skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ok. What happens if I multiply a number by pi? What does it mean to add something to itself, pi times?

You add it to itself 3 times, then shift the decimal point and repeat with 1, then shift the decimal point and repeat with 4, and so on with each digit of π. 1 × π = 1 + 1 + 1 + 0.1 + 0.01 + 0.01 + 0.01 + 0.01 + 0.001 + 0.0001 + 0.0001 + 0.0001 + 0.0001 + 0.0001 and so on forever.

> To hammer the point that sₙ · tₙ ⟶ 1 home

That point doesn't need hammered. sₙ · tₙ ⟶ 1 can absolutely be true when you haven't yet reached zero. That doesn't mean it's true in the event that you do indeed manage to reach zero. It indeed can't be true in the event that you do indeed reach zero, because n × 0 = 0 for all values of n.

> Do you mean a multiplicative inverse, where a number and its multiplicative inverse yield the multiplicative identity, in which case +∞ · 0 = 1?

You obviously already know that's what I meant, since that's exactly what I described further down - including how ∞ × 0 ≠ 1 because the multiplicative identity breaks down when one of the factors is zero, specifically because having zero of something will always produce zero no matter what that something is.

> Or some other pseudomathematical definition of "inverse" pulled out of a hat, like your definitions of +∞ · 0?

If you're seriously calling multiplication-as-summation pseudomathematics, then you're in no position to assess whether or not I "don't understand" the meanings of words.

I've been nothing but civil toward you, and you've been nothing but condescending toward me. That normally wouldn't be a problem (condescension is par for the course on the Internet), but if you're going to be condescending, the least you can do is not be blatantly wrong in the process.

> Drawing pictures is different from putting together a formal, airtight proof in first-order logic that can be (in principle) machine-verified. Maybe I'll make an exception for compass-and-straightedge proofs, but that's not what you're presenting here.

That's exactly what I'm presenting here (since apparently you believe adding numbers together is a spook). You don't even need a concept of numbers to see plain as day that any multiplication wherein one of the factors is zero will always be zero.

> Rudin was published in 1953, there are probably very good reasons for why this text has withstood refutation for over 70 years. Maybe you can rise to the task; publish a paper with your novel number system in which +∞ · 0 = 0 and 0 ÷ 0 = 0 and wait for your Fields Medal in the mail. Maybe you can collaborate with Terrence Howard and get a spot on Joe Rogan.

You know what? Maybe I will. And I'm willing to bet you'll find some other pedantic reason to be a condescending prick when that happens.

Last word's yours if you want it. I have better things to do than argue with people engaging in bad faith.
The reason I chose debian in the first place was because of the superiority of apt-get and debian/rules over getting random things from rpmfind.net

I thought redhat distros later introduced yum as the "apt" equivalent?
I’m a researcher working at a supposedly prestigious university and I can see homeless people with rotting limbs if I step off my campus and don’t look the other way. Some of my colleagues recently were awarded significant private funds to push a compound for a currently incurable dementia to clinical trials. They attended an instructional conference with other awardees and found that several were not there because they are at the NIH and so are under a gag order and travel ban. I am pretty sure Mitch “McConnal,” who spent his career obstructing any progress on the issues I describe below and who paved the way for current events, is actually dying of either a related dementia or the one they are working on, btw. So, what do you recommend Americans do? Never reveal we might have some anger towards being at the whims of people who would rather die themselves than help others? Don’t get me started on the genius who invented the single-person subway or et al.

You are misattributing American madness to the people it is being inflicted on rather than the instigators. We have oil wells behind our homes and schools and the white picket fence chemists I knew and looked up to as a kid are the reason we all have PFAs in our blood. Our president vacillates between saber-rattling at our closest allies, starting a new war in the Middle East, and causing constitutional crises every other day. We don’t have a single-payer healthcare option like every other developed country and our “social safety nets” are so impacted and difficult to get, they might as well not exist for most people. We do, however, have some very, very profitable oligopolies (some which make very tasty fish sandwiches) and higher income inequality than India or Russia.
I'd say the biggest conclusion to be drawn from all what has happened is "there is no moat".

Which, in turn, means that there is no first-mover advantage. Which, in turn, invalidates a ton of the ridiculous valuations by VCs like YC.
They’re used to that, as they do that while in space, too.

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/counteracting-bone-and-...:

“Each astronaut aboard the space station engages the muscles, bones, and other connective tissues that comprise their musculoskeletal systems using Earth-like exercise regimens. Crews exercise for an average of two hours a day.”
Off the top of my head and easily verifiable from their own website, how about funding "revolutions" in foreign countries? https://web.archive.org/web/20060130080730/http://www.usaid....
There was a Mario Brothers music video set in a swampy trailer park, actually watched that to the end.

Couldn't work out if this channel is the creator but there a bunch of them -
https://m.youtube.com/@demonflyingfox/videos

If the singing is ML-generated then I think that's pretty impressive too.

Looks like the channels started out as still images with Ken Burns Effect only 2 years ago. That's some progress.
> Can Prusa survive a world where China takes, but never gives?

Can Prusa survive in a world where they only may operate in CzechNet, with the rest of the customer base being firewall off?
> Prerequisites: A system with sufficient GPU/CPU resources.

The article doesn't give a hint what those resources are, but I assume that my macbook doesn't have it.

So if I wanted to setup Ollama on digitalOcean [which offers both gpus and cpus], is there a good guide?

How would that compare to running locally?

How would that compare (privacy, quality, ease, etc) to huggingface or others?
I have thought about this too, and think there. were mainly 4 things that are different now

1. As a teen, I had a lot more free time and could spend hours every night on fun stuff. School was easy and I didn't spend much time on homework

2. As a teen, I also did not have a day job programming too. My head is kinda tired when I come home, so unless it's a really interesting project I will probably just watch some TV

3. As a teen, I did not know about good code practices and could just throw something together and see if it worked. For some reason I now find it hard not to spend time on a good code structure, architecture and best practices. I am too "advanced" to just push out crappy code quickly

4. As an adult, I know more about the alternatives out there, so I'm thinking that there's no point in creating something when there are alternatives.
I use ancient+cheap netgear SOHO routers (WNDR3700 v1 and v2 from ~2012) which can route 940Mbps on ethernet (with software flow offloading enabled).

For wireless AP i have an Mediatek MT7621 device, they are very well supported and provide proper wifi throuput
> Modifying it secretly would require such a total takeover that if
that happens your country has much bigger problems.

Isn't that what just happened?

Maybe I'm reading different news from you guys, but from here it looks
like the USA is now a country with "much bigger problems".
Thanks for the tip (and on an unrelated note, thanks for the mini rack video, I hope You do keep playing with that further ;-).

I've played with one nanoKVM for a few weeks now and honestly, it's pretty clear from the minute you plug this in that this is a cheap Aliexpress take on a KVM. At the time they introduced this (and unless you count kickstarter projects it's still the case), the other options were an order of magnitude more expensive.

For me, there are two major positive things here:

1. it's really impressive how much can be done on a cheap RISC-V. Video stream, USB emmulation, SSH and a VPN and all of that controlled via HTTP interface, running on a board that can be cloned for under $10, possibly much less in larger volumes.

2. they did eventually published the firmware on github

That being said, it's pretty clear it's not a finished product. I remember when I was buying it, the description was full of things like "experimental", "development board", etc. And it's pretty much that. Things are unfinished and it screams "quick and dirty" all over the place. Firmware update procedure is a chore, the initial setup will have you disassemble it at least once or twice (if you have the box version) and there are definitely a few facepalm/WTF moments.

But at the end of the day, it actually freaking "works". You can get a tailscale connected KVM for around $20-40. And seeing that this is clearly aimed at tinkerers who are running a homelab in their basement and they did give us the option to modify the firmware, I find it really hard to blame them for not paying enough (or any) attention to security.
The problem, of course, is that due to "disparate impact" doctrine, this (and colourblind hiring in general) is de facto illegal, and DEI scale-tipping is de facto mandatory (even though it's almost always de jure illegal).

Large American employers basically all face the same double bind: if they do not disriminate in hiring, they almost certainly will not get the demographic ratios the EEOC wants, and will get sued successfully for disparate impact (and because EVERYTHING has disparate impact, and you cannot carry out a validation study on every one of the infinite attributes of your HR processes, everyone who hires people is unavoidably guilty all the time). But if they DO discriminate, and get caught, then that's even more straightforwardly illegal and they get sued too.

There is only one strategy that has a chance of not ending you up on the losing end of a lawsuit: deliberately illegally discriminate to achieve the demographic percentages that will make the EEOC happy, but keep the details of how you're doing so secret so that nobody can piece together of the story to directly prove illegal discrimination in a lawsuit. (It'll be kinda obvious it must've happened from the resulting demographics of your workforce, but that's not enough evidence.) The FAA here clearly failed horribly at the "keep the details secret" part of this standard plan.
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Valid concern that I tried to specifically address in how the SDKs are implemented! The middleware part is actually super lightweight. It only captures relevant metrics from the request and response and stores them in memory. Further processing and sending to Apitally happens asynchronously in the background, in regular intervals. That way the performance impact on request handling is very minimal.

Anecdotally, I noticed zero increase in CPU usage when I added the Apitally SDK to a FastAPI app that handles ~100 req/s. In comparison, adding OpenTelemetry was very noticeable, at least doubling the CPU usage.
The 6809 is the Chrysler Cordoba of 8 bit microprocessors, the personal sized luxury processor with styling in timeless good taste, rich Corinthian leather, and an efficient sophisticated multiply instruction.

https://youtu.be/tfKHBB4vt4c?t=9
Hubspot does most of this already?
Pirates and Privateers – Superstitions and the Sea (2007)
my thinking (hope?) is that the reasoning models will be more like how a calculator doesn’t have to “remember” all the possible combinations of addition, multiplication, etc for all the numbers, but can actually compute the results.

As reasoning improves the models could start with a basic set of principles and build from there. Of course for facts grounded in reality RAG would still likely be the best, but maybe with enough “reasoning” a model could simulate an approximation of the universe well enough to get to an answer.
It's called being an understanding human. Unless you limit the topics to the weather and definitely not in the changing climate style, you will talk about real life quite often. And someone's real life may be a school dropoff one day and a grenade landing on their brother digging trenches in Ukraine the day after. If you hard nope out of tougher subjects, they're unlikely to talk much to you afterwards.
They don’t. We are close to that point, yes, which is why it’s so important to clearly delineate what is a web standard reached through consensus from what is Google trying to push their stuff through regardless.

If something doesn’t work in Safari or Firefox then web developers normally still hold back, so they aren’t de facto standards. We aren’t quite at the point we were when IE dominated the web. But there is a growing number of developers who blame other rendering engines for not blindly going along with whatever Google says, and that needs to be stopped in its tracks not accepted.
Odd things can enlighten someone. I was outside a gay bar in Avignon when a guy I knew who was hardcore FN hesitated and then sat down next to me, a Jew, and had an honest conversation. I think it doesn't take too much to enlighten French people, because much of the template for plurality and tolerance is already there and built into the culture. Then again, there are always some true assholes.
Quantized floating point math can, under certain scenarios, be non-associative.

When you combine that fact with being part of a diverse batch of requests over an MoE model, outputs are non-deterministic.
I'd settle for some kind of "proof of investment" in a bot-identity, so that I know blocking that identity is impactful, and it's not just one of a billion tiny throwaways.

In other words, knowing who someone is isn't strictly necessary, provided they have "skin the game" to encourage proper behavior.
The best beginner assembly hands down is Z80. It may be a bit harder to start with, but if I could write games in it at 14 years old, an adult should have no issue at all.
There is a huge amount more available on the channel than what is on the linked play list.
Thank you for your response. I still believe that this is a great forum because the moderators manage it effectively. I hope you and your team keep enhancing HN.
Out of curiosity-- does "trumpists" mean PiS? Are the "trumpists" still in power? What is the current trend (toward trumpists or away?).

> Get subscription of high value newspaper or magazine. Professionals work there, so you will get real facts, worthy opinions and less emotions.

This is excellent advise. I'm worrying that post-paper news have a really strong incentive nowadays to drive outrage, and that the current level of reporting we see online is the new normal.
> news exists for the sole purpose of creating outrage in order to generate ad impressions

I like the idea of distinguishing news from journalism. If we say they're distinct, then yeh I think I can agree that news is–via weird unintentional evolution of incentives–an outrage machine, but true journalism is a wondrous and professional exercise of human scrutiny on centres of otherwise unchecked power. We need that.
> That are too dangerous to disclose

"All beings in the universe are different. Humans are so dumb that they think heart disease is the leading cause of death, when in fact it's the almond milk... not even the gray's touch the stuff."

- Resident Alien (TV Show), "Homesick".

Jokes meant to impart some brief levity aside, Until there is a serious amount of independent resources put towards a study of this, I don't think anyone is going to find out what's causing this.
Give them an hour.
They only interact with other birds within their isolated farm. How would the virus be introduced to that population? Its normally transmitted by wild birds.

>There’s a reason antibiotics are so widely used

Yeah, for bacteria that's in their gut biome. Not pandemic viruses.
US Cloud soon illegal in EU? US punches first hole in EU-US Data Deal
Based on reddit [1] and other some other recommendations I got an asus ax4200 and put openwrt on it. I'm fairly happy, but some people have run into connection dropping (possibly due to ISP power saving resulting in link dropping down to 10 mbs, and something then goes wrong.) With forum help [2] I found a workaround: either turn off auto negotiation (works) or using a lan port as a wan port (have not tried).

1:

https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/comments/1cr1lvp/is_the_asu...

2:

https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/14192#issuecomment...
What's the reason behind bcrypt(userId + username + password) rather than just bcrypt(password) ?
I’ve been reading in bed before sleeping since I was a kid. For years, I’ve almost exclusively read in bed (+ public transport, but that’s rather rare, less than 1/month). Yet when I am tired, or just don’t have the time to read 30–60 minutes, I have as much trouble skipping reading as I have going to bed early to get an extra hour of reading in, which is to say none at all. All this to say: YMMV ;)
>I did find one trick that sped up the trial and error process: I flashed my reference image of Rick on top of the preview so I could compare my drawing to the original while I was changing the code.

That's exactly how hand-drawn animation is done! Shader programming is something else. This is a really cool article.
Yes, pinning our hopes on Bill Cassidy to head off catastrophe was a bit like hoping your oncologist would show up bright and early with good news...
Your statements are false.
Some people believe that RISC-V is simple and elegant, other people believe that RISC-V is one of the worst and ugliest instruction-set architectures that have ever been conceived. Usually the first class of people consists of people with little experience in assembly programming and the second consists of those who had experience in using multiple ISAs for assembly programming.

Using RISC-V for executing programs written in high-level programming languages is fine. It should be noted that in the research papers that have coined the name RISC, where there was a list of properties defining what RISC means, one of them was that RISC ISAs were intended to be programmed exclusively in high-level languages and never in assembly language. From this point of view, RISC-V has certainly followed the original definition of the term RISC, by making the programming in assembly language difficult and error prone.

On the other hand, learning assembly programming with RISC-V is a great handicap because it does not expose the programmer to some of the most fundamental features of programming in an assembly language, because RISC-V does not have even many features that existed in Zilog Z80 or in vacuum-tube computers from 70 years ago, like integer overflow detection and indexed addressing.

Someone who has learned only RISC-V has an extremely incomplete image about how a normal instruction set architecture looks like. When faced with almost anyone of the several thousands of different ISAs that have been used during the last three quarters of a century a RISC-V assembly programmer will be puzzled.

6502 is also too quirky and unusual. I agree that among the old ISAs DEC PDP-11 or Motorola MC68000 are better ISAs for someone learning to program in an assembly language from scratch. Writing assembly programs for any of these 2 is much simpler than writing good assembly programs for RISC-V, where things as simple as doing a correct addition are quite difficult (by correct operation I mean an operation where any errors are handled appropriately).
:D you forgot the /s
> deported a few thousand illegal immigrants who are criminals and rapists

As well as thousands who are normal hard-working people.

> taken back Panama Canal from Chinese dictatorship

By using threats of force like a dictatorship.

> attempted to shrink the size of the government and American tax burden

In illegal, non-democratic ways.

> put more tariffs on Chinese dictatorship

As well as more democratic allies.

> focused US on AI

Without understanding the huge risks involved for all of humanity.

> taken over Gaza to prevent another war between Israel and Hamas

By doing ethnic cleansing.

> gotten Mexico and Canada to finally own up to protecting the border

And in the process lost the trust and respect of allies.
It's the de facto tool for our industry. For the vast majority of cases, users bear the burden of that complexity without gaining much benefit. And (at least for me) it doesn't guarantee the one thing I need it to do - make sure I can never lose progress.
in europe 2fa is mandatory for all (or almost all) online purchases, especially first time purchase from a merchant when your card hasn't been authorized. Sites using stripes' link get away with no 2fa most of the time, but not all the time.
Make it mandatory on visa/mastercards level, and you won't loose much sales, as all transactions would require it and people will have to 2fa everywhere.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should....
The reason we use data is because we’ve discovered, over and over, that people’s “lived experience” is actually unreliable.

Anyway obviously there’s more crime than ends up being reported, but less than people’s worst estimates.
Give it a reasonable enough price (0.99 per episode is too expensive) and add a monthly cap (can be a bit higher than the current subscription) and you've got me as a customer.
This almost made it to my previous reply, but the DARPA Challenge was 18 years ago.

There might be other ground-breaking challenges that DARPA did since then, I'm just not aware of them.
The biggest problem is that we'd like our leaders to be exceptionally smart in order to efficiently govern the country, but at the same time we don't want the leaders to outsmart the voters. These two expectations are mutually exclusive, and most democracies just end up praying that whatever politicians get elected, they turn out to be benevolent, instead of focuing on self-interest. Whoever wields the power, how do we keep them in check, and what kind of power do we use for that?
I think resting heart rate is mostly genetic, from what I read it tells very little about fitness - if you're already fit you may already be at your "optimal" heart rate. If you stopped exercising it may go up.
That sounds like great parenting, like the kind that figured out what life is about a few times and just passes the wisdom onwards. Reading this made me realize how far I am from being a good parent - I relate more to your child than to you.

Keep up the good work! Parenting is hands down the best thing in the world, ironically, excelling at it goes a really long way.
These right wing talking points have been repeatedly refuted. ADL contradicted their own definition of the salute. Both they and Bibi have vested political interests and citing them is grossly dishonest cherry picking.
Rust and Go vs. Everything Else?