skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ok this is correct, but has nothing to do with causality.

It does. Dependence and independence have a lot to do with causation, as the article explains.

> Whether or not two variables are correlated and whether or not they are independent, and when one does or doesn't imply the other, is a conversation that can be had without resorting to the concept of causality at all.

Yes, but this is irrelevant. It's like saying "whether or not someone is married is a conversation that can be had without resorting to the concept of a bachelor at all".

You can talk about (in)dependence without talking about causation, but you can't talk in detail about causation without talking about (in)dependence.
I think the game Teardown is the golden child of voxel rendering in production video games. beautifully lit, fully destructible, and performant
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The Telegraph had an interesting interview with him after he was cleared in the Autonomy trial: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/06/07/how-mike-lyn....
LAN parties were/are a thing.
Does anybody have experience using this in a real-world setting?

I can understand the desire to never, ever have to deal with Zookeeper again, but does the ergonomics promise of sequin hold up?
Have you tried making reasonable requests though and were they denied as well?
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Well, in another comment, markx2 suggested how to change new tab UI to blank page. Which I can confirm is still present and kind of works, but... that way you are removing all the tiles, including your actually frequently used pages, so I wouldn't exactly call it "removal of sponsored tiles".
Objective metrics for audio quality estimation is a tool commonly used to develop audio products, from mobile phones to headphones, hearing aids and audio codecs.
I worked briefly in that area some years ago, and have put some notes together at:
https://github.com/jonnor/machinehearing/blob/master/audio-q...
In your usecases you would want a metric that only needs the single audio clip, without an original/pristine reference. This is called a "reference-free" / "non-intrusive" / "single-ended" metric.

Detecting re-encoding or double encoding is sometimes researched, though mostly for audio forensic purposes.

Conceptually it would be possible to use the encoding with different codecs and nitrates/settings on a sizable corpus of music, to learn a ML model that can learn to identify the "true" bitrate on new unseen audio clips.
It's difficult to explain accurately without making one into an RF expert but you've essentially said the radio equivalent of "my headphones aren't really useful past 10 feet" and concluding any sound so loud as to make the headphone use unintelligible across an entire school would also cease to exist a few feet away.

If one absolutely had to get rid of usable signals originating from outside the school a much more practical way would be to add RF shielding to the exterior elements. After all, if you want to get rid of a signal then subtracting it even intuitively feels a lot more reasonable than trying to add so much other signal you don't notice the original anymore.
Tweeted this in 2021:
“The current state of artificial intelligence is on psychedelics and we are simply trying to sober it up.”

Src: https://x.com/miguelace_/status/1362646383077978115?s=46&t=g...
I actually avoided the Saw films for a long time because of this. I finally watched them recently and they were better than I expected. Still nowhere close to my favorite movies... Not even favorite horror movies... But not the total trash that I expected.
Moderation is dead, and copyright is the knife.
Good to know, but it does seem to me that anemoia is perfectly cromulent.
eg.?
We should do the same for unoccupied houses/condos (e.g. second homes): hang a notice on the door, a week later have city workers haul any belongings inside to the dump, wash it out, and give it to some new person to live there.
> The paper i linked is not addressed by the paper you linked. The paper you linked attempts to give LLMs the same benchmarks in a format they aren't best suited for. I don't know how you can call that "addressed".

What you're writing now is nonsense in context of what I wrote. Once again, you're showing that you didn't read the papers. Which paper are you even referring to now, the one you think addresses the paper you linked?

> You've still not explained how writing the same program in different languages doesn't require reasoning or how we can test your "correct" version of reasoning which requires "concepts".

"Concepts" are explained in one of the papers I linked, which you would know if you had actually read them.
As to programming languages they learn to identify common structures and idioms across languages. This allows them to map patterns (latent space representations duh!) from one language to another without reasoning about the underlying logic. When translating code, the model doesn't reason about the program's logic but predicts the most likely equivalent constructs in the target language based on the surrounding context. LLMs don't truly "understand" the semantics or purpose of the code they're translating. They operate on a superficial level, matching patterns and structures without grasping the underlying computational logic. The translation process for an LLM is a series of token-level transformations guided by learned probabilities, not a reasoned reinterpretation of the program's logic. They don't have an internal execution model or ability to "run" the code mentally. They perform translations based on learned patterns, not by simulating the program's behavior.
The training objective of LLMs is to predict the next token, not to understand or reason about program semantics. This approach doesn't require or develop reasoning capabilities.
TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigafactory

"The term "gigafactory" has also been adopted by other companies which are involved in the manufacture of electric vehicles and other clean tech products. ..... Newer companies such as Stellantis have also embraced the term[7] by referring to four new "gigafactories" in France which will produce lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. ..... The term is therefore understood[by whom?] to generically refer to large industrial facilities which are associated with the decarbonization and electrification trend.[citation needed]"
It's much better to use vocabulary consistently with what everyone else does in the field. Then you don't need to add footnotes correcting yourself. And if you are not familiar with what everyone else means by correlation, you're very unlikely to be an expert. This is not like that Indian mathematician who reinvented huge chunks of mathematics.
The all-purpose retort is "but that is proprietary information!"
All good things come to an end at some point. That's not a reason not to enjoy them.
If you check the usernames, the one who suggested and the one who followed up are the same person. :-)
I mean, it makes sense that if you have a crew onboard, you want to make the crew handle the cases when the software thinks something is wrong. Similar to how plane autopilots will disengage for many kinds of faults.

If you don't have crew onboard, you don't have any choice but to rely on the software's judgement.

I think the big problem is that the changeover is going to take several weeks, since Starliner should be able to fallback to flying autonomously if the crew happens to become incapacitated for some reason. The changeover should've just been a matter of sending a command from the ground or via a relay satellite.
I would have expected categories for product brochures and product manuals.
If you’ve never written software that needed to be used by tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, then sure, it could seem that way.
i've personally seen many hires out of China with red flags that my employers refused to acknowledge out of fears being labelled a racist or going against DEI policies.

all in all its a stupefying situation to see such a powerful industry succumb to subversion.

it may be too late to save American tech/capital. It has more than one master now and it does not benefit the American people or America.
Training a bot on my own messages for fun and chaos
> Do you mean that my process might get killed [by the OOM killer] if /another process/ fails to get more backing pages?

It can be your process or some other process, depending on the OOM killer weights and heuristics.

> Or are you suggesting that there is some other failure path that results in my process getting killed if my own malloc() fails to get pages? (That seems wrong. Should simply return NULL in that case, no?)

No, malloc() in Linux will never return NULL for small allocations. What happens is that glibc will try to get more pages for its heap by calling mmap(). The call to mmap() will result in the OOM killer waking up and freeing some memory.

It then can kill some other process, and your process mmap() will succeed, or it can kill your process, and in this case mmap() never returns.
The only real long-term solution to mob behavior is to prioritize critical thinking and analysis skills in education, rather than relying on passive indoctination approaches. People trained this way are resistant to mass manipulation strategies of all kinds, from advertising for drugs, alcohol, junk food and subprime loan opportunities, to political campaigns and organized religion (aka 'cult') recruitment. See the Institute for Propaganda Analysis, c.1937 (and also, why it was shut down):

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

If you have a population of brainwashed zombies, and you're fighting over which political party gets to control the brainwashing machine instead of freeing people from any kind of brainwashing entirely, you're probably one of these people who think humans are inherently incapable of thinking for themselves and thus have to be indoctrinated with right thoughts or society will devolve into chaos and anarchy, like a riot in the monkey cage at the zoo - or perhaps you're a member of that small minority that benefits from an perpetuating an ignorant, brainwashed population of zombie consumers, and are acting out of rational self-interest.
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Right but the curly brace is invalid syntax in a Dockerfile. It's valid IMO for the parser to bail when it encounters this.

I see what you're saying that other highlighters are continuing gracefully though.
> 1. There are no nouns or verbs in Vim.

Yes, there is.

Since your entire argument is predicated on a false premise, maybe you should stop digging at this point?
It’s not really that costly or inconvenient to extend their stay on ISS compared to Skylab though. With Skylab 4 you had to somehow figure out how to support food and water for half-again as many astronaut-days as planned but ISS has routine supply ships and a big enough permanent crew that adding two extra people isn’t a strain. From the perspective of ISS operations, having an extra two crew members more than you planned also means you can get more work done. And if you’re one of the astronauts, who has worked hard for the dream of going to space, getting a bunch of extra space days is not exactly an unwelcome surprise either. So not only is it not actually a big deal to keep them on the ISS for longer, but I bet a few people are happy to have an excuse to keep them there.
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Oh yes. I worked at Boeing until recently.
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The problem with that is historically NASA has used contractors to manufacture if not also design virtually all of their hardware. They don't have the experience to do it all on their own.
ISS is at capacity. There are only two docking ports IIRC.
(As the article claims) even with computed goto register assignment of the most frequently used variables is fragile because the CFG of the function is so complicated.

Register assignment is much less fragile when each function is small and takes the most important variables by argument.
Weird, i would actually have the opposite conclusion. Can you say more?

>What you should be worried about is the code that hasn't been rewritten in ten years.

Why would I worry? it's been running for 10 years without significant changes. Isn't that a sign it's more or less accomplishing its purpose?
How does this interact with the No Cloning Theorem? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem

If you can rebuild the cQbit from just the bath, then there's no information in cQbit, right?
> The origins of Stockholm Syndrome and its initial framing may be debated

It's not really a matter of debate. We know the origins. We know it is junk science. We know this about multiple sciences and scientific theories, that's how science works: someone gets an idea, they theorize about it, test their theories, and our shared understanding grows.

This is not that. This is an ass-pulled theory that's been debunked at it's point of origin. This doesn't deserve rebuttal, it deserves mockery and derision.
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> as our devices become increasingly wearable and integrated with daily life

This is a forward looking statement. The point is that the integration of wearables is just beginning. Banning them might work for now, but assuming the integration continues and increases, banning them might not be viable in the future.

Imagine a scenario where an Apple Watch is also monitoring blood glucose. Or where someone's prescription eyeglasses are also connected to the Internet. These are things that are already happening today, but haven't yet permeated society.

Another 10, 20, 30 years of progress will bring new issues and consumer expectations that may make bans less viable. The point of all of this is to think about potential ways to navigate such a future.
$18/player is a staggering operating cost. I feel like there must be some easy optimizations to be had that would greatly reduce the overhead. Roblox games are user made! They aren't building the most sophisticated game engine. Sure there are server costs, but that should be pennies. Where is all of that money going?
"You're electing me to not do my job, but to hand it over to something else" is... probably not illegal for someone to say. It might be illegal for them to do, though - dereliction or some such.
> They also could not be sure to exactly whom else the several bone flaps in question – all stored in a freezer – belonged.

Ok, if that’s true, do not get your skull sawn open in Atlanta.
And on Android.
That's when adversarial prompt engineering might become more interesting.
CEOs earn big bucks at nonprofit hospitals. But does that benefit patients?
Games or selling to consumers is a totally different line of business than enterprise software which Japan lacks talent or incubation for. There is just no upward mobility and little regard for software profession.

Line was made by Korean engineers and owned by a Korean company.

i-Mode is interesting but seems like there were no strides to innovate further than running a server side HTML application to proxy off of but Japanese consumers are unique in that they will put with mediocre or annoying.

I personally blame Son Masayoshi's monopoly and his close mindedness, too much focus on maximizing profits rather than innovation.
Weather balloons (ours included) are pretty small and don't spend much time at the altitudes where planes are. And in the very, very unlikely case a plane were to hit one, our payload is less than 250g (about the mass of a pigeon).
I think I hear what you're saying. I have started to think of "depravity" (as you call it) as the "body horror" of a collectivist body politic. It takes the form of an agent of our collective, like some social gangrene, participating in a grotesque destruction of itself, the social fabric that binds us. Or alternatively, of the whole human super-organism turning on itself, in the case of disaster or zombie apocalypse movies where ppl riot and turn on one another in conflict.

In the real world, though not always, we're often better than the grotesque versions of ourselves we are forced to watch.

Maybe you're becoming more of a collectivist as you age, and you have less patience for the seeming distortion that is part of the experience?
The ISS can tank micrometeorites just fine. They could put a hole straight through the ISS but the station is only pressurized to one atmosphere; the leak would be slow and easy to patch. It wouldn't even be the first time they had a leak..
The government is limiting the freedom of speech of all Americans in one go. "You can say whatever you want" but only on the vetted apps is not freedom of speech.
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While GPS was apparently always planned to be provided for civilian navigation, Korean Air Flight 007 being shot down due to error in navigating over north pole led to explicit mention by White House:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007#Af....
They're not so much "destroyed" as they're "endurance tested to EOL".

It's a valuable opportunity to test the outgoing vehicles which are usually a previous iteration of new vehicles.
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As an aside, I’m excited - but also with lots of trepidation - about the new energy in adding new functionality to C. Excited because there are changes and additions that are crying to be made, even clarifying ideas… trepidation because C++’s gung ho update cadence has somehow ended up in wart patched over wart. Especially when feature reacts with feature in an unfelicitous way far earlier than anticipated. I hope the standards process finds a way to be very conservative, really thoroughly test features in large and diverse codebases, rather than just relying on rationales alone, when choosing to include feature.
They are also worried that it can't actually return autonomously, that it might fail to un-dock properly or that it might crash into the ISS.

They have a lot to weigh up.
The card and terminal communicate on which CVMs (cardholder verification method) they support, and they agree on one. If they can't agree the transaction is either cancelled or processed as "no CVM" (like normal contactless tap & pay with a card) depending on the terminal's and card's risk profile.
I posted this question to HN 7 months ago, more around DataCenters:

>In the increasingly interconnected global economy, the reliance on Cloud Services raises questions about the national security implications of data centers. As these critical economic infrastructure sites, often strategically located underground, underwater, or in remote-cold locales, play a pivotal role, considerations arise regarding the role of military forces in safeguarding their security. While physical security measures and location obscurity provide some protection, the integration of AI into various aspects of daily life and the pervasive influence of cloud-based technologies on devices, as evident in CES GPT-enabled products, further accentuates the importance of these infrastructure sites.

>Notably, instances such as the seizure of a college thesis mapping communication lines in the U.S. underscore the sensitivity of disclosing key communications infrastructure.

>Companies like AWS, running data centers for the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC), demonstrate close collaboration between private entities and defense agencies. The question remains: are major cloud service providers actively involved in a national security strategy to protect the private internet infrastructure that underpins the global economy, or does the responsibility solely rest with individual companies?

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And then I posted this, based on an HNers post about mapping out Nuclear Power Plants:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41189056

[We can easily map the infrastructure of the cloud and AI -- and their supply chains - and these are increasingly of National Security Concern:]

((Not to mention the actual powerplants being built to exclusively provide datacenter power))

Now, if we add the layers of the SubmarinCableMap [0] DataCenterMap [1] - and we begin to track shipments

And

https://i.imgur.com/zO0yz6J.png -- Left is nuke, top = cables, bottom = datacenters. I went to ImportYeti to look into the NVIDIA shipments: https://i.imgur.com/k9018EC.png

And you look at the suppliers that are coming from Taiwan, such as the water-coolers and power cables to sus out where they may be shipping to, https://i.imgur.com/B5iWFQ1.png -- but instead, it would be better to find shipping lables for datacenters that are receiving containers from Taiwain, and the same suppliers as NVIDIA for things such as power cables. While the free data is out of date on ImportYeti - it gives a good supply line idea for NVIDIA... with the goal to find out which datacenters that are getting such shipments, you can begin to measure the footprint of AI as it grows, and which nuke plants they are likely powered from.

Then, looking into whatever reporting one may access for the consumption/util of the nuke's capacity in various regions, we can estimate the power footprint of growing Global Compute.

DataCenterNews and all sorts of datasets are available - and now the ability to create this crawler/tracker is likely full implementable

https://i.imgur.com/gsM75dz.png https://i.imgur.com/a7nGGKh.png

[0] https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

[1] https://www.datacentermap.com/
SpaceX is about to send four people on a risky mission into the radiation belts
I thought the 24 September date was for them to return using that Dragon capsule within days, was it not? They would have to send two less people on Crew 9 mission, then wait the entire mission duration to return? That's so odd.

I'd imagine they would just change the mission to send an empty Dragon in March to get them, but use the launched September Dragon to return those Starliner astronauts right away.
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> However, it's crucial that we have multiple reliable launch and crew providers to ensure the safety and sustainability of space missions.

The keyword here is reliable and I would add the word competitive. Having an expensive, late, unreliable provider may in fact be a net negative. I think Starliner in it's current form isn't helping the industry. I hope they get their act together, or that we fund a reliable and competitive alternative to SpaceX.
What impact in your opinion?