skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A group will never admit they were wrong. A group will never admit, “We made a mistake,” because a group that tries to change its mind falls apart. I’m hard pressed to find examples in history of large groups that said, “We thought A, but the answer’s actually B.”

What would this look like? 100% of members all announcing it at the same time? A simple majority? Just a single leader, or board?

Because if it’s the leader option, that does happen occasionally. And even when groups don’t instantly change their minds, they can change their minds over time and eventually admit they used to be wrong. That does happen.
Alexa used to be the go to place for first impressions on a website. I hope the engineers are in a better cloud infrastructure.
The main losers of this were all the European nations which did not get the gold/silver influx, as they also got the same inflation but without the compensating revenue.
Yeah, it could do with "for EasyOS releases" being appended (but that would be editorializing)
Definitely, there is selection pressure for new strains so that it can reinfect people which have immunity from last year.

The flu virus is really good in mutating because its genome is made 7 or 8 parts which can be exchanged between strains. Most other viruses don't have these segmented genomes and are somehow stuck in a local optimum, so they can't evade the immunity so easily.
The UAE is the first nation to formalize adopting a 4.5-day work-week
If you do have a child who is 16, you might understand. They are not ready to make these kinds of decisions. They are unbearably righteous, whether righty or lefty. They will go in and kill and be killed with whatever weapon you provide them. The worst thing you can do is to give them a weapon and put them in a war, unless you DO want death and destruction. For those downvoting me because they believe he is guilty, clearly he was going in with many motivations in mind, but probably thought he was doing the right thing. How can we hold a minor accountable without looking at his guardians? Don't parents hold responsibility for their children?
Might have added some capacitance or something to the system clock, so that it didn't cycle as quickly.
Not a specific project but relevant: https://www.nasa.gov/consortium/SystemsEngineeringManagement...
Revisiting the “Tsar Bomba” nuclear test
Google had been running search in China up till 2010, and it has been censoring its results according to Chinese government wishes. Then, Google found out that China has been hacking them, got angry and left.
As someone who has been aware of ECC RAM for a long time could you briefly explain a concrete case where that is useful? Like, in all my time using computers I don't think I've yet encountered an error caused by RAM, or.. Did I?
Space M&A, LEO broadband markets, and more. Q&A with space analyst Caleb Henry
> ... but it seems to make sense for a lot of their highly educated citizens who decided to make it happen here in America!

That's not the same thing as wanting to abandon independence. Folks go to work in other countries not because they want their home country to be America. Those smart highly-educated workers aren't moving to America so much as the Bay Area to work at tech companies and make money - based on my personal experience and that of every other immigrant I know. Even those that went on to become US citizens wouldn't begin to entertain the idea of folding in their home countries.

I've lived in America for years but I certainly have zero interest in "merging" in Canada. I couldn't want anything less, tbh.

They're both unique and interesting countries in their own rights, with quite different peoples and values.
Nice article. It convinced me to use bash even on Windows rather than installing PowerShell everywhere.
Life imitates Jason Bourne movie.
Why can't I use the back button on this website? It just goes back to the same site. I've noticed this behavior across other websites lately as well, is this a new design thing?
Of course it does - as a well known British business, it'll get the kind of attention and care from its home turf it won't elsewhere in the form of some small subsidiary. And the guy isn't exactly known for being timid or restrained; he's tried to litigate his grievances in via the press repeatedly - and that's going to be less effective moving forward. Even if he gets a hearing in the continental press (which I kind of doubt, because why would the public care?), he and his business are likely to be defined by his brexiteer stance - not exactly a great way to sway opinion his way. (And just to be sure to undermine his British support, he decided to move to Singapore too... I guess that's his own little Brexit?)

Most other sane business tried to stay away from this whole minefield at least in public, and that sure looks like the better call in retrospect.
It's been this way for decades. IMO it's the main source of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

You have billions of chickens being raised every year, each a Petri dish ready for evolution of resistance.

You have at least 10 billion fresh "Petri dishes" every year. That obliterates human antibiotic use.

When chicken is given an antibiotic, how exactly is that distributed over the body, especially for a sedentary overweight chicken that can hardly walk?

There's no way you can tell that a high dosage will result in no bacteria alive when there can be a pocket of sick flesh where antibiotic might not reach its full potential.

Similarly, the massive rise in UTI infections in women over the years is a side effect of this problem. I do not believe UTI infections in women were that debilitating in the past. Today you can't even get rid of them with antibiotics and a lot of women develop a decade long recurrent UTI infection problem.

Human antibiotics use is not an issue.
I haven't dug up the details, so perhaps my recollection is wrong, but I thought she got fired for co-authoring the paper under "Shmargaret Shmitchell" name when Google asked them to withdraw?

I'm sure Google made lots of accusations if asked for comment, that seems SOP, but what actually triggered it? What documents did she leak?
> another contractor had to come and put the connector on the cable ... severely warned about the consequences

This kind of job moating and threats is a union thing isn't it?
Hypersonic glide weapon.
yes, food requires money. i have nothing to lose really.
Yes, don't let them become billionaires off your back. Contribute to open source projects like Linux where they can't do that.
Maybe it wouldn’t induce mental health issues for everyone?
Failed is a misrepresentation. They haven't been overwhelming victories, but the majority of voters voted to become a state in the most recent vote.
No, because after four years, I'd retire and live the rest of my life doing whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, starting my own projects on my own time to make any extra money or to simply satisfy my own interests.
Graphics cards and neural accelerators have continued an exponential improvement in performance per watt dollar, which is the intuitive thing that people often mean when they say Moore's law.
Webb has four mission science goals:

- Search for the first galaxies or luminous objects that formed after the Big Bang.

- Determine how galaxies evolved from their formation until the present.

- Observe the formation of stars from the first stages to the formation of planetary systems.

- Measure the physical and chemical properties of planetary systems and investigate the potential for life in those systems.

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/faq.html#goals
You could even build a marketplace on top of the first layer for devs to build their own tooling...

Hmm interesting, I need to go read some books, gimme a few weeks to come up with an intelligent response, thanks for your insight
Apple won’t have to allow iPhone apps to use third-party payments tomorrow
Their whole thing is tooling around protocol buffers, not the data format itself. The format is completely open source and comes from Google.
I’ve seen json do some powerful things.
I just hope they don’t wait for it to fall and crush some innocents.
Google Earth isn't available to the chinese.
I think Rust is like Wayland (and systemd before that); it's a new technology that probably is much better than the thing it intends to replace, but it does so by completely changing how things work, raises the lower bar on complexity (yes, I understand that it also lowers the ceiling), happily discards things that its proponents view as unimportant edge cases (I can use C to build an X client on NetBSD on Alpha), and - very importantly emotionally speaking - frequently is first noticed when it breaks something (Why did my graphical session break? Wayland. Why did my Python cryptography module break? Rust.).
Tim Sweeney must be throwing a tantrum right now.
> Thiel seems to genuinely believe the USA, and the west in general, is in an existential struggle with forces intent on destroying it.

As much as I dislike Thiel, he does have a point there: Russia is actively funding misinformation campaigns with the aim of splintering Europe (e.g. by funding far-right political parties like the AfD in Germany or the Brexiteers in the UK), and China is a threat on a geo-political level (New Belt Road) as well as a military threat (e.g. Taiwan), not to mention their Third Reich-inspired genocide against the Uyghurs and Tibetans.

The world is in a "war of cultures" indeed - the remnants of the Western democracies versus strong authoritarian governments. And we haven't found a way to counter Russian or Chinese political ambitions yet.

> That’s especially true if you have good confidence in the checks and balances in the free west to prevent the worst abuses of such tools, and that the threats are truly dire.

Under normal circumstances, that confidence would be valid. Unfortunately, we have our own actors who have an interest in tearing down these "checks and balances" for their own gains (e.g. the Republicans systematically destroying trust in public institutions, from elections to the integrity of the FBI, or Poland and Hungary where the rulers want to stay in power and enrich themselves and their friends)... which means we as Western nations are in a "lose-lose" situation. We can't combat propaganda effectively for a variety of reasons, and as a result of that the propaganda tears down our societies.
Well, for one thing because we outside China would automatically assume they are showing the same thing inside China as we see. Now we know that is not true. That is deceptive.

... And a a shareholder, I was also kept in the dark -- Which is actually also pretty problematic and deceptive.
7 posts about sourcegraph just here and all your history has only comments about it? We got it, you can stop spamming
Somerville is not a bedroom community. It's not even really a suburb. It's more analogous to a city neighborhood that happens to be under different jurisdiction for historical reasons. You can walk from Somerville to fidelity's headquarters, Harvard, MIT, all the FAANG offices, Amgen/Biogen/AstriskGen, etc.

There's definitely stuff more far flung and less dense within the city limits of Boston and/or on the Orange and Red lines.

The suburbs kind of start somewhere in Watertown/Newton.

The closest bedroom community to Boston, moving west, is probably Worcester.
Politics has become increasingly hyper-partisan since the 90s [0]. It has become been more about your team vs my team + purity testes and less about politician's policies. As a result, conservative democrats and moderate/progressive republicans of the yesteryear are becoming increasingly rare nowadays.

For example, 13 house republicans voted for the infrastructure bill b'c their constituents will benefit from the bill. Shortly after, Trump and the ultra-right wing members of the house republicans publicly called them traitor, RINOs, and even democrats [1]. Additionally, they've received angry messages and death threats from their constituents b'c one of the house ultra-right wing republican shared their phone numbers on her twitter account.

0. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2014/06/12/political-po...

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-criticize-13-col...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/us/politics/republicans-b...
You misunderstand immigration, as I explained in a different reply.
All large language models (GPT-2/3, GPT-Neo, Turing, Gopher), all use essentially the same architecture with some light variations, and the same datasets, again with some light variations on how filtering is done etc.

As such there is no reason to expect them to be very different in term of efficiency, and it has been shown and well researched, that scaling the numbers of parameters directly correlates with improved model quality.

So as long as you are comparing GPT style models to other GPT style models then parameter count is definitly not a vanity metric.

This doesn't hold once you start comparing to e.g. mixture of experts model which were making the headline recently with trillion of parameters claims. In MoE models, parameter counts is pretty much a useless metric.
This is true and sadly my favourite motorcycle cycle company Honda started building some of their bikes in Vietnam. Whether this will effect build quality I am not sure but not as impressed as made in Japan as I used to be.
I think the worry is less about crashes and more about silent corruption. Rare, sure, but not that rare:

"Studies by IBM in the 1990s suggest that computers typically experience about one cosmic-ray-induced error per 256 megabytes of RAM per month"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray#Effect_on_electroni...
Nitpick: gravity waves != gravitational waves.

Unfortunately, I don't know enough to explain the difference.
At least they could be more creative like Futurism absurdism.
I think corporations can wield power and influence way beyond governments.

For example, bigtechs like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft:

wealthier than many governments

have more capacity to influence internationally

due to regulatory capture, are embedded into many governments

Can utilize powerful governments against weak ones through lobbying arms

Can whip up revolts and foment revolutions easily

fully capable of co-opting national level industries and telecommunications infrastructures

When I think about dystopian, sci-fi, cyberpunk books and films, it was often the Megacorps that exceeded nations in power.

We see that today.
They get a lot of hate, but tiling window managers are my secret sauce to hitting flow state. Any "work" device I use gets an install of i3wm with my keyboard shortcuts and dotfiles installed, designed so I spend as little time as possible with my hands off the keyboard. Maybe there's a "hackerman" meme to be made here, but minimalism is your best friend when you're trying to build a productive setup.

Perhaps even weirder, I don't particularly proselytize for one IDE or another. For command-line editing I use micro, which has the most natural feeling keybinds to me and loads in a flash. If I need a more robust workspace I'll usually reach for VS Code, or god forbid Intellij if the project is particularly hairy. In any case though, I think the biggest roadblock to staying productive is having a streamlined desktop. I've come to despise how Windows and MacOS in particular handle windows, it's a particularly distracting and annoying affair trying to reposition things every 30 seconds when a new window gets added to the mix. TWMs prevents you from doing the awkward dance between keyboard and trackpad/mouse.

Language-wise, I feel most productive writing Rust, Bash and Python. C/C++ are fine as well, but Rust is really good about catching errors before you hit compile time, and the overall structure of the language discourages you from making the kinds of mistakes that you'd otherwise be forced to catch in Valgrind. Again, it's mostly a matter of personal preference, but that's the way I roll when productivity is the table stake.
There is nothing to explain, it is public knowledge. The transaction you mention happened after the public announcement of bitcoin on a mailing list which Hal Finney was active on, and after Satoshi reached out directly to Hal (and others).
Is it hypocritical to work with the US military, and not the Chinese military?
I totally think this is it. I had all sorts of Life in Hell merch in college in the 80s. My SO still wears the Bongo (rabbit with one ear) tee I got her 35 years ago.
https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction people have never been happier
>Historians generally agree that Martina Navratilova was rightfully and lawfully detained for insulting the Republican party.<

What incident? What insult? What historians?
Right, so, documentation... ?
> if you decided to upgrade later, they just sent a guy to flip a secret switch

So what prevented you from finding and flipping the secret switch yourself? Or is it that merely being a business you couldn't afford to take this risk and lose IBM support?
It is no more hypocritical than US government supporting US military, and opposing Chinese military. Thiel is just on team USA, that’s all.
Yes, that's why doing so many projects helps Istanbul do them cheaper. But my point to GP is that doing so many projects would fund the politically-powerful infrastructure contractors even more effectively. Yet we aren't doing it, which seems to imply that maybe GP's explanation doesn't actually explain our situation.
Exactly, straight lines on a texture should obey perspective (think rows of bricks on a wall). I think this wasn't as widely understood back then, but notably, id software already got it right a few years earlier in the original Wolfenstein.

Great link. The artifacts are especially apparent when the walls are near the camera, for example at this timestamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VutzIK3DqZE&t=398s And note that here, the seemingly flat walls are already heavily subdivided into smaller polygons to lessen the impact of the problem. (Why they wouldn't then make use of those additional polygons to include more geometry details for free is beyond me, however.)
The author isn't suggesting to replace VMS with Google Maps.

The author is suggesting to implement what VMS is meant to do with an application with the same level of usability, reliability and performance as what was put into Google Maps, and Apple Maps, or frankly any reasonably-popular mobile app that doesn't involve gaming.

Do not confuse VMS with a turn-by-turn navigation system, that isn't what it does, or what an actually-usable replacement would have to do. VMS is meant to help plan a voyage and ensure you're safely executing to that plan in transit, and it doesn't do a good job of that for all the reasons the author provided.
> That's what (I think) Winston Churchill said about democracy (might be true there).

As E.M. Forster put it (from memory, so I'm sure less well-worded than the original):

"So, two cheers for democracy—there's no occasion for three, two is quite enough."

> But here, I think you can just "we have the worst system". Period.

Yeah, our system's about as bad as it could possibly be and have held together this long, true. And our country's too disunited to ever fix that without breaking apart to do it.
> All your components are made there, by everyone, and the best-in-class assembly folks are all there. Supply chain and logistics are all there.

The first part of this statement is inaccurate and the second part is accurate. No, all of the components in your iPhone are not made in China. Yes, they have the logistics and capability to assemble efficiently. No, they do not make everything in an iPhone or Mac—not even close. Examples of major components often not made in China:

- Microprocessor (Taiwan)

- Memory (South Korea)

- Screen glass (USA)

- Audio, Wifi Chips (USA)

- Gyroscope (Switzerland)

- Accelerometer (Germany)

- Display (Japan)

- Camera (Japan)

The batteries tend to be made in China, but many of the raw materials that go into the batteries are not. Also, Apple has successfully had iPhones assembled in India, so there's no reason to believe if they chose to, they couldn't (at very significant cost and ramping up and effort) move assembly. iPhone prices might go up then though.

See more here:
https://www.lifewire.com/where-is-the-iphone-made-1999503

Or checkout the book The One Device
https://amzn.to/3pDolNW
So you just Have to Lie with Maps?
It's been literally years since someone saying Alexa on a TV show or elsewhere have triggered my devices. Occasionally I've seen them switch to "listen", but they've gotten good at not reacting.

I'm assuming part of it is that it's gotten very good at recognising who is speaking. E.g. my son and I tested the limits of it a while back by changing voices (it still correctly identified my son when he tried to change his voice), mixing and matching (I'd say "Alexa" and he would say "who am I?" and vice versa; Alexa would recognise whomever said "Alexa" irrespective of who spoke what followed). So it'll usually know if whomever is saying "Alexa" is a known member of the household, which would seem like a good indicator to increase the threshold for how clearly the phrase is spoken before activating.
Will JWST send back pictures comparable (presumably better?) to the ones Hubble takes?

Those famous Hubble pictures are the defining images of a generation of scientists and dreamers. Are we about to get an update of those?

Or is this mission about the data?
Many linux developers are employed. They're getting paid for doing open-source
my partner is an academic
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Broad brush social issues like "trans rights" or "traditional christian values" have approximately zero effect on how politicians from each party deal with city and state level economic issues like transit.
Excel has a scripting/macro language that allows custom functions, including fairly easy access to regular expressions.

I got a job a couple years ago that didn't officially involve programming, and the first thing I did was a quick & dirty implementation of most of Oracle's regex function interface.

This sort of thing can be reused with most Microsoft Office applications, too.
Why shouldn't it be acceptable?

You bought a 60 kWh car. If it performs as advertised, you not entitled for more, no matter what hardware is inside.
And if you find a way to exploit the full capacity of the battery, you can, it's yours, but don't count on Tesla to support it.

I have no problem with market segmentation. It allows more people to have access to a product while protecting the margins of the manufacturer. Because, without margins, there is no product.

And in fact, I am happy when I am traveling and the student next to me paid half of what I paid, I could afford the higher price ticket in exchange for more convenience, so no problem for me, but if the student had to pay the same price as I did, he wouldn't have been able to travel at all. I was like him years ago, and our children will probably be too.
the US media is controlled by people eligible for Israeli citizenship. With it, the minds of all Americans.
I'm on F35, RX 6800 XT @ 4k and Wayland hasn't caused any issue yet. Gaming works great as well. I love how smooth it feels.
Pythagoras’ Revenge: The World Is Made of Math