skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The depressing part is that there's a large subset of people that can't even begin to grasp just how extremely embarassing it is to attach accelerometers to tribesmen and then think it becomes a steam engine and can be modeled as such.

> Sugar has 4 calories per gram. Fat has 9. Are you arguing that sugar calories are more fattening than fat calories?

Show me a molecule called "calory". Make a blood test - or any other measurement involving actual human body and show me exactly where this "calory" is. Obviously that is a rhetorical question, as human body does not operate on "calories", in fact, they are nowhere to be found in the human body.

Human body however does recognize glucose - C6H12O6 - and when your glycogen stores are depleted (such as by running in the jungle whole day, climbing a tall baobab tree or doing long distance cycling sessions) - the monosaccharides you consume will first go directly to replenish glycogen stores in muscles and liver and other organs.

If however, you're big fat couch potato with minimal lean muscle mass and a low basal metabolic rate, your glycogen stores are maxed out easily and continued consumption of sugar will directly lead to insulin spikes that will directly trigger lipogenesis (fat storage) as the fat cells will convert excess blood glucose into triglycerides. Eventually you develop insulin insensitity and eventually diabetes. Which is a very natural progression.

Consuming fat however does not notably spike insulin and does not trigger lipogenesis in the same fasion, quite the opposite - breaking down stored body fat can only happen if you stop constantly spiking insulin and enter a catabolic state. And thus - yes - even though fat is more energy dense on paper, it is way less fattening that sugar. And most important of all - consuming fat and proteins increases satiety via peptide hormones such as cholecystokinin which is released when the gut has to digest proteins and fat.

Embarassment really is the only polite way to express myself when confronted with people that compare hunter-gatherers that eat everything that moves, animals, their guts and organs whole, beas, larva, beawax and honeycombs in their entirity - to sedentary cookie muncher diets and claim that not only are those diets comparable (both being "high sugar" diets allegedly), but have similar daily energy expendiatures.

I suppose - to reach parity - couch potatoes expand all their energy producing... sex hormones? This is some truly fascinating stuff.
I blame Nike.
Can you link to the issue?
Well, Go bundles its own runtime with the executable. JS has to work on probably millions of different combinations of versioned runtimes.
Perf! From testing on some of my staging workloads, the footprint isn't too high and I can get 5-6k messages/s. Esp. since there is only one worker instance involved (for strict ordering).

Yes, it does use NATS JetStream.
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Moving the controls solves the problem of splatter but doesn't solve the problem of dirty or wet fingers that can't accurately control a touch screen.
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I did not mean this as a criticism of the author. I understand it reads that way, and apologize. It is an attempt to question the base assumptions inherent in the analysis. As I put in another comment, and as someone else stated, the job of a manager is:

* ensure members of the group know what each other are doing.
* ensure members of the team know where the team is going
* act as direct report in another team that has another manager that does the same.

Any non-trivial software project will require parallel development. The biggest risk to any non-trivial software project is that when the pieces from parallel development are put together, they will not fit or inter-operate. In my experience.
If there is any way to undo the unlearning, there is also a way to use that method to identify the weights carrying the information to stop them from conveying that information. At the heart of training is detection.

The information may still be in there, but undetectable by any known means. You can definitely certainly remove the information, setting every weight in the model to zero will do that. Identifying when you have achieved the goal of completely removing information while not destroying other information might not be possible.

I'm not sure if that will mean there might in the future be something analogous to zero-day unlearning reversal exploits.
You are doing god’s work.

Also, fyi for others. Many public libraries have NYT daily access codes you can use for free. It’s a bit of a pain to have to renew each day you want to read NYT but is still great to have.

Having a gift link is even more convenient.
It has, but not for newbies or people without a history of productive/popular comments.

Edit: interesting that this factoid attracted a downvote. It is factually true and doesn't indicate any personal opinion on the state of things.
I think it should have disclaimer for people with TMJ issues.
Keep in mind that a DCO is not the same thing as a CLA; kemitchell has written about the subject[0]. In short - the DCO is specifically written to meet the needs of the Kernel and some of it's expectations assume the workflow of the LKML and the code style of the kernel. He lists 6 conditions that you'd need to meet before the DCO is useful for your project. The most notable ones are that or-later licenses aren't a good idea with a DCO, that you must put the license text in a file header and that there's a Signed-Off-By element in your commits.

The DCO is also very patch oriented, rather than contributor oriented, which only works if your workflow has more contributors than patches (which isn't how most FOSS projects are organized; you usually have only a few contributors, who submit patches.)

Finally, the DCO was put in place to resolve someone being annoying about the licenses rather than existing to unify the copyright of the Kernel behind one entity.

[0]: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/07/02/DCO-Not-CLA
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yandex (search engine) is pretty good to find stuff. Just search for "band/film + torrent" and it almost always works for me. It's my way to go for lesser known works.
> people who've dialled the give-a-shit down so low

In the age of stock buy-backs, cyclical lay-offs, and record-high executive compensation I sympathize with these folks. It might even be morally correct thing to do.
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A similar lady some time ago helped me with a different suggestion: stretch the edge a little near the side and blow in. Problem solved.
Checking on this.
Not the OP but personally I would recommend looking into constraint programming which is related but different to logic programming (Prolog has extensions for Constraint Logic Programming which combines the two).

You mentioned you're looking for something new that doesn't have to be related to data analytics, well constraint programming (and similar) is basically the mirror problem. Instead of data you have the rules of the "game" and the solver's job can be to: find a solution, find the optimal solution, find all solutions, or prove there is no solution.

Things like scheduling problems, resource allocation problems, etc. A real-world example would be finding the most efficient cell placement when developing a microchip, this is basically an advanced rectangle packing puzzle.

Much like prolog you define the rules (constraints) and the solver takes over from there. Part of the fun is figuring out the most effective way to model a real-world problem in this manner.

The closest thing to Prolog in this domain would be ASP, with Clingo/Clasp being the best solver available. But you also have regular constraint programming (look into MiniZinc or Google's OR-Tools), mixed-integer programming which is mainly for hardcore optimization problems (commercial solvers sell for tens of thousands of dollars), satisfiability modulo theories (often used for software verification and mathematical proofs), etc.

The mind-blowing bit is that this sort of problem is NP-complete but these solvers can find solutions to utterly massive problems (millions of variables and constraints) in milliseconds sometimes.
If you consider specific listed threats as not a real threat model, then what else would you like to know? The threats are real and I value my data and privacy a lot. Also, I want to support a great OS by using it and spreading the word. Personally, using Qubes for me is not as hard and limiting as people think. It's the opposite: It improves my data workflow by separating different things I do on my computer.
They're striking against return to office? I work from home and value it but it never would occur to me to strike for that. I view it as a privilege and not a right. Almost everyone in the world has to go on location for their jobs. I am curious why it is so important to NYT workers in particular that they would strike over it - is there something particularly bad about the location?
Pretty sure the NYT has entire contributors and foreign correspondents working remotely, forever.

Not in a position to help you guys in any way, but fight the good fight against the mythology of the grand collaborative campfire that apparently happens in-office.
What technologies are you thinking of?

Ubiquitous access to reader devices is also a factor, and I can’t actually think of anything that fits that bill.
I love the gaussian splatting that's going on. I also love the people pushing gaussian splitting and generative AI. I really feel there is something there but I'm not quite sure what yet. It's cool seeing this unfold, but I'm also worried it can turn into something like Photosynth, where it was a cool exercise but not much came out of it. I would love someone's input who is involved in this tech that could blue sky where it could be applied in interesting ways.
I rely on them to know what is going on, and tomorrow is the biggest day of every four years for needing to know what the heck is going on.

I find your suggestion that I should consider the trust I've built with their news division destroyed on this day of all days ridiculous and irresponsible, especially given the fact that the timing of the strike was chosen to hurt me extremely badly if I should feel morally obligated to follow your advice
So Python is a Lisp?
Personally I ditched undo-tree for Vundo (visual undo), which has all the functionality that I need from undo-tree whilst being significantly lighter. Give it a spin!

https://github.com/casouri/vundo
I've seen a number of creative 404 pages.

A creative 500 / 503 page saying something about the tech team being on strike and served off the fronting proxy or LB, not the application servers, would be a cool touch.
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> it irritates me that I need to use an everything app just to browse HN or Wikipedia.

...this is possibly missing the point, but it occurs to me that you don't have to. Hacker News and Wikipedia are two websites I'd expect to work perfectly well in e.g. Links.

It's a bigger problem if you want to read the New York Times. I don't know whether the raw html is compatible, but if nothing else you have to log in to get past their paywall.
You can easily compare the civilian/combatant death ratio in the Israel / Hamas conflict to any other recent war, or alternatively look at the population growth of Gaza since Israel has left, to confirm this is false.

NYT also covered the fake hospital story and had to apologise regarding it: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/10/new-york-times-gaza-...
Pressed CDs are pretty good in terms of durability, but how are you gonna get one produced in a single day? (Per the prompt, the Internet disappears tomorrow, not in a couple of weeks.)
They put the exact same faux buttons in their ICE cars.

This is not an EV thing. It's a contemporary trend, and it just happens that most newly designed cars are EVs now.

The rise of touchscreen technology was just coincidental with the rise of EVs. The first Tesla Roadster, Nissan Leaf, and Renault Zoe had crappy little screens, and real buttons for everything, like most cars of their era.

OTOH today EV-hating Toyota keeps making screens bigger. The latest Lamborghini has multiple touchscreens too.

This change would have happened even if EVs didn't exist. iPad is more to blame for that trend than an electric drivetrain.
Ah, that's pretty neat actually
I found Gwern's review of that quite good: https://gwern.net/review/crumb
Well yes, but they are very much "in" for exactly that reason in almost all appliances.
The sea level has risen 410 feet since the last glacial maximum. There are likely hundreds of submerged settlements around Europe and the Mediterranean.
> like Photosynth, where it was a cool exercise but not much came out of it

It's hard to know what Photosynth could have become. It was shut down by Microsoft for unknown reasons. If it was open source it might have evolved and might still be around.

Gaussian Splatting has multiple implementations on both the training/generation side and the rendering side.
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Being a good manager is taking in all the metrics (+other information), assigning the appropriate weights to them and making informed determinations.

If the worker changing your code style from snake case to camel case does 500 commits in a day they are not a 100x programmer vs the worker solving world peace who did 5 commits. If their commits drop to 1 a day then maybe reach out and see how things are going, solving world peace has a lot of dead ends and bottlenecks.
Hiding those awful nested statements makes you think that perhaps the code is ok when it should probably be changed to make it more readable.
> If you know nothing about Python or coding, and you see a=b=c, you'd think that's true when all three a,b,c are the same.

Sure, that's true if you literally know nothing about coding. But that is not a very common audience for reading code. You only need to spend about 10 minutes coding to realise that the compiler follows fixed rules rather than making an LLM-like guess as to the meaning. If you get that far then most people (admittedly after a bit more 10 minutes) go on to realise that the only way to know what code does is carefully pick it apart step by step, rather than glance at it and guess yourself.

I love Python dearly, but this rule was a misstep on my opinion.
A privilege is given, a right is taken.

If enough people fight for the recognition of their need and desire to work from home, enough to enshrine it in some legal norms or at least in widely accepted and expected practices in the industry, WFH may become a right. This is how 40-hour work weeks became a right, or collective bargaining became a right, etc.
Isn't it what California and other states are doing with the NPVIC ? "Ok you don't want give up your power, and to amend the Constitution, so screw you, we will decide without you"
We can automatically handle some schema drift if columns are renamed or reordered, or columns added or deleted. But if they are both renamed AND re-ordered, you are out of luck!
The completely anonymous, built-in torrents in I2P are hugely undervalued. I expected that every big torrent tracker would set up a mirror in I2P in order to allow their users to stay anonymous. I don't understand why they don't do it.
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>I feel like there is some kind of information theory constraint which confounds our ability to extract higher order behavior from multiple instances of the same LLM.

It's a matter of entropy; producing new behaviours requires exploration on the part of the models, which requires some randomness. LLMs have only a minimal amount of entropy introduced, via temperature in the sampler.
A reverse might also work: a platform that provides a prepaid plan in a transparent way. Let the user pay for three months in advance. Cut off the service afterwards if they don't pay for the fourth month. Bonus: provide a one-time purchase option too.
Somewhere on my random ideas pile is to write a queue-oriented operating system - you know how we have threads? What if we didn't have threads, just a list of things to do, to run on the next available processor? (Haskell's VM calls them sparks)
It is one of the many things they strike against, and I imagine it's not the most important issue and they are willing to compromise on.

Also a reminder that just a few years ago, CEOs thought remote work was good, everyone was productive, and they didn't see how they wanted to force everybody back. No, it's not a privilege, it's just how you get work done.
Times leadership knew this was coming and dragged their feet on negotiating.
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I keep it on a secondary monitor while working. It creates a nice ambient display of your day's timeline without the cognitive overhead of blazingly featured calendar suites.
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VirusTotal seems to be generating more false positives lately. Seems like they’re adding some poorly written heuristics. We’ve seen problems with false reports of things being infected like our own products.
> Almost everyone in the world has to go on location for their jobs

I think it's fair to point out that progressive worker rights acquisition would initially always be a small case minority context (vs the vast majority that would lack those rights).

In the distant past almost everyone in the world lacked xyz worker rights.
You should be able to capture network activity to actually verify.
> I view it as a privilege and not a right.

I'd call it a perk or benefit. It's like health insurance or vacation time. You may not have a right to it, but it's upsetting when you lose it.

When an employer takes away something you have a right to, you don't strike, you sue.
Do you need to give a phone number when you donate? Could you make your donation without giving them email & phone number? (visited US tens of time for business but never lived/voted there so I have no idea)

Would it be possible to use throwaway/secondary phones and/or emails? (and keep that old Nokia in a drawer and take it out once every election cycle)
Protests that are done quietly and without costs and not effective protest.

Also, there are more than one reputable news source. This protest isn't going to hurt you
> "they care more about doing things right than delivering quickly"

Is it actually supposed to be a negative review...
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The one I remember is about "loss aversion" where it turned out that people were making reasonable choices, but not ones based on the simplistic probabilities that the researchers had designed for their experimental method. Another one is the "marshmallow test" where it turns out that some children have a reason to not trust adults. I don't have detailed references or anything like that.
I don't think "mixture of experts" can be assimilated to a society of agents. It is just routing a prompt to the most performant model: the models do not communicate with each other, so how could they form a society ?
Sounds like an amazing course!

Was that the case for you? I'm especially curious about the exams if there were any, because it's probably hard to keep the whole context in mind as a student and to evaluate students for the teacher.
OK, I can see I've been talking somewhat at cross-purposes to some other people in the thread. When the G*P commenter said:

> The killer feature of Excel for financial modelling, over 'proper' software, databases etc is portability and auditability.

...comparing Excel to "'proper' software", extolling Excel's "portability and auditability", I read that as highlighting Excel spreadsheets' ability to be audited as software.

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

i.e. the ability to inspect the "code" of a spreadsheet, to ensure it does what the authors think it does/want it to do, and that it conforms to any informal/internal guidelines of the organisation using it - the sort that "'proper' software" is subject to.

That seemed to me to be the meaning intended by the original comment in the thread?
It seems VirusTotal spins up a virtual machine/container to run the program, and monitors what happens inside that environment. And it further seems that during that time syslog (or something else, probably the distribution) reloaded itself. And some other process tried to connect to the TOR IPs.

And since we're all amateurs here who don't understand what VirusTotal is doing, some of us think "ZOMG yt-dlp compromised?!?".

If you look at the process tree, the process that reloaded rsyslog wasn't spawned from the yt-dlp_linux process.
It is an excellent documentary, even if you've had little or no exposure to his work.
They arose as a way to make it easier to kick people out because you don't feel you have to take accountability for the decision. If the one making the decision is strong (emotionally) they don't need a CoC to kick someone out. Linus can kick the bcachefs developer out of the kernel simply because he wants to. Heck, when he banned all those Russian developers for presumably valid legal reasons, he still wouldn't say the reasons.
and, modulo the above, we could spell "do X ◻ Y od" as "{X ♢ Y}⍣≡"?
The current top comment includes this:

> I encourage everyone to respect the picket line and get your news elsewhere until the workers get a deal.

It would be nice if this could be replaced with a non-NYT link.