skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that is one of the most unlikely thinigs to come out of our scenario

I mean, I'm glad to hear about your family being safe but that's frankly not a huge stretch of the imagination? Collectively the chances of it all happening are very slim, but that could be said about everything that happens in specific enough terms. A once-persecuted family having a thriving family tree isn't a unique or even unlikely result from that scenario. It's a story of familial peril and triumph, but not really one of defying the odds.

To reiterate what the parent was saying - there are degrees of delusion that range from "serendipitous coincidence" to "actual hallucinations caused by taking drugs". At some point along the line, surely all sane people would agree that delusion loses it's basis in rational thought...?
As someone who remembers a time before Google, no.

Letting "the market do its thing" only works until a few companies accumulate enough power to monopolize the market.

The last two decades have seen being the next Google transformed into being acquired by Google, which has been to the detriment of everyone.
which weight loss drug?
No, it's not a contradiction. The criminal behavior arises from males not being able to control themselves and using force to get what they want. Fathers put boys in their place and they learn to respect authority. Mothers are there to cuddle and pamper their children and this is horrible for boys and their development as dangerous grown males.
No idea if anyone was complaining, but if building in CI it shaves off some pennies (or more?) no?
Yeah, I know the account you are talking about, it really is a bit over the top. It's a shame, I've met a bunch of people who mentioned that they were actually turned away from Conformal Prediction due to them.

> But having said that, Conformal Prediction works as advertised for UQ as a wrapper on any point estimating model. If you've got the data for it - and in the ML setting you do - and you don't care about things like missing data imputation, error in inputs, non-iid spatio-temporal and hierarchical structures, mixtures of models, evidence decay, unbalanced data where small-data islands coexist big data - all the complicated situations where Bayesian methods just automatically work and other methods require elaborate workarounds, yup, use Conformal Prediction.

Many of these things can actually work really well with Conformal Prediction, but the algorithms require extensions (much like if you are doing Bayesian inference, you also need to update your model accordingly!). They generally end up being some form of reweighting to compensate for the distribution shifts (excluding the Online Conformal Prediction literature, which is another beast entirely). Also, worth noting that if you have iid data then Conformal Prediction is remarkably data-efficient; as little as 20 samples are enough for it to start working for 95% predictive intervals, and with 50 samples (and with almost surely unique conformity scores) it's going to match 95% coverage fairly tightly.
This is the US crossing their own 'red lines'.
For their comparisons, they used the "social cost" of CO2 emissions, I presume a detriment to combustion engined ships, a benefit to battery powered ones? Also they used the "2nd life" of the battery too, batteries that have not been repurposed at any meaningful scale yet?

I'm becoming more skeptical of reports, especially government reports, like this; there's a thumb on the scale toward solutions that are politically favored. Clearly this report was trying to find any way to boost the appearance of EVs.
> didn't suddenly throw "merit" out the window to make way for diversity, it was already a lie to begin with

Deviations from an ideal (hire whoever will be most effective at doing whatever it is you're hiring them to do), whether intentional (nepotism, e.a., trading favors, etc) or accidental (for example trusting formal credentials a little to much), do not make that ideal a "lie".
That's why they're also suing apple
Clever use of attribute selectors and the :has selector.

Unfortunately as the article talks about, not every website stores the published date in the same way, so you can't write a generic CSS rule to add increasing levels of sepia to all sites.

Another great use of attribute selectors is to work around mangled CSS names when you're injecting your own CSS into other people's site.

Since so many sites use CSS modules, you'll see classnames like "post_s47mgk". The suffix changing dynamically as they deploy their site randomly.

You can do [class^="post_"] to select that class and it'll remain stable even if the mangler changes the suffix.
Per the guidelines: please use the original title https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Partially: that’s the perfectly rational position but … how many teenagers did you know who carefully planned the game-theoretical optimum for their life? The guy who got a scholarship to MIT is doing that but public policy has to think more about how the 50th percentile person is doing and I think that’s where what you see around you matters more: someone academically driven or who grew up comfortably with professional class parents has the cultural preparation to stick with it but someone who has non-stellar grades, needs to juggle work and school, is thinking regularly about how many years of their parents’ annual income their student debt translates into – that’s who’s likely to give up.
You don't think use of nukes constitutes any kind of 'line'?
Just to be clear, if you post "usage" I can't take you credibly. You can only really discuss your hardware RAM amount and your "Memory Pressure" from Activity Monitor.
This is an underappreciated problem. What I observe is that no one does any real work anymore, except immigrants. ("Content creator" is not a real job. That's something you do for fun.)

Odd that these guys get beaten up on so much, considering that the entire rest of the society spends all their time ranting on social media and not doing actual work.
Ah, Kolmogorov Arnold Networks. Perhaps the only model I have ever tried that managed to fairly often get AUCs below 0.5 in my tabular ML benchmarks. It even managed to get a frankly disturbing 0.33, where pretty much any other method (including linear regression, IIRC) would get >=0.99!
I'm not saying that merit in itself is a lie, I'm saying that when they retroactively use "merit" to justify decisions, it frequently is
Force-feeding adderall to developing brains will eventually be viewed the same way we view lobotomies - a crude and cruel method of control. These children absolutely are victims of a sick system.
Sure, going back to the main point North Korea has guns and this helps to hem get their way. And if we restrict ourselves to those countries which are relevant to the main point (ICC member states), they don’t, and don’t. What’s your point? To date all you’ve done is list rule proving exceptions.
which father would not want their daughter to marry one or both of them (in Utah…)???? :)
I'm sorry, you're alleging that someone who used to work for Microsoft, but doesn't anymore, is ... well, still secretly working for Microsoft? Like, he's a spy inside the DOJ, but you've figured out his clever game? I don't understand.
Neat - I thought my CSS knowledge was pretty okay but [attr|=value] was new to me.

Incidentally, I remember a guy that I worked with years ago telling me that he'd worked on a news website (probably in the late 1990s or early 2000s) and had always wanted to do something like this (have the background be a more faded yellow the older the article was).
At the very end, it hits on something: Trump campaigns on nostalgia for supply-side but seems to only reach for Keynesian policies. It’s possible to listen and agree with him campaigning, but benefit from Keynes’ programs and not see the contradiction.
To me the important thing is they traced two separate infections. That makes it very hard to be a lab leak other than possibly by someone selling off animals brought in for research.
This reads like a parody of 1950s child rearing.
When Writing Fantasy, Kill Your Darlings
I second this. It's a wonderful read. I particularly enjoyed learning the history of various unix commands, for example, I was unfamiliar with the grep family of commands until the book explained it clearly. It also gives in more detail the tale of Ken Thompsan reverse engineering a printer firmware, CPU, and assembly language, and rewriting the entire firmware to be 1000x better, in about an hour.
Even if you want client side, we have better ways now than cookies.
Uh, how did you jump to that conclusion?
Alright, I've reached out via email. Thank you for going out of your way to connect.
It doesn't work with basic multi page sites though.
I don’t think so. But both taste highly herbal.
Google's entire argument against being regulated has been 'We're not monopolizing search, people choose to use us!'

The latter part also happens to conveniently be true when you buy all the available space that a competitor would need -- default placement in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Android.

You don't get to rig the game and then claim the results actually demonstrate everyone naturally loves you.
You can swear on HN you know, it's ok to say "shit," we can handle it :)
no, for a literal page down, the first line on the next screen would become the new first line, with zero of the previous page still visible (which would be perfectly fine with me, I simply would like either that everything work the same way, or I get a visual indication of what just happened so I don't need to hunt for where to continue reading
>Even a single mom has better odds statistically to find a partner than 90% of males.

This doesn't make sense. The ratio of men to women is roughly equal (there's slightly more men at younger ages, but they tend to die younger so after middle age there's slightly more women). The odds for either sex should be roughly similar, though it could differ more based on geography since sex distribution is not geographically equal (rural areas tend to have more men, as women tend to leave for the cities more).
According to this article [1] OKLCH accounts for biases in human perception of color brightness. Seems useful, but I don't know the answer to your question.

[1] https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/oklch-in-css-why-quit-rg...
the problem isn't virtualenv itself, it's that using one is cumbersome. python-wool, that I wrote, works around this but still requires technical understanding before you're fully able to use it. you're right that those are 95% of the way there, but that last 5% is where people get lost.
Sorry but your response is a grave distortion of what happened in 1948.

And saying there is no occupation is also completely false.

But you’re clearly not interested in facts so no point in arguing further.
Having AI permeate _every_ facet of life seems horrifying to me.
What about things like local storage?
You're choosing the weakest strawman interpretation and ignoring the rest of what I said.

Bye, have fun!
The article is bullshit shrouded in turboencabulator-speak. He's trying to roll the same Sisyphian boulder that crushed the computational linguists, thinking that AI makes it different this time. Conveniently he also waived any attempts at providing proof for his claims.

>> If the training data subtend latent logical structures, as do sensory data such as visual or acoustic data, models trained as optimal predictors are forced to capture their statistical structure.

There are a lot of red flags to pick from in this article, but this one stood out to me as the most absurd. AI doesn't get magical multimodal powers from reading secondhand accounts describing a sensation. You can say it in as fancy of a phrasing as you want, but the proof is in the pudding. The "statistical structure" of that text doesn't propagate a meaningful understanding of almost anything in the real world.

> And really, a person will never grasp machine learning and AI as long as they keep drawing unbased parallels to humans and machines.

I think you're right on the money with this one.
How are you getting 75%? I see 10g of garbs in 150g of broccoli. That is closer to 7%.
Thanks. How to get back previous configuration in uBlock advance user setting?
> It's a hard requirement a lot of the time in tech as well

I've always seen "or equivalent experience". I'd assumed that including that alternative was mandatory-ish for the same reason that explicit intelligence tests are reportedly lawsuit magnets.
Basically, as LLMs scale up, the author (Soatto, VP at AWS) suggests they're beginning to resemble Solomonoff inference: hypothetically optimal but computationally infinite approach that executes all possible programs to match observed data. Repeating this approach for any given question by definition gives the best answer, yet requires no learning, since the entire process can be repeated for any query (thanks to infinite computation).

The article develops a theoretical framework contrasting traditional inductive learning (which emphasizes generalization over memorization) with transductive inference (which embraces memorization and reasoning). Here's a quote:

"What matters is that LLMs are inductively trained transductive-inference engines and can therefore support both forms of inference.[2] They are capable of performing inference by inductive learning, like any trained classifier, akin to Daniel Kahneman’s “system 1” behavior — the fast thinking of his book title Thinking Fast and Slow. But LLMs are also capable of rudimentary forms of transduction, such as in-context-learning and chain of thought, which we may call system 2 — slow-thinking — behavior. The more sophisticated among us have even taught LLMs to do deduction — the ultimate test for their emergent abilities."

Sadly, the opening quote is not elucidated.
> smaller company

That's a weirdly specific way to label the 5th largest public company on the planet, by market cap.

... yes, it is smaller than the 2nd largest public company.
define “most” :)

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/donald-trump-vote...
I always figured that it was originally a Touhou meme because the right foot of the final boss, Utsuho Reiuji, from Touhou 11 (2008) is based on the Elephant's Foot from Chernobyl.
Medical Video Generation for Disease Progression Simulation
Have to wonder what compelled folks to do a drive by on the “I disagree” button. I wouldn’t have thought anything I said to be controversial amongst geopolitically aware individuals.
I have a Mac mini m2 with 8gb and it's clearly not enough.

I'm only using it to test my flutter app on iOS and manage fragile xcode settings.

Most of my work is on a Windows pc.
Two obvious sources of legal media for jellyfin are home movies and university lectures (which are generally creative commons licensed), both of which I serve on my family's instance. I believe recording broadcast television is also perfectly legal in the US, and there are still commercial products to do it.

The *arr software by contrast are pretty explicit about what they're for. e.g. radarr says it will upgrade a movie you have from dvd to bluray quality via torrent or usenet, which is almost certainly illegal. It does look like they don't distribute executables though, so their repositories contain only a detailed description of the knowledge of how to perform illegal activities.
Oops, thanks. I changed it.
what makes you think that women don't know how to put men in their place?
I absolutely care about things that take hundreds of milliseconds for my builds. The faster I can build, the faster I can iteratively try new things things out. The goal should be to be able to see changes instantly after you make them, and Tailwind is usually just 1 part of a build pipeline.

Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle is probably the best demonstration of why this matters; in the first 10 minutes he shows a very concrete example of an insight that would not have occurred without instant feedback https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGqwXt90ZqA
I find it weird too. I’ve always considered cookies like very stupid key value stores.

It would never occur to me to put something more than a simple token in a cookie. A username, and email address, some opaque thing.

The idea of trying to use it for arbitrary strings just seems weird to my intuition, but I don’t really know why. Maybe just because when I was learning about them long ago I don’t remember seeing that in any of the examples.
And this is why I agree with the government that Google has to sell off Chrome.

This behavior just pisses me off. “Don’t do evil”, my ass.
I remember the time before google. We were all stuck IE with no competitive browsers and everyone was using Windows machines. Now we have three browsers and multiple platforms. I just bought a Chromebook plus, that can run linux apps but is easy enough for my kid to use. My wife uses windows laptop and I use a mac. We have Amazon Echos through out the house. We have 4 major players in the tech space instead of one. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
But at least they’re base 64 encoded so you don’t have to worry about the special characters
Unflinchingly? Biden did a lot to restrict military aid/sales if weapons that would likely have lots of collateral damage.
> does anyone else think that trump is going to nix this thing as soon as he takes office?

Depends on how much Google is willing to scratch Trump's back. Remember, Trump is a corrupt quid pro quo President. All he needs is something valuable in exchange for his corrupt powers.
What does base metabolic variability have to do with using CICO to modify your weight? The intake is easy to measure. The outtake is empirically knowable by change in weight over time. It’s really that simple.
The Birthday Paradox Experiment (2018)
>You can see what union trades make in a specific area by searching for “prevailing wage [city name]” and looking at the wage tables.

From the linked BLS report:

>These estimates are calculated with data collected from employers in all industry sectors in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas in every state and the District of Columbia.

I'd take country wide figures from government agencies over haphazardly doing your own research for a few cities on google.
There's this continued idea to deplatform far-right bigots trying to make money online. Some will woefully let them speak their bile, but stop them at trying to make money. For example, you can't, if you're a nazi, start a Patreon.

Substack lets nazis make money.
A common argument is that former corporate insiders remain loyal to their former employers once in positions of authority in the government so as to obtain lucrative positions once their time in government ends. It’s also possible there are corrupt private contracts in place to entice those actions.

I’m not sure why you’re being so sarcastic as it’s not a novel idea and it’s less “figured out the clever game” and more that even the appearance of impropriety removes faith and trust in the institution.
If the couple is smart, they'll just move to such a state, or to another country even.
>Employee tradeworkers make good average money, self-employed trades people make a ton more money.

Seems plausible. If you click around you find the report explicitly excludes self-employed workers.

>Self-employed persons are not included in the survey or estimates.

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_abo.htm
Give it time. I mean look at Twitter. In two years, it will be just another Truth Social where everyone on there has the same political views.
> psychological castration

wow, I might have to try this in the bedroom sometime
If Sundar flatters him enough.
The s. If you write 20meg, people will say the singular.
I would be game for a call. Email is in my profile.
Doubt that’s on the table unless Microsoft is also sued. Without a joint ruling this wouldn’t be balanced
This sounds like bad advice, I don't know why ISC is pushing this... they would be better off trying to make DNS a TCP-only service to stop amplification attacks.
The problem is that it's a prisoner's dilemma. And you can't cooperate on a prisoner's dilemma against the entire world.
The ICC doesn't mention any genocide, so what's the basis for your claim?
Microsoft is going to do more for Linux on the desktop than anyone can. It's blatant annoyances like these that forced me to remove Windows 11 weeks after installing it. The fact the matter is, it was a blessing in disguise and I am thrilled to be using Linux now. Thanks Microsoft.
Ask HN: Have y'all found any blogs by CS students/people in higher ed?
Hi, I'm about to enter university to study CS and was wondering if y'all have encountered any interesting blogs on CS (or related fields) by students, professors, or anyone else in that environment/area.

Much appreciated,
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I think you both make valid points, but I also get the sense that the article is articulating insights gained from pure math explorations into the theoretical limitations of learning, which in the article can sound "turboencabulator-speak" when compressed into words.

Maybe I should have just linked to the research paper:

[B'MOJO: Hybrid state space realizations of foundation models with eidetic and fading memory](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2407.06324)
I wrote 50K lines of Perl last month using co-pilot+vscode in a single day.

Perl+LLM is a match made in heaven.
I think a lot of the optimization work was for dev time and it carried over to build time. I listened to a podcast interview with Adam Wathan where I think he said they just got really into shaving nanoseconds. They have a very successful business and I think they just enjoyed doing this work. On the other hand I do think even if you’re cutting from 50ms to 5ms (both low numbers in absolute terms) there are often new unforeseen workflows that become possible once you can do that operation so frequently that it’s free. You could do it on every keystroke.
It means that you are setting cookies on whatever page you're on, without considering whether the cookie will be consistently accessible on other pages.

For example, you set the currency to EUR in /product/123, but when you navigate to /cart and refresh, it's back to USD. You change it again to EUR, only to realize in /cart/checkout that the USD pricing is actually better. So you try to set it back to USD, but now the cookie at /cart conflicts with the one at /cart/checkout because each page has its own cookie.
> If the benefits really just amount to a few units of pre-algebra content, that would be disappointing.

They don't though - there are benefits all the way up.

Giving a few examples of benefits from low order mathematical thinking (understanding concepts of compounding, etc) does not equal a statement that these are the only benefits.
Why? We need to know they exist and to explain what is wrong with their view.

Some will eventually think it better if you dont talk either. Lots of stuff you are not suppose to know.
Don't wait. Do it now; you'll be happy you did.
Israel is not pretending. They've let in tons of aid, that is stolen by Hamans constantly. I want to remind you that an American soldier has died during the built of a humanitarian port by the US navy.
I think you got Mode listed as a pre-release with no version number. Windows 11 VSCode gives me an error and a warning to ignore the version number now.
I can only hope there are some discussions going on behind closed doors about how to proceed, I did find it interesting Biden went to meet Xi only a few days before giving Ukraine permission to strike.
Discussion (26 points, 41 days ago, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41810563

Submitted multiple (14) times, but 22 qubits != RSA decryption.
Why does that word harm credibility?
The Canvas2D interop feature should make it very easy to draw text to a 2D canvas and then pull that into WebGPU as a texture.