skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm aware. It is still a massive bummer they couldn't even make anymore games since they limited anyone else from making them without paying out.
Reading the beginning of your comment I was like “ah yes I saw Jeff Geerling do that on a video”.

Then I saw you github link and your HN handle and I was like “Wait, it is Jeff Geerling!”. :D
How Great Remote Teams Make Decisions
Nobody here brought up serfdom except you and your snarky comment doesn’t provide anything of value or broaden the analysis here. The absence of capitalism doesn’t beget serfdom, it doesn’t even beget socialism or communism, it begets the absence of capitalism. Think bigger, friend.
This was mentioned in Byrne Hobart's newsletter. Although the points have been known for a long time, only a minority of people accept the reasoning.

I like Byrne's summary:

A good piece arguing that schools have gone too far towards detracking and ought to admit that not every student has identical interests or abilities—and that educational inequality can mean giving brilliant people more time to contribute to society. In the long run, the impact of education on success is very noisy at an individual level, but someone of an average life expectancy who attends K-12 and then gets a four-year degree will spend a little over one fifth of their life in school, so the school years themselves are a material chunk of the "long term" in question! It's easier to see why detracking is so odd if you look at it in a broader context. I haven't been in formal schooling since my early twenties, and not once since then have I ever been told that I need to listen to a lecture on something I already know, or read a book I've already read, purely because of the year on my birth certificate. This simply does not exist in the adult world, and nobody runs their life this way (unless they're subject to particular union or occupational licensing rules). Tracking by age is very convenient for information-starved bureaucracies, but if student performance is being tracked electronically, there's no excuse but inertia.
> How hard is it to understand we shouldn’t be spending money on foreigners when Americans go without?

Cool, so you're cutting all corporate welfare, closing all US military bases in foreign countries, and ceasing sending bombs to Israel then, right? Or does it only count as spending money on foreigners when it's something you don't like?
Schemesh: Fusion between Unix shell and Lisp REPL
That's Great.
Right because it was x * 2P% * 2 < Y * 3P% * 3
4th down attempts in American football come to mind. Twenty years ago they were rare; mathematically they should be common.[1] Coaches have shifted with the math but not quite as dramatically as it suggests.

[1] https://malteranalytics.github.io/nfl-4th-down/
In this case, the supposed summary is as if the material is a dry academic argument, totally missing all the bits of demagoguery and rebel image promotion.
Please point the way!
> but I can see how in a couple of years we're going to be inundated with AI generated garbage everywhere trying to sell us stuff.

That future is already here, though it is mostly image not video.
This reads as someone who looks at data but doesn’t actually play basketball, coach basketball or generally know basketball. Numbers can only tell you so much, and 2025 Celtics and the rise of Steph have led to more 3s but the sport of basketball is not as predictable as the author suggests. For example, look at the college game, which doesn’t reflect this trend as much as the NBA does.
User models and how they fail (2023)
Anecdote related to last paragraph...20 or so years ago I drove a then 20 year old truck some guy had cobbled together. It was a real hunk o junk, rusty, the speedometer didn't work, etc. But it did have a new engine and carb, but it had no cat. It had several exhaust leaks (judging by noise). I was lucky it even had mufflers.

Went through a taco bell drive thru one night that had a weird tunnel portion. It was a slow line, and even sitting in that tunnel a couple minutes, my friend and I got lightheaded and a bit teary eyed. It's scary we didn't even realize it til we got through the tunnel.

That was the moment for me of realizing how awful these things are for the environment. If we have to be enclosed with our own emissions it will literally kill us, but we just blow it away in the open air as 'not my problem anymore.'

I'm glad emissions are better now, and that electric has a viable path forward. Shame we weren't at this point a few decades ago.
This is a really good question, and I'd love to know the answers here too
https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/news/%E2%80%98illusion-truth%E2%80%...
You can also download lm-studio for nice gui version that saves your chats and allows easy downloading of models.
I haven't looked at the NBA in more than 20 years and recently started watching it again. I was shocked. Not necessarily by all the three point shots, but more about the carrying of the ball, the multiple extra steps that players take before dunking or laying up, and getting extra free throws when it's the offensive players who rams into a still standing defender. If I want to watch rugby or ice hockey, then I watch rugby or ice hockey, this jumping into defenders has nothing to do with basketball if you'd ask me. And this Donkic trade to the Lakers because of gambling money, ughh... it's an ugly organisation.
Ah, this is the current grouse about the league, that it is all pace and space and somehow the art is lost. Sports go through eras. I will simply assume the author was not alive to watch Pat Reilly’s Knicks play their version of juego bonito, but while the over reliance on threes can make individual games hard to watch, the league has more talent that I can remember and there are so many fun players. It is bold to declare basketball is now deterministic in Year Two of Wemby and with all the other people capable of doing things we thought unique a generation ago. Plus there are some great minds as coaches right now. I think Spolestra, Daigneault and Mazzula will have something to say about how the game is played.
It really is basic math though.

A 3 point shot with 36% chance to go in (league average) = 1.08 points per attempt.

A mid-range 2 point shot with 45% chance to go in = .9 points per attempt.

The math is very basic.
How do you know there’s been no health impact on Canadians?
>unvaccinated poultry is an existential risk to the ag industry

The number of chickens killed by bird flu is miniscule compared to the amount that have been culled by hyperventilation bureaucrats. Chickens have survived thousands of years without being rendered extinct by a virus, that's not going to suddenly change, because that's how evolutionary dynamics work.
As a lifelong Mavericks fan, I hope the NBA fails...They've lost me.
For a canvas-based app, which to be fair none of my professional work has been, you’d need to write some JS or hooks to interface with external JS libraries.

Can you give me an example of when you would need a LiveView app to spawn a thread or set up an observer via JS?

Spawning a thread sounds particularly odd given that JS isn’t running on the server. Are you speaking of web workers? Or do you mean doing something from JS code to send a message to the Phoenix server to get it to spawn a process (i.e., a green thread) on the server?
i meant kernel level anti-cheats, though these have behavior akin to malware, unfortunately most popular games do require anti-cheat as well as some tests, which makes it even more important to have at least some sort of support for programs requiring that on Linux

CrowdStrike was a global issue because of single source of failure, CrowdStrike itself, similarly if the support is delegated over to the OS or if the OS can somehow ascertain some level of relative stability in the system, widely used kernel rooting anti-cheat wouldn't be required
https://www.reddit.com/r/shadowofmordor/comments/pzo3ri/what...

I looked it up. Good grief that is a ridiculous patent
Are you this stupid naturally or do you take some sort of Alex Jones supplement to help with it?
Half of RFK’s platform is insane. The other half makes sense.

He claimed he’d focus on the reasonable half (like banning ultra processed foods). I’m hoping that’s true.

However, vaccinating the chickens creates a huge trade barrier (because you cannot sell vaccinated poultry products in most places), so this could just be another example of Trump’s isolationist trade policies.

I guess we can hope they did this to improve public health, but I suspect it’s more of “a stopped clock is right twice a day” situation.
It was not always 36% and in fact for a while it had lower EV than two pointers.

(Also, any league average for three pointers will suffer from obvious selection bias.)
Professional athletes are freaks of nature being given millions of dollars to optimize for the problem. If you give them an unopposed chance to score, you're going to have very unfun sports.

The same problem is happening in baseball pitching and football kicking.
"This pressurized tank is doing a great job not leaking, that means it will never leak! Let's keep filling it up, WOO!"

Strawmanning you a bit but surely you see that this line of reasoning leaves a little to be desired?
Convenience, and the absolute iron grip the chemical, petroleum, and retail industries have on politicians. Dare I say the only way to fix the problem with plastics is for a global leader to unilaterally lay tariffs on a wide range of plastic products and packaging, while eliminating them on alternatives to force the industry to move away from plastic.
I get the impression that running LLMs is a pain in general, always seems to need the right incantation of nvidia drivers, linux kernel and a boat load of VRAM, along with making sure the Python ecosystem or whatever you are running for inference has the right set of libaries and then if you want multi-tenant processing across VMs - forget it or pay $$$ to nvidia.

The whole cloud computing world was built on hypervisors and CPU virtualization, I wonder if we'll see a similar set of innovations for GPUs at commodity level pricing. Maybe a completely different hardware platform will emerge to replace the GPU for these inference workloads. I remember reading about Google's TPU hardware and was thinking that would be the thing - but I've never seen anyone other than Google talk about it.
Do you think anti-vaxxers will believe that?

Never heard of shedding?
Oh.

Is that why I don't enjoy watching it at all anymore?
It’s a bit of a dodge. In the 80s and 90s, there were a handful of players making 40% of threes and most shooters were closer to 30% so the math didn’t used to be the same.
You're right, I didn't mean to add so much emphasis on 'knowing'. I meant settled in the sense of 'settled science', or being as reasonably sure as we can--barring any flying spaghetti monsters. Far from being uninteresting to scientists, I'd argue that this question of whether quantum mechanics is truly probabilistic or hides deeper deterministic mechanisms is one of the most profound topics in physics
Meanwhile on /r/localllama, people are running the full R1 on CPU with NVMe drives in lieu of VRAM.
Democrat political correctness is the one that's killing all of these in California right now. Environmentalism requires that solar and wind be banned. And Nevada's brand of environmentalism requires fighting geothermal.
Really there needs to be a product based off of LLMs similar to Alexa or Google home where instead of connecting to the cloud it’s a locally run LLM. I don’t know why one doesn’t exist yet or why no one is working on this
Legislation of all EU countries treat more favorably sports betting than stock investing. It both astonishes and infuriates me.
I think it's warranted if you don't look closely, unwarranted if you look deeper, and once again warranted if you look even deeper...

Before Plaid there, the floor to require a bank account to do something in your SaaS was high to impossible.

Now the floor is low, and we got a bunch of applications that take advantage of that, so good right?

The problem is most of those applications are not in your best interests as a person.

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It mostly just enabling a bunch of junk BNPL debt and modern day payday loan schemes.

It allows offerings that are too risky to be good ideas to patch things up by just peeking into an account and making sure they'll be able to take their $X before some other rent-seeker drains the account for the month.

It also normalizes so much more access and visibility than is actually needed, so even in cases where the risk was acceptable before, now why not just peek really quickly and improve your bottom line at the expense of having yet another service with access to your financial data.

Overall Plaid probably has not been a net positive for the average person. Other countries have open banking platforms but they're also must stronger on regulation and oversight than the US, so you don't seem it become quite as much of a negative.
He didn't say it's a distilled OpenAI model. He said it's a distillation of an OpenAI model. They are not at all the same thing.
It feels like giving up on this a bit too soon? I mean, they realized the problem quite right.. their offering doesn't entirely makes sense for their audience when it comes to GPU.

_But_ the demand of open source models is just beginning. If they really have a big inventory of GPUs under-utilized and users want particular solutions on demand.... give it to them???

Like TTS STT video creation, real time illustration enhancement, deepseek and many others. You guys are great at devops, make useful offerings on demand, similar to what HuggingFace offers, no???
This assumes the game is static and the question is selecting A or B, but all the variables are intertwined.

How does the percentage change when the other team knows you will go for 3? How much more effective is the three when you are able to have the threat of other scoring? A layup is 80-90% isn’t it worth it to try to create one?
Yes. The season is so long it gets boring tbh. I never watch the season to begin with only the playoffs but a big reason is there’s so many games it’s not really interesting to watch that many games. But if it was half as long and half as many games in the season I probably would watch every one.
HashiCorp Nomad?
Upgrading from open source Puppet to Puppet Core
Do you also go out for lunch and decide whether to pay for the meal after you’re done if it tastes well enough? Pay for games if you enjoyed the story? Go to a concert and pay for the tickets if it was a good show?

That isn’t fair, and also not how economic transactions work. If everyone did this, we would not have the majority of enjoyable things.
I will second this. I notice a major difference in the taste of fruits (primarily blueberries and grapes) when the organic option is not in stock at our grocery store.

People like to make fun of me for buying organic (yes, I know it's not quite what the marketing leads you to believe -- especially depending on its origin) but I do believe it's worthwhile for the environment, me and especially for my kids.
wood cutting board
Not a particularly well written article, but I haven't ever really believed that jacking up threes is a global maximum in the basketball optimization problem.

For example, if you have a team that posts up in the middle, actually moves the ball around and not just around the perimeter, and utilizes the shot clock well, this is going to wear down a team by forcing them to play rough defense, reducing the effectiveness of the three point shot over the course of the game.

Part of the reason of the decline e of interesting basketball is the insane relaxation of rules. Offensive players can travel, carry, flop, ect. all the while knowing that defensive players are handicapped in the contact they can initiate.
When you elect to take more three pointers you necessarily have to resort to shooting more difficult ones, which lowers the expected return on each one. In the real world it's not so simple.

Similar reason why star players often have lower FG% than one might think: they are the ones tasked with trying _something_ when the shot clock winds down and there's no clear play. Not all shots are chosen equally.
Eating mostly plants, get everyone doesn’t want to go full veg, would probably help.

Given that it bio accumulates trying to get closer to the bottom of the food chain should reduce intake.
Maybe because plastics isn't conductive?
There were only ever vague allegations from Sam Altman, and they’ve been pretty quiet about it since.
There's a difference between going extinct and having enough of a mass die-off to temporarily but significantly impact our economy and food supply. I think any regulatory policy would be trying to avoid the latter more than the former.

Chickens have survived for thousands of years, but not in quantities and conditions that we cultivate them in today to feed ourselves.
One possibility is that there are more players who can make 3-point shots at a high enough percentage to make this true. Also, it depends on how good the defense is vs. 2-point shots; if that gets tighter, then the 3-point shot becomes more valuable.

Which also suggests how things may continue to evolve; the best defense vs. 3-point shots probably compromises your defense vs. 2-point shots, and eventually some team will "realize" that they can do better with _fewer_ 3-point shots.

Further complication comes from rebounds; the player taking the 3-point shot is less likely to be able to get the rebound if he misses, relative to a player trying to dunk it. So, the math is not trivial, and it depends on what the other team is expecting/guarding against, which might make it a non-linear system (i.e. constantly evolving over time).

There was a time when chess theory said that there was one perfect, optimal opening, and anything else was a mistake. It was sort of true, until everyone took it as a given, and then doing another opening meant your opponent wasn't as likely to be prepared for it.
People truly do not appreciate the industrial scale required to sequester the 100 gigatons per year required to start materially reducing atmospheric CO2. Entirely unprecedented, humans have never built anything like it.

When I put on my very dusty chemical engineering hat, it would take decades just to build adequate supply chains for such an endeavor, assuming we waived all environmental review, never mind actually building the thing.

Most people are not familiar with industrial processes. They have no idea how unfathomably large the scale being proposed is. In computer science terms, it is like saying “we are going to scale Postgres to a zettabyte sized tables with a billion concurrent transactions”. It might be possible in some kind of in theory sense but no one knows how to reduce that idea to a real system.
Should commercial actors [ship telemetry in] "wiretap" nixpkgs is what comes to mind.
Sure, but that is the norm for any given game system. Early adopters are enthusiasts who want the latest and greatest and accept that there are few exclusive experiences on the new console. Most hold on to their older system as the catalog of games exclusive to the new system becomes more enticing.

There are already a significant amount of mainstream games that do not release on the switch due to hardware limitations. More robust hardware means that many of those games will be able to be ported to the switch 2.

I suspect the switch 2 will sell well, but it always hinges on game support over the long term
What I like doing is using ttyplot and then it supports many commands and you can even specify an extraction param to plot on so then it's very Unix philosophy.

https://github.com/tenox7/ttyplot
Knowing what to do in a situation and being able to do it in a situation are two different things.
Maybe if it does have a negative effect it's just balancing out roughly what we got rid of with respect to e.g. leaded fuels.
Hamas. But what a typo!
Related Microsoft post: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/02/13/sto...
No I'm not trying to solve a systemic issue. To solve the systemic issue...we probably need a world revolution that won't happen in the foreseeable future.
It's clear that LLMs are improving faster than search engines are capable of. We live in a world where ChatGPT is now able to count the number of 'r's in "Strawberry", and next year, funding permitting, it may be able to count them in "Raspberry" as well.

As search is mostly a solved problem, this sort of growth is unfeasible, so where does that leave search in a growth economy? We need to keep chasing that dragon.

REMEMBER: We're not here to produce things to be used, but rather things that increase usage!
Xi must be ecstatic by these developments. He literally just has to sit there while the US tanks its soft and hard power for no reason. Russia has to engage in a hot war to try and maintain relevancy, but China is just sitting there humming along while the US shoots itself in the foot over and over.
In the 2008-2009 season, the year before Curry’s debut, the 3p percentage was 36% vs 2p percentage of 48%. If you took 100 shots of each you’d have 108 points vs 96 so yeah I consider that quite simple.

And call me naive maybe but not arrogant, I’ve never been called that in my life so it’s quite surprising to be called arrogant in HN where I know the average person is smarter than me.
My recommendation is to let the home team draw the 3-point line on their court like how baseball stadiums have different dimensions.
Oof where is this guy finding an LLM that is a reliable source of information? Most times when I ask an LLM a question about something or bother to look at the AI results in Google I find a lot of incorrect information and linked sources that do not contain any part of the answer they were cited for.
Maybe yes, maybe not, only need to lower the sales by a few percents.
> People are worried AI is making us dumber.

I'm far from an "LLM Defender" but I've heard plenty of people say "well Google said.." for at least a decade.

I think LLMs accelerate this, but we're not in totally unfamiliar territory here.
> Information can be taken down for a variety of reasons, such as copyright infringement, privacy breaches, defamation, or for violating the company’s policies.

And "hate", of course.
Or just skip the nuclear power step and go directly to renewables with storage since it is vastly cheaper and the deployment time is counted in months rather than decades.
Partial, but an easy one: Don't combine all three of these: Heat, food/drink, plastic.
Another easy thing to do is to prefer clothes with natural fiber types (cotton, wool, etc). A lot of the particulates in one's home are generated from just the abrasion of your clothing as you move around. When those are natural particulates instead of synthetic, you'll end up inhaling a lot less.

Related is improving airflow and vacuuming regularly so that these particles don't accumulate as much.
So what are they for? If you scrape your plates so there are only tiny bits of soft food going down the drain you don't need a garbage disposal anyway. I don't have one and I've never had a blockage.
> Gone are the days of an all-around player.

Yet Wemby is the most hyped young player since LeBron because of his incredible versatility.
Mamba isn't really a competitor to transformers. Quadratic attention exists for a reason.

Mamba's strengths lie in being a better RNN as you said. Mamba is probably better than transformers for things like object permanence over a sequence of inputs, where each input is an image, for example.

However, it would still make sense for a transformer to actually process the image by cutting it up into patches and then performing quadratic attention on that and then feeding the transformer input into mamba to get the actual output e.g. a robot action while maintaining object permanence.