skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current model enables the same behavior and makes it harder to track. Stalled projects have ongoing costs that make the project developers real money in exchange for no real effort. The same donor simply says “hey mr politician, give my company the exclusive contract and never mind that my aunt owns a building in our way. I’ll only charge you 30% for each year we are stalled.”

We burn money on these projects either way. A good windfall to property owners gives regular families a chance at enjoying some profits… and makes donors who block progress just a little easier to track!
I think I have seen as icons CDs, hard drives, usb sticks, sd cards... which may be varying levels of obsolete depending on audience.
> That's a mix of Soviet / middle Eastern cultured countries.

I don't know. Everyone seems on board with Ukraine being considered a Western democracy.
Debt: The First 5000 Years

It’s difficult for me to put in words the influence the book had and continues to have on me.

QED by Richard Feynman is a close second. It pulled a veil off from my eyes, made me really understand what science is all about.
The linked page is crankery, but most of the physics it's vaguely gesturing at is standard undergrad material. QFT is not, but it's not too far out of reach either.
That's true, and if I'm not mistaken the increase in PM2.5 particles produced is due to the emissions requirement to reduce NOx output. Balancing two negatives in a way.
Aside from the other suggestions --- having a standard "these are the tools I always install", a personal information file (served off your local system as a web page if you wish), system documentation (man, info, aprpos, or Debian's excellent and underappreciated dwww (available of course on any APT-based Debian-derived Linux variant), you could always write your own menu system to invoke or remind you of tools.

In practice, I find that there are a handful of various "swiss army knives" I return to again and again. Some of the new tools are indeed impressive, but an be implemented or offer features available in other utilities.

For myself, "apropos foo", "apt search foo", and the DDG bang "!dpkg foo" are almost always excellent starting points. Debian packages somewhere north of 70,000 individual software packages these days, and will almost always have a tool to do a specific job if not the tool you're looking for.

And yeah, the kids these days are using flatpacks and pip and nodejs and rpm (not to be confused with RPM), etc., though back in the day we had CPAN to deal with. (It still exists, of course, it's just less significant.)
Adblue is about NOx, you want a separate particulate filter.
Diesel electric locomotives have a much worse idling problem than diesel ICE vehicles, you can’t just shut the turbine down without consequences, especially in winter, so they just idle for hours. See for example https://www.saferail.ca/blog/2019/7/3/idling-of-diesel-engin...
> It is a colossal failure of imagination to think that without God people must believe nothing matters.

I haven't ever talked to an unbeliever who believes nothing matters, though I've heard of nihilist philosophers. I suspect non-philosophers who believe in nihilism usually have something from which they're trying to escape; they're not being honest with themselves. Of course each moment matters - it's a time of lived experience for billions of people.

On the other hand, as a Christian, I'm accustomed to thinking a lot about eternal destiny and how things will end up in an ultimate sense. For me, the idea of no God existing opens up a yawning chasm of eternal emptiness I find frightening to imagine -- it would mean when I die, there's nothing more for me; and when we all die and no humans are left, that'll be it for all of us. At that point, will anything that transpired previously matter at all?

I suppose for those who consciously or subconsciously know they're guilty of sin, the idea of annihilation is far preferable to facing judgment for their sins in the past, so I can see how atheism would be an attractive option, ultimate meaninglessness notwithstanding. But Christianity is primarily about what to do with that guilt -- that God's son Jesus paid the price for your sin and mine, and he offers forgiveness to those who will trust him and call on his name. (And I'm sure you've heard that before.)

So while I agree stuff matters right now even without belief in a God, for me the meaning of the past and present pale compared to what matters (if anything) in the eternity of time that lies ahead.
A simpler solution: charge an indefinitely scheduled Bitcoin tax for any gas flared.

As in, you agree that in exchange for flaring some amount of gas today we can come collect anytime in the future some amount of a wildly speculative and volatile asset from you, even if it involves more liability than your entire organization can sustain.

Oh wait, we already have this, it's called climate change, we just pay it as an entire planet.

This way lies madness.
Reminder that geohot wasn't the first person to jailbreak an iPhone; that's an oft repeated myth. He was the first person to publicly carrier unlock an iPhone, which he did using information and methods he mostly learned from others.
The USPS may not technically get congressionally allocated tax dollars each year, but they do have

1. A federally protected monopoly on the delivery of all mail smaller than a manila envelope or parcel. This is why FedEx can't mail a letter for you.

2. A federally protected monopoly on the use of mailboxes. This is why Amazon must park their truck, get out, and walk up to your front door to leave a tiny box.

3. An exemption from property taxes on all post office locations. Competitors must pay tax on their offices, distribution centers, and retail locations.

4. Interest free zero covenant loans from the federal government that only must be repaid in theory.
I learned about his work through reading The Not So Big House. I've also asked Architects and Builders I've met if they are familiar with his work or the related Not So Big House movement, I haven't met a single one that have heard of either. It seems so strange to me. It would be like meeting a programmer who has never heard of functional programming. Even if you choose to use OOP instead of functional programming, surely you've at least heard of functional programming. How can you be an architect and be ignorant of Christopher Alexander??
I got same this feeling when reading the original white paper linked on the page[1]. It's filled with the kind of bloated abstract "consultant speak" chosen to mask relatively straightforward ideas. And then there is this casual claim at the end of the paper that IMO discredits everything preceding it[2]: "Luckily, building common infrastructure as a platform is a well understood and solved problem;"

[1]: https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-monolith-to-mesh.html

[2]: https://martinfowler.com/articles/data-monolith-to-mesh.html...
Don't have a formal onboarding. The last company I joined they handed me my keycard, laptop, phone and merch, and then took me directly to my team. I was given a manual to work through to set everything up, there were some hitches but I had people nearby who could help. There was none of the feel good crap Rachel talks about, we were treated as adults.
Those are just anecdotes. You can google up ten articles verifying US transit construction costs are higher per mile - and the US is much more spread out too.

Random article.

https://www.constructiondive.com/news/us-rail-projects-take-...
Interesting discussion of AI and the decline of civilization. His allergies to power are a bit naive though not completely unfounded, at least Stallman comes to mind as an example of someone who was able to change the course of history without much personal power, instead he crafted ideas that had power. Some ideas are powerful enough to compel enough people to act in line with them. Ultimately accomplishing anything at a large scale requires large scale cooperation. Whether the reason is money, submission to authority, or ideological conviction.
Maybe a car isn't a house? I mean I understand that it's not practical all the time but your polluting the air by sitting inside your car instead of being in a building with an electric and optimized HVAC.
China expanded high speed rail that can't be used for freight. It makes perfect sense to connect megalopolises with such a network. But when you start building out to Podunk provincial towns when the passengers can't afford the high prices, they'll continue to take the bus. Meanwhile your shining example for modernity and progress turns into a debt bomb.
On the bus or train. There's no reason that anyone should need to use a personal car for commuting inside urban areas.
this is so incredibly annoying to explain each marketing/management person … yet, on each release somebody raises the same question head_explosion
In addition to the rising need for housing vs the number of new ones is leaving homes vacant. E.g., allegedly about 10% of San Francisco's housing stock is vacant. As with stocks, investors don't buy them anymore because of dividends, but only to hope they rise in value.

https://hostagenews.com/report-10-of-san-franciscos-housing-...
That is my understanding also. There is a tradeoff between very complete combustion in a lean mixture under high pressure that produces few particulates but lots of NOx and running a rich mixture at lower temperature that produces less NOx and more particulates. Fortunately modern engines have filters both for NOx and particulates, so that neither is really a problem. At least once the car has warmed up, which in cold climates and city driving can be roughly never...
Yes, +1 on this or if possible start with main roads & as you move along get more obscure ones interleaved in so the game gets harder as you play
I had the exact same thought about C# in VSC being intentionally bad this week. There’s so many conflicts of interest within Microsoft’s tech ecosystem.
> The council wrote back and said the driver was trading illegally, and had been warned before.

This is the reason ice cream trucks in my area only take cash. I haven’t seen a legitimately licensed ice cream truck in many years.
Consumption taxes hit poor people harder than rich people. Inheritance might work, and carbon emissions might also work if you have a tax-and-rebate system so that poor people can still afford stuff.
I would consider the C/C++ extension to be “part of” VSC as it’s a core extension owned by Microsoft. But still good it wasn’t just the editor magically nuking files!
This is a really good point. You always need to look at incentives. It's OK for both society and politicians to benefit, but you should always dig a little deeper.

Someone else in this thread pointed out "the city does not make getting the payout easy and it requires many hours of follow up to maybe get paid." So now we should be at least a bit cynical, and start asking questions about why it's so difficult to get paid. Maybe legitimate reasons like verification that they aren't just making it up I guess? If a fine is issued though then can't we simply assume the person reporting was being honest? Who benefits from a difficult collection process?

A difficult payout process disincentivizes reporting, but only after you discover the hassle of it. So this could be a quick cash grab w/ dismal long term benefits once the word spreads. They should definitely fix that (assuming they want to).
> We can't just fix the billion lines of C code out there by replacing it - we need strategies that wholesale destroy bug classes.

Won't any C code making use of int-to-pointer casts fail to work on CHERI? And isn't that a property of virtually every C codebase in existence? It sounds like that code will need to be rewritten either way.

> CHERI totally wrecks spatial memory unsafety. That's fucking huge. The death of buffer overflows.

You'll have to elaborate on what PAC is, but leaving use-after-free/temporal memory unsafety on the table is a pretty conspicuous hole. If the answer for that involves runtime overhead, then it will be tough to sell moving to a new architecture as opposed to just using runtime mitigations on existing architectures (or, at the limit, rewriting the important bits in Rust).
> Many are also designed to turn on and off constantly at stop lights, so they're designed to properly handle temperature and lubrication during the start/stop cycles.

Many late 00's engines were also designed to turn off cylinders to improve engine efficiency, but that turned out not to be implemented very well and engines died from carbon fouling. Big problem with Honda in particular iirc, and people would routinely bypass it to save their engines.

Automakers have to comply with CAFE standards and other mandates, but at the end of the day there's no mandate that an engine made with gen-1 technologies will make it to 300k miles either. Automakers don't really care if your engine dies in 10 years or not, they've put out lemons before and they will do it again.

Early CVTs failed at extremely high rates/short lifetimes, for example, and early OAT coolants like Dexcool were notorious for eating up every seal inside an engine. Early high-compression diesels had about a decade of their fuel injectors being eaten away by the abrasive sulfur before the ultra-low-sulfur highway diesel changeover. These technologies are of course completely normalized and trustworthy today, but that's not much consolation if you're the one paying the repair bills on a gen-1 lemon.

For some reason "don't upgrade to a v0.0 release of a new major version of iOS" is common knowledge here but nobody wants to apply that same logic to cars. The general public gets it though.

Now that cars have got 10 years of stop-n-start under their belt it's probably more reliable but still, it's a challenging design criteria for an engine.

Not saying diesel fumes aren't a problem either, mind... we probably need to go electric in the long run. But at the same time, on the level of personal self-interest... it's probably better for your engine to not start and stop constantly. It's just bad when everyone is idling because they don't want to start and stop. Tragedy of the commons.
My whole point is that the way in which AI progress can intersect itself can lead to compounding effects in ways technology has not.

One way to improve upon GPT-3 is almost certainly going to be adding discriminators into the mix:

"GeDi: A Powerful New Method for Controlling Language Models"

https://blog.salesforceairesearch.com/gedi/

And it may be that rather than it being a CNN discriminator such as in that case, it will be a second transformer:

"[2102.07074] TransGAN: Two Pure Transformers Can Make One Strong GAN, and That Can Scale Up"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07074

My point is we may not need to reinvent some new model separate from transformers/GANs and the work so far as long as novel ways of intersecting trained models produces results that can in turn feed intersect with other models.

NVIDIA in particular has had some interesting focus on using AI to generate training data for AI.

"NVIDIA Omniverse Replicator Generates Synthetic Training Data for Robots | NVIDIA Technical Blog"

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/generating-synthetic-datas...

I think it's very unlikely we need to wait 25 years for a new paradigm.

In fact, I'm willing to wager a bet that whatever new paradigm will arrive will itself be the output of AI simulating different models.
Because you found a few buzzwords?

It's curious dreamers are often mocked by others. Even more so in this case as many cars already drive around with his garage-built autonomous software. Openpilot is a really cool project, why the hate?
Thanks for sharing your approach. Good luck in your efforts.
Sounds wonderful to me. Just cut right to the chase. The best way to get familiar is to ask around when you hit a snag.
Click on an application on https://flathub.org/home and ctrl + f
> Everyone who has to go through it isn’t going to fix it,

Why not?

> because they’re new and have their actual job to get to.

No, they don't. Their job right now is to get up to speed. Part of my job is to get them up to speed. If anything, a minor diversion to spruce up the onboarding docs a little bit is one of the more concrete contributions either of us can make. And importantly, they don't have tribal knowledge crudding up the works, and if they manage to say something that is completely wrong, then that means they didn't understand something important and there is no better time to fix that than right now.

If you let an awful experience stand as it is, you aren't a neutral party, you're complicit.

Nobody is going to make the onboarding process awesome instead of getting down to coding, but it should be better every time you run through it. If not before (due to entropy), at least after.
Just finished taking a shower, I came up with a book that made significant impact on my life. When I was in high school, I saw my close friend carrying a robotic book around since he was into robotic competition, it woke me up from just singing some rap songs. I was like .. I had to get into something cool in sci-math field, then that day I was in computer class that taught Microsoft Office stuff and save work in floppy disk. At that time I just know programming exists but had no idea how it actually works. I reached out teacher and asked "please teach me programming", he said like .. nah getting good at Office stuff I taught you first. That's fair but I wanted to be as cool as my (robotic) friend. I went to a book shop, picked up a "Programming C" book and also bought "Turbo C++" CD. That is the moment I know what major I was going to get into at university.

So the book that actually probably changed life quite significantly is my friend's robotic book that I didn't read.
Pretty much.

It's a bizarre test that you have to study for.

It doesn't really resemble actual programming work in any non-superficial way.

As the author notes, being timed, observed, and periodically interrupted can add major cognitive load.

I'd probably prefer a written math test, since usually nobody is looking over your shoulder and interrupting you, and since it would be obvious that it's merely a hoop to jump through that is largely unrelated to actual work tasks.

Also you're 22 you may be more used to taking tests than someone who is 32 or 42.
strategy is all the stuff that comes between the objective and and its actualization
On point 1: "That's not gonna happen in a large company."

This doesn't happen in small or mid companies, either. Or if it does happen, it happens begrudgingly. SWE's have too much to do.
Hans Zimmer being involved is exactly why I was not looking forward to the soundtrack. He has really started to phone in these overly loud, overly dramatic, and overly gaudy soundtracks. It just drives me insane. He has no creativity and very obviously has teams of people just doing very stereotypical stuff that the masses seem to like. I love Villeneuve, but I can’t fathom why he likes working with Zimmer unless it’s a studio choice he has to go with.
Curious to know what was created here. Are Flatpaks copyrightable?
You could start a Twitter account like this one: https://mobile.twitter.com/placardabuse
Unfortunately, the problem is the same with many compiled application out there, not just ML.

My rule of thumb in using models from these public model zoo is to always use a separate container instance (or Colab) to check the source code.
Then either convert such model to some standardized format like ONNX, which might not be possible for some state-of-the-art models with custom ops afaik.

Or you could just load the torch model first, then load the model state dict separately. Avoid using command like torch.load() since it uses pickle module implicitly, since it is possible to construct malicious pickle data which will execute arbitrary code during unpickling.
> It won't last, because it depends on maintenance of a paper thin veil on reality which again the body bags tears a hole in.

According to some sources (possibly biased), Putin seems to have fixed this potential problem by leaving all the Russian bodies in Ukraine.
But that wasn't the grandparent thread question where someone asked for sources on exhaust gasses being as dangerous as asbestos/lead?

We all know that car accidents are one of the top killers in the world, yet we don't ban cars outright. But that's because absolute numbers are big simply because billions of people drive cars: on a per-trip basis, they are actually not that bad.
It isn't so much that I disagree as I think the frame is a bit skewed. When America is operating at its peak everyone has similar complaints (switching "end justifies the means" with "you can do whatever you like if you have money" because historically the US operates using money as a medium).

Whenever anything happens people complain that some interests aren't represented or that resources aren't being used in the way they'd like. The point of the article is more that the US has systemically made it illegal to deploy resources quickly and effectively.
Interestingly enough, there is no mention in the article or no appearances in the movie, as far as I know, of the sounds dunes naturally make. Under certain conditions, dunes will actually sing or, more accurately, drone.

https://youtu.be/4mbypyJjqhk

https://youtu.be/WWrb1iyCLlI

I have not read Dune, so I don’t know if Frank Herbert was aware of it or if it wasn’t discovered at that point, but if he didn’t know about it, I’m pretty sure he would have liked that a lot.
The "only thing" worth reading from the The Bible are the "Wisdom Books". Robert Alter's translation The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: A Translation with Commentary is pretty good.
Certainly not all desires are learned from models, some are a combination of biological mechanisms combined with exposure. Food is an obvious example from the far end.
Git CLI user here. I started out using Sourcetree about 10 years ago and have slowly moved everything into the terminal after also using many other GUIs. `git add -p` was the last thing to move to terminal because it can be hard to stage individual lines in hunks that can’t be automatically split.

But after I picked up emacs again and started using magit even that became a breeze.

Also, for reviewing changes, I use the no context option `git diff -U0`and more recently use git-delta for better color highlighting and the side-by-side diff view.

I also think in addition to just having learned and practiced over a decade, the way I’ve used Git has evolved too. I keep PRs small and cohesive, always squash all their commits, and because of that I don’t have to care so much about untangling cohesive changes at commit time, although I also don’t let them pile up. I usually do a lot of `git commit --amend` and `git commit --fixup` (more and more rarely actually followed by a `git rebase --autosquash` since the PR takes care of the squash now… I don’t even have to worry about order-based conflicts anymore).
Is that perhaps the syntax highlighting telling you that you haven't typed a valid command yet? I haven't used fish (I use zsh), but that's my guess. So, I guess try disabling syntax highlighting or changing colors related to it.