skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> GDPR is simply ignored by any bigger US company

GDPR is closely adhered to by big American companies. They may be the only ones to whom the EU is applying regulatory pressure on this. Chinese and Indian companies, on the other hand, as well as any non-enterprise American company, including start-ups, on the other hand, can and do safely ignore it. (Or follow it in broad strokes.)
What's with giving error rates as a count of bits, when it's not clear how much DRAM was tested? There's a comment that the error was around 50% but the graphs should be error percentage, not some (meaningless) absolute number!

And there was an interesting feature - error rates didn't seem to change linearly with time, but (strongly for DDR4 and less so for DDR5) the error rate changes in intervals of 8 seconds. That's very much unexpected, so needs a good explanation or indicates a likely error in their procedure.
I actually think it makes the thing look better. Embrace the ugly and maximize it.
So much for moral high ground of “free speech and free enterprise”
Have FPGAs been evolving very slowly? Modern CPUs have some 20 billion transistors and these limitations don't seem to have grown at the same rate since the '90s the last time I looked at them.
Is showering at school still a thing? I've seen it supposedly in the movies, but we never did at our california school in the 90s.
"Free speech" is not like the free square in Bingo. You can't just use it whenever. Commerce is already regulated, speech is already regulated, there's no way around those things not being absolute. If you have a specific argument about the nuance of this situation, then make it.
He has had this theme in multiple works, the idea of paying your door to open was so on point. I think of it all the time when I see things like auto makers charging subscription fees for remote start, etc.
> Land of free speech? Maybe in like a John Wayne movie was this ever true…

What country would you say has stronger free speech protections than the US? I won't say there's none, because there are roughly 200 countries, and I don't know enough about many of them, but I cannot name one.

Not the UK, France or Germany, and I'd be surprised to find any other European country.

For a sampling of other laws/measures:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insult_(legal)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press#/media/File:World_Map_of_the_Freedom_of_the_Press_Status,_OWID.svg

Now...if this ban sticks, it will make your snark a lot more valid, starting with the year 2025.
It's one data point, here is another perspective that says that depending upon the field of endeavor, people can become more proficient with age. "Old Masters and Young Geniuses" https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w8368/w8368...
wow, a true horror game
Not that I know of! Note that the positions we list are typically in different teams so it's worth reading the descriptions to make sure you're picking whichever one is most appropriate to your experience+interests (and, as a corollary, if you weren't a fit for a previous position, you may be one for one that comes up in the future).
Contrasting takes of Sophie Germain's quote from the page Who invented Diagrammatic Algebra

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/168888/who-invented-diagr...

E.g.

>6 points: I'd say God invented it. –
Fernando Muro
Commented Jun 3, 2014 at 6:38

Approved answer:
Arthur Cayley. (Inspired by Sophie?)

>I believe diagrammatic algebra started with 19th century invariant theorists
As much as I get frustrated with GPT4's limitations when it comes to code, it's quite good at expanding detailed bullet points into solid design prose.

You still have to read it back and triple check it, as you would your own work, but you don't need all the time it takes to extensively expand it from draft.

Also, which it is in context it's quite good at documenting what needs to be done to test it.
Millions of people actually chose this over their other options.

Consumers regularly vote with their wallets against their best interests.
We definitely do (as in, I myself have) hire folks from "cold" inbound applications.
Yea, maybe he had other information that helped. I'm just sensitive to reports of UFOs that include estimates of those derived quantities because people reporting them never say how they worked them out or what assumptions they were making. They could have reported the more directly observed quantities like angular speed instead of linear speed.

I know someone who saw an alien spacecraft landing on a distant mountain. Turned out to be Venus :P
China doesn’t officially block any American social media. If you ask your Chinese ISP they say it’s just technical problems. There is probably a list somewhere that is considered a state secret, like the list of banned words and banned books. You do not want to cross China’s broad state secrets law by even pretending to know.

Anyways, China should feel proud that this is the first social media app from China that the Americans thought was worth banning. And in China you know that if something is worth banning it must be good right?
Can confirm. If you don't give vizio Wi-Fi access it functions as a dumb tv.

This is why I purchase Vizio instead of other brands. I don't need my television loaded with a ton of apps I'll never use.
I thought Shor's algorithm could attack ECC too and the lattice crypto with the sci-fi crystal names (Kyber and Dilithium) was the response?

If I go to https://www.google.com using Chrome and Inspect > Security, I see it is using X25519Kyber768Draft00 for key exchange. X25519 is definitely ECC and and Kyber is being used for key encapsulation (per a quick google). I don't know to what extent it can be used independently vs it's new so they are layering it up until it has earned the right to stand on its own.
MacOS will gladly serve Taboola ads in first-party apps and beg you to use Safari in push notifications. If that's not infiltration by advertisement, I'm not sure what is.
Samsung and Sony has been the absolute worst in my case. So slow, so much bs. LG works much better, but Im sure it is having a field day with my data.
Where have I been? What is a “small” language model? Wikipedia just talks about LLMs. Is this a sort of spectrum? Are there medium language models? Or is it a more nuanced classifier?
My read of the proxmark code (https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3/blob/master/c...) is that the `ndefformat` formatted the tag MAD (https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/application-note/AN10787.pdf), which you'd do for NDEF, then had a single TLV TERMINATOR at the block where the NDEF message starts. Then he used NFC Tools to write on an NDEF text record (which iOS background reading would ignore) and maybe something else? After that he then used `ndefwrite` to write on a URL record. I wonder if he could have skipped the NFC Tools and written the URL record and gotten the same result. Proxmark dumps before and after using NFC Tools would be insightful.
How do you expect to be successful at anything without being somewhat social?
Contracting as a solo dev is taking on sales and marketing as well as development. You have to charge accordingly. But you also have to be comfortable doing all of those roles, or else you won't have any work.
What I've found is that there is no such thing as throwaway code if you share it with anyone.

I've had code I threw together in 10 minutes end up in production after putting it in a 'temporary' repo.
There are various scans online, eg [1]. Deeply ironic that the book goes for thousands of dollars today to collectors even as Klarman, in the text, warns that collectibles are a mug's game.

[1] https://www.gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13...
Hisense vs linkedin says it's legal to scrape content without a login wall.
Remote cabins almost all get internet these days thanks to Starlink.
Yeah that’s never going to happen.

The vast majority of the buyer pool consider the smart stuff a feature.

So the only way the remaining fraction of a percent of buyer make economic sense is with insane markups. And when people hear about the additional +100% markup or whatever for their artisanal dumb tv the interested pool gets even smaller
With many schools banning mobile phones, and similar communications devices, there aren't many alternatives to paper. Also, my elementary school uses paper planners. Given that most elementary schools forbid students from carrying electronics (for no other reason than loss and damage), there isn't much of a choice except paper planners.
You’ll still have slow startup and splash screens and the like, but yes.

It would be nice if top-of-the-line models were available with instant-on and unobtrusive UIs, like CRTs used to be.
Same for me. Genuinely doesn’t understand what’s the benefits for anyone. Maybe trying to get back "lost" hours when a teacher is sick? I think kids are better served with a stable, secure schedule than one that try to absolutely fit all the modalities decided for that school year.
Their monitors have the same startup time issue which is a pain if you need to access the boot menu.
The Apple TV also has giant ads on the home screen, too.
Am I supposed to believe you're an expert on this man whose name you've misspelled three times now?

And, the main/original reporting on this was by the Guardian in '04 and the BBC in '07 after more files were released. I don't know where you pulled Democracy Now! from?

> But what involvement did Prescot Bush have and when? Your links aren't conclusive at all.

Did you read the link? Or my comment? They're pretty clear as to where they're getting this information:

> Three sets of archives spell out Prescott Bush's involvement. All three are readily available, thanks to the efficient US archive system and a helpful and dedicated staff at both the Library of Congress in Washington and the National Archives at the University of Maryland.

If you have any proof that the BBC and The Guardian were lying about this, feel free to present it.

Honestly it's really, really weird that you'd double down on this after being presented with the above articles. If they don't convince you, fine, but it doesn't seem you've actually read them.

> If anything Prescot Bush is known for his opposition to McCarthy, for example.

Sorry; opposing McCarthy (20 years later) means he didn't support Nazis how exactly? Not trying to be mean or anything but you seem a bit too confused on this topic to be making declarations of innocence.
Have you used it? How does it compare to other Rust-based ETL frameworks like Arroyo?
Tons? I can’t think of any typical modern car with recessed headlights other than the Jeep Wrangler.
Jaccard similarity returns a value between 0 and 1 (in this case the vast majority of the values being close to 0). I suspect there's a hard-coded threshold value to determine an edge, e.g. if Jaccard similarity between A and B is > 0.2, create an edge.
I got as far as having the cash to pay for the door before running out of time jumping through hoops to transfer it.

It’s horrifying. The only not-unpleasant thing, though, is that once you start making money it’s absurdly easy to make a massive sum. I was expecting something horrible to happen to my balance at some point but it never did. Maybe that’s a bug!
Yeah, even in 2007 Apple was a huge success already. Worth about $200 billion at the time, was earning about $3.5 billion a year in profit, and had $15 billion cash on hand.

https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2007/10/22Apple-Reports-Fo...
"the Act, as construed and applied, is unconstitutional, since it imposes on the addressee an affirmative obligation which amounts to an unconstitutional limitation of his rights under the First Amendment."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamont_v._Postmaster_General
I wonder, is there a good reason to use Dillo over something like Netsurf or Ladybird nowadays? They support far more of the Web (i.e. more likely to be useful) while still being lightweight.
I guess I was expecting some concrete examples of this chilling effect you spoke of? Your comment only refers to things in the hypothetical, before diverging off into other related topics.

Do you have any actual examples of "resistance" that have been stifled by this "chilling effect"? I understand your hypotheticals and the point you're making, but we can conjure hypotheticals for any situation or context, all without any specific relationship to truth.
7B vs 70B parameters... I think. The small ones fit in the memory of consumer grade cards. That's what I more or less know (waiting for my new computer to arrive this week)
It would make sense that there's an overlap between crypto fans and a certain subset of AI fans.
God, I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it’s the perfect use case for crypto to avoid US payment rail controls. Get a16z on the phone, he said with less sarcasm than one would expect.
Tesla’s data talking about sunlight? No please do link a single data point
just went to the main website and wow, that guy really wanted to get some $$ out of the blockchain ‘technology’ boom
I know there are legal restrictions on military shooting them down but still surprised how chill the US is with having key bases mapped.

Especially since it’s been months since it started. Would have thought they’d straighten out the legalities by now
> “If someone tells me that I’ve hurt their feelings, I say, ‘I’m still waiting to hear what your point is.’

If someone tells me I've hurt their feelings my first reaction is to try to understand why.
You can use Fugue as a translation layer. https://github.com/fugue-project/fugue
For a greenfield project that's fine - solve the issues that come up as they come. Someone is getting value right away.

Code you throw away makes the most sense to me for prototyping cross-cutting features in existing systems. A lot of companies can accumulate a ton of crud in only a few years of development time, and it follows Conway's Law that the crud is shaped like the org tree. Writing a throwaway feature end-to-end helps to identify the interfaces between the teams and subsequently components of the software.

This is also why I'm a big fan of assembling project teams over having teams "own" an area. Everyone on the project team is responsible for the project working well. Otherwise every team is worried about their small domain.
Most of the mass is concentrated in the node_modules folder.
It's not a 'moral debate'. One side is insane for thinking it's justified to kill someone over perceived injustices. I saw this lunacy for years on the left. I'm just glad America finally woke up and voted it out of our government in November.
The first comment on the blog is also illuminating:

> But I would urge you to take seriously the role of the courts in creating this mess. There are bad lawyers. But the good ones often are warning the agency about real hazards that can waste enormous amounts of agency effort. Go read a regulatory preamble from the 1970s. It’s a hoot. The agencies often took a few pages to say “here’s what we’re doing”, offered a minimal justification, and that was it. Now, a rulemaking is a multiyear saga, as the agencies jump through every hoop, and know the courts are at the end of the gauntlet. A lawyer who doesn’t warn the program staff what can happen if, say, you end up in front of a judge in ND Tex, is not doing their job. If you don’t document everything to the nth degree you are going to have to do it again. Period. An agency can spend hundreds of pages documenting its reasons, but if the court doesn’t like the way it handled a few comments? Do it over.

It's one thing to reform regulatory agencies, but it's another to reform the courts. It seems like we now play racquetball with the courts, with each opposing administration appointing judges who are sympathetic to its viewpoints. This leaves the underlying system untouched and just points it back and forth, while the judges themselves are left with the same wicked problem of applying ambiguous laws to specific situations.

But I don't know if DOGE is really about analyzing government operations and producing recommendations for reform. For one thing, we already have the Government Accountability Office, and also the Congressional Budget Office. For another, personnel is policy. Musk and Ramaswamy aren't accountants. They're pundits. I would expect the primary difference between DOGE and previous attempts at government reform will be its strategy in engaging with the public.
Perhaps you’re confusing candidates?

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/23/464129029...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-01/don-t-... | https://archive.today/kFDNO
> claims the global elites plan to fake an alien invasion.

Oh I approve of this plan. Given the trash Hollywood is producing lately this sounds like an upgrade
Great firewall is one of the worst aspects of China, why do that here?
...to stream from which content providers? They still have your viewing history, and that history eventually will end up at the data brokers to be perused by the interested parties. Which is really not that different from if you were using smart TV, except maybe a little bit more revenue for TV manufacturers.
Jack Dorsey and a Host of Tech Celebs Turn Out for Party in San Francisco (2013)
it is not snark, I am European living most of my adult life in the US and I have had more than one laugh over the years with “we are land of the free”
This has nothing to do with speech.
Explain the GFW then? Because that seems like the flip-side of the very same coin?
No. You are the one confused.

So a 3rd-hand conversation that was most likely a joke is compared..to..actual..murder? More insanity.

You do realize Lefists tried to murder president trump three times and it's been memory-holed. Right? Throughout history, leftists have always been the violent ones...and currently, it's no different.
I might be nitpicking but, the transpiled version of React is the one that uses those standards. If you are thinking of trying to get a 5+ years old project working in a development environment you might effectively be out of luck.

To reduce the argument to a simpler one, this is effectively the difference between using vanilla js to build anything Vs using any abstraction over it that has a number of dependencies you don't control that are effectively a working solution of a dependency hell in a specific moment of time.
Dumb TVs are called monitors, you can buy them. For large sizes, I guess you can look at the kind of displays they have in shops and meeting rooms.

Today, TVs are by nature not dumb, what make them a TV and not a monitor would be the presence of a tuner, and modern tuners are built-in computers that can at least decode compressed video, which is not a trivial task, especially at 4K.

The reason people don't like smart TVs is not because they have a computer inside of them with internet connectivity. It is because of ads and partnership deals. And of course people don't like it, because as much as manufacturers advertise them as features, they are not made to add value for the customer, they actually lower the value. But here is the thing: they lower the price even more.

Let's say a manufacturer makes a TV intended to be sold for $300, they reach for their sponsors and can get $50 of deals. Now they can chose to sell a "sponsored" TV for $250 or one without the annoyances for $300, and as it turns out, the majority of customers will go for the $250 option. So much that there is no good economic reason to even sell that $300 ad-free TV, the niche is too small. Competitors without sponsorship deals and $300 TVs will be out-competed by that $250 TV and will have to adjust. As a result, we all have the "smart TVs" we hate (but with a price tag we love).

Pros are ready to pay to avoid all that bullshit, but they don't need TVs either, they need monitors, that's why you can find monitors without that bullshit, for a price.
My quick eye-skim didn't see much, but I'll do a byte-for-byte diff. I imagine its a difference in the NDEF headers? (but even that doesn't make sense, since I wrote the headers again from the pm3)
One initial thing to understand is that the probability mass/density functions that you get taught in connection with standard probability distributions (binomial, Normal, etc) are functions of the data values: you put in a data value and the function outputs a probability (density), for some fixed parameter values.

At first glance likelihood functions might look the same, but you have to think of them as functions of the parameters; it's the data that's fixed now (it's whatever you observed in your experiment). Once that's clear, the calculus starts to makes sense -- using the derivative of the likelihood function w.r.t. the parameters to find points in parameter space that are local maxima (or directions that are uphill in parameter space etc).

So given a model with unknown parameters, the data set you observe gives rise to a particular likelihood function, in other words the data set gives rise to a surface over your parameter space that you can explore for maxima. Regions of parameter space where your model gives a high probability to your observed data are considered to be regions of parameter space that your data suggests might describe how reality actually is. Of course, that's not taking into account your prior beliefs about which regions of parameter space are plausible, or whether the model was a good choice in the first place, or whether you've got enough data, etc.
> fluff

I’d imagine even for the best of minds it’s hard to always come up with something profound on demand
Funny meeting you here Ayn Rand
Using crypto doesn’t somehow make you immune to prosecution. If the government says TikTok is banned, no company’s chief counsel is going to suggest getting around the ban by using bitcoin.
Well it turns out I'm much worse at this than I thought, as I can't even figure out what kind of cards I have. I'm learning, though!
Appreciate your rapid analysis of new models, Simon. Have any models you've tested performed well on the pelican SVG task?
> So much that there is no good economic reason to even sell that $300 ad-free TV, the niche is too small.

Is it? This is one of those things where I don't feel I've ever had a choice.

So... we get the cheapest TV and just hook a laptop up to it, and just watch stuff from a computer via HDMI.
Hm, its definitely blocks 0-2. All remaining blocks after that are identical.

Going to look further at the actual data in the first 3 blocks momentarily.
Yeah the weights were on there apparently.

Planned week delay between release on their own platform and hf

But much like you I decided I can be patient / use the ggufs
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It took forever for the US to do anything about Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb breaking the law. In a post competency, low regulation environment we’re entering, it makes sense to explore creative solutions to extend runway imho (vs immediately folding).
The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it (2022)
Why not give it a shot and see how it goes? You should be able to have some idea if you want to proceed within an hour or two.