skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do they explain the cognitive dissonance that instead of defending Russia they are actively attacking Ukraine? It makes no sense at all.

Replace 'Russia' with 'USA', and 'Ukraine' with 'Iraq'. There are lots of other examples that could be used as well. I am firmly in the camp that believe Russia is in the wrong here and also that the US was wrong to invade Iraq. But that doesn't change the fact that its easy to create a strong rational-sounding argument about how an offense is really a defense. It happens all the time. There is no dissonance. They believe that the attack is the defense.
Decomposing the Dark Matter of Sparse Autoencoders
Building a PID controller to control the temperature of a (IIRC) piezoelectric cooler (or was it a hot plate? I don't remember exactly) was such a fun exercise. It took me until like 3am to get it working, most fun I had in junior year physics lab.
https://archive.ph/uEw08
so the presentation leaves a bit to be desired but you are throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

for one i don't think this poster is is presenting a government mandate but i believe it's a demand from people to the government to build like this (it's from the climate action museum, which, as far as i could tell is not supported by government)

likewise it is not about forcing people to stay home but demanding the right for people to do so and live their daily life without having to travel every day.

the title "stay home!" is an unfortunate choice. but to be fair, you also have to read the whole title: "your most radical move! stay home!" which clearly suggests that staying home is a choice you make (just like many of us refuse to return to work in the office) and not something forced on you from the outside. if you read anything else then you either miss the point or you are intentionally twisting it.

do you think fighting against neighborhoods like this is going to help you prevent that dystopia that you seem to be afraid of? negative thinking is not going to help us make the world better.

a commenter above mentions paris. i can share the exact same experience from vienna. literally. that's what we are talking about.
It does what it's supposed to do. People can choose to use the tool, or bathe in propaganda and hatred on Twitter. That's up to them.
Only a few I know are on ftth. I guess I live in a fairly affluent area in Zone 3 which is lower density than average - zero flats etc, all just individual houses so perhaps not worth their effort rolling out
'Americans just work harder' than Europeans, says CEO of Norway's $1.6T oil fund
Americans just work harder’ than Europeans, says CEO of Norway’s $1.6 trillion oil fund, because they have a higher ‘general level of ambition’
Whole notebook here: https://deepnote.com/workspace/katkas-workspace-5e77d5a7-62e...

Description: This data app predicts Michigan's 2024 election outcome, focusing on how Arab-American voters could impact the final results. Explore live predictions on this key swing state, where international policy decisions could make or break the election.
I recently wrote a script that encodes an image to fall within a size range[0]. After toying with it, I noticed that smaller AVIF files are completely fine for web use, but identically sized JPEG XL files are not. Given ubiquitous browser support for AVIF[1], unless JPEG XL gets much better at smaller sizes, I reluctantly agree that Chrome's call to drop JPEG XL is the right one.

[0] https://gist.github.com/theandrewbailey/4e05e20a229ef2f2c1f9...

[1] https://caniuse.com/avif
Is it really a mystery that long routes with less expected users see less investment?

Or do you expect that fast trains would unlock a lot of travel between Chicago and Seattle?
This repeatedly comes up every year and yet politicians do absolutely nothing about it. The EU had a resolution it never enacted, and as a result I spend half the year off-kilter (waking up, having lunch and going to bed an hour off what feels “natural”).

Worse, some local governments (like Portugal) opposed the resolution on the grounds that it would impact tourism, which just goes to show you how much they value their people’s health…
Nice to see we're getting there again and that people care about typography.

Yet, the optical margin correction looks mechanistic and only concerned with symbols, not with characters:
The "Y" at the start of the first line doesn't move a bit, even though it's clearly optically too light on the left. The next three lines all start optically pretty heavy with a bar. So I'd nudge to "Y" to the left.

I think it's just a pity that LaTeX with microtype is still the pinnacle of automatic typesetting, after all these years. I really enjoy good typography, but the Web, App and even Desktop world seems not to care about such details, apart from a few programs like Ableton.
> There's no other kinds of not-exactly-people-rights

There are rights without requirements for people that can't function in society: babies, infants, mentally handicapped, elderly with alzheimers, etc.

They all have rights even though they can't fight for them themselves. Especially the right to not be imprisoned or killed by humans, which are the typical fundamental rights sought after for animals with high cognitive capabilities. It's not all or nothing.

Paying taxes, citizenship and ability to travel are one level of abstraction higher and has nothing to do with these fundamental rights. Similarly some other rights like the right to vote are not granted to all citizens.
At least it was a decision.
A chain of Mars exploration catastrophes
The most reputable resource I know of is Making Software, edited by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson.
Gamers, 3D modelling professionals, IBM, HP, ORACLE, many IT departments, etc… ?
Worth Doing Poorly; How I Failed to Run an Event (and What I Learned)
When it was about 70% done downloading, it looks like it refreshed and it put up the Load CTA once again.
<< I'm just trying to inject some logic into the whole thing.

Believe it or not, I appreciate it, but I personally think we (US) are too far gone what with major political event only few days away. Everyone is on edge and that means sense and logic is mostly gone with the wind.

I don't really disagree with you, but I find the fervor of 'true believers' very annoying.
Ok but who works 'smarter'? :-)
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Having seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41960914 , how is this for a scale of internet interaction?

- creating (includes writing)

- critiquing

- searching (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41955332 )

- clicking

- scrolling

[I'm just waiting for "sabbath mode" internet, which generates content automagically enough that, beyond opening the app early friday evening, you don't have to interact with it at all]
To emphasize just how fast this is in comparison to regular rail:

When I was visiting France some years back and took the TER train on the way from Paris to Strasbourg (300mi / 500km), and that crawled. On the way back, we took the TGV, which flew.

If you look at booking tickets on SNCF's website, the difference is stark: about 5 hours via the TER, versus a little under 2 hours via the TGV. (From that perspective, it's a little funny to describe the TER as crawling, seeing as that's not meaningfully different from driving that distance.)

There are some portions of Amtrak that have comparable max speeds (notably, the Acela) but even then, the average speeds on those routes are nowhere near 200km/h.
except that every European I know (and I know a lot of them) that lives & works in the US works harder than any US employee at the same place of employment…
It reads to me that you can’t pass on upstream AI vendor/platform/service requirements downstream to users/customers/end parties.

Which would be separate from any legislated requirements or limitations.
Trains are significantly more expensive that flights

Unless you actually want to travel around ALL of Europe (or even all around a few countries in Europe), in which case trains get cheaper again, thanks to things like the interrail ticket.
it already exist, they have various flavors

- Google Drive

- iCloud Drive

- OneDrive

Free source control too: GitHub

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
The "big country" contributes in that passenger-only high speed rail would be ruinously expensive to lay down and maintain. Long distance passenger rail exists at all in the US only because it can share track with freight rail.
I personally read this one: "Self-Hypnosis" by Peter Lambrou, and Brian M. Alman
If you'd asked this two weeks ago it would've been pretty easy for me. Alexei Moskalev has only just been released from a penal colony.

I suppose you can dismiss that because social media posts and having a daughter with a brain and a heart don't count as "verbal", but I don't think that would be very reasonable.
The time I put into Nintendo Switch with my kid in the last year is the most I've gamed since very early 2000s
to finish your comparison:

tesla uses cameras + local support (safety driver)

I imagine they'll try to switch to remote support at some point.
Discussed 13hrs ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41958425
Can you elaborate on your parentheses more? Not sure why epigenetics is to genetics as build system is to C code.

I was thinking more like genetics is the code base, epigenetics are like decorators that can modify function without changing the behavior without changing code.
If you look at well maintained OSS projects (apache, php, etc). It's the same. Companies with the cash to hire developers are the reason they are successful.
"You're an adorable little ghost..." https://jimbenton.tumblr.com/post/764044329102852096
Can you share a bit more about how you accomplished it? Is this using Llama? I’d love to load the 1B version of Llama for my extension:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/namebrand-check-for...
This is a fundamental problem with these architectures. It's like having a SQL database with no way of handling prepared statements. I have yet to see a solution offered outside of rewriting queries, but that's a whack-a-mole problem.
The thing you're not considering is that you weren't alive for those theories. Prior mainstream theories of the universe that are now debunked were absolutely supported in the same fashion by 'the establishment' (for however that phrase is useful).

That being said, when they were the best models we had they made sense to support.

That's how theories work?

And I would ask what alternatives to current dark matter and/or age of the universe you believe there are. Because I would argue it's not about thought police but more about using the best theories we have until they are proven incorrect.

That's genuinely basic science. If you don't understand that, then I'm not really sure what to do from there. (https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/darwin/evolution-today/what...)

I have no idea what thermophlogistonics is, and there are no Google search results for it. But based on the aether theory, I can deduce it was just a sort of pre-Einstein theory of the universe.
You could still have cars in every color, and yet they're all black or gray.
> the same mistakes Italy did

Italy, I understand, also had had a tradition of conciliation and search for common grounds, a call to the common good. (A drive helped by the fight against a common enemy before the half of the past century.)

The grave mistake is polarization, those steps towards a "cold civil war" (that seems now so common around the world).

But before that, allowing the twisted stagnate in their dumb lowly positions (like said taste for «destr[uction]» and «disconnect[ion] from reality»), in the disgregation of the societal spirit - a root of the abovesaid polarization. It is a lurking entropic phenomenon requiring active correction, normally through debate, through "talking", productive confrontation; it is not absent in these pages.
To me it just feels very repetitive. I don't feel clever building out factories, I just feel more like a drone doing iterative manual labor. As an engineer I just couldn't get into it.
It's very feasible. It's spelled BGP but you would need a distributed team to pull it off. Since I am pro internet wont provide here the details. Same way why a physicist should not go into the full subtle details required to construct a nuclear device :-)

In other words, if you need to ask, then you are not the person who should know.
The British Sleep Society Position Statement on Daylight Saving Time in the UK
The bathtub curve does not apply to buildings. Aside from outliers like the Hard Rock Hotel in NOLA, new buildings very rarely fail catastrophically.

‘Greenfield’ buildings have dozens of inspections during construction. Buildings are designed to remain standing indefinitely with maintenance unlike a battery power tool or washing machine.

Older buildings will typically have more issues since the building codes have improved over time, a focus on inspecting older buildings would be the best strategy.
Pretty good news! I imagine that it'll take a while before libjxl and jpegli won't both supply a cjpegli binary so that'll be mildly annoying at the start, but hopefully this way it'll be adopted quicker so it'll accept more input formats and image software will switch over to jpegli native export instead of using the libjpeg compatible controls.

It's a really excellent software. Its default output quality is storage quality, while the file size is acceptable for mobile data and cloud storage of pictures in most countries. It producing progressive pictures by default still helps when quickly swiping through a whole album of vacation pictures stored on cloud storage, and its progressive output actually reduces size rather than add to it. And it's compatible with everything so now I just throw everything lossy I produce through its default settings until JXL becomes natively supported in Chrome and Windows.
This is specific to your company’s configuration - likely something related to EDR or firewall policies.
There are bad examples of land use like agricultural monoculture and suburban lawns but if you compromise with nature it can be a thriving ecosystem albeit one designed to benefit humans.

https://youtu.be/wd-b_C7a_es?si=lLAPl4Bcii62g3Cm
Stop. Own your approach. Good grief man, you act like your tactic is some sort of secret strategy, but it is obvious -- so why even try to deny it.

<< reply is weirdly bombastic and generally incoherent.

Bombast should not prevent you from being able to form an argument.

Incoherence would, but then it would make sense to point out something specific hang on. Otherwise, we are just putting random words together... you know.. like llm?
I like the build system analogy for the epigenetics, it is quite apt since the mechanism is to “turn and off features that are already in the code base”.

Not sure I get the preprocessor analogy though. Unless you mean specifically changing some #define constants and not stuff like preprocessor macros?
The twins who created their own language
A sales position I was working in 2017 was the first time I'd used Windows 10. I had a very urgent issue with a customer who needed our small business to confirm a change they were requesting. I needed to go through the technical details of the customer's request by reviewing their documents over the phone on my computer.

As I was on the phone and going through their documents, Windows 10 decided to install updates. I'd experienced this before and had done everything I could to try and configure Windows 10 to require my permission to run updates, but it doesn't work that way at least when you are a small business without an I.T. team.

After a few minutes I told the customer I would call them back when my computer completed its updates. The update ended up taking over 40 minutes to complete. What really bothered me the most is that Microsoft is setting the priorities of our organization - software update instead of resolving a critical customer issue.

I've never had a Linux update require so much time and definitely I've never been spontaneously and without requesting my permission locked out of my computer so Linux could run an update.

"Big Tech", as discussed in the article, appears to me to be no longer concerned with small customers and operating in such a way as to assume we are all just their guaranteed customers so they are free to do with us as they please.
What discussion do you want to have? So far the only thing you've tried to do is spread lies in bad faith.

As I mentioned to you, doing any nonzero amount of research would immediately falsify everything you've said.

Here's a discussion of industrial nitrogen accidents: https://www.quora.com/If-you-walk-into-a-room-full-of-100-ni...

> As a safety engineer, I was involved in an incident where nitrogen, N2, had back flowed into a breathing air line. The young man and woman went down, but were observed on CCTV by other workers and pulled to safety. They described their experience as amazing since they had been working in a very quiet, brightly lit green painted room. They said it was like changing the channels on a TV when in the next second, they were on their backs on a cold night looking up at the stars with people standing all around shouting and a fire engine coming up the road with its siren screaming.

> Those two people reported no problems or discomfort at all. One second they were working, the next second they were outside on their backs wondering what the Hell was going on.

Here's an industry flyer discussing the problems involved with using nitrogen: https://www.airproducts.com/-/media/files/en/312/312-12-023-...

> Nitrogen is sometimes mistakenly considered harmless because it is nontoxic and largely inert. However, it can act as a simple asphyxiant by displacing the oxygen in air to levels below that required to support life.

> Being odorless, colorless, tasteless, and nonirritating, nitrogen has no properties that can warn people of its presence.

> At extremely low oxygen concentrations, unconsciousness and death may occur in seconds and without warning.

Are you suggesting that criminals simply have radically different biology than employees do? Were you just hoping that no one would know any facts?
If you get everything on one ticket (and sometimes not) you can usually simply take the next train, with or without proof of delay on your ticket.
Bezos utilizing unorthodox reverse psychology techniques to delegitimize trump and bolster support for harris
The mapping that waymo uses is much more detailed than streetview, the biggest difference being that it includes lidar data. I wouldn't be surprised if they combined the two for some of their latest data updates, but the pre-existing streetview data is not obviously enough to give an advantage.
I'm terrified of Factorio. I've deliberatly avoided playing it because I know, if I do, I'll lose an entire month. Kudos to the creators on their brilliant game, it's like heroin for a particular type of brain.
“Open Source” is an alternative to Big Tech in the same way that “open standards” is a preferable alternative to proprietary technology. In fact, it is largely the same issue.
Turbulent flow mixers. Typically operated in industrial processess where two or more products are pumped through a specially shaped manifold which causes intentional turbulence in the material to mix the different streams. Contrary to blenders or planetary mixers these operate in a continous fashion not on a batch-by-batch basis.
Hello!

I came across this new paper, INTEGER PARTITIONS DETECT THE PRIMES [1] from July, 2024, but I don't have enough knowledge to even read it. I wonder if an implementation of this method would provide any speed benefits compared to PRP.

Great work!

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.06451
My random Internet friend, have you spoken with a doctor about this?
MICRO evolution. Never was in question but cool to see it observable.
> You can't run a 120 billion dollar bond trading operation with like 4 people.

They delegate much of those issues to multiple regulated third parties.

The much referenced NYAG settlement in this discussion never shows they were committing massive fraud. There were periods when reserves included assets like receivables or funds temporarily seized by authorities but there was no finding that USDT wasn’t fully backed. The link to that settlement is thrown around with the implication that “see they are fraudulent” for those who don’t read the details.

I used to think exactly like all the anti-Tether people and conspiracies but the fact is that there exists no evidence for massive fraud and much evidence it isn’t.
May I suggest not downvoting this into oblivion? We need to shine a light on this type of thinking, as it is representative of many others towards ADHDers (including many ADHDers themselves...). I have this wrestling match internally on the daily - "Am I being lazy right now or suffering from ADHD? Can I power through with determination and grit, or soften my approach and do an end-around using tactics learned in therapy?" Magnify that x1000000.

We've all encountered (in person or online) self-diagnosers, and even worse, those who make ADHD their entire personality, and calls for the world to change itself to make life easier for others. If that's your most frequent engagement with ADHD, I get how you could have OP's type of response.
If somebody thinks of alcohol only if they read moonshine it’s their problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshine_(disambiguation)
As someone which designed such audio UIs with knobs, it's not because skeuomorphic was the target, it's because there is no better way to fit 50 controls in a small space while being able to see them all at the same time.
Or, they could let the market decide. The current system seems to work for most people.
you are in the early extend phase.

it will look good, until the extensions get more and more proprietary- but absurdly useful.
I agree that it’s a positive development. Working together/recognizing our shared fate isn’t mutually exclusive with progress (it’s generally a prerequisite!).
Explain what you tried to say.
Inertia, plus in the grand scheme of things CDJs aren’t too expensive for clubs.

Two CDJs cost less than weekend’s worth of personnel for a small club even.

If you’re a DJ that’s just starting out, it suck’s a little though. Usually you’ll start out on Native Instruments’ Traktor S2/S4 or Pioneer’s cheaper DDJ, and for your first club set you arrive early so you can familiarize yourself with the quirks of the CDJs. Or find a buddy with a CDJ home setup that you can practice on.
No, macOS is FreeBSD, not the Unix from Bell Labs.
Well that's also an issue, the audience that wants a smaller phone is also spread across all the price points that the regular audience is. So it's even less viable for manufacturers to make small phones.
There's some that have a button for cut, same for EQ kills
He is talking about what most people do, MACRO evolution or one species becoming another. That doesn't happen. Micro evolution does happen and this was just observing that (finally).
> I would assume that domination over them by us would be illegal.

I don't think being given personhood would necessarily make it illegal. There is the precedent of dependent persons (mentally handicapped, babies) that have personhood but are also under the control of someone else that take decisions for them.
If you ship an API version of a model that is demonstrably resistant to prompt injection today you'll make more than $10m from it.

If you find a solution and publish a paper describing it your lifetime earning potential may go up by that amount too. A lot of very valuable use-cases are blocked on this right now.
Is there a link to the complete music score somewhere?