skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you craft a model-weight as a preamble to a prompt? So you can submit prompts through a layer which will pre-warm the model weights for you based on the prompt - Taking the output into some next step in your workflow, apply a new weight preamble depending on what the next phase is?

Like, for a particular portion of the workflow - assume some crawler of weird Insurance Claims data of scale - and you want particular weights for the aspects of certain logic that youre running to search for fraud.
Variants do not have to be the same architecture- the demo (https://hotswap.outerport.com/) runs on a couple of different open source architectures.

That being said, there is some smart caching / hashing on layers such that if you do have models that are similar (i.e. a fine-tuned model where only some layers are fine-tuned), it'll minimize storage and transfer by reusing those weights.
> Wouldn't Earth's gravity take away when departing just as much as given when arriving?

Only in the Earth’s center-of-mass frame. In the solar system rest frame, the probe leaves with a different speed than it entered with.

> However, the probe's direction could change based on how close it passes Earth.

Both the magnitude and the direction of the velocity vector change.
I'd agree with that, my sense is there would be a lot of benefit from adding GUIs that bridge the gap and show what they're doing. So instead of firing up a text editor to reach into the depths of /etc or googling the huge breadth of guides that essentially have "copy this into the terminal and pipe into grep" to get information sometimes without providing context. Another aspect to this is setting up guardrails on what is being done, and feedback on limits, which could increase confidence in using the system instead of treating it as something that will shatter at the slightest wrong touch or an appliance.
> Back in 2000, AMD included cmov in its 64-bit x86 ISA extensions. Then, Intel had to adopt them when Itanium flopped.

Wasn't "cmov" one of the things added for the pentium pro? So it wasn't instruction compatible - hence the "i686" prefix to a lot of compiler triples?
> high interest rates (and the associated inflation) directly lower the quality of life by eroding their purchasing power.

This confuses me. Rates were raised to reduce inflation. How should inflation have been reduced, if not (at least in part) by raising rates?
I wonder just how much of this has been driven by third-party vendors dropping Windows 7 users. I know it's not zero, because I helped a die-hard Windows 7 user switch to Linux specifically due to the Steam deadline. It's easy to chalk that kind of stubbornness up to a generic "fear of change", but in his case I think he very specifically loathed the direction Microsoft took with 8/10/11.
> I reread the paragraph around it several times and still have no clue WTF they are trying to say.

some advice: next time you don't understand some article, consider the possibility that it is not a case of:

> Yeah, that was some poor quality for IEEE. I'm pretty sure they confused "electromagnets" and "electromagnetism."

but that the problem might be your lack of understanding that you already detected. it's a press article, it can't teach you an undergraduate course in physics condensed to a few paragraphs of text...
Once it goes beyond alerting, this is going to kill someone.

A driver will be on a 2-lane road (1 lane each way), and attempt to pass the driver in front of them. A car will be coming the other way, and they won't be able to get in front in time.

They'll try to slow and get back in, but the other cars will have filled the space. They'll have nowhere to go.

Perhaps in this example the driver shouldn't have tried to pass in the first place, but removing an "out" from this situation, in which everyone gets to go home to their families, is a horrible idea.
When I see some bug like this I do wonder why don't more people fix the issue themselves or think that it might be specific to their setup or accept a little random lag.

If I received a bug like that I would immediately think why are you telling me this... just fix it yourself and share your fix if you want. I probably have higher expectations from my users. You give the software away now they want you to fix it for them.
Agreed, provided you have both sides of the inequality. Coming up with that particular convex combination is a bit of a leap that’s not super intuitive to me.
Is this any faster than Processing? I like playing with it for random art projects but always end up in optimization hell trying to speed things up.
Or you know you can find a middle ground and learn to eat better while also losing weight and not having to fight the cravings every second of every day. It has been like a reset for some of the people I’ve know and the doctors weaned them off it after the weight loss. Mind you that’s only 2 people but I can’t think of anything that would make them “different” all that much from the general populous. They picked up better eating habits along the way as well.
Is anyone floating solar panels in the ocean? That sounds tough, but obviously worth exploring.
I don’t know what the PS OS uses under the hood.
It’s certainly possible, however improbable
This is such a beautifully written story with it's own kind of elegance. Love it!
> A patient discharged in the middle of the night is not going to be literally kicked to the curb in the middle of the night.

Oh, yes they are. They would have had on-site police drag me out if I didn’t walk out myself.
Anyone remember that Buy.com commercial?
I remember when I was in high school, over 20 years ago, there was a Buy.com commercial on TV that was simply "buy.com" in white text on a black for like 10 seconds. No voiceover. No images.

That was the only commercial in my memory to inspire me to actually check out the product, which I did and began using to purchase electronics instead of eBay, which had been my go-to at that time.

I still think of that commercial once-in-a-while, but my main question regarding it is: How could this commercial have been OK-ed?

Wouldn't a marketing team shoot down such an idea in order to produce something so as to justify their jobs?

My best guess is that the commercial came from the CEO himself. Something like: "Purchase an add on TV for buy.com. Just put the web address on the screen. No need to spend time or money on ad design or focus groups. Just run it."

Anyone have any insight or behind-the-scenes on this?
Neuroscience needs a career path for software engineers
I wonder how much this correlates with socioeconomic status.

When my kids were born, the hospital had this incredibly elaborate, incredibly detailed checklists of things that needed to be in order before they would let you leave. Did you have a carseat? Did you have a ride home? Did the doctor come by and give you discharge instructions? Do you have all the belongings you came with? Did you fill out the birth certificate application? Have all your discharge papers been signed?

They actually wouldn't let my wife walk herself down - they had to call Transport, and she had to be wheeled down in a wheelchair with the baby's carseat on her lap, and I had to be waiting at the designated curbside to pick her up. She was perfectly capable of walking herself down, and we were both capable of putting the carseat into the car in a normal parking spot, but everything had to be done in the presence of an orderly.

This is the same health care company mentioned in the article, but at a pretty affluent suburb of Silicon Valley.
Worst I know of, is that they were among the early movers on loot boxes. That said, my understanding is that their were not the same as the ones people grew to hate? I don't actually know the details that heavily.
I guess I'm cherry-picking but I'm always impressed that 200 years ago you had founding fathers living 80+ which is higher than today's average male American lifespan (76).

John Adams: 90

Samuel Adams: 81

Benjamin Franklin: 84
People have got Processing working Jython (I played with it myself a very long time ago).

Jython itself is making it's way to a python 3.x implementation but it doesn't seem to be quite there for general consumption, though maybe for some creative coding things this isn't a problem, for myself I'd need to wait until it's ready.

If you are able, I'd recommend contributing to the Jython 3 work.
I hope this isn't too far off track ...

In 2011 HP paid $12B for his company and then claimed it wasn't worth that much, their write-down suggested they thought it was actually worth $4B.

Wikipedia says Autonomy's tech was "[a] variety of enterprise search and knowledge management applications using adaptive pattern recognition techniques centered on Bayesian inference in conjunction with traditional methods"

It sounds pretty niche for a company that isn't already big in search. Has anyone read what HP thought it could do with the tech to get a return ? I feel like there must have been some need that HP had which I'm unware of.

I do appreciate that the reasons large corps do acquisitions, and how, are not always susceptible to reason but Oracle's market cap at the start of 2011 was $160B. What could have made Autonomy worth 7.5% of Oracle to HP ?
if you work with a lot of convex optimization, it comes up pretty often. for example, if you learn fenchel conjugates, the lead up and motivation to learning them will often necessitate proving young's inequality with jensen's inequality. that is why learning different maths is cool. you intuit some ways to reshape the problem in order to make these "not super intuitive" connections.
Tell HN: Coca-Cola staging servers are showing up in search results
See for example, https://www.google.com/search?q=cherry+coke

gives you a top result of https://staging.us.coca-cola.com/products/coca-cola-energy/cherry

which prompts with like an htaccess password
Or just give yourself permission to not reply to people. Make a big visible unsubscribe button and relax knowing that anyone can just quit if they don't like it.
Thanks for the proof, it was fun to follow, and I agree that it's quite intuitive.

I think that it would be helpful to mention why sqrt(y) must be an integer.

(I know that it is, but it also feels a bit glossed over, given that all the other steps of the proof were explained so thoroughly.)
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that an who the fuck uses interface literals? I do Go personally and professionally for years and never seen it.
(Can't reply to "canadianfella", so...)

"Cf" is an abbreviation of the Latin for "compare": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cf.
> many of those journalists and thought leaders who’ve remained—even though doing so, and contributing value to Musk’s ventures and furthering his interests, is clearly an immoral act

That's a good way of putting it. I deleted my account there because I realized I didn't want to add my valuable content and Intellectual Property to Elon's wealth.
Drove a rented Kia in Central Australia recently that had this. It was fine: just stick below the speed limit. "Dangerous" to someone who continuously rides the speed limit perhaps.
> WebAPKs, which can be considered upgraded PWAs, appear like regular native apps and their installation does not trigger any warnings on Android devices, even if the user has not allowed installation from third-party sources.

This seems to be a mischaracterization/misunderstanding of what WebAPKs are. As far as I understand, they're merely an implementation detail of how Chrome on Android makes PWAs feel "more native": https://web.dev/articles/webapks#frequently_asked_questions

In other words, any installed PWA gets a corresponding WebAPK, and there's no actual vetting by the Play Store involved.

I don't really understand the point of that, and there seem to be significant security downsides (via user confusion, as demonstrated here), but I don't know the details, and there's probably a technical reason why Google did it this way.
To compare different dielectric liquids you would want to see the dielectric spectroscopy plots:

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

And the different types of viscosity vs temperature plots.
An overly sensitive speed alert system that triggers warnings for even 1 km/h over the limit is a misguided approach to road safety. It fails to account for minor fluctuations in speed that naturally occur during normal driving, potentially causing more distraction and stress than it prevents. This system could lead to drivers constantly focusing on their speedometer rather than the road, ironically decreasing overall safety. Additionally, it ignores the context-dependent nature of safe driving speeds and the small margins of error in both vehicle speedometers and speed limit postings. Ultimately, such a system risks creating overly anxious drivers and diminishing respect for speed limits, rather than promoting genuinely safer driving practices.

This will either be ignored after the first week, or more likely, removed via the aftermarket.
The cap applies to actual damages, specifically non-economic actual damages such as pain and suffering, mental anguish, and loss of companionship. It does not apply to economic actual damages such as lost wages and medical costs.

Before tort reform punitive damages were already capped in Texas at a value twice the amount of economic damages plus the amount of non-economic damages, so tort reform does also have a effect of sometimes reducing punitive damages.
I think everyone has access to full shop manuals in soft copy these days. I imagine it's a lot like writing code. You remember how to write a for loop (oil change? a brakes?) but have to look up API docs for more esoteric functions (a clutch job?).

FWIW here are Nissan factory manuals in all their glory: https://www.nicoclub.com/nissan-service-manuals
I've been using UWF on Windows. It essentially resets all changes on reboot so that every reboot is back to a clean state.

But I'll take a look at Fedora Atomic. What you describe sounds promising.
Yes. So nobody sees how Russians are looting their neighbours house.
I think the only way to make a google account without a phone number these days is to factory reset an android phone and take the sim out beforehand.

If that even still works...
30 plus years ago, it was a common trope in programming circles that C code is unreadable, except to, or perhaps even to the author.
Wouldn't it be substantially cheaper to basically just grind a channel into the pavement and then have people charging put a rubber mat on top of it? I feel like I could do this in a couple of hours with the tools in my garage.

You don't need the rubber bumps to be literally zero height, a few mm is fine, you just don't want it to be a big effort to get over with a pram/wheelchair.

Looking at it holistically though, it's probably the wrong place to optimize anyway because in practice most streets picked at random will have more obstacles in the way of wonky tiling due to subsidence or weathering of a pavement that's 50, 100, etc years old.
Does anyone really believe that Tim Ferris only works 4 hours a week?
Twitter's image generator is the pro version of Flux.
That’s reasonable. I’ve been taught unique prime factorization is a thing since primary school but never considered the history behind that knowledge. I feel anyone with that basis could reasonably stop at the third line here. In fact they could quickly create a generalization since a^2 could clearly never equal b(c^2) unless b was also a square for integer a and c but that obviousness is based on a lot of other knowledge.
From the 80s up until about 2010 every new computer I purchased has about 3x the performance of the one before it.

Now people are excited about +10% squeezed out through heroic efforts and more watts than my space heater.
Yep, that's exactly what I did - using the ORM schema definition rather than the schema directly, but same difference
This scenario is terribly specified. If you don't have clear time to pass a car in front of you without going an absurd amount over the posted speed limit, you almost certainly are putting yourself in danger already? I'll go further and say that people that take excess speeds in this scenario are already causing more accidents today, than a limiter would cause in the future.

Edit: I should say I think it would be a bad idea to have the car force you to go slower than 1km over a limit. Having it visually alert that you are speeding, though, seems far more reasonable.
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Option 4 is sometimes compiler annotations like __builtin_expect_with_probability which you could use to assign a branch a value of 50% which should coerce it to pick cmov (same risk as 3 though in that you need to inspect compiler output).
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Natural join is not jargon that I had heard before but unfortunately it does not refer to what I am talking about - I'm talking about something where the computer automatically figures out how to join across more than two tables.
"But I'm not on a website, I'm in my banks app! I know because I got there by clicking on my bank's icon on my home screen!"
Can they use Starlink terminals for this?

As in, connect terminal to some household fiber modem, then get whitelisted by DOD & SpaceX?

I wouldn't be surprised SpaceX already secretly does this tho hence the weird news how they allegedly supplying Starlink to Russian forces.
> Except the boat's keel was found to be raised

Can you explain what that means? Like...I vaguely know what a keel is, but what does it mean for it to be raised? Who raises it, and how, or what could have caused it to be raised? What keel configuration would not have been a red flag?
Every time I see a cybertruck...
For those interested in uv (instead of pip), uv massively sped up the release process for Home Assistant. The time needed to make a release went down from ~2.5 hours to ~20 minutes. See https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/04/03/build-i... for details. I'm just a HA user btw.
But those are both functional, or can easily be.
Hey, thank you so much for Pager! It helped me a lot (in supporting my own free users on Reddit)! I was often wondering how long it will remain free. Well, forever.

<3
You're also going to be aware of this system when you attempt to pass another car. It isn't going to be installed in your car mid pass.
More likely that this is another case of rich people living dangerously. Sleep in a hotel, or on a private yacht. Fly to Europe on an airbus, or by private jet. The former is always safer.
And it still can't draw a spork yet [1]

1: https://canaidrawasporkyet.org/
We use the tool that I wrote on a database with tens of millions of rows. Because the keys are properly indexed, we rarely have performance issues associated with joins. Joins use the index, the Postgres planner is really good, and we can join across heaps of tables with great performance.

We have database performance issues for other reasons (loading of redundant information, too many queries) but not really because of joins.
I would assume that drawing performance is slower because it’s doing FFI from CPython to the JVM, but that you may be able to get speedup if your bottleneck is something that can leverage numpy.
Just to clarify for other readers, Draw Things has support and provides download links to quants but no iOS device can run the full precision model which means you will get slightly different and usually lower quality output than stuff you may see elsewhere, even if you use the same settings. It's still damn impressive though.
We have many studies that show speeding is dangerous. Sounds like this system is very effective at discouraging speeding. Until I see studies showing more people are dying on road because of this system than because of speeding, sounds like it’s working as intended.
One place this would definitely be dangerous is in my city in the US. There's an interstate highway with a posted limit of 55mph, but everyone does 70mph+ (there is no police enforcement, because it's too dangerous---pulling people over here causes more accidents due to rubbernecking and traffic). If you were to actually go the speed limit, you'd be constantly passed (on both sides) by aggressive drivers and cause unnecessary lane switching behind you.
This might sound silly, but technically speaking how does this kind of notification work in relation to HIPAA? Is there some kind of a carve out that allows hospitals to tell your family you've "been discharged against medical advice"? How does next of kin notification work for death?

To put it another way, clearly the outcome in this story was unacceptable, but what was the correct outcome?
Or both, both would be nice.

Until then I guess we all just have to make sure we never need to use the healthcare system we all pay so much for.
Structural subtyping is used in most ML-ish languages, including F# and Haskell.
This isn't just a call to all hackers...this is a call to all entrepreneurs. It really highlights the artificial success of many companies today.
>There are 15 survivors including the Captain, so I doubt foul play.

doesn't that make it even more suspicious? the boat goes down, most of the people on it survive, but the guy who ripped off HP and his banker and his lawyer all died.

if you wanted to believe that the ship was sailed into a storm and the sinking was used as cover for a murder, it seems more plausible this way than if everybody on the ship had died. (to be clear, i don't really believe this is what happened. just trying to figure out why the captain surviving makes it less likely to be foul play)
>they're inhomogeneous mixtures of literally thousands of different pure substances. such a mixture can easily absorb light over a wide spectral range

So why is dirt, poop and mixed up playdoh brown, and not black?
This all seems very situational to me, starting with level of trust/team cohesion/etc. Like, if I’m on a team that’s functioning poorly together, I almost certainly agree with you without any further nuance.

If I’m on a team that’s functioning well, however—taking the example of “why did you solve it this way?”—I might not always know why I’m being asked, but merely being asked is often good enough for me to come up with some hypotheses. If it’s not, there’s a good chance it’s a learning opportunity: maybe something is missing from my toolbelt, or perhaps some unintended consequence escaped my notice. Being prompted to think about those possibilities without bias may help me learn (or reinforce what I’ll learn) by putting me in a position to retrace my steps and look for other gaps in my understanding.

I say all this also acknowledging that I tend to put a lot more effort into review, and communication in a review context, than many of my peers have throughout my career. And sometimes my tendency to over communicate has had the opposite effect from what I intended.

In any case, I am definitely more inclined toward your position in context of other communication challenges!