skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's invent a new term, then!

I propose:

- digimagination

- stochafubalation

- statillucination

- matmulshitting

Let's ask chatgpt free (coz I'm cheap) what it not-thinks about these, and ask for more statistically generated bullshit:

-- 8< --

These are some creative and fun suggestions! Here's my take:

Digimagination: This one has a sleek, almost sci-fi ring to it. It captures the digital, machine-driven nature of language model "hallucination," but presents it in a positive, imaginative light. This could highlight the creative aspect of AI responses, even when they aren't grounded in fact.

Stochafubalation: Combining "stochastic" (random probability) with "confabulation" is clever. It emphasizes the statistical nature of language models making up facts, though it could be a bit of a mouthful.

Statillucination: I like how this merges "statistical" and "hallucination." It feels technical and would fit right into the AI research community's vocabulary.

Matmulshitting: This one is tongue-in-cheek and hilarious! It references matrix multiplication (which drives many neural network operations) with a humorous, blunt twist. Probably not for formal use, but great for informal contexts!

Here are a few more neologisms I can propose:

Probafabrication: A combination of "probability" and "fabrication," highlighting the statistical underpinnings of how LLMs generate falsehoods.

Algoillusion: A fusion of "algorithm" and "illusion," suggesting the misleading or illusionary nature of generated information.

Synthifalse: A contraction of "synthetic" and "false," pointing to AI-generated responses that are not grounded in reality.

Pseudoformulation: Emphasizing that the response is a pseudo (false) formulation rather than a real answer.

Modelucination: A blend of "model" and "hallucination," capturing the fact that the machine learning model is generating false or misleading data.
Dam failures absolutely destroy vast areas and can contaminate them with oil and gasoline by flooding settlements. In fact hydroelectric power has killed a surprising amount of people.
Wow. And I thought modern NetBSD on a 15 MHz m68030 with a 16 bit memory bus and 10 megabytes of RAM is slow. This is crazy!

It illustrates a point I've explained to many people over the years: once computers started coming with persistent storage, open address spaces and MMUs towards the late '80s and early '90s, we basically arrived at modern computing. An Amiga 3000 or i80486 computer can run the same things as a modern computer. Sure, we have ways to run things orders of magnitude faster, and sure, we now have things that didn't exist then (like GPUs that can run code), but there's no functional difference between those machines and new ones.

I love that Dmitry shows how loosely "functional" can be defined :)
RacketCon – October 5-6 – Including Hal Abelson, Gerald Sussman, Gregor Kiczales
If you’re in America and want to help your native butterflies (and moths), the National Wildlife Federation has a tool for finding local plants and their respective pollinators.

https://nativeplantfinder.nwf.org/
Strong disagree:
https://mypapers.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/the_phenome...

See also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S157106452...
o1's training regime is described by the "strange particle" model in this formulation
That’s most places humans live isn’t it?
Worse, during my PhD my personal computer was hacked and my BitBucket account was emptied.

A few other incidents and I had to jump ship to industry. Kind of embarrassing that the university couldn’t even protect an employees from what amounts to corporate espionage and bullying.
It's as persistent as a laptop I'd say. GCP at least will live-migrate the data for maintenance events.

Distributed consistent storage on top of local SSDs is 3x to 5x as expensive depending on your redundancy requirements in-region, another 2x that with regional replication. Fast IO is available cheaply in the cloud if you handle your own clustering.
This tops my list for one of the new releases I'm most excited about this year. Can't wait to build something with LVN
Climate change is sending ticks into new areas. Georgia researchers are on it
Can they do a study regarding cyclists shaving their legs for a "competitive advantage"? Its hilarious I still have educated friends who think shaving their legs adds a perceptible amount of "advantage" while they're racing.
Waiting for the rebuttal from @xkcd...
Not OP, but think about stuff like FFTs or Matmuls. It's not even a competition, GPUs win when the algorithm is somewhat suitable and you're dealing with FP32 or lower precision.
Hey! I'm the author of this article and just noticed the huge traffic spike.

This was my first time writing a shader. I was just playing around on shadertoy when I realized I could implement this chemical model that has fascinated me for quite some time. I'm really happy with how well my results align with results from other people who have done this before me.

While writing the article, I noticed that the same kind of shader implementation has already been done before.

Feel free to ask me anything about the implementation or the chemical model
Not just legal accountability, but actual safety. They are designed so that they do not give the user a false impression of the extent of their capabilities.
YouTube hasn't used Vitess for a few years - they've moved into Spanner almost entirely.

Otherwise I agree with you.
From readme:

> Traditional weather stations often display sensor readings as raw numerical data. Navigating these dashboards can be overwhelming and stressful, as it requires significant effort to locate, interpret, and visualize specific parameters effectively.

Simply fascinating. The reverse holds true for me. Numbers provide easily identifiable and recognizable references, while sample images look incomprehensible to me. Without accompanying descriptions, I'd never guess what the author is getting at (except in the broadest of strokes). To each their own, of course.
only if they can login as the owner of the key. Most of my team can get on our vps, only a couple could get our age key.
Decisions Nobody Made, Policy Edition, with Dave Guarino
I don’t know if this was a thing in America, but in USSR in the 70s and 80s it was very popular to play chess-by-correspondence. You would literally snail-mail letters back-and-forth with your move. Games would last months or years. It added an extra challenge to chess because by the time you got a response, you might have forgotten what strategy you had had.

This project is basically Linux-by-correspondence. The challenge is here too. By the time the command produces an output, you might have forgotten why you ran it.
Having your Framework generate the Docs is nice, but doesn't always fit.

At work, I build backends for mobile applications. When designing new APIs to be consumed by apps, we want input from the mobile developers. We facilitate this by having an api-specs repo with TSP and using Pull Requests to discuss, track and finally commit on new APIs.

It also allows mobile developers to open PRs with changes they want. The contracts are basically an interface that both sides can discuss and agree on.
Correct link for the boilerplate: https://github.com/sotoyjuan/figma-plugin-boilerplate
California city approves development project near Earth's oldest living oak tree
Or the problem is what's relevant, such as Spotify's 'what the user likes and is in our bargain bin for plays'. If the photo algo wants you to get multiple prints which mostly happen when you are sending them to others it's going to push group photos and baby pictures not that epic moonrise.
My systems are sparse, but might not fit on the GPU when factorized. Actually, usually I do CPU stuff with lots of ram, and Pardiso, so it isn’t an issue.

But I was hoping to try out something like ILU+bicgstab on the GPU and the python-verse seems like it has the lowest barrier-to-entry for just playing around.
Tangent: lately a bunch of musicians have sold their music catalog, wholesale, for a one-time sum. (Type "music catalog sold" into google, and look at the autocomplete for a reminder)

I wonder if we are going to see a brand new Queen album in the next 2-3 years, made by a model trained on Queen...
Looks like it's a cured silicon, and you can do whatever the heck you want with it.

https://www.smooth-on.com/products/dragon-skin-10-slow/

So I don't think you could 3d print it, but you could 3d print a mold.
I was looking for a product recently. I wanted to buy from a UK business.

I found countless Web stores pretending to be UK businesses complete with founder stories and convincing copy... All turning out to be Chinese fronts.

They know the tide is against them and see starting to employ some shady tactics to get sales.

At the same time the big money in China is buying westernised historic brands to trade through.

I'm not anti-China for goods and services, but I am against the deceptive practices I've been seeing.
China tightens the screws on online unfair competition
Flight diverted after passenger finds mouse in meal
I got a very similar thing: a legit email from PayPal, but it's an invoice and not a quote. And when you login to PayPal the website shows nothing.
Georgia election board orders hand count of votes in US presidential contest
Fussy eating in children largely down to genetics, research shows
no mention of the pitiful bounty reward (2000 usd). only sorry and thanks. Please award this person a proper bounty.
>Researchers investigated eating habits in toddlers to teenagers and found that on average fussiness over food changed little from 16 months to 13 years old. There was a minor peak in pickiness at seven years, then a slight decline thereafter.

>When they looked into the drivers of fussy eating, DNA emerged as the dominant factor. Genetic variation in the population explained 60% of the differences in pickiness at 16 months, rising to 74% and more from three to 13 years old, the study found.
ThePrimeTime Interview: DHH Is Right About Everything
I lived a couple of houses down from her Cambridge home. Was a big fan of hers growing up so it was a nice treat to shop at Savenor’s as an adult.
That's an extremely charitable definition of ghosting. I've applied for jobs with a certain large cable and Internet company, gotten the email they received my resume, and then nothing until apparently they clean out their application collection, at which point I got several "regret that we hired someone else" emails all at once.

From a human person, this would be pathological behavior, but apparently from a corporate person, it's to be expected and forgiven.
Opportunity makes a thief. Most people does not have the opportunity even if they have skill.
I took a series of four classes with a very rigorous instructor who would issue a massive syllabus with a load of tasks that was like a scavenger hunt.

At some point down the road, he explicitly reminded us that every task was showing an associated point value, and rather than going down in listed order or spending hours on 1-pointers, we should prioritize the best scores according to our skills and competence.

With the entire list before us, we could work at a steady pace without sweating over busywork. And he encouraged us to watch videos and explore the interesting parts.
https://archive.is/ivmjN
Firstly, the linked battery doesn't have a smart inverter, so still not a UPS.

An online UPS will also have a AC-DC converter (rectifier) in addition to the DC-AC converter (inverter). It usually also has fans to cool those since they are running continuously, even when AC power is available.

An offline UPS is basically an online UPS with a relay, so that if the AC power is working, all of the UPS circuitry is bypassed. This reduces the usage of the DC electronics and increases the efficiency when power-loss is rare (since the AC->DC->AC path will always dissipate some power).

A line-interactive transformer is like an offline UPS, but with voltage conditioning (e.g. via an autotransformer) to handle voltages that are a bit low or a bit high.

Consumer UPSs are (almost all?) either offline or line-interactive.
I already successfully used EU digital signatures through lex [1], but neither openpassport [2] not withpersona / linkedin [3] supports EU's new (2019+) identity cards, only passports.
[1] https://lex.community/
[2] https://github.com/zk-passport/openpassport/issues/126
[3] https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1631613
Real-Time CDC Pipelines from Snowflake to Kafka
I don't think that's true. I opened https://github.com/dokku/dokku/issues/5008 a while back and Jose didn't seem to disagree.

Addressing your argument directly though: you know that if you spin up a Postgres database for your app, you need to dump the database to disk to back it up (or if you wanna get fancy, you can do a delta from the last backup + a full backup periodically). Anytime a Postgres database exists, you know the steps you need to take to backup that service.

Same with persistent file storage on disk: if you have a directory of files, you need a snapshot of all of those files.

Each _service_ can know how to back itself up. If you tell a Dokku _app_ to back itself up, what you really mean is that each _service_ attached to that app should do whatever it needs to do to create a backup. Then, dokku only needs to collate all of the various backup outputs, include a copy of the git repository that drives the app, tar/zstd it, and write it to disk.

As you pointed out, the user should probably be able to control the backup cadence, where those backups are shipped off to, the retention period, whether or not they are encrypted, etc, but the actual mechanics of performing a backup aren't exactly rocket science. All of the user configurable values can have reasonable defaults too -- they can/should Just Work (tm). There's value in having that work OOTB even if the backups are just being written to disk on the actual Dokku machine somewhere.
> Learned visuotactile policies for precise tasks like inserting USBs and credit card swiping...

> opening the door to the kind of large foundation...

Sounds like this enables robots to literally open a door, using a door handle or door knob. Exciting!
"in case" is good excuse if the account is optional. Which is not case here.
(1) Ukraine is using its mines defensively. Israel's use in this instance is intrinsically offensive.

(2) The scale is entirely different - but completely orthogonal to that: Do you see a difference between (per what Ukraine is doing) leaving devices around in areas which are mostly depopulated by now anyway, where people generally know that mines are likely to be there, and which will most likely be clearly enough marked on maps after all of this is over; and in a society where there is basically a solid social consensus that this war needs to be fought, and laying mines out on the frontlines is one of the many heavy costs that they will need to bear in order to bring the war to its necessary end --

And (per what the Mossad is doing) consciously triggering these devices, knowing full well (as they must have) that a 1:2 civilian-military ratio of fatalities and maimings (the current boxscore on this per WP) was not just possible, but entirely to be expected? In a population that definitely did not chose to be at war (or even to support a necessary defensive war like Ukraine is doing), and where the targetted/responsible party is but one faction among many?

I do.
It's an interesting idea, but some of the image semantics seem weirdly wrong. In particular, the sky shouldn't be light at night, and the sun shouldn't be high at sunrise.

If you have to learn counterintuitive things like "the appearance of the sun anywhere in the sky indicates sunrise", and "nighttime is indicated by, well, idk what exactly, but it's not darkness", it kind of fails at it's main purpose, I think.

EDIT: I'll add that many weather apps have a left-to-right timeline of some sort, and indicate sunrise and sunset with intuitive iconography.

EDIT2: The Windy.com timeline view shows sky condition, day/night, moon phase, temperature, precipitation, and wind speed and direction in a nice compact left-to-right timeline. (click the summary in the upper left)
might FT have picked this country set to confirm the title?

according to https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/topic/neets :

> The NEETs rate for young women aged 15–29 in the EU stood at 15.5% in 2020 and remains higher at 12.5% in 2023 than the rate of 10.1% for young men. The share is higher for young women in almost all Member States.

and globally, https://www.ilo.org/resource/news/number-youth-not-employmen... :

> ...the global youth NEET rate of young women doubled that of young men (at 28.1 per cent and 13.1 per cent, respectively) in 2023.
> "This is something that happens extremely rarely," Mr Schmidt said.

Well, the front fell off in this case by all means, but it’s very unusual.
Overbooking is still an industry standard approach to profit maximization. The opportunity cost of being overbooked (rebooking/refunding) is way lower than having a few seats empty because of the average cancellations.

tl;dr - airlines are happy to sell you a seat that's taken, betting some % of other people cancel.
Yes.

Most particularly given the responses made to similar methods used currently against the party which had executed KDH, as it turns out that there is in fact precedent. The personnel in the KDH event are significant both historically and politically, one later serving as head of state. And I find most people are entirely unaware of the incident, as I was until the past decade or so. (That's "recent" for me.)

I don't recall the specific inspiration for my search in which I'd learned of the event, but I think it was simply looking for what the first modern use of terrorist-type explosive attacks was. There are of course many earlier instances, and the notion of the bomb-throwing anarchist is reduced to cliche. But in terms of a significant planned attack intended to inflict mass casualties against an asymmetric foe, the KDH instance is an exemplar.

As I've said in several recent comments on pager/radio threads, I'm not a partisan to either side, I both condemn actions taken by both, and have a deep sympathy for uninvolved civilians (which is not, of course, all civilians). What I do believe is that a deep understanding is best served by a realistic view, understanding that most hats are at best grey, and that there's more history than many people are aware of. I'm trying to help spread that awareness.
Ah, just like the Homan Square detention center! I'm glad that the Chicago PD is getting things done efficiently.
> This helps me figure out which direction I can drive to get the best sunshine or whatever else.

I published a road trip weather app that crunches forecasts for you if you're going for a drive and would like to avoid the worst of the weather. It's great for evaluating whether to start a trip during the evening or the next morning. Timestamps are built using Google directions so you have about as accurate a forecast as you can in 2024.

> I am almost never interested in "30% chance of shower at 08:00pm" type of forecast.

I understand this sentiment but that is sorta where medium term forecasting is right now.

Android or iOS
https://weatherthetrip.com/download
Your comment assumes both that current LLMs can scale to replace Google which seems unlikely from. both a business and compute perspective.

And if they do, you'll get maybe a decade out of them before they succumb to the same problems as Google have.
And Stardock's Start11 adds EveryThing's search to your start menu.
Good suggestion. I like it a lot, but the Regular weight is still too bold for my taste. I'm using JetBrains Mono ExtraLight right now, so I just wish Hack had a couple lighter-weight options to try out.
And what, you’re going to find them a new CTO? What kind of magical world do you live in where problems are solved by leaders resigning, instead of stepping up and taking accountability?
I was only commenting on the publication date. HN tends to give weight to that.

I'm not making any other implication.
Lets just call it JPEG 40 to avoid any confusion.
Colmap is also very slow for large scenes. Replacing Colmap with something faster would be a huge improvement for 3DGS pipelines. But Spann3r isn't there yet imo
It's kind of unfortunate that EagerPy didn't get more traction to make that kind of switching even easier.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/09/...
Google Faces EU Ultimatum in Fresh Attack on Search Dominance
These complaints are already happening (I think of it as petty environmentalism). I'm going to put the health of ten billion future/current humans and the entire ocean ahead ahead of a marginal amount of nature removed by solar panels.
Relevant paper.

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00901-2
I remember a Lyon -> Bangkok on A380 on April 2nd 2010, we were 50 in the plane (capacity 530). Less than 10% full. With 20 stewards.
I think if I was 20 and independently wealthy, I would have worked on side projects for 6-18 months until I found something / someone to get sucked into.

But I will agree, it really depends on the person. When you're young and have a lot of energy, drinking 2-3 beers throughout the day might seem like a good idea. I never did; but the fact that many people are blissfully unaware of how 2-3 beers throughout the day impacts them still shocks me.
None of what the website says is actually contentious outside of Labour/left wing circles. Economic growth isn't that complicated when coming from behind - but as they say, it's hard if there isn't enough energy or housing.

> I think that many would argue that the growth following the second world war was the result of massive state investment

I don't think anyone with a strong grip on economics or British history would argue that. The fact is that post-war rationing continued longer in the UK than it did in Germany, the country that actually lost the war, and Germany recovered far faster in other ways too. Decades of very left wing governments left the UK in a terrible state by the 1970s relative to its peers - it was called the sick man of Europe and needed an IMF bailout - a situation fixed only by Thatcher. This history is well known not only in the UK but internationally. The website provides supporting evidence if you aren't familiar with this.

> our water companies that have been private since the 80s and have done nothing but pay dividends to shareholders

That this sort of absurdly false belief gets repeated unchallenged so often in Britain is exactly why it's falling behind. Thames Tideway, one of the largest engineering projects in Europe and the biggest upgrade to London's sewage system ever, is organized and financed by the private sector (pension funds, Allianz, Amber IG, Dalmore Capital and DIF).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tideway_Tunnel#Funding_...

It's literally being built right now and yet you claim the private sector hasn't invested. The reality is the opposite. As the website points out, British governments have historically struggled to do capital investments because the moment money becomes available the unions always take it all. Only the private sector has sufficiently good labour relations to actually build things and the water industry is a good example of that in action. Compare to the NHS where the government has regularly tried to ringfence money for capital investments (repairing leaking hospital roofs etc), only to see its direct orders ignored and the money used for pay rewards instead.

> 55% of stations were axed due to a /reduction/ of state infrastructure

The stations were axed due to long term decline in passenger numbers, a situation that reversed immediately upon privatization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail#...