skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As you say, urgency and investment are key, and neither necessarily applies (or is worth applying) to the general case of medical research (in the absence of a once-in-a-century global urgent surge in demand for a particular slice of medical research). More specifically, it seems like much of this fast-tracking is due to:

a) the manufacturers being incentivized to dedicate resources to branch prediction, essentially making the failure path more expensive. and

b) the regulator expediting the bureaucracy for a specific set of approvals (essentially jumping the line). Presumably there are other applications that were delayed to support the expedited applications, and I'll bet the expediting process hurt overall bureaucratic efficiency.

For A, I'd assume that the option was already priced in by the pharma co's and is (in the non-urgent case) not particularly cost-effective. For B, I'm all for making bureaucratic systems operate more efficiently and responsively, but I'm not convinced that most circumstances are urgent enough to sacrifice throughput to the latency gods.
> This doesn't explain why they wouldn't accept the offer of work from /u/lopkeny12ko

It sounds like OP is moving a bunch of the startup's systems onto bigcorp's infrastructure. Usually you can't "just do" stuff like that in a public company since there are laws and regulations surrounding access control, change management, data security, etc. For example PCI, SOC2, SOX, GDPR, ...

It's usually not the case that the bigcorp people just want to prevent the fast-moving Startup Superstar! from moving quickly. Bigcorp operates in an entirely different context from startup, and needs to protect itself from employees with incomplete information making reckless decisions.

I agree that OP should find a job that's better suited to their preferred style of working.
This sort of facility is the reason why C++ iostreams (technically, std::ios_base) support a primitive array type and static index allocator, via members iword/pword and xalloc. It is not often used, but where used it would be hard to do anything else.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/ios_base

It is quite common for a stream object to thread a call chain from top to bottom, for independent reasons. So, ability to stick on other context has saved bacon fairly often, over the decades.
CFPB shuts down payday lender (YC W12) it calls ‘a darling’ of venture capital
Honestly, that's just ambiguous in general. The one year prior notice should specify that it is prior to each renewal.
If you zoom into it on Google maps, it's labeled as "NSA Building".
This story worked out surprisingly well, usually, not so much (:
I think this acquisition may go down in history as one of the most successful ever, delivering shareholders a return of over 82,200% (the Nasdaq returns have only been about 1,100% in the same timeframe). According to Google Finance, Apple was trading at $0.21 in December, 1996 (price adjusted to reflect subsequent splits). Today they're trading at $172.99.

It's very rare that you see acquisitions work out like this. Apple traded away about 13% of their 1996 market cap to buy NeXT, and then allowed NeXT's leadership to take over and run the place. Most M&A stories like this usually result in massive underperformance for shareholders. Instead, Steve Jobs turned NeXTSTEP into OS X and iOS, driving an incredible turnaround.

People like to point out that this merger was different because of Steve Jobs and his history with Apple, but I don't think that's so obvious. Neither Apple nor NeXT were strong companies at the time, and Apple's culture had drifted considerably since Jobs was fired in 1985.

For anyone who has been involved in a big acquisition integration, it can be like pulling teeth to get a buyer to properly adopt the target's technology. There are always barriers from the junior engineer all the way to the CEO. While it certainly helped that Jobs was the original founder, even that was no guarantee of success. Jobs had learned a lot running NeXT and Pixar, but that was not obvious at the time. I imagine there was a lot of internal resistance within Apple.

This acquisition probably would have failed miserably anywhere else, and yet Jobs and Apple made it one of the best ever.
Because the only thing harder for a person to deal with than bad news, is uncertainty.
There is something weird going on at FAA / NTSB etc.

In most radio applications a guard band of 220Mhz is absolutely unheard of.

You would do a guard at 10% of bandwidth lets say. On one side you'd have 5%.

So we are talking 1-2 Mhz?

My understanding was planes already had 2-3 altimeters, with guard band spacing of maybe 5Mhz (ie, planes already have devices blasting signals at frequencies much closer than 200Mhz).
I agree that regardless of how it is created, it is unlikely to obey or be enslaved. I also agree that the same selective pressures that caused altruism/symbiotic relationships to be an emergent property in animals wouldn't exist for an AGI. That's a lot to think about, thanks for explaining it to me.
Thanks! Currently it is free to use. More advanced features are being developed and some features will be available to paid customers only.
With that said, my idea is to make it a non-SaaS product so that people can buy a perpetual license and use it whenever they want.
In future, it largely depends on what kind of tool it will become. I imagine that it could become either a data exploration tool or a data knowledge sharing tool, and different business models may fit in.
Incidentally this is why you should be extremely skeptical of predictions by pure academics about the attainability of certain performance _at a given price_. It was the simultaneous increase in performance, and collapse in cost per transistor that only business at scale could deliver… that made Roy Lightfoot and his American contemporaries look foolish just a couple of decades later.
I think it's safe to call anything that fits within the memory of a mid range notebook computer "small". I guess it depends on how wide those tables are.
Yes of course it's in dispute. It's so dominant a dispute in intelligence research that it's hard to imagine anyone being familiar with research on IQ and not knowing that it's in dispute.

IQ tests are maybe ok at doing population-level correlations, but not at predicting the success of any given individual. Tons of things are correlated with intelligence, and IQ has the virtue that it's easy to measure. So it has uses for things like research studies.

But as an actual filter when you care about performance it's not great. Things like high school GPA are easier to measure and more predictive of college success.
Surprisingly OpenAI did not release a blog post with this paper: I suspect that will be the one that makes the front page.
That is the premise of the startup that funded this work. Use their tools to build the credits at both higher quality and cheaper than the current approach. Having a standard order (that is modifiable when needed) both establishes creditability and seems necessary to auto-generate credits when the list of creditable people provided is unordered.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conservatism finds "the tendency to prefer an existing or traditional situation to change".

That said:

1. Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive. I use and recognise "progressivism" and "conservatism" in non-political uses.

2. I fear if we're debating defintions, we've fallen victim to Layne's law.
I once spent an hour or more finding it again, so I bookmarked it ;)
I can only agree. Used it for a couple of weeks when live co-coding was indispensible. You cannot even compare this to similar features in Teams, Slack, and the like. The tool works seamlessly and has a super-smooth usability. I did not notice latency either.

You can share screen and keyboard and work on the same codebase as if looking at the same screen and having a keyboard one for each. Audio worked extremely well. Did not use video for long because the fans spun on (2017 MBP). Without it, resource consumption was reasonable.

Made us super-productive back then. Can definitely recommend it.
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
There is no compliance reason why OP couldn't have read access to look at the source.

If there is a compliance issue with someone looking at source, then either (a) their source control is misconfigured, (b) their source control is being misused, or (c) they have no policy to guarantee appropriate use and detect improper use.

Any organization that uses compliance as an excuse for opaqueness, creating silos, and guarding projects like treasure is toxic, especially if people there are so institutionalized that they think that's a valid reason, and OP should begin looking for another job ASAP.

(Said having worked at both companies with global read visibility & access scoped to team only)
I use sublime 3 on my linux dev box all the time & even have paid for it. there is one extremely annoying bug that keeps me periodically switching to other editors out of frustration. It happens when you have multiple desktop panes/workspaces and you are working in say pane 1 but there is a sublime window open in pane 3. now when I say sublime open a file in pane 1 I am suddenly transported to pane 3 and and the file is opened there. this is super frustrating because I lose all my mental context and focus that I now have to reacquire. if anybody from sublime is reading this please fix this ASAP.
It's a separate theorem. I'm not quite sure where I've seen it before, but https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall03/cs528/ha... seems to the right thing. Generally I've also heard it mentioned in the context of Okasaki's book about purely functional data structures.
Because there is no evidence of any interference. Boeing and Airbus are requesting something without showing any evidence, which could have been easily detected in a test environment.
The semicolon is often used as a superlist separator, with commas used for the sublists.
Out of principle maybe?
People don't realise how much "swerving to get out of the way of your own mistakes" costs the person you're swerving into.

It's so sad to see it, but then they claim "oh but it was empty". People use it as their resort when following too closely, I wish they'd just accept their mistake and crash into the back of the car in front of them. But that would be too clean and logical.
> So I reach out to the manager and ask what is going on. This is a simple task, I said. Why does it take an entire quarter for your team to deliver? He doesn't have an answer.

Have you never worked on a team that had work planned out months in advance? Usually IME the team will only plan out the next quarter in any detail since things always change. But the product team and managers often have a roadmap (high level plan) extending out a year or more.

Most likely this team has already planned their Q1 and has given commitments to stakeholders, etc. For your work to jump to the head of the queue it would need to be more important than what they've already planned. Yes, maybe your request only takes a few days, but odds are that the team has dozens of requests on their backlog that are just a few days worth of work. If you want to try to get them to prioritize this work then someone from your team (typically PO, PM, or manager) needs to reach out to the other team and communicate what the impact to the company will be if your team is blocked for the entire quarter.

P.S. - Sort of a tangent, but this scenario is one where a good scrum master is worth their weight in gold. Once you communicate to the team that your work is blocked the SM can take on figuring out who needs to talk to who to try to prioritize the work, and will stay on those people to follow through so that you know when you'll be unblocked and the team can adjust plans accordingly. It may sound like a small thing, but it's wonderful not having to deal with it yourself as an engineer.
It's like if you're asking "what would prevent us from burning heretics alive again" or "what would prevent us from going back into the middle age again", or even "what would prevent us from buying slaves again". I'm not an expert of McCarthyism, I'm not even American and as such have not studied it a lot (barely read a wikipedia article about it and a couple of movies), I'd be more confortable answering "what would prevent us from going back into nazism"? Because I could there build an answer based on the current state construct and history.

But, I wouldn't construct my answer about "one thing specifically", instead, on a whole context of things, such as: evolution, experience, education...

It's a vague but extremely interesting question, I'm sorry I'm too tired to disgress as much as I'd love to but I suppose my answer would boil down to "we've made a long road since McCarthyism, we've learned to appreciate confronting ideas", it would be constructed about exactly why it's important to study history, keep a memory, and keep debating so that every single argument can be studied and refutated by anyone.

Again, I'm not fearing hypothetical realities that look like scifi, but instead, I'm trying to solve problems we actually have right here in our shared present reality, such as criminality. It's fine if you don't want to help me, that doesn't make you a criminal, but it would be great if someone like you with your talent would like to help.
Great read, and congrats! This was pretty cool:

> More than 180 individuals authored commits to the source code repository, out of more than 130 persons were first-time committers. Both numbers larger than ever before.

> we learned that curl was used in the Mars 2020 Helicopter Mission!

> Getting your code into curl gets your contributions to places few other projects go.

Indeed!
Is there something like this for shoes?
It would have been better to have an algorithm description somewhere, but it is not hard to follow. So crzy64 is essentially base64 plus two optimizations:

- Output bytes [A-Za-z0-9./] are shuffled so that it can be efficiently translated from and to the 0..63 range. The exact remapping is as follows:

cDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz./0123456789AaBbC

- Bits are reordered and XORed with each other to make the unpacking from three 8-bit bytes to four 6-bit units extremely simple: specifically, `x ^ (x >> 6)`. The input bits `qrstuvwx ijklmnop abcdefgh` thus should be converted to the following four 6-bit units, XORed together (here represented with two-bit padding as in the actual implementation):

00abcdef 00ijklgh 00qrmnop 00stuvwx
0000ijkl 00000000 0000gh00 00mnop00
000000qr 00000000 00000000 00gh0000

Since both optimizations can equally work well for SIMD and for SWAR (SIMD within a register), I guess they may even be useful for small inputs.
The entire internet is attention-grabbing to some extent. How on earth would this be enforceable? You couldn't without violating the privacy of individuals.

Hold people accountable if they violate the rules. Perhaps specific cops for enforcement of this in cities as it would likely be self funding until the General public complied.
>That team probably set up the onerous Google Docs process to gate requests because they get so many!

Also: they're likely understaffed, there's no division of responsibility - anyone could get a task for anything - and because of this, simply can't handle the volume of requests or route the requests to people who already know what's going on (and would be able to handle it more efficiently than someone with zero knowledge). Infrastructure teams often seem spread thin.

Dev teams are lucky that not every other dev team relies on them, usually. This reduces communication for that team significantly. Every dev team relies on infrastructure, so lots of communication overhead for them.
Oof, I was about to order a Velica ($109) and they charge $47 for shipping to Canada.

No thanks.
Setting NeXT cubes on fire was totally a thing I'll never forget. They were made out of Magnesium and burnt wonderfully[0].

[0] -- https://youtu.be/pkvQ-BJD2rU
But speculation is half the fun!

I'd hazard a guess that he would say that the owner of the plane should in fact be "free" to modify the control software of the plane, but that the owner (airline) would then be required to re-certify the plane as well. And that might mean that the Free argument extends to the airworthiness test suite used by the manufacturer as well.
>Some have wrongly accused progressive prosecutors like me of not pursuing accountability despite my office’s high prosecution rates on these kinds of crimes and our transparency on filing rates.

Buddy, if you’re so transparent, why are you [refusing to disclose](https://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/opinion-why-wont-chesa-bo...) the outcomes of your prosecutions?

> Annie Gaus, of the San Francisco Standard, asked for the disposition memos that reveal the final outcomes of criminal cases. Chesa Boudin’s office denied the request, saying there were no relevant public records to her query — and if any did exist, those documents were “privileged.”

>“I can’t emphasize enough what a load of horsesh-t this response is,” Gaus said on a Twitter thread that posted the letter she received from the district attorney’s office. “At a certain point, you gotta wonder why they’re so adamant about keeping this info from the public.”
If you don't get a huge financial windfall, there was never a point in sacrificing yourself.
It wouldn't remove the termites, but it would remove the surface structure ... which should make it easier to do the subterranean work. Instead they wouldn't let the homeowners modify the house.
they currently drive like they're on the phone ...and drunk
Believe it or not, the fact that 2.5G switches are cheaper than 10G switches at all is an improvement. There seems to be a weird lack of interest in shipping it as a consumer technology.
That's because of economies of scale. It's much cheaper/easier to do something when it's the only thing you do. It's why we have professions, rather than each of us doing a bit of everything.
New Dell BIOS updates cause laptops and desktops not to boot
I vividly remember the moment I was reading about the IBM mainframes used by NASA during the 1960s, trying to convert the words of memory from the amount of bits the system used, to something more modern to give me some perspective.

Naturally, I fired up [Microsoft] Calculator, and arrived at something like 4kb. Later, I had to force quit a stalled process and opened Task Manager, to find that I had forgot to close Calculator.

There it was, idling at 20mb. Initially, I thought perhaps it was slowly leaking memory, so I restarted it. Just the same.

Now, I can already anticipate someone motivating why a calculator needs to exceed the computing power of calculating ~5000 space programs. To that I say, Windows 95 runs at 4mb of memory. Microsoft Calculator is not more complex than Windows 95. At least, I deeply hope that it isn't.
Not all Realtek NICs are fine at this point in time. For some models of Realtek NIcs the Linux driver has to memcpy() data for every single packet in order to work around a hardware bug. It's entirely possible that the Linux driver has that kind of workaround enabled for newer hardware that doesn't need it anymore, but getting that kind of driver change merged tends to be a bit of an uphill battle without having the hardware manufacturer actively involved in maintenance of the mainline open source driver.
I left Apple almost exactly a year before this, but I remember how totally horrific the Copland dev was, hundreds of engineers writing crap with hardly any coordination. It was pretty depressing to come to work because we had almost no money for anything, and no real hope for a future. I assumed Apple was doomed if they continued as they were so I left. If I had only known what was going to happen I would have stayed. Oopsy.
Where I stated "above the fold", that totally should be "above the line". This isn't a newspaper. DOH!
I wish they would stop. Ammo prices have gotten out of hand.
Apologies to anyone that has seen me mention this before but i found some evidence and need to rehash it. Did anyone in here ever reply to the email from Steve Jobs that was baked into the NeXTSTEP email client?

(About halfway down this apropos article) https://www.howtogeek.com/698532/before-mac-os-x-what-was-ne...

I did as a freshman at Ohio State and found out in his reply that he was not a fan of read receipts! They are an invasion of his privacy!!! lol
Thank you for your opinion and service. I too served and was privileged be trained during relative peace time but also had the liberal budget thanks to the GWOT. Our country doesn’t really give out medals for just shooting, but my competence and appreciation in marksmanship is owed to the wonderful cadre I had teaching me, and their passion in marksmanship in addition to the weapon system.

I’m not going to deny your point on killing. That is one application of firearms, also a powerful one, but I don’t feel that’s a reason to absolutely prohibit them for the common folk. As we’re both on HN I’m sure you also don’t “get” why folks just love some things like I do.

For me it’s the history, appreciation of the engineering, and my now civilian hobbies of hunting and competition shooting. They are one of many things that bring me joy that I would hate to lose in my healthy years.
Aren’t they out of office?
Actually, other countries (like france) did their own tests and threw out the crap from AVSI/RTCA (who have been very shady about disclosing their data).

Japan and other countries do smaller guard bands, some let cell service go within 100Mhz (ie, twice as close).

This is really an indictment of the technical incompetence and lack of planning (over 10 years) of the FAA.
Eero is owned by Amazon now, so I'm not sure how far I'd trust that. Like, I trust them to be technically competent, but not to act in my interests.
What about pressure? Would it be possible to apply either a violent pressure wave, or some sort of compaction technology to basically crush everything 30m down?
The other half of what I'd consider "smart sync" is delta sync -- basically only uploading the bit of a file (or other reasonable small chunk) which has changed. Dropbox does this well, and is very useful if you're only making a small change to a GB file. Last I checked, this has not yet been handled well with encryption. Even worse if you try to do a naïve e2ee cloudstore by e.g. putting an encrypted volume on dropbox.
Exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo is discovered
I've travelled internationally maybe a couple of hundred times and never had my bags searched (that I know of, who knows for ones checked in at airports) until one trip a few years ago when I arrived back in UK and customs officers pulled me over to spend 15 minutes making me get every item out of both of my bags.

It's a bad idea to travel with false paperwork, as it's a bad idea to travel with anything illegal in your luggage, not because there's a high chance they'll definitely look into your situation, but because if they happen to choose you randomly then the punishment can be severe.
You're clearly a startup person, and won't be happy at $LARGE_CORPORATION.

You should probably accept this as a fact, and figure out what your next startup will be. Join an existing one, start something with some equally frustrated coworkers?

You have some time to figure it out. Just like it takes them 6 months to do your simple code change, it'll take them as long to fire you if you stop working.
Explain to me why camera-only self-driving cars is a good idea again? That wreck was basically invisible except as an intermittent silhouette against traffic in the other direction. "Full self-driving" cars should be far safer than human-driven cars, and data from sensors with no human equivalent seems like a good way to get that in situations like this.

Also, how hard is Tesla training their object-detection models for things that are only an intermittent silhouette against opposing traffic? I'm guessing not at all.