, and the MAFIAA needs to be shut out of the conversation. No more gotchas, no more empowering crappy people to exploit consumers and artists to nobodies benefit but their own, no more of this notion that people don't own the data or devices they pay for. Lots of really shady, unethical games are played to maintain the current copyright regime, and it's not rational or good for anyone. Laws should serve the society in the context of the people living there. They shouldn't be tools of exploitation wielded by the wealthy.
Yeah I see it all the time on buses where you exit by the front door.
I struggle with taking anything Gorsuch writes seriously. He seems to dream of a world where federal agencies have no power to regulate things but instead all disputes are decided by courts (or Congress needs to write laws that cover all cases). Going to court usually favors the party that can afford lawyers and expert witnesses. I agree that it would be good to clean up a lot of laws and rule. But considering that this criticism is coming from a person who claims to be able to divine what people had in their minds 250 years ago when they wrote a constitution makes it pretty dishonest in my view.
Perun (unsurprisingly) did a video on the drone's evolution in Ukraine, including countermeasures and counter counter measures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJnuTtUFiWM Drones are highly variable.
After a few seconds the site covers the screen to prevent reading, demanding an account to bypass.
Yes actually. Think multiple machine home office because i WFH, not consumer "just netflix terminals, 3 phones and a console".
It seems odd that a country with a temperate climate like Croatia would be importing produce from the Netherlands. Is this common?
Use specialized backup tools! There are cryptographic constructions designed specifically for backup. You will get better backup and better encryption.
Yeah, to me, not focusing on those skills is what makes someone a Senior II. I think it needs to be okay for not everyone to make it to staff+ title levels. Those ICs fulfill a different role in the org than a senior engineer. Having multiple senior levels or a wide enough salary band should ensure a suitable terminal path for those who don't want to step into the staff+ space.
I wish there were a solution to managing whatever the equivalent of software-creep (law-creep?) in this space. Are there any examples of countries/governments that have successfully implemented such systems.

Either way, I don't like how things (hot takes from people, journalists, politicians businesses, whatever) are constantly framed as being pro/anti laws (or regulation). This seems to always at the end of the day serve "the elites" in one way or another: whether it's adding regulations to keep out competition from the little upstarts or getting rid of it to expand marketshare at the expense of consumer-harm.

Question should always be pointedly reframed as: do we have the "right" laws. Not as: do we have too many or too little. This ultimately means nothing and feels like a distraction from the bigger issues.

/end arm chair rant.
Fair enough. But the way the ruling danced around free speech and instead ruled that fair use was really about ‘conduct’ is not something I agree with. That distinct category seems invented to curtail speech and the distinction between the two seems intentionally vague. Where is the line between process and speech? It seems to me that it is ‘conduct’ in this case because it involves technology, which seems like a terrible precedent to set.

‘Can’t say ____ online, as online speech is mediated via computer and is therefore conduct.’
Playing an old video game is among the least necessary things I can think of.
It's a franchise; so how each restaurant and region hires will vary.

In 2004 I drove between MA and Chicago, and found a very stark difference in every one. In Chicago McDonalds was hiring people who were coming out of poverty and helping build work experience. In PA, the McDonalds were well oiled machines and run with pride.

In MA the McDonalds have always been first jobs for immigrants / refugees.
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The irony to me is that he just voted to overturn the Chevron doctrine. There's no way that doesn't lead to a huge increase in the number of laws.
Now imagine a printer made of mostly plastic and a bunch of elastomers. Your subscription based Inkjet is not going to last even half as long.
See also this issue of Amiga World magazine (January 1986), with higher quality prints

https://archive.org/details/amiga-world-1986-01/mode/2up
This is a very interesting and thorough investigation. Highly recommended!
How many people have actually been studied in an fMRI aphantasia study? Like 10? I'll give you those people.

But meanwhile on the Internet we have endless people claiming to they have aphantasia because they "only see black when they close their eyes".

I don't think we should conflate these two.
Agreed, I've been trying a pie menu launcher for mobile, and it's nifty: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.markusfisch.android.piela...

I like how I can swipe to open apps without looking.

For desktop, I've already customized a keyboard-driven workflow that's hard to beat. So a pie menu doesn't make much sense there for me.
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I found it an absolute gem. Definitely a product of its time, but very enjoyable world and characters.
I absolutely agree. People who make that argument are either kidding themselves or looking for funding haha. Everyone I knew in my department was there because they liked it (or because they liked teaching and had to produce papers as part of the job), not because they had ambitions of solving practical problems.
1. This is interesting. So in a measured boot scenario, you wouldn't be able to boot the main OS, but it would give you access to sort of a minimal initramfs environment for debugging? It's a good idea for personal computers, like a tamper-proofing approach.

I assume the TPM in this case would only have a partial decryption key? I think something similar could be accomplished with SSS, no?

2. As for this, I can say i've never used DBX with UEFI Secure boot. Instead of revoking keys, I just remake the entire PKI from the top. The PKI is only there to support independent use by OS Vendor/OEM hence the separation of PK/KEK/db.

3. Counterpoint: over-reliance on TPMs and such. Whereas the ordinary trust chain only requires signature verification at the start of boot (presumably on-chip), measured boot requires more complex trusted computing hardware (presumably off-chip).

Personally, I find that systems that are overly-reliant on complex trusted computing hardware tend to lack in other areas. For example, iphones or google-pixel devices encourage the user to use a low-entropy password like a 4-digit PIN. These systems try often to reconcile "analog" passkeys like Biometrics (FaceID, fingerprints) by using trusted computing. Of course, if the trusted computing systems are breached (https://www.404media.co/leaked-docs-show-what-phones-cellebr...), then security is very weak.

I suppose the advantage of the measured-boot method is that it is optional. So you can still boot whatever OS you want, just without some TC features.
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Hi all,

I'm looking to get feedback on a tool i've created.

During my GMAT prep i had few observations for gmat prep ecosystem:

GMAT test preparation is an unorganized, ennui, and expensive process for most.

Unorganized journey: 1.2 What to practice, 1.3 how much is enough - am i there yet? 1.4 what type of mistakes am i repeating - am i improving? where do i stand today vs T-x days before? 1.5 what other gaps do i not know about myself - i'm oblivious

Lack of social interactions while prepping which usually leads to absence of excitement and competition leading to higher likelihood of faltering in future

Cost: >INR 20k + test prep > INR50-100k, its an expensive affair with no low likelihood of success

Ideal scenario should be where platform enables:

Autonomous organisation:

Records answer logs in platform (time taken, recall rate after T+ days, question-memory stability)

Prioritizes questions basis concept gaps and recall rate using spaced repetition model

Gamification and socialization:

Enables positive reinforcement and social/personal accountabilitythrough leaderboards and social streaks

Conducts tournaments/ quizes amongst study buddies or a random global candidate by matching participants's current skill level (per topic) ; solo practice mode also provided

With these pointers in mind, soft launching here, actively seeking your feedback.

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Ciao
That's the rate for a population that almost entirely follows appropriate precautions. I suspect that the rate among people who _don't_ follow those precautions is rather higher.
They do make their own hardware, but of note is that they stopped selling hardware and instead pivoted to only selling API access, 4 months ago. Hence no need to describe anything aside from tokens/sec?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39964590
Why not? Its a nice PR story about early life struggles.
Official post: https://wow.groq.com/news_press/groq-raises-640m-to-meet-soa...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41162875)
I've never seen a nullptr somehow sneak into a reference. Never.

What I have seen is automatic variables escaping their scope as a reference, which rust protects against. And is also much more dangerous, because dereferencing a nullptr is defined behavior on most platforms
Coming from a fault tolerance background, this seems to be a prime example where OS diversity would have helped. But clearly staging the roll out of updates (even definition files) should be standard practice when you have more than 10k customers.
I should have said raises the acidity
This is only a vulnerability because macOS actually tries to sandbox access to user data (photos, documents, etc). On Windows or Linux being able to access all a user's data is expected, and thus spyware and ransomware don't even need administrator privileges to wreak havock. So, a win for Apple here.
Somehow the retail arm of the chain still exists in Canada. 80 stores remain.

Note to self: invite US visitors with kids to toys R us.
As a paraglider pilot (unpowered), I will say that the technical aspects of flying the aircraft are only a small part of what's involved in a flight - as you point out.

It's a bad idea to get pilots in the air with less training. People can't safely pilot cars in two dimensions.

Making the avionics easier to use and more affordable sounds like the actual winning product.
> Shout out to the longevity of floppy disks as a storage medium.

Last I checked (Covid) about 2/3rd of my 5"1/4 Commodore 64 floppy disks were still working (they had to be about 35 y/o when I tried in 2020). But the ones working won't last much longer.
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This doesn't really help the scenarios, though? In fact, if you know that a place has been the source of a ton of crime, physically going there is a terrible idea. Not sure why similar wouldn't apply for this?

I'm... also very curious what expected numbers are there for data breaches? I'm seeing 12. How in the world are you at 3,000?!
I hear that, and yes, it's funny, but as you point out not entirely wrong. These attacks harm businesses and the families that depend on them. The tens of millions of dollars paid in ransom go somewhere, that money would be less valuable if it came with the real chance the military would hunt you down and kill you.
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