skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What was the exact mechanism?

We don't actually know, but we know it exists. Because otherwise people wouldn't bother paying for ads. Your average person can identify hundreds of brands instantly. What's the value of that? Billions? Trillions?

Certainly, when cigarettes and chewing tobacco were advertised most people did it. Granted, the addiction helps because you only need 1 successful conversion for a life-long customer.

Well, now very few people do that in the US. Without a shadow of a doubt in anyone's mind, the abolishment of those ads had something to do with it.

One of the most common fallacies I see is that choice is a binary. You either chose something, or you didn't. Meaning you were forced.

In actuality, choice is incredibly complex. There are thousands of individual events that will influence your choices. What you're doing right now could be influencing choices you make next decade, and you wouldn't know.

You can control people's choices without forcing their hand on anything. You can introduce information and events that sculpt their mind without so much as lifting a finger. It's a form of mind control, but not in the TV sense. Because people make the choices themselves.

Making someone do something is almost worthless. Convincing someone it's in their best interest to do something is where the value actually is. Look back at wars and our use of propaganda and try to break down what the end-goal is. It's not "making" people do something.
I mostly agree, with the exception that I think the users of those accounts are split between people signing up for the limited extra features, and people signing up because it makes them feel important, and I suspect at least a subset of the latter would love to refer to them as "their banker". It's probably not a very large subset, though. And yes, it's pretentious.
The most important aspect of any kind of community thing, if that involves adverts and other income options for the party that owns the platform, is to give back to the contributors.
Or car tires..
This was actually a really good article. I never considered how the steam deck could light a fire under the gaming industries willingness to support Linux.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_fission_and_fusion
It's Not Easy Being Green: On the Energy Efficiency of Programming Languages
That's just censorship by another name. No thanks.
I always see people claiming they use this strategy, but I never ever ever see people blaming services saying "this and this company sold my data to spammers". Where are the name-and-shame people? Have you ever caught anybody doing anything?
Official release: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2024/press-rele...
Some discussion (16 points, 11 hours ago, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41796181
All of these examples appear to have the same context: bringing something to the masses, just like a factory produced drug or can of corn.

If you look at the Google search recommendations after typing in the word "democratize," for example, you get people trying to understand what it means to "democratize finance"

I don't see these results (Google search results are personalized). I guess I took for granted that the meaning of the word was well understood or that people would look up words they thought were being used in an odd way.
Very cool! I'm working on something similar but a little more wysiwyg and collaborative (think gdocs meets gsheets rather than word meets excel). Let me know if you want to chat - email in profile
I will not defend the claim that equality before the law exists in the U.S. It's still far from obvious to me that hundreds of entities have applied for coca import permits with legitimate justification and been denied.
I tried for 6 weeks. Eventually, it just stops functioning. The same program and arguments spits out "segmentation fault" 33% of the time I run it, with the other 67% working perfectly. The only way I could explain it was that it was in a function outside the main, because when I put the exact same code in the main, compiled and ran, it worked.

I have no other explanation. At some point, having too many nested loops and variables causes segmentation faults, whereas less complex code functioned without error. I needed to have certain things performed, and it only functioned in the main.
It seems like such an obvious and surmountable problem though. Indeed since 2020 there are robust approaches to eliminating JPEG artifacts, for example - browse around here - https://openmodeldb.info/.
Frequent financial crises. Constant financial crisis better describes our dying small towns.
Or just do those crimes and never loose a war. The moral is you can get away with all the murder if you are not an upstart and can write it out of your history. Can even be a hero of history prosecuting people for the crimes you commit.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9735018/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)

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

https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/la-famine-...
Why not aluminum cans? There's still some plastic in there, but you can mostly recycle them, they must be fairly cheap, and they're quite light. As an added benefit they stack higher in transit with less extra packaging, at least if they're shipped like beer.
They can, but they didn't 99% of the time.

And archive.org is not a replacement for a website, not even a Fandom wiki. It's horrible to use and you're lucky if it indexes a quarter of what you want, especially on a property as big as a wiki. And it's read-only.

On Fandom I can still log in and make improvements.
I have no idea how C++ defines this part of its standard but from experience it's likely that it's different in some more or less subtle way which might explain why this is okay. But in the realm of C, without -ffast-math, arithmetic operations on floats can be implemented in any way you can imagine (including having them output to a display in a room full of people with abaci and then interpreting the results of a hand-written sheet returned from said room of people) as long as the observable behaviour is as expected of the semantics.

If this transformation as you describe changes the observable behaviour had it not been applied, then that's just a compiler bug.

This usually means that an operation such as:

double a = x / n;
double b = y / n;
double c = z / n;
printf("%f, %f, %f\n", a, b, c);

Cannot be implemented by a compiler as:

double tmp = 1 / n;
double a = x * tmp;
double b = y * tmp;
double c = z * tmp;
printf("%f, %f, %f\n", a, b, c);

Unless in both cases the same exact value is guaranteed to be printed for all a, b, c, and n.

This is why people enable -ffast-math.
> I'll use whatever free service exists

You'll get advertisements, then.
Hopefully the end result is that this molds their behavior as this becomes an unreasonable task for the company.
I read both and the style is tedious, especially the dialogues, and I can only assume it's a translation thing.
> it refers to "linux server machine" (whether it's physical or virtual)

No, "server" most definitely refers to software that listens for network requests. Colloquially, hardware that runs such software is often also given the server moniker ("the computer running the server" is a mouthful), but that has no applicability within the realm of discussion here. If you put the user in front of that same computer with a keyboard and mouse controlling a GUI application, it would no longer be considered a server. We'd call it something like a desktop. It is the software that drives the terminology.

> nobody knows what "serverless" is or that App Engine / Heroku already had it in 2008 :)

Hell, we were doing serverless in the 90s. You uploaded your CGI script to the provider and everything else was their problem.

The difference back then was that everyone used CGI, and FastCGI later on, so we simply called it CGI. If you are old enough to recall, you'll remember many providers popped up advertising "CGI hosting". Nowadays it is a mishmash of proprietary technologies, so while technically no different than what we were doing with CGI back in the day, it isn't always built on literal CGI. Hence why serverless was introduced as a more broad term to capture the gamut of similar technologies.
In most imperative languages, writing .Map().Map().Filter().Map() is another full copy for each call anyhow. As a sibling notes, it is possible to "fix" that, but the fix is not even remotely free. It is quite complicated to do it generically. (Although there are other benefits; the most natural approach to that largely fixes my grumblings about refactoring I mentioned in another post.)

Plus, in a for loop approach, it is not true that the caller may need another loop with a copy. They may just loop over the result and skip over the things they don't need. They only need a copy if they are going to pass that on to something else.

A drum I can not stop banging on is that you can not just take a neat technique out of one language and slam it into another without examining the end result to make sure that you haven't murdered the cost/benefits tradeoff. You can slam together all the maps and filters and reduces you want in Haskell, and applicatives and monads and all the fun, due to a combination of the laziness and various safe optimizations like loop fusion. In an eager context that lacks loop fusion, going .Map().Map().Map().Map() has radically different performance implications. For instance, "take 10 $ map f list" in Haskell will only call "f" 10 times. .Map().Take(10) in most implementations will create the full array, however large it is, and slice ten off the end after that.

In imperative languages, contrary to frequent claims from the functional programming crowd, for loops are actually often better in practice. The solution to their pathologies is to be aware of them and not do them. But it is far, far easier to get good performance out of a for loop in an imperative language than to contort one's code into a pale parody of functional programming.
Generative DAW in the Browser for Ambient Music Soundtracks
Is there a RSS feed on the WG blog? I couldn't track one down, and it looks like a Jekyll site, so I'm not sure if there is one. I don't want to miss that post.
curious about iCloud with Advanced Data Protection enabled
Not Indian and not personally affective. I came from a society quite similar in terms of cultural e socio-economical background with India and maybe there’s a missing point.

I got your point and you’re right in terms of worship philanthropic people with a lot of money.

However, there’s one aspect that is overlooked when a person that helped and/or serves as reference for a bunch of people that is the “emotional gratitude” or “sense of reference” that those people has in some peoples mind and no matter how much of objective and maybe correct post-mortem criticism will change people’s mind.

At the limit, any public figure can, with little scrutiny, be framed as bad.

One example from my country: Ayrton Senna (deceased F1 Driver) even being a millionaire, coming from a very privileged background in 80s in a country that used to have at least 40% of its people below the poverty line.

Even not doing (during life) objectively nothing for poor people, a lot of folks (me included) consider the guy as a reference, in some cases as a hero. When he died a lot of folks felt that they lost their “hero” and actually he had a state funeral that no other Brazilian will ever have again [1].

My point is that there’s more nuance and layers around that topic when someone with a lot of money dies, and there’s no right or wrong since we’re al humans.

[1] - https://youtu.be/j79qnfHODPk?feature=shared
Parkinson's Discovery Suggests We Already Have an FDA-Approved Treatment
The lists are curious--did you think of Bergson or Russell as men of letters?--and I think that only scholars will have read more than a couple of the laureates from any given decade. I was interested to see that Mommsen received it.

[Edit: changed "know" to "will have read"]
You won't be looking for a product you don't know exists.
A requirement that the "best by" or "use by" date be clearly visible would also help.

I've spent way too much time spinning packages scanning for any date, sometimes having to give up, sometimes having to whip out my phone's camera to try to discern tiny black print on dark blue background, in small font, partly malformed, ...
I used to ask all those questions to my product owner. He was so annoyed by that. Almost got fired. Companies I worked for, everything is top down. Always. I gave up asking too much
Even those are not portable because they don't target the #1 personal computer in use - smart phones.
I think that supports what I said, but I love the added detail. There was more back and forth exchange than I remembered.

Another fun fact about the Swiss government that I think is superior to the US is that the effectively have seven presidents which form an executive council. The executive council debates behind closed doors and presents a unified public front. Internal debates of the executive counsel are sealed for 20 years before release to the public.

That said, my favorite thing about Switzerland is still that the vast majority of tax collection and public spending occurs at the local level. Federal spending revenue is approximately 30% with the rest being the local cantons. Swiss Cantons are smaller by population then a typical California county.

I think this emphasis on local government results in Civic engagement, oversight, and empowerment while reducing political strife.
We don't need double blind randomized controlled studies, we just need documentation showing that hundreds of business applied for an exception to import coca leaves for legitimate purposes and were denied.
s/are/aren't/ required to make constant profit
TreasuryDirect works great for buying bonds. This article is about people who want to sell bonds, and since that is a private activity, they need to do so through a private business, not TreasuryDirect.
Bankruptcy Took Down the Redbox Machine. If Only Someone Could Take Them Away
Buf, you may be right but I just cannot visualize it. It took me quite a while to do for the cube, imagine a tetrahedron. But you might be right.
Vandalism on Fandom wikis is counter-productive. It just makes it look more active, to both users and search engines, and so will in turn make it harder for people to find the independent wiki. The best thing to do is just to ignore abandoned Fandom wikis entirely.
> Not completely but they are interchangeable ... <whole lotta words telling me things i'm already extremely well aware of>

I'll just ask you this extremely simple question: does C# compile/run/whatever-magic-you-think-it-does on targets that aren't in {x32, x86, ARM64}? Does it target RISC-V? Does it target PTX? Does it target AMDGPU? Are you getting the picture?

Pre-empting the most low-brow dismissal: these are only niche targets if you've never heard of a company called NVIDIA.
Indeed - people cannot live in money. Giving them more money will not help them get a place if there are not more places available to get. It would only drive up the price as the same people compete for the same housing with more money. Or, if they have some form of rent control - simply greater frustration all around.

Another possible consequence is greater inter-generational friction as young people with more money out-compete existing, older tenants/owners for those homes.
WeirdGloop also runs wikis for the biggest, most active games and communities in the world. I'm more concerned about the rest of the wikis like the example I gave where I'm googling for game mechanics for a dead game.

You can migrate wikis away from Fandom. The OP is about doing just that. The problem is that there's rarely the will because it's a hobby endeavor for tiny communities, and until you last as long as the Fandom alternative would last, it wasn't even necessarily the right thing to do.

You can't just migrate and call it a day. You have to stick around for another decade so people can find that information long after you've lost interest in the game and fiddling with MediaWiki.
Teen uses learnings through MIT OpenCourseWare to study med properties of plants
Is brics the name of a alliance or a regional war?
LOL, Americans don't do ml. It would be 1/8 fluid wainscot of milk or something.
Furthermore, another example of using the loophole that doesn't even involve estate tax:

$10B worth of stock ($0 basis), take a $9B loan on it, then donate the encumbered stock to a charity that you don't even control. Now you've realized 90% of your gain, (more than if you were to have paid capital gains tax), plus you get a $1B deduction from the charitable contribution. When the charity sells the stock to pay off the loan, they also don't pay capital gains due to being tax exempt.

The charity thing is another loophole that needs reform (and doesn't even seem to be talked about), but you don't even really need a charity - get the net value much closer to zero, and gift it to arbitrary non-rich person(s), probably near the end of their life. They can liquidate stock, live off the money, and give away non-legible gifts before the tax bills start to catch up a year and a half later.

This topic is really about a hole in the capital gains tax, and it's unfortunate to see so many commenters focusing on the estate tax and ending stepped up basis (seemingly because that's the way the political winds are blowing), when most estate planning just sidesteps the estate tax. For example this original article is exceptional because most people with $7B in possible estate tax liability would head off that situation by the use of giving, trusts, and whatnot. If those people are still allowed to use this loan loophole to avoid capital gains while living, then you haven't really fixed the problem.
I use Bitwarden coupled with AnonAddy (0) for simple and free on demand email alias generation.

0. https://bitwarden.com/help/generator/#username-types
Refind Self
That, and it's really not nice to refer to a basement bar filled with old Sunset Strip glam metal musicians as "fossils".
Sampling from a Normal (Gaussian) Distribution on GPUs
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

The bad old days before music companies just gave up and started selling un-DRMd mp3 files, and then Spotify solved THAT problem for them.
I'm right-handed for almost everything but a few years ago I tried bowling with my left hand and my scores improved.

I cannot imagine trying to throw a baseball with my left hand, but maybe I should do it anyway.
That's the problem with these "citation needed" remarks, those who say it never come back after they received the high quality citations.
Yeah I was expecting it to look like Python not PHP.
New grad vs. senior dev (2020)
It's hard to put your current ops configuration inside the git log. If you found some way to do that that fits well in the philosophy of a stream of immutable changes, I'm interested in reading your ideas.
It's also worth noting that the NaCl and PNaCl teams were integrated into a large Wasm team at Google and brought their expertise to the project. While we didn't all 100% agree on every decision made in Wasm design, we were intimately familiar with the tradeoffs made by those prior projects.

Ultimately the sandboxing requirement of running in-process with the renderer process and integrating with Web APIs like JS dictated hard requirements for security.
Cocaine is sometimes used in the US to stop nose bleeds and for blood vessel constriction generally, in addition to occasional use as a local anesthetic.
My only criticism of this approach is that it asks highly sensitive users to learn a critical keyboard shortcut that will not work anywhere else. What will happen if users attempt to triple press "shift" on any other surface that doesn't support this? Because that's highly likely.

Instead of introducing a new (hidden) shortcut, I would rely on clear visual cues and intuitive (meaning, already common) interactions. E.g. opening the form in a modal; clicking anywhere outside of this modal closes the modal and loads the weather page. The clickable background should be clearly identified as a special feature, e.g. tiled text "exit page" all over it.
> similar to the Michelin restaurant awards

Michelin stars remain coveted and are a sure-fire way for fine-dining restaurants to fill their seats.
> Why would this breakup hand anything to another country?

For the same reason Google is dominant today. Hobbling American business creates opportunities for other countries to take the top dog position.
This comment thread didn't need to be taken to that level
In our application server written in Tcl/C, the configuration files were a Tcl DSL, the server would search for specific extensions and source the files, done.
I get that washing off bacteria does something good. But it also makes the egg more vulnerable to any remaining bacteria.

If both types are refrigerated, I wonder which effect dominates?
> Heh, there were literally CPUs with some support for the JVM!

Jazelle, a dark history that ARM never wants to mention again
If it can't generate profit, it's worth more liquidated than operating.

Employees should buy out investors if they want to keep operating for their own personal profit.
Crypto Market Makers Made Some Markets
I mean does it matter if whether it’s a good thing to want? WordPress powers 40% of the web because it was convenient, powerful, and easy for someone with basic web skills to hack around with. The same things that people complain about today made it so popular!

Besides, read-only file systems can be used to handle massive sites that need better security (like nasa.gov). And those types sites are either writing their own plugins or heavily auditing which plugins they use.
That's true when looking solely at fine-tuning costs. In theory, you could fine-tune a model locally and only cover electricity expenses. However, we provide a complete end-to-end workflow that simplifies the entire process.

Once a model is fine-tuned, you can run inference on Llama 3.2 3B for as low as $0.12 per million tokens. This includes access to logging, evaluation, and continuous dataset improvement through collaboration, all without needing to set up GPUs or manage the surrounding infrastructure yourself.

Our primary goal is to provide the best dataset for your specific use case. If you decide to deploy elsewhere to reduce costs, you always have the option to download the model weights.
The author predicted it.
What's your most annoying problem at work today?
As a founder I feel like it's interesting how many startups have come into the world over the last decade, yet I still have to do a bunch of annoying things everyday. Whether it's having to name a stupid file correctly or finding an internal wiki, seems like I waste a lot of time.

Anyone else feel the same or am I crazy?