skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fermentation is completely stopped in a regular fridge, you need higher temperature for fermentation.

My understanding as a hobbyist brewer and fermenter is that this is not true. Fermentation is greatly slowed at lower temperatures, but you should have things happening above freezing. Lager beers, for example, go from pure sugar to beer at 35F. And kimchi matures at fridge temperatures in ways that I'm pretty sure are caused by fermentation.
Because it’s cool storage not frozen storage. The garage will vary dramatically through the year in temperature.

Modern fridges can’t handle that unless specifically designed for it. I had a repair person guess that I’d lowered the life of a fridge because I don’t use ac in the summer much and therefore my house had much wider variants in humidity than designed for.

You can’t really blame the manufacturers, it doesn’t make a ton of sense to worry too much about it when the average consumer keeps their fridge in a really small temperature zone.

But the garage fridge is going extinct.
Scott Aaronson – The truth about quantum computing
Cannot figure out what is the difference. I can focus on both seemingly without changing anything, even though they aren't both in focus at the same time. But I don't know what I'm doing differently, I just move my eyes up or down, adjust a bit, and that's it.
True, on all points, but it wasn't just him, it's been a decades long process of multiple parts of the economy failing imo. One does wonder though how things would be if we simply cancelled zoning and other needlessly bureaucratic development restrictions in the 80s, and enabled automatically correcting policy that was outside the hands of both property owners and politicians. Every time I see an anti tower sign in east van it makes me want to throw a rock through that person's window, and the fact this tension exists on a local level is ridiculous.
Except that if you become curious about, say, Benjamin Harrison you can go look up his Wikipedia page and I presume find one or more books about him. The person who is just listed somewhere such as a genealogy database is just a name, unless you choose to do an elaborate and expensive research project on them to figure out who they were and what they did.
> This summer, the wind started to turn. We witnessed stronger open-source traction, our revenue increased dramatically, and VCs became more insistent. It was time for us to open a new chapter for the company and raise a series A round.

Rhetorically, why was it time for this?

Practically, the answer is right there: the VCs wouldn't accept a mere rapidly-growing company with great tech. It's either an up round so they can mark up the value on their portfolio, or if the market isn't hot enough for a high-priced Series A, force an exit.
There's also https://github.com/CtrlSpice/otel-desktop-viewer
How to Build a Better Bike Lane, According to Transportation Officials
The swordsman in Indiana Jones comes to mind.

The guy famously trained for months for the fight scene and a tired Harrison Ford just pulled out the gun and shot him. Everybody thought it was hilarious and that became the scene.
this is such a dishonest characterization. the issue people have with free needles is that they end up everywhere but a sharps container. they throw loose needles in every park, walking path, bus stop, etc. in the entire city. my city has had this issue for years now.

you should use some of the superhuman empathy you have to explore other perspectives on the issue. even for just a minute.
Yeah sorry -- I mean paid dues in diff ways, such as study and practice (earned), and having seen the realities of the business / software / last attempts (lived).
Have you done it yourself? What did you use, a phrase or code, something like that?
My AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years
Which one is in the foreground vs background?
Link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7k1ehaE0bdU
What was false in the article?
There are down election solutions, unfortunately most are as likely to succeed as the electoral compact. Non-paetisan definition of district boundaries for US and state legislatures, and ranked choice voting for these and more local elections.

Gerrymandering is a cancer on our democracy. Unfortunately it is self perpetuating.
Quite possibly he did mean it at the time. However, since the announcement that it would be going to the Gates Foundation, uh, Bill Gates' reputation has had a rough time. Also, it was the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation at the time, and they (and their money and charitable endeavors) have since split, so if it was Melinda Gates' instincts and skills on charitable giving that he was counting on when he made the initial announcement, that might be a reason for pulling back.
Clojure is a lot of fun to tinker with, but man… I love my static types. I think I’d hate to work on a large codebase in Clojure and constantly be wondering what exactly “m” is.
This makes me really want to play quake 3 with a portal gun
I've found Googlebot has gotten a bit wonky lately. 10X the usual crawl rate and

- they don't respect the Crawl-Delay directive

- google search console reports 429s as 500s

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
If the goal is to prevent people from being biased, why not anonymize candidate packets? Zoom interviews can also be anonymized easily. If it's the case that equally strong, or stronger, candidates are being passed over anonymization should solve this.

Rather than working to anonymize candidates, every DEI policy I've witnessed sought to incentivize increasing the representation of specific demographics. Bonuses for hitting specific thresholds of X% one gender, Y% one race. Or even outright reserving headcount on the basis of race and gender. This is likely because the target levels of representation are considerably higher than the representation of the workforce. At Dropbox the target was 33% women in software developer roles. Hard to do when ~20% of software developers are women.
> closed the code again

I hate it when that happens.
when i was much younger, i had bought my first car which was well over 20 years old. a gigantic boat of an early 1970's ford. pretty much the family truckster. it had the four round headlights. outer two are low/high beams and inner two are high beams only. so when you had high beams on it was all four high-beams.

now, myself and my young wife were on a vacation and it was late, like midnight and i was trying to find a hotel for the night in a small town. i got pulled over.

the reason? i "blinded" a police officer because i had the high-beams on. i hadn't realized it. he pointed to a dim little red light on the dash (i didn't know what that was). even with 4 high-beams on and my young eyes, it was still a struggle to see in the dark night.

the officer laughed at me trying to turn them off. nope - that's the windshield wipers. that's the thing to tilt the wheel and so on. he said: "did you happen to notice that big switch thing on the floorboard?" (i had not). "push it with your foot" and then "have a good night" as he chuckled and disappeared.

that was a long time ago, but who else remembers real high-beams and floor switches? or even knows that was a thing?
The specific term for the shimmering mechanism is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binocular_rivalry
> In countries with higher education levels and greater gender equality, people browsed more like busybodies. In countries with lower scores on these variables, people browsed like hunters. Bassett hypothesizes that “in countries that have more structures of oppression or patriarchal forces, there may be a constraining of knowledge production that pushes people more toward this hyperfocus.”

This is an odd hypothesis and you know, I’ve read a little bit of enough about postmodernism/critical theory and its influence on hypertext to feel like this take is down right saditty.

The need to try to sow conflict between “patriarchy” and “xetriarchy” by depicting one style of curiosity as more virtuous than the other dampens what looks like an otherwise interesting study.

And it doesn’t help that the authors don’t appear to list or accessibly depict which countries were more inclined toward one style as opposed to the other.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn3268

If anyone can decipher the sophistry in the actual study, please let me know what’s going on here, especially in figure 8.
Are people not getting the Pulp fiction reference?
Zuck's other financial and personal interests could compete with his money in the company. Unlikely at 1:1, but it's more possible the higher his vote multiplier is.
I would consider modding very different from pay-to-win mechanics. We're talking about live service games with anticheat and online communities.

I think it's just the nature of live service games that have grown in popularity, their expectation of ongoing content creation, rising salary/production costs for said game development, and the wild success MMORPG's discovered years ago with gacha whales. I will say I greatly appreciated the F2P cosmetics-only business model during my MMO days as a student with no income.

Kind of rambling at this point, but my problem lies in the exploitative psychology commonly found with microtransactions in these sorts of games. Cosmetics-only seems to relieve a lot of the pressure to take out one's wallet.
Pico Iyer's Wide-Awake Silence
Object hashes that can fail or be unimplemented, where lower-level hashes have to be aware of this and stay away from the value that the parent uses for error signaling?

What else is unmitigated shit in Python? :)
I suspect individuals capable of being tech leaders are also capable of holding less partisan opinions.

I suspect most don’t really see themselves as a Democrat or a Republican, but individuals with their own principals, which makes it easier to see where there is alignment with each side.
> This is completely detached from reality. I find it hard to believe you are being truthful unless you're doing some sort of gotcha where you carry a gun or are some sort of jiu-jitsu master.

As someone who has lived in San Francisco, CA for the past long-ass while, I agree with the paragraph that you're objecting to. I own no firearms, and can hardly throw a pillow, let alone a person.

Maybe try, like, talking to more homeless folks? Or at least observing them from a distance? They're folks like anyone else, and most of them (like most folks) simply don't want police attention, so doing anything more to regular folks than asking for spare change isn't in their repertoire. Honestly, I'm a LOT safer in the parts of the city where there are folks out on the street than I am places where there's noone. [0]

[0] The only times I've gotten mugged or robbed were when I was in the fancy parts of town where there's noone on the street to provide assistance... and my assailants were groups of folks who looked to be doing well for themselves, rather than rough-looking folks looking for cash for a score.
>They would probably consider an impediment to their work a harm to the human race.

They do. Marc Andreeson said as much in his "techno-optimist manifesto," that any hesitation or slowdown in AI development or adoption is equivalent to mass murder.
Those sound to me like genuine issues that need to be fixed. (To give an example of something I do think would need to be fixed in a gender-flipped scenario: Expecting only female employees to bring food to office parties, or clean up afterwards.)
The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee.

This book describes how hundreds of people tried (and failed) to cure cancer over *millennia*. It spends a lot of time talking about how the modern approach, which works surprisingly well, was developed by Sidney Farber and others through great effort and a lot of good science.

My feeling when reading this book was similar to reading about the making of the atomic bomb- what happens when you put a bunch of smart people in a box and tell them to solve a problem. However, this time it didn't work nearly as well, because as we found out, curing cancer is an order of magnitude harder than building an atomic bomb. Building the bomb required new engineering, while curing cancer requires new science and new engineering.
Fixed versions are also independently scored by Hugging Face's Open LLM Leaderboard: https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_...

The Reddit LocalLlama community is actually pretty cool - tonnes of research actually comes from the community - for example kaiokendev's linear RoPE scaling, YaRN, NTK Aware RoPE Scaling, many LLM benchmarks - many researchers use LocalLlama to share research and discuss on new stuff.

I know a lot of AI researchers use the "LocalLlama vibe check" which essentially is an anecdotal approach to LLM evaluation - ie instead of relying on Chat LMsys or LLM benchmarks, 3rd party crowd sourced vibe checks sometimes do much better.
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but "getting more reparations out of Germany" is a constant refrain of Polish politics regardless of what wing, faction, or party is leading it.

The thing about oppression is that it causes both long-lasting and recurring trauma. The people targeted will be hurt for a long time, and they will be the target of follow-up attacks because other bullies know they can get away with it.

In the specific case of Nazi Germany, exterminating the Jews was not an original idea of Hitler. Hitler's only original idea was taking shittons of methamphetamine. Martin Luther had done the legwork of radicalizing Germany into hating Jews; once Germany had become a functionally unified nation-state the Holocaust was a forgone conclusion. This is the core belief of Zionism[0]: that the only way to stop Jews from becoming victims is for those Jews to form their own nation-state that can commit its own atrocities.

BTW, this is the same logic the Japanese had in their head when they started invading and destroying the rest of East Asia, around the same time as Hitler. They wanted to be respected in the way that the Christian Bible would describe as "having the fear of God". The fact that this led to the horrific rape of China and Korea[1] would suggest that these victim narratives are morally self-defeating without some framework of reciprocal[2] tolerance and human rights to distinguish between justified self-defense and unjustified oppression.

But America at least sort of has that, so we can make that distinction. In fact, that's part of what makes American race relations so weirdly straightforward. In the "old world" you have complicated webs of peoples angry at each other for shit that happened anywhere from ten to ten thousand years ago. But in America, there's just one very deep wound that never seems to heal.

When does America "forget" slavery? Well, ideally, we don't 'forget', but we do 'forgive'. Practically, however, we can't. Every time a cop thinks it'd be a good idea to treat a criminal suspect like a demon in DOOM Eternal, and it hits social media, we get a huge reminder of "oh, there's still people in this country who think it's OK to do this to black people".

[0] I'm a Mormon[3], so I'm morally obligated to point out that we fell into this rhetorical trap, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre

[1] And yes, they still complain about it, too. It doesn't help that Japan's ruling LDP was run by a war crimes denialist for a decade and change.

[2] As in, "tolerate all except the intolerant." See also: the GNU General Public License.

[3] I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Mormonism, is in fact, LDS/Mormonism, or as I've recently taken to calling it, LDS plus Mormonism. Mormonism is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning LDS system made useful by the LDS Doctrine & Covenants, the Old & New Testaments, and the Pearl of Great Price comprising a full testament as defined by Jesus.
I remember the seventh row, third column board being annoyingly difficult for the C64 version.
> Sounds like society's problem, not SO.

When Stack Overflow starts losing advertisers because they don't want their products appearing next to posts calling for CEOs to be murdered, it becomes their problem too.
Purn hub
Yep, I didn't need to fully cross them. Which is good, because that is painful.
AWS has said that when software has a robust set of formal verification tests they can be very aggressive when optimizing it and be confident that they aren't changing its behavior. They say they were able to optimize their IAM authentication code by over 50% this way.
> And you're not going to change hearts and minds by silencing dissent and enforcing speech codes, as progressives are wont to do these days.

Donald Trump was re-elected. He has said that we should deport pro-palestinian protestors on college campuses and has sued multiple news outlets, both on tv and in paper, for their coverage during the election season. It's really hard to find any political figure who is more aggressively targeting speech he doesn't like than Trump.
Its pretty simple right now to present an llm with a text interface, a list of commands (turn head left turn head right, open hand, close hand, etc. And request they use those commands to achieve a goal.

They can also almost all interpret images now. If I tell an llm that its objective is to look around until it finds its hand and tell me if its holding a pen or not, is that not exactly what you're talking about? Every single step there is well within the grasp of even the less advanced multimodal llms.
->The cost reaches the millions for 64 bits, and ~$165 trillion for 128 bits:

meanwhile 512 bits costs $8

But you just keep believing 128 bits costs $165 trillion ROFL.

>> ops(2 * 16)

>121106.42245436447

>> ops(2 * 32)

>38178499.24944067

>> ops(2 * 32) / ops(2 * 16)

>315.24751929508244

So if ops(216) costs $8, then ops(232) costs $8 * ops(232) / ops(216) = $2521.98. Far more than $8^2.

And I said $256, because as an "embarrassingly parallel" algorithm you get significant benefits from cached results (quickly discard entire number fields that were previously calculated).

Which, btw, is how they break 512bit DH in less than a minute.

Also still a lot closer than your >$165 trillion

sigh
1. But, Python has exceptions! The underlying C language doesn't, but Python's run-time has them and can use them in the C code.

2. It may be an argument for ensuring that absolutely everything that is an object can hash: the object hasher must not have error states. Nobody wants the overhead of a simple hash code being wrapped in a result type.
-1 is in-band signaling; but it steals a value.
You know how you can make your eyes see double when you cross your eyes a bit? Do this and you get 4 images. Combine align the center 2 images and your eyes will automatically “lock on”.
transformer-scope: script for visualizing activations
MLK's ideals were not colorblindness. He explicitly supported race-specific reparations and policies that focused on repairing specific racial oppression and suffering.

MLK had one famous line in a speech that has been leveraged by reactionaries to use him as a weapon against advocates of racial liberation. But that is not an honest use of his beliefs.
> That's exactly what they're doing and I don't think that's a secret.

Which is fine. But are they then suggesting that bias/etc was never a problem in the first place? Or, are they suggesting that DEI was not the solution, and if so, then why aren’t they suggesting a new solution?

There isn’t a satisfying answer here, to me anyway.
If you had a point you'd have said it instead of posting a link.
BCPL[0], BLISS[1], and Forth[2] are all untyped.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCPL

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)
There hasn’t been a decade in the past 130 years of their existence that Progressives haven’t advocated for systemic racism.

We have dozens of programs that were later legislated against or later ruled illegal by courts. There was no time Progressives were against racism. Notable black leaders like Malcolm X correctly pointed out that white Progressives never supported black people — but were appropriating their voices as a cudgel against other white people, eg in an internal power struggle of the Democratic Party where the northern Progressive faction drove out the Dixiecrats.

2025 is the year that Progressives need to accept their perennial racism is no longer acceptable, even if they appropriate the language of civil rights to justify their continued bigotry.
Ah, interesting. Intel likes to do weird things with the smallest mobile chips.
I wonder why they do not start giving a way money while still alive, SO ( I would expect) they can see some of the transformative effects of their giving ?
You repeated your statement without answering my question. Where are these CEO murder posts? Do you think Luigi posted a manifesto on SO?

You can barely answer questions correctly without getting them removed unless you're high rep. You think an off topic response will last more than 2 minutes?
Here's mine. Look at a patch of grass and ask someone to spot the ant or bug.

It's quite difficult.

But, if you let your eyes go out of focus, the ground will suddenly become alive with movement of all sorts of ants bugs and creepy-crawlies.
Productions of things in any format, whether text, audio, or video, don't tend to preserve the cutting floor stuff--especially for public consumption. It's unedited. It's unvetted. It's not the material you're putting out for the public.
Update: The Phi-4 team is actively working on adding all our fixes into the original model! https://huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-4/discussions/21
As an update - the Phi-4 team is actively working on incorporating all fixes! See https://huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-4/discussions/21
Of course everyone should be allowed to use as large a truck with as bright of lights as they want[1] on their own land. Likewise, excessively bright or high-mounted lights should be illegal to use on public roads. High beams are fine if (& only if) there's no other traffic close enough to be harmed by the bright lights. These rules are not an onerous burden on anyone & we need them to maintain safety & civility on the roads!

[1] within reason, not to the point that it blinds aircraft, neighbors, etc.
> Did I said or implied Trump is bad

Yes, you wrote history is full of bad leaders. Nobody is discussing whether Trump is good or bad.
Apollo Instruments DSKY Moonwatch
Bill’s sex life may cost the world a $100B+, as Warren’s kids don’t appear to be on the same required wavelength.
Are you serious? Measuring something is not discrimination.
I don’t generally take note of HN usernames when commenting, but noted. Certainly that does put him in the unique position of being able to substantively disprove me, if he chooses to!

However, if Automattic is indeed flush with unlimited runway, then the lawsuit is not in contention for any resources needed by the Wordpress project, which lends credence to this being simple market manipulation — i.e. “we have ceased Wordpress development to drive the community and userbase into pressuring WPE to increase investment into Wordpress open source work”, which only works when there are few (or no) serious competitors. It could be a precursor to taking future development of the Wordpress project closed-source, too. We can only guess.