skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this is what the article boils down to

It isn't.

> Let's also not forget that Time just made Trump man of the year. I'd argue that isn't the best source for these things.

And Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Ayatollah Khomeini.

You don't understand what Time is saying. Read more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year
It really was a tiny minority, almost nobody bought Google phones at the time. The vast majority of Android users never even knew of the Hangouts SMS integration.

I had a Nexus 4 and then 5 in 2013 and even though I was a big Hangouts user, I quickly disabled the SMS integration as it served no purpose in my case.

It would be extremely weird for carriers to pressure Google on such a niche feature among Android users when Apple actually pulled it off successfully for the other half of their subscribers.

> Google caved and introduced the standalone Google Messages in the next Android release.

This was more likely motivated by Jibe's acquisition and Google pushing a big revamp of RCS (Universal Profile) at the GSMA.

Ars also forgets to mention Allo. Google's strategy was a complete mess on its own, no need to blame carriers.
Does anyone find it interesting that the FBI, FAA, and Military don't seem very concerned? They have this attitude of "yeah, whatever." Someone should take a drone and start flying it over the military base, I wonder if they will show the same indifference they are showing now.
I read somewhere that being the only kid without smartphone access is worse (for mental health) than giving your kid a smartphone.

I.e. there needs to be consensus among parents.
> trying to figure out when phones started being allowed in school

I was a high school senior in 2003-2004, and my dad gave me a phone to use that year, and I think most of my classmates had one too, but I don't actually remember there being any problem or policy about it. I assume that's because phones were just phones at the time, and who were you going to call during class? I don't think I even sent or received a text message until a couple years later.

By 2011, when my wife started teaching in a public high school, it was the wild west with phones. The school policy gave her the authority to take them away during class, but then she was responsible for documenting and safekeeping them, so she didn't bother despite the constant distraction as kids openly looked at them during class.

The capabilities and market penetration grew so fast that I think most schools were just caught off guard, trying in vein to implement rules after the phones were already in every kid's hand.
Brings this to mind:
https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf
Private equity bids long goodbye to IPOs
Linux banned Russian contributors. Do I need to worry about U.S. Sanctions?
With Facebook you will always be a slave to their algorithm. It may or may not decide to show your updates to the people who subscribe to your feed. They may ban your account for no discernible reason at any time and trying to talk with support to get it straightened out is a nightmare.

Having a newsfeed on your site that also posts to Facebook is generally a better approach. Don't leave yourself at the mercy of a giant faceless corporation that doesn't care about you.
You’re likely noticing several other factors. Scalded milk is much larger impact via higher temperature for far longer.

The real test is to blind taste milk immediately before and after pasteurization and I couldn’t tell the difference with High-temperature short-time which only hits 71.5C for 15 seconds.

At home you can try a blind taste test after heating to 60C for 20 minutes, but we use HTST because it’s basically undetectable. UHT has a longer shelf life, but there’s just a hint of a taste difference.
I didn't say most things are art. I say people conflate political expressions with artistic ones. As someone who loves art, I find that somewhat disheartening, so I thought I'd debate it. It doesn't magically make the non-art from TFA into art, though. Certainly not if you start from the premise that art must have aesthetic merit.
I use Obsidian and store the data in my daily notes.

The cool thing that it's easy to create visualizations with different plugins
As a .plan file on a finger service?
As someone who is at NeurIPS right now with a main conference paper, I was shocked at how many NeurIPS attendees had no paper. At ACL conferences, almost every person attending has a paper (even if it's only at a workshop)

NeurIPS is "ruined" by the money and thus attracts huge amounts of people who are all trying to get rich. It's a bloody academic conference people!
All the replies under this comment sound like shameless advertising
It started as a Scheme and one of it's #langs implements a Scheme these days, but Racket itself is strictly more powerful than Scheme.
When you call `unwrap` you know that you’re opting-in to unhandled panics at that specific point. At no time to you have to assume something is null—the type system prohibits consuming a value of type Option<T> as if it were a naked T.
In the short term (next 100 years or so), the aim isn't to improve things. It's to make it get only a little worse rather than dramatically worse.
Ask HN: Product managers making products worse on purpose, why?
I noticed that searching for a specific item on Amazon would always net me the exact wrong results, causing me to purchase the wrong thing (profit motive) but then abandon the shitshow of a platform.

I noticed that Google Shopping and Walmart are doing the same, I can search for (e.g.)4.0 and get results for 3.0, and it's not by accident.

I can imagine the people implementing these (predatory) changes are not stupid, mistaken or fooled, but are doing this on purpose knowing full well they're pissing in the well that they will then be forced to drink from.

I only ask, why?
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What keeps you from just leaving your phone unlocked? Does the unlock expire after a certain amount of time?
I had a lot of questions about similar issues, mostly surrounding the question of "what is the nature of 'subjective'?"

The article deals with this a bit but not as much as I would like — maybe because of the state of the literature?

The linked paper by Safranek et al on observational entropy was sort of interesting, noting how a choice of coarse graining in to macrostates could lead to different entropies, but it doesn't really address the question of why you'd choose a coarse graining or macrostate to begin with, which seems critical in all of this?

In the information theory literature, there's a certain information cost (in a Kolmogorov complexity sense) associated with choosing a given coarse graining or macrostate to begin with — in their example, choosing shape or color to define entropy against. So my intuition is that the observational entropy is kind of part of a larger entropy or informational cost including that of the coarse graining that's chosen.

This kind of loops back to what they discuss later about costs of observation and information bottlenecks, but it (and the articles it links to) don't really seem to address this issue of differential macrostate costs explicitly in detail? It's a bit unclear to me; it seems like there's discussion that there is a thermodynamic cost but not how that cost accrues, or why you'd adopt one macrostate vs another (note Alice and Bob in their subjectivity example are defined by different physical constraints, and can be thought of two observational systems with different constraints).

It's also interesting to me to think about it from another perspective, which is let's say you have a box full of a large number of particles that are "purely random". In that scenario it doesn't really matter what Alice and Bob see, only the number of particles etc. The entropy with regard to say, color, will depend on the number of colors, not the position of the particles because they're maximally entropic. In reorganizing the particles with reference to a certain property, they're each decreasing the entropy from that purely random state by a certain amount that I can think be related in some way to the information involved in returning the particles to a purely random state?

A lot of the article has links to other scientific and mathematical domains. Some of the stuff about information costs of observation has ties in the math and computer science literature through Wolpert (2008) who approaches it from a computational perspective, and later Rukavicka. There's similar ideas in the neuroscience literature about entropy reduction efficiency (the names of some of the people involved there I'm forgetting).

I really liked this Quanta piece but there's a lot of fuzziness around certain areas and I couldn't tell if that was just due to fuzzy writing,fuzzy state of the literature, or my poor understanding of things.
Took clicking shop now button to realise it's iPhone only.
Everything I've ever seen says that secular Jewish birthrates in Israel are higher than W Europe/US, like

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-birth-rate-remains-hig...
I'm guessing this wasn't for a remote work day.

Things I need to do tomorrow include oil change on my truck, laundry, trip to the hardware store, fix the sink, and call my parents.

I don't need the Internet for any of those, and checking the news can social media when I roll out of bed won't help anything. At worst, it might derail my day.
Reproductive rights and high fertility.
I have a business renting high performance compute. I want to democratize compute to make it more easily available on short term basis to anyone who wants access. I talked to TT about a year ago; also one of their customers as well. I was really impressed with everyone I talked to and I'd love to work with them.

What I realized though is that as much as I'd like to buy and host it and make it available, I'm not sure the economics or interest are there yet. The focus today is so dedicated to Nvidia that "fringe" gear is still just that. People who really want to play with it, will just buy it themselves. They've probably been doing that with hardware for a long time.

So, it is a bit of a catch-22 for me right now. Hopefully interest grows in these sorts of offerings and demand will pick up. The world needs alternatives to just Nvidia dominance of all of AI hardware and software.
I think he's saying people believe a LLM trained with this architecture would be able to do something like that.
So then how can it be a paid service?
for me personally, the trade off between me writing in memory safe rust vs comparably "powerful" C++ is coding speed. I think C++ is a mess and have been using rust for my personal projects for the past 2 years but I still feel like I code faster in C++ because I don't lose time wrestling with the borrow checker. Rust has some fantastic design decisions and features (despite it being a relatively immature language) so I've always thought it was weird how people discuss the trade-off as safety vs powerfulness
If That's a spicy hot take:

this is a red hot vindaloo.

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.chrome
Small discussion 2 days ago (13 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42403214
Learning vim was one of the best things I did for myself at work. Completely changed everything about the way I work and made me so much faster.
Not to sound like an Islamophobe, but outside of strict adherents to Islam, which immigrant groups don't "want" to assimilate to a sufficient degree for your tastes? I understand that much of Europe receives primarily Muslim migrants and that those immigrants can be seen as culturally incompatible. But my take is that, given the overwhelming appeal of migrating to wealthy nations, it should be possible to design system that deters the most staunchly conservative/religious migrants in favor of people more compatible with Western norms.

I'd imagine this is not done explicitly at least in part due to the Western compulsion to not appear/act in ways that are discriminatory towards religious beliefs. But as an American, I have seen too many thousands of up close examples of 2nd and 3rd gen immigrants (and beyond) who may look Filipino or Lebanese or Mexican or Pakistani but are in every way as American as the average American of Anglo/German/French/etc ancestry.
> I genuinely believe Groq is a fraud. There is no way their private inference cloud has positive gross margins.

> Llama 3.1 405B can currently replace junior engineers

I'd like more exposition on these claims.
Haha, yeah it’s a little clickbaity. Less clickbaity might have been “Safety and power needn’t be a trade-off”.

I wrote this out of some frustrations I had from a conversation with a user on this site about macros, actually. This is why I spend so much time on Racket. I’m also a PL researcher and I work with Racket a bunch.

It’s not just Racket where the trade-off shouldn’t be necessary, but Racket is a good example because it’s like one big exercise in making some powerful language features safe.
Right, Samsung had its own SMS client.

But even on (near) stock Android, you could easily install the AOSP client, or some third party (Textra was popular somehow).

I'm surprised Sony wouldn't bundle a proper SMS client by default. I thought only Nexus phones and Motorolas would default to Hangouts for a relatively short period, until Google started pushing Messages instead.
I'm pretty pro-immigration, but this just delays the issue. Global fertility is trending downwards, and while the nations where immigration comes from are a few generations behind, they will get to where the nations that immigrations goes to are eventually.

It's important not to catasrophize merely by extrapolating trends. Trends rarely hold true, _especially_ when holding true would lead to catastrophe. But one of the _reasons_ why they often don't hold true is people start thinking about and planning for the catastrophe.

Merely saying "well we will just have more immigration" isn't a good enough answer. Partly because A) you can't _just_ do that. Japan has very clearly chosen not to take the immigration that it very easily could get to solve its demographic issue. The US, which is topping this metric largely thanks to immigrants and recent immigrants, is also experiencing a pretty widespread backlash against immigration right now, and it's tough to say what immigration rates will look like in the medium-to-long term.

So A) a country has to _allow_ immigration and B) even if they did, if nothing else changes that's merely a stop gap solution. Real solutions that increase fertility in groups where it has declined need to be found. They might find themselves, but I think it's safer to assume they won't.
Article title: DOOM Ported To Run Atop AMD ROCm + LLVM libc

Original source (repo): doomgpu https://github.com/jhuber6/doomgeneric
We underestimate how much the average parent recognizes the problem. My peers had children and put a tablet in their children's hands almost immediately. Despite many working in tech, who I assumed knew about the growing concerns.

We are at the "doctor smokes a cigarette while giving you your lung cancer diagnosis" point in history.
It would be pretty awesome if AMD sold aggressively into the data center market, or if NVIDIA sold aggressively into the supercompute market.

All discussion on this is so much sports team fandom until Jensen and Lisa stop pillow fighting on the biggest pile of money since that 50 Cent cover and the highest margins since the Dutch East India Company.

I just spent a few days getting FlashAttention and TransformerEngine built with bleeding edge drivers and all the wheels to zero typing install on three generations of NVIDIA and shit (PS you’re build advertises working without ninja but fucks up CMake INSTALL paths): this is the unassailable awesomeness that no one can compete with? ptxas spinning a core for longer than it takes to build Linux and sometimes crashing in the process?

No, this is central committee grift sanctioned at the highest levels to the applause of HN folks long NVDA.
Nothing but the desire to sleep well
Yes, and I've seen them in production. Once you learn the rules, you can parse them reasonably well in your head but it is still really confusing at a glance.
There's tons of countries where historically "reproductive rights" have been taken away in order to reduce the birthrate including China and India at different points. Countries where "reproductive rights" have been taken away to increase the birthrate:
1. Ceausescu's Romania
2. ???
Which raises a question that those middle managers don't want asked: What value do they actually add to the business?
Maybe now you should try to do an app to forget files. Mindfileness.
> The Netherlands is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, excellent public transport, excellent bike infrastructure. The majority of people don't need a car!! That's just a fact.

Yet they have 500 cars per 1000 people [1] and 74% of households own a car [2].

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/452085/netherlands-numbe...

[2] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2206197120
Yes. But not at a scale that would make such a huge difference.
>NVMe drives suck down enough power to substantially self-heat during big transfers and I bet that causes all sorts of interesting RF problem

How does heat cause RF issues?
This ctrl+w shortcut gets me all the time when using a web based Spice session to work on VMs and the experience is similar to getting wired earphones yanked out of your ear. There might be a way to inhibit this behavior but I never looked into it because I use it to close browser tabs too.
I would love for my tax dollars to go toward childcare and parental leave, instead of the ersatz makework jobs program we commonly call "defense", but I live in the United States, where that is, apparently, just too radical. Pity.
The current share of healthcare spending that occurs through government and private insurers is due to government intervention. Out of pocket spending constituted the vast majority of spending in the 1950s before these government interventions were enacted.

In contrast, cosmetic and laser eye surgery have mostly escaped the effects of these interventions, and are consequently the only fields of medicine where 1. most spending is out of pocket, and 2. prices have increased at below the rate of inflation.

As for the socialized health care panacea, if you look at the health care systems of other countries where they have fully socialized expenses, you see huge problems, not exactly the same as the U.S.'s, but absolute disasters nonetheless. Health care as a centralized institution doesn't work.
There’s a cost element too.

What percentage of buyers would ever use an M.2 slot? How many people would avoid buying it because it lacked the M.2?

I suspect the return would never match the parts cost. While there must have been dev time spent designing it, it’s basically free to print on the PCB right? And it’s not like they didn’t have the free space.

Interesting RPi thinks it might be useful when reusing the board in future designs. I’d be curious if those ever come.
would be real nice to have a small device in your pocket that works at nano scale and converts input matter into output antimatter. Like feed it rock powder and you get antimatter rock powder. Would be real nice such a device could be made
Gotten to a point where i have a visceral reaction to any intersection of AI and Psychological thought. As a human it dependably makes me feel sick. We're going to see a lot of changes that are good, and not so good.
Just tested it with a meme, and it nailed it.
I find Nim to have excellent trade-offs for writing system software. It's so much easier to write than Rust, but is also safe.
I'm so curious to know what the optimal number of human beings is. Recall that the earth is finite, so presumably we would hit this point eventually. But for some reason, you don't seem convinced that we should ever stop.
You'll own nothing and be happy, in the name of saving the planet, of course.
Can you give example of vim features that you miss in the vscode plugin? Mainly because I likely don't know about them and I would like to add them to my toolkit (the surround thing is not a vim feature, it is a plugin, although the vscode plugin has that too)
> We Care About Your Privacy

> We and our 870 partners store and access personal data, like browsing data or unique identifiers, on your device

They always care so much.
Kind of like that, I had to word the input so that instruction looked like collapsed code and apparent correlation can be seen. It didn't do right from mere description of an end result.

The code was just an html file with some sticky buttons that would reset. AI left some stuffs set, left reset function empty, had handling codes scattered everywhere etc etc and just didn't get it. Being able to just keep rubberstamping AI until it breaks was a huge time saving, but it wasn't quite as much IQ saving.
> most staunchly conservative/religious migrants in favor of

That was my first thought as well, but it turns out that an interesting quirk of being an expat in a country with a different religion is that most such groups will essentially "double down" on their own belief. Essentially back at their home country they felt comfortable with a minimal, token faith because they were immersed in it anyway, but away from it they feel their ethnic identity "under attack" and hence they cling more strongly to certain aspects of it.
That assumes the energy is released in a fraction of a second which would preclude cooling the antimatter.

Do the same thing over a year in many different devices and you’re basically dealing with a normal nuclear power plant’s output.
> Japan's economy hasn't meaningfully grown in three decades, despite robust productivity growth, likely because of unfavorable demographic shifts.

This is meaningless. So what? The part of economic growth that comes from population growth isn't valuable, it basically cancels out on the most important measure which is per-capita outcomes. GDP growth is only really important as far as it is tracking meaningful per-capita changes. Otherwise it would be a reasonable indicator of who has more people but that isn't interesting except, maybe, in a war. Which we don't want.

Japan might or might not have terrible problems, but insofar as demographics aren't driving growth that isn't a problem. The problem is if productivity growth has stalled or there aren't enough resources to look after all the unproductive old people.
That's actually an indictment of society, and not individuals' choices to avoid having children. If society can't manage to not exponentially explode forever, maybe it behooves us to rethink our approach to society.
The circle shape makes you feel engaged and able to converse with everyone so it feels cohesive. It's also pretty obvious you were arranged in that shape to emphasis a group conversation activity is taking place.

Kind of the opposite as when you get seated at a restaurant in a long rectangle table. You immediately know it will be difficult to talk to the whole table and will have multiple conversations taking place. If you're at one end, you'll likely only talk to 3-4 people. If you're at the center, you might talk to 3-4 to the left and right but they'll be different conversations. Not that this is a strict law of table talk, just kind of what usually takes place. Sometimes there's something that comes up that gets everyone's attention and the whole table is shouting. An even more extreme example, is a bar top seating, where you are just a line facing the same direction. You might only talk to your neighbors and possibly their neighbor but it's not great at facilitating larger group discussion.

If you ever go to a banquet or wedding where they have round tables but a very tall floral decor piece thing in the middle, it completely breaks the circle advantage. I think eye contact and your ability to convey body language is a major component.
Huh, you can do visual selections in vim as well, and manipulate what you selected.