skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was reminded of John Scalzi's Being Poor

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/
this is pretty close to how language models worked in the 90s-2000s. deep language models -- even GPT 2 -- are much much better. on the other hand, the n-gram language models are "surprisingly good" even for small n.
Just old farts repeating the same 4 perspective responses to each other without remembering nor caring for the last time they did it
No More Inbox Clutter
I've been to Cloudflare's SF office many times for meetups and even for an interview and their lava lamp wall is one of the coolest stuff I've seen in an office.

So cool to see that they've built something similar in their Portugal office.
"... very hard time competing with simply laying down some optical fiber."

You end up learning this in your own home. Some things are fine with a wired ethernet connection, it's really only my laptop and phone that use wifi.
Jupyter-style notebooks are a good example of a deep architectural mistake that needs hacks on hacks on hacks to remain barely serviceable.

Luckily there are new approaches, e.g. Marimo and Pluto, that don't have the same root issue.
Voluntary is a tricky word. Choice isn’t binary, in fact it’s not even discrete.

They’re subtly, in millions of ways, most predating the Internet, manipulated into making that choice. And, more importantly, believing they willingly made that choice.

Consumer behavior is complex and is the result of hundreds of years of technology and economic growth. If I plop some hypothetical human who is on his first day on Earth, he probably wouldn’t make that choice.
Bad Apple Proverbs: There's One in Every Bunch (2011)
> You can't expect the police to do their jobs?

Imagine you're a programmer, or a chef, or a carpenter, really anything. Now imagine you go to work every day, put in 8-10 hours a day working hard, and at the end of each day someone in a more powerful position than yourself throws out, ignores, or otherwise destroys all of your work for that day.

And this happens every day, day after day. No matter your work ethic or how much you care about your job, sooner or later after enough of your work is sabotaged, you're going to give up.

So no, I do not expect the police to "do their job" as you put it, when a chief prosecutor publicly and vocally undermines that work each and every day. If you can't understand that very fundamental human reaction, then I don't know what to tell you.
Not in this case. taylodi's comment is timestamped "2025-03-17T14:17:19 1742221039" , and lines up with Algolia's index. casey2 is presumably referring to the similar-sounding, not identical, top comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43002511
> Last month – the head of NORAD and NORTHCOM – the military commands that defend North America – told Congress some of those mysterious drones seen flying inside the United States may indeed have been spying. He did not say for whom

Is this the strongest statement that 60m has which is why they led with it? "...may have been spying..."? A statement so vague that it could just refer to the fact that the military couldn't 100% rule out civilians with commercial drones who might also be spies?

It would be nice if 60m did some real research such as record the drones, plot their flight paths compared to tracks on flightaware.com, compare their lights against known UAV and airplane lights, etc. Instead, they just point cameras at random officials (who by their nature as military, might be intentionally lying to the press for security reasons) and get vague recorded statements.

I miss having news media that does real investigation rather than just wild clickbaity speculation.
But smoke/cloud kills them.
Pain Management Before Anaesthetics
What's so innovative about this? The distance? Some sort of mesh routing? Point-to-point optical wireless links have been available commercially for quite a while.
Starting in iPadOS and iOS 15, iOS and macOS use a similar Signed System Volume concept and the System volume's integrity is verified.
You are right that people more frequently say x-ray radiation. But it's the same thing. It's literally the same thing, just at a different frequency. In the same way that we have words for ice, water, and steam, but they're still the same thing, just at different temperatures.
Well, what I said is also true for Rust and Go. Sure if your Go code is faster than your Rust code, one could argue you have skill issues in Rust, but if to get the Rust program faster than your Go program requires 10x time (or more), it’s fair to say that Go is faster and simpler, even if it would be more precise to say that the Go code you can write performs as well as the Rust code you can write.
Because I want to listen to Tidal on full quality and control playback via my phone. Bluetooth quality is garbage.

I don't want to turn on my TV to listen to music (and Tizen only allows up to a certain quality), or use my nvidia shield, as it also turns on the TV via CEC.

Other platforms also don't support full quality like FLAC or Atmos mixes.
For the same reason they use ancestry databases to narrow the field of potential serial killers to a few that can be investigated through legally-admissible means.

There is a vast gap between what the cops can do in general and what holds up in court, but to a first approximation: the things they aren't allowed to do because it would taint the case are in general explicitly spelled out, and if it isn't spelled out it's legal to use as a stepping stone to conventional, more-understood-protections police tactics. Thus arresting someone for a general Twitter post is probably off-limits (the incitement-to-riot or sedition laws are narrowly tailored), but taking someone online who says "Hey let's all get together and do a riot" seriously, and allocating police resources to prepare for it as if they're telling the truth about their intentions, is almost certainly legal.

(This is the battleground that the ACLU fights on in this day and age).
For good or ill, I have to work with the situation I find myself in, not the one I wish I did.
When did the establishment start referring to developed nations as the “rich world”? That reeks of the kind of globalist elitism that conspiracy theorists go on about. Many an undeveloped nation is undeveloped because of the people who live there and their culture. They should not be considered some sort of baseline.
This article strongly reminded me of Heckle Diff, which was first published almost 47 years ago. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/359460.359467

The performance consideration Paul Heckle identified was in consideration of index access in arrays versus hash tables. Hash tables are accessed randomly, or pseudo-randomly, until the desired index is found where as indexes in an array are accessed in index order.
> However, they are saying the implementations has two options, either raise an error reporting the race (if the implementation is told to do so), or, because the value being read is not larger than a machine word, reply to the read with a correct value from a previous write.

The spec says

> A read r of a memory location x holding a value that is not larger than a machine word must observe some write w such that r does not happen before w and there is no write w' such that w happens before w' and w' happens before r. That is, each read must observe a value written by a preceding or concurrent write.

These rules apply only if the value isn't larger than a machine word. Otherwise,

> Reads of memory locations larger than a single machine word ... can lead to inconsistent values not corresponding to a single write.

The size of a machine word is different depending on how a program is compiled, so whether or not a value is larger than a machine word isn't know-able by the program itself.

And even if you can assert that your program will only be built where a machine word is always at least of size e.g. uint64, the spec only guarantees that unsynchronized reads of a uint64 will return some previous valid write, it doesn't guarantee anything about which value is returned. So `x=1; x=3; x=2;` concurrently with `print(x); print(x); print(x)` can print `1 1 1` or `3 3 3` or `2 1 1` or `3 2 1` and so on. It won't return a corrupted uint64, but it can return any prior uint64, which is still a data race, and almost certainly useless to the application.
starlink is a competitor of T_Mobile, not Taara. Taara is just a supplier for T-Mobile (example).
What are the countries going to do? Launch missiles to remove the offending satellites?

SpaceX is Musks greatest source of real power.
For most users (me included), there is zero difference in user experience between using wifi or Ethernet for their TV. Otherwise, running wired Ethernet would probably be a lot more popular.
I don't think the issue is telling someone how to do their jobs, but that when it comes to it, we are not properly communicating our stack preferences at all. Online we do, sure, but let's not shy away from having these discussions in the open. There is much to learn from each other's best and worst practices.
The mathematics is the one that we dream
Entropy does not always align with what we perceive as chaos/disorder!

Crystals are generally considered pretty orderly, yet the oversaturated solution actually gains entropy when it crystallizes.
Rippling blog post: https://www.rippling.com/blog/lawsuit-alleges-12-billion-uni...
There was also some errata related to the ADC on the 2040 chips. There are specific input values that cause resonant peaks.

n The RP2040 ADC has a DNL that is mostly flat, and below 1 LSB. However at four values — 512, 1,536, 2,560, and 3,584 — the ADC’s DNL error peaks above this value. The ENOB for the ADC has been reduced from 9-bits (simulated) to 8.7-bits (measured), see Section 4.9.3. The DNL errors will somewhat limit the performance of the ADC dependent on use case.

For the record, I love these chips, despite the problems that came up.
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https://www.post-it.com/3M/en_US/post-it/contact-us/about-us...
They're claiming 10x longer distance than other FSO links I've seen.
The problem is that often people come to you and just want a solution to their particular problem. Then you explain but forget or leave out some details because you assume they know those. If you're too verbose, they might just have read the documentation.

In fact the best thing to do is to point them to the correct paragraph in the correct document.
If anyone wants to delve into machine learning, one of the superb resources I have found is, Stanfords "Probability for computer scientists"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MuDZIAzBMY&list=PLoROMvodv4...).

It delves into theoretical underpinnings of probability theory and ML, IMO better than any other course I have seen. (Yeah, Andrew Ng is legendary, but his course demands some mathematical familarity with linear algebra topics)

And of course, for deep learning, 3b1b is great for getting some visual introduction (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...).
Nice work! Cannot wait to try out!
We're fixing it so users can start generating AI GIFs, and they'll receive a notification via our platform and email once it's done.

Luma Labs and these AI APIs are unbelievably bad :)
> it is possible that they will bring evidence forward to show that Biden was not really making these pardon decisions himself.

I seriously doubt this. If they had such evidence, they would have already presented it publicly for political purposes.
.mobi as a TLD for a book blog on the removal of DRM is especially appropriate.
This article is so ridiculous it really make me think of Gilman Amnesia Effect and makes me question other newspaper reporting. I definitely won't be trusting anything I read in WP's "Department of Data" column from now on.

The claim that the level of programmers is now as low as it was in the 80's is ridiculous.

The author could instead make and article about the terminology change over time but that would be a boring topic for a general purpose newspaper.
I mean it's all the same garbage. LG and Sony is where it's at.

I'm planning on selling mine as soon as possible, as I can't stand the judder on 24fps content as well.

Not to mention other quirks like limited passthrough support
JIT deployments do not care where they get built on. AOT deployments do because they use OS-provided linker to produce the final binary, much like C++ and Rust do (unless you use PublishAotCross nuget package which uses Zig toolchain to allow you to build Linux binaries from under Windows, I'm sure if someone's interested it could be extended further)

Also, if you want to have just a single binary, you want to do 'dotnet publish /p:PublishSingleFile=true /p:PublishTrimmed=true' instead. Self-contained build means it just ships everything needed to run in a folder without merging the assembly files or without trimming unreachable code and standard library components.
> Building on Mistral Small 3, this new model comes with improved text performance, multimodal understanding, and an expanded context window of up to 128k tokens. The model outperforms comparable models like Gemma 3 and GPT-4o Mini, while delivering inference speeds of 150 tokens per second.

This is a really nice bump on the previous model, considering it’s now multimodal. I’m a little surprised it only received a 0.1 version bump.
Seconded about the datasheets, and thanks for the tips about DMA as double-buffer!
>They’re offering what are dubbed private rooms, gated venues that take the core benefit of a dark pool — the ability to hide big equity deals so they won't impact prices — and add exclusivity, specifying exactly who can partake in any trade.

I'm not sure what all the consternation is about. Even without dark pools you could always do direct trades[1] with a party of your choosing, which is even more private and exclusive. The "private rooms" mentioned in this article just makes this slightly more automated than some trader messaging his buddies on the bloomberg terminal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter_(finance)
If we remove the tech from the story and consider the old "colonial village test":

A man walks up and down the street either shouting about, or handing out flyers, that say "We should get together and blockade main street in protest of the illegitimate taxes Congress has passed on our whiskey." Is it legal for the cops to stop him? Probably not.

Is it legal for the cops to move their plans around to show up on main street that day? I can't see why it wouldn't be.
Had one of my roughest nights of my life after having two Poppis at a pool party.
> 5G in general (strictly inferior to incumbent, speed isn't faster, latency is higher, not as reliable)

I'm guessing this is a US thing? In Europe, 5G is definitely faster while latency is on par with 4G. YMMMV between EU countries though.
> LAPD and LASD are going to bankrupt Los Angeles.

LAPD and LASD aren't both part of any single entity called "Los Angeles" (the city and county of that name being separate entities).

> They're more concerned with being a paramilitary police force versus stopping or preventing neighborhood crime.

That's pretty much true (and foundationally so) of all American local general-jurisdictions police forces.

LASD and LAPD may have problems beyond those endemic to American police agencies, but that isn't one of them.
That is really interesting. I am thinking of toying with same combination for my small project. Can you share a bit on your use case? Would love to know more.
How is better communication scary for military? The weapons themselves are
Webb telescope captures its first images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
Million dollar question: why Rust over <insert any memory safe language>? Common Lisp? OCaml, Ada / SPARK, etc. if not C?
Caltech's learning from data was really good too, if someone is looking for theoretical understanding of ML topics.

https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse
> Today’s entrepreneurs would do well to note that Microsoft made minimal use of venture capital. Microsoft’s only VC only owned 6.2 percent of the company. Gates didn’t trust them.

> If you’re thinking of trying your hand at being the next Bill Gates, keep that in mind.

Keep what in mind? Sure so try to build a company now w/o VC money and potentially complete with others who have taken that money? Microsoft obviously had an advantage of a completely new industry AND literaly very little VC money (and in vastly tighter amounts) funding competitors.
Probably not, unless it is their only source of entropy.
I agree with you, it is risky, I have no insights into the data but I would imagine that those risks are being calculated with previous W/L taken into account.

We all know there is no 'sure thing' when investing, but if you're a large money manager, you generally want to maximise profits, looking through history, the 'quickest' earners are usually always those from OP, speculation, market share and IPO.. The 'bubble' of these seems to be loosing air but I'm purely speculating based on the tech job market so I could be completely wrong.
Pretty sure this wouldn't produce anything useful. Pretty sure this would generate incoherent gibberish that looks and sounds like English but makes no sense. This ignores perhaps the most important element of LLM's, the attention mechanism.
I think they have all been trying [1][2][3] which is why assessments about voice assistants from 2019 might not apply today.

[1]: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/new-alexa-generativ...

[2]: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-apple-intelligenc...

[3]: https://blog.google/products/assistant/google-assistant-bard...
The fact that iPhones are hard to dump is actually the main protection against threats when your phone is stolen or taken away from you (from a more or less legitimate-looking organization or person). It's a pretty good thing overall.
> On the other hand, I doubt they know they have syntax and semantics.

A lot of humans probably ignore it too. Most don't even ever heard about phonology, which is more fundamental to language than syntax.
Gamers are buying at $250. If you pay more you can find B580 on the shelves now. That Xe cores and driver development are shared with other products is the only reason they haven't canceled the dGPU division. The hardware business is all about designing IP and amortizing the cost in as many products as possible.

Of course consumers don't care about die size and cost, only the value of the end product. The problem is intel and their negative margins. Maybe people are too blitz scale brained but running a negative margin hardware business is a really bad idea. Typically they target 50% margins.

Now if intel was healthy maybe they could survive a few negative margin products by subsidizing from their profitable SKUs. However intel is not healthy and reported losses every quarter last year. It's a sinking ship and they need a come to Jesus monent before they go bankrupt.

I'm arguing that their product segmentation strategy is stuck in the past and a significant reason why they're unprofitable. On desktop CPUs they lock ECC even though the Xeons are cheaper because they remove the E cores so AVX512 will work. On dGPUs they lock out SRIOV even though the desktop iGPUs support it. On the server they created accelerators which they then tried to charge for which means no one bothered to write integrations to make it work with their software. It's a broken culture which is so up it's own ass that management only cares about intel and is completely disconnected from the customers. Intel needs product features and value differentiators that aren't just negative margin products, changing product segmentation is low hanging fruit.

Being intransigent and the same as the competition but slightly worse had led them to unprofitability and soon, bankrupty. Interest rates are going up and companies carrying debt are going to be in a rough spot.
GPU Assisted Brute Force Cryptanalysis of GPRS, GSM, RFID, and Tetra [pdf]
I could not get past entering an email.
Definitely a fair point. But I observe that dS/dt may not be positive already.
I'm not them, but I use `direnv` for this. Their wiki includes two layout_uv[1] scripts, one that uses `uv` just to activate a regular venv and a second that uses it to manage the whole project. I use the latter.

[1] https://github.com/direnv/direnv/wiki/Python
I think servo and ladybird are a testament to people believing in the web, not intent on throwing out the existing designs and beginning something new & different.

Gemini and gopher both seem semi competitive with the web in that they target users. (Ipfs is just a transport; there's value there of course but it leaves more questions than suggestions.) But I really doubt the web is going to be disrupted or even budged by efforts that are so explicitly ultra-minimal, so bare bones text.

Folks complain about the document model of the web being used for apps, which I personally feel is incredibly silly, that hypermedia being able to sing & dance like it does & having so many different framework styles validated the Extensible Web Manifesto https://github.com/extensibleweb/manifesto idea of HTML + platform APIs as a low level platform, putty we can forever reshape & mold to different architecture & use. If folks really want to get beyond the web though, the answer is definitely not just chopping off the capabilities, doing drastically less. We'd need a more bold encompassing media form, that's obviously better. I'm curious as hell to find out what that might look like but I see very few such bold ideas.

Its crazy to me that the only vision, the only rabble rousing of note seems to be to do vastly less. Maybe we could ask Flutter why they think they deserve to be the future, why the apps their are better than web, but I expect more revolting disgusting "it's better for devs" "pixel perfect" answers without any actual progress for the user, with a status quo of what software is, and no principles & or fundamental enablement or interconnection wins. Its not gonna weave something better than the www. Too many visions are inwards, retreating, and so few imagine better connecting, richer media forms, looking outward beyond the singular developer distilled down app experience that made the web the force that rewrote computing that it is, that makes the web so utterly unique & special (& something great wealth should be funding & cherishing).
There is some recent work [0] that explores this idea, scaling up n-gram models substantially while using word2vec vectors to understand similarity. Used to compute something the authors call the Creativity Index [1].

[0]: https://infini-gram.io
[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04265v1
On your pricing tab "Expiration" is spelled incorrectly on Pro and Elite levels.
A nice summary of the issues is my top-level comment. So Java, Vs JavaScript is in here somewhere. My take on it is that java keeps getting extended to look more like JavaScript, and inevitably becomes slower.
Person-Specific Analyses of Smartphone Use and Mental Health: Longitudinal Study
A Chinese battery factory sparked a political meltdown in a small Michigan town
>Dark pools allow participants to 'hide' information that's not public. It is mostly about the order books. If dark pool sell order for 1B of TSLA stock goes on the order book, only other members of the pool get that information. The dark pools are required to still follow RegNMS rules for trade prices, but there is an inherent asymmetry in the market information in this case as the dark pool participants can see the public markets and their dark pool in order to make trading decisions.

But traders can easily hide the size of their "true" order by breaking it up into chunks and constantly refilling the order if it's taken? This is basically trading 101. If you want to do a big selloff, you're not going to dump all of that in one order.
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Yes, my experience is similar.

But even if (for the sake of argument) we grant that it doesn't lead to more income, it unquestionably can lead to a better job at the same income level.