skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone has a breaking point and negativity bias makes the awful stuff pile on quicker.

Put it another way: Things are getting worse for more people. It may still be "amazing" for most people, but the ones next to the metaphorical "awful" line see it creeping. So it can feel very arrogant when someone a mile out says "why aren't you happy, it's great" as you see the line start to take your amazing things.
Nihilism is cynicism with a turbo button
I feel like modern office setting gives us unprecedented linguistic situation. On one hand, you want to use complex language to sound official and very important. On the other, most likely your room is full of non-native speakers, so they might not be familiar with particularly uncommon words. This creates a situation where you're looking for words that are, at the same time, simple and fancy.
doesn't work in firefox :/
It’s probably the best episode. That and over drawn a the memory bank. Overdrawn is my favourite episode by far. I love Raul Julia is wonderful and the cast really makes it a movie worth watching without mst3k. It presents such a weird view of future life. It’s as if it’s made by an alien that doesn’t really understand human culture and experiences. Like how has being “Doppled” into animals actually become the de facto treatment for scrolling up cinemas at work? Why are movies banned? If a person did actually have some blank
Brain because of doppling why was that news to the woman whose job it is to dopple? Why is there an evil ceo of a mega corporation trying to control his mind? And are we really to believe that because Finkle can figure out how to scroll up cinemas he can hack the Gibson? The movie just generates questions after questions. Like why is the CEO mad about this? Did they just discover a way to put a persons mind in a computer and allow them to create any reality they want? Why is this a bad thing? It sounds like it would print money forever. Why does no one realise this and everyone conspire against Finkle? Which side is Apolonia on? She works for the mega corporations but her colleague who is getting fat on flavofibes is secretly reporting Apolonias decisions to the ceo.

Like tbh I think the movie is some kind of creative genius. Because it also has a crazy aesthetic. This weird vhs aesthetic that also has this kind of vision of the future where everyone is forced to wear grey suits in some sort of Orwellian capitalist nightmare. But everything is shot like it’s a two camera television studio setup. Interspersed with on location shots. So the studio has this weird soft lighting and the location shots all look like they are natural light.

The only thing I can compare it to is Twelve Monkeys. Yes I just equated Overdrawn at the Memory Bank to Twelve Monkeys. But I love this movie and I feel like everyone gives honest performances and it creates something totally unique. The world that exists inside of Overdrawn at the Memory Bank exists no place else.
No "level set"?? Booo
Reading generously gets you further...

1. He discovered balance bikes!

2. Removing a degree of freedom simplifies things

3. Removing extrinsic hard-to-control forces makes force balancing easier

4. What does it really mean to take off the pedals?

5. Solve for static stability, then dynamic stability, then controllability, then orientation/objectives, then energy management.

6. Humbly simplify

7. Share

It's similar for managing development and evolution of any real system - bikes, airplanes, software, business...
Generative and Contrastive Paradigms Improves Graph Self-Supervised Learning
Thanks for blaming me. I give up :)
> But the Hamas Charter makes alarming reading:

That happens with worst possible out of context translations.

There's a lot written about that charter, the original and translations, and various reasons why Hamas feel that Palestinians must defend themselves from Israelis.

As I understand it that feeling is mirrored, both sides having more in common than they might admit.
The allow cookies was already there because of the cookie banner law, unfortunately GDPR did not stop the cookie law, but GDPR does say you need a way to agree to tracking etc. and to be informed when it happens so it sort of seems reasonable the allow cookies popups would be used for this.
It gets into the weeds fast. I thought I was all for free speech, then the Christchurch terrorist shared his live stream of him killing people.

The legal system is too slow and private companies have a dubious record of what they police. What’s a good model to follow?
>Would we have let the USSR acquire a major television network?

Yes, there are millions of US citizens that would rather have a Russian TV station in their neighborhood than one run by Democrats. I don't understand it, but that seems to be the way it's going lately. And considering who's POTUS now, a Russia-run TV network in the US isn't that far-fetched. I mean, Fox News practically already is.
> One of the hallmarks of countries suffering hyperinflation/other monetary disasters is lack of a central bank because the legislatures fail to wield the power responsibly. It is another check and balance, and virtually ever economically stable country has one.

The original point of the Fed was to be a common reserve for banks which makes complete sense. Somewhere along the way, we told the fed to manipulate credit to fix inflation and unemployment and now we have a board that is virtually unfirable that can basically tax (inflate) you at any time and the theres nothing that the president nor congress can do.
Ah, more misinformation from the PRC defense squad, right on time!

> China didn’t ban U.S. apps.

Yes, it did.

It's not just that the websites and apps don't operate as normal businesses within China, but you can't even reach the foreign versions from within China without using a VPN. That's what makes them truly banned.

There are plenty of Chinese websites who do not operate as businesses within the US, but Americans can still freely access the sites if they want to, thus they're not banned.

Please, read this and educate yourself about China's firewall: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_...
Would that really be a factor? It's hard to call it slander when you agree to pay the fine.
TikTok is a restricted information environment controlled and manipulated by literal tyrants. Subjects that are disfavored by the CCP are heavily penalized by their algorithm [1]

if you are looking to safeguard against tyranny step 1 is to not have the CCP be in full control of your country's public square

[1] https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing...
Is this maybe short-sighted? Wages for one particular role go down when the labor pool is larger, for sure. But how many new companies could exist given cheaper skilled labor, working on new products? I feel like growing the economy like this would, in the long run, be better for all workers' standard of living. This is an observation I've heard about free trade in general, not just for labor, that free trade benefits everyone but nobody in particular, and so is doomed to be unpopular.
I have a dumb question. Why isn't silicon sold in cubes instead of cylinders?
Basically the drug manufacturer charges the insurer high prices then kicks back some of that to cover your out of pocket costs so you are individually better off but the system is worse off. Most countries solve this by the government negotiating with the drug manufacturer for everyone and refusing to cover it until they get a reasonable price.

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/drug-companies-copay-...
'authenticity' in the sense of content made by normal people without any strong goals other than 'some other people might like that' (and for some, maybe eventually getting some income from monetization) rather than highly produced content with the goal of reaching the largest possible audience and extracting the largest possible amount of money from that, which is what reels feels like. if you want to see that type of 'more authentic' content, tiktok's approach to populating your feed will be much more responsive to that than instagram's. there also seem to be a lot more people creating content on tiktok aimed at that level.
> P.S. If you are chasing something you think you want or need, or are doubting whether you are enough, take a minute and give this a listen. It had a big impact on me at a pivotal time.

He shared something that helped him at a pivotal time. Your expectations are your own. :)
YouTube wasn’t even around when Java applets were a thing.

Also back then anything multimedia was also served via a plugin. Multimedia in the Java applet era was either streaming via Real Player, or later, via Flash.
Neat. What about power density?

An H100 has a TDP of 700 watts (for the SXM5 version). With a die size of 814 mm^2 that's 0.86 W/mm^2. If the cerebras chip has the same power density, that means a cerebras TDP of 37.8 kW.

That's a lot. Let's say you cover the whole die area of the chip with water 1 cm deep. How long would it take to boil the water starting from room temperature (20 degrees C)?

amount of water = (die area of 46225 mm^2) * (1 cm deep) * (density of water) = 462 grams

energy needed = (specific heat of water) * (80 kelvin difference) * (462 grams) = 154 kJ

time = 154 kJ / 39.8 kW = 3.9 seconds

This thing will boil (!) a centimeter of water in 4 seconds. A typical consumer water cooler radiator would reduce the temperature of the coolant water by only 10-15 C relative to ambient, and wouldn't like it (I presume) if you pass in boiling water. To use water cooling you'd need some extreme flow rate and a big rack of radiators, right? I don't really know. I'm not even sure if that would work. How do you cool a chip at this power density?
The #1 thing for driving safely is being predictable. Too many people seem to think "driving safely" is mechanically being able to control your car on the road, but that's the easy part. The difficulty is there are other people on the road all taking their own independent actions.

On a US highway you can glance in the mirror and see a vehicle, and you can work on the assumption that it's not going (much) more than 65mph. Or see a gap and have a general idea of how long you know it will still be a gap. Having a massive variety in possible speeds harms that.

I think many people seem completely unaware about how fast a car at 110mph (for example) can appear. It's in the order of time it takes to check your blindspot and other mirror - there's a hard limit to how many directions you can be looking at one time after all. No amount of "Personal Driving Skills" or "Being More Aware" can help that if the timing is unlucky.
I expect take up was in the low single-digit percentage points. So charging every single subscriber $2/user (even if they don't want it) probably yields significantly more revenue.
One of the real promises of Quantum Computers is being able to simulate quantum systems better.
I've always been perplexed and dumbfounded by this to the point where it had a really bad effect on my life because I just couldn't believe that it's happening, in a sense my life was on hold. I couldn't believe that people don't understand the simplest things in life, that my own parents or brother or friends don't seem to care at all. I grew up with them at the same time after all, it didn't make sense to me. Even back in school when we were clearly not learning anything and the whole system was a joke, nobody said anything. Nobody cared. To me it was obvious that it can't be an IQ problem, they are human and go through the same systems as me and it doesn't even require intelligence to understand. What I ended up realizing much later is that people intentionally don't care and they intentionally make an effort not to know better. It's an optimization strategy that people develop consciously and subconsciously so that they don't have to do any more work, don't run into more risk, don't offend etc. They literally just give up while outwardly keeping up the pretense of caring.

I noticed the same thing that the article writer noticed: You can point out obvious problems to the exact person responsible for them and they will agree with you and later they still don't fix it. They just don't care, it's like you mentioned some geographical fact about a town in South Africa to them. A normal person would call this psychopathic behavior but now it's the human norm.
I decided to cut people out of my life that don't care [about anything except themselves] because obviously there is just no point in interacting with them. To be honest, that's almost everyone in society. They are self benefit machines, hyper optimized for their own wellbeing. Fine, be a machine then but don't be surprised when I recognize you for what you are and I don't start playing tetris where the only outcome is benefit for you.

It's also sad how even in this thread on hackernews almost everyone disagrees with the author and they keep claiming that people do care about some stuff and it's okay and we are all human after all and so on. I want to emphasize: You aren't supposed to have to care about everything. But some people do in fact have jobs and specific duties and they are paid to care about them and still don't do it.
I thought about this the other day and came up with a theory that people _do_ care if the thing they are doing has their name associated with it for everyone to see (in theory).

Edit: And sometimes, it's just the tragedy of the commons
Really apples and oranges comparison. But even so, if a certain App user is motivated to have the hostile App developer make a change that doesn't server their interest, they'll need to do better than cry "this app sucks".
I imagine because people will immediately push up against the limit and no further. It’s much easier to detect these excessive users if their bandwidth naturally keeps growing.
Great idea and execution. Agree with all the points you've made about Product Hunt.
I’m telling you that a lot of people believe they are on one of various missions to Save The Children, by which they justify harassing parents about random moments they observe.
I don't see any difference. You can and will do harm and we just want to prevent it. The collar goes in different styles and colors, you'll love it.
I don't think Israel should cease to exist, I think it should cease doubling down on the settler-colonial project it started out as. If you choose to equate the latter with destroying Israel then I'm afraid you're telling on yourself.
They probably pattern at least next nearest neighbors for local uniformity. That’s just litho though. The rest of the process is done all at once on the wafer
Food Babe is a terrible source with an agenda. If you actually look at the safety profile of the things involved the differences are minimal. The real risk comes from all the sugar and simple carbs in both.

- The fry ingredients are exactly the same, the US just requires more granular labelling. PDMS is used in oils in Europe too. Maybe in McDonalds oil maybe not, unclear. It's authorized for use in the EU as E900, and it is inert, non-toxic and non-flammable. It's added to stop the fryer oil from spraying on the employees.

- Both Fantas are bad.

- The oats are comparing two different products. 1/4 the label in the US is mandatory breakdowns not required in the UK. 1/4 of the label is the "creaming agent" (starch, whey protein, casein protein, some oil -- nothing a bodybuilder wouldn't consume) and 1/4 is the added vitamins and minerals not present on the UK label. The only meaningful difference appears to be using strawberry-flavored apple chunks. Does it make a difference? Probably none.

- The doritos in the UK list an ingredient that's just "Cool Original Flavour" lmao that FB somehow decides not to highlight. The US requires a breakdown of the components of said "flavor." And the use of annatto vs FD&C dyes which there's really very little conclusive evidence one way or the other. But fine, I guess we can stop using Azo dyes.

The real question is: does swapping Azo dyes for anatto make Doritos measurably healthier or is the problem that you are eating Doritos.
A complete guide to learning ADRs.
Could you please translate Article 7 for me so I can understand your take on it?
I agree 100% with the comment about the McDonald's food ordering system. It is legitimately the worst of all the major fast-food chains. It is slow, ad-heavy, and there are certain things that you cannot order.
In general, but don’t lose the emphasis: especially over such a mundane abbreviation.
no matter how you orient a circle on a plane, it's the same
I read the blog post feeling the author's rage, but your insight is far more important. Humanity's collective goodwill is stifled by friction and inertia while moneyed interests are given jetpacks.
Ha I guess that's fair. Were you expecting a DJ set?
McDonald's hamburger good in Italy? No way.
> the amount of pressure put on the average worker and their family in the US.

Broken windows. To use his example with bikes: the firms didn't care enough to allow the engineer to properly angle that entrance to the sidewalk. The engineer didn't care to push back because they were underpaid and things are getting more expensive at home. Things get more expensive because landlords are taking advantadge of the situation to jack up prices, because no regulation cared enough to stop that (or worse, regulation cared about money more and landlords "donated" to him to sway their ruling).

This apathy is a virus that spreads. At some point it becomes hard to figure out where it started. It's just this fog that seemingly always existed.

>You want to chase bugs into the sunset and never deliver new features?

I don't get paid to deliver features. If that bug is really critical enough I may push back on it.

Or I simply realize it's above my paygrade, don't care, leave a paper trail down the line for when they inevitably blame me, and do what I'm told like a proper worker.
I don't think they can get that tight, it's impossible to predict exactly how it's going to break apart.
When I was a kid, I used to get intel keychains with a die in acrylic - good job to whoever thought of that to sell the fully defective chips.
In case the other answers aren't sufficient, the first step is to understand the λ-calculus[0]. Then, De Bruijn indices[1]. Now, observe that the language we have only has (you need familiarity with the λ-calculus to understand those terms (… pun unintended)) 1/ applications, 2/ abstractions, 3/ integers representing variables [introduced by abstractions]. For example:

(λ (λ 1 (λ 1)) (λ 2 1))

Binary λ-calculus is then merely about finding a way to encode those three things in binary; here's how the author does it (from the blog post):

00 means abstraction (pops in the Krivine machine)
01 means application (push argument continuations)
1...0 means variable (with varint de Bruijn index)

The last one isn't quite clear, but she gives examples in `compile.sh`:

s/9/11111111110/g
s/8/1111111110/g
s/7/111111110/g
s/6/11111110/g
s/5/1111110/g
s/4/111110/g
s/3/11110/g
s/2/1110/g

To check your understanding, you may want to try to manually convert some λ-expressions using those encoding rules, starting with simple ones, and check what you have with what `compile.sh` yields.

[0]: https://www.irif.fr/~mellies/mpri/mpri-ens/biblio/Selinger-L...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_index
Treating LLMs as comparable to the internet is a great illustration of their point.
To be clear, it's not just that China won't let Western websites operate uncensored as businesses within China targeting the Chinese market.

It's also that people within China can't access the foreign websites and apps (without using a VPN), because China's Internet firewall blocks that access! That's what makes it an incontrovertible ban!

Even if a company has no interest in operating as a business within China in the first place, China may still block the websites and apps. That's a ban no matter how you slice it.
The "scary red" polydimethylsiloxane is in basically everything, and it's inert, non-toxic and non-flammable. It's permitted in the EU as E900. It's an anti-foaming agent used in trace quantities to prevent oil from splattering on the employees.

There were no negative effects on rats at over 2g/kg. [1]

[1] https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2020...
You deserve an invite to our discord server.
I don’t think education is purely about remembering facts.

For one, often we teach things initially in simple terms as a way of building up to more complicated explanations. Failing to forget the simpler facts would be a learning failure to a degree.

Secondly, we want people to learn what to do with facts, how to handle and interpret new information, focusing solely on recall doesn’t cover this either.

Optimizing repetition for things we do want to be remembered is certainly a useful technique, but it isn’t the only or perhaps even primary goal of education.
You'll find plenty of arguments in CFs blogs on why they offer a free tier, from ISPs offering free peering to hobbyists testing the latest features to hobbyists bringing their company onto CF.

It's not a blitz-scaling customer trap.
Developer Workflows That Are Ripe for AI Automation
We have switched over to "bodies."
People have this idea that short sellers are market manipulators who conspire to wipe out innocent day traders' life savings and trigger mass layoffs with the stroke of a pen (hence the term "financial terrorism," which is absolutely comical in its hyperbole but used with complete sincerity by the anti-short crowd), but like tines said, it's a risky business that requires lots of research that frequently goes nowhere with limited upside and uncapped potential losses. The amount of times they and other short sellers publish damning evidence on a company only for the stock to shoot back as soon as the company releases a "nothing to see here" non-response really shows the difficulty in making money in the space (and how much people want to bury their heads in the sand).

Given the regulatory environment we are heading into, I expect short selling will become an even riskier business since the SEC isn't going to be prosecuting fraud anymore (or rather, they'll be doing even less than they are now), making it much easier to sic the lawyers on firms like Hindenburg. Even though this isn't their stated reason for bowing out, I wouldn't be surprised or hold it against them if it was a factor.
Sure, but they are at least motivated; anyone would be after witnessing their family, friends, or neighbors being wiped out by “precision” bombing.
I would argue that incompetence is a form of not caring.

It means that one just does, maybe even more then necessary because one doesn’t actually understand what their responsibilities are. And to be not detected it’s better to seem very busy and very caring.
If rack mounted, you are ending up with something like a reverse power station.

So why not use it as an energy source? Spin a turbine.
New killer feature: cron

Can’t imagine why everyone doesn’t pay $200/mo for even more features. Eventually I bet they can clean out /tmp!
This feels grossly incomplete, and not a barrier to an attack of even remedial sophistication. ie, low latency from any given machine doesn't have any relationship to external controlling connections to the machine.

I also don't see anything addressing the "1 external IP for n number of people" being addressed.

It's also a bit bizarre to have multiple references to "the speed of light" when this wouldn't work for someone remote desktopping in
How India Is Turning Its Desert into a Farmland Oasis
It's by Andrew Millison.
1972 – 1982: The Decade That Changed Fitness Forever