skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those with more experience how does (Num)Pyro compare with PyMC? I haven’t had the good fortune of working with any of these libraries since before Pyro (and presumably numpyro), and with PyMC3 back when it used Theano under the hood.

Are the two libraries in competition? Or complimentary? I’ve been playing with PyMC for a personal project and am curious what I might gain from investigating (Num)Pyro?
Mostly because the marginal cost of microwaves was not close to zero.
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Here are the traditional best practices of how README files should look:

“The distribution should contain a file named README with a general overview of the package:

• the name of the package;

• the version number of the package, or refer to where in the package the version can be found;

• a general description of what the package does;

• a reference to the file INSTALL, which should in turn contain an explanation of the installation procedure;

• a brief explanation of any unusual top-level directories or files, or other hints for readers to find their way around the source;

• a reference to the file which contains the copying conditions. The GNU GPL, if used, should be in a file called COPYING. If the GNU LGPL is used, it should be in a file called COPYING.LESSER.”

— GNU Coding Standards, <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Releases.html#i...> (May 26, 2024)

“Good things to have in the README include:

1. A brief description of the project.

2. A pointer to the project website (if it has one)

3. Notes on the developer's build environment and potential portability problems.

4. A roadmap describing important files and subdirectories.

5. Either build/installation instructions or a pointer to a file containing same (usually INSTALL).

6. Either a maintainers/credits list or a pointer to a file containing same (usually CREDITS).

7. Either recent project news or a pointer to a file containing same (usually NEWS).”

— Software Release Practice HOWTO, <https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Release-Practice-HOWTO/distp...> (Revision 4.1)

(Repost of <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36776684>)
You miss the purpose, this is for consulting companies, what to push, what to sell, what conferences to organise, which books to sponsor, what pitch to give at new customers, what to upsell,....
The most common thing you see shared is something called IP which does mean intellectual property, but in this context you can think of it like buying ICs that you integrate into your design (ie you wire them up). You can also get Verilog, but that is usually used for verification instead of taping out the peripheral. This is because the company you buy the IP from will tape out the design for a specific node in order to guarantee the specifications. Examples of this would be everything from arm cores to uart and spi controllers as well as pretty much anything you could buy as a standalone IC.
the only thing I can think of to do, as an individual, is to build community with people who say "no, there really are not two sides to some issues, and we don't have to embrace the viewpoints of those who disagree on fundamental issues like human rights". also to support news orgs and other media who take a similar stance.

this is unfortunately what (mostly right wingers) decry as "bubbles" and "echo chambers", but I think if the left is going to win hearts, minds, and political power it needs to focus on engaging its own people on its own issues rather than waste time and energy endlessly fighting with the right.

also, inviting conservatives in to find common ground is largely a trap anyway, and has shifted the overton window a good deal to the right because people feel that "okay, maybe we can come to some sort of compromise". the writer a r moxon put it very well: "meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. you take a step towards him, he takes a step back. meet me in the middle, says the unjust man."

on the other hand, I've read that when people complain that their kids went to college and got "brainwashed with liberal ideas", what actually happened was that they met gay people, and black people, etc, and realised that most of what their parents were getting off conservative media was bullshit at best and hate-mongering at worst. so maybe the real solution is to welcome conservatives, but hold the line on making no space for conservative ideas and attitudes.
Internet streams are not real-time even in the best case. There is always a few seconds of delay, often quite a bit more than that depending on number of hops and link speeds, congestion, etc.
you could say it is the naive arrogance of the beginner mind.

seen here as well when george-hotz attempts to overthow the chip companies with his plan for an ai chip https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2021/06/13/a-bre... little realizing the complexity involved. to his credit, he quickly pivoted into a software and tiny-box maker.
I took it to be a joke that the description "slow, expensive, non-deterministic black boxes" can apply to the engineers themselves. The engineers would be the ones who would have to place LLMs at the core of the system. To anyone outside, the work of the engineers is as opaque as the operation of LLMs.
Maybe their claim is a bit more valid than those of other systems with equally bold claims [0].

[0]: https://www.cyph.com/websign
An interpretation that makes sense to me: humans are non-deterministic black boxes already at the core of complex systems. So in that sense, replacing a human with AI is not unreasonable.

I’d disagree, though: humans are still easier to predict and understand (and trust) than AI, typically.
I know about one case of dieting old lady that adhered to perscribed meal plan and avoided sweets. But she was happily snacking on sausages between the meals.
I wonder how much would Adobe benefit from porting its suite to Linux for example. Do a Steam move and pick a fave distro, use some translation layer and bam. I vote for the unholy matrimony of Adobe+Steam to break the stronghold of MS+Apple.

That is pretty much the chicken and egg problem of Linux in regards to Apps and Games.
> This means your optimizations need to be applied by hand, which is sustainable if your data starts changing.

Seems like a missing "un" here

Compelling article! I've already found DuckDB to be the most ergonomic tool for quick and dirty wrangling, it's good to know it can handle massive jobs too.
> When Apple shuttered development of Aperture, there were rumors it did so because it entered into a gentleman’s agreement with Adobe to give Lightroom the space it needed to take over the photography software industry. That worked, and Adobe applications ran great on Apple computers.

Wouldn't this be highly illegal?
What do you mean? My pages will return obfuscated JS (or WASM) that render into regular-looking commercial features and links, but only if you have applicable headers. So you need a highly sophisticated visual analysis engine, with potentially multiple spoofed Header passes per page, to catch anything. Doesn't sound cheap to scale.
The word that stands out to me most in this comment is "mainstream" where it appears before "media". If the issue is primary sources vs commentary, it shouldn't matter if the person is listening to NBC, CNN, FOX, or Joe Rogan Experience -- those are /all/ commentary.

And by the way, which ones are mainstream? What does "mainstream" even mean? The only people I ever hear complain about the "mainstream media" are on one side of the political spectrum and who somehow always fail to notice that their media is actually more popular. More mainstream, if you will.

> It was the first time in a long time that I've realized just how removed from what actually happens so many people are.

"Wake up sheeple!"

Give me a break, lol.
> Replace all asserts with expected ==expected and most people won't notice.

Those tests were very common back when I used to work in Ruby on Rails and automatically generating test stubs was a popular practice. These stubs were often just converted into expected == expected tests so that they passed and then left like that.
This is the literal definition of bigotry.
> [...] after two weeks of not feeling any positive effect, she decided to start taking additional supplements of the vitamin in question on her own next to the study tablets to “be sure”.

If unrecorded, that would be fatal to the study's design and intent. I think you know what people are going to ask:

* Did she report this change to the research program?
* Was she dropped from the study?
* Did the study's authors consider writing/enforcing better, clearer subject instructions after this action was (hypothetically) brought to light?

And finally --

* Does she understand how science works?
I trivialized your comment because it was already trivial. You mentioned some video, but were too lazy to even link to it, much less summarize the main ideas so we could know if it was worth watching or not.

I take vitamin-d and melatonin already, and have messed with lamps, early sun, exercise, and tryptophan (and magnesium, and theanine, and dozens of other stuff). All these things together affect my sleep and wake times by maybe 30 minutes. If you really did know about something I haven't read before dozens of times, then at least you could have written a sentence or two about what it is.
Adding our recent experience with Klaviyo.
Klaviyo charges by "profile". When paired with Shopify, it automatically imports / pulls customer information 5o it's servers even when the customer specifically opted out of marketing.

First month, we were debited 3500EU for opted-out profiles that they had auto-pulled, against the consent of customers and us.

Even with the CEO looped in on emails, we had to threaten chargebacks before they refunded.

They also refused to remove data under our official GDPR request.
Some of the people here really like to censor.
Top execs explain Apple's chip philosophy
"a gentleman's agreement" is a really nice way of saying market allocation, blatantly anti-competitive behaviour.
Word-of-mouth is key here I think, rather than one entity placing itself as a single source of truth. I think the unfortunate side-effect of these and similar tech retrospectives, is that they deepen a certain top-down view of technology; that new innovations fit neatly into pre-established categories of accept/reject, whereas reality is far less clear-cut and organisable in neat quadrants.

To me, an immediate improvement would be to display user issues and workarounds along the newly reported technologies. Or why someone tried it and then left if on the shelf. Possibly in context of a multi-team project.

Not a full write-up is needed here, but some practical user stories and anecdata alongside the current summary/ranking on the adoption radar would go a long way.
> But if there was an obvious path forward, YC wouldn't need to ask for an innovative approach.

How many experts do YC have on chip design?
I don't think so, but no Mac before 2016 can run 13.x:
https://everymac.com/systems/by_capability/maximum-macos-sup...
Nice find, Futa should probably not appear for Straight, we'll take care of this in the next site update. Thanks for the feedback.
Cool and functional. I hope this comes to Europe too.
> The largest instance will be maybe 500 million users, the next largest will be 200

Yes, this is likely indeed. Those instances will probably be unsustainable and/or user-hostile, but users are always free to leave to another instance without much to loose.
Valve has demonstrated that it is not a perfect environment to make games because they just hardly made any. Perhaps it's precisely because there's no pressure, as well as their "flat structure" (which also results in a lack of pressure) that got blamed by their own employees for their lack of releases. (https://www.pcgamer.com/valves-unusual-corporate-structure-c...)
I have a half-joking, half-serious thought: has anyone written a desktop environment for Linux that uses the Win32 API? Since Win32 is much more stable than Qt and GTK, it would be easier to target that API. The side bonus is API compatibility with Windows.

This might not have been viable 25 years ago when KDE and GNOME were in their infancy, but WINE has come a very long way since then. Standardizing on Win32 would eliminate the churn of dealing with Qt and GTK major version revisions.
I am glad I learned abacus method to not rely on these gimmick watches with calculators.
I know the purpose, that does not exempt it from critique.
> my brother was trying to say that politician hadn't changed the law at all, which just plain wasn't true.

And there’s a good chance that he rejects evidence to the contrary, or if finally faced with evidence beyond refute, it changes nothing, right?

One possible explanation for stuff like this is that you’re dealing with someone that has an anti-realist meta-ethic, which is not so unusual, but what is new is the blurred boundary between factual questions and ethical questions. Something like “Fair election?” would seem to be a clear and concrete question about the world, but the answer you’d get is always for a different question, and so it amounts to boo or hurrah. Even asking a simpler question about a specific policy changing or staying the same cannot untangle the discourse if that question is perceived as too close to an ethical one.

See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressivism , https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotivism , https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-cognitivism , etc.
Deprecating PyTorch's official Anaconda channel
True, their EL tech was one of the best in that day and age though. Weird how they pivoted from so bad to so good.
UK court sides with Icelandic firm over artist's spoof corruption apology
Great point. Thanks for sharing.

(I originally considered it “not automated” because it wasn’t on by default but that’s a bit harsh in hindsight. )
Do you think YouTube couldn't handle it?
Blame Inflation :/

That said, Casio novelties do hold their value surprisingly well. For example, just by wearing my Gravitymaster, I’ve already “earned” $130 as the resell value has shot up.
Was surprised this comment was this far down. I re-read the YC ask three times to make sure I wasn’t crazy. Dude wrote the whole article based on a misunderstanding.
If cryptocurrency mining could be significantly optimized (one of the example goals in the article) wouldn't that just destroy the value of said currency?
The EPA hadn't even set limits for PFAS at that time.

They only got around to it earlier this year - after the "forever chemicals" were detected in the water systems of nearly 200 million Americans.

So I guess you're right - technically, you can't meet standards that don't exist. Not sure that helps your argument that we have safe water though!
True! Have you tried it? Any thoughts?
I think the generalized take away from this article, and the position held by the authors is: "Overall, we are not necessarily against this shift to utilitarian logic, but we think it should only be adopted if it is the result of a democratic process, not just because it’s more convenient." and "Public input about specific systems, such as the one we’ve discussed, is not a replacement for broad societal consensus on the underlying moral frameworks.".

I wonder how exactly this would work. As the article identifies, health care in particular is continuously barraged with questions of how to allocate limited resources. I think the article is right to say that the public was probably in the dark to the specifics of this algorithm, and that the transition to utilitarian based decision making frameworks (ie algorithms) was probably -not- arrived by at by a democratic process.

But I think had you run a democratic process on the principle of using utilitarian logic in health care decision making, you would end up with consensus to go ahead. And then this returns us to this specific algorithmic failure. What is the scaleable process to retaining democratic oversight to these algorithms? How far down do we push? ER rooms have triage procedures. Are these in scope? If so, what do the authors imagine the oversight and control process to look like.
What’s wrong with home brew?
"mainstream news commentators" but alternative news commentators would be fine?

What is mainstream news? Joe Rogan? Rachel Maddow?

Who are the experts? Ex-FBI and CIA agents, or Vivek Ramaswamy and RFK Jr?

Why are your sources better?
The annoying part, a lot of money could be funneled into these unworkable businesses in the process, crypto being a good example. And these unworkable businesses tend to try to continue getting their way into the money somehow regardless. Most recent example was funneling money from Russia into Trump’s campaign.
Instead of linking you to some randoms comments, how about from the horses mouth:

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/albright-says-russia-h...

This is just one example of many if you Google. And don't bother trying to parse words to claim this isn't really an example of claiming NATO expansion is benign to Russia's security, it'll just confirm you are engaging in bad-faith.
Have you heard of Blotch? How feasible is selling a device with a 13.3 inch e-ink screen under 200 USD?
I just don’t get this. Why is it so damn hard to do nuclear anywhere when France does it so well? You’d think regulations in china would not be the reason
Superinsulator
Apple charges an up-front fee that you pay once. This makes a huge difference.
This is typical of any hype bubble. Blockchain used to be the answer to everything.
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Yes but not is a very large amount.

Right now, many States require kids to be vaxed before starting school. If somehow the GOP and the Supreme Court invalidates that requirement, then in maybe 10 years we will be back to the 1930s.

I can see this happening if Kennedy is allowed into this position.
Do you have to manually do this or can it be automated?
Unlike Google Amazon was never known for its great culture. "decay" looks to be a global trend when managers finally "win" and start optimizing for short sited money making to please investors right now. Usually this happens after first generation of founders an visionaries leaves. Amazon, after short books selling startup period, was just a money making machine.
Has a clone of a social media site ever replaced an original? The closest I can think of is Tiktok being kinda similar to Vine but that feels like a stretch.

I don't think Bluesky will succeed unless it offers something different to the basic Twitter experience. It's hard to picture enough people giving up Twitter (or using both) for it to reach the critical mass required to sustain it.
And, in general, the FOSS communities (including on HN) are often incredibly ignorant of how deficient GIMP and other tools are compared to Photoshop.

Let me put it in programmer's terms: Using GIMP is like telling you to build a website with a COBOL backend. It's technically possible - the IRS has all but done it - and it's Turing complete, so why can't you?
Thanks for this suggestion. We’ll keep it in mind as we refine our branding.
It doesn't matter how cheap the storage is if the hydrogen costs $3/kg.
publishing == talking down to
Doubtful. There is no rule that you have to stay in businesses and compete with someone.
Cool! Was hoping to see a magnification amount like 100x etc
I just proved your point down below. You don't like voting, do you?

Also, it's advertisers that stay away, and it's X challenging them in court over it. The world is getting weirder by the day.

Do you have an uncle that can't stop ranting and calling people names? People just leave his presence. That behavior is just the worst and we're not born to suffer it, passively. That's the whole point of the free speech fallacy. Now the shouters are in power, so they can pour their trauma down our throats, as if this were some therapy. No, it's just abuse and it's perverse. That's why people leave X. They have a target on their back.
I'm not misunderstanding anything. The original discussion was about why wouldn't RSS itself be a good backbone for replacing current types of social media. And my answer is because it's not interactive.

Regular users don't care if the service is decentralized or distributed. And they don't want the experience of dozens of personal blogs they navigate through by RSS, and needing an account on each one.
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I've used Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects constantly for 15 years. There have been no significant improvements and no meaningful competitors. The AI stuff is junky. The movement to expensive subscription plans sucks for artists. Shocked no one has moved into this space.

Procreate has been an amazing and affordable alternative to drawing in photoshop/illustrator, and Figma filled a space that Adobe ignored, and Blender can do some amazing video editing things. But with PS, AI, and AE there is so much opportunity for competition.
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Having lots of fun with this one! Thanks for sharing. Im unsure if i have a setting turned on thats not allowing me to progress in challenge six, after performing the requested action Im given a prompt "answer not detected over this screen". Unsure if i am doing something wrong. Im trying to write as cleary as I can without spoiling for others.
Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law
I think I've worked in software/data long enough to be very very suspicious of a one-size-fits-all algorithm like this. I would be very hesitant to entrust something like organ matching to a singular matching system.

There are so many ways to get it wrong - bad data, bad algo design/requirements, mistakes in implementation, people understanding the system too well being able to game it, etc.

Human systems have biases, but at least there are diverse biases when there are many decision makers. If you put something important behind a single algorithm, you are locking in a fixed bias inadvertently.
I'm 46 and my grandma had a microwave by the time I was cooking in her kitchen in 1984.
Similarly the main calculator used in the US to calculate 10-year risk of cardiovascular incident literally cannot compute scores for people under 40.[0] There are two consequences to this. The first is that if you are under 40 you will never encounter a physician who believes you are at risk of heart attack or stroke, even though over 100,000 Americans under 40 will experience such an incident each year. The second is that even if you get a heart attack or stroke due to their negligence they will never be liable because that calculator is considered the standard of care in malpractice law!

Governing bodies write these guidelines that act like programs, and your local doctor is the interpreter.[1] When was the last time you found a bug that could be attributed to the interpreter rather than the programmer?

[0] https://tools.acc.org/ascvd-risk-estimator-plus/#!/calculate...

[1] It’s worth considering what medical schools, emergency rooms, and malpractice lawyers are analogous to in this metaphor.
I've found that the easiest way is to use AI to generate the README.
That's not a problem of the channel(call) right? That's a problem of personnel.
C++ templates do have the advantage that they can dispatch on their argument types. Lisp macros are expanded at a purely syntactic level, well before the compiler attempts to do any type deduction, and you cannot provide different macro expansions for different argument types without heroic efforts (which will most likely be specific to a single Lisp compiler). Dispatching on argument types is very useful in expression template based metaprogramming, for example in the Eigen library for linear algebra (https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/).
Have fascists ever taken over America before? We live in unprecedented times.
After that bullshit police state arrest in France, I doubt Durov cares enough to fix holes like this