skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When getting one is 8x the price, 2 for 4x sounds like a steal
Agreed. It's like saying mid-engine cars are intentionally made complex to repair to make more money of service whereas it's more likely that the primary driving factor is better performance & handling and the extra service revenue is an added benefit.
Ask any of your peers why they upgrade phones. 9/10 will tell you their old one was too old and slow to run modern software or the battery was toast, and that happens in just a few years for some phones. My roomate will probably be upgrading their iphone X soon, not because they want a new iphone, but because its starting to do weird things like not be able to take screenshots and is overall far slower than when he first got the device. Same story with the 6s the X replaced years ago. New phones haven't been cool for a long time, we've been buying the exact same slab of glass for like a decade.
Aren't we Five Eyes nation members all affected by this? The U.S. should pull out of this. We need to re-assert privacy rights and avoid trade as much as possible with any countries that enact these kind of laws.
Okay, vertigo is tough. Tougher than fear that results in "locking up", from what I have observed in others. I have one friend who has issues with vertigo, has seen a doctor, and never found a solution. Others have told me that keeping the ground near them in view helps to maintain perspective - sometimes even sitting on the ground while letting their brain adjust to the terrain. I'm certainly no expert, but hope you can learn to enjoy the vistas.
> Put another way: battery tech is Tesla's core business

It absolutely is not. Almost all Tesla's battery IP rests on Panasonic IP. Panasonic has been a leader in this space for 40+ years.

That's why when Tesla "open-sourced" all their battery patents in 2014 it was seen as mostly a PR move. It didn't really affect the industry because Tesla's IP in this area just isn't that valuable.
There's another way to think of this. Let's use Starlink as an example, which is ~1300 today growing to 40k satellites in LEO.

If each of these had a high-grade commercial camera lens pointed towards earth, you could have real-time viewing of the entire planet with just a little bit of math. With a bit more fun (and for each click of optics improvements), you could "Bullet Time" view a great number of things...

If each of these had a high-grade commercial lens pointing outwards, what could that be used to capture? At scale, it seems like doing diff's against all the images would reveal a huge number of previously unidentified asteroids and other near-earth objects.

What if you put "very good" optics on them? Or a radio antenna pointed out? Could you make earth sized optical or radio telescopes? Seems like you could.

It's increasingly looking like the assumption each one needs to drive the state of the art, and each one needs to be "space grade at 100x the cost" is a fallacy simply because launching was historically so expensive.
So I am not sure that I understand you. Why would you even implement a forecasting algorithm and not use open source one. (Unless I am missing something).

Also, how do you plan to verify that the algorithm works?

Note, that your customers would need to make critical business decisions based on this software, so I would refrain doing clean room impl of the forecasting algorithm.
That's an excellent question, and it really is something for all of us to think about. In the 1890's people understood monopolies in terms of products. One suggestion might be that information can also be monopolized. Any company that acts as the sole gatekeeper of information should be regulated. Ironically, monopoly over information is infinitely more dangerous than over products. Monopoly over words and ideas is the definition of thought control. We need to find an answer to this problem with the tech monopolies quickly or we are all in serious trouble, not just in the West, but in every country around the globe!!
China’s Hottest New Rental Service: Men Who Listen
Perhaps I missed it in the launch kit, but here's a link to the first cycle of approved proposals for time on the telescope, in case you're interested:

https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-progra...

> STScI announces the selected JWST General Observer programs for Cycle 1. This follows the review of submitted proposals by the JWST Telescope Allocation Committee, which made recommendations to the STScI Director, who approved the final selection. The selection is scientifically balanced, with a distribution of science categories that broadly matches the submitted proposals. More detailed information about the approved proposals is now available.

> The Cycle 1 GO program includes 266 proposals for approximately 6,000 hours of JWST prime time and up to 1,231 hours of parallel time, as well as 15 archival and 5 theory proposals. This milestone completes the definition of the first year of JWST science, as envisioned by a broad, worldwide community of observers. The selected proposals were prepared by more than 2,200 unique investigators from 41 countries, including 43 US states and territories, 19 ESA member states, and 4 Canadian provinces.
> There should be known ranges for a position and years of service as minimum

Because value production is an exact function of job title and seniority?
All of it and none of it.

Extracting a control signal with few degrees of freedom from an EEG signal is doable right now. A reasonably motivated undergrad with a few hundred bucks of OpenBCI gear should be able to get “MindPong” up and running pretty quickly. But…it’ll be a little janky: the signal quality won’t be great, especially if you’re out in the real world, trying to do normal stuff at the same time. The content of that signal is also limited, in part due to the skull and scalp that sit between your electrode in the brain. This also make it difficult but, surprisingly, not impossible to perturb the brain with electric current (tDCS, tACS), magnets (TMS), or other techniques.

What about putting something inside the brain itself? We know information is likely much more accessible without the skull/scalp filtering, but we don’t completely understand how information is represented in the brain, how to modify those representations, or even really how to get the raw data out: most neural implants have a pretty short lifetime before they’re ruined by the immune system, mechanical strain, etc. We’re not totally ignorant: there’s been some amazing progress decoding motor and speech intentions and, after a 20+ year hiatus, cool new electrode technology (Pandromics, Neuralink, etc) but there’s a lot to be discovered and invented.

To sum up, we have some fairly crude stuff working now, but it’s looking for a killer app, especially in humans. Building something more like a movie requires work on many different fronts, ranging from materials science to build the electrodes to neuro/ML to understand what those electrodes see.
What reminded me of this the other day is how MacOS will grow your cursor if you “shake” it to help you find it on a big screen.

I was thinking about how they must have a routine that’s constantly taking mouse input, buffering history, and running some algorithm to determine when user input is a mouse “shake”.

And how many features like this add up to eat up a nontrivial amount of resources.
A New Basis for Shifters for Existing and Advanced Bit Manipulations (2009) [pdf]
Hobby use. Though I do have a little nuc at work running 9front to write small bits of automation (IEC 61131-3, ST) and a Basic dialect of CNC RS-274 G code in acme and a little Sam here and there. I'm slowly learning it. I also write a little c code as the plan 9 c library and tooling is really nice. And I love the concurrency library, thread(2). I access the little server via drawterm from both a Linux machine and a Windows 10 machine. I can sit at either computer and have access to the same user files, configuration, etc. And drawterm gives the plan 9 session access to the host (terminal in this case) resources including the TCP stack (you can do really cool routing and tunneling tricks with this method)

I highly recommend giving it a look (I highly recommend 9front), and read nemo's intro.
Open Source Training Data – Diffgram
Here's the abstract.

This paper describes a new basis for the implementation of the shifter functional unit in microprocessors that can implement new advanced bit manipulations as well as standard shifter operations. Our design is based on the inverse butterfly and butterfly data path circuits, rather than the barrel shifter or log-shifter designs currently used. We show how this new shifter can implement the standard shift and rotate operations, as well as more advanced extract, deposit, and mix operations found in some processors. Furthermore, it can perform important new classes of even more advanced bit manipulation instructions like arbitrary bit permutations, bit gather (or parallel extract), and bit scatter (or parallel deposit) instructions. Thus, our new functional unit performs the functionality of three functional units—the basic shifter, the multimedia-mix unit, and the advanced bit manipulation functional unit, while having a latency only slightly longer than that of the log-shifter. For performing only the existing functions of a shifter, it has significantly smaller area.
You've checked out system76's offerings? They're not 4k, but otherwise they seem nice.
> I'm not sure what your point is, but famous actors and sports-stars have little to do with labour unions.

There are a TON of actors in SAG (160,000). Sure, that's more than an order of magnitude smaller than the 4.4M SWEs in the US. But the idea that everyone in SAG is a "star" is absurd.

Similarly, deep bench players in the NBA - sure they are really good - but they are far from stars. And yet, most of them make substantially more money than overseas "stars". This is because of the players' union.

> A labour union is all about fighting for the rights of the undifferentiated many, not the situation where there are named celebrities in a winner's zero-sum market.

I think you missed my point entirely. SAG and the players' union are good for both stars and non-stars.

GP seemed to think that unions by definition are bad for stars. I was merely pointing out that there are examples of unions that are not bad for stars. It just so happens these unions are also examples of unions that are also not bad for non-stars.

> When there is a pool of people waiting to take your job, and a company willing to lower working standards, you have little choice but to comply with company requests — unless you are part of a union that collectively acts in the interests of the workers.

Google is not unionized, and there are a million people that would take my job for much lower pay - and a lot of them could probably end up doing my job after a substantially long learning period. Despite that, I have my job.

The same is true at Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft (and many other companies). Theoretically, since these are global companies with large presences all over the world - this isn't (at least) entirely because I'm a US citizen.

I agree with your point for most other professions, though. And maybe this will be truer in the future for "FAANG". But, it's not really true now.

> Edit: I did a quick search for "software developer" on https://seek.co.nz job board and about 1% of jobs were for USD140k+ and most of that 1% were not dev jobs. I know zero developers earning >= $200k. AFAIK pay in NZ for developers is significantly below the US.

The majority of people working at "FAANG" in NZ should be >$200k - if for no other reason than because of RSU appreciation.

Not trying to be rude - but if you want to make more money - just read Cracking the Coding Interview cover to cover and get referrals at FAANG. You honestly might triple your salary. You can DM me on Reddit if you want more feedback / advice / referrals.
That was a very insightful read, thanks for sharing!
Pfft that's so 2019, it's gotta be IoT cloud edge AI these days.

...because what really matters to most software devs is apparently increasing their job security by pushing processing and energy requirements onto the customer while roping them into a monthly support contract so they can be milked indefinitely.
My belief is that time will prove this to be an excellent strategy. Knowing how to make things of high quality with your hands is the new college degree in many ways in the sense of being a high value minority in the labor market.
Such as the US largest trade partner, China?
On-demand voter registration for Texas voters from their homes
I hosted draftsim.com on a $3/month hosting plan for a few years.

We served 500GB of data the first month.

I imagine that the hosting company lost money on us (but they never called to complain).
Hustle culture is not toxic
Anyone else remember "password: steak"?
How much of the money was spent on the James Webb itself, as opposed to research, testing, etc. that we can use on future telescopes?
How competitive are these apprenticeships? A super smart super hard working friend of mine really wanted to do an electrician apprenticeship but at the time (about a decade ago) the wait-list was several year long so he went to college instead.
I agree with everything, except that this is something that can be polished into sth. usable. After trying Bonsai, I think it's a promising proof of concept that demonstrates what should now be implemented properly. A ‘quick’ hack on top of Electron is just really slow and clunky compared to a ‘real’ browser.

I know this is asking a lot, but as an end user with an unlimited budget for big dreams, I'd like to see something like this as a fork of Firefox that eventually gets enough of its changes upstreamed so it can become just an extension for the browser I'm already running anyway.

Anyway, a little addendum:

> Why go fullscreen and modal?

And for when I want it full-screen and modal, at least do it right, please. E.g. it shows up in the cmd-tab task switcher, but that can't actually be used to switch to Bonsai, nor away from it (!!). And, again, it's too slow. (What's with the dramatic fade-out animation?)

Btw., you can drag a link on top of it (at least when option-space doesn't do something else already ;) and the cursor changes to identify a valid drop target, but when you drop, nothing happens.
Accepting the premise of the article, one can only respond...

And YOU did it.

YOU yearned to work for these companies and were prepared to sell your gonads and even your soul to do so for the ostensible prestige, the salary, the tech, the "interesting problems", the 30 pieces of silver, helping the oligarchic overlords establish this technocratic world order.

YOU!

You claim to care about the common good, but that is mere posturing, mere pretense, mere cover for your real motives. You might even rationalize your behavior in various transparent ways. At least have the decency to be honest. Double down and say "I don't care. I'm doing it anyway."

Alas, the cunning of reason, providence, will always press even evil acts into its service. The evil man shall lose by defiling himself through his deeds, but these evil deeds shall be used to bring about a greater good despite his efforts. Thus the use of these technologies by those whom the oligarchic class despises and the shattering of the false narrative they were previously able to and hoping to continue to control.
What stops Google, Microsoft, etc from doing the same if Cohere's solution gains traction?
Interesting side note about non-patent prior art (by the way, the examiners do, most of the time, look for it):

I was told that a proposal to require the examiners to use Google was rejected by the union: if you're going to require us to do more work, then you have to pay us more.

This was back in 2012 or so. I have no idea if now they have to use Google, but they only get about a day and a half on each patent (again, this is old data).
The ACLU, Prior to Covid, Denounced Mandates and Coercive Measures for Pandemics
The irony is that this will be viewed as a new form of of privilege.

Its schrodingers privilege. the privilege was being so priveleged that you were pushed out of the traditional credentialing system.
I didn't know it was possible to make a PDF file clickable. But thinking it again, the TOCs of PDF files have always been clickable, so I should have assumed that there were also other uses.
But on such a body sundial would not work.
This sort of lost my attention at the notion that all police were defunded, guns were banned, and millions of people were brutally murdered. Those ideas were propoganda. Defunding the police was never a sincerely held belief save the ideas that institutional racism be addressed and militarization of police disrupted. The most ardent municipalities replaced leadership and adapted their policing models. Its hard to take a piece about dystopia seriously after that is the premise.

Aside from that, a commercial dystopia is so anglo-centric it hurts my teeth. In that scenario, the have-nots have more freedom? Consumption is slavery? The disconnected have more connection? Okay that last part rings true, the rest feels like a paradox of privilege. We are uniquely entitled to compute as we please using whatever devices and service we see fit, to block and disable telemetry at will, to sue and win when things get bad. I appreciate what the author is trying to highlight, but maybe they should go back to 1984 and see what they miss.
That is exactly my experience of most Republicans in a red state. Every Trump talking point, every coronavirus conspiracy, it all gets eaten up. There are exceptions, to be sure, but a surprising number of otherwise thoughtful people accept it all unthinkingly.
Probably saves them time. You are not a soft target. What incentive do they have to add support when it only gains them access to more hardened systems that most likely are not vulnerable to their next phase.
I figured they had to have something but I wasn't aware of the exact product. Thanks.

Google Cloud CDN: Give us time, and we'll do to HTTP what we did to SMTP
Sounds like you have never been in a spot when resources were scarce and you can't afford to keep around people who are nice, but useless.

Everyone's a humanitarian when the sun is shining.
T2 Lite and Blackbird are certainly less expensive options. Still, the major cost is the logic board because there are no economies of scale (but the CPU cost, compared core to core and cache to cache, is actually competitive with x86: IBM makes those in rather more volume than Raptor and others manufacture OpenPOWER boards).
But to do this you would need unbiased people. Since those don't exist, this correction would just be matching the bias to that of the bias adjuster.
Have been here from the future for the last 25 years. It doesn't matter, you can't tell anyone anything that changes their minds or what happens, you can only watch it play out and maybe help a few people feel less alone. The only people who can affect its course are the ones whose existence is endogenous to this timeline, and the outcome is the aggregate effect of their desires.

You all seem like nice people. The future will belong to those who own a pair of dry shoes and avoid boxcars. This will be funny in 2050.
It's also interesting to see that James Webb the administrator who took nasa from NACA to the moon is getting some attention. At the end of the day, he made the moon program work, and was made a political scapegoat at the end of it.

I think that people are also going to look at the transformation that NASA went under the last 4 years, with the rise of SpaceX, and think that this was the second most disruptive time. In both cases, the administration was run by a administrator, not a scientist.
I feel like the "killer app" is accessibility. There's so many disabilities (quadriplegia, SMA, amputations, stroke, ALS etc.) where having a BCI that lets you reliably control a wheelchair would be a godsend.

I always see futurology/inspiration porn articles about impressive demos of this stuff, when is it hitting the market? It doesn't have to be the next iPhone, it just has to let people control their mobility or communicate.
Even better, you could do so in courts that are inconvenient for them (read: other end of the state), without any allegations that it's a proper venue for the case at all, and they couldn't move to place it in a more reasonable jurisdiction.

Granted, that provision is probably unconstitutional by itself, but it just goes to show you that the banning abortion part of the law is the least problematic part of the entire thing.
I'd say that's the reasoning for states and countries to begin with; the group with the bigger stick.

What you're witnessing is people desiring to be outside of what is acceptable to those inside. The basis of that whole Jan6 debacle was that they felt the state (is: vote counting) did them wrong, and so they don't want to be in that group.

One group, state, country, splits into many others, where each now feel protected better by their in-group. It's a common thread throughout history.
Citing Chomsky, the media in a democratic state has the same function as the police baton in an autocratic state.
I think the word is monetize.
What does democratize even mean?
How I interpret it is not that we should use force to suppress irrational argument, but that if we are failing to counter intolerance with rationale argument in the public opinion, than we should be prepared to do even more to counter it, maybe even to use force. And then he lists examples of what he'd consider cases where more than just countering with rationale argument would be justified, and those are: denounce all arguments, not willing to discuss at a rationale level, not willing to listen, believing they are being deceived, using pistols and fists.
It's an aspirational goal, not a hard rule.

In your case, you're optimising for round-trips, which is also important. As long as you only send the city names instead of a huge blob that also includes a bunch of metadata, you're probably fine.

The most common example of my rule is that I often see SELECT statements on unindexed columns. This means that behind the scenes, the database engine is forced to do a table scan to find the row. If the query uses a wildcard selector, then it is also forced to return all columns, whether they are used by the application or not.

I commonly see scans over 100 MB tables returning 100 KB to the web tier, which then converts this to 200 KB of JSON to show 100 bytes of text to the end user. Simply adding an index to the table allows the database engine to reduce the data it has to process to 10-30 KB. Selecting specific columns can reduce that to a few kilobytes, and likely also shrink the JSON to match. Eliminating the JSON and directly generating the HTML on the server like in the good old days would cut the Internet network traffic down to minimum 100 bytes required also.

Similarly, you often see performance monitoring, logging, or graphing programs store data in fantastic detail and precision. Meanwhile, the graph needs only 16 bits of data, because screens are typically at most a few thousand pixels across in size! A case in point is Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), which has a metric write amplification of something like 300:1, which is why it can't log metrics at a usefully high frequency. Not because that's impossible, but because it's wasting the available computer power to an absurd degree. Azure has inherited this code, and then layered JSON on top. (I guess when you bill by gigabytes ingested, the incentives are all wrong.)
Im getting the feeling our government’s have switched to economy over everything mode with a dash of pretend to care about the environment
AWS-Auth
It's turning into what Reddit was a few years ago. By the time it gets to where Reddit is now, Reddit will be even worse...
I'm curious if you evaluated Rust?