skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Bayesian counterargument (in caricature form) would be that MLE frequentists just choose an arbitrary (flat) prior, and penalty hyperparameters (common in NN) are a de facto prior."

This has been my view for a while now. Is this not correct?

In general, I think the idea of a big "frequentist vs Bayesian" debate is silly. I think it is very useful to take frequentist ideas and see what they look like from a Bayesian point of view, and vice versa (when applicable). I think this is pretty much the general stance among most people in the field - it's generally expected that one will understand that regularization methods equate to certain priors, for instance, and in general be able to relate these two perspectives as much as possible.
I'm not sure you can just return the object address for hashcode, because with GC the object address can move right? So if you are using it for hashcode, you do need to persist it somewhere after it's called the first time.
Translating my Grandfather’s biograpy
There's search engines other than Google and there's very, very minimal barriers to using a different search engine; literally just type in Bing.com instead of Google.com. Hell, if you're on MS Windows which has a similar monopoly on desktop devices, Bing will be shoved in your face over, over and over again and using Google actually requires more effort...
They say wars are God's way of teaching geography to americans; could it be that DoGE is His way of teaching civics?
Is Apple investing in AI as much as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI? If not they are not "all in".
Unfortunately, as we've seen with Russia, the alternative to having a credible deterrence strategy is being vulnerable to nuclear blackmail.
Because the costs are insane. You're not making Game of Thrones on a Patreon budget; the early seasons were $50 million each, and the series as a whole cost $1.5 billion. The media companies are essentially giant VC firms that assume crazy amounts of risk in the hopes that a few hits will outweigh losses from the bombs.

This is why they paywall everything; subscriber revenue is steady revenue, kind of like government bonds in an investment portfolio. This is also why so many IPs are remakes, reboots, or franchises, because those are much less risky to bankroll.
Pcb manufacturing is cheap. I put 20 parts 1.5 inch by 24 inch into pcbway and ended up with final delivered cost of 240 dollars.

Not having to deal with wiring that many individual boards and all days of headaches tracking down issues is well worth it in my book.
Robotic shorts support people when walking
> in light of enhanced nuclear capabilities of China and Russia and possible lack of nuclear arms control agreements after February, said Johnson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and countering weapons of mass destruction policy

nice lie, right there.

but world has changed, now you can just ask intelligent AI simple question "who tore up nuclear agreements and when ?"

> Agreement: The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), known as the Iran Nuclear Deal, was signed in 2015 by Iran and six world powers (U.S., UK, France, China, Russia, and Germany).

> Action: In May 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from the agreement, citing concerns that it was insufficient to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions and did not address Iran's missile program or regional activities.

> Agreement: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed in 1987 by the United States and the Soviet Union, banned ground-launched missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers.

> Action: In 2019, the United States formally withdrew from the treaty under President Trump, claiming that Russia had been violating the terms by deploying banned missiles.
This is total and complete speculation, but possibly some sort of genetic or epigenetic driven system favoring some sort of chemical gradient/fingerprint unique to each river, maybe?
I'm actually baffled by the number of people I've met who pay for such services, when I can't tell the difference between the models available within one service, or between one service or the other (at least not consistently).

I do use them everyday, but there's no way I'd pay $20/month for something like that as long as I can easily jump from one to the other. There's no guarantee that my premium account on $X is or will remain better than a free account on $Y, so committing to anything seems pointless.

I do wonder though: several services started adding "memories" (chunks of information retained from previous interactions), making future interactions more relevant. Some users are very careful about what they feed recommendation algorithms to ensure they keep enjoying the content they get (another behavior I'm was surprised by), so maybe they also value this personalization enough to focus on one specific LLM service.
effectively the only tool at their disposal is RTO and that ain’t gonna work. some folk with low mileage might leave but not in numbers to make any kind of “tangible dent.” people won’t be leaving gov jobs just because they have to go back to the office… where they were most days before C19
> /eə/ or /ɪə/

Is this an Afrikaans regional dialect thing, like how the letter e gets pronounced before k? If so, where is each variant associated with?
> The meta-optics camera is the first device of its kind to produce full-color images that are equal in quality to those produced by conventional cameras, which are an order of magnitude larger. In fact, the meta-optics camera is 500,000 times smaller than conventional cameras that capture the same level of image quality.

That would make them 6 orders of magnitude larger.
Ethereum's Winner-Take-All Design
The Redemption of NFS (2017)
On the other hand, search is not a commodity that can be dispensed in interchangable units.

Those opaque tweaks that tank your business are the same ones that keep spam and SEO garbage down.
The OP describes them as the size of a grain of salt, not a grain of rice.
Tired of Recycled Guests, Podcasters Aim to Reinvent the Format
Is there one saying “All electronic devices are smoke machines, some can compute too”?
For the hard of hearing like me the killer application would be live transcription in a noisy setting like a meetup or party, with source separation and grouping of speech from different speakers. Could be life-changing.

(Android's Live Transcribe is very good now but doesn't even try to separate which words are from different speakers.)
Anecdotally, Claude seems to hallucinate more during certain hours. It's amusing to watch, almost like your dog that gets too bored and stops responding to your commands - you say "sit" and he looks at you, tilts his head, looks straight up at you, almost like saying "I know what you're saying..." but then decides to run to another room and bring his toy.

And you'd be wondering: "darn, where's that toughest, most obidient and smart Belgian malinois that just a few hour ago was ready to take down a Bin Laden?"
Being an Outlier
That's a valid move in Monopoly though. Although it's much prefered to pick up the table and throw it.
I remember Softdisk for the Apple IIe. It has an ASCII "tv show" call Alfredo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-OQ4eheYKc&list=PLWOBhBZEPZ...
Supermicro is currently under DOJ investigation for similar schemes to this. The legality of it probably depends on the accounting, and how revenue is recognized, etc.

It certainly looks sketchy. But I’m sure there’s a way to do it legitimately if their accountants and lawyers are careful about it…
1. Unsubscribe link

2. Block at mail server (first individual email, domain if mails persist)

(our corp policy is to ask for these unwanted solicitations to be forwarded to a mail alias to be dropped at the email security gateway, if emails persist)
Agreed, students follow the path of least resistance news at 11. Responsibility belongs with students, parents, and educators, and educators need to set consistent expectations through all grade levels. What did they expect to happen?
I just learned how the Duracell Powercheck© worked, which was done with temperature.

https://youtu.be/zsA3X40nz9w?si=oGg2wdUlLXSDxpsN
Only warmongering blood thirsty chipmunks can argue for what you are arguing here.
LOL, vicious! I don’t feel sorry for them though — I learned a lot by getting a few harsh corrections when I was a young lad trying to run with bigger dogs.
Bitextual: A tool for bilingual text alignment
I'm afraid you're going to need to spell it out to me. What are the opportunities for abuse here that aren't already present in the form of private WhatsApp groups or shared Google Docs with lists of accounts and abusive notes about them?

I'm not saying there aren't any, but my imagination hasn't been able to come up with anything more than "it makes it slightly more convenient for co-ordinated harrassers to remember who they were planning on harrassing".
std::optional<T&>

Can't have optional references in C++. Use either std::reference_wrapper, or just a pointer
Anecdotal experience, but as far as I've played around with them, Claude's models have given me a better impression. I would much rather have great responses with lower availability than mediocre responses available all the time.
Building a computer from the components. Bicycle maintenance and/or building a bicycle from the components. Building a skateboard. Car maintenance. Doing a project in your house, like installing a new toilet.

I can think of a million things, but ask him what he's interested in doing.
> Probably because they colonized white people.

Better to say that they colonized non-African or non-American indigenous people who could not be conveniently attached to vehement Trans-Atlantic chattel slavery or Catholic-conquistador narratives, because the Khanty, Buryats, Yakut, etc. have an appearance that is hardly what most people using race-based terminology would associate with “white people”.
People are right though.

"Your Phone Is Listening—Literally Listening—to Your TV"

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/your-...

"Here’s the Pitch Deck for ‘Active Listening’ Ad Targeting"

https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-list...
Show HN: Resolvd – AI ClickOps to IaC Converter
We built something that lets you take recordings or clickOps and generate parameterized terraform scripts using LLMs.
u can do it with this command, it will just copy audio and video

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 00:00:00 -to 0:30:00 -c:v copy -c:a copy chapter1.mkv

u can just copy paste it 10 times in your text editor, than adjust ss, to times using any video player that can play vhs file.
Or perhaps everyone is worse off because some well connected lobbyist got the government to mandate their more expensive, less effective product.
When we moved office from one with actual rooms with max 4 people in it to an open space I cried a little internally. Our boss proceeded to extol the virtues of an open space for exchange of ideas and collaboration. Guess who was a stable occupant of one of the conference rooms after less than one month and stopped coming to the office altogether after a while.

Working from home now is bliss. If I'll ever start working in a shared workspace again I want an actual office.
Or Proust’s seven volumes.
I don't know if it's the same Ken Johnson, but I found a video about AppSec with a Ken Johnson that had his twitter profile in the description https://x.com/cktricky.
Then I found this Ken Johnson LinkedIn page, and there's no mention of working at Microsoft, so it's probably not the same guy, and this other Ken Johnson looks much younger than I was expecting.
Looks like they created a separate gimp-ux repository a few mos ago at least. I'd gladly contribute design work and code there if my experiences would be more collaborative and less painful than they were before I just gave up trying like a decade ago. In my experience, anyone making a design contribution could only do it in a discrete standalone PR-- with gimp's foundational lack of UI design, that's like someone that owns a crumbling dam saying they will only accept proposals to fix individual broken spots because the pieces that are still intact work just fine. The only real options were to make a fork and change it, or... go fork yourself-- and there was no way I was taking on all of that design and coding myself.
Prado show aims to highlight true colours of polychrome sculpture
>Humans with correct models may nevertheless make errors in rule applications.
Ok

>Machines are good at applying rules, so when they fail to apply rules correctly, it means they have incorrect or incomplete models.

I don't know why people continue to force the wrong abstraction. LLMs do not work like 'machines'. They don't 'follow rules' the way we understand normal machines to 'follow rules'.

>so when they fail to apply rules correctly, it means they have incorrect or incomplete models.

Everyone has incomplete or incorrect models. It doesn't mean we always say they don't understand. Nobody says Newton didn't understand gravity.

>Without using a word like “understands” it seems clear that the same apparent mistake has different causes.. and model errors are very different from model-application errors.

It's not very apparent no. You've just decided it has different causes because of preconceived notions on how you think all machines must operate in all configurations.

LLMs are not the logic automatons in science fiction. They don't behave or act like normal machines in any way. The internals run some computations to make predictions but so does your nervous system. Computation is substrate-independent.

I don't even know how you can make this distinction without seeing what sort of illegal moves it makes. If it makes the sort high rated players make then what ?
But LLMs aren’t people. And people do more than just generate code.

The comparison is weird and dehumanizing.

I, personally, have never worked with someone who consistently puts out code that is as bad as LLM generated code either.

> Most professional developers are unable to produce code up to the standard of "the top answer in stack overflow"

How could you possibly know that?

All these types of arguments come from a belief that your fellow human is effectively useless.

It’s sad and weird.
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It sounds like you may be thinking of a recent news story involving ChatGPT and schools:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/school-did-nothi...

But this article isn't about that story. It's about a recent OpenAI white paper which recommended that teachers use ChatGPT - there's no student misconduct involved here.
Yes, and yes:) It is exactly as amazing as it sounds. I'm still blown away that that includes both x86 and ARM.
I noticed that in some of those situations people forget that they also googled the topic they just discussed. So e.g. two friends were having a conversation about camping and googled specific camping items or locations. Then (seemingly suspiciously) relevant ads show up in places they would not expect. This is indeed happening very often as search/ads companies harvest enormous amounts of data and feed it into targeting almost immediately. And since there are only a few big ads networks, these interest-based ads then show up everywhere.
And they still do, except now they're called "business rules" and they are ad-hoc, buggy versions of an expert system.
So to put this very simply, there is no way in pidgin 2 without breaking API to address a message after it's been displayed. Eion has been hacking around this for years via commands in protocols and then replaying messages and stuff. While this works, it's not a great user experience.

So at a bare minimum we needed to totally change the way messages work. Which inside of a chat client, is a pretty big change. That obviously led to other changes and so on and so on.

As for the other protocols... We needed something to prove out most of the abstractions and trying to prove out abstractions while implementing multiple protocols is a ton of work. But on our radar are new XMPP, Bonjour, and even a Matrix plugin. All of these will be coming from us and will be in tree.

That said, there will not be any proprietary protocols in our official source tree. If you want more information on that, check out this post [1].

As for Eion's plugins, I've been talking to him through much of this as you would expect. Obviously his time is precious and we didn't make this changes to spite him or anything, but we (me specifically) have offered to start porting his protocols for him.

[1] https://dev.to/grim/in-tree-protocols-15ne
It does act as a thermometer, if and only if the altitude remains constant. The speed of sound fluctuates with both temperature and altitude
no thoughts but seems like a headache cleaning up code and maintaining it. i will think about it this weekend.
follow-up: a comment[0] in TFA claims 2011/04/03 article on Gigazine.net to be the origin, however that itself links to 2011/03/29 slashdot.jp diary entry[2] which is apparently written by translator for ja.wikipedia article[3] created at 2011/03/28[1]. These are also pre-memeization, but just articles for curiosity. There must be some point between 2011 and 2014 that it became a meme.

0: https://doomsdaymachines.net/p/the-meme-ification-of-the-dem...

1: hey, it's not nice thing to say, and I understand that writing for the Gigazine is not an easy job, but frankly,

2: https://web.archive.org/web/20110404124748/http://slashdot.j...

3: https://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E3%83%87%E3%83%B...
Next.js B2B Starter Kit – fast-track your SaaS app from 0 to 1
Boeing ginned up a spherical version of these and used it on 787 prototypes to identify candidates for sound deadening material.

Apparently in loud situations like airplanes, audio illusions can make a sound appear to come from a different spot than it really is. And when you have a weight budget for sound dampening material it matters if you hit the 80/20 sweet spot or not.
Interesting. I also find it frustrating to be rate limited/have responses fail when I’m paying for the product, but I’ve actually found that the “concise” mode answers have less fluff and make for faster back and forth. I’ve once or twice looked for the concise mode selector when the load wasn’t high.
Maybe they want to afford dinner?
I feel like "university" should be in quotes here
This criticism is all the more poignant given that it comes from Nabokov. He is one of the few authors for whose works the Russian and English versions are almost equivalent; he was bilingual and did the translation himself.
I meant in a general context (I know Go or Rust allows it in a decent way), not familiar enough with Haskell..
The tech is beamforming .. the applications are AV conferencing, camera tracking, voice lift, or sound reinforcement
> Also, the U.S. remains committed to a safe, secure and reliable nuclear deterrent, he said.

really deranged warmongers you have there in D.C., there are no escape, only https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
I’ve been using the API for a few weeks and routinely get 529 overloaded messages. I wasn’t sure if that’s always been the case but it certainly makes it unsuitable for production workloads because it will last hours at a time.

Hopefully they can add the capacity needed because it’s a lot better than GPT-4o for my intended use case.
> have even received phone calls on my personal cell phone

For this, if you are in the US, first, if you have not already done so, add your personal cell phone # to the do not call list.

Then, for any of these calls, first collect the business names/info and names of those calling (which they will likely give, being salespeople). After you get that info written down, then inform them that they are in violation of the do not call law and that you are reporting them to the FTC for violating the do not call law.

And, of course, follow through on reporting them to the FTC:

https://www.donotcall.gov/faq.html

Doing so just might scare some of them into either removing your number, or adding it to a block list so they don't call it anymore.
no worries mate, our new President is a President of Peace, unlike our previous President that won a Nobel Peace Prize. “Defense” budget is about to be slashed by 95% and most military personnel will be honorably discharged. Like few weeks after the inauguration
A lot of plastic containers use fluorine-treated plastic [1], resulting in the creation of PFAS. The fluorine is used to strengthen the plastic and make it less permeable.

> Since EPA released its investigation, we have learned the disturbing fact that the fluorination of plastic is commonly used to treat hundreds of millions of polyethylene and polypropylene containers each year ranging from packaged food and consumer products that individuals buy to larger containers used by retailers such as restaurants to even larger drums used by manufacturers to store and transport fluids.

[1] https://blogs.edf.org/health/2021/07/07/beyond-paper-pfas/
Same as before AI - by solving a problem. AI is a tool, not a goal. If it can solve a problem, great... build a solution with it. If not, build a solution without it. But focus on what you are solving, not what flavor of hammer you are using to pound that nail.
This will not make life better for people.

Glad I work for a state agency.
> Israel has controlled what can pass the border since 2007 or so.

"The" refers to Israel's border by normal English rules. Seems you're being deliberately obtuse.

And it's absurd to think Egypt didn't have control over their own border. Egypt didn't want Palestinians crossing for other reasons (they have a history of terrorism in moderate Muslim states).
That in totality, one guy driving an electric car might have a bigger footprint than a gas guzzling pickup owner, so we should focus on the bigger picture when we compare the size our virtue with one another.
I don't really see any ambiguity? If the reporting is accurate, the whole $4B is cash.
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If some salmon group had been simplistically "programmed" to go up these waters, they would have been trying and failing to go up the river during the entire time the dam was there and so likely wiped out as a group/subspecies.

It seems like the fish would have to have had some kind of way to test if the river lead to adequate spawning grounds. And if they had that, they wouldn't really need any memory of any given river.
According to Israel itself 38 children died in Oct 7th:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/38-children-wer...

That's the same number killed by Israel in the West Bank alone in 2023 before October 7th:

https://www.savethechildren.net/news/2023-marks-deadliest-ye...

Israel has since killed tens of thousands of children. It's very clear (especially if you know the history of Nakba) who is at fault here.
I’m still sad these didn’t become a thing. I don’t need a 48MP camera phone. No seriously. I do not.
Show HN: [PoC] Interactive Life Calendar
this is a PoC of a life calendar. It's interactive, supports multiple layers for diff aspects of life. It was meant to be an Obsidian plugin, just sharing the first version
But we're trying to fix the thing you're always complaining about...?

I cleaned up the language on the irc bit in the post as it was confusing people. But we are very much aiming to support everything including all the big chat networks. That's why so much of our internal API had to change.

This release is to get something out there even with limited functionality rather than not releasing until it's at feature parity with Pidgin 2.x which is going to take a long time on our current trajectory.
This is the way it is, most likely, because investors are the actual target audience here
Haha as someone who doesn’t understand getters/setters as a pattern I’m bewildered by this subthread.
Never occurred to me that the response changes based on load. I’ve definitely noticed it seems smarter at times. Makes evaluating results nearly impossible.