skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always assumed that the babies grown in test tubes and graded into alphas to epsilons in Huxley's "Brave New World" are simply a metaphor for children going throught the UK school system.

In that case the homeschooled are akin to the "savage" in the story.

EDIT: corrected spelling!
The beer brewers in my home town used to have a self-driving horse and cart which knew the daily delivery route going by all pubs and didn't really need a human to steer it or indeed be conscious during the trip. Expectedly, the delivery guy would get drunk first thing in the morning and just get carted about collecting the money.
What about the other children's right to education this being impinged by the disruptive students?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN69JZ0X-2M
I love homomorphic encryption, but why can't they just do a neural search locally?

- iOS Photos -> Vectors

- Search Query "Dog photos" -> Vectors

- Result (Cosine Similarity): Look some dog photos!

iPhones have plenty of local storage and compute power for doing this kind of thing when the phone is idle. And cosine similarity can work quickly at runtime.
I agree - My point is that you'd be coding in assembly and the issue wouldn't be abstract since you come up against the limits of your integer size all the time.
> warps weren't issued instructions unless they were ready to execute

This is true, but after they've been issued, it still takes a while for the execution to conclude.

> it was a best practice, in most (not all) cases to have more threads per block than the SM can execute at once

Just replace "most" with "some". It really depends on what kind of kernel you're writing.
It hardly matters to other students WHY a particular student is making it very hard for them to learn and using up all the teacher's time. Only that they ARE.
People do illegal stuff all the time without even knowing it, that doesn't mean the cops and courts can't still fuck you over with it at any time. And even if you just had $20 in your pocket, a cop could seize it and claim they think it was used to buy or was going to sometime in the future buy drugs, and legally that is a completely valid reason even if you have zero drugs in your system and zero on you and were inside a McDonalds waiting in line to buy a burger.
I would rather say that the former group are wrappers around the latter group. Using an SSG doesn't just mean converting Markdown etc. source and orchestrating a build process of some sort, but also filling in templates and providing useful build steps to orchestrate (such as generating additional pages that reference the actual article content: archives, collections grouped by tags or categories, etc.). They also generally implement things like the live reloading that the author mentioned as missing.

I'm currently using Nikola and have done quite a bit of customization - by hacking around and learning modern web stuff as I go (the last time I did this stuff seriously, jQuery was dominant and Bootstrap was brand new - of course I'm not writing a bunch of JavaScript for a blog, but that also presumably dates my understanding of HTML and CSS). I've found that even though there's way more stuff in here than I really want, it's really nice to have that kind of scaffolding to start, and I can strip it away as I customize.
> Although volunteering information about anything seems suspect.

I don't live in the USA, but to my understanding, it’s common for individuals from minority groups to be taught by their families specific behaviors for interacting with police, such as how to position their hands. I wouldn’t be surprised if this also includes notifying the police about personal belongings that could potentially raise suspicion.
We should have our own sovereign comparable technology companies in Europe by now.

Fail.

Sold the fundamental industries out to Philips who sold it to the Chinese.
Funny how things like ESI/SSI would make such pages very easy to prepare and serve, but we switched to whole V8 engine to render HTML from almost-HTML syntax :)
It's funny really. I assumed by the context of being posted here on HN that this wasn't literally about teaching children to ride a bike.

I'm reminded of the approach taken by the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP): start with this magical thing called Scheme and learn simple programming techniques and general principles like abstraction, then gradually add the "pedals" back until you've basically learnt to program in assembly and write a compiler for your high-level language.
"The hard thing for a lot of people to accept is that belief or lack thereof of evolution has no impact on daily life at all. "

Not accepting it leads to a profoundly WRONG worldview that bleeds into everyday life in many ways.
Forgive me for not knowing it was for personal use.
"Darkest Peru" is where Paddington Bear was born. I meant China at its most remote free of foreign, or western visitors, your pick. So as to be the most free of web traffic western expectation and consequently consideration.

Which is very interesting for China because we can marvel at the still large size and number of cities which see few foreign visitors. Leading to "tiny cities like Ordos 2M". Or what? dozens like that? Hundreds? And considering the size of the China "full of foreigners", that's an equivalently "authentic" China.

Anyway, Peru is fine if you prefer.
> outside of some extremely specific contexts.

The exact context was given. They wanted only whole numbers.

> Writing something like '10/3=3' is likely to trigger the mathematicians

Sure, when lacking the context of all answers should be rounded to the nearest whole number. But that was the context, and it's astounding so many people with alleged math backgrounds arguing things like intergers aren't a thing to understand.
I’ll try it! Maybe have another go with the unicycle whilst I’m at it.
I get that part, but I'm not sure why they would expire even later than the domain registration and the Google Workspace account. I would expect WorkDay or whoever to close/archive a non-paying account much earlier than that.
> Mutually Assured Destruction is still a thing.

My assessment is that it isn't.

The only MAD-able nation states in the 1980s were the United States and the Soviet Union.

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian successor state has been unable to adequately maintain its military.

I have seen ample evidence that the entire Russian military apparatus is a fraud and no evidence that it is not. The examples are too many to list in total so here are some highlights:

1. A string of ballistic missile test failures.

2. Photographic evidence of the poor conditions of their ballistic missile submarine bases and the submarines themselves including submarines that are considered "active" but haven't left port in many years.

3. The halving in the last 30 years of the number of Rocket Armies and the reduction of Rocket Divisions within the Rocket Armies.

4. The reassignment of Rocket Army personnel, supposedly the highest-priority and most stringently-selected personnel in the Russian Armed Forces, for duty in Ukraine where they have very quickly been killed.

5. Obsolete equipment rendering their strategic bombing forces ineffective in the face of Ukrainian air defense systems to the point that no strategic bombers enter Ukrainian airspace, instead lobbing cruise missiles into Ukraine from outside the air defense envelope due to numerous airframes being lost to, quite frankly, an inadequate and patchwork Ukrainian air defense network.

I find any military that claims to have thousands of nuclear warheads ready to launch but cannot feed or clothe its infantryman to be, as the kids put it, "sus".

Finally, they seem to have shifted their rhetoric to absurd doomsday weapons because they know we know that their nukes are shit so they have to come up with "nuclear tsunami torpedoes" and "nuclear doomsday cruise missiles" which are, I'm telling you as an engineer not a poly-sci major who grew up on Cold War fetishism and is now an "analyst", impossible fantasies.

So you have the nuclear triad: submarines, bombers, and land-based ballistic missiles.

Their subs are rusting hulks that rarely leave port, and those that do are at Kursk/Moskva levels of readiness.

Their bombers can't even operate over Ukraine, a nation subsisting on single-digit percentages of obsolete NATO equipment.

Their land-based ballistic missiles keep blowing up on the ground. Even their saber-rattling launch before Biden's trip to Ukraine, something that they would want to get right, exploded on the launchpad.

Let's be very clear: they still have nuclear weapons.

But MAD is MAD. Annihilation. Extinction. Not "fuck this is bad", but "fuck we're all doomed, permanently, forever".

MAD doesn't mean NYC gets nuked, MAD means all human life on earth ends for all practical purposes with only scattered bands of irradiated survivors in the southern latitudes.

Russia is almost certainly incapable of MAD.
That's exactly part of the problem
How old is the earth then? The Universe?
The only reason I ever used DynamoDB was because no one asked any questions if I bought an Amazon service which didn't look like a regular database, which in turn made a whole product deployment component on a deadline possible.

I couldn't really find any compelling reason to use it though: an RDBMS would've been way easier.
https://gist.github.com/thenameless7741/a1957c2898d80ce99ebd...
Of all the bad LLM ideas attaching payment as a tool is the among the top ones.
I know Intel has also opened a site nearby. Rumor is that many of the TSMC staff, having seen the lifestyle of American engineers in Arizona have started quietly applying with Intel.
If someone or something can tamper with your phone, then nobody needs to collude with proxies or Apple. They can just ask your phone to send them exactly what they want, without all the homomorphic encryption dance.

The idea that Apple is going to use this feature to spy on you, completely misses the fact that they own the entire OS on your phone, and are quite capable of directly spying on you via your phone if they wanted to.
34 year old who grew up on Guernsey (small island south and independent of Britain but with very much the same values) and went to a state-funded Grammar school for secondary and can't relate to all of this, but certainly most. The details are different but I agree that the education offered is subpar and the "socialisation" argument is bullshit. School left me feeling more isolated and alone than I've ever been.
It is all relative though. If the team average performance is 50%, one can easily identify the very low and very high performers. The very low performers will barely deliver anything at all, while the very high performers will deliver multiples of the average.

Now - if the mean is higher, variance is low, and the distribution isn't symmetric, that's when things start to become harder.

Worst case, you start firing people that are "low-performers" on paper, but in reality might be very close to the "meets expectation" workers. Which creates a very toxic environment, as your average workers will be walking on eggshells.

And we know from history that this isn't some outlandish scenario in tech. There have been companies that have had(still have) a strict stacked ranking system - and come hell or high water, someone has to go.
Oof, I believe they changed ownership so I must have been grandfathered in. That's steep.
I mean, if Trump were to interfere that would be enormously corrupt and would indeed be Orange Man being Bad, yes. The naughty old grapefruit.

But also, are you just inventing a scenario to pre-emptively be annoyed about?
It means the user, a relatively recent account, is trawling for bites. The KKK in the username and the slant of many of their comments might hint at a touch of bad faith edge lording.
Apparently the tradition continues. On our Peugeot 407, the button to open the boot (trunk) is in the "0" on the "407" badge.
I've not encountered "Brave New World" but I love (and can see) the metaphor!
How much does Germany's very expensive electricity affect TSMC's costs?
A lot of the documentation includes code snippets but with no detail or context on where those snippets should be, so ChatGPT often puts things in the wrong place.
Why not, as each new task comes up, and then weights are revalued, save those weights and keep them for reference as priors for similar future tasks? As the model is exposed to new data the average of the set of priors of things the model thinks is similar might move closer to the posterior making the model quicker and more able to arrive at good outcomes. I suppose storage might be an issue.
When using aider for development, do you typically review the generated diffs in aider itself or do you use an external tool?

Trying to figure out what a good workflow looks like.
Being half serious: if the internet goes down, you will know who did what...43% of all websites using WordPress, it's not a joke!
I wished we used the node names, like TSMC N4/N4P/N4X, because nanometers are meaningless.
Europe really dropped the ball on semiconductor manufacturing.
Your point is a valid one, but I want to add to it that it is also a matter of expectations and how one listens.

Years ago, when I was dating someone who spoke Russian as one of her native languages, we had to do a funny compromise when watching films together with her parents: they didn't speak a word of English, so we'd use the Russian dub with English subtitles.

I noticed that the Russian dub was just one man reading a translation in a flat voice over what was happening on the screen, no attempts at voice acting or matching the emotions. Usually the dub would have a split second delay to the actual lines, so you'd still hear the original voices for a moment (and also a little bit in the background).

At first I found it very jarring, but they explained that this flatness was a feature. You'll quickly learn to "filter out" the voice while still hearing the translation, and the faint presence of the original voices was enough to bring the emotional flavor back. The lack of voice acting helped with the filtering.

This turned out to apply to me as well, even though I don't speak Russian! My brain subconsciously would filter out the dub, and extract most of the original performance through the subtitles and faint presence of the original voices. Obviously the original version would have been a better experience for me, but it was still very enjoyable.

Of course a generated audiobook is not a dub, as there is no "original voice" to extract an emotional performance from. But some listeners might still be able do something similar. The lack of understanding in the generated voice and its predictable monotony might allow them to filter out everything but the literal text, and then fill it in with their own emotional interpretations. Still not as great as having proper story teller who does understand the text and knows how to deliver dramatic lines, but perhaps not as bad as expected either.
Hard, given how many Taiwanese workers they had to bring in, and how all the dies has to go back to Taiwan for packaging.
‘TikTok refugees’ flock to China's RedNote
AFAIK retrieving documents that look like the query is more commonly avoided by using a bi-encoder explicitly trained for retrieval, those generally are conditioned to align embeddings of queries to those of relevant documents, with each having a dedicated token marker, something like [QUERY] and [DOC], to make the distinction clear.
The strong suit of HyDE seems to be more in working better in settings where the documents and queries you're working with are too niche to be properly understood by a generic retrieval model and you don't have enough concrete retrieval data to fine-tune a specialized model.
For one, you mean local government.

Two, then you wouldn’t be opposed to eliminating the dept of education then, right? I hope Trump follows through on his promise you seem to agree with.
> Cryptography nerds should NOT be finding the software that activists trust with their privacy hilarious.

This is very much true. Why in the world would session do the things they listed unless it really was just a state actor trying to get something in place to snoop on people.
So basically you think taxes should have been set higher a long time ago so they would have a yearly surplus that could have been saved up to pay for a new roof?

I don't see why this is preferable to lower taxes that just cover operations and short term maintenance, with separate bond issues to play for things like new roofs which are expensive but only come up ever 20 to 30 years.

There is quite a bit of variability in how long a roof lasts, because it can be greatly affected by weather and climate and accidents. With the "save for it out of a surplus" approach you'd need enough surplus so that you'll be ready if it turns out your current roof needs replacing on the low side of the roof lifetime range.

But then what happens when you reach that and the roof turns out to actually still be fine? Do you just keep adding each years surplus to the roof fund? I bet taxpayers wouldn't like that. They'd want taxes to be lowered to get rid of the surplus.

But then when you do replace the roof you'd have to raise taxes back to what they were to start building the fund for the next roof. So you still end up with the pattern being higher taxes for several years after a roof is installed and then lower taxes from then until it is time for the next new roof.

That's the same pattern you end up with under the "use a bond issue to pay for a roof when needed" approach.
Tech supplier ARM plans to hike prices, has considered developing its own chips
What does "packaging" mean in this context? I'm a total n00b when it comes to chips.

What comes to my mind is wrapping a piece of electronics in some bubble wrap and cardboard, which doesn't sound that hard...
Whoops! Might have been built wrong? I'm seeing a source map error:
Source map error: Error: request failed with status 404
Stack in the worker:networkRequest@resource://devtools/client/shared/source-map-loader/utils/network-request.js:43:9

Resource URL: https://cdn.oaistatic.com/assets/jbl0aowda306m4s1.js
Source Map URL: jbl0aowda306m4s1.js.map

Also I am getting`Unable to display this message due to an error.`a lot.
Well, maybe not best, but it's also not something I would advocate for taking away from parents. It's silly to pretend parents need a degree to teach their kids something when teaching their kids how to live life is half of the job.
Markdown and PDF would also be cool. I think it's just a case of feeding the TTS model the right data at the right time. The special sauce is in the model, there's really not much to the code: https://github.com/santinic/audiblez/blob/main/audiblez.py
Creating your own AI-powered code generator and reviewer
This is about additional new photo search capabilities that are enabled by default and powered by sending (encrypted) data derived from your photos to the cloud, not locally powered AI search.
That’s what they do
Folk sometimes can't see the Linkedin post for the trees.
Short of nuclear weapons, I'm not sure what would allow Ukraine to "win". Even given all the hardware, Ukraine doesn't have the staff or experience to field a full NATO air wing and integrate it to fight according to NATO combined arms doctrine -- if that even WOULD produce a "win" (there is an untested assumption that a NATO-standard military could trounce Russia)
Sure, but coming dead last behind Taiwan, Korea, US, Japan and China in the race to cutting edge semiconductor manufacturing is nothing to brag about. That's like celebrating for coming last.

This means you're getting the lowest industry margins, meaning less profits, less money for R&D, less wages and also less geopolitical leverage. This is nothing to celebrate but should be an alarm clock for our elected leader to wake the f up.

A lot of semi research is done in the EU, like at IMEC in Belgium, but few of it ends up commercialized by EU companies, so EU taxpayer money gets spent but other nations get to reap the rewards.
japanese is not supported yet despite the claims. you can easily realize that by running the examples provided.
2 times I have used DynamoDB and been extremely happy;

- In a SAAS API service we used dynamodb to look up API keys and track their daily usage data. It is fast enough to look up k/v pairs (api key => key info). And also aggregate small sets (We'd sum up call counts for current month and check if the API key had enough credits). This meant that the API itself did not need our RDBMS to function. We also had a postgresql instance for all relational data, subscriptions, user info etc. Had a trigger that would push any api key / subscription change to DynamoDB. In case of RDS issues, things kept chugging along.

- Working on a large buzzfeed like social media / news site in my country. We needed to store a lot of counters (reactions to articles, poll answers etc). All went into dynamodb and looked up from there. No hits on actual rdbms. There were a lot of traffic and dynamo made scaling things / keeping rds from melting easy for this kind of non critical data.

I'd not build an entire thing on DynamoDB but for specific use cases, I just loved it.
> In countries like the US, you can achieve enormous gains in income and still not be socially mobile by definition.

No, mass of people cant. The thing you describe can happen and not affect the global stats only because it happens to few people in one relatively small location.
I prayed for long stretches of dry days during the summer when I was a kid, because we had a tree-lined trail with an incline leading to a back field. The trees were such that there was little to no grass on the house side of the trail, so when it dried up nice it would become dusty and loose. My siblings and I would spend all day taking turns ripping down that trail then locking up the brakes to go sliding into the dirt patch, sending up dust clouds and competing to see who could make the biggest.

We kept this up into our teens (bc we were rural way outside of town and our parents were luddites about the internet so we had little else to do after playing all our video games to death) and I got to the point I could drift down the latter portion of the trail and right the bike and ride away without touching the ground. I had moved on to a regular "mountain" bike by my teens so I had to tighten my rear brake and true my wheel so it didn't rub to get enough stopping force to lock out the rear wheel. At one point I was using that move as a core workout lol. (That and side flips on the trampoline.)
In Missouri, high-school buildings use the same blueprints as state prisons. Why bother designing something custom? They serve the same purpose. They literally are prisons.

If a teenager fails to show up for school, a police officer will eventually show up to arrest their parents and place the teenager in the custody of a "foster family." Now both parent and teenager are imprisoned. And we are told this is freedom.

To make matters much much worse, children in state custody with the foster system are routinely exposed to all kinds of abuse. Many foster families operate like a profitable business where costs are minimized and care is entirely absent.