skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When entering the United States they also take fingerprints and a picture of your face.
>so he just selects a subset he can handle and bans everything else.

Yes? And the problem is?
Sure it does. The goal is keep the farmland available and productive along with keeping agricultural infrastructure. The USA helped win WW2 because our car factory lines were retooled to make war machines.
What would be wrong with "enter your name as it appears in the machine-readable zone of your passport" (or "would appear" for people who have never gotten one)? Isn't that the one standard format for names that actually is universal?
> trust isn’t really transitive

Not sure I agree with this. Sure, trust might drop off pretty quickly (like an inverse square law), but I would still trust a friend of a friend over a complete stranger.
> Never once have I had any semblance of a "plan" or a "goal". And despite what all the authority figures in your life will tell you, that is a perfectly fine way to live and be happy

That's the ideal career for sure, but how common is it?

It would be great if I knew I could bumble along and become a staff eng/manager/director without any sort of plan or goal. I don't believe that's a common experience though, and it seems even more unlikely for people who are at the start of their careers today (Like me).
Rare WalterBright L taken in that thread.

Sure, Unicode isn't the Platonic ideal of a character encoding. It has warts, legacy features, and.. and it is a universal encoding of all human writing. What an exceptional and incredible accomplishment.

Could you replace it with something better designed?

No. No, you cannot. You can in principle design something better, but that's a completely different, quixotic, and useless task.

It's also far from impossible to implement Unicode 'correctly', folks not only can, but do, routinely. It's extensively well documented, there's example code, it's just work.

Also, if your game plan for Unicode-D includes removing the most beloved and consistently demanded feature, emoji: then no, that person in particular is not capable even in principle of designing something better. That game has been lost before it began.
I expected that kind of remarks. Contrary to Western and Korean beliefs, Japanese researchers aren't obsessed with shitting on South Korea 24/7. There's a lot of individuals genuinely interested other languages and cultures, studying things like the Korean speakers in China's Yanbei province. In the article I linked, there are more references to research articles on the topic written by Japanese than what exists in English.
StutterGPT: Evaluating AI Speech Models with Stuttering
I remember reading from a previous thread how yes you can do something like that (or lots of other techniques) but they will only work on a small percentage of files.

That sometimes the smallest decompressor (including the key, in your example) will result in overall less space, but usually it will result in more (because the smallest key that generates 10 zeros happens to be 14 digits long, etc.).

And so ultimately the more interesting question becomes about those probabilities, and therefore what is the right entry price for the bet to be even?
> his AIXI algorithm, which he already considers to be the pinnacle of artificially intelligence

This paper from Hutter in 2015 https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04931 considers AIXI to be "subjective", since the choice of Universal Turing Machine is left unspecified:

> We show that Legg-Hutter intelligence and thus balanced Pareto optimality is entirely subjective, and that every policy is Pareto optimal in the class of all computable environments. This undermines all existing optimality properties for AIXI. While it may still serve as a gold standard for AI, our results imply that AIXI is a relative theory, dependent on the choice of the UTM.
Print debugging: a tool among other tools
Wasn't the context that people were concerned about terrorist attacks with bombs in high-impact locations, against concentrations of people and key civil infrastructure?

And someone decided to be edgy, and intentionally use this context, by placing something that could be mistaken for a bomb made by a crazy person, exactly in those locations? (Or even do those as decoys, to support a separate attack.)

Of course the early emergency responses were life-critical urgent, with no one having complete information.

And once they did have information, you can see how a company abusing fresh terrorism concerns like that, with what was arguably a hoax attack, for commercial promotion purposes, would still have a lot of explaining to do.

Random kids huffing "Chill out, it's just a prank" doesn't make it all OK.

And all the dissing of emergency responders, who reasonably had to act as if this might be another terrorist attack, didn't seem very fair, nor thought-out.

It might help to look at another Boston terrorism incident, the Boston Marathon bombing. Bombs went off, no one knew the extent of the attack, and, while the crowd was rightly trying to run away from the danger, emergency responders were running towards the explosions, to help protect people.

Why mock that? We need that.
Bit premature to use the e word. You don't know what he was going through, what his medical status was, or even have certainty how he died.

And all of us, even the von Neumanns and the Ramanujans, have restraints and guard rails.
In this case, GP has it very much right. Brotli was developed by people, not just faceless Googlers. Jyrki, who led the project, is as passionate an engineer as you're likely to meet. In this case, being able to pursue that passion happened to align well with Google's business interests, as it is indeed the case that improvements to compression have obvious benefits at scale when bandwidth and storage cost real money. But someone still has to push the initiative, and it's not as easy as you might think.

Disclosure: have collaborated with Jyrki and the compression team, including WOFF2 font compression, an early application of Brotli.
I'm not sure. I do not that gas peaker plants that have to be started and stopped a lot wear out very fast.
Thoughts after reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42219708
I think the fact that they haven't may be kind of indicative. Last I searched it had supported maximum local device density of just handful in miles.
> random, out of place device

I'll say it again: when people don't just say what the thing was (an LED sign) and instead use vague scary terms ("random out of place device") they are intentionally aiming to deceive. As well, anyone is free to click the links I've posted and judge for themselves.
Is there any auth necessary to pull data from a PDS? I know the main relay is a public firehouse so I would be surprised, but maybe the PDS can put relay servers on an allowlist?
Not really feasible. The only reason Starlink DTC works is because it's not trying to supply coverage inside dense cities.

Musk mentions this in the very first announcement of Starlink. https://youtu.be/AHeZHyOnsm4?t=191
Sonda: Universal visualizer and analyzer for JavaScript and CSS
Coloring files of the same file-type is my favorite feature. Is the extension used to group them or a MIME-header parser? I guess the extension, since it is faster.
Yeah I’m also worried about profitability, tho not particularly concerned about that particular investor, personally; all VCs are inherently amoral profit generators. They are a “benefit corporation” like anthropic, which gives them some leeway to deny shareholder requests in the name of public good. Which is nice!

In general I feel like social media is in the perfect spot for a huge shakeup as display ads breathe their last breath. Even if Google wins/draws out its Display Ads antitrust case and successfully implements some new interest-tagging system, I think anyone with a calculator and a newspaper subscription can read the leaves at this point; people are concerned about their data, and the money it generates is peanuts compared to more traditional advertising schemes. All of this is of course not even mentioning what I think intuitive algorithms will do (cynical or no, there’s lots of credentialed scientists saying that AGI (!!) is within reach in the coming decade, if not the coming few year).

All that to say: I feel like they can find a way to make it work. Revenue doesn’t need to be as high anyway if you a) don’t have 1000 devs optimizing Display Ad A/B tests all day, and b) have the support of the open source community.
I'm not sure what you mean? Django ORM works with common SQL databases, which are generally "typed"? Auto completion is generally a function of your IDE, and there are certainly IDE's with autocompletion that work well with Python and Django? I agree that Pydantic is a great library... I use it with Django quite often, as Django is a Python Library and it plays very well with other Python libraries like Pydantic.
This is very much a "the world _should_ work this way" view point.

But this attitude is not particularly useful in a world where things aren't black and white.
God I hate this argument and this blunt misunderstanding of computer vision. (I've dealt with it so many times on reddit) Frequently I'm met with these arguments with some imaginative justification for this technology. At this point it's hard to be convinced that the arguements aren't an AstroTurf by security vendors. (Yes dang, I realize this is bad to make this accusation to say but I'm speaking generically and over a large group of people)

Additionally you threw in a false equivalency: But a ton of things are going on..you're useless in fighting it. On top of that you threw in an accusation that "if you don't then face longer lines".

The cameras that are above aren't good enough to do a confident identification of an individual. They're great for tracking where unique blobs go.

The picture they are doing a comparison against is a profile picture and consistent lighting. Additionally the old picture that is on your license is a much older photo. The thread here is that the people who are taking your image now are updating their models and maintaining the models of what you look like. With that they are able to retroactively and perform future lookups on different visual datasources about what you did. (Gas stations, stores, weed shop, adult toy store, walking down the red light district, being on a train, etc)
You might as well wish that the factories produced teleporters. You're putting the cart before the horse. You have to fix the demand side first. I know there's an online demand for public transportation and bikes and if you are in that bubble it can feel like the whole world is with you, but in the real world, most people (obvs not everyone) prefers to have their own car.
Yeah, top-level IC positions are much harder to acquire than their equivalent management positions and tend to require some level of public claim to fame.
Build network societies, not network states
So you're saying companies should move to k8s and then immediately move to bash scripts
I think you meant financial
Is it more likely to happen as manager or dev? I suppose that is the important question, to which I don’t know the answer
I would like to use my name as my parents gave it to me, thanks. Is that too much to ask for?
The board at Tesla is basically Elon’s buddies. There is no oversight or independence there, they do what he wants.

If law was applied equality to billionaires as it does to regular people, he would be in jail for fraud.
I just looked up the Russian wikipedia entry for it, and it's spelled "Лодзь", but it sounds like it's pronounced "Вуджь", and this fact irritates the hell out of me.

Why would it be transliterated with an Л? And an О? And a з? None of this makes sense.
Okay, I have a non-ASCII (non Latin even) name, so I can tell. You just ask explicitly how my name is spelled in a bank system or my government id. Please don't try transliteration, unless you know exact rules the other system suggests to transliterate my name from the one cultural context into another and then still make it a suggestion and make it clear for which purpose it will be used (and then only use it for that purpose).

And please please please, don't try to be smart and detect the cultural context from the character set before automatically translating it to another character set. It will go wrong and you will not notice for a long time, but people will make mean passive aggressive screenshots of your product too.

My bank for example knows my legal name in Cyrillic, but will not print it on a card, so they make best-effort attempt to transliterate it to ASCII, but make it editable field and will ask me to confirm this is how I want it to be on a card.
Surprisingly enough, the answer to many self imposed human problems
I was with you until "doesn't grant them info that they don't already have." It gives them the opportunity to update their face model of you in a confirmed and consistent manner.

It also doesn't improve anything:

An agent comparison of you vs the id is still considered to be the gold standard. When this system fails, you have to default to the agent's comparison. This is a slow down compared to the previous scenario.

The time for an id comparison isn't the bottleneck in security. It's the physical actions used to go through the TSA and the built in inconsistency to prevent people from speedrunning the screening.
> If you love what you’re doing now and don’t ever want to change jobs, great: you’ve reached the end of your career

Guess I'm there. I don't know how common my mindset is around here, but I have a relatively low stress, unexciting remote job in web dev. It's not glamorous or particularly interesting, but it pays well and offers the flexibility for me to travel a lot/spend time with loved ones and have extra mental energy for my hobbies. Well worth the tradeoff for me personally - I have no particular impetus to climb the corporate ladder when I already make six figures in a low cost of living area.
Being tightly wound must be an East-coast thing.

From the Wikipedia page on the "2007 Boston Mooninite Scare":

No devices were retrieved in Los Angeles and Lieutenant Paul Vernon of the Los Angeles Police Department stated that "no one perceived them as a threat".The many Los Angeles signs were up without incident for more than two weeks prior to the Boston scare.

Police Sergeant Brian Schmautz stated that officers in Portland had not been dispatched to remove the devices, and did not plan to unless they were found on municipal property. He added, "At this point, we wouldn't even begin an investigation, because there's no reason to believe a crime has occurred." A device was placed inside 11th Ave. Liquor on Hawthorne Boulevard in Portland, where it remains.

San Francisco Police Sergeant Neville Gittens said that Interference, Inc., was removing them, except for one found by art gallery owner Jamie Alexander, who reportedly "thought it was cool" and had it taken down after it ceased to function.
I have no specific knowledge, but another approach would be to integrate more unusual very-long-instruction-word micro-instructions, like large scale matrix functions, algorithm encode/decode functions, and very long vector operations.

As I recall, Transmeta's CPU could accept x86 instructions because the software translator, called Code Morphing Software (like Rosetta), would decompose the x86 instruction into a set of steps over a very-long-instruction-word. VLIW's design is such that all of the instructions went into separate, parallel pipelines. Each pipeline had specific set of abilities. Think, the first three pipelines might be able to do integer arithmetic, but 3 and 4 can do floats. Also, the CPU implemented a commit/rollback concept which allowed it cause "faults," like branch miss-predictions, interrupts, and instruction faults. This allowed the Transmeta CPU to emulate the x86 beyond just JIT compilations. In theory, it could emulate any other CPU. They tried going after Intel (and failed); but, I think they would have been better off trying go after any one trying to jump start a new architecture.

Part of the reason why CPUs aren't good at GPU activities is because the instructions are expected to have pretty small, definite set of inputs and outputs (registers), use a reasonable number of CPU cycles, and must devote logic to ensure a fault can be unwound (CPU doesn't crash). FPGs are cool because you can essentially have wholly independent units with their own internal state. The little units can be wired any way desired. The problem with FPGs is all that interconnect means a lot of capacitance in the lines, so much slower clock speeds.

So, maybe they are trying to strike a balance. They have targeted instructions are more FPG-like, like "perform algorithm." The instruction receives a set of flags that defines which algorithms to use and in what order (use vector as 8-bit integers, mask with 0x80, compute 16bit checksum) and a vector register. You can loading vectors and running them then finally "read perform algorithm result" with flag "get compute 16bit checksum." FPG-like and registers aren't "polluted" with intermediate state.
If this sort of thing interests you, check out atfile: https://github.com/electricduck/atfile
All I want is an Escape Velocity MMO
Many people lack the mobility to squat at all! Correcting this takes considerable time.
Can you elaborate on other things you think Kubernetes gets wrong? Asking out of curiosity because I haven't delved deep into it.
If by “forces applicants to submit” you mean “politely asks applicants to enter anything in a form field”.

Some people are just so sensitive.
As a general principle, absolutely.

In practice, I wonder what size of file we're talking about that would result in net compression on random data 50% of the time?

I have no intuition whether it's 1 GB, 1 TB, 1 PB, or beyond.
And there is that recent study assuring us every generation thinks things are just turning more to shit.
The paper suggests biking only 118 days per year. The car ownership costs are not "saved" - the projected savings are wrong. Ownership car costs are 0.167/km and savings by riding a bicycle are 0.349/km.

Two ignored real costs of bicycling are lack of optionality (planning ahead for weather changes, locked into transport mode) and carrying capacity (groceries, children, sports equipment, etcetera). And I'd like to see other costs of cycling (wet weather gear, helmets, locks) included.

About the quality I expected.
No More Storage Limits: M.2 Adapter for Apple's M1 MacBooks [video]
> And each of those questions comes from a highly confused state about what religion is, about what prayer is, about what God is.

No need for goalpost moving. The holy book claims that God answers prayers. This is, in fact, a lie. Some people aren't yet fully convinced of this, and reading the website helps them along. (see uncle comments)
This might not be quite as strong a rebuttal as you were hoping for!
Sweetch Energy aims to revolutionize Electricity generation from delta water
What do you think about brain-computer interface and VR?
LEO fees?
WTF-8 is actually a real encoding, used for encoding invalid UTF-16 unpaired surrogates for UTF-8 systems: https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
They don't fly sun synchronous orbits, so a giant vertical laser cannon near equator running 24/7 can kill them all in matters of days. I think. Carrying this out likely also constitute a de facto declaration of war against the US.
turns out the more control you remove from a class of people's lives, the more petty disobedience they engage in, in order to wrest some semblance of control back

this is measured "post-pandemic" but especially in North America it's also post-Trump's first term, during economic struggles largely affecting middle and lower classes, at a breaking point in classroom surveillance escalation that's included sealed bags for cell phones and monitored devices, all coupled with declining funding, training, and educational quality for teachers. throw a generation that self-organizes action against every wrong (many real and some mostly perceived) and you get a school environment that is actively hostile the more one tries to enforce order upon it

but also just look at "quiet quitting", slacker culture, civil and labor rights movements, and most of the rest of American history at various inflection points. dismissing student misbehavior as children being inherently bad for some reason means willfully looking past all of the major events and figures around them that are influencing that behavior
They, BYD, have their own semiconductor R&D and manufacturing subsidiary called BYD semiconductor.

EDIT: Seems like it is a division, so not a spin-off.
> There is only one sort of person who signs up to check internal passports and search innocent people

People needing a job?
Boltzmann had a whole lot of math backing up his assertions. Among the many issues with what you posited, I highly doubt you have bothered to actually check to see if the force necessary to keep electrons from colliding with the nucleus would also be commensurate with what’s needed to counteract gravity at cosmological scales.
Your theory is analogous to saying that we don’t need to invoke gravity to explain why the earth doesn’t spiral into the sun, because it could just be explained with solar photon pressure.
I thought this was going to be a link to the Key & Peele sketch: https://youtu.be/gODZzSOelss?t=180
The pandemic caused global inflation. I don’t know why you’d insinuate increased spending in America directly correlates with increased spending in Europe. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make either.
So you want a web framework that dictates how you structure your application code? I think one of Django's strengths is that if a component doesn't work well for the application you are building, you are always free to choose something else. If the default Django app structure doesn't work well for you, you can pick any structure that does. Though I would argue that the default structure is exactly what the vast majority of web applications need.
If shareholders are happy, what business is it of yours? If they aren’t happy, they can sell the shares.
> Generally if you got road you got reception.

Er, if you got highway, maybe? I assure you there are plenty of roads that have poor cell reception.
Right. But you mentioned feedback you gave that was followed. Do you have examples?
Thanks, found it.
If they can get ~100k subs to a $10/mo premium service similar to discord nitro, they are probably close to breaking even at the current scale and ops methodology. Which seems feasible.
Who is this hypothetical battle to be fought against? Surely anyone with sufficient power to mount a blockade has nuclear missiles and at that point it's kind of moot...

Note that I actually agree with your position but this is an interesting discussion on a topic I hadn't thought about deeply enough!
Thanks for the detailed answer. So I guess the main issue with KANs is that they don't work as good. I wonder if that shortfall could be because we have spent more time setting up KANs for learning as much as we can for things like MLPs. I am not surprised though that KANs don't beat boosted trees and such. MLPs dont really either.

Only one follow up question:

> I'm also can't see how to incorporate inductive biases other than the standard R^n / tabular regression one, and the existing attempts on this that I'm aware of are just band-aids (along the lines of feature engineering)

A lot of the way we induct biases in the traditional network setting (activations are on the node instead of on the edge like in KAN) is by using graph-based architectures, like convolution or transformers, or by setting up particular losses and optimizations like in equivariant networks. Can't we do the same thing for KANs?