skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an avid youtube watcher, but there was a specific user-made video to a rare version of a song that I used to keep coming back to. It's not on Youtube any more. That version of the song isn't even on youtube any more.

I'm fairly lazy / procrastinatey when it comes to things like that, but thank f*ck I yt-dlp'd it (and really not too long before it was taken down - and I don't know why and can't track down why or who made the clip).

Maybe I need to do a search to see if other people are looking for it...

And if anyone cares to know: The Mountains of Madness CD1 (I think) version Idalah Abal by John Zorn / Electric Masada, and the film clip was a bunch of still of various, mostly fringe, some quite gross/confronting art pieces. For me, it fits beautifully with the phrenetic music.

I think there's a big, thick, mental health-related line that separates an archivist from a hoarder.

Edit: OK, there are more versions the song on yt, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swpvDV6Qvik, but that custom film-clip ain't.

Edit 2: Wrong on both counts, my search-fu ain't what it used to be. It's still there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9jk6lolne8

There was a good couple of years it didn't float to the surface of any unchanged search query.

Cool story bro, pity it makes your argument eat itself... sigh.
Whoops, copy buffer, yep thx
>Strict dependency order

>In F#, all variables, functions, types and files can only depend on variables, functions, types and files defined earlier. The benefits of this are the fact that a circular dependency is not possible by default and extra clarity with “what depends on what”, which helps during code analysis and PR reviews

Ehm. So it's like C... with no forward declarations?
Many models of many GB each on a phone with only 8GB of DRAM doesn't make sense. Even on Android phones that have more DRAM than that, there's not enough performance for large models to be useful, let alone multiple models consuming tens of GB of storage.
Vehicles are safer than ever, for passengers and pedestrians. If you look it up, cars are actually safer than horses. Never before has automatic braking or alerts been an option.

"Violence" does imply an intent. It's CRAZY to try to associate car accidents with acts of violence, or cars with weapons. It's an attempt to push an agenda by creating a victimhood narrative, because the facts are not supportive of getting rid of cars or drastically changing them. The victim/violence narrative can bypass logical argument in the minds of some people. It's very stupid and dishonest but apparently these people don't care about the truth.
Well, they keep telling us how revolutionary Transformers are to deep learning...
Theft isn’t about the data protection. It’s about the parts scavenging.

The data security part is on the flip side when someone might receive a phone with a counterfeit part that may reduce security (faking authentication etc).

Parts pairing solves for both, but the two aren’t related beyond that.
Even the ones with non-soldered NAND can't be upgraded by anyone besides Apple. The NAND chips are serialized or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEwS_VGD2yY&t=620s
I do this already, In my private WhatsApp/Telegram group and I encourage my friends to do the same.
There were 32 entries in the competition. The actual competition won't be run until May 2025 or so when the chips are back, but there are already videos of a few of the contributions captured from FPGA or simulation:

Drop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJBU0J2ceMM

Warp: https://youtu.be/mLHro21KDLE

Sequential Shadows: https://youtu.be/pkiTu3iLA_U (version that adheres to the rules starts at 3:08)

Demo by a1k0n https://youtu.be/7xPS-0nydms
(My first thought when reading the title is Three Body Problem, but of course you already read it)
Some manga / anime recs:

- Planetes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes) is a hard scifi manga with anime adaptation about daily life of astronauts cleaning up space debris. It feels pretty grounded, you can feel how its like living in Earth orbit and Moon

- Space Brothers / Uchuu Kyodai (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Brothers_(manga)) tells the story of a Japanese worker getting kicked out from his company and then he applied to JAXA, following his younger brother's footstep

Not manga/anime/books, but there's a Korean scifi movie at Netflix called Space Sweepers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Sweepers), similar to Planetes. What I found interesting is that they have people speaking different language, and you can hear their universal translator translating their conversation to their own languages. Different than western scifi where everyone speaks English
True story of what happened in my team. A new guy joins. Immediately 3 months after joining, says his dad is ill and takes a 4 month unpaid leave. But his stocks continue to vest because the company believes in letting people vest their stock even if they are on medical leave. Comes back and is not very productive. Extremely reluctant to turn his video on. Never comes for any in person events we have organized. Rest of the team is pulling weight for him throughout all this. Eventually, management becomes suspicious, investigates and discovers that he is holding two jobs. Instantly fired and company reconsiders all the nice accommodations they have put in place to help employees deal with covid.

I have seen my share of bad managers and bad companies. Believe me - there are bad employees as well who poison the well for others.
Cot Decoding – Eliciting Reasoning from LLMs
A recent talk (https://dennyzhou.github.io/LLM-Reasoning-Berkeley.pdf) from Denny Zhou covered a number of techniques that improve LLM reasoning. In the talk he a recent paper from Google Deepmind on "Chain-of-Thought Reasoning without Prompting" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10200).

The key idea in the paper is that existing models are capable of doing CoT style step-by-step reasoning via a new decoding strategy. I implemented their approach in optillm - https://github.com/codelion/optillm/blob/main/optillm/cot_decoding.py as I couldn't find any decent open-source implementation.

I have also replicated their core idea with the recent open source Qwen 2.5 (0.5B) model. I ran the GSM8K benchmark with cot decoding and found over +9.55 points improvement (from 22.82 to 32.37). Thus, cot decoding is an interesting approach that can elicit reasoning from existing LLMs without explicit prompting.

Remember in optillm you cannot use cot decoding with the proxy as the technique cannot work with just the LLM API, you need to have access to the model. You can test it with any model from HF with this Google colab notebook - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1SpuUb8d9xAoTh32M-9wJsB50AOH54EaH?usp=sharing
But how do i then insert my games?

its half the size of a disc, and there's no disc player on the dock

so digital only? gotta rip all my games!
If you are okay with losing your operating system each time the phone turns off...
Down by 25-50% within the first year after introduction

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iphone-thefts-down-thanks-to-ap...

There’ll always be theft but the incentive has been greatly reduced.
My first thought was the Guam Island Hoper between Guam and Honolulu at 7 airports.

[added] 8 if you add MNL (Manila) on arrival to Guam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Hopper
No, but the LCDs in more recent laptops and devices are doomed to a similar fate, on 40-year or less timescales, and the world has literally forgotten how to make a more durable display. There's like one active manufacturer of CRTs left, and they only cater to military applications like fighter-plane HUDs (and charge an arm and a leg), which means the standard for display technology longevity has gone down.
Mad once caricatured the young Prince Charles with enormous ears. They got an anonymous letter on Buckingham Palace stationary informing them that they were a bunch of poopyheads.
Something that would work well in the Harry Potter universe! Great work.
For watertightness, more accurately.
You don't need to imagine:

>"Kind of passing through this gross stage in between of kind of sludgy stuff filled with fly larvae."
That's a bit harsh. To give one counterexample, the Michelson-morley experiment put the figurative nail in the coffin of centuries of speculation about the "luminiferous aether". The experimental apparatus was a table-sized precision carved slab of sandstone floating in a huge vat of mercury, holding the highest precision optical equipment of the day. I suspect it cost rather more than $100 even in the 1880s.
So much has shifted to "what is being announced *right now?" Who care what was new and notable last month? I get that the cadence is different but it's much more about hot takes than reflection.
You know this is also satire, right?
So, using the same logic, Meta should not be liable for what happens on Facebook because users do not pay…

That's some Barlowesque[1] thinking that would play into the hands of big tech.

If Telegram didn't want to answer to French law, they should've blocked French phone numbers from registering users. Problem solved.

[1] https://disconnect.blog/reclaiming-sovereignty-in-the-digita...
My question exactly.. I hope someone can chime in :)

EDIT: Thinking a bit more... I suppose it's a reasonable assumption that the molecules (mostly) wouldn't stack on top of each other. They all want to get lower and perhaps the resistance to the oil spreading out is much lower proportionately that the gravitational force encouraging the oil to flatten
In my experience matte filaments hide the layer lines much better. Between that and the overall quality of recent printers like the Bambu or the Prusa Mk4, I don’t find the need to do any post processing.
I read this as Samba and was super worried for a moment.
Lots of resources are allocated to car safety, and have been since the first cars were built. Some deaths are inevitable. Cars are safer than ever. This whole issue is a manufactured crisis. As a society we have considered cars necessary and relatively safe for like a hundred years. You are more likely to die from diabetes or some other chronic illness than a car accident.

As for comparing car accidents to 9/11, you ought to know better. I don't even think it's worth my time to shred that argument.
I look at stuff like this, and I just imagine the amazing things console manufacturers could do, miniaturizing and making mobile their past generation game consoles.

There's prior precedent for this FWIW - GameGear was (basically) a mobile 8-bit Sega Master System, and PSP was basically a mobile PSOne. I guess modern game companies don't see revenue potential there, which is too bad. The soft modded PSP's which load PS1 ISO's off a memory card are suuuuper cool.

An Xbox One in a Steam Deck form factor with decent battery life is probably doable. I imagine what's missing is either A. the ability to manufacture it cheaply enough to be profitable or B. The inability to sell new games for it, because everyone would just use their existing library, or C. Both.
I do it at work fairly regularly. I’m going to do this this way. Nope, I’m gonna do it this other ways.
> but I'm dead-set on convincing it that I'm a stupid human

this guy is really dumb BUT he has a very high quality computer THUS he is in the managerial class Final -> Ramp up the Ads!
You may also enjoy https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0601043
Why are algebraic data types called "discriminated unions" here? Is there a subtle difference between the two or is it just that F# calls the same feature differently than OCaml?
It sounds like Automattic was desperate for money and played a desperate hand badly.

The receipts in the C&D don't leave one with a positive impression of Matt.

I'll wait for Matt's response, but I can't imagine it's anything more than "well, we deserve the money I was demanding!"
The iPhone Pro supports high speed external removable storage via the USB-C port. I plug a thumb drive into my iPhone 15 Pro Max all the time.
Same thing happened to the Linux kernel via the same kind of self appointed CoC group. It's absolutely disgusting.
That is uncertain. They must be a product of underlying processes, but the mechanisms are still opaque.

Gamma oscillations only run at about 40 Hz. That is not fast enough to clock neuronal computations or integrations in the 1 to 10 msec range.

Oscillations may have role in binding at larger scales. And when we use the word “synchronize” we generally seem to mean “given wall-clock time”.

Two neural events separated by 20 msec can be functionally coherent but may neither be in a particular phase relation or concurrent from an observer’s wall-clock perspective. Neuronal activity may not care about the observer’s timebase.
I remember visiting a colo in the valley in the early aughts that had both of these: all the biometric-man trap-security drama in the front door, and in the back, garage doors & loading docks wide open to the Santa Clara breeze...
There are degrees of bad. All code bases are bad.

But I've been writing web software for 30 years and WordPress is among the worst mainstream applications. It's worse than its PHP competitors at the time, and it's worse than Ghost and many of the competitors that came after it.

You can't just dismiss all criticism of the past because it was the past. Some people wrote worse software than others in the past, just as they do today.
https://www.amazon.com/Selfie-Hir-Dulo-ebook/dp/B0CVWYYJXJ
M539/TronicsFix/Wristwatch Revival...
Congratulations! I bought a copy. If I like it I might recommend it as further reading for the university java course I teach. :)

PS. All the best with the yacht! xD
You don't end a trademark dispute with a blog post claiming a host utilizing a feature any sane host would utilize is a violation of some core tenant of WordPress.

You end it with lawyers talking to lawyers quietly.
Hard to fault this analysis.
* "The Sword of Kaigen" by M.L. Wang

* "The Green Bone Saga" by Fonda Lee

* "The Weirkey Chronicles" and "Street Cultivation" by Sarah Lin

See also:

* Middle East/Middle Eastern SFF: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/128ozc6/the_2023_r...

* Set in Africa: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/ttrhvf/the_2022_rf...

* Set in Asia: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/mhz3k7/the_2021_rf...
There used to be so much more variation in convenience store chains... you had Sunkus, Everyday, Cocos, Ai shop, Poplar and so on.

I think Daily Yamazaki is still hanging on in some places? Might have been interesting to add to this map since there are zero where I live but on road trips I'm surprised when I pass by somewhere where there are a lot of them
If someone asked me "right now" and they didn't have unusual hardware needs, and they were dipping their toes into it, I would suggest wholesaleinternet.net and get 1 or more cheap servers to practice with. I rent something there for about $25/month, though you can get a better setup for a bit more.

When you have a better handle on what works for you, then go with colo (meaning you don't rent servers, but buy and setup your own servers and Ethernet switches, that go into your rack space).
A) How can a stealth company be "anticipated"? Who wrote this fluff piece?

B) It's amazing how much hype AI companies get when consumers' feelings about AI range from neutral to deep loathing. Only VCs get excited for AI startup launches.
Why would I use this instead of Caesium?
>Japan made me want walkable cities in the US.

Yeah, me too. But I realized in about 2 seconds that getting walkable cities in the US within my lifetime is a pipe dream, so instead I just sold my car, packed my stuff, and moved to Tokyo instead.
It looks great! I am wondering if it is "top heavy"
No it's not the same thing as in C. What they try to explain but quite badly phrase is that F# (or OCaml, on which it is based) is lexically scoped, values of non local variables are captured in definitions (so they must exist at that time, but also and more importantly they cannot be changed later because of the immutability by default).

In C you can have a function using a global variable, and change to this global variable will affect the function behavior.
Not sure if they count but the novelisation of Mobile suit Gundam
https://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Suit-Gundam-Escalation-Confron...

Yukikaze and Good luck Yukikaze by Chōhei Kambayashi it ends on a cliffhanger though since the later books did not get translated.
https://www.amazon.com/Yukikaze-Chohei-Kambayashi/dp/1421532...
> In reality, writing without those assumptions usually makes code better, with fewer edge cases.

Writing code for portability is usually the easy part. Testing your software on multiple architectures is a lot more work though.
Surely the first thing to test would be dropping it in increasingly large soup bowls until there's obvious gaps?
Could you expand on the graph layout constraints? I'm working on something that expresses social system architecture and I want something better than force and yed's tooling was interesting but not opensource.
Fig trees are insane, you can literally put a branch on the ground and it will grow
Variants like block puzzle are great as stress relievers and tend to be a better tetris implementation for a phone screen than having scrolling blocks.
In Japan in the 1980s there were 200 year mortgages. You were not expected to stretch out the repayment over the full 200 years. The idea was that you would usually pay down more than the minimum payment, but if you were short of funds for a while you could pay the minimum until your financial situation improved. It was nearly the equivalent of an interest-only loan.
Meta sells my data to advertisers
Adversarial attacks on AI models are rising: what should you do now?
This is really nice!

It has inspired me to finally try OpenSCAD, and I’ve started to put together a parametric version of this: https://u.ale.sh/braunscadv1.png

Not really ready for primetime yet, just wanted to share :-)

EDIT: a quick question: would you be open to sharing your version under a more permissive license? I’d love to reuse some details if you don’t mind, but I’m not sure if I can do that with the current terms.
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1994/jun/23/straight-bil...

>As for what happens to all the rinds from that mountain of oranges Tropicana processes, the nutrition in them (and apparently there is a lot) eventually comes back to us in the form of hamburgers. Tropicana and other processors dry the rinds, chop them up, and sell them for cattle feed.
Why don't you instead argue for summary execution? Seems like the natural conclusion to your points:

* we gain nothing from locking them up, and it costs us a lot to do this

* redeeming them might not work and if it does it costs us a lot

* we don't want them around

You could try to argue for shipping them to some island, shipping them to another country etc but there's some obvious shortcomings to this such as slave rebellion, other countries punishing through sanctions if you ship your criminals to them etc, so am I missing something or is the natural solution to your position, swift and summary execution?
I think in the same way that the sigmoid is to the step function. Fuzzy logic too.
I'm surprised that the oranges didnt make the soil too acidic, but I guess organic matter + water == lushness works 100% of the time
Gumroad is a free option. I run a programming newsletter with about 1000 subscribers.
If that's true, then the ChatGPT answer isn't wrong, at least for the specific case of olive oil.

I love how a few self-appointed guardians of hackerhood are able to declare certain resources as haram, even when they propose a plausible answer to a question that went unanswered more than once in the thread. Instead of embarking on a discussion that leaves us all a bit better informed, the literal messenger is attacked. Does that gratify intellectual curiosity? Really?
Did you think that comment was suggesting replacing NAND with DRAM? I'm pretty sure it's just asking if there are varying speed grades of NAND the way there are varying speed grades of DRAM.
> The Android tooling is basically a textbook definition of oversized enterprisey software. I really wish there was just a frigging (resource) compiler, linker and maybe packer that I could invoke from the command line in simple steps.

Yeah, I feel the same.
There are CLI approaches that I have encapsulated into Makefile ( https://ashishb.net/all/use-makefile-for-android) and GitHub Actions (https://github.com/ashishb/gabo/blob/master/src/gabo/interna...) but they do require time to set up.
it uses a known (to apple) iphone camera as a colorimeter
Indeed. I was listing the specific items the article (titled 'Why is F# code so robust and reliable? ') lists. Functional programming languages only came up to reject someone suggesting Rust as a language that can be included as robust/reliable in the context of the article's reasons for F# being robust/reliable
Fortunately your opinion of Garnet means absolutely nothing to anyone else.
>Incredibly difficult to estimate this, in large part because the probabilities are so small.

The UN chief has been stating that the risk of nuclear warfare is at the highest point in decades. Not because of the risk of a 'fuckup', but due to geopolitical tensions. Historically the risk has been highest during periods of geopolitical tension.
The AI-generated marketing text is pretty obnoxious.
I did my PhD on a purported successor to this - rather than using magnetic bubbles the idea was to use things called Skyrmions which emerge naturally in some materials as either information carriers or to store data in place. In practice it’s never really been taken up by industry for a few different reasons (density, can’t move the skyrmions in a straight line with a current, difficult to read whether one exists or not in a specific place).
Who Owns Who?
I’ve started to put something together in OpenSCAD: https://u.ale.sh/braunscadv1.png

I’ll share the source once it’s a bit less painful to look at (right now everything is a bunch of copy-pasted spaghetti code :')
It's quite possible to host a "normal" WP installation with custom themes and plugins on WordPress.com (on the more expensive plan), I've done it a few times. But as much as I want to like it, I can't wholeheartedly recommend it. Some stuff that should be easy is just ridiculously difficult, like pulling logs programmatically. I think the main audience it caters to is people hosting a basic site with off the shelf themes.
Discriminated unions are one type of algebraic data types (sum and product types being the most common). The section discussing them is specifically calling out a feature related to discriminated unions (sum types) in F#, and is not about algebraic data types broadly.
FC remains a lossless protocol; bugs in multipathd just mean we live in an imperfect world. Your initial sentence, "FC is not entirely lossless," conflates a specific networking term of art with a pedantic application of the denotative definition of the word. If your point was that immature network technologies do not have as many diagnostic tools as mature ones do, you should have made that point instead of misappropriating jargon.

Anyway, to your specific point, IP at all is basically overkill in a cluster architecture. Very few IP stacks function properly without having to get things like ARP involved; the more of this stack you can get rid of, the better performance you get and there's less to maintain. TTPoE reminds me the most of ATA over Ethernet, a previous effort to shed the complexity of a protocol designed for global networking. It worked great until you hit scaling issues, which competing tech leveraged the aforementioned complexity to address.