skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The hypocrisy of warning about a governmental registry and at the same time establishing a private registry for political purposes is stunning,”

So does he suggest that databases on advertisement/customer preferences, voters, ... be run by the govt?

All debatable but I'll argue the constitution never gave the govt the right to know who owns guns since the ratification of the 2nd amendment, the purpose of which is exactly to defend against unconstitutional govt acts. So per se, that means if it's legal to be tracked, it has to be done in private registries.
Good spatulas have rounded corners, and have smooth edges, free of burrs.
There are some other ‘well akshually’ remarks I could make, but the root of today's mess is that Unix started with ASCII terminal interaction, but Linux desktops too heavily imitated Microsoft Window, for which the Control key has unrelated conflicting overloads.
Do you really think this would be materially different if they used Minetest? To be frank, nothing in Minecraft as a game (rather than the code) deserves intellectual property protection; it copies games that came before and was copied by games that came after. It is an excellent, well-designed implementation of a very basic concept.
> You would think common sense prevails...

Appeals to common sense seem to underlie many of the "alternative facts" in the zeitgeist. "Common sense" is how people defend their views when they can't do it empirically. That's not always bad, but "common sense" is probably part of the problem.
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Then you are just lying to the 8 year old.

Sure you can adapt how much context you give based on who's asking, but if it's something factual like this it really shouldn't change from a yes to a no.

If you think they _meant_ to ask a different question that is less vague, it can be clarified

"Water and oil do not mix by hand. However water and oil can mix under some specific conditions like a vacuum, do you want to discuss that in more detail?"
I'm still waiting for my Moment of Glory when a puzzle room or something has a Hanoi tower and I can slam out the solution as quickly as I can move the pieces, thus justifying all my formal Computer Science education once and for all.

(There is a very easy-to-remember algorithm that can be trivially executed by humans given here in a Mathologer video, with a time-code link to jump straight to it: https://youtu.be/MbonokcLbNo?si=ey8bv4T9KbDxgB7N&t=650 )
Google searches bad. What to do?
Claris isn’t really a dumping ground anymore. That’s how it started, but they’ve evolved their own business since then.
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> Not sure where or what "work passwords" has to do with it

How many times do I have to explain that I use a computer mostly to do work, which is development of Apple software, requiring a Mac, and therefore most of my computer usage is necessarily on a Mac. Consequently, switching to a Linux machine as a "daily driver" is pointless, because I have nothing much to "drive" daily except my work.
The blurring distinction between local and cloud has gotten so bad that not even a nerd can tell if their device is respecting the privacy border.
I think firefox asked me what I want to sync
I don't like it either (it's just syntactically annoying), but I am pretty sure it's there just for historical reasons: https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/01/16/history-and-futur...

It's at least cleaner than a bunch of chained .then()s or nested callbacks, which is what we had to do in the old days.

If you don't want to use async/await, you can still do it the old-fashioned ways. But it's not really that difficult to just wrap whatever you're doing in an async call, is it? e.g.

(async () => {
await someAsyncThing();
await Promise.all(aFewAsyncThings[]);
await someOtherThing();
})();

Will cause all of those to run in sequence as synchronous operations one after another. Promise.all() can help with concurrent async things, or you can use a queuing library like p-throttle/p-limit if there are rate limits to observe.

Yeah, it's a bit of syntactic complexity, but once you get the hang of it, they're not so bad and let you more cleanly think about which operations are synchronous & blocking and which can be async in the background (important for both performance and UX).
Is it accurate to say that any data that can be tokenized can be turned into embeddings?
The problem here is that apple only provides Metal as the graphics driver. This solution instead creates a native Vulkan driver which has solutions to hardware<->vulkan incompatibilities built in at the driver level.
Now lie in it: an uxntal retrospective
Why would those seeking to grasp the entirety use a less efficient and more cumbersome method, than just looking at the full flowchart in the first place? (assuming it exists)

And I don’t see why it matters if it’s only a handful of people, information products can still be created for their needs, if so decided.
There’s a great Tumblr that tracks this exact phenomenon

https://www.tumblr.com/ourincrediblejourney
I'm not being flippant, actually. I would pay to have a reliable source of information. I'm also overwhelmed at the thought of how to make such a thing work.
Apple Silicon Macs don't have support for eGPUs: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102363

Maybe with future TB5 support they will include that feature.
The trust in video evidence certainly can be much lower than it is now.
For most apps, CLI or not, performance is not really a concern so long as it's good enough. Obsessing over performance before your program does The Thing is a great way to never actually get around to doing the useful bits. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying performance doesn't matter at all, but premature optimization and all its friends apply.
I find this extremely disappointing. A diffusion transformer trained on Minecraft frames and accelerated on an ASIC... Okay?

From the demo(that doesn't work on Firefox) you can see that it's overfit to the training set and it doesn't have a consistent state transition.

If you define it as a Markov decision process with states being images, actions being keyboard/mouse inputs, the probability transition being the transformer model, the model is a very poor one. Turning the mouse around shouldn't result in a completely different world, it should result in the exact same point of space from different camera orientation. You can fake it by fudging with the training data and augmenting with walking a bit, doing a 360 camera rotation and continuing the exploration but that will just overfit to that specific seed.

The page says their ASICs model inference supports 60+ players. Where are they shown playing together? What's the point of touting multiplayer performance when realistically, the poor state transition will mean those 60+ players are playing single player DeepDream Minecraft?
I like the idea of that proposal, but I'm not sure how it would work in practice.

The problem is that the crooked dentist will argue that the "bait" patient has in fact have cavities. And then if the prosecutor finds somehow convincing evidence that the patient does not actually have cavities the crooked dentist can change tactic and say it was a honest mistake on their part.

With other crimes where "sting operations" work the situation is much more clear cut. The target of the drug sting is either selling drugs or not selling drugs. If you find drugs you can easily prosecute them. With the dental scam even if you manage to catch them red handed once, it is still a long and complicated process to prove it was a scam and not a mistake.

Or alternatively we can legislate to make making mistakes with dental diagnosis illegal the same way having large batches of drugs is illegal. That will make the prosecution easier, but will have all kind of other negative consequences.
It is marketing bs, it was not needed and is not needed imo, and many other people’s opinions. Expressing opinion can’t be arrogant imho
Congrats!

A related question, if you don't mind me asking: was acquisition your initial goal when you founded Causal, or did you just receive an offer you couldn't refuse?
This is a very interesting comment. Is it possible for you elaborate on that?
It's always struck me as absurd that the same group of people can be described like this and then simultaneously blamed for an epidemic of "aggressive and inappropriate sexual advances". (See also: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/01/untitled/)
Show HN: Image Color Picker
Diabetes risk soars for adults who had a sweet tooth as kids
It calls into question the applicability of the infinite monkeys theorem, so the headline is correct but misleading :)
This seems right up my alley since I'm very interested in security and also love games.

I tried clicking on your full list of openings link and it went to a dead notion page "The page you are looking for cannot be found!"
smollm2
Had an experience yesterday where a simple mdn doc existed but chatgpt gave the reverse of reality on that doc. Wasted about an hr of my time, but taught me these things will hallucinate even the simplest of stuff at times. Not sure how we even fix that.
The Brothers truly inspired generations of artists and art-lovers.
ChatGPT Dreams Up Fake Studies, Alaska Cites Them to Support School Phone Ban
Regatta Storage: Transform S3 into an infinite, local file system
Do they have embedded wifi and a service subscription yet?
It begins with the choice of operating system. Getting Windows/OSX to not phone home is one thing, ensuring it stays that way as the updates come in is another can of worms entirely.
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Sure, that’s possible; however, I’ll note that private banks and payment services do already discriminate in their payment terms, and while your high income earner may choose more desirable options (for whatever reason), the unbanked population would still likely benefit from the existence of a minimalist USPS banking option.
Workflow becoming Shortcuts mostly as-is would be a counterexample.
They sold to Canva, which is strictly subscription based. As far as I know there haven’t been negative changes yet, but we’re still in the period before we’d see them.
> Self-righting yachts exist.[2] But they look like rescue boats with nicer interiors.

> Many recreational sailboats have enough flotation to survive 90 degrees of roll, with the sails flat on the water. This is called a "knockdown". In small craft, it's usually embarrassing but not a disaster. Larger sailing craft are usually built to avoid rolling that far.

Offshore racing rules tend to specify things like minimum angle of vanishing stability (AVS), they tend to be around 130 degrees. Similarly yachts sold in the EU must fulfill ISO 12217-2 which, AFAIU, also requires a minimum AVS of 130 degrees.

Not sure if that applies to the Bayesian, it might be old or big enough to be exempt from these rules.
to take your money while you sit at an empty virtual poster.
There’s no way Apple can build this. Their human interface people all seem to be gone on the desktop. So many things work so bad these days when they migrated to the new ui framework.
TIL that `false` is (was) a swear word. (I just hope the compliance checker for my source code doesn't start flagging it, as I'd hate to have to replace them all with `!true`... as that just makes the code read like flam-flam.
Dentists in the U.S. are often driven by profit rather than patient care, much like many other healthcare providers. Over the past 20 years, I’ve seen more than ten dentists, and only one genuinely seemed to care about my dental health, doing everything necessary to save a tooth. She may have cared because we’re distantly related.

Here are a few examples from my experiences:

1. I went in for a routine cleaning, but they recommended $2,500 worth of unnecessary procedures. When I declined and asked for just the cleaning, the dentist spent less than five minutes on it.

2. Dentists seem overly eager to drill and fill, often doing poor-quality work that requires repeated visits. I still have six fillings from when I was young, and they've lasted for over 30 years.

3. For a minor broken corner on a tooth, one dentist recommended a $2,500 procedure (above my insurance coverage) and insisted on treating all my teeth for better care. I declined, but still received a $250 bill for the consultation. My previous dentist fixed it for $120 in cash.

4. My wife’s teeth had no visible signs of major cavities, yet one dentist filled six teeth. Fortunately, the fillings were minor and are still holding up after 10 years.

5. I have several friends with similar stories. For example, dentists often recommend extensive procedures like root canals on baby teeth, costing between $2,500 and $7,000. In one case, a root-canaled tooth fell out the very next day.

6. Orthodontists often put braces on young children, as early as age 6-8, even though in many other countries (like Korea), the average age is around 18. I’ve read stories of people who regret early braces, particularly when the wrong teeth were extracted.

The list goes on.
If your job is to present on stage to a crowd 5 days a week, 9-5, sure. If not, don’t draw bad comparisons.
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Even by ML people from 25 years ago. It’s a black box function that maps from a ~30k space to a ~1k space. It’s a better function then things like PCA, but does the same thing.
I’ve only been sailing a few years, but I racked up about 500nm of racing this summer. I’ve only been in these situations a few times, but had a ton of confidence in the boat and the skipper. It’s honestly a ton of fun, and feels more dangerous than it is, since the boats are (supposed to be) designed to handle this. That said, I keep the family away from this sort of thing, and take them out on our family friendly coastal cruiser for more leisurely sails.
There never was going to be one. The pixelmator team is deeply steeped in the Apple world, and I seriously doubt they'd ever consider Windows.
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It's weird seeing all this discussion of this being a new entry into Apple's pro apps, I'm curious what you folks think Apple has to gain from expanding their pro line up today?

Apple was into pro apps 20 years ago when they were trying to win over creatives to their new platform (OS X). That's hasn't been a priority for them since then, they've vaguely migrated to the prosumer market (Final Cut Pro X). But that strikes me more as a compromise to give the products more life without doing things that are antithetical to Apple (mainly backwards compatible, i.e., real pros need this).

I've speculated here that my only guess is this is about visionOS (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42018695), but curious to hear from anyone what specific problem expanding their pro line up solves beyond that? (I guess maybe getting another pro app on iPad is a little bit of something, but I don't think that's acquisition worthy.)
You can just visit their site and see for yourself what they do.
I can't wait. I also write medium articles if you have time to kill

https://medium.com/@fithis2001/ingesting-the-omdb-dataset-fc...

I may take time to experiment. Lucky to know some Golang.
Fully agree. As a non-native English speaker, I always thought English doesn't have "real" curse words, and the only actual (taboo) curse words I know are so-called "n-word" and similar.

It's hard for me to explain the difference, but (as an educated and relatively eloquent person) I would really hesitate (as in, physically struggle with my throat) to curse in my language aloud in a public place. Saying them among my friends or family would be seen as between mildly offensive and absolutely unacceptable. When hearing someone curse in public, I instinctively assume they're uneducated or intoxicated.

Meanwhile, i can freely swear in English among the same people (and online, and in most situations abroad). My mother, who I have never heard curse in my language, says "shit" like it was "oh darn". I see English swear words everywhere online. They really don't feel like a taboo to me.
> A similar example is the iWork suite. It exists, but neither users nor Apple seem to care about it.

I would disagree on that, at least about Keynote. I’m not the only one who loves it.
> What is the value of certainty about what WILL happen in hypothetical universes?

Talking about something that would take greater than 1 googol years in our universe has about as much value as talking about something that would take 1 googol years in our universe.

In other words, the fact that something might probably occur right before the heat death of the universe, rather than after, isn't particularly useful either. For that matter, there's about an equal value in talking about something probably "only" a trillion years out, either.
Sounds like a great idea for a new startup. Teeth Salons. We've got Dry Bars that people pay for so why not? I'd consider going once a month if it wasn't too expensive and didn't take more than 20-30 mins.
The thing is, it's really not hard to recognize this access pattern. Just bucket API call times and switch modes on the fly.

There is simply no excuse for an app that does 10 API calls a second to burn 100% CPU.