skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting.... I've never seen this. Not a mic expert; but I know a lot of microphone design has to do its chambers as it affects resonance and response at different distances to the source. The one comparison video I've found on youtube isn't exact convincing but it's pretty close
I don't think the copyright issue has been decided yet. The AI can't own it, but that doesn't mean anyone owns it, or that its copyrightable.
They sometimes go deep, but that is more at the discretion of the interviewee than Lex. Lex is usually asking questions about topics he has only tangencial knowledge in but is the expertise of the interviewee.

The Chris Lattner episodes are great, and James Gosling had some fun stories in there, and Kernighan had a good interview as well.
I am surprised you have not raised a major issue others have highlighted, that the dish is a MASSIVE energy hog in RV terms, where electricity is a premium when you are not hooked up to services where internet is usually also available, even if it is spotty.
> do you think an addict is just going to shrug and toss it in the trash?

I assume they'd have a word with their dealer? Or at least adjust the dose?
I am agreeing with you, but I can see how my comment is unclear.
I stand corrected (but FWIW I don't think there's a strong reason for worry unless one is a specialist in this field and has concrete grounds for concern).
I have 400aH worth of lithium batteries and 600 watts of solar (not laid out in an ideal configuration down the sides of the roof on my airstream).

I have found I use 60-90watts AC to power my starlink.

I can easily go all day even with 2-3 laptops and external monitors (150 watts or so). The solar keeps up and even does a little charging during the day.

Every other day when it’s cloudy or rainy I will need to top up with the small generator but that is easy to do with lithium batteries since they charge at the full 120amps unlike lead acid that taper the current significantly.
So says a 0-day account.

Is there anything wrong with the article besides you not liking it?

(Haven't loaded it yet)
Netflix has been “winning” with no competition. Their first major content deal was with STARZ until they took their content away.
I wish there was a Google Time machine that let me use the Google of about the 2012s. To me this was the peak of Google’s usefulnesses and search ux.
Scatter-skimming your post drew my eyes to an alarming collection of phrases:

misleading human safety dose escalation oncolytic virus in humans T-VEC inoperable engineering the virus to infect immune-mediated killing allows for targeted tumor activity cell death graphical poor prognosis anti-PD-1 pembrolizumab cancer.

Like I stumbled across a Resident Evil script. Happily the post is coherent when perused.
It will be AI generated shopping channel dynamically generating products for you to buy on subscription. This one of the solutions to the Drake equation
Same experience.

From an OLTP standpoint, the limitations to query the data are actually amazing, because it forces you to think about the right questions from the beginning.

On more flexible DBMS like Postgres, it's very very easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

I find it easier to understand and take into consideration the DynamoBD constraints (explicit) than SQL shortcomings (implicit).
ah my colorblindness makes it a little tough. I thought it was black
What about having customers submit a picture of their open mouth?

What can one do to improve oral microbiome?
Thank you, this is great.
This is interesting. It looks a lot like the experimental UI I've been using via the Material Theme plugin for about a year.

https://imgur.com/hiCRTFd.png

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/8006-material-theme-ui
What is bloat and why is it slowly killing most products
Well I agree that human versus human arms race is a big part of it, you also have to consider the advantages that intelligence brings two carrying capacity. Evolutionary biology has demonstrated huge amount of evolutionary progress when privilously untappd biomes become available. Intelligence allows humans to make inhospitable environments hospitable and this scales with intelligence. Look at the carrying capacity in inhospitable environments have been available to chimpanzees and other primates and compared to that of humans. Cooperation technology and intelligence required to do so is a huge evolutionary driver in its own right.
How does Talos compare to Core OS and other Kubernetes node host operating systems?
"... it’s mostly a luxury choice, with prices starting at more than $1,000. Even the cheapest induction cooktops are more than twice the price of the least-expensive gas models in the current market"
> Data scientists need to be trained with software engineering skills, software engineers need to be trained with data science skills

That's kind of like saying the solution to liability issues arising in the practice of medicine is for physicians to learn lawyer skills and lawyers to learn physician skills.

It's a great idea, if you ignore the costs to get people trained and the narrowing of the pool for each affected profession.

Heck, it's hard enough to get software engineers who work almost entirely on systems where a major part of the lifting is done by an RDBMS to learn database skills.
Not what you were asking for but btw with Cloudways their automatic backups will create a zip with the MariaDB dump included. I then rsync this to rsync.net
I have to wonder how much releasing these models will "poison the well" and fill the internet with AI generated images that make training an improved model difficult. After all if every 9/10 "oil painted" image online starts being from these generative models it'll become increasingly difficult to scrape the web and to learn from real world data in a variety of domains. Essentially once these things are widely available the internet will become harder to scrape for good data and models will start training on their own output. The internet will also probably get worse for humans since search results will be completely polluted with these "sort of realistic" images which can ultimately be spit out at breakneck speed by smashing words from a dictionary together...
A list of tools for parsing binary data structures
I'm seeing AT&T run new fiber, underground in new conduit within existing communities ranging from 0.2 acre lots to 2+ acre lots both in the city limits and outside the city limits. These are affluent areas, not considered rural or economically disadvantaged. AT&T is actively retiring their copper network and replacing it with fiber. They're making an investment for the decades to come and can afford it.

Shame, the service is marred by shit point of service equipment.
what's the "N" mean?
Being clunky is the point. The idea is that clunky phrases are harder to use as slurs, interrupting the euphemism treadmill.
We have over 8000 images and growing. If you name them properly and use alt text the searching works okay. But we also don't reuse images that much (not because they are hard to find)
> It's hard to say because even a model like GPT-3 is limited in its ability to generate a textual story that remains coherent over time.

Just like most dreams. Can still be entertaining.
The thing is: consumers don’t care about which job within the development cycle is the hardest or whatever else. They care that their software is relatively bug free. The industry as a whole has been cutting costs in QA and the games are buggy as all hell on release as a result with only a few exceptions. So maybe this QA unionization can save the industry from itself: from dumb dick measuring status games like the ones this comment thread is filled with and from the hubris required to charge 60-80 bucks for unplayable games.
This is a very good introduction to the inherent difficulty that comes from trying to do SIMT execution / whole program vectorization while at the same time giving programmers the power of certain optimization tricks that punch through the SIMT abstraction and expose the underlying vector architecture (via subgroup/wave operations).

The title is somewhat misleading as this trouble isn't specific to SPIR-V. It is inherent to the field, and DXIL has the same problem. (Arguably it's worse there because Microsoft tends to be quite bad at properly specifying semantics of DXIL and DirectX more generally.)
Here is the dream... I plug my brain into a fully immersive wolrd within an AI driven Marvel movie that lasts my entire life.

The matrix may actually be awesome, so sign me up as a coppertop.
this x100
This is almost exactly the premise of “I Am Legend” — the film, at least.
Couldn't happen to a better bullish ideology...
"SF still has coercive policies. You think having the cops take your tent and all your stuff isn't coercive?"

Except that's not what happens. The group of tents closest to my home ~2 years ago is still there. And it's no longer the nearest.
Somehow I doubt that majority of drug users are from healthy families with kids.
The general idea is "Hate the game, not the player."

However, I doubt the Davos people are being altruistic with this line either. There is something else going on there.
"most of the known cases in Europe have been among men who have sex with men"

Here we go again.
As I understand it they only decriminalized it for small amounts.
I'm excited about this, I would love the IDE to move to the browser and have been a fan of the idea since the Cloud9 days. If browsers had a way to delegate their reserved keyboard shortcuts I would use web IDEs full time.
My gut reaction to the title of the post - fire 80% of the managers. Then announce skimpy buyouts for any employee who feels that they won't get enough face time with managers and/or time spent in meetings with the new manager/worker ratio.
Not to mention that (someone can fill in the accurate numbers) some rather significant number of satellites are expected to be lost every year due to various factors at a rate that will require several rocket launches just for maintenance of the current state. My understanding when I was reading about that, is that it did not even consider the "shelf life" issue.
I'm certainly in favor of promoting more safe sex (I would go as far as to say that this should be an important part of any abortion legalization policy) and I generally do agree that consenting adults should be responsible if they don't use protection. But the issue to me is that often it ends up also punishing the child, and while aborting the child is also a punishment for the child, I think it's the more acceptable solution since I don't really see a societal and cultural push (especially from the people generally pushing for an abortion ban) for alternative solutions for raising children not wanted by their parents.

After all, no matter how much we teach safe sex, some people will still make mistakes and often pro-lifers treat having to raise the child as a fitting punishment for the parents, which obviously isn't all that respectful of the child's life either.

And yes, I can understand getting into that mindset, which is why I generally avoid these discussions (on reddit for example) :)

It gets pretty frustrating to see people emotionally arguing for extreme positions without attempting to at least understand the other position's emotions.
My time as a graduate student at a major research institution with the #2 program for my engineering field , and two years as the President of the Graduate and Professional Student Association. What institutions say and what faculty actually do may differ in reality.

CS programs may be different, but engineering and physics were definitely geared for academics
My mistake – only Fathom is missing.
But there is a limit on Breaking Bad episodes, for example. Just pump out new episodes. Could even have The Simpsons / Groundhog Day - style state-reset after each episode. Therefore the AI can make anything happen (Walter gets killed) and the produce another episode because you know that is just a multiverse branch.
Much philanthropy is a routinized exchange between salaried bureaucrats
The statement about C++ is somewhat misleading. C++ has multiple notions of forward progress of various strength, and post-Volta does not satisfy the one that you'd be used to from CPUs, which is concurrent forward progress. However, it does satisfy parallel forward progress.
Beautiful pages and UIs for web and mobile projects
This looks amazing! Can’t wait to try this with Graal
That would be a useful comparison for ranking. Exactly what is their overhead?
> Netflix has been “winning” with no competition.

Netflix has had direct streaming competition for a long time, and has lots of it now; their paid subscriber base in US & Canada is over half the number of households in those countries.
Unfortunately US courts have taken a very dim view towards adjusting balance of power.

For example, I don't think there's anywhere else where the mere act of purchasing a product or service can result in you giving up the right to sue the company in court and be forced to enter arbitration with an arbiter of the company's choice.
It's no less a military defeat than Russia's in Ukraine.

When the military is bogged down and draining the nations treasury and making the gov't look bad, the political decision is inevitable.
Fascinating! I've heard about microwave relay towers used for HFT through an amazing series of blog posts [1], but HF is news to me.

Do you have any sources/further reading? I'd be curious what type of licensing that operates under etc.

Edit: Turns out there's an article on it on the very same blog [2]!

[1] https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/hft-in-my-ba...

[2] https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/shortwave-tr...
Not to be overly pedantic, but having the idea in the 1970s didn't count for much, because no one could get mRNA into human cells until around 1987. The first attempt at a vaccine was around maybe 1993. I mean, directionally your right but saying "we've been studying mRNA vaccines for over 50 years" isn't really correct.
Pick a tool in your regular workflow and spend some time learning it better. What are the new ways you can use `git log`?
Is that not an objective statement? I'm aware of the controversy, but that doesn't mean we should ignore facts.
No, effect systems aren't a different function type, in fact you could mitigate the whole function color mess in $lang with an effect system.
> This post can't be shared

If Twitter were not such an enthusiastic collaborator for censorship, it would share the post, prominently, but it would show up in the feed of every Australian as a big red "This post censored on order of the Australian Securities & Investment Commission, authorized by law XY. List of politicians that voted for this law available at [link]"

Instead, Twitter not only complies with the censorship, but goes the extra mile and helps the Australian government hide the very fact that censorship is even taking place. I wonder if there will be any "democracy dies in darkness" hand-wringing about this..
> There's far more e.g. TV being produced than anyone could watch in one lifetime.

But is there far more of what any particular person would want to watch being produced than they would want to watch? Does anyone in the mood to watch something ever accept a less-than-preferred substitute?

If so, there is meaningful room for improvement in selection. (Not that I think AI is anywhere close to making a dent in it directly, though AI aids may increase productivity of human creative talent.) E.g., Instead of writing scripts from scratch, think of an AI writing first draft scripts from treatments, after training on a corpus of treatments and completed scripts.
I just wanted to mention that pykafka is currently unmaintained and archived on GitHub:

https://github.com/Parsely/pykafka

pykafka was originally developed and maintained by my team at Parse.ly, but we no longer maintain it. We instead encourage folks to use confluent-kafka-python, which is what we have ourselves switched to in our production systems:

https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-python

(pykafka was developed at a time before Confluent invested in their own Python binding. Some of the history of the project is described in this 2016 blog post[1] and our original 2015 announcement[2].)

[1]: https://blog.parse.ly/pykafka-now/

[2]: https://blog.parse.ly/announcing-pykafka-python-support-for-...
Too many people to help. Corruption. Self sustainability. But yeah it is nice to try.
Chase plans to spend $1.2bn on tech modernization. 30% on cloud infrastructure [pdf]
What would you eat in this nightmare world?
Tech debt and refactoring are the two most overloaded terms in software development. Most often "tech debit" isn't - it is code that met the need when it was written, but the need changed later. Wear and tear seems much more appropriate.

And re-writing from scratch isn't refactoring, but that seems to be the most frequent usage of term these days.
I'd argue that there is probably at least one leap in terms of human-level writing which isn't just pure prediction. Humans write with intent, which is how we can maintain long run structure. I definitely write like GPT while I'm not paying attention, but with the executive on the task I outperform it. For all we know this is solvable with some small tweak to architecture, and I rather doubt that a model which has solved this problem need be conscious (though our own solution seems correlated with consciousness), but it is one more step.
They gave him a ManBearPig avitar
I don’t think tolerance makes you a bad person at all. Quite the opposite. Just be respectful and don’t be joyful when others are down.
https://grapheneos.org/releases#blueline-stable
Besides it being a propaganda piece for the current darling of the alt-right demographic?

I would encourage you to read it, but is honestly not worth the time.
I've been manually trying to manage my Ego power tool batteries this way, but it would be really nice to be able to tell them to not charge above 80% or run below 20%, and not have to think about it. The $300-$400 batteries are worth protecting. My first Ego 5AH battery only lasted 4 years of mowing, which doesn't seem like a lot.
> reject simplistic absolutes by people who don't even know anything about said topic.

Precisely. That is the whole point of what I am also saying.

Absolutist positions on either side: the "All crypto should 100% die" from the anti-crypto crowd and "All crypto projects will 100% take over the current system" by crypto-bros and maximalists are both wrong. If they were to 100% die, they would have banned all of them a long time ago and not all of these projects are guaranteed to succeed, they can also fail as well, even after regulations a few projects will succeed.

Given it is ridiculous to reject all electric vehicles because there are too many petrol and diesel vehicles currently burning up the planet, then it is also ridiculous to generalize and reject all cryptocurrencies because some of them use proof-of-work, even when not all of them use that.

I predict we will see the same arguments, refutations and we will continue to see this in the next HN post about something about crypto again.
99.999998% of the population has no idea and doesn't care how much yacht prices have inflated over the last several years. They care about toilet paper, food, energy, clothing, and other essentials.
Harden-Runner: The Must-Have GitHub Action to Prevent Supply Chain Attacks
And that's why we need to be shutting this stuff down, completely.

Someone tried to say there were ethics committees etc the other day...what a bad joke. Who checks the ethics committee is making ethical decisions?

I was told I "didn't know what" I was talking about, excuse from some over-important know-it-all who didn't know what ethics was, i.e. they don't know what they are talking about.
I look forward to making it financially so I can sleep/wake whenever. Sucks gotta do the 9-5 regardless of if your sleep pattern shifted or not.
NGL?
These boards are a combination of a SOM (system on a module) and a baseboard. The SOM's are actually designed to be used in commercial products, so they are sort of in the middle ground. You don't have to design a complex multi-layered PCB for the FPGA BGA, you can just replace the baseboard which should reduce complexity. Mini ITX board will be relatively very large and consume tons of power. Maybe OK for large robots, but not for compact low-power designs. If you can meet your requirements with a raspberry pi, or a single ARM style processor, then most people would choose that. FPGAs, especially the SoCs (multi-processor + FPGA) are used when HW acceleration & fixed low-latency are important, and also there is a lot of flexibility for customized peripherals.
Experimental licenses so far or straight up illegal, they're making much more money than any FCC fines would be. The FCC enforcement bureau is actually pretty small and doesn't come after you until you really screw up someone else's pre existing licensed service.

All FCC fines are public info (called a notice of apparent liability and published in their daily data dumps), I've yet to hear of one getting fined.
Antibiotics.
> We don't seem to have any great answers.

but we do. economics, especially behavior econ is the study of understanding why large scale systems work differently than the de facto rules.

yes, every separate "systemic incentive failure" is a terribly complex pathological state in the abstract phase diagram of the dynamics, but we luckily have a higher level control, we can introspect ourselves, our systems.

yes, the resistance from the beneficiaries is always strong, but not impossible to overcome eventually.
Make it a bootloader for a merely tiny MCU?
Soylent, obviously.
Basically makes sense, no? DALLE-2 suffered from misunderstanding propositional logic, treating prompts as less structured then it should have. That's a text model issue! Compared to that, scaling up the image isn't as important (especially with a few passes).
You should be much more concerned about the prospect of nuclear war right now than the sudden emergence of an AGI.
No. The US will simply import more people.
I think you read more than he said. I'm not sure what Animats meant, but I don't think he said whatever you're responding to.
I'm curious how one develops the skill to so (seemingly) adequately discern the "best" from "great".
It’s really not a fraught term in demography, which is this context.
As someone who have gone through this there is one Achilles heel: appraisals.

Unless the management agrees in letter & spirit on prioritisation this is a disaster.

When everything is a priority the message from top is "We want best of both worlds" i.e. we want productivity, quality and less complaining.

Now you have prioritized in seq: A B C D... The team who has C or D to deliver will have there deliverables pushed by say 6 months. Guess who will be pissed-off with this?

But the team accountable for D will say that this is what was agreed and signed on but the top still had those flawed expectations back of their mind.

There is also cross-team impact. The product manager who was championing project D now has his/her appraisal in question. He/She will point fingers to the engineering and complain to his/her boss.

In other words: Every one in the chain of command has vested interest. Unless they are aligned to large extent its hard to get out of this situation.
Fighting Back Against Dodgy Dyson Batteries
So now the government has to buy people their drugs? We don't do that for alcoholics. There's a very strong moral hazard argument against doing that, but it's just plain cruel to the very population you think you are helping.
In Qutebrowser, there is a passthrough mode (default keybinding is C-v) that does exactly what it sounds like -- it passes all keystrokes through to the current page for processing. The only keybinding in that mode is the binding to leave it (Shift-Escape by default).