skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat curious, how long is the list of "basically all the countries" really?
Images trapped in a feedback loop and analog fractals create each other
It's getting harder for Congress to deflect and defend, especially as the economy enters a severe recession as a result of Trump's tariffs. You can get away with a lot as long as you keep the money rolling in. Drain those 401k accounts and raise prices significantly at the stores and people will come at you with pitchforks. You need to keep people fat, dumb, and happy to have a chance at establishing an authoritarian regime. Trump and his merry band of idiots are doing the exact opposite.
I am really glad that employees are speaking up against these companies whose technology is used for war, carrying out atrocities and injustices. I know they are paying a price but enough with the ‘bystander effect’. Nothing changes if no one speaks out.
Not true. Human tetrachromats have an extra kind of receptor somewhere between the blue and red receptors' sensitivity. This doesn't help with colors like violet that are outside of that range.

Also, purple (a non-spectral color) is easily distinguished from violet (a spectral color) if you see them side-by-side.
To quote the first line of the website:
> A Free-as-in-Beer distribution of the open source software of Chef Software Inc. See goals for details, or follow our blog for updates on the project.
Fixed point is where the number has a predetermined number of bits for the integer and fraction like 8.8 where you have 0-255 for the integer and the fraction goes from 1/256 to 255/256 in steps of 1/256

Floating point at it's simplest just makes that a variable. So the (.) position is stored as a separate number. Now instead of being fixed - it floats around.

This way you can put more in the integer or more in the fraction.

The Microsoft Basic here used 23 bits for the number, 1 sign bit and 8 bits to say where the floating point should be placed.

Of course in practice you have to deal with a lot of details depending on how robust you want your system. This Basic was not as robost as modern IEEE754 but it did the job.

Reading more about IEE754 is a fascinating way to learn about modern floating point. I also recommend Bruce Dawson's observations on his Random ASCII blog.
White chess is another amazing piece

https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2015/07/14/notes-on-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_flights
>But I do not like bad studies.

Can you share your link to the study & data? I'd like to determine if it is a "bad study" myself. I looked at the links in the article and it doesn't seem to have the study.
Something I ponder in the context of AI alignment is how we approach agents with potentially multiple objectives. Much of the discussion seems focused on ensuring an AI pursues a single goal. Which seems to be a great idea if we are trying to simplify the problem but I'm not sure how realistic it is when considering complex intelligences.

For example human motivation often involves juggling several goals simultaneously. I might care about both my own happiness and my family's happiness. The way I navigate this isn't by picking one goal and maximizing it at the expense of the other; instead, I try to balance my efforts and find acceptable trade-offs.

I think this 'balancing act' between potentially competing objectives may be a really crucial aspect of complex agency, but I haven't seen it discussed as much in alignment circles. Maybe someone could point me to some discussions about this :)
> The dot in the name has no semantics it's just a separator.

That's not true of all module systems. It's true in Java, but not in Rust, where it establishes a parent-child relationship, and in which context [1]:

> If an item is private, it may be accessed by the current module and its descendants.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/visibility-and-privacy.h...
Thanks for the recommendation. Have you looked at Bishop’s Deep learning book (https://www.bishopbook.com/)? How would you compare both? Thanks again
General Processing Unit

Greater Processing Unit

Giant Processing Unit
The fact that it is a good explanation, doesn't mean that hypocrisy is missing. It is quite common for us to do things for one reason, while actually being motivated by a second, unacknowledged, reason.

For example consider this case. When we become dependent upon another's largesse, it is easy to emotionally deal with it by holding the other in contempt. Thereby making it emotionally comfortable to accept the largesse, and hiding from any potential feeling of guilt. For example Ayn Rand did an excellent job of portraying this dynamic on a personal level with the example of Lillian Reardon. Who holds Hank in contempt exactly because it keeps her from having to face how much of a parasite she has become.

I've seen Objectivists fall into exactly this dynamic. When their contempt for the government becomes a way to avoid thinking about how dependent they have actually become on said government, continuing to spout Ayn Rand's justification becomes hypocrisy. And as long as the underlying emotional reality is ignored, it remains hypocrisy no matter how logical and reasonable the explanation may be.
I have to laugh (bitterly) at the administration's claim they have no way to retrieve the people (there's more than one) that they illegally sent to CECOT.

It's not like they flew them to El Salvador and then released them at the airport, subsequently losing track of them. They know exactly where those people, and who call - after all, they had to cut a deal with El Salvador to use their prison in the first place.
Although OSI claims that they coined the term, there's irrefutable proof that the term was already in-use well before that. Originally, "open source" just meant "source available": https://dieter.plaetinck.be/posts/open-source-undefined-part...
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - Adam Curtis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines...

See ep-1 "Love & Power," on contradictions of Ayn Rand's life versus her philosophy; can be found on yt / vimeo

Series supplies interesting history for any nerd interested in systems analysis and provides a survey of California Ideology.

His documentary on the legacy of Henritta Lacks' immortal cells and biology, "The Way of All Flesh" is also interesting food for thought on systems analysis.
I currently have a browser tab open somewhere that is beeping and probably changing its title text, and I have no clue which tab it is. I for sure would prefer having a way to ask my browser for a list of recent notifications and the tabs involved, regardless of whether they deserved a pop-up window on my screen or not.
SOMAFM's SF police radio with ambient music is surprisingly good for concentration, I have this on an alias in my box : mpv https://somafm.com/sf1033.pls
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The government decided to introduce Deutschlandticket to, among other things, reduce CO2 emissions. The government financed a study to quantify the effect. I don't really see a conflict of interests here, or how it compromises the integrity of the study.
I think adventure games were doomed because their success depended on hardware restrictions limiting the competition. The main selling point of adventure games was graphical spectacle. Adventure games had better graphics than any other genre because the lack of action meant they could show the most impressive static images. For the bulk of the audience, puzzles were secondary to this, serving mostly to ration out the graphical spectacle so the players felt they got value for money. Look at the success of Myst. I would be very surprised if more than 10% of people who bought it completed it. Myst simply looked better than any other game and that was enough for it to sell. Even King's Quest 1 was considered graphically impressive at the time; it was advertised as "3D" because the characters could be partly obscured by foreground objects and this was an important selling point.

Once you could get the same kind of spectacle in action games, and I'd claim Half-Life as the first notable example, there was no longer any need for mass-market adventure games.

EDIT: Thinking about it, Metal Gear Solid beat Half-Life to market, and that has the same kind of visual spectacle in an action game I'm talking about.
he was working for thw UNRWA during october of 2023. This needs to be mentioned on your visa application.
the workers aren't talking to postgres directly, thats why you would need distributed transactions.
Relative to other hands on, high tech educational experiences would be a smart way to think about it, if you insist on adopting the sucks in a long hit of marijuana smoke “everything is just relative, mannnnn” attitude.
I've noticed 4o uses a lot of emojis, and, in general, is very enthusiastic. I find it funny. If I want a more formal bot, I switch to one of the o3 family.
https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-courts...
Performance of returning errors vs. exceptions in Go and C++
Or did you mean

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/455751-engineer-claims...

?
> paying 17% is way too much

Have you considered increasing the cleaning fee to recoup some of that money? /s
I think the piece you're missing here is that it actually is all a hype bubble
BRK has beaten Nasdaq and SP500 in 1 year, 3 year, 5 year, 10 year, and since IPO 1980-NOW timeframes.
Atlas Shrugged was one of the most important books I ever read.

A society where the rich destroy the entire world fighting stupid battles against each other, even witholding technology that would aid all humanity because someone other than them would benefit, all the while ordinary men like Eddie Willers are left to die in the desert?

Marx couldn't have laid it out so clear to me as Rand has.
Microsoft blocks VSCode-derived editors (like Cursor) from using MS extensions
This isn't an LTV model, it's a regression model. Is it even good? Doesn't seem so.

Maybe their folks need to punch "LTV" into Google Scholar.

And also, is it even actionable?

> For example, suppose we run a marketing campaign that provides hosts with tips on how to successfully improve their listings

Right guys. “Marketing-induced incremental LTV” indeed.
I think humor is common in his work and a banana taped to wall makes sense. I like his horse sculptures and Pope struck by meteorite. To me that's a whole other level than Yoko's work.
on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1jrl2zw/micros...
I'm no expert regarding the shell. I guess I've only spent 0.01% of my life in it. But I want to say "Hear the guy out". IMHO, there's _got_ to be room for incorporating new stuff, however good the old stuff is. The horse and cart were great, but the car, the automobile wow!
The real issue is context size. You kinda need to know what you are doing in order to construct the project in pieces, and know what to tell the LLM when you spin up a new instance with fresh context to work on a single subsection. It's unwieldy and inefficient, and the model inevitably gets confused when it can effectively look at the whole code base.

Gemini 2.5 is much better in this regard, it can make decent output up to around 100k tokens compared to claude 3.7 starting to choke around 32k. Long term it remains to see if this will remain an issue. If models can get to 5M context and perform like current model with 5k context, it would be a total game changer.
My guess is that the stock market losses will be a greater driver than any cost increases on goods. And stock market losses will not necessarily push the middle class much, but will push GOP politicians into contention with Trump.

Ultimately Trump needs GOP in congress to be friendly…more than he needs the public at this point. He cant (and wont, despite the trolling) run again.
Just as a counterexample (not saying this disproves the trend), UBS auditor recently said there is something wrong at the bank.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ubss-auditor-issues...

I think this says more about how worrisome UBS is than how unreliable auditing is.
> Democratic party, which has been comparably insane lately, only a different direction.

How do you see the democratic party being insane in a different direction?
I was teaching python long ago to very beginners in programming.

Honestly, the language became kinda harsh for newcomers, what we see as developpers is 'it's like pseudocode that runs'.

But a beginner is often left behind the billions of methods in each class. He is not used to documentation, and spend quite a huge amount of time learning by heart stupid things like 'len()' in this case it's '.len()' here it's '.length',etc.. For many meany methods that all have their idiosyncracies.

At least in c/(easy)c++, you need to build yourself most of it, helping the understanding.

I'm not completely against python as a first language, but it need to be teached well, and that could include working with a very minimal set of functions on every objects. Then you can expand and incorporate more and more methods that make life easier.
> The ironic thing is that becoming a better thinker is not done by studying logic, but instead by learning to recognize and respect your own emotional responses.

This is the single thing that in my opinion both the young and also the naive miss. But people who are wise usually seem to understand.

Not everyone learns it with age, but it usually takes some amount of life experience for people to learn it.
I also learned English mostly by Space Quest.

I remember being nine years old, sitting in front of SQ1 with my best friend, and trying to survive the escape pod early in the game. How do you avoid dying when it crashes on an alien world?

Our only hope was my neighbor who was a few years older and seemingly infinitely wise. I called him up, and patiently he spelled out the magic words to type before launching the escape pod:

“FASTEN SEAT BELT”

What do those words mean? We had no idea, but we lived on to explore another world.

A few years later I could read and write English just fine, but had no idea how anything was pronounced. Sierra English was a real thing among my generation.
It probably helps tourism too. Foreigners in Japan can get a rail pass at a huge discount. I might not have left Tokyo if not for it. It would be fun to pop around the country, from Munich to Stuttgart (for Oktoberfest and Volksfest?), then onto Frankfurt and Nuremburg. It looks like it pays for itself after 2 trips.
So says the man who doesn't know jack about economics and who's calendar reads the year 1873.
LLMs don’t have any sort of intelligence at present, they have a large corpus of data and can produce modified copies of it.
These do not represent the whims of one person. Donald Trump was elected.
There is no claim that each drug costs 1$ billion. If you stop after 1-2 years of development you might have wasted some millions, if you stop after 3-4 years you wasted tens of millions and so on. The 10% success is still very low, because you can still fail after 10 years (potentially investing a lot)

If you are interested in the topic, for example for oncology: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... , to quote "Failed drug development in oncology incurs substantial expense. At an industry level, an estimated $50 billion to $60 billion is spent annually on failed oncology trials."

There is no "oracle" that says invest 50 million (or 100 million or 1 billion) in X or Y and it will succeed (in pharma or other domains). And this is not exclusively because of capitalism, it is because doing some things is hard.
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> There was a time when one could order a kit and assemble a computer at home

I think I get what OP means but you can definitely order a pc kit and just assemble it nowadays
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/02/06/british-equal-v...

paywall bypass: https://archive.is/MLC49

It only mentions councils in passing and doesn't cover them going bankrupt over it, but it covers the issue at hand, which affects the private sector as well.
You're changing the topic. Nobody is talking about ceding land, we're talking about re-establishing a nation in the historic homeland of the Jewish people. And besides, no Zionist demanded land or induced anyone to cede their land prior to 1947 anyway, since all Zionist land acquisition was through voluntary purchases and legal land transfers.

So are you arguing that the Jews are not a people that merit self determination? Or are you saying that because they were expelled from their homeland so long ago, they forfeited the legitimate claim to self determination?
https://bloomberg.github.io/foml/#home This course is my personal favorite.
Sure. Is something happening to it other than newspaper OPEDs?
One color go is a training method used in go… I wonder if that was her inspiration.
lol I’d assume a compliment!
So do I. But it's not like ChatGPT isn't flexible, the code it generates for small tasks is really good, and the site is faster than AI Studio.

For example, if I want to quickly create a Python script to list all VMs via libvirt and output their attached drives and filesystems, that's a task for ChatGPT.

But for the things where I don't want an AI to "suck up" to me and instead "stay professional", that's Gemini.
Science Stopped Believing in Porn Addiction. You Should, Too
That's why the OP is commenting that replacing a heater, with a heater _and_ an a/c, is a big part of why the bill will double.

heating + cooling > heating alone

That said, its also important to point out, that the author is in Berkeley, and electricity costs in California are among the highest in the US.

Three major utilities service pretty much the whole state (1/8th of the US population). Regulating them has been a major failure of the California democratic party controlled state governance. The CPUC is a major rant rabbit hole, industry capture is rampant.

Disclaimer: I say this being registered "no party" and considering myself left of most people.

Gavin's administration in particular has been extremely industry friendly, with a steady reduction in citizen/consumer protection in the face of ever increasing utility profits.

Ever since first seeing this article yesterday, I felt it was clickbait. This outcome was 100% known in advance. It's not new news in California that electric heating is more expensive than gas heating.

The conversion to heat pump was a great first step (and should also include increased insulation). The next step is battery and solar, in that order. Part of the affordability erosion in CA is the removal of net-metering credit for solar generation.

A battery that charges _from_the_utility_ off-peak, and is available to consume during the day, pays for itself faster than solar now! But adding solar in addition to the battery, completes an investment that pays for itself in about 1/2 to 1/3 of it's service lifetime.

I know several modest sized homes that generate all of their own electricity consumption, including charging EVs. In comparison, I don't know anyone with their own on-site natural gas production.

Electrification is the straightest path to energy independence, and from utility price gouging.

Rejection of electrification by the US right is one of it's biggest self-inflicted wounds (except for those that own petroleum companies).
I haven't read that book, but I can personally attest to Josh Starmer's StatQuest Youtube channel[1] being awesome! I used his lessons as a supplement to my studies when I was studying statistics in uni.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtYLUTtgS3k1Fg4y5tAhLbw
Again, as an unpaid intern. (And their visa application was in 2022. Two related, but separate things.)

The judicial process will now determine if that was a willful oversight on the permanent residency application, and if it would have had material impact on the application.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doj-says-mahmoud-khalil...

> However, the government will have to prove to the immigration judge that Khalil willfully failed to disclose that information, and whether that disclosure would have impacted his eligibility for permanent residency.

It may even be that the administration is lying. They do that.
I’m in a group chat for a language I am studying. It gets targeted for event flyers due to the group’s subject. These sorts of flyers are allowed where other advertising is not because they add value to the group, even though most of them are for-profit.
I get the idea that small fractions of bigger pies can be more than a big fraction of a small pie. And I can assure you that Scandinavians are well aware of tax revenue optimisation.

I will even say that it is very likely that they are already near the optimum for their country. The reason is simply that if every time you increase taxes and notice revenue goes down, you will naturally reverse it. Society moves through incremental changes.
What other books do people recommend?
Is collaboration at its most useful/powerful when it's done selfishly?
> And it's not even possible to save one chat to disk (well, neither do the others), I just wish it did.

Ask Claude to generate a .md of the conversation, it will do that with the option to download that or a PDF of it. A lovely, but well hidden feature!
Sure. As there is only one "study" Deutschewelle relates to.
https://mcc-berlin-ariadne.shinyapps.io/dticket-tracker/
Highly biased.
Telling you this is actually the job of DW, not me.
There exists a shade of purple that is indistinguishable from violet because it triggers the cones of the eyes at the same level that violet does.

You can buy paint called "violet". This isn't the spectral violet, it's a shade of purple that looks very similar to spectral violet.

Tetrochromats can distinguish between that purple shade and real violet. But if you mixed the paint using 4 tints rather than 3 you could fool them too.
You're arguing with people who have no idea what they're talking about on a forum that is a circular "increase in acceleration" of a personality trait that gets co-opted into arguing incorrectly about everything - a trait that everyone else knows is defective.
I have read parts of it. It arguably was already "outdated" back then, as it mostly focused on abstract mathematical theory of questionable value instead of cutting edge "deep learning".
An AirBNB host is not a landlord.

Without landlords, you have no rental properties and everyone who can't afford to purchase their residence outright would have to find another option whatever that might be.

(I have never used AirBNB.)
Not in the same way. Not with a soldering iron and schematics.
A big part of that is contractors have to pay Bay Area costs to operate. Other parts of the country $1000 a square is strictly "brand new really nice mansion" territory.
Wow, that's a beautiful non-explanation for the idiocy. My compliments to the chef.
A real life Manchurian candidate, whether by intention or not.
Please tell me you didn't use ENIG for the USB connector. It would be sacrilege.
This is the dilemma of spoiled rich kids who got too big for their breeches.
PMS as in Pantone Matching System or Premenstrual Syndrome?

AirBNB can be equally frustrating for users as well.
Recently ended up at night in a new city in northern Japan where the host told me the listing was at a different address, where I found nothing, and got only radio silence from the host.
Every hotel room in town was occupied that night.
Airbnb support, seemingly in far away India, told me to try contacting the host, and that was that.

Also recently stayed at a place with a dog that shat inside due to the owner not taking them out; due to politeness no one had complained in the reviews.

Also Airbnb lists one price but when booking it always ends up being way more with more fees added.

I’m using hotels.com with a filter for “has kitchen” these days, which was the only reason I used Airbnb in the first place
The thing to do is make things allowed by right. Nobody should be approving things, they should just verify that if follows fire code.
God that is great