skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't understand why some people feel the need to cheat in a game; I also think that cheating gets boring fast, and likely most people just move on. The whole point of a game, especially one based more on skill than luck, is the challenge; if you remove that, the fun rapidly vanishes.

My friends would bring their computers to my house and we'd hack/cheat online games not because we were interested in the games, but because we were interested in the social experience of what we were doing. We weren't focused on the game; instead, we were focused on teasing & laughing with & at each other.
Original bramley Apple tree being neglected, say campaigners
The FSF delivering a statement on AI will have zero effect, no matter what position they take.
AFAICT, while he has threatened extreme and unconstitutional retaliation against businesses (e.g., pulling broadcast licenses and jailing journalists for unfavorable coverage) [0] if he wins, he has not specifically threatened nationalization.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2024/10/22/nx-s1-5161480/trump-media-thr...
How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me
Very bizarre, as I also found it helped with this! I was only a First Officer at the time, but even as a Captain today I find playing 2048 during take off and landing really helps.
"Maybe it's a problem that just isn't worth fixing."

There is a finite amount of short, memorisable names.
This was flagged. Whether you're pro- or anti-, be honest: does this contravene any guidelines? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41941235
IANAL nor an accountant but I do have a dormant Ltd company

There is no requirement to be a UK resident. You just need an address in the country it is registered in, to receive post. People often use a PO Box or an accountant's office. NB they do send important documents to this address so you have to be able to receive post. Many accounting firms offer this as a service, including international forwarding

You also have to pay to file the statement of accounts which I believe is also around the £13 a year mark. No taxes etc as the company doesn't generated any activity that is taxable

Only downside is the paperwork, and small fees. You can have an accountant handle everything if you want to pay more.
"backed" is a somewhat unclear term. Given tether don't only hold cash their securities will have mark-to-market valuations. At purchase prices, in a legitimate operation, they should be "backed", but if they were forced to finance redemptions at losses from purchase price then I suppose might not be "backed".

However, they must have been sitting on so much interest up to now given where rates went recently that, provided they ran a fairly conservative operation, they should have plenty of reserves.
Bluesky Is Not Decentralized
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Sorry if I’m just bad at reading comprehension, but what exactly is being modeled here? It sounds like the author is just getting price data not unlike a candlestick chart. What I don’t understand is if the trading is happening within the 5 minute windows he mentions or if model is finding patterns across timeframes?
Deep state-space models (Deep SSMs) have shown capabilities for in-context learning on autoregressive tasks, similar to transformers. However, the architectural requirements and mechanisms enabling this in recurrent networks remain unclear. This study demonstrates that state-space model architectures can perform gradient-based learning and use it for in-context learning.
> It's not two media organizations. Both wrote endorsements of Harris.
> Two self-interested billionaires decided that they and their personal fortunes would be better off if those endorsements were not published.

How is it worse than a small cadre of elitist mono-culture editors using the reputation of WaPo for their chosen candidate?

Bezos didn't force WaPo to endorse another candidate, I think it's actually good they don't endorse anyone at all.
I think GP is asking for consistency.
Pysquirrel – let Python handle your NUTS (regions)
Nitrogen fertilizer alone is a long way from 10x yield. The initial program got 3x yields over 20 years from a host of changes (pesticides, farm equipment, new hybrids etc), but at the core it was really a mix of education and loans not just some novel techniques.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
Doing a job in any company is literally a transactional deal. Employee shouldn't work if not paid, employer shouldn't work with them if they are not increasing value. Assuming as long as there is decent severance.
The comment I was replying to said "browser-based password managers provided remarkably little value"; it didn't say "little value relative to other password managers".

Much as with cell phone cameras, "the best camera is the one you have with you"; the best password manager is the one you have with you.
This whole thing is sounding alot like the one about Bill Murray, the son of famous atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair (not the famous one from SNL).

His mom really influenced his behavior, so it has to be a conspiracy: William J. Murray III is an American Baptist minister, and social conservative lobbyist. Murray serves as the chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition, a non-profit organization in Washington, D.C. that lobbies Congress on issues related to aiding Christians in Islamic and Communist countries.
If they are video frames, you also need to know the chroma subsampling ratio and separate stride values for luma and chroma.

(Some systems also allow for separate base offsets for the chroma planes, but that’s not useful in practice. It’s simpler if you can assume that the chroma planes tightly follow the luma. Stride is enough for alignment.)
'...sacrificing it and losing readers for the sake of his other business interests, i.e., government contracts.'

Sound point unless you figure Bezos is accepting government may be about to change?
I am probably not part of the "we" you are talking about, but I had no idea "normie" means that, and I couldn't infer it from the comment. In fact I inferred a completely wrong meaning from that comment (something like "unenlightened").

Isn't "normie" a pejorative word (genuine question)?
You're taking about access you're afraid an extension might be exploited to expose versus ad networks and social media plugins that are known to expose.

I'll take the potential bogeyman over the real one, thanks.
> If some billionaire owned the NY Post

A billionaire does
Great minds think alike. Here's one I just cooked up. Python 3.13 is faster, at least for the simplest possible list comprehension with no filters. N is the length of the list comprehension. Repeated 100 times for each test and showing the average. Run on a MacBook Air M3.

https://gist.github.com/thomasaarholt/2e4d42cbf3f0de60c811bb...

Running on Python 3.12.7 (main, Oct 2 2024, 15:45:55) [Clang 18.1.8 ]
11.32ns on N=100
9.42ns on N=1000
7.32ns on N=10000
5.23ns on N=100000
5.87ns on N=1000000

Running on Python 3.13.0 (main, Oct 16 2024, 08:05:40) [Clang 18.1.8 ]
7.30ns on N=100
5.91ns on N=1000
5.09ns on N=10000
4.31ns on N=100000
5.89ns on N=1000000
The West Indies aren't India. Is this a cover-up, part of a scheme to distort perceptions? No, it's an artifact of history. Turkeys aren't from Turkey (officially "Türkiye"). But birds from south of the Sahara that resemble turkeys were at one time sold to Western Europe via Turkey. Then the name was transferred to large American birds, inaccurately, because they were you know what I mean, Turkeys. Similarly, Arabic numerals (which undeniably passed through Arabic) were you know what I mean, Arabic numbers instead of people attempting to deliver detailed history lessons mid-conversation. There was no deliberate or even subconscious attempt to impugn any foreign country. Well, no specific attempt. No more than usual. It was just people persistently getting the names of things wrong, like they always will.
Without the full details of the edit war you were involved in, the scenario seems to be clash between your "world view" and those who reversed your edits. From your username, being from a region where a successful genocide/ethnic cleansing of a minority religious group was conducted by the majority local population only a couple of decades back, the possibility of your edits being controversial to others not necessarily the alleged "BJP it cell" is there.
In practice there is little or no distinction. The list of top articles always includes opinion pieces, the choice of “neutral” fact articles to publish (and the headlines used) signals bias, and on a basic common sense level a newspaper isn’t going to publish an opinion piece that goes against the opinions of their workers/owners. Every time an opinion piece is published that goes against this, it’s a huge brouhaha.

Interestingly on another note, opinion writers are often actually less qualified than you’d expect, because the business model of a newspaper doesn’t really work for accumulating expertise vs. a specialized magazine/Substack / etc. The only way to have consistent opinion pieces is to have a generalist, not a specialist.
That's kind of expected. Folks over at the emualtion subreddit @ reddit are foaming at the mouth... when it doesn't even apply to them.

Did they expect that they would allow folks to check out other software like Photoshop at the Library?
> A lot of people get hung up on `weights = compiled-artifact` because both are binary representations,

No, that's not why weights are object code. Binary vs. text is irrelevant.

Weights are object code because training data is declarative source code defining the desired behavior of the system and training code is a compiler which takes that source code and produces a system with the desired behavior.

Now, the behavior produced is less exactly known from the source code than is the case with traditional programming, but the function is the same.

You could have a system where the training and inference codes were open source and the model specified by the weights itself was not — that would be like having a system where software was not open source, but the compiler use to build it and the runtime library it relies on were. But one shouldn't confuse that with an open source model.
5$ vps probably not
It wasn’t a single or even custom chip though - built from standard bitslice.
What’s next, forbid company names that influence AI algorithms?
These sampling based techniques is a rare occasion where experimenting with consumer hardware can let you improve on SOTA models. I don't think it will last - the end game surely will be a trainable sampler. But for now - enjoy tinkering: https://github.com/codelion/optillm implements a few of these techniques

optillm authors suggest that the additional computations in Entropics don’t bring any better results in comparison with the simple CoT decoding (but I am not sure if they also check efficiency):https://x.com/asankhaya/status/1846736390152949966

It looks to me that many problems with LLMs come from something like semantic leaking, or distraction by irrelevant information (like in the GSM Symbolic paper) - maybe there is some space for improving attention too.

I wrote a couple of blog posts on these subjects: https://zzbbyy.substack.com/p/semantic-leakage-quick-notes, https://zzbbyy.substack.com/p/llms-and-reasoning, https://zzbbyy.substack.com/p/o1-inference-time-turing-machi...
> Newspapers are a business and have to give their customers what they want.

I really want to challenge this idea. Businesses can have missions quite distinct from what the majority of their prospective customers would want.

If I had practically unlimited money I wouldn't ever think of funding a news organisation and then only have it produce content that customers wanted. I would have a purpose for it, stemming from my own ethics.

I think it quite naive to consider Bezos has not done the same and that this decision is simply in line with his personal political interests.

Neoliberalism is a really poor substitute for personal morality and accountability.
> there can be a problem with who/how decides what is code.

Blocking names that look like code is part of a defence in depth approach, it's not a standalone silver bullet.
If anyone wants to build this sort of thing the new Raspberry Pie Pico 2 is both orders of magnitude more capable than the chip used here and also around half the price.

It's by far the best value for money for an introductory 32bit ARM/Risk embedded device right now.
The Hunter Biden laptop was real. Even the MSM admitted it 3 years after US citizens were censored for sharing the story at the behest of the US government. The Russiagate story on the other hand was pure fiction. Hillary paid for the Steele Report to be written, and even paid a fine for election interference. If the media was worth a hoot these facts would be common knowledge.
It’s a distinction without a difference to anyone who isn’t being pedantic.
That's part of the culture. They figured out long ago you don't need to be the best, you just have to say and believe it. Marketing baby!

I kind of admire the confidence and positivity it gives them. It has its benefits. But being on the receiving end of the ego and boisterousness kinda sucks
So why is it that this is about money and Amazon contracts? Why isn't it about Kamala just being so bad, in Bezos's eyes, that she doesn't deserve an endorsement. I think that's way more likely.

I am not surprised however that the liberal media will look for any problem over admitting it's their own candidate that's the problem.

Bezos owns 9% of Amazon. His personal share of any 10bn contract might be a few hundred million over many years. He doesn't care!
From watching Youtube, Ataris may have been the best computer to be exposed to in one's teenage years for so many reasons. It was very capable and efficient for it's CPU. Still might be to learn to build with constraints.
> To the extent that the government has some non-public information, they cannot always reveal it directly.

Is that expected to be relevant here? What kind of secret jobs data would the government be keeping under lock and key for the security of the nation in a typical year?

> Most of the people beginning this training have only just reached adulthood, and have no reason to be politically sophisticated. I sure wasn't, at that age.

This is why adolescents have parents or, failing that, teachers and guidance counselors.

> Even if the government was completely open and honest, market are not efficient unless P == NP.

Markets don't have to be perfectly efficient, the only question is if they're more efficient than central planning, and the answer to that question is yes.

Notice that the government also has no ability to timely perform NP calculations.

> What else can be bought for the cost of a doctor?

Probably like a tenth of a mile of paved asphalt. Having a few "too many" doctors is going to be worth more than the median thing the government spends money on, because trained doctors are valuable even outside the practice of medicine, e.g. as researchers or policy advisors or simply as a buffer against undersupply, since the consequences of that are so dire.

Moreover, this isn't even a valid question when the size of any given graduating class is a small proportion of the total pool. If it takes 7 years post-bachelors to become a doctor and then you are one for 35, the total size of the pipeline is only 20% of the size of the pool. If the number of doctors in training is 50% too large, the total supply will only be in excess by 10% from the point you figure that out, and that's the single-year peak that only lasts for one graduating class before it starts edging downward again. It's just not a big problem for that to happen. These numbers are within the error bars for how precisely "oversupply" or "undersupply" can even be defined or agreed upon as a concept.
I think is really important to understand the reasons... too many ppl took IT college classes or simple bootcamps while economy is shrinking (too much offer), a lot of b2b visa workers are still in America (lower wedges), a strong senior with some chatgpt or copilot can do 3x juniors or medium work (less ppl needed) and ofc more and more managers pushing on IA to cut headcount to make $$$ bonuses....
Lol the US government launches psyops on its own population as well as every other population in the world. They can and do get things taken down from social media for all kinds of reasons, mostly illegitimate ones. If they fail to take down or suppress some information that they don't like, it is most likely a fluke.
The video of the talk about this is well worth watching too.
The panic is converted to an Erlang error exception. You have to explicitly ignore it to make unit tests pass in spite of it.

I am still interested in the situation you observed.
I wonder if sideshows even existed in the wild before release of The Fast and the Furious (2001) movie.
This is actually kind of how the US market works with essentially 1 market maker who is by far the largest and who also happens to be the largest political donor (100 million a year to gop alone). Oh, and like Bernie Madoff, the owner of that market maker also owns a hedge fund (which like Bernie's makes completely impossible profits year after year). The hedge fund is of course a totally seperately run business from the market maker /s /s /s

So that actually sounds quite realistic to me from the market maker point of view of how things actually work in the US.
This is perfect. If I was on the team, I would have this framed and hang it up in the office, to get a good chuckle every time I walk by.
Funnily Bezos has probably made more for Harris by stopping the endorsement then if he let it go through. No one would have cared about the endorsement, now this story is everywhere..
It’s a bit more than that in my mind. Political candidates at this point are telling vastly different stories about the reality we live in. The changes they want to make follow from the story they are telling.

It’s not that politicians share a common set of facts and just have differences of opinion about how to best accomplish the same goal. They are telling vastly different stories. In some sense, the more compelling story wins.

So I see a pretty direct connection between facts and political preference.
When you have revolving door regulators, almost impossible to expect regulation that benefits individual freedom over special interests. Copyright is supposed to protect creators while they market and deploy their IP from others selling unauthorized copies.

But.. can any legal experts here explain otherwise, that this is a smart ruling?
Photoshop can still be purchased. This is about software that is no longer offered on the market.
> Bezos owns 9% of Amazon. His personal share of any 10bn contract might be a few hundred million over many years. He doesn't care!

The rest of your comment aside, I think this sentence proves too much. You can use it to prove that Bezos doesn't care about almost anything in Amazon, or that most billionaires don't care much about what happens in their companies, because it only impacts a small part of their already vast fortune.

It's pretty clear that this is not true for many billionaires.
It's left up to personal judgement of a civil servant. The law isn't code, it doesn't need to exhaustively define every rule. Issues with definitions are dealt with by the courts or by contacting your MP.
If FEMA or any government agency was at fault in any way, would you expect them to admit it? I'm not going to endorse any particular theory but your view of things is way too simplistic. You simply cannot trust an agency, or the government as a whole, to investigate itself. Governments break their own laws constantly.
Repost from 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41920591.
Sure but the concern is that he did it to appease the government which will retaliate against speech under Trump.
Mullvad browser: the privacy of Tor, with the perks of a VPN (2023)
> parents should teach their kids to drive

This is how it works in France, you can teach your kids to drive from IIRC age 15.

This is a frightening experience for the parent in the front seat and the rest of the passengers. The drivers on the road in front of you are blissfully unaware, the ones behind see a specific sign and keep healthy distances :)
To put the questions differently: assume we look at all the planets from the perspective of a single point (say, Earth), why do some spin one way (cw) and some spin the other way (ccw)? Are cc and ccw evenly distributed?
pigfix
This was the basis of my response too. It's almost never said by people in contexts where it's not pejorative, to my understanding. It's a staple of incels and the elite Mensa types. It dismisses the average lived experience because iamveryspecial.
Nope, shadowsocks is just plain TCP-in-TCP (not TCP-over-TCP) proxy. If you cannot have performant routing between clouds due to UDP QoS, then the only sensible solution would be to setup proxy nodes on both sides and transparently redirect TCP (if that's all you need) traffic through the proxy.

(I wrote https://github.com/shadowsocks/go-shadowsocks2)
This is actually how markets are made - do you think a second hand book shop operates any differently?
Pedantically, Adobe no longer sells it out right, but they do let you rent it at various price levels via Creative Cloud.

https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/plans.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb2pAi5hLUg
There are claims that it improves the LLMs on an array of benchmarks - if that is confirmed - wouldn't it be more important than the theory?
Indeed. I've experimented a bit with abusing DD/DBSP for my purposes by modeling various kinds of data structures in terms of Z-sets, but these efforts have not yielded very impressive results. :)

For how elegant DBSP is I still found the paper a tough nut to crack, and it really is one of the more accessible theoretical contributions in the space, at least from this grubby programmer's perspective... I hope to devote some time to study and play around more, but in the meantime I'm rooting for you!
Tell HN: GpuOwl/PRPLL, GPU software used to find the largest prime number
Hi, I'm Mihai Preda the author of GpuOwl/PRPLL [1], an OpenCL software used by Luke Durant for his recent discovery of the largest prime number know, the 52nd Mersenne prime 2^136279841 - 1 [2].

Feel free to ask questions about technical aspects of the GpuOwl implementation, about optimizations, tricks, efficient FFT implementation on GPUs etc. Or anything else.

[1] GpuOwl: https://github.com/preda/gpuowl
[2] GIMPS: https://www.mersenne.org/
> I wonder if sideshows even existed in the wild before release of The Fast and the Furious (2001) movie

Yes, the Wikipedia article on them notes that they started in Oakland in the 1980s, and points to specific city responses to try to combat them from the mid-1990s.

The movies were probably a contributor to the spread of the phenomenon, though.
'Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy.' ~Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny

https://smalldeedsdone.com/2024/07/09/do-not-obey-in-advance...
Cost, most likely.
Look at this later videos where he has the servo lift a weight on a long arm.
Pointless warning spam drowns out real issues in the logs all the time. You cannot expect an end user to fix chromium based applications or stop using them, so all you end up doing is making the system less usable and less secure.
I prefer the Debian policy about this:

https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy