skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree on hard. But at least possible.

I think a better analogy would be vision. Even with a full understanding of the eye and visual cortex, one can only truly understand vision by experiencing sight. If we had to reconstruct sight from scratch, it would be more important to experience sight than to understand the neural structure of sight. It gives us something to aim for.

We basically did that with language and LLMs. Transformers aren’t based on neural structures for language processing. But they do build upon the intuition that the meaning of a sentence consists of the meaning that each word in a sentence has in relation to every other word in a sentence — the attention mechanism. We used our experience of language to construct an architecture.

I think the same is true of qualia and consciousness. We don’t need to know how the hardware works. We just need to know how the software works, and then we can build whatever hardware is necessary to run it. Luckily there’s theories of consciousness out there we can try out, with AST being the best fit I’ve seen so far.
Trumpists might complain a lot about immigration but it is the basis of US economic strength. If the US was having the same demographics issues as Europe it would have stagnated long ago. The government knows this and don't go after Tyson and the likes because it that would be a shoot in the foot. China has 1.5bi people, the US needs to get to at least 500mil fast.
Producing less corn rather than subsidizing it is the better way to go.

This just seems like another fake-green boondoggle, similar to ethanol.
I don't think that's a big deal though. You deliberately choose to use a rational system, because you understand the problem domain, which could greatly benefit from such a representation. If you throw a rational system at every math problem as a catch-all representation, then you are doing it wrong.
For me (and I imagine a lot of people) it is his Fallingwater house (https://fallingwater.org/) which is a tremendous example of architecture which builds on its environment. I don't think that's a particularly great place to live in - seems to be a museum now anyhow - but it's a wonderful idea. In a lot of ways architecture is about setting high expectations, and that does it. A lot of his other work - the Usonian designs - look to me to be like what became 80's style American architecture. But I'm no student of the field; I just admired Fallingwater.
I have seen some tutorials where emojis are used as metasyntactic variables. Not an improvement
Line breaks don't play along with that though. You must represent each paragraph as one giant line, using two line breaks to separate paragraphs.

(The problem with that is that excessive line widths are bad.)
Yes that’s what I meant. It originated earlier. It gained prominence in 2022 when they became perceived as toilet thieves. The meaning has evolved.

I don’t really care about your telegram rant.
People had different values than you do in the past. They also have different values right now.
There are people in india whose names are spelled differently in different dialects. They may have birth certificate, vaccination records, medical records, school registration, and adult ID card all spelled differently.
That's a non-sequitur. There are plenty of other words that start with 'fu-'. It's also a loanword from Chinese.

And even if not, I haven't heard anyone describe the coinage 'fupa' as offensive.
But--most importantly--it's a retirement account that you can spend early, if you have to, if you have unexpected medical expenses (which is the main reason an otherwise financially responsible person would have unexpected expenses). And in that scenario it's a much appreciated buffer for needing to withdraw money from another retirement account.

But frankly, even if you are spending the money on medical expenses in the same year, you're also getting a lot of benefit out of spending pre-tax rather than post-tax money.
Very aside: If you like the look of the rooms pictured in TFA you would probably appreciate the visual design of "Return to Grace"

https://returntogracegame.com/
As critical as I am of Mullenweg, I am sure Automattic is obeying the Affordable Care Act and giving employees health insurance. It would be a dumb thing to save money on when you're paying competitive wages!

This seemed like an adequate explanation without needing any details:

> incurred by the closing of my conference and publishing businesses.
I only limit swearing in professional environments; meetings to be honest.

Everywhere else gets the shit and hell and damn that I use in regular language. No slurs and no sexual words like Fuck. But that's just good manners.

Curse words are like salt and pepper for the language. They're not necessary, but often add just the right amount of extra spice.
Everyone knows that if you encounter an R.O.U.S, You're supposed to retreat into the fire swamp.
You buy it at Walmart.

At Walmart it is $25 for 1,000 Units of Novolin N [1], with no insurance or prescription. 1000 units is about a month for a lot of people. Novolin N is a third or 4th generation Insulin approved in 1950.

You can get 1000 units of Humalog (Approved in 1996) for $43 at walgreens or most pharmacies (or 19.99 with a Walgreens coupon) [2]

The more recently approved version of Insulin Afrezza, (approved in 2014) costs about $2,000 for a monthly supply.[3]

There has been a fairly consistent march of insulin improvements since the first versions were sold in 1926. [0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_(medication)#History

https://www.walmart.com/cp/relion-insulin/8418641?action=Sig...

https://www.goodrx.com/insulin-lispro

https://pharmacy.amazon.com/afrezza-180-Cartridge-Pack-Insul...
Yeah, I'm really no longer interested in what WP Engine could or should have been doing. Matt's been trying really hard to distract everyone from the simple fact that he personally has a kill switch that can stop the flow of security updates to millions of WordPress sites and that he will use it.

We host mirrors of NPM for many reasons, but fear that Microsoft will one day bar AWS customers from using the main registry isn't one of them.

Matt doesn't get to use that button and stay a trusted component of anyone's supply chain.
> What end state are we actually trying to create here?

Getting sufficiently random bits (perhaps crypto) in a portable and fast way.
The economics of running a GPU cloud
Corncrete already exists https://research.tudelft.nl/en/publications/corncrete-a-corn...
> his designs are … often downright hostile to having any natural light indoors

Are you sure about this? From Wikipedia [0]:

> To unify the house to its site, Wright often used large expanses of glass to blur the boundary between the indoors and outdoors.Glass allowed for interaction and viewing of the outdoors while still protecting from the elements. In 1928, Wright wrote an essay on glass in which he compared it to the mirrors of nature: lakes, rivers and ponds.

Also check out the interior of the Johnson wax headquarters, the ceiling is basically a giant sky light [1]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright#/media/Fi...
Law enforcement/EMS often have their own phonetic alphabets and it is not that uncommon to use two at once: one for call signs and second for the actual alphanumeric data (in theory, in practice it gets mixed up, but everybody still understands the meaning)
Chinese hackers access US telecom firms, worrying national security officials
I wouldn't want to support it, but similar things have been done before.

Alexia Massalin's Synthesis[0] (pdf) operating system did JIT-like optimizations for system calls. Here's a LWN article[1] with a summary. Anyone who's interested in operating systems should read this thesis.

HP's Dynamo[2] runtime optimizer did JIT-like optimizations on PA-RISC binaries; it was released in 2000. DynamoRIO[3] is an open source descendant. Also, DEC had a similar tool for the Alpha, but I've forgotten the name.

[0] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/270081/

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/349299.349303

[3] https://dynamorio.org/
Not one mention of the EM algorithm, which is, as far as I can understand, is being described here (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation%E2%80%93maximiza...). It has so many applications, among which is estimating number of clusters for a Gaussian mixture model.

An ELI5 intro: https://abidlabs.github.io/EM-Algorithm/
I feel like multiple imputation is fine when you have data missing at random.

The problem is that data is never actually missing at random and there’s always some sort of interesting variable that confounds which pieces are missing
I loved Acrophobia.
Also not the most popular WP plugin — that’d be Yoast SEO.
> Obvious point about not owning it either, so if an artist or whole label decides to have a fight with your streaming provider, sorry tough luck, you just lost them from your library.

I’ve never had this happen so far. What makes you think it’s likely to happen?

> If you're someone with a library of ~2k songs and that doesnt change in any real way for years on end it probably doesn't stack up as well

This assumes you work on the principle that you’ve found “enough” music vs. that you lost interest in investing in new music because of the cost of buying it.
Not dismantling it, just chopping it up into bite size chunks easier for the market to control
These casual calls for censorship are really dangerous. Every idea that we take for granted today started as something that was justifiably censorable for the social standards of the time (civil rights, women's voting rights, etc).

If Billy Bob wants to out himself as a white nationalist, I'd rather he do it out in the open. If it's really a terrible idea then it won't get any traction.

When you censor these people it gives them even more reason to get angry and people start supporting just to fight the perceived injustice. This was a key driver in Jan 6th.
Wait, why is driving around making a list of WiFi APs (that people marked public during setup) a felony?
Is not just the meat industry. Dairy cows eat silage too.

Everything I know about silage I learned from watching 10th Generation Dairyman on YouTube. As somebody who loves learning about the tedious details of other people’s professions, I highly recommend this channel.

https://youtube.com/@10thgenerationdairyman61
It’s almost like people changed their opinions based on observed behaviors.
ChatGPT implies Automattic may have been first, or least certainly led it to wide adoption: https://chatgpt.com/share/6701e039-0e74-8012-b821-dea9789564...
From the Definition section

>A decision problem H is NP-hard when for every problem L in NP, there is a polynomial-time many-one reduction from L to H
> But the gulf between "that's neat" and "you can make a decent 10 minute short film" is pretty vast.

Agreed. I expect the tools I described to be prohibitively expensive for the average person for some time. By the end of 2025, probably only well-funded studios will be able to use such tools and probably not economically.

But I'd be quite surprised if Hollywood studios/publishers aren't using their immense back catalogue to train private models right now. I don't think they'll ever allow royalty-free movie generation tools to be used that were trained on their catalogues. So perhaps there'll be a cottage industry of stock footage by amateur and professional actors for training/augmenting the movie generation models and tools that will be available for general use, royalty free.

Or perhaps these tools will simply emerge as just another TikTok filter and we'll see goofy couples who filmed a skit in their living room presented as gladiators arguing on the surface of Mars while their dog runs back and forth between them unable to choose a favourite.
About 25 years ago! I was helping a friend/client look for something in his basement store room. He pulled out a huge multi-page schematic and said "look at this." It turned out to be the controller for a medical device he had designed in the early 70's. All discrete logic, no CPU at all. Blew my mind.
Says somebody that has never lived where brown bears do. They can and will gladly eat you if you are the best meal around. Salmon are only around for maybe 1/4 of the year.
It is just the court playing technicalities to delay things. There is an election this Sunday. We don't need Xitter meddling in it.
As an extreme leftist, I find this notion as offensive as I do absurd.
Because the Iowa caucus is the first Presidential primary and it gets old gas cars off the road quicker by gunking up their fuel systems, allowing manufacturers to sell newer vehicles.
It's a bit odd people would use this so much, as AACs, text-to-speech apps, do the job, in my experience (my brother uses one sometimes) quite well. I don't see why, except in highly rare cases, like having poor muscle control and nonverbal autism, one would need or want a facilitator.

But then again, I don't use an AAC.
Literally a report from government experts:

"It is important to note that biofuel production and consumption, in and of itself, will not reduce GHG or conventional pollutant emissions, lessen petroleum imports, or alleviate pressure on exhaustible resources."
Sometimes I wonder if people haven’t mixed it up with Business Insider or something.
Well, other than "view source", you can set the CSS "before" and "after" properties of every tag to display the actual start and closing tags.
In the 60s, women were generally infantilized, but I suspect the “it was done for the women” explanation for the drift of “fu” to the already-existing term “foo” once separate from the other part of “fubar” is a just-so story, rather than a historical fact.
> The ‘magic’ of the monodepth DNNs is exactly in their ability to learn what scale objects and scenery tends to be in the training data, rather than having to be modeled one object at a time.

Yes, and for controlled industrial environments where the domain can be effectively captured in the training dataset, this is plausible. Although a fair number of industrial applications do contain very similar objects at multiple scales, and I don't think much of the existing monodepth work has been meaningfully trained or tested on these cases.

> The human visual system has the same limitation

Only when looking at picture, not when looking directly at the scene even if you only have one eye.

Human vision (and that of many animals, even very small ones like jumping spiders) uses information about the focusing of the eye itself to effectively recover real depth (this mechanism, like structure-from-focus on cameras, is obviously more effective at close distances with shallow depth of field and less effective as the distance and depth of field increase). And, of course, the scanning + focusing behavior of the eye is very different than a perfectly-exposed global-shutter planar imager with deep depth-of-field (which is what the "ideal" car camera would be).

> A self driving car camera will never in practice find itself peering into a little box of toy cars.

Ignoring the case of someone deliberately trying to confuse the car, it will find itself looking at a large variety of children, of different ages, body shapes and sizes, and clothing - and a scale error there can easily have fatal results. Lest this be considered far-fetched, one particular application of monodepth that has been considered by automakers is car backup/360-view cameras, an application area that exists largely because drivers back over small children with alarming frequency.
Switch to Brave on iOS. I didn’t experience any of that on this site (though a shame they chose that many ads)
It’s not just about you - if a bully starts to believe that others will fight back, and if other bullied see that they can stand up to the bully, and especially if others support those that stand up, it changes the calculus and bullying is less worth it.
Insecure Deebot robot vacuums collect photos and audio to train AI
Sigh! 105K managers currently and with the 14K cuts it will still be around 91K. As a manager myself, I fully understand and appreciate the value they bring but not matter how large your workforce having 90K+ managers is insanity. Hopefully they are focussing on the middle management and not first-line managers.
Based on Cloudflare R2 S3 object storage costs for 33GB of WordPress plugins, for a private WordPress plugin mirror would cost less than US$0.35/month though will rise as new plugin versions get downloaded and stored and if under generous R2 Class A/B write and read operation free monthly quota, the R2 operation costs would be free. The Cloudflare Worker costs based on past 24hrs metrics was 765K Worker requests at median of 2.1ms CPU time. So with 100K Worker requests/day free, cost would essentially be the $5/month Cloudflare Worker subscription fee as overages won't apply under their generous paid US$5/month subscription plan includes up to 10 million requests per month at average 10ms average CPU time. All up, it would be US$5.35/month starting costs which will rise as number of WordPress plugins and Worker usage increases as outlined here. Cloudflare CDN bandwidth is free of charge, so no need to worry about egress bandwidth fees.

Shockingly affordable.
Innovative catalyst produces methane using electricity
Except for the title, the material stays well within the 72 column rule.

Your device cannot properly show text that can be easily read on a terminal from 1975.
2 parts:

1. Interest rates can be negative
2. Volatility reduces the average. Take an example of +10% then -10% (1+0.1)*(1-0.1) = 1 - 0.1² = 0.99 < 1. It's due to the "log normal returns"
I’m much more comfortable use something like opnsense. Router manufacturers seem to just yolo it judging by backdoors etc found frequently

> At some point you will go a year or two, or more, without any updates. That's when it is time for a new router.

Is that good advice? Swapping a mature and patched platform for whatever device with new A.I. enabled half test beta firmware that just got rushed to market?
Oh, that’s an interesting thought, good point. I agree on the idea that slurs and sex-based stuff should be avoided (crassness should be fun for everyone, not exclusionary). I hadn’t put fuck in that bucket really, but of course it does have some sexual definitions.
If your setup cannot properly show text which conforms to the 72 column rule, it represents the serious regression in display capability.

This should be a test case: can our browser, on our device, in portrait mode comfortably display 80 column monospaced pre formatted text.
Nope, the usual way of reducing optimization problem is to ask the corresponding yes/no question - for some fixed value x, is the optimal value greater than x?

If you can solve the decision problem, you can solve the optimization problem by doing a binary search on the x.
In general, most prototypes are initially designed as a massive sprawling 2D development mess (from satellites to cellphones they are all the same.) After the key functions are verified/validated, than the unneeded resources are refined/removed through the optimization process.

Finally, the first physical PCB is reformed into whatever custom enclosure the marketer/designers defined. With the caveat that they understand the volumetric requirements for the device internals. Again, prior to dropping $60k on a plastic container mold, the design must first clear emissions pre-testing and certification documentation.

There is a reason hardware startups fail at a rate >5 times higher than service companies (1:63 hardware startups live past 3 years).

I would highly recommend taking a Design For Manufacturability course, or find a qualified Contract Manufacturer to handle the product gruesome details.

Most products I see now are pad-printed store-branded generic products from China. Usually nothing wrong with that kind of import trade, but fundamentally this is not a product design process.

Tip, no one is ever an expert with unknowns, but experience and standards help guide decisions on avoiding expensive mistakes... like handing your team an impossible assignment.

Best of luck, and be kind to your engineers =3
Beware UserDefaults: a tale of hard to find bugs, and lost data
Yes. If the thing sitting on the external side of your network, exposed to the open internet, isn't getting security patches, then it's time to replace it with something that is.
Are they less popular? Or is every game just a version of a grind simulator?

Achievements and badges, I believe, are ruining games. The focus isn't on the actual gameplay, but on completion. It's a job.

Here's my hot take: souls games have taken this to the extreme.

The boss battles require you to try over and over and over to learn the specific move sequence to beat them. The games require a nearly specific progression of both in game and out of game skills and muscle memory.

That's not entertainment, it's studying!!!
Target did not figure out a teen was pregnant before she did. She knew she was pregnant, which led to changes in her purchasing habits. Target detected that and sent her promotions which disclosed her father who had need been informed.

Here is a gift link a NYTimes article with more details:
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits....
Yes, but also no. The value of things is only what the market wants to pay for it, and it does not matter if it is a 2023 Honda Accord or a financial product, currency... In one you might trust the engine reliability and on the other on the government behind the currency, whoever is writing the option, issuing the bond, ... But still, it is a matter of faith and bid/ask.
At some point the lines crossed between people whose first exposure was the old "FUBAR" and those whose first exposure was the tech "foo/bar/baz".

I wonder when it was.
> China has 1.5bi people, the US needs to get to at least 500mil fast.

That needs a sea change that frankly will not happen for the forseeable future.

We don't have the infrastructure to support that population. And what infrastructure we do have is pitifully run down. Governments hate investing in it - our road quality is some of the worst in the developed world (I'm in an affluent area and the amount of potholes here would have people rioting, in places overseas I've lived, for one tiny little example. Not to mention rolling blackouts in many major centers when weather exceeds seasonal norms.
How does one actually go about procuring good probiotics? Short of doctor I mean
I'm not sure about Mexico, but here in Argentina I think we wait until the drug gets a the FDA or EMA approval and ask for a copy, well we probably ask for all the paperwork but I don't remember cases of weird fast local approvals. It's possible to buy Metamizole/Dipyrone here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamizole . Anyway, we have special cases, like a vaccine for a local illness https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus_Jun%C3%ADn that I guess is not approved anywhere else.

Every few years, there is an scandal for illegal medicine, but I think most of the case it's about using industrial silicone in human cosmetic surgery or something as stupid like that, not cutting edge new drugs. Perhaps it's possible to get tourist-illegal-medicine, but I strongly advice against that.

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> Japan is using self-replicating RNA vaccines

Do you have a source for that? I can try to take a look. I suspect it's very bad journalism reporting.

Self-replicating RNA are just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viroid but they only survive in plants, not animals. If they make their own coating, they are retrovirus. Writing a retrovirus from scratch is too difficult, some vaccines use edited virus, where they add the interesting part but also remove another part to the virus can't reproduce outside the lab. And there are vaccines with "live" attenuated virus, like the oral polio vaccine, but they are more difficult to make.
Apparently, neoliberal corporate capitalism is now “extreme leftism” for some people.