skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes knowledge to even know they're flawed, noisy, and disconnected. There's no reason to "correct" anything, unless you have knowledge that applying previously "understood" data has in fact produced deficient results in some application.

That's reinforcement learning -- an algorithm, which requires accurate knowledge acquisition, to be effective.
Not the person who made this, but I suspect the reason is "because it's cool". I personally think that's a perfectly valid reason to do anything.

Why does everything we do with coding have to be for a practical purpose? When I play a video game for fun, it's not like I'm getting anything out of it. Sometimes it's fun to code up something just because you can.
Avatar the movie franchise? The most common thing you'll hear people say about it is that it's "Pocahontas in space".
The "we could be in a simulation" idea always struck me as a cop-out.
Can it? I can't even load the blog post.
Yes. And when Russia did that the US was treaty bound to raise the issue of assistance with the security council.

The US met this obligation and exceeded it. The US called an emergency session under resolution 2623.

Exceeded the obligations by acting outside of the UN and security council to provide independent aid in funding.

The memorandum requires that the US do nothing on its own, let alone provide unlimited assistance.
On GitHub, GNU licenses (a.k.a. "Free Software") have only 22% share. The vast majority of OSS software created these days is licensed under Apache/MIT/BSD, not GNU. Free software is increasingly unpopular, to the point where I would call it a failed idea.
GRPO Judge Experiments: Findings and Empirical Observations
Reports from Feb 2025 say that X doubled its adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) from $682 million in 2021 (the last full year before the takeover).
That’s the beauty. The same company owns both the cheap cost one and can limit the supply just enough to keep the profit maximised.

There isn’t an ideal free market in electricity generation.
> Are you sure about that? I mean, didn't Afghanistan forced Russia to retreat in defeat and leave the country?

Logistics (Ukraine shares a large border with Russia) and people - the people in currently occupied Ukraine aren't as against Russia as those in Afghanistan may be. Even now, we don't really see much of sabotage.

> All the more reason to help Ukraine finish the job and force Russia to leave.

And how are you going to do that? Russia has been gaining land. Currently, Russia is winning.

> Ultimately, worst case scenario Ukraine can simply keep Russian in a war of attrition while eating away at it's economic base.

While losing hundred of thousands of young men and decimating their population. Russia has more men. They can stand a war of attrition a lot longer - and they value soldier's lives less than we do in the west.

> Russia is already sending it's soldiers with crutches riding donkeys into battle. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel for resources.

Similarly, Ukraine is kidnapping people on the streets to send them to the front lines.
I don't know JavaScript very well, so I'll take your word for it. Seems like a language flaw to me, though. How many times should you have to say something?
"International laws" are also a weird thing. There is no international parliament, international police and international court. I think the only viable agreements are of a kind "if you don't do A then we don't do B".
it's only dumb if you don't think women are people
First: it's not "interference" if they are also part of the team.

Second: If their ass is on the line, then they DO get a bigger say. They are paid for seeing potential problems, guiding the team, among other things.
I old enough remember morons celebrating Taiwan’s “independence” from England. Yea… about that though. Thing everyone logical knew would happen, happened.
The Influence of Perceived Crowdedness on Aggressive Behavior
https://cs.brown.edu/people/sk/ and search for books.

Maybe reading this will help:

https://cseducators.stackexchange.com/questions/7478/which-b...
The real torment nexus...
> Political pressure from the US means less and less every day

Political promises mean less and less. But mistaking promises for pressure is deadly.
I'm trying to help further the analogy by pointing out the fact decades prior to TSMC existing Mao Zedong used forced in an attempt to take Taiwan.
Thanks a lot, this is a must read indeed.
Look first for cheap 3rd party color inks. Then get the printer (probably off eBay) that they support.
The US is gone. Get out!
> I tend to agree but, playing devil's advocate, is this true for other roles? Does a movie director need to know how to build sets? How to sew costumes? How to use Blender/Maya/Houdini?

I don't know that much about movie making, but my understanding is that there would be managers and/or leads within each specialty, who are (among other things) managing the interaction between their specialty and the director / producers.

That seems pretty comparable to what's being discussed here.
Australia, with no auto industry to protect, is awash with Chinese EVs
The original Doom must have been heavily profiled by id though, surely? Obviously there is a bunch of things that were missed, but I was in game dev at Doom time and profiling was half the job back then.
I meant that Trump is the aggressor and Canada obvious victim. Sorry for not being clear here.
https://archive.ph/cukdV
How do you get that. The US sought security council action within days of the war starting.

Nowhere does it say us has to guarantee safety or go to war. Nevermind the fact that threats of nuclear aggression came much later.
In-context learning is a very different problem from regular prediction. It is quite simple to fit a stationary solution to noisy data, that's just a matter of tuning some parameters with fairly even gradients. In-context learning implies you're essentially learning a mesa-optimizer for the class of problems you're facing, which in the form of transformers means essentially means fitting something not that far from a differentiable Turing machine with no inductive biases.
>while the EU & the rest of the true free world should focus our efforts on getting nukes, investing in military and intelligence, and leveraging new drone & radar technologies.

You do realize all of that requires massive investment? Where is the EU going to get that money? Raise taxes on a population that is already struggling in a stagnant economy? An economy that is stagnant partly due to the loss of the dirt-cheap energy that European heavy industry was importing from Russia.

As an American (and not one of European decent, so I don't hold the romantic attachment to Europe that many have), I'm perfectly happy with the salty, delusional Europeans agreeing with severing trans-Atlantic relations. Europe has spawned two World Wars and seems intent on flirting with a third. The sooner we disconnect from you guys, and pivot back to a mix of the Pacific Rim + the Americas, the better.

Now if only we could disband AIPAC...
This is true. Using a neutrino beam, the minimum latency would be approximately:

(diameter of Earth) / (speed of light) ~= 42.5 milliseconds

Some high-frequency traders might actually be able to justify the investment needed to enable such low-latency communications!

Come to think of it, you could also use gravitational waves...
Some are worth saving. Not all, but some.
> Canada, Khazakhstan, Namibi, and so on. Russia is pretty far down the list.

Not wrong, but Russia controls about half of the world's enrichment capacity.

If you want to avoid possible lock-in, then you may want to look at reactors that do not need enriched uranium (like CANDU: it does have an extra up-front cost for 'heavy water' though).
Again, comparing apples to oranges.

If 50 years we need to build a single nuclear plant while you have to build twice the solar capacity I doubt that solar come out cheaper.
AM modulation is perfectly justified in this context: if two (or more) stations accidentally transmit at the same time, this will be noticed. Using FM, only the stronger signal wins and the other signal remains undetected. The advantage over digital transmission is the lack of coding overhead - the voice reaches the receiver without any time delay.
> I was hoping the article would include a video

It has several videos.
I now see only a giant nut when viewing the main landing page.

Edit: Now everything is made of buttons.
I am inclined to doubt the sources of these empirical observations. Statistics are funny like that, “average patient temperature in the hospital” effect and frequent inability to correctly attribute confounding factors outside of observed window.

Equally bad is anecdotal evidence, but I’ll drop some anyway. For a while now I am observing a crisis thats, admittedly subjectively, easy to see - but is somehow absent in those empirical sources citing economic accomplishments. An indirect evidence of what I am talking about - is crushing defeat of democrats/establishment in last election, following among other reasons, quite a backlash for boasting about said accomplishments.

But rather than picking issue with one of my points - I still would like someone to describe the counterpoint to my dystopian expectations - where, for example, would all those professional drivers I mentioned earlier go?

Ps. Oh speaking of statistics - remember Greenspan’s “there’s no real estate bubble, there’s froth in individual markets” right before 2008 financial crisis? It be funny like that, sometimes much derided common sense is all you need /shrug.
he gets labelled antisemitic but not a liar
"arming Ukraine to the teeth" does not guarantee the victory but guarantees more casualties and suffering. To win you also need to have 3x more soldiers which is not the case. West cannot even pay a salary comparable to what Russia pays to its volunteer soldiers.
The pay for such a simple supervisory task that needs only attendance-taking skill should be near minimum wage.
What's your intended model for this? Pitch to air traffic management as their additional safety net or sell direct to operators/pilots as a warning service?
Beyond Words: A Latent Memory Approach to Internal Reasoning in LLMs
In 2023, China's export to Canada was 45.1 billion dollars.

China's export to the US was 501 billion dollars.

So why is the US propping up China's authoritarian dictatorship? Is this "Only the US gets to prop up dictators in the world, Canada should just follow orders!" kind of deal?
I have no direct knowledge. But I can tell you for the coming cyclone here in Brisbane the city council is using a web page view which federates data over BoM (Australia) USGS, NOAA, ESRI.. and other places.

So the 'extraterritorial' nature of decisions to cut back on weather and climate services has reach beyond the borders.

I continue to think this is a GSA accounting stuffup and the occupied offices will be restored, or relocated because the necessity of a NOAA seems hard to contest. No, the private sector does not replicate. it complements and augments.
Would the idea not be to carefully select things that have viable alternatives after being diverted away from the U.S? Seems like instead have having a blanket export tax on our own people, it would make more sense to move money back into areas that'd see losses from a decline in U.S imports
Show HN: BlogCat – A Blogging Add-On for Firefox
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It is a feed reader and posting tool at the same time. The Web should be a conversation, I hope this WebExtension helps you be a part of it as well.
Sorry for overlooking your sources, but if you have to respond to a handful of threads alone, mistakes will happen, the amount of time and attention I have available is limited.

"Tens of millions of our citizens and fellow-countrymen found themselves outside the Russian Federation."

There is nothing in the quoted sentence or the rest of the speech that implies expansionist tendencies, quite to the contrary I would say.

Meanwhile, the horrible lessons of the past continue dictating their imperatives to us today. Russia, with its ties to former Soviet republics, states that are independent today, ties of common destiny, ties through the Russian language and a great culture, cannot stand apart from the universal aspiration for freedom. Today, when independent states have formed and are developing in post-Soviet space, we want to aspire together to meet human values, to embrace broad opportunities for personal and collective success and to achieve standards of civilization gained through suffering. These are the standards that can give us a single economic, humanitarian and legal space.

And the Russia Matters article quite nicely illustrates the deteriorating relationships between Russia and the West. Initially, I think, Putin really [wanted to] believe that everyone will cooperate and follow international law, but over time he became disillusioned. There is this theme of the shared Russian history that Putin repeatedly talks about, but this is always balanced by statements about the rights to sovereignty. He mostly talks about cooperation between states with a common history but he never says that anything has to be incorporated into Russia. Which is a really stupid idea to begin with, just imagine the amount of resources it would take to force a country like Ukraine into Russia when the population is categorically opposed to this.

Besides that, this is not really what I was asking for, I was thinking of political or military analysts or even just the media stating that Putin wants to conquer its neighbors. We can of course now look over all the things Putin said and cherry pick those that could be interpreted this way. But where are the statements like »For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.«?

So for moving the goalpost, I just want something concrete, not vague statements where I have to read something into it. Either, like in the case of Trump, from Putin itself, or in case he never said something like this, I am also happy with some analyst saying before the invasion, we have looked at what Putin says and does and we think he wants to conquer some of his neighbors in the future. Because that is exactly the story the media tells since the invasion, now he wants to take over Ukraine and then he will go for the Baltic states. Quotes expressing that Russians and Ukrainians are one nation can mean all and nothing - you read into that your point of view, I see it as a harmless statement.
Ninth Circuit Rules That Dating App Isn't Liable for Matching Users
Also called executable line noise, like Python is called executable pseudocode.

But I like Perl (and other languages) too.

Variety is the spice of life.
> "They're fighting that war because a bunch of dick bags got together in a room and decided it was expedient for them for millions of people to lose their lives."

Pretty sure Putin needs to start wars, conflicts, terrorist events to maintain political stability. That is to say, he can't lose power because they'll kill him.
What do you mean and? The implications are implicit; any vulnerability will be unpatched, so bad actor (tm) has to know only ONE vulnerability after XP support was ceased. If he has means of talking to the machine through TCP/IP or UDP he will have 100% guaranteed access.

You wouldn't believe how much traffic is hammering IP ranges with known vulnerabilities. Forward port 22 to your Linux box or similar, check the logs for number of "connection attempts", it's going to be glorious log. A-HOLES of this planet are doing this just to get control of devices connected to the internet, if for no other reason than use them in DDoS-for-hire service. If there is a quick buck to be made.. they'll be all over it. Human parasites.
serious question - how do you water it?
Multiplex-edited mice recapitulate woolly mammoth hair
Where are you making this stuff up from? I never used the word options.

You don't know anyone that has sold stock to pay for a down payment?
Defector is fantastic and Sabrina Imbler is an absolute treasure - gift link, to share the wealth: https://defector.com/this-is-the-last-thing-you-see-before-y...
Presumably innocent Russian men are being kidnapped and forced to fight for a dictator just as much. So let’s stop blaming the victim when Russia is clearly the aggressor and started this whole ordeal.
USA has not made commitments to defend Ukraine.
They have not broken their comittments in defending countries they promised to, e.g NATO
I’m trying to understand how/what the cuttlefish attacks the crag with - but I can’t tell if the white thing that comes out from under its… “Cthluthu mouth-tentacles” is a tongue, a beak, a bone, a pincer, a spine, or something else.

Wikipedia’s page on cuttlefish anatomy doesn’t help, unfortunately :/
Yes, if you can't measure it you can't manage it
The honest one would not be a businessman.

But this is probably culture-specific. When Finnish media describes someone as (the Finnish equivalent of) a businessman, he is almost certainly doing some shady stuff and has often also committed crimes. People described as entrepreneurs tend to be more respectable and more likely just doing legitimate business.
Not sure if this trick still applies, or if it applies to your printer, but if you wrap the visible part of the cartridge with black tape the printer will think it's full and let you print.
> This is modulated by who is currently in power. Conservatives were worse when they lost and Biden was in power. Democrats are ramping up the crazy now that they're the underdogs.

That isn't remotely true. Conservatives have been consistently in the lead, and there are studies showing how much more prone to believing misinformation they are.

> Go check out X and Bluesky and how many people are denying Trump was legitimately elected, and how they are convinced Musk tampered with the voting machines.

There's at least reasoned arguments for that. That isn't the same thing as rejecting useing masks during a pandemic.

> it's not nearly as wide a margin as you're implying.

It really is, but we clearly disagree.

> Part of the reason it seems so one-sided to you is my-side bias + the biased coverage the other side gets.

You shouldn't make assumptions about how or where I get my news. I don't think coverage bias applies at all in influencing my conclusion based on how I get my news.
It is called that because one of the most common places it turns up is managers/inspectors doing routine work. Typically if a manager checks in on their report they'll be stuck doing something that takes a lot longer than usual. If an inspector inspects ... I dunno, widgets, then the widget will typically be unusual because of selection biases.

I'd expect that since this is the usual workplace introduction to the economic value of knowing about the bias it got its name there. A lot of confused people trying to work out why their data makes no sense.

The other fun workplace paradox would be if HR ever tries to be data driven, does some metrics over the engineering department and works out that a degree is inversely correlated with any attempted at measure of skill. Fortunately most HR persons are not interested enough in stats to try that approach.
SICP is a sprawling book. It's been rightly criticised; it is inaccessible without a strong maths and (electronic) engineering background, it's somewhat unfocused, and its code is archaic. But it blew my mind some 20 years ago when I worked through it over many train journeys. A more focused, more accessible book would be objectively better, but I think it would lose something. SICP, with its wild rambling through so many disparate topics, really did leave me feeling that I could make the computer do anything.
I like that this prints the IP address followed by a newline. some similar services don't and it's sort of annoying.
Here's what they did:

1. Choose random samples z ~ N(μ, Σ) as the "encoding" of a puzzle, and a distribution of neural network weights p(θ) ~ N(θ, <very small variance>).

2. For a given z and θ, you can decode to get a distribution of pixel colors. We want these pixel colors to match the ones in our samples, but they're not guaranteed to, so we'll have to add some correction ε.

3. Specifying ε takes KL(decoded colors || actual colors) bits. If we had sources of randomness q(z), q(θ), specifying z and θ would take KL(p(z) || q(z)) and KL(p(θ) || q(θ)) bits.

4. The authors choose q(z) ~ N(0, 1) so KL(p(z) || q(z)) = 0.5(μ^2 + Σ^2 - 1 - 2ln Σ). Similarly, they choose q(θ) ~ N(0, 1/2λ), and since Var(θ) is very small, this gives KL(p(θ) || q(θ)) = λθ^2.

5. The fewer bits they use, the lower the Kolmogorov complexity, and the more likely it is to be correct. So, they want to minimize the number of bits

a * 0.5(μ^2 + Σ^2 - 1 - 2ln Σ) + λ * θ^2 + c * KL(decoded colors || actual colors).

6. Larger a gives a smaller latent, larger λ gives a smaller neural network, and larger c gives a more accurate solution. I think all they mention is they choose c = 10a, and that λ was pretty large.

They can then train μ, Σ, θ until it solves the examples for a given puzzle. Decoding will then give all the answers, including the unknown answer! The main drawback to this method is, like Gaussian splatting, they have to train an entire neural network for every puzzle. But, the neural networks are pretty small, so you could train a "hypernetwork" that predicts μ, Σ, θ for a given puzzle, and even predicts how to train these parameters.
This is the sort of shit that gets you glassed by the watchers
> Maintaining solar panels will be always way, way, waaay cheaper,

Citization needed. Actually we do not know and we are figuring this out.

Few examples:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpJKM65tsCo

- https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/weather/worlds-largest-float...

Batteries would need to be safer, less toxic and less prone to be mined by children in Africa, also orders of magnitude more energy dense.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893...
Maybe. I don't think so though. I think everything can be quantified and qualified.
Great reminder that AI is basically overpriced copilot: impressive enough to sell, flawed enough to need babysitting, and guaranteed to make sure humans still get blamed when things inevitably go wrong.
There are a few things working in favor of community notes there

1. Viral tweets have a longer-than-average time window between the time they start to go viral and the time the median viewer sees them, so a community note can get there before the median viewer.
2. Users who interacted with a tweet before it got a community note will get a notification when the community note is added.
3. Community note writers can leave a note on a piece of media. If a tweet with a video gets a community note, and that note is about the video rather than about the tweet, that note will show on all other tweets that show that video.

Source: this excellent interview with the Community Notes team (https://asteriskmag.com/issues/08/the-making-of-community-no...), in the section that starts with "Asterisk: Another thing I wanted to talk about is speed". Really that whole interview is great, highlights how deliberate and thoughtful the Community Notes team was regarding everything about the feature. Which is, I think, why community notes have succeeded where a lot of previous fact-checking attempts have failed.
https://lockywolf.net/2020-10-29_scheme-story.html

Here he shows 2 reviews he gave up on, that he resorted to data because he didn't know how to put it in words.