skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tracked the clothes I wear while cycling last fall and winter so I would know what to wear given the weather. I record temperature, humidity, windspeed, and level of sunshine. It’s been very useful. Even after years of outdoor biking, I still sometimes get fooled by a bright, dry, windy, 65 degree day and forget how chilly they can be, but my spreadsheet will remind me.
Too little too late. I don't accept the Journals excuse that it was an "honest error on the part of the authors." During the pandemic, the media and social media companies demonized anything that spoke against, competed with, or sought alternatives to the "official" government (political) policy.

Did it work? Does it work? I don't know, who cares? The point is, this was a deliberate knee jerk reaction and Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy gleefully went along with it.
1. I tried with L40 for inference in MON1 with
BentoML [@bentoml.service(resources={"gpu": 1})
class MyService:
def __init__(self):
import torch
self.model = torch.load('model.pth').to('cuda:0')]

and

2. RTX A4000 for training using pytorch training script [ device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
device] in OSL1 with sshkeys for root.

Old CUDA 12.2 is provided with Mainline Ubuntu LTS 22.04 LTS as Latest Ubuntu.

It is unstable (mostly) with driver upgrades as Device drops out though works intermittently !!!

Start Scripts for pyenv and CUDA:
#!/bin/bash

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y install wget zip unzip git jq

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y python3-pip

# Required for pyenv make
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y build-essential zlib1g-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev liblzma-dev libncurses-dev tk-dev
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt install -y --reinstall gcc-12
ln -s -f /usr/bin/gcc-12 /usr/bin/gcc
# Remove existing nvidia drivers and install cuda 12.6.1
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y remove --purge *nvidia*
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y remove --purge *cuda*
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y remove --purge *nvrtc*
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y autoremove --purge
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/12.6.1/lo... && sh cuda_12.6.1_560.35.03_linux.run --silent --override
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y update
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y upgrade
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive reboot
1) https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1b8uc5p/...
It is only slow when you using C-Extension. Basic webapp don't use C-Extensions. If you are going to claim such please provide evidence.
We have a chat server in production written in PyPy and Tornadoweb which had sped up 20x from CPython version and test benchmarks against GoLang based Websocket with Channels and Nodejs - The pypy implementation is 30% faster than node and 10-20% faster than Golang . Big plus is PyPy version drops memory usage by 80% . CPython version have around 200MB Ram usage and pypy version only about 40MB.

On Heavy load (10k concurrent test) PyPy and Golang version are stable but Node version stop responding sometimes and packet losses occurs.
GDPR covers all personal data, that would include any DNA. It also includes the prevention of creating profiles without your consent.

But as 23andme is an US company, it is not under the jurisdiction of the GDPR. The legal situation isn't clear, the EU would claim some jurisdiction, but I (IANAL) think it's more like you go to the US, walk into a Walgreen and give up your data.
You're confident that the sample was destroyed?
New study finds potentially harmful pathogens traveling high in the atmosphere
That’s why many countries have government “watchdogs” you can report illegal contracts to, who will investigate it and potentially sue the company if they believe its a scam or somehow against consumer rights.
you didn't know that it was illegal to be careless in a way that's well known to cause harm to other people?
There is a saying among those that operahe makerspaces: "people come for the 3d printer,and stay for the laser".

We have Redsail CO2 lasers for nearly 10 years now, in our volunteer ran makerspace in Oslo. It works, but does requires a bunch of setup and maintenance. Of course with hundreds of different users yearly, anything will need that... But it is more and gives poorer results than GCC/Epilog (which another local lab has, albeit with more professional maintenance crew).
GlowForge targets a user group which accept less tinkering.
PS: expect to spend at least the same amount of money/time on ventilation system as the machine itself!!
I'm assuming this article is meant for the general public and not people in specific industry but I don't know what generalization means in this context and this article does a piss poor job of explaining it. Constantly repeating "generalization of learning" doesn't get me any closer to understanding.
Maybe we need instruments that sign results cryptographically and use a blockchain mechanism to establish provenance. We should have cameras that can establish that published images have not been modified (or at least provide raw and adjusted pairs--digital radiology has the concept of a "presentation state" that I think could work).

In theory at least research should be auditable to a lab notebook. The problem with photos and such is you can't tell if it was modified before it was pasted to the page and large datasets just can't be put in to paper. And electronic notebooks I've used tend to be even more annoying than paper (too rigidly formatted and not adaptive to workflow optimization but it's difficult to explain).

Anyway those sorts of things that establish provenance should also protect against deep learning. You may be able to create fake data, but can you deep fake data that was signed by Nikon device #XYZ with cryptographicly confirmed hashes published to a blockchain 3 years ago at the time the data was generated?
I find it interesting that he thinks being nuked every two years is a benefit to being so far from an out of control Earth. I’ve seen BSG and know nukes can fly in space.
Yawning and getting 'strangled' helped me discover my voice
Bought and read 32% of the available content and I’m disappointed. Yet another book that full of lingo bingo, a lot of text around a concept of what use more functional coding style with Java 17 features. Pretty sure there is some good information in there but it could be brought down to 3 or 4 slides instead of this extrapolation…
By the look of it, I think the answer has to be "no, and that's that point".
"It turns out?" "In recent years?" It has forever been so.
This is blasphemous

The answer, as is with everything, was N=42

:-)
For those tricky situations, there's "sledgehammer and review" and the second-order git-diff trick:

https://blog.moertel.com/posts/2013-02-18-git-second-order-d...
>Cuis rendering was so much better than Pharo out of the box and it provides native vector graphics…

I installed the stable version of Cuis (7.0) on Windows according to the instructions.

Then I did New morph.. -> Vector Graphics -> Sample04Pacman

Quickly moving the pacman around makes it flicker like crazy and causes render errors (it seems parts of the pacman are not rendered fast enough so it looks like parts of it are missing).

If this is "much better" than Pharo, I am outright curious just how broken Pharo's rendering is.

To be fair, it seems to work for you, so I guess the rendering might only be broken on Windows because they have not implemented hardware accceleration on that platform yet or something like that.
I have one modest closet, one chest of drawers, and my wife has the same with a little more; shoes.. What struck me was that this was his clothing purchases in a single year. That's a lot of buying and disposing, which results in .. disasters like the mountain of discarded clothes you can see from space in the Chilean desert

https://www.wired.com/story/fashion-disposal-environment/
At this point I don't think they see it as an investment, but rather as securing a previous investment. They aren't looking for a return on the 6.5B, but rather as a deployment of strategic capital to secure their previous investment.

A large amount of AI funding seem FOMO driven. Companies aren't seeing large returns on AI stuff, they are afraid of being left behind if somebody finds some sort of use for it.
Won't the scientist use some relatively secure/private model to fraud-check their own work before submitting? If it catches something, they would just improve the fraud.
Oh hey pxc, yeah send me a link to the reverted change you're talking about and I'll look it over. I'd love to help improve things if I can.
To me, there is an underlying issue: why are so many DeepX papers being sent to Nature, instead of appropriate CS forums? If you are doing better work in chip design, send it to IPSD or ISCA or whatever, and then you will get the types of reviews needed for this work. I have no idea what Nature does with a paper like this.
Suppose you are competing to create the "best" frontier model and have finite R&D budget to allocate into the 4 buckets (plus a catchall in case we're missing something):

* Data

* Architecture

* Training techniques

* Compute

* Other

What allocation gives you the best chance for success? And how are you defining "best"?
Trader Joe's is part of Aldi Nord.

I guess the operations are kind of freestanding.
At what point did this become a valid and legitimate issue?

Why do we feel the need to prefer or not prefer what others do with their time? Isn’t that something that concerns only the person and their own life, which really shouldn’t concern us at all?

I think your point really highlights this ethical mindset that has become so prominent today, especially with the rise of the internet.
"a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case" — Nathan Heller

Whats the public vs private split to this idea? Its not a new idea -

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.” — John Wanamaker
Tinker the Robot: England's Real-Life Housekeeping Robot from 1966
Show HN: YouTube Shorts to Tweets
An A.I. Model Helped Uncover 303 Previously Unseen Nazca Lines in Peru
Which Disk Format?
Which is fine. If all AI does is represent human knowledge in a way that makes it explainable and transformable rather than merely searchable, then the hype is justified... along with Google's howling, terrified panic.

The role played by humans on the training side is of little interest when considering the technology from a user's perspective.
There are no incompetent people at that level. It’s just that sometimes they aren’t competent at the things you think they should be competent at because you make incorrect assumptions about what it takes to rise to the top.
Sure, and I don’t disagree that it’s a bad situation for Meta to have created. It’s being fined for “potentially violating” a statute that I find objectionable. Being breached implies that some harm befell consumers, this article (and the others I’ve read about this incident) don’t make any reference to an actual harm being uncovered.
A WAF is something like CloudFlare?
> X/Twitter is showing things as they are

Wow. No, X/Twitter is showing things people (and quite a few bots) say. There’s no mechanism there to emphasize things that are. In fact you’re rewarded for saying things that aren’t, if they generate engagement, which is so much easier if you just make stuff up.
I can see why someone might choose one Generic School vs. another Generic School, but versus Harvard (and other similar level schools)?

Everything else aside, schools at that level open up lifelong opportunities not possible or are much more difficult at some Generic School. If my kid got into Harvard and said he/she wanted to go to some other Generic School instead, they’d get some serious talking to. And I’d move heaven and earth to make sure they’d be able to attend (financially, etc.).
why is an HR team first cut instead of people on the hiring team? how did HR weasel their way into that?

HR should be doing criminal and background checks after the team is ready to hire.
You may check out the mess of LinkedIn. Fully professional, almost no "off-topic" posts. People always write they're happy, proud, excited. Future tech vids. Productivity porn vids. "Check out our next feature." Successful success 24/7.

Another collective blog I read turned into a flood of corporate "why work with us" or "how to patch KDE under FreeBSD", or "Zuckerberg just said X. This news was translated by XYZ personal brand consulting co.".

Tech blogs that I read, turned into either stream of USB gadgets, or into big tech geopolitics. "Google wants to flank Facebook with X, Nvidia won't let AMD do Y, Altman thinks Z, waters changed."

This post about kids and normal life is what makes HN different.
The Hose Clamp Story [video]
True, he is a billionaire because he started early and . Most of us start late and don't have so much capital, so naturally we will never be billionaires, but investing regularly is still the way to make the most out of our money.

Investing in shares truly carries a lot of risk if the stocks are not researched properly. In this age it is even harder since there is now a lot more dangerously inaccurate information to sift through. Thus TA recommends index funds. The S&P 500 compounds a lot over 30 years.

Don't invest money you can't afford to lose.
Tell HN: GitHub now recommends using its own `gh` tool to clone repositories
And apparently the ssh url, should you want to use git, needs to be constructed manually.
I once made a cardboard box (from an oven) into a real-life duplicator as a mad scientist at a talent show using a couple of twins as part of the show. Had some people blown away. lol.
A little off topic but I am looking for a lightweight word processor program. For MacOS. One that can edit docx documents with some minimal features. Most word processors like LibreOffice are very bloated.
He probably refers to Sylvain Lesné's previously detected Alzheimer fraud, a hugely influencal doctored paper. And now the #1 Alzheimer researcher Eliezer Masliah is also a fraudster.
Yeah, and they're still under delivering to their hype and the improvements have vastly slowed down.
I think the most interesting aspect of it is the human training. Human blindsides, dogma, ignorance, etc. All on demand and faster than you can validate its accuracy or utility. This is good.
This is exactly the reason I dislike reflowable formats. Younger people don’t seem to appreciate the benefits of the spatial position of information within a PDF/printed text. As an undergrad, by the time I finished a textbook chapter, I would have both the information and the general spatial layout of the text committed to memory. The latter greatly helped recall and cognitive integration. 30 years later, I can still pick up my undergrad textbook, dimly recall where the information is located, and quickly get back up to speed. The human brain has a powerful spatial ‘muscle memory’ for recalling information. This is lost when dealing with .mobi and .epub formats.
Re your last paragraph, the New Testament addresses an argument about Christian grace, some said they should sin more because that left more room for God's grace. Not surprisingly the Bible's answer is, nu-uh (an emphatic no).

I think society can generally be against something, yet it succeed. Most people consider greed to be bad, but it's the foundation of capitalism. I'm not sure if most people would say gambling is wrong. (This survey, https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/blog/post/gambling-sur..., found only 41 of self-selected UK gamblers rated it positively.)

A democratic state should reflect the desired culture, if it doesn't it's not being democratic. Businesses can also do that, as can other organisations. Most businesses goals are aligned away from benefiting society in general; whilst a democratic state should be at least loosely aligned with that end (by definition).

Thanks for a thought provoking response.
Some Go Web Dev Notes
I was the victim of a pretty bizarre super in-your-face academic theft.

Someone snooped a half-finished draft of mine off GitHub and...actually got it published in a real journal: https://forbetterscience.com/2024/05/29/who-are-you-matthew-...

In spite of having a full commit log (with GitHub verified commits!!!) of both the code AND the paper, both arxiv and the journal didn't seem to care or bother at all.

Anyhow, I highly recommend reading the for better science blog. It's incredible how rampant fraud truly is. This applies to multiple nobel prize winners as well. It's nuts.
The Case for Failure-Tolerant Leaders: Why We Need Them
Personally I think this is one of the killer applications for LLM. In some countries you can even have double tax deduction instead of only normal tax deduction for R&D activities, if your company fulfills the government requirements and following the correct procedures. But the main problem is that the info is oblivious to most of the companies and majority are ignorant of the tax discount facility available to them with respect to R&D [1].

[1] Comments on Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41508656
I just listened to this a few weeks ago. It’s incredible and really helps frame how we got here and is still very relevant to social media even though it’s written about TV/Hollywood. You’ll be hard pressed to find deeper media analysis that remains very approachable.
The main reason GVR said is "May be this is future of Python , but not now" . At that time pypy was already stable at 2.7.x version but python 2-3 split happen. PyPy team have to rewrite everything for Python3 and took them a while to catchup.
I had managed to talk with one ex pypy developer that the main reason GVR and Python community do not promote much about PyPy is due to NIH - Not invented here - Since PyPy is developed by seperate but full time computer scientist and researchers, PHDs , not by the Guido community .
https://pypy.org/people.html

One problem about popularity of pypy is they don't do any advertisement , promotion which I had critically voiced about it in their community - they moved to Github finally.

Only other problem is CPython Ext , which is compatible but a little bit slower than CPython - that only pain point we have - which could be solved if there are more contributors and users using pypy.
Actually Python , written in Python should be the main
What I tell people new to on-call: "Quit. Find another job."

I won't accept jobs with on-call rotations anymore.
It is possible to do part of that in Bitwig as well, lots of ways to have probabilistic triggering of notes and patterns that trigger others.
The article seems like a work of fiction.
Be ruthless with systems, be kind with people.
Although probably not great at the time,.. I can imagine it would be an interesting experience.

Did it change how you much control you feel you have in regards to being in charge of your own thoughts and emotions?
At a guess, because that’s roughly the time most people currently in a mid-life crisis consider their childhood?

My guess is “retro” moves on roughly as fast as we do.
Are heat pumps the future or just a lot of hot air?
Are you a libertarian? What's the libertarian take on this sort of thing, where people have proven time and again that they cannot handle the responsibility without resulting in clearly more demonstrable harm when the guardrails are off?

A more modern example might be people's failure to plan for their financial future or to value critical thinking enough not to be persuaded by charismatic bad-actor shysters to do bad things
Shrug... I don't know what anyone expected, once humans got involved. Like all of us (and all of our tools), AI is vulnerable to human flaws.
Has anyone got Django working in the browser with local emscripten and ideally in browser postgres?
Ironically, I think this article may be written by an AI.
One of the concerns I had when I did 23andMe many years ago was that someone in the future would be able to recreate me Jurassic-Park-style. Now I'm not an expert, but based on my reading of how they collect data, turns out 23andMe doesn't actually have my DNA sequence data.

They do what is called "genotyping"[1] which is much cheaper than full "sequencing" [2], but which only probes for a limited set of known variants. So it's only partial information.

Since then 23andMe has launched a more expensive 23andMe+ Total Health offering, which does full sequencing, but like most people, I never subscribed to that package. In fact I had no occasion to interact with the company after the first result, which may be why they are struggling financially.

DNA testing is something most people might do at most once in their lives -- then they lose interest.

[1] https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202904610...
[2] https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/202904600...
Do you enjoy victimizing yourself?
It wasnt meant to be an insult.
For those who are not from US, what does Northern and Southern means in these context? I only often hear about East and West divide.
Even though I am not sure I believe the story but in smaller companies, HR, doubles as recruiters and human resource managers.
Source is a random Reddit comment, so it must be true.
Is this a popular vote or electoral college polling. Popular vote doesn’t win elections
While deliberate practice is undoubtedly crucial for developing creativity and expertise, I think there's an important nuance we often overlook - the role of diverse experiences and cross-pollination of ideas.

Deliberate practice helps refine skills and deepen domain knowledge, but breakthrough creativity often comes from making unexpected connections between disparate fields. Some of history's most creative figures - like Leonardo da Vinci or Benjamin Franklin - were polymaths who excelled in multiple domains.
'Clear evidence' China supplied weapons to Russia for Ukraine war
The only polls that matter are for Pennsylvania, as a Canadian I find it quite interesting 1 State out of 52 will decide the election.
What's the tangible negative outcome of widespread sports interest?
Companies I've been in recently have HR wedging themselves in the name of "diversity" because apparently everyone else is too biased. It seems like self-serving power grab to me though.

But with non-technical people doing this, the companies get randos put in the pipeline and interviewing process shifts to "gotta prove you're not a faker or idiot", which I cannot stand.
Disagree, there are practical trivial subsets of the halting problem to which I imagine many short-running scripts would conform.
It's a dilemma- do you want to be virtuous or do you want to maximize your money? I get a sense around here that only the law matters (morals be damned) and we do whatever work pays best.
Hp-ux is essentially dead as of next december. Here is HPE's own roadmap. It transitions into "mature support", but that does not equate to new patches for anything, and other material in the deck indicates that HPE want people to move to one of their server platforms that runs linux or Windows.

https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/4aa3-9071enw.pdf?jumpid=in_pdf...
Generalization is standard lingo in machine learning – it's about going from known data (training set / test set) to new data which shares the same underlying patterns but wasn't available at learning time.

Taking the posts simple polynomial example, it would be going from

4x^2 + 2x -3 = 0

to

2x^2 -5x +2 = 0

or more generally to

ax^2 + bx + c = 0
What laws are present in the EU that individuals in US could look to to write to our representatives about?