skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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right and it should be totally obvious that we would choose an energy function from statistical mechanics to train our hotdog-or-not classifier
I broke my wrist on an 11-day hike this past summer (Tour du Mont Blanc). The awesome doctor I dealt with in Switzerland was like "you can finish your hike, just don't fall on your wrist again or it will be really bad" (or something along those lines). It healed so fast I can't even believe it. I was still using poles for the hike, too. The combination of sustained high-output (12hrs+ hiking per day with major elevation deltas) and some usage of the wrist surely bolstered bloodflow and oxygen throughput, etc. .. eating well surely helped too. Was a really cool experience. My climbing friends back home were surprised how quickly I was back on the wall after such a short period of healing up! At this moment I literally don't remember which wrist I broke... lol
Maybe you're not old enough to have cultivated a taste for (or addiction to) the smell of fresh ditto printed pages.
The information from the content of the article is not much different from the title.

I think I wasted my time reading it this time. Just my opinion.
Pattern matching seems like a cool feature that was added just because it was cool. I think the syntax is really odd too - apparently to “be pythonic”. I really see no use for it other than to “look smart”. The fact that case match (switch case is a much better description) is expanded to practically a huge if else is disturbing. Similarly the walrus operator. Other than an answer to “what is a new feature of python that you like” interview trivia question, really, who has actually used it?
True, there are probably a bunch of true believers in the House. Doubt there are many in the Senate, however.
Water Gun Database
Other sources of Water Gun comparisons:

CNET - https://www.cnet.com/home/yard-and-outdoors/best-water-guns/

Wirecutter - https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/what-is-the-best-wat...
Positive ones are flagged even more quickly. It's true that some of the flags come from people who like/dislike the evil/great one, but the deeper issue here is the repetition. Anything this repetitive is going to generate an allergic response; all the more so if the repetitive topic is also an intensely divisive one.
Modern C compilers are able to transform something like this:

for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) a += i;

To:

a += n * (n+1) / 2;

Is this an optimisation or a change in program semantics? I've never heard anyone call it anything slse than an optimisation.
That’s quite interesting and a challenge I have not thought of. I understand the need for a solution and I believe this works reasonably well, but I am wondering what is happening to users that follow a lot of accounts with below-average activity. This may naturally happen on new social media platforms with people trying out the service and possibly abandoning it.

The „reasonable limit“ is likely set to account for such an effect, but I am wondering if a per-user limit based on the activity of the accounts one follows will be an improvement on this approach.
No, but I wouldn't complain if we stopped scenting every damn cleaning and hygiene product. Please, no scented hand soap, or laundry detergent, or especially dish detergent. I'm not gonna complain if people want scented conditioner, but you probably don't need scented shampoo if you're going to condition anyways.

Intuitively I'd guess the scented candle is worse than the flowers. I doubt soot and vaporized wax are good for you.
Wait'll you discover that different CPUs use different word lengths, and not just your expected 8-bit X power-of-2 of current modern processors). 36-bit native word with a 9 bit databus and a 16-bit address bus with 64 kilowords of memory... welcome to the fun of early digital computing.
The rate of progress on multimodal agents is impressive. OpenVLA was released in June 2024 and was state of the art at that time... 8 months later, on tasks like "Pick Place Hotdog Sausage" the success rate is passing from 2/10 to 6/10
in a different context, maybe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38044786 :)
It's amazing how people think the world likes green paper with dead people's face on it "for no major reason"
> Diplomatic communications about how you plan / succeed at undermining allies. Or communications about atrocities you knew were happening, but decided to ignore.

>There is plenty of reason to want to keep diplomatic and military communications secret for a long time.

I don't think that makes sense. Why would you want to keep implicating communications around for 100 years? Wouldn't you just destroy them?

Cryptography isn't useful for secrets you want nobody to know. Its useful for secrets you want some people to know but not others.

That said it also seems questionable how much people care about atrocities hundred years after the fact. For example, nobody is boycotting IBM today for their role in the holocaust.
Catfishing

Convincing older people that their children/relatives are in jail/hospital/kidnapped and need money

Disinformation/chaos by faking important speeches by politicians

Fake celebrity endorsements of products and causes

Rewriting historical events with "newly uncovered" footage

Other creative ways of ripping people off and lying
After Heartbleed, I am not surprised anymore.
Most (all?) "essential oil" products, used in diffusers, are edible. I like the peppermint oil as a breath freshener.
> If you expand the house by ~50x

Wow, that's a lot! I recall reading a piece, I believe in the Washington Post, sometime within the past few years, on this topic. They didn't run the numbers for such a dramatic increase, but I think talked about a House size of around 1000 representatives. And I was surprised to find out that this didn't shift the balance of power as much as I expected it would.

But regardless, as much as I would like for it to be easier for Democrats to win elections (in what would be an entirely fair way for them to do so!), that just puts one party in power more frequently. It doesn't fix the underlying dysfunction.
Sad how masking has become such a bugbear[1] that this eminently sensible and practical solution is somehow controversial.

[1
] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bugbear
That would be "welcome to the world of academia". My post-doc friends won't even read a blog post prior to checking author's resume. They are very dismissive every time they notice anything they consider sloppy etc.
Is 30 minutes too much to handle, to burn an indoor candle?

behind one door and up one floor.

two air handlers blowing with air purifiers of four.

Found two filters sooty and the cpap tasted like campfire booty.
Finding out that the reason my toilet was wobbling was because multiple people thought PVC was okay to use structurally was infuriating.
Yeah that's not how anything works. Compounds are approved for use or not based on empirical evidence, thus the need for clinical trials. What's your level of exposure to the pharma industry?
Well the UK is the obvious one, but that's not in the EU. I believe the Netherlands sometimes also uses English as it's language of business (apologies if incorrect), but I'm not sure where else.
Maybe because Poroshenko is an oligarch and a piece of shit?
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The carbon filters are also a second more expensive consumable on top of the particulate filter.
I am pretty sure the US will have elections in 2028. But Trump was almost successful in overturning the 2020 election.

Now, with additional concentration of power, that increases the possibility of a successful overturning (in favor of a new conservative candidate), or simply a biased election.

Dictatorships often have elections and are supposedly democratic. The question is whether those elections reflect the genuine, informed self-interest of the people.
If they solve tokenization, you'll be SHOCKED at how much it was holding back model capabilities. There's tons of works at NeurIPS about various tokenizer hacks or alternatives to bpe which massively improve various types of math that models are bad at (i.e. arithmatic performance)
if it were true for everyone consistently (faster better healing), where does the tail risk come from?
The solution to this problem is known and implemented already: the social web should be distributed between thousands of pods which should contain at the maximum a few thousands users.
Diaspora is already working like this for 15 years. It is technically harder to build initially but it then divide all the problems (maintenance, moderation, load, censorship, trust of the owner...) Which makes the network much more resilient.
Bluesky knows that and they are allowing other people to host their software but they are really not pushing for it and it highly doubt that the experience of a user on a small external pod is the same than on bluesky.com.
Amazing it can do that. How does it work?

That definitely does seem to change its semantics to me. I am not a c expert but this surely has problems the previous one doesn’t?
Doctors are good at doing the "fixing" work, but the recovery work is something else

Good physios will insist on working as soon as possible, even if it's very light work.
Bulgarian gypsies (what?) didn’t start a war against Germany, Nikolay.
That... doesn't seem to answer GP's question at all?
Planet. Gun. Always has.
>But somehow pushing the modem in the MacBook solves this...because Apple is then good at managing transient network connections in macos, hooking to complex mesh networks on protocols they don't control ?

A cell modem is mostly just another uplink, with all the hard stuff being done in the modem. The user doesn't need to do anything to use it. Tethering requires extra stuff to happen: the user has to initiate the connection, the iPhone has to reconfigure its networking, and I imagine there's a bunch of security layers that must be passed through before tethering is allowed. It's 2 entirely different scenarios.
This is a power grab that is unprecedented.

No one left to investigate Trump himself or his followers, no control, no means of ensuring a fair election…
No. The point of carrying the gas is that trips that would have otherwise been impossible become possible, with only a few extra pounds of cargo.
> The quality of the eggs is absolutely miles above what I already considered really good eggs though.

I must drive past a dozen (lol) honesty boxes on the way to work offering the sale of eggs and this is my general experience as well.

Its amazing how individuals can produce and sell a product as cheap if not cheaper than mega corps with such staggeringly different quality.
I was thinking of the walrus operator, various f-string changes, relenting on the "GIL removal must not cost performance" stance (although"covered" by other improvements), things like that.

I don't follow python closely so it may 100% be stuff that GvR endorsed too, or I'm mixing up the timelines. It just feels to me that python is changing much faster than it did in the 2.x days.
Oh, so that's where the bad AI generated content for AOM came from!
FAQ on Microsoft's topological qubit thing
This ludditism shit is the death drive externalized.

You'd forsake an amazing future based on copes like the precautionary principle or worse yet, a belief that work is good and people must be forced into it.

The tears of butthurt scientists, or artists who are automated out of existence because they refused to leverage or use AI systems to enhance themselves will be delicious.

The only reason that these companies aren't infinitely better than what Aaron Swartz tried to do was that they haven't open accessed everything. Deepseek is pretty close (sans the exact dataset), and so is Mistral and apparently Meta?

Y'all talked real big about loving "actual" communism until it came for your intellectual property, now you all act like copyright trolls. Fuck that!
I still don’t see how this changes anything.

I think trumps legal strategy is basically, putting the quiet part into writing. It’s as you already said, what has been the norm

If trump doesn’t like how the departments are executing his policy he has the power to steer it. It makes sense he is the ultimate authority for the executive branch.

Blame congress for ceding their oversight duties to departments. Which IMO is the root of the issue.
The teenage and elderly classifications gonna be problematic.
> At best some sms at a significantly reduced polling rate.

SMS was piggybacked onto the control plane messaging. That is why the limit was 160 chars (only space available) and why texts can still work when the cell towers are overloaded.
I think this may be the first time I've seen "thought leaders" used unironically. Is there any reason to believe they're right?
I hate to point this out it wouldn't be a very even fight.
You're citing the, uh, New York Post as a source...?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY5gvKd_2iA
My house in the UK is 300 years old. It is built of stone with proper ventilation built in everywhere. It never gets damp, never too cold or hot. Air circulates enough to constantly be fresh yet not quick enough to create a draft.

Its a shame homes arent built like that anymore. Looking at how houses like this work really shows how we have created solutions to our own problems in modern home building.
Yes and the problem is you need a lot of activated carbon. A thin sheet of it is just theatre.
It's amazing how much power terrorism hands the government. I'm sure that never been capitalised on of course
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I once saw a talk from Brian Kernighan who made a joke about how in three weeks Ken Thompson wrote a text editor, the B compiler, and the skeleton for managing input/output files, which turned out to be UNIX. The joke was that nowadays we're a bit less efficient :-D
Articulated but not substantiated.
The Plan 9 Foundation
They really did themselves dirty calling it a notch, drawing attention to the loss of space. They should have used something like "extra screen ears" - implying you are getting some extra space around the sensors.
Strength training can help reduce injuries from crashes up to a point.

Experience helps too but that’s harder to get safely!
> This can potentially enable an end run around congress and the courts in that the President can easily choose to interpret laws in a manner inconsistent with the intent of congress and courts.

How does it potentially enable that? The executive branch has always served under the delegated authority of the president. The executive branch has always been able to operate outside the laws as written and ruled on by the other branches, because they have practically no hard power.

Presumably the citizen militia are supposed to be the check and balance for that. The people have always been the ultimate deciders of the government's power.
I agree with you that the cart seems to be moving ahead of the horse, in that there is an increasing fixation on the theoretical status of the encryption scheme rather than the practical risk of various outcomes. An important facet of this is that systems that attempt to be too secure will prevent users from reading their own messages and hence will induce those users to use "less secure" systems. (This has been a problem on Matrix, where clients have often not clearly communicated to users that logging out can result in permanently missed messages.)

There's a part of me that wonders whether some of the more hardcore desiderata like perfect forward secrecy are, in practical terms, incompatible with what users want from messaging. What users want is "I can see all of my own messages whenever I want to and no one else can ever see any of them." This is very hard to achieve. There is a fundamental tension between "security" and things like password resets or "lost my phone" recovery.

I think if people fully understood the full range of possible outcomes, a fair number wouldn't actually want the strongest E2EE protection. Rather, what they want are promises on a different plane, such as ironclad legal guarantees (an extreme example being something like "if someone else looks at my messages they will go to jail for life"). People who want the highest level of technical security may have different priorities, but designing the systems for those priorities risks a backlash from users who aren't willing to accept those tradeoffs.
<EOS> is end of sequence ! that makes sense, thanks for the correction.

So, if we simply wait for <EOS> to be sampled in a block, that could be the place to stop. My answer above should be the same (modulo this correction) -- simply keep obtaining the blocks in a semi-autoregressive fashion.
I agree it's wildly overvalued, but the hype came gradually over many years of actually shipping products that made money.

It's not the same kind of hype as, say, color.com
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I too don't get what's being missed.
Still happy with my iPhone 7. Replaced display and battery, at an Apple Store, last year. Gaming, AI and photography are curiosities I look at from afar. For the rest it drives me around on vacation via CarPlay and Apple Maps. Handles my home banking, pre paid card and Apple Pay without a hitch. Chatting and calling on too many apps. Manages my digital IDs, medical records, emails, notes and calendar. Translates my conversations and runs Automations. It will soon help me charge an electric car. What more can I expect from it.
While the salary will be lower, the cost of living in Europe is much cheaper than in the US. You also get much more via the social services and safety net (Public transportation, public health care, better worker’s rights and protections). In Europe there is also a much better mindset around work and it’s place in your life. Leading to a much better work life balance.
How many 'M's in "Magma"? ;)
> Do you have reason to think there is not confirmation?

The reason is just that in the article it says:

> threat actors have resorted to crafting malicious QR codes that, when scanned, will link a victim's account to an actor-controlled Signal instance

That phrasing suggests to me that the scanning of the QR code, on its own, performs the linking. That may not be the case, but if so I'd say the wording is misleading or at least imprecise.
It’s not the end of the world, but it’s still bad. It’s the kind of woolly definition that lets charlatans get away with blatant lies in advertising.
I created a similar library for orchestrations, but it’s more explicit and lightweight. https://github.com/langtail/ai-orchestra
Backyard chickens would increase the rate of cross species infection. Cats, dogs, wild animals, all would have increased access to viral load.

And obviously humans.

Most farms in australia with animals now post biohazard warnings, and instructions on how to be on the property (mostly, don't be on the property)

I love backyard chooks, lived next door to them for a decade, had the benefit of chook-poo fertiliser for the garden. This is a terrible time to keep chickens, distributed into the community at large.

This disease is hitting seal populations hard. This disease poses risks to endangered species in captive breeding programmes. This disease will be risky for immunocompromised people, small kids, pregnant women.
If someone can't even put in a minimal amount of effort for basic punctuation and grammar, I'm not going to read their article on something more sophisticated. If you go for the lowercase i's because you want a childish or slob aesthetic, that can be funny in context. But in math or computing, I'm not going to care what someone thinks if they don't know or don't care that 'I' should be capitalized. Grammarly has a free tier. ChatGPT has a free tier. Paste your word slop into one of those and it will fix the basics for you.
Google made their bed, now let them lie in it.
You may be right. I checked and found the introduction of the ternary expression, which I found to be wildly "unpythonic", was back in 2006. Time flies.
It does not contradict, it lists weight lifting under muscle training, not under bone density.
The model might not use the tools every completion, depending on your setup.
> Chickens are very sweet animals

My father asked for, and got, a chick for Easter once.

It grew into a rooster that took over the backyard by terrorizing the whole family. Only my grandmother, who had grown up on a farm, was willing to go into the yard.

> Your wife may one day want a chicken to live inside the house. You may one day agree to this, and then miss it when the chicken is living outside the house again...

A friend of mine complained to me a few years ago that the people in the apartment next to hers were raising a chicken. The crowing woke her up in the morning. But she consoled herself that soon enough they'd eat it.

I was pretty amused at the whole idea of raising a chicken inside an apartment.
There's a book series called Balance Benders. It is purely just shapes and logic.

The books have lots of puzzles in which they put different shapes on scales and your goal is to identify how many on each side results in a balanced scale.

I remember doing these in middle school, but with guidance, I think 3 year olds could pickup on it as well. It definitely reinforces underlying principles of algebra.
There are very valid use cases that don’t involve firing artists. Plenty of upscaling / remasters benefit from this tech.

If we think further, applying AI to something like RTX Remix would allow a lot of progress in keeping older games vibrant.

There are downsides and poor examples for sure, but if done well this could also help.
One way to do the things. That's why there's 5000 ways to install a module.
I had similar issues with PiHole on a RasPi. I had to restart every month or so, until I noticed power alerts. Turns out the power brick was underpowered. Is running like a charm after changing to an apporopriate power supply.
When a system gets "overloaded", typically it enters exponential degradation of performance state, i.e. performs self ddos.

> Seeing them get 96% improvements is insane

TFA is talking about P99 tail latencies. It does not sound too insane to reduce tail latencies by extraordinary margins. Remember, it's just reshaping of latency distribution. In this case pathological cases get dropped.
Ok I laughed! :) But it's crazy if you think about it, isn't it?
This will get a bit pedantic, but it's probably worthwhile... so here we go.

> Is this an optimisation or a change in program semantics?

Note that I specifically said something can be both an optimization and a change in semantics. It's not either-or.

However, it all depends on how the program semantics are defined. They are defined by the language specifications. Which means that in your example, it's by definition not a semantic change, because it occurs under the as-if rule, which says that optimizations are allowed as long as they don't affect program semantics. In fact, I'm not sure it's even possible to write a program that would be guaranteed to distinguish them based purely on the language standard. Whereas with tail recursion it's trivial to write a program that will crash without tail recursion but run arbitrarily long with it.

We do have at least one optimization that is permitted despite being prohibited by the as-if rule: return-value optimization (RVO). People certainly consider that a change in semantics, as well as an optimization.