skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Combining Software time/cost estimates with value estimates make it even more fun, because most software is low value (with some chance of being extremely valuable). Combining these into an ROI probability space makes everybody sad, but the expected value is still positive even if the most likely outcome is software that wasn't really worth paying for!
Why as a Turkey, are you voting for Christmas?
That isn't the linked article.

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
Water Polo and Penicillin
It's pretty funny to see so many anime memes when you consider that demoncore was originally planned as the third bomb for japan.
Looks like 10 years to me
I spent my time trying to figure out what artuk was.
P.S.: Another bonus to this is that the sealed envelope along isn't enough for the holder to empty all of Aunt Tillie's bank accounts and flee the country. Whoever has custody of it would at least need to conspire-with or trick one of the family members into sharing them a copy of the encrypted store.

Also, for bonus disaster-preparedness: When setting up the cloud service to backup+share the encrypted file, also include the original installer for the password-safe software. It avoids the problem of trying to find code from a discontinued software project or which successor-project may or may not compatibly open the file.
I can promise you that "the ADL and Israel and the Zionist institutions" are not the only ones using the term "antisemitism". I'd personally prefer that it'd be called anti Jewish racism.
> Having reliable sources for scientific news and a high standard for truth therein is obviously important, moral, and good.

I'm glad we could find shared ground here. I wholeheartedly agree, even if I respectfully disagree with your totally unrelated very strong opinion that "Having a 'very strong opinion' is a strong indicator that a publication concerned with science has gone off the rails"
The process you described is very far from how companies who productize LLMs use them.
I checked wikipedia, and actually it states the same as the parent comment. That sentence has five references. It doesn't shock me, given the era, but rather than speculate and squabble, someone could check the references and see if they really do support the statement in the wiki.
We had a perfectly functioning economy prior to car domination and all the alternatives have progressed by incredible leaps and bounds in the time since as well.
Hm okay I was curious because I remember how popular rails got around like 2012-2014.

Since then I feel like most people just opt for go/node instead in my experience. Better performance and easier to deploy and scale.
One thing that I’ve done where I previously had a random delay is implement a delay till a constant time from the start of the request. So all of the timing you get out is effectively how well sleep can target a time.
How are the images any more or less disgusting than the original snowglobe itself?
Praise for everybody!
What’s the practical difference? Either way the amount that ends up in your brokerage account should increase be the same amount. Stock buybacks are more tax efficient for the stock owner in the US
Yes! In my last role, I aggressively pushed the concept of “technical risk” to try and get people used to this idea.

Sometimes the computers don’t work the way you thought they did at the beginning. This is a normal and ubiquitous form of risk that just needs to be managed like any other type of risk, with prototypes, multiple revisions of the implementation (each introducing additional risk), occasionally re-scoping, etc.

People outside engineering sometimes don’t like it because the risk is human in origin—it comes from engineers not knowing things, and our job is to know things—but until there’s an omniscient engineer, this risk will continue to exist.
It should be required to have the EULA on the box before purchase, like the nutrition label for food.
> A method is supposed to be an action and a property is supposed to be data.

I agree! That's why it's wild to allow a setter to do literally anything.

You aren't just setting a property, there is a conversion happening under the hood.

And the reason I hate it is that code that appears to be infallible, isn't. It can have arbitrary side effects, raise exceptions, have unbounded runtime, etc.
I think engineers should be more forceful to lead their own visions instead being led by accountants and lawyers.

After engineers have the power of implementation and de-implementstion. They need to step into dirty politics and bend other people's views.

It's either theirs or ours. Win-win is a fallacy.
So all of these Jewish institutions are promoting an anti Jewish word? Please explain why they would do that.
The vapor burns at a different temperature from the liquid. That's fun.
It's worth noting that `thread_local` does reduce register pressure. Unfortunately, almost no languages actually natively support the scoping that sane use of this requires.
LLM cynicism exceeds LLM hype at this point.
It’s the HN link description that’s confusing y’all then? Because the home page, where you clicked before navigating to the compatibility page, says they “aim… to be cross-platform” says nothing of that being the current state
How often do people refer to the USA as "America." It's not quite as pedantic as "it's a republic not a democracy," but...
your application can consist of multiple processes.
If you want on prem infra in exactly the shape and form Oxide delivers*

I've read and understood from Joyent and SmartOS that they believe fault tolerant block devices / filesystems is the wrong abstraction, your software should handle losing storage.
This does not belong on hacker news
or you could benchmark the functions that compare secrets to user input and figure out how much time it's supposed to take, add 0.5s to the average and always add time before responding to get to that target so essentially your response time is constant regardless of input
A Study of Malware Prevention in Linux Distributions
They are the main institutions using the term as a weapon, and the discussion here is based on Netanyahu's own words.
Yep. Hence rescue images, in-initrd sshds, etc.
Not to mention that many of them are diesel-electric hybrid already, going back to the 1940's.
How’s it dead? I’ve just been using torrent sites like usual with no issues for years.
Thank you, appreciate it!
Travelmap looks awesome—I love the idea. I will definitely try it out on my next trip.

This morning, I picked up an affordable m920q with 64GB of RAM and I’m planning to use it for hosting GH and maybe vector tiles too. If I run into any issues I can’t figure out quickly I’ll reach out but I don’t want to bug you with basic questions.
Costumers need the fancy gear for their mad scientists costumes.
Israel is a colony of US imperialism and functions as the US attack dog in the middle east, taking actions and expressing rhetoric in support of US hegemony that are politically infeasible.
> If I were a senior Israeli or Hamas leader I’d avoid the place for a couple of decades in case of sealed charges.

If the Netherlands granted diplomatic immunity to said leaders before their visit, and then decided to arrest them, that by itself would be an act of war.

And even worse, it would ruin basically the only treaty every country has agreed to - the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
Look very carefully at the picture of the rack at https://oxide.computer/ :) there are two power shelves in the middle, not one.

We're absolutely aware of the tradeoffs here and have made quite considered decisions!
Absolutely not; in fact, I was commending them for it.
If any Oxide staff are here, I'm just curious, is BlueSky a customer? Seems like it would fit well with their on-prem setup.
WhisperNER: Unified Open Named Entity and Speech Recognition
But unlike the US, where the State is allowed to buy aggregated data for surveillance purposes, in China, those insiders will likely be jailed for life the day their little business gets discovered. Even more after such an article published by the foreign press.
You have to love what you do, otherwise you won't care in the long term.

Once you figure out that the rest is trivial.
Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub (2021)
That sounds like a nightmare in port. Instead of one ship, now you have thousands arriving one after another.
What are you implicitly comparing it against?
This is one of the least appreciated aspects of Go. Code I wrote 12 years ago still just works.
My point is that there really is no such thing as "truly a JSON object".
Would you mind giving a few examples?

I looked at a few myself, many are off-topic, or engage in whataboutism, or openly supported war crimes like collective punishment. Others are plain insults or racism.
Why would a chess-playing AI be tuned to do anything except play chess? Just seems like a waste. A bunch of small, specialized AI's seems like a better idea than spending time trying to build a new one.

Maybe less morally challenging, as well. You wouldn't be trying to install "sentience".
Nononono you don't understand! When we do it, it's just "reinformation", when they do it, it's propaganda! Totally different!
Have you checked build.nvidia.com by any chance ?
Several of the countries listed are not members of the ICC, so they don’t really count here.
You can call your bank (if you paid by card) to issue chargeback - you don't have the items ?

EDIT: misread, it's loong many pages thread

EDIT2: the machinery is crazy, if i don't have items, i would just deal with bank, how can something can be stolen from me if it's not delivered (assume there must be some signature in place for this amount of money? it's not pack of cigarettes in the box..) ?
The illumos bare-metal OS is not directly visible to customers.
I dunno, I wasn't hooked up to any kind of measurement device to measure the changes in my brain. From a subjective point of view, I miss that place. I've been writing a book about my adventure there, off-and-on for years now. Maybe someday, I will finish it. If I could return, I'd do it in a heartbeat at any cost.

I _feel_ older than I am because there are a couple extra decades in my brain than in real life. Most of my time compression experiments were only a few months or weeks. That one long one changed me forever, and I've never done it on purpose since then.

I still have time compressed dreams from time to time, and when I wake up, two or three weeks have subjectively passed, but only a night has passed in the real world. There's a period of time, no more than 10-30 minutes, while the brain tries to reconcile two different and overlapping pasts. It can be a bit disorienting. My wife knows when I have these dreams because when I wake up, she says I look around surprised or confused to be there. The absolute worst is when you lay down to go to bed in the dream and wake up in the real world. Those will mess you up.

So, maybe my brain did change. Who knows? Maybe someone should study it.
A lone dolphin has been yelling into Baltic Sea for years
GitHub repo: https://github.com/aiola-lab/whisper-ner

Hugging Face Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/aiola/whisper-ner-v1

Pretty good article that focuses on the privacy/security aspect of this — having a single model that does ASR and NER:

https://venturebeat.com/ai/aiola-unveils-open-source-ai-audi...
> I have no problem spotting them while driving a large SUV

That's the bias. It could very well mean "no problem spotting the ones I had no problems spotting". By definition you can't know how many you never spotted and maybe even ended up under your wheels.

Most drivers only kill a pedestrian once in their life, and relatively few actually are that unfortunate, so it's not something you can easily calibrate for from personal experience (with any luck you never will). They all saw and avoided all the pedestrians that jumped in front of them until they didn't.

Many of these accidents happen at low speed when pedestrians thinking they have time meet a driver with a giant blindspot right in front of them and doesn't even try to brake.

Search for "frontover" pictures and you'll realize how ridiculously large that blindspot is.
But it's so solvable that I shouldn't have to solve it
Agree. Like I said, this war has exposed facists, racists, hawks, hypocrites and their nexus (on every side).
I have a smart TV running Roku. I still use cable (for news), so the other 2 sources I see are the 2 computers I have connected. The only time I ever see Roku is when I'm selecting a source. The TV is smart, but I'm smarter: no Ethernet cable.
Ask HN: Can PowerBI be replaced by Python?
I'm a software engineer, starting a data analyst position soon. I didn't have a clue what the job entailed to be honest, except that I liked the description and needed a job (I was being rejected as a software engineer the whole time).

But when they gave me a technical assessment, it turns out that I aced it (including the presentation) since I just saw a data problem and approached it how a software engineer would (with Jupyter/Pandas/Python, it just made sense to use that).

So now I'm actually learning about the job, and while I notice that there are a lot of skills that I already have, making beautiful dashboards with PowerBI/Tableau is not one of them.

Is it possible to do this programmatically with Python or is there no programmatic way that would be considered to be the industry standard? I'm also trying to see if I can perform my job in such a way that if I'd turn back to software engineering that most of my experience is with Python (and perhaps also web as I'd then opt to make the dashboards in web, but that'd seem overkill to me).
Nit-pick: the meme about people's prefrontal-cortex not being fully developed until age 25 is not true. What is true is that there was a longitudinal study that found that people's brains continued to change under MRI as far as they tracked the participants, which was below the age of 25.
I don't think I realized that ICE engines had this kind of degradation. What causes this? Seals and parts loosening as they break in? Some loss of efficiency in the fuel mixing/burning process?
Svalboard uses opto-interruptors, not hall effect sensors, though it does use magnets for return actuation instead of springs. The keys are either on or off, no floating point value like you get with hall effect so some of the features described in the article won't work.

Source: currently working on an open source hall effect sensor keyboard similar to svalboard.
Presumably if they get invited to Europe it will be with assurance from the state that nothing happens to them. And traveling uninvited is probably a bad move anyway. So not much difference.

If you mean to imply that Europe is somehow going to shoot down their planes if they fly over that’s obviously absurd.
If taking infinite density and an infinitesimal point seriously resulted in a clear and consistent ability to model it, then it would be as you say.

But that isn't what happens. Division by zero and other mathematical breakdowns occur, meaning that whatever actually happens is not in fact the same laws operating in an extreme situation. The laws don't actually work.

This is further backed up by the fact that we have two models with which to model the "singularity". Quantum mechanics and general relativity. They both break down, but in inconsistent ways. So clearly our equations don't work in that situation.

In addition, both from theory and experiment, there is strong evidence that space and time have a minimal length, the Planck unit of space and time. You can't get mass on a point if that understanding is true, because it will always involve unit distance connections.

Finally, uncooperative singularities like these have been found in scientific models many times, and the result has always been that the addition or adjustment of our models resolved mathematical mayhem. The mayhem just indicated the models were incomplete for the situation.

A toy example is Newton's force of gravity between two masses, F = Gm1m2/d^2. The force being a constant times the product of masses divided by the square of their distances.

This model implies that at a distance of zero the force is infinite. Yet that creates mathematical problems, modeling problems, and we never see it happen.

That mess is easily cleaned up with the realization that as the distance between the centers of a mass of m1 and m2 falls under the radius of one or both, r1 and r2, the forces of any mass of m1 and m2 outside distance d now cancel out. So as the position of two masses converge, the force of gravity actually goes to zero, not infinity. Newton's Law was still a good model for non-relativistic gravity forces, but needed to take account of more information to work in that particular case without blowing in a "singularity".

TLDR; where math blows up you can't just accept the model as operating in an extreme situation, because the model generates incoherent, inconclusive, undefined and inconsistent results. But the problem isn't magical, mysterious, or evidence of something unknowable. It is just evidence that our math and models don't yet capture everthing relevant to the breakdown case. It is a clue pointing toward something more for us to learn.
Random delays specifically do not, as they average out. Delays until a specific point in time do work, so long as the delay is never negative.
Sounds like Watson all over again.
The results are there, it's just hidden away in the appendix. The result is that those models they don't actually suffer drops on 4/5 of their modified benchmarks. The one benchmark that does see actual drops that aren't explained by margin of error is the benchmark that adds "seemingly relevant but ultimately irrelevant information to problems"

Those results are absent from the conclusion because the conclusion falls apart otherwise.
In this way, when you finally go crazy, you won't then feel so bad for talking out loud to yourself.

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Talking to yourself is old game. The new game is talking to an LLM.
> You're pointing the finger at the State of Palestine and "any Muslim country", when the real supporters of Hamas for years has been Israel and Netanyahu.

You said true things before about Netanyahu propping up Hamas, and he certainly has a lot to answer for.

But you then went way too far in this statement. The "real supporters" or Hamas are not the Israelis or Netanyahu. They existed before Netanyahu, and they're armed and funded to massive degrees by Iran. And while Netanyahu certainly had a certain symbiosis with Hamas, and used them to weaken the PA, Hamas is its own organization; the diversion of the funds that Netanyahu helped secure them to creating the October 7th attack was certainly not anyone's desire except Hamas's own.
> The fact is, the point is, CICO ignores all the real challenges and thereby all the real problems people need to understand and face.

I think we'll have to disagree here. At the end of the day CICO is the formula. That obviously doesn't account for the human factor in regards to the adherenace rate, but it does, fully encompass the 'if you were a robot and were fully adherent how do you lose/gain weight' method.

> To even determine CICO is fraught with difficulty and inaccuracy in both CI and CO. You can hand make everything, weigh every ingredient, and even then you struggle to determine how much you're CO. At best you'll have an estimated CO but then what do you do when your weight isn't changing? you have to start adjusting the math because clearly you're not burning as much as you think you are.

I won't say it's 'easy', but it's also not particularly hard either with the multitude of widely available food databases for measuring calories in. As for calories out, it's arguably even simpler: measure your weight every day, take the average across the week, and watch your weight trend week over week. Calories out can be calculated simply by comparing calories in vs. weight lost/gained... and extrapolating. It's simple math, and very effective in my experience.

> This is made much, much worse with the fact that we don't actually burn that many calories with exercise. And even with what is burned, the rate of burn changes drastically based on your current weight and how long you've been losing weight.

Essentially irrelevant if you follow my above suggestion for how to measure calories out. It's just part of the bucket of calories burned, so as long as you're reasonably consistent with the amount of exercise you do then your averaged weight will account for any exercise based caloric expenditure.
Is it?

I hear people say that. I know the downsides of censorship. But I haven't seen that sunlight is any more effective.

An awful lot of people believe an awful lot of easily-disproven bullshit. Frequently, exposing somebody's false beliefs to "sunshine" just makes them believe it harder.

"Sunshine is the best disinfectant" often means "I have some falsehood that I wish to keep pushing, and I'm going to pretend that I will change my mind if it's wrong".

All other things being equal, I'd rather not censor things. But all things aren't always equal, and I don't think that an absolutist approach actually helps anything.
I haven't seen any ads on my HiSense TV (low end/budget brand), though I have been concerned about updates eventually bringing me this feature.

The TV is pretty much exclusively used as a 85" monitor for a media PC so I think the risk is low, but this was the final prompt to finally block internet access for the TV at the router.

I didn't want to completely block it from the network as it's useful being able to hook into it from Home Assistant
EULAs like this should be illegal. Comparable to "Warranty void if this sticker is damaged" type scenarios.

The enormous "gotcha" games being played under the guise of "if it's not illegal, we're going to exploit it" are grotesque. TVs are just one of hundreds of examples of products and services being used to invade and exploit privacy with no commensurate return on value for what's being exploited.

We need a law constraining this shit to 100% opt-in voluntary features with no dark patterns, with penalties for anything that even vaguely looks like a dark pattern. Fines and jail time time for c-suite for any violations, enough that they'll stop playing the stupid games.
Native desktop development.
You should at least add some kind of error handling so I'm not sitting there like a dope clicking over and over with no result.
Clearly you need to randomly decide whether or not to randomise it.
"Comedy is tragedy plus time".

That quote seems to have multiple origins, though I remember it from Portal, an unlikely source.
$4 billion for 500MW, or $8 per watt. That's 2-4x the cost per watt of solar.

That's not as bad as I expected, and probably looks even better when you factor in the difference in uptime (e.g. including storage into the cost of solar).
I feel like it's a totally different scenario. In usual times, you can afford to innovate - trade some risk for potential improvement.

In disasters, you want to follow the established procedure, to minimize risk in an already confusing and unusual situation.