skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming from a software engineering perspective there is a certain amount of toil which is impossible to automate away. CI break-fix issues often depend on the surface area of your software as it interfaces with third parties, including the CI system itself. In some cases that surface area can be large and break-fix takes up a considerable amount of time, but that toil is not _repetitive_ and is _necessary_ table stakes based on the system.

And this is after having someone who is extremely aggressive with automation and empowered to do whatever they like to reduce that surface area working on the system. I've taken codebases and hacked out 60% of the lines of code in order to remove brittle external surface area along with unnecessary requirements and contain the project better within its own boundaries and stop repetitive issues. I've taken clever ideas that someone had 5+ years ago out behind the barn and shot them in order to reduce total surface area.

But people can walk into an area with a lot of toil going on and go "oh, I know all the strategies on how to reduce this, I will explain to these people who clearly aren't as clever as me how to do it" without realizing that there's often a minimum level of toil for a project which you can't effectively reduce. There's a nonzero vacuum expectation value of toil in any project, and in some cases it can be quite large. Inherently.

I don't know how many managers I went through who would come and decide to document all the different failures we were having and spreadsheet them and look for the patterns to address them. And every week there would be 2-3 that would come up and they'd struggle with the fact that there was really no pattern, other than that the project inherently touched many different third parties, because it really HAD to, and that those third parties would change, which would then force interrupt driven toil.

There's some point where you just have to hire more people and spread it out. There's no magical incantation to manage your way out of additional headcount.

And I don't think the OP article even touched on re-enginering to reduce surface area and brittleness. Automation isn't the only answer to toil. You can automate restarting a service if it crashes, but its always better to just fix the bug (which may involve fixing architectural issues) and make it stop crashing in the first place.
Common Lisp is also on the JVM, so that's not really a good point for Clojure.
It is by far the worst website I've ever had to use regularly. It's painful even when it's working.
In solid state chemistry, hemeopathy is actually true.
This is explored further in Nick Bostrom's Vulnerable World Hypothesis. He believes that not even a total global surveillance system would be able to stop a single teenager with the recipe for a homemade pathogen. Nothing changes about the laws of the universe in that case, only the fact that the information was not in our minds before and then it is, and we collectively cannot forget or uninvent it.

We as a species have only survived ~75 years since we became aware of nuclear weapons, which is only a small portion of our overall history.

This has taught me to be mindful of the state of being unaware, because once you are aware of something it is impossible to reverse unless you're an amnesiac. Collectively forgetting something as a society then becomes infeasible without the technology and the willingness to revert our knowledge to a safer state, and a single outlier can ruin the entire system. When Jobs held up the first smartphone and we all started cheering and fantasizing, did any of us think it would lead to this?

(I also think that a pill to forget the experience of [addictive thing] would be revolutionary, but sadly our ingrained curiosity might undo the effect shortly afterward. A lot of tech takes advantage of our curiosity.)

This makes me wonder: what compels us to keep researching AI despite us also being able to hypothesize all these game-over scenarios? Why does it feel like we have no choice but to be crushed by unbounded progress?

Perhaps 50 years from we may find that nothing short of halting all research in the name of curiosity was the only option that could have preserved our culture/existence/values for another few decades.
This is more generally known as steganography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
Don't click the blue arrow (I know the site directions say you should.)

Load the site, then use your arrow keys and space bar.

Worked for me in Chrome and Safari.
I'm sure housing close to Munich is more expensive and I don't know Bavaria at all. The OP suggesting a small village is where they might end up so I picked what I thought was a representative property based only on the price and look of it.

Given that the OP says "we'd end up in a similarly small village" do you still feel my comparison is unfair?
It's literally not all git. Every single thing I mentioned outside of the git repository itself is not git, and makes up a significant amount of services that would require disparate, specific replacements and buy in and compatibility with all of the developers, teams and units of a company. It's a vast, extremely costly amount of work.

Just throwing up a server somewhere running git and a few software packages is nowhere near the same thing.
https://gpytorch.ai/
Banking is ripe for a tech disruption, there's honestly a lot of things that are higher tech in banks than outsiders realize. There's a very good chance in 5-10 years a tech forward bank becomes the dominant player by a lot. An already large bank could pull this off, but I'd say that's less likely since they have to completely redefine their internal culture.

The economy also isn't a monolith, different sectors grow and shrink differently. The interest rates were so low that VC was way more attractive, but as rates tick up more traditional banking products will likely become more attractive. Banks took a beating in 2008, because it was bad bank policy that crashed the market, that isn't the case this time.
I'm gonna agree with you.

I get lots of weird random artifacts in Unreal. Sometimes it's a weird "vibrato" on some words, some words are unrealistically raspy. Plus it's a bit too sibilant in general compared to AWS. Clicking the "Redo" button fixes it but then other artifacts crop up in other places, which leads me to believe this is completely fixable.

And what do you mean by cherry-picked? I don't think the Amazon example is cherry picked, you can type your own custom text there! They're just using the AWS API themselves. Maybe I misunderstood you.

Anyway, it's a bit unfair because Amazon probably spent millions in their product, but I wouldn't exactly call it better...
Considering potential harm is one thing, being liable for misuse is another. If you're releasing something that can only harm others and has a arguable net downside, that may be a good reason to not release it.

What we're talking about (I think) is releasing something with a net upside, but with potential for misuse and the resulting liability?

Am I misunderstanding your point?
Have any examples? It may not be perfect, but that's the price for being the most free state in the world.
Runs great in Parallels!
Yellen Defends Pandemic Spending as Inflation Persists
She admits she got it wrong.
What one salesman told me is that they do have a system where they can enter allocation requests.

So they can enter into the system they want a '22 Tundra Crew Max with an exterior color of Lunar Rock and this/these packages.

Toyota won't specifically build that, but in theory if there is one built matching that requirement they should get it as an allocation. In reality, he said they never get their allocation requests.

Some dealerships (the 2 I mentioned in my research) tell people they're "ordering" when really they're just "requesting allocation."
My brother in law had the same problem, completely different type of job. He fixed it by the next time they scheduled an interview, he said he could not on that day as he had another interview (with a different company). In a couple days he had the offer, and not another interview.
> You assume everyone is self-oriented and wants to be autonomous and have a great work ethics and care about their privacy.

No, they assume that people who are self-oriented and want to be autonomous and have a great work ethic are the people that you want to have working for you. You don't need to employ "everyone", you just need enough for your workload, and you will need fewer people if you optimize your company's structure for high performers rather than deadweights.

Your employee surveillance policies are beyond the pale (screenshots every ten minutes... really?!) and treat all your employees are completely inept, lazy, or both. With policies like that, you shouldn't be surprised when the only employees you manage to hire and retain are that way.
> [!] Amusingly, my laptop won't actually charge off the _standard_ A/C plugs on most airplanes because the 100W charger blows a soft fuse that requires unplugging and replugging the A/C adapter!

To be fair, 100 W may not seem like a lot when you're used to plugging in to the national power grid, but it's a lot to ask for a non-essential system supplied by an off-grid generator shared by hundreds of passengers. And 100 W is the maximum allowance for In-Seat Power Support Systems according to the FAA, before any conversion losses in your power adapter; the actual amount available to you may be much less.
> There is no benefit to new standards coming out all the time in this domain.

actually, there are huge potential benefits for both the users and the company that launches them. faster charging, better ports, smarter cables etc etc etc
Here's what I have in my home office:

- a view of gardens in my back yard and that of the neighbor behind me.

- privacy in which to do some bodyweight exercise if I'm bored or stuck on a problem.

- the ability to not wear a shirt in the summer unless I'm on a Zoom call and absolutely must turn on video.

- the ability to prepare and eat fresh homemade meals with my wife, even if we just make sandwiches together.

- the ability to do laundry during the day (I carry the wash to and from the basement and swap it between the washer and dryer; she folds).

- not having to share a bathroom with strangers

- I don't need to wear headphones all day to drown out noise from my coworkers.

- I have cats to keep me company when I'm working.

- I don't spend nearly as much time driving.

- I don't buy nearly as much gasoline.

- I've all but eliminated my consumption of sugary drinks and fast food.

- I've lost over 100lbs of body fat and gained 10lbs of muscle mass.

- I've reversed my type II diabetes.

- CATS!

I'd give all of that up if I went back to onsite work, and for what? Half a desk in an open-plan hellscape? Inane conversation with coworkers who don't give a fuck about me unless I make a mistake that makes their jobs harder?

Managers pushing for workers to "return to the office" don't have workers' interests, needs, or desires at heart. They just miss the sense of control they had from being able to walk around and look over people's shoulders. If my employer insisted I return to onsite work, I'd quit.

I don't get paid enough to drive at least half an hour each way and still have to do Zoom calls because half my team is in another office on the other side of the fucking continent. You don't get paid enough for that shit either. None of us get paid enough for that shit, and we should stop tolerating it.

Businesses can either go async or go out of business. It's the 21st fucking century and managers need to get with the program; they need us a lot more than we need them.
> Am I missing something about how cutting notes works, or am I correct in saying that cutting notes relies on a centralized single-company-controlled server being both online and releasing a decryption key?

That's correct.

> Even ignoring the centralization angle, all of the verification advice I'm seeing boils down to "scan each note and cut it when you receive it." And if everyone is going to do that, what's the point of using a physical note instead of an app? The promo images and descriptions clearly expect that this is going to be used like cash so that technical burdens are lessened for people who aren't good with more traditional cryptocurrency transaction methods.

Not quite; rather than cutting the note you could re-key it and store it. Or, if you are planning to use the note immediately or near term in commerce, you might have sufficient confidence that our re-key service won't shut down (but yes, this obviously implies some trust if you hold notes without re-keying of claiming).

> But if non-technical users use it like cash, they're not going to scan anything. And if you think you can teach them to scan every bill in their wallet with a phone, then... why not just teach them to use the phone?

Because with a phone alone they need to store their keys locally. With re-keyed notes (or notes from family members who have re-keyed them), they can immediately store notes in a safe place without the problem of phone hacks or loss.
Me too! I wrote this little site years ago to help explain what hiccup is: https://escherize.com/works/hiccup.space/
> The fed can't release new Bitcoins, sure, but in exchange, now random celebrities on Twitter can cause sell-offs and spikes in value; random Discord groups can pump coins so they can sell off and make a profit before they crash.

This is why anything that isn't Bitcoin is referred to as a shitcoin, and why the conflating of Bitcoin with everything else is so problematic. The former is designed to prevent that manipulation, the latter leverages it.
>Well, if a spec has no validation procedure, compatibility enforcement or certification, what’s even the point?

What is the point of anything then? Most pieces of tech we take for granted are an unregulated bundle of specs that more or less work together with one another most of the time well enough to be valued at several trillions and be in every household.

If you want to regulate and certify every USB-C cable in your household then increase prices would stop the adoption of any such tech and you would then complain about the costs and over-regulation.

The EU is already regulating USB-C into place. How much more regulation do you want?

Let's not let 'perfect' be the enemy of 'good'. Remember 20 years ago when every phone and electronic widget in your house came with its own proprietary cable and proprietary interface and included CD with proprietary Windows-only software to work? Yeah! Lost the original cable/dock with the proprietary 20-pin connector? Good luck with that mate.

Yes, USB-C still has teething problems due to manufacturers cutting costs and fighting tooth and nail against standardization so they can keep their walled garden rent seeking models of the past (remember Sony shoving their proprietary Memory-Stick everywhere despite SD cards having won?), but despite these issues, we've never had it so good in terms of cross-compatibility as we have it today and this push for USB-C everything is a step in the right direction.
“57% claiming their productivity and the quality of their work had improved”

This is like a survey question asking “How large is your penis?”
This is why Android requires users to type their PIN once a week, even if you use biometric authentication. It's an essential practice that needs to be the norm for any biometric auth.
What kind of development work will you do?

I haven't experienced much issues with Docker or .net SDK development work
Uh, we sold them grain, and they sold oil, and let’s leave aside the NEP period…
Many airsoft players are mounting fully automatic airsoft rifles on drones and some Russian dude already put a glock on a 1st gen DJI phantom years ago. My guess is a big thing stopping such an attack from happening is that the people doing these attacks are usually not well educated, so they don't have the arduino-starter-kit level of electronics knowledge required to pull it off.
Well, a bit higher tech on the CPU, and it has slightly better IO ports than PI 400, including internal speaker (which is convenient, esp'ly if coupled with VGA display).
You're correct, it's not as simple as "systemic oppression or racism". There are absolutely lots of factors, both historical and ongoing. I think I misunderstood the original comment I replied to, thinking that they were saying that racial disparities were not quantifiable. Rereading it, they are just saying you can't quantify how much is due to one specific cause, which I agree with.

I'm not really sure it's an important point though, since most of the things we can/should do to remedy it IMO (medicare for all, ubi/negative income tax, and in general a more expansive social safety net) don't depend on quantifying the harm done to an individual.
You are very confident of that. I wouldn't be so confident of that.
Nope, I’m sorry for the confusion. We did use title-cased letters in our logos to reduce similarity (their logo is all-cap: UNREAL ENGINE)
SPX is SP500 stocks.

REIT is real estate investment trusts.

EMD = Emerging market debt (EMD) is a term used to encompass bonds issued by less developed countries?

EAF = I'm not sure.
I used my 2015 MBP until this year and plan to use the m1 MBP for another 5-7 years :)

My upgrade cycle was timed by the reappearance of the MagSafe charging port.

This said, I may get a MBA for travel.
Thanks! "Seamlessly providing a front-end for interactive scripts" is a really solid description of what we're doing. Honestly the interactive part is what I think is the most important to get across. A big part of why I started building this was I wanted to prompt for input/display output across multiple steps, basically in conversation with the script.
idk man...if Apple stops producing phones tomorrow morning I can't see it effecting anyone too much. Apple shareholders don't count.
> However, the "problem" is why ~125GeV. If there are extremely high energy particles (which are expected in a Grand Unified Theory), then corrections to the Higgs mass would be enormous. This is a fine tuning problem where we arbitrarily tweak those corrections such that we magically end up at 125GeV.

When I was undergraduate at CERN summer school program I got that this was one of main themes to justify existence of SUSY. However I am still puzzled even after having obtained a PhD (condensed matter) how does this arbitrary tweaking of corrections does look like.

Is it simply unwillingness to accept for world as we live know some parameters of the world like particles masses are not that independent from each other?
I have a similar experience in the Richmond suburbs. On the upside, DC does not have as much of a mosquito problem as it used to.
The model is no longer available for public access on Hugging Face. They require registration and may add more restrictions.

I have cloned the model repository on Hugging Face (which isn't the same as the source code) on GitHub:
https://github.com/Aspie96/gpt-4chan-model

And the model itself (which must replace the pytorch_model.bin file) on the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/gpt4chan_model

You can also download it trough torrent, too.
> It's because Chinese define democracy by whether they believe their government works for their interest and whether they yield good results, not by how their government is elected.

I'm going to be thinking about this sentence for the rest of my life
My daughter is the same age. I teach her basic coding skills.

We tried an arduino kit we picked up from Micro Center. It has a project book which is quite good.

However, all the code is in C.

I tried the microbit and it was a lot easier for her to get started on her own. Having the option between visual block coding and Python was a good option to have.
I'm just assuming now that the population of every animal except mosquitos is declining
I’ll have the wrong cable with me because I’m just bad at having the right stuff with me anyway. Adding to my confusion is fine though. I’ll just buy particular colours or cable or put tags of them or something.

I don’t trust random cables to plug into my phone because I’m paranoid about getting hacked. I access some systems with sensitive data via my phone and I don’t want to be the route of compromise.

I don’t trust random chargers not to set my house on fire while I sleep, or - worse - fail to charge properly and I don’t have enough charge left to run the crossword app on my phone.
Just because you think some issues is "inevitable" in the future doesn't mean you should spend academic resources to make it happen faster, while simultaneously making it easier to exploit.
No it’s not. I think it’s how the mp3 is somehow played in the browser maybe. It happens to me too.
You seem to be arguing against "optimal", while quoting parent's "mostly quite efficient". The reality is that while everything is converging to a locally optimal point on the tradeoff curve, a _lot_ of software out there runs in the "hardware is my driving cost" locale. This makes companies squeeze epsilons out of their servers. There's also the "selling hardware is my profit centre", which end-users get to pay for.
Do you have any examples? I don't really use check nowadays...
It makes me sad, having moved from DC where we had glorious thunderstorms.
That will help someone determine that a fake video didn't come from their own camera.

But most videos where we're worried about deep fakes are videos that come from other people's cameras, where we don't know which signature should be valid, nor whether it should have a signature.
It's kind of sad to me that Apple doesn't make Lightning an open standard.

In all my years, I haven't had a single Lightning connector fail on me. The solid metal where the contacts reside is just too robust to wear out or get damaged (unless you somehow step on it the right way or let it corrode).

USB-C connectors, on the other hand, seems to loosen after a rather small number mates and de-mates, leading people to use preemptive workarounds such as magnetic connectors.
Interconnectedness exposes your countrymen more to other countries cultures - it is much harder to war against a people who you can't paint as a demonic "other". I don't really think that the private industrial sourcing concerns have any real pressure to apply against war - those industries aren't the government and, even with modern supply chain minimalism, it'll take a while for one or two industry sectors to really cause widespread pain to an economy. Those personal connections across borders, though, those are the best defense against war.
Re: 1.- You'll probably still need it if the NATed party is recvonly, i.e. it expects to just recrive data without it explicitly sending any first.
There's a specific PD profile (15V IIRC) that your charger needs in order to be able to power the dock, and older MacBook chargers didn't have it.
The X3 ion engine has a weight of 230kg and a thrust of 5.4N. This is about 500 times less force than is needed to propel the engine forward at 1g (even if we pretend the entire rest of the spaceship doesn't exist - in reality it would need to be thousands of times more powerful)

Ion engines cannot currently produce anywhere close to this level of force. Adding more engines won't help because each engine can't even push its own weight at one gravity.
Eh have you looked at the list of wars in Europe in the 19th century?
I hate—hate—when I'm trying to find something in Slack and right where I'm pretty sure it should be I see a marker indicating that a call took place there, often without any surrounding indication of WTF it was about. Fucking hate it.
Bay Area doesn't really have lightning or thunderstorms. Makes me sad.
It sounds like your problem is more with Pete and potentially the fact that he's not a right-winger rather than the actual discussion we're having here. Identity politics aside - I am curious what about "walkable cities" do you have a problem with (if anything)?
A hedge is meant to control risk by taking an offsetting position. Whatever you're describing is most definitely not a hedge.