skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
search "divisive" here: https://github.com/outerbounds/hacker-news-sentiment/blob/ma...

I actually spent 10 minutes trying to see if there are obvious tests for U-shaped distributions. I'd love to hear if anyone has ideas here.
I would never consider a square/rectangular watch, ever, for any reason. Aesthetically (which is super important for a watch) they look ridiculous.
Is there evidence for the assumption that courts will be slower at responding to urgent cases than agencies, keeping in mind tools of the court like imposing a stay?

In a complementary hypothetical scenario where you’re not being saved but rather harmed by an agency’s actions, with the matter being decided in the courts, you can now expect to have well established protections like due process and appeal.
I've done a precursory skim of this and plan to start reading it in earnest next week. Looks comprehensive and accessible. Very excited.
The SCOTUS decision basically told Congress they must write the laws instead of allowing agencies/departments to create their own "laws" that were not actually laws but were enforced like laws.

So, no, the power did not shift entirely to SCOTUS like some people have been mislead into believing. The power was taken away from the Executive Branch and restored to the Legislative Branch - as it should have been all along.

The Executive Branch (the president and their staff/appointees including those running the various enforcement agencies such as BATF, EPA, etc) have never been authorized to create laws... yet they got away with it anyway.
Making Reproducible AI
Most LLMs are not reproducible because the underlying deep neural networks are not. Because that's something LLM creators don't care about. We do, and ours are reproducible, including our GenAI that uses GAN.

All you have to do is allow the user to specify the seeds of the random number generators involved. First, you need a good random generator you have full control over. Betty than numpy.random. See ours, with infinite period and one line of code, faster and better than what's in Python and elsewhere. Here is the link: https://mltblog.com/4fGDLu0
I think the point was that it used to be different at Google in the past(I saw it first hand). People ensuring services functioned correctly after launch were valued and rewarded appropriately.

Over time, the value given to maintenance and smooth operations decreased in reviews, esp for 'non core' services, which inevitably led to engineers doing the rational thing and prioritizing launching features, getting credit and moving on before they got saddled with pesky things like maintenance.

This also had the unintended consequence of politicizing work assignments quite a bit with more savvy political operators getting the most opportunities to launch featu ... er 'deliver impact'.
I did the boring thing and put the transcript in ChatGPT (but at least the summary makes me want to listen to the episode even more... Maybe there should be different summaries for different people to pick out the things that interest you):

The story about the antelope, featured in This American Life, follows Scott Carrier and his brother's attempt to prove a theory that humans evolved to be endurance runners, capable of outrunning animals like pronghorn antelope over long distances. Scott's brother, a biology student, hypothesizes that early humans could have run down big game without weapons by relying on their endurance rather than speed.

In the 1980s, they go to Wyoming to test this theory by attempting to chase down antelope in the desert. The idea is to exhaust the antelope by making them run in the heat for a long period. Despite their efforts, the antelope consistently outmaneuver and outrun them, blending into herds and splitting into different directions, making it impossible to follow just one.

Scott reflects on the challenges of the endeavor, the limitations of modern life, and the connection to a primitive way of living. Despite failing to catch an antelope, the story highlights the persistence of the human spirit and the desire to understand our ancient origins.
do they all depends on rewrite engine (.*) $1, or i missed one that doesn't?
It's interesting to consider that there's about 26,000,000 km^3 of ice in the Antarctic ice sheet, which would give you a much larger ~150 m^3 cube of ice per person. That's not including the Greenland ice sheet or any sea ice.
Google and Microsoft's marketing strategy for Gemini: the AI will continue until customer sentiment improves
I miss my Pixel 4. If it were still supported I'd use it.
Listen you just had to be there. Who wants a file picker with no thumbnails? That's no way to live.
picks up plastic phone in store

"feels cheap"

buys iPhone

- average user
Stfu and listen to the music and enjoy it the way you want. Who gives a shit what some tech nerd or stuffy audiophile has to say? Yup only them. You guys laugh at each other think the other is ridiculous. Well we all laugh at both of you. Man what a waste of the last 15 min of my life. Back to enjoying my music anywhere and everywhere I go. Should try it
My Pixel 6 and Pixel 8 have worked remarkably badly as cellular devices. I may well not re-up. The last straw is the aggressive Doze mode. Notifications regularly come in very late, 30+ minutes or more.
Brutalism will never be anything more than an eyesore to the vast majority of people. Architecture is as much about agreeability as anything, which is the problem: most architects (and most intellectuals) have an adversarial relationship with the majority of the people they share an aesthetic space with.
I’m not suggesting the techie is correct, I just don’t think the right answer is complete dismissal instead of communication. Ok, so you know it’s obviously wrong, but there’s no obligation to then go and stifle their curiosity or imagination. Just don’t say anything or let them talk to somebody who has the time and care to indulge.

The original commenter I’m replying to, taken at their word, is ready to dismiss anything somebody says, regardless of merit with no further discussion, just because they think there’s “no way” that person could be right. Which is hilariously close-minded way to conduct oneself.
The problem with this sphere is that people are terrible at understanding the mind boggling scale represented by "height" here. It looks like a tiny drop that "fits on the US". Instead it has a diameter of 860 miles. That's a ball of water that reaches all the way to outer space...

...and then keeps going for another 800 miles.
And Tesla is the most disliked with a real number of posts.

In the other direction math is the most liked! And if you go a little further Python is the clear winner for languages.
... Texas could never...
At this point I just want a phone that takes unbelievably amazing photos and videos under all lighting conditions and a phone that can zoom WAY the fuck out when I'm taking selfies.

I don't even pretend to know what else I'm paying for at this point. I just scan reviews until it feels like I've found a phone that will reward my $1000 (or so) with a significantly better camera. Too soon to say if these Pixels will lore me away from my S23 Ultra. Though I will say I am beyond sick and tired of Samsung's bloatware and associated problems and miss the days when I had a Pixel (or, before that, a Nexus). That, plus the fact that my S23 is almost paid off, might compel me to upgrade.
Presidential Immunity sandbagging.
Not sure why, but I thought the podcast was "thisdeveloperslife.com" which made the title even more interesting as I had no idea why developers would be out chasing an antelope in the desert. Though, maybe it would explain what happened to the podcast.
I think Google, what we initially knew as the search engine company, should spin off the advertisement and the browser division. Not making any statements of the rest of Google, it's just that I'm most familiar with the impact of those 3 together.

Google Chrome in the past greatly pushed the quality of web browsers, but now their roadmap isn't for the best of the web, it's for the best of Google.

Their browser is going to kill a system (Extensions v2) that will dramatically reduce the quality of adblocking, which will benefit their Advertisement group.

The same browser tried to get rid of a system (3rd party cookies) that reduced the useability of tracking for other companies, while they have much more data to link to you (DNS, Search, Mail, etc).
Talking points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41222487

Critique by 20 NGOs: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/joint-statement-propos...

Further analysis needed.
>What I'm saying is it's complicated, and it seems we are paying the price for letting our government be utterly destroyed in its effectiveness.

I guess the Constitution really is a suicide pact after all.
> Note how you addressed nothing I wrote.

Not sure what to address in your post since only your contempt against the web was of especial note. There are more apps in the Android Play Store than the iOS App Store. There are also third party app stores offered by Amazon, Samsung, including OSS ones like F-Droid. So..I am not sure what point you were trying to make, sorry.
i have this quantum attack prevention rock if you're interested...
This is just the beginning of the dysfunction created by the Supreme Court. Hope you are wealthy enough to live in away from industry and have good water filtration systems.
That’s kind of what I expect. It will simply be free forever but maybe the other services that they might add in the future, such as iMessage over satellite, will cost extra.

“A man got lost in the woods and died because he didn’t pay Apple two dollars a month“ is probably not a headline they want to see.

It’s also possible they didn’t know how often it would end up getting used and so they said that is a hedge in case it ended up too expensive on their end. Now that they know it’s not they don’t really worry about it.
So unelected judges should be required to rely on the testimony of unelected bureaucrats?
TL;DR TL;DR They have been failing so far: they haven't caught a single sntelope.
I disagree. The actors performing the dubbing usually do an extremely poor job, and the space is infested by nepotism.
Is this just using LLM to be cool? How does pure LLM with basic "In the scale between 0-10 ..." prompt stack up against traditional, battle-tested sentiment analysis tools?

Gemini suggests NLTK and spaCy

https://www.nltk.org/

https://spacy.io/
Just geofence their lots and disable the horn
- - Its' pronounced 'GNome'
The article itself makes this point, raising the question of why this hasn't already been resolved internally.

But legal experts noted that Chevron does not affect EPA enforcement actions like the Tucson order – it only affects the rule-making process.

Moreover, one arm of the administration cannot sue another, so the military cannot sue the EPA, and the case would never end up in court where the Chevron decision would come into play, said Walter Mugdan, a former EPA Superfund director. Instead, it would be resolved internally by a presidential administration instead of the judiciary.
Relevant post: https://blog.docbert.org/united-airlines-bug-bounty/
It's much much worse if you're trying to call someone without an Anglo-Saxon name too. It just outright refuses to call anyone I know with a Thai name, regardless of how I pronounce it.
AI Is Reacting to Twitter in Realtime
there's only a few AI streams, but this one has a unique take on it's reference material and is interactive too. The 24/7 live stream: https://twitch.tv/timelesstakes
They could.

But “iPhone saves man’s life after he fell down a mountain” sounds a whole lot better than “worlds richest company charges man who nearly died $25 to save his life”.
The marks aren't the same across brands. Some have three dashes with two oriented horizontal and one up. Others have two equal dashes (My axis was 90° at the time). Others have two with unequal length.
> Specifically SRWLocks may silently give you a Write Lock, even if you asked only for a Read Lock, in the case where the lock was just released at the moment you asked.

Oh hey, I reported that bug and behavior! One of my proudest reports. Not too often you find a legit bug, or at least documentation oversight, in such a core API.
Sure, for some women, but let's not generalize. Personally, I hate carrying a purse, and the new phones don't even fit in the pocket inside my purse.
Plus, I miss being able to reach the entire screen with one thumb, with the phone held in one hand. I do admit to typing two-handed, sometimes, but damn I wish I didn't NEED to! I can barely reach the left side of the screen reliably, much less the top left corner. :(
Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. The offense is punishable by a range of imprisonment up to a life term, or the death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting injury, if any.

https://www.justice.gov/crt/deprivation-rights-under-color-l...
Go 1.23
> Leaving aside the absurdity of computing Fibonacci numbers recursively

Is it really absurd? If the compiler can turn it into iteration, then it's a big boy compiler. If not, then meh?
If you watch Google’s keynote, the majority of LLM inference they showed happens on their cloud. (Also called private cloud to borrow apples term)

They actively call out only a few areas that run locally.

Almost all their summary features are in the cloud for example. Unlike Apple, they haven’t figured out API to let apps vend data to their AI system.
But that’s hardly on par with the level of innovation that happened at Bell Labs. Would you see them getting 10 Nobel prizes and 5 Turing awards?

I’m not disagreeing that Google is adding value, but it just seems more like incremental improvements rather than innovation. Yes they make free things, but so do Facebook, Netflix, Apple, etc.
The original sin here is that original 1980s designs carry over: the processor retains FP unit state, rather than each instruction indicating what subnormal flush mode (or rounding mode or whatever) one wishes to use with no retained FP unit state. See also: the IEEE FP exception design (e.g., signaling NaNs) causing havoc with SIMD, deep pipelining, out-of-order execution etc.
"the absurdity of computing Fibonacci numbers recursively"

It's absurd to actually compute it that way, but it's beautiful to express it that way.

From the blog post:

def fib(n):
if n <= 1:
return n
return fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2)

Easy to read, easy to comprehend. You just need a smart compiler to do it efficiently.
I very much miss the halcyon days of the feature phone - Nokia got _weird_ with it for a bit:

https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2...
>Chevon deference allowed an end-run around democracy.

I would consider officials appointed by the regularly elected position of President as more democratically controlled than federal judges. If people dislike how the President is handling EPA rules, they can vote for a different president next time. Or voice their concerns to their elected Congresspeople, who could amend the laws. If SCOTUS rules in a way I strongly disagree with, I'm SOL. And, because of of stare decisis, that ruling is likely to stand for a long time.

>And also led to uncertainty - because these regulations were politically controversial and not supported by law, just by executive branch fiat, they are prone to being revoked whenever the party holding the presidency changes.

Firstly, Chevron Deference required rules to be reasonable interpretations of the law. So it wasn't total fiat. Also, there are other laws that prevent capricious changes. The new rule must be proposed, published, and allowed time for public comment.

Also, Chevron allowed courts to rule on ambiguous matters of law (e.g., how two laws interacted). Because judges are experts in federal laws. But for other questions, such as the dissent's citation of a case over whether a Pacific Northwest colony of squirrels qualified as a separate population from other parts of the country, there's no way I'd trust a judge to understand a crash course on biology, genetics, and ecology delivered by opposing sides in the span of a court case. Now imagine they do this all the time for different subjects. I doubt many judges look forward to these cases.
If AGI ever becomes a thing and you can simply spend electricity to write the new operating system, that would be pretty insane, and it seems like it would disrupt duopoly.
Does this affect any software that hasn't been cracked (aka, pre-emptively improved to avoid this issue)?
> Ah, it is whatever AWS calls vCPU.

And again, that varies.

As in the Fargate / Lambda vCPU? There's x86 (old) and arm64 (graviton 2).

As in an EC2 vCPU which as indicated could range from t2 all the way to m7i / m7a. Even just comparing AWS' own graviton from 2 to 4 (latest), you get about 2x performance improvements.

If we compare to RDS / Aurora, it lets you pick the CPU, so definitely makes a difference.
Would you rather unelected experts make the decision, or unelected nonexperts who make stupid amateur-hour mistakes like confusing nitrous anesthetic (whippets!) with nitrogen oxide? [1]

Even the Supreme Court has trouble differentiating its party drugs from its pollutants, with a level of understanding equivalent to a street junkie. Judges have no business making regulatory decisions, they should be left up to actual experts.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2024/06/28/supreme...
I can't remember the last time I held a phone without a case and didn't think "wow, I am going to drop this NOW". You'd think a $1000 camera would have, oh I don't know, some grips? A lanyard hook? Instead it's just shiny smooth nonsense all around.
>>Use the tool below to explore various topics and the sentiments they evoke.

This is a cool phrase.

It is personally important as when I was asked in a panel interview @ -- They asked "what do you think Twitter is?

My response was "You're a global sentiment engine""

(There are a lot of conversations I'd love to have with the HN community with respect to our shared experiences, and weird history flipped-bits that exists in the minds of those who experienced that...

like threads of how linux came, or how xml was born through things I touched in a forrest gump way - and how there are so many stories from so many.
i'm familiar with the destructive power and unpredictable nature of hydrogen detonations, yes ;)

but that's what happens when you don't vent the hydrogen to the atmosphere
Thank you. Love the video.
The difference is that credit card debt comes with a crushing interest rate.
Mass produced torics are available up to -8 power. I'd try them again to take advantage of modern design and fabrication improvements.
I think you are implying that this is incorrect behaviour. Could you explain why?

The alternative would be to have it be undefined, which seems clearly worse. Or do you mean that it should be a compiler warning/error instead?
> where in the blog?

the blog is listed in the first paragraph of the linked article: https://chemisting.com/2024/03/15/an-open-source-diy-flow-ba...
I've used minimalist cases for my the last 3 or 4 phones, dropped them all plenty of times, and never suffered more than a minor scratch on the screen. I assume phones are just much tougher than 10 years ago, but the case isn't hurting the cause and I'm too scared not to use one.
Not paid, not shilling or anything, but the Light Phone 3 looks even better compared to this hill of AI-nonsense.

https://www.thelightphone.com/lightiii
No, power was explicitly shifted to SCOTUS because the goal is that judges can take any form of interpretation of the law that they want that's favorable to their political outcome. Surely you're familiar with some of the stuff the 5th circuit has been doing right? The Texas abortion bounty hunter law stood because it relies on a incredibly odious interpretation of the law by an exceedingly corrupt and unaccountable court.

Congress can and does write laws. But the quibbling now is that companies can take cases to the 5th circuit for example and argue that XYZ novel chemical isn't a pollutant because it's not explicitly enumerated in the law even if it's causing vast amounts of environmental damage. Laws will always require some form of interpretation because you simply cannot enumerate everything that can and will happen in the future and that's historically how laws were written in the past. Which is why Chevron Deference existed in the first place.
Apple will drop a folding phone one day and then we'll all be talking about how Android copied it.

The front of the phones are all screen and the back looks nothing like an iPhone but somehow people think they copied Apple. Go figure.
I like working out, and the Apple Watch allows me to leave my phone at home. I also like the metrics it collects and how they're presented.

This aside, I really dislike watches and would prefer to not wear one
What's non-trivial for your purposes, in this context?
Should std have abstract OS IO?
maybe this is different in SF, but NYC taxi/uber drivers never say anything besides confirming you are the actual person and the destination, and maybe asking where you want to be dropped off
Oh that’s right. That’s the other thing you can do. I’d forgotten that.

Thanks.

While I never needed the satellite SOS it’s fun that there is a demo in settings that shows you how to find the satellite and everything just as if you used the feature for real.