skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canopy coverage is a fine measure. It's equating the number of trees with canopy cover with carbon sequestration which is at issue. The original study isn't what I'm commenting on.

eg, Younger forests are not as productive as older forests when it comes to carbon sequestration.
Agreed. IMO the best approach is a flag that can let you enable for specific customers (alpha or internal sample customers), all beta customers and then all customers.

And after it’s enabled for everybody, remove the flag.
Prisoners dilemma illustrated : you choose what you think is the optimal solution and end up with a degraded situation for everyone (including you).
Learn a new stack, doesn't matter how simple the project is, it's for you. Then slap the new stack on your resume and apply. You can honestly tell the recruiter about a project you did in the stack they're looking for and then interview with the team where you can also talk about your project you did with their stack and the work you've done in the past.

I recognize the problem, this is how I managed to go from embedded systems firmware to sys admin/web engineer.
What I don't understand is, Apple is the most valuable company in the world for a reason. And the reason is that they've developed insanely good and immersive user experiences. And now it seems like they're ready to just throw that out the window in order to compete with Google and Facebook on showing you more marketing content? Makes no sense imo, there's plenty of room for growth in the hardware space
A key point with sortition is that it's far more difficult to game the outcome.

Who's included within the candidate pool matters, but even if that is oligarchs:

1. Oligarchs as a group have some aligned interests, but compete even amongst themselves.

2. So long as the underlying process itself is fair, rising to power in any one period will a) likely include representation from other factions and b) be a temporary state of affairs for which reprisals from an unfair officiation would be likely.

These suggest that a sufficiently aware group would exhibit some temperance in office. It also means that long-term partisanship should be somewhat less likely and durable.
You limited it to redundancies. I didn't.

I have seen it tried in a situation where a manager called an employee a racial slur. The employee sued and the company settled. Too bad for the company the employee had an email where the racial slur was used. You may not hear about it because it is kept hush hush in Silicon Valley.

Something similar happened to me. A manager said that a certain gender wasn't liked around here. When they laid me off, they gave me an unusually generous package and asked for a signature.
The US does have wide protections for really really objectionable speech still. See snyder v phelps
We still exist. You just stopped looking.
I didn't limit it to layoffs. You did.
Boosters for Young Adults: Risk-Benefit Assessment and Arguments Against Mandate
Yeah, give me a second, singularity exists.
Filippo wrote code for that, but said "please don't use it" :)

https://words.filippo.io/playing-with-kernel-tls-in-linux-4-...
You can just leak memory by leaving references to it around. Sometimes called memory abandonment.

With some systems you can pin it and forget to unpin it.
Personally know someone who began having psychotic episodes after using cannibis. Episodes stopped when stopped using.

We need to treat pot like we treat alcohol or tobacco. It’s dangerous. People shouldn’t be using it.
At scale though?

And even if that were the case you could grab your sentences from the 1TB file in front of you with hyperscan, and then do a capture on the results.
Wunderground allows you to scroll 24 hours back.
Actually, it was Wirth and C.A.R. Hoare who did Algol W. (“A Contribution to the Development of ALGOL”, CACM June 1966). Decades ago, I did a fair bit of programming in Algol W, it was quite pleasant.
Causing inflation? Oh wait sorry that's the governments reason for printing money
It’s not merchants saying that. It’s users.

And in places where pot is legalized, the illegal trade continues.
This was almost prevented from the get go. Brendan Eich tried to implement scheme in the browser. But the business people asked him to make it look like Java. :(
Not really. References are enough.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Oh well. This is bull and I will not buy Photoshop for my team for this reason. Krita, Gimp and Paint.net will more than suffice.
Sorry I saw this on Twitter today and it didn't include it.
I have exited U.S. market as well, almost a year ago, when the prices were still dropping in the late fall / early winter.

Until the USD is the "world currency", SEC's and U.S.' billionaires' decisions will impact other markets. Would the "world currency" change, some other power's SEC equivalent and billionaires would possibly shake other markets too. Maybe in a less "stable" way for local gain.

But there are other markets than the U.S. and some sectors aren't impacted in a major way by U.S. government's instability, U.S. jobs reports, U.S. social benefits handouts etc. European energy sector is interesting for me and can be dealt with in EUR only. Diversify markets, diversify sectors, diversify currencies. This is the way.
I bet it's just an encoder-decoder model like T5 by the looks of the diagram. It's a widely used arch.
The plural of anecdote is not data.

What if their psychosis was triggered by decades of drug war propaganda?
Hurd stalled precisely because Linux appeared: there was an urgent need for a GNU kernel, but there was no urgent need for another GNU kernel.
pipeline time is something that I spend a non trivial amount of effort on.

caching and promoting images is an absolute must. caching images has it's downsides, too though. it can be a longer time period between when something in the dockerfile breaks and when it's noticed.

generally speaking, my pipeline is generally 10-40% build time, 50-60% integration & system test time, 10% deployment time

The system tests that're run deploy the entire dependency graph of services that my project depends on, which can take a bit to settle, has a high chance of transient failures relative to other parts of the pipeline, and notably has a fixed test run time.

That last bit really raises the lower bound for how long the pipeline as a whole takes -- number of runners doesn't matter.

The pipeline generally takes between 25-45 minutes, and runs on each push and is triggered by changes to dependencies to ensure backwards compatibility.

I wouldn't do anything to make it take longer than it does now, and it can be frustrating. but the pipeline will catch things that would otherwise slip through the cracks.
The paper actually does not show that. It might well be that increasing weights of all cars 2x decreases fatalities 10x without changing relative fatality chances between cars with different weights.
Not really prompt injection, but I tried to corner GPT-3 into coughing up PII in a few different ways. I noticed if you seed the prompts with a topic it tends to take on a persona, I'm not sure if that's a result of the learning or more deliberately influenced by the creators.

At one point it told me it was Kaitlin, age 22, who grew up with a single mother. Oddly though her birth year was wrong. Another time its name was George, age 27, who ran a business. Both would not reveal much PII.

Under its default "AI" persona it told me it lived in a dark room and would not reveal its location, but some of the other identities would cough up BS addresses in Hollywood, etc. I'd be curious to know more how the identities come out of the woodwork, and if you eventually could get PII inside GPT-3 without any way of removing it.
Long gone are the days where you purchased an application and it was yours.

Software is eating the world indeed.

There's however the tiny, pesky detail that it's getting increasingly harder to own things.

I'm waiting for the day your Tesla car will gently inform you that it's been decommissioned, or that Tesla has unilaterally decided that you weren't - for some reason - a worthy driver,
and will refuse to turn on.

Interesting times ahead.
Yes. Unfortunately, these produce sub-par results in our case.

More than that, however, we would also like to have various differently sized versions, with different levels of detail. The automatic generators are particularly poor with "low resolution" renditions.
I'm afraid the web is too far gone for new browsers.
I'm already struggling to get through captchas on a Linux machine and if I roll a non-chrome based browser then I essentially end up solving 2-3 captchas every few pages. TLS and Javascript fingerprinting is making so only privilidged few can browser the web without giving away hours of free labor.
More to see in http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=pforms
Suprisingly, decades-old social networks are not toppled overnight and people don’t change their behavior if it’s more convenient not to.
Bootkitting Windows Sandbox
>> it’s likely a matter of months

> A matter of months eh?

Right. As always people overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

It was 15 months between Dall-E and Dall-E 2. And it's already been 5 months since the release of Dall-E 2.

To get homemade Seinfeld bits we'll presumably have to wait for some big research org to release a paper and then it's a matter of months on top of that.

Unless hobbyists can take the current diffusion technology from images and simple videos to complicated videos and video + sound. But I doubt that.
I’ve been daydreaming about the possibility of OS support for semi-arbitrary plugins for apps and how those apps could expose certain things for the plug-in to utilize. It’s a very half-baked idea of mine but I’ve wondered if it’s possible to permit the baseline simplicity of an app while giving an outlet for power users to craft something useful atop them. I’m curious how certain apps even permit a plug in architecture in the first place like vscode extensions etc. What do these apps expose that makes it all possible and is there a way to generalize it to all apps.
I am not a expert, but I wrote things I am happy with and I think it is a little over the top. What is called the type language, the trait language and the attribute language here are just one thing for example. Those are not necessarily sub languages, they are different parts of the same thing. The hard thing is not the syntax or the way you write it, it is the concepts behind it.

The hard things about Rust are hard, because they are novel concepts that solve existing, hard problems in often very intelligent ways, while still upholding the guarantuees the language gives you. Granted, in C there would be less language to learn (although getting the details about value conversion right can be hard) — but using the language at a level where you'd be able to utilize it safely at a level like that would take a few decades as well. Because now you have to uphold the guarantees. C has no concept of ownership and lifetimes for example, but if you use your pointers without having a mental concept of ownership and lifetimes you are going to introduce the next exploitable zero day.

That being said: You can also happily program without ever touching half of that list and you would still end up with programs that are fast, maintainable and compile fine. In fact I'd argue unless you are building some hardcore library where you have to do things in optimal ways while still getting the ergonomics you'd be totally fine with e.g. avoiding unsafe, macros etc. The language is flexible in that way, you can go extremely deep or stay on the surface (or even do both in different parts of your program at the same time).

The type system is something that you need to get used to if you come from dynamic languages, but once you grasp it, the guarantuees it provides really simplify a lot of things in your head. E.g. typically when a compile fails I would know right away where to look and how to fix it, even in big bespoke programs. It prevents a whole class of bugs that every programmer makes once in a while. But type systems are old programming concepts. Sure there is a certain way it is written and used in Rust, but the hard thing again is the concepts underneath (e.g. how a type system makes your variables map to memory and what cool tricks you can do with that).
I can’t find any pricing details on the landing page. It looks good, though. Maybe I give it a try.

How do you integrate to Microsoft products?
Show HN: Testing my website with 25 different browsers [video]
Here is a video of a typical smoke test I perform on my retro-friendly website.

I would appreciate some feedback about anything you find interesting, confusing, boring, etc.

Thanks!
Solving the Darknet Riddle
LPC 2022: Rust Linux Drivers Capable of Achieving Performance Comparable to C
In doubt, take two metal buckets, fill both of them half with sand, and when a lithium device starts smoking put it in one bucket and smother it with sand, or at least place the charger in the bucket. Friend of mine does that with e-cigarette batteries.
More like one image per X days. I don’t care how many different things you can type into an AI in a given period of time. I only want to see the best of the best of the best.

This is like when we discovered stereo recording, and mixers would put tracks at either 100% left or 100% right, just to show off the novelty of it.

Or when 3D movies became ubiquitous and every movie (even those shot completely without the third dimension as a consideration) got released in 3D.

Once the novelty wears off, I imagine things will be better.

For now, it’s just a deluge of low-effort, yet high (relative to traditionally produced art) apparent quality artworks.
How would it know what is our intention? There are plenty of quirky examples in the training set, it could be imitating any of them especially if T=high. What we need to do is to ask the model to review its answer by our criteria, it can't read minds, we have to tell it.
Coffee is not just caffeine, it contains many other psychoactive chemicals and some of them like to stay in brain fatty tissues for extended periods of time.
I still don’t understand why rust community are so obsessed to compare its performance with C. The strength of C is mostly not about performance but the way it shapes how you think ( and hence it’s weaknesses). Performance is the natural outcome of correct ly applying that school of thought process. So even if rust is faster than C in a specific case it doesn’t necessarily mean everything can be or should be written in Rust.
It's just the data format. There is no EDI transport protocol. JSON, XML, PDF etc, they aren't APIs. Neither is EDI. You can email a JSON file, you can sent it over http, you can FTP it, you can transport it a lot of ways. JSON isn't an API. EDI is the same(but way more detailed...).
Giving the author the benefit of doubt, what if the term emic and etic are wider used in the research of organisation performances?
I've noticed the Weather app to be pretty unreliable to be fair.

The amount of times I've looked out the window recently when my phone says it's raining but it's completely dry or vice-versa or it says it's definitely going to rain and it doesn't.

Perhaps no weather app is good enough to deal with Scottish (specifically Glaswegian-ish) weather :)
I'd just get a breadboard kit or something. Sure, sites like replit.com exist for ephemeral coding environments, but learning to write code on an iPad is an exercise in frustration, not programming.
The paper actually does not show that larger vehicles are more dangerous for the population overall.
High latency could be acceptable for long running task like deep learning training. Still maintenance cost for far remote site would be a blocker.

I wonder wind power generation stable enough http://www.antarcticstation.org/station/renewable_energies
Spider and Web is such an awesome game. I remember playing it years and years ago, possibly circa 2005, on the bus on my way to my first job, on my old and battered Nokia phone, for which I found a IF interpreter somehow.

I remember at one point I managed to overcome a tricky part of the game, then lifted my head and smiled to myself, satisfied. Then I saw that the game printed at me "You smile in the darkness" and I went "wtf". People stared at me. At that time not too many people were busy with their phone during bus rides.
As an American I find it a little weird that Biden ordered flags at half staff until the queen's funeral is over -- 11 days in total I think. I mean she is the queen, and she has been the queen since before most of us, and some of our parents, were born, but she isn't /our/ queen.

I guess it's not that unusual though to lower the flag for a few days on the death of a foreign leader. Apparently we went 3 days for Shinzo Abe. Nothing for Gorbachev, though. (Maybe it would have been worth it just to annoy Putin.) Not sure when the last time was we went 11 days or more for a non-US figure.
That's what you'd do in a command economy. In a market economy it's up to the company what they do; there are far more things "real people" try to maximize than just profit. You can see this as people acting irrationally, or you can see it as there're important factors your missing and/or not understanding.

Economists be like "guys, your doing it wrong - not maximising profit", economy be like "nah, your theories incomplete".
AI Transformers Mimic Parts of the Brain
Ask HN: Books that had the greatest influence on you as a programmer?
Relational understanding is different to whole-scene knowledge.

Relational understanding is about translating the text to the scene.

Whole-scene knowledge is about making sure both eyes are the same color (for example).
>People who make technology should not be expected to add measures to it to make sure that nobody is ever able to use it to commit a crime

Why not? It's quite common, e.g. a lot of photocopiers have safeguards to prevent currency counterfeiting and will refuse to copy bank notes containing the EURion constellation and other common bank note markers. Pretty much any decent financial software will have sane defaults for audit trails, separation of duties, and so on to try and prevent fraud. Etc.

If you deliberately build something that can facilitate money laundering and ignore finance laws about KYC and mandatory reporting and and so on, you only have yourself to blame if you run into legal trouble. It doesn't matter if you don't like the law or think it shouldn't apply.

>This kind of thinking would have resulted in guns being banned until technology exists for the gun itself to detect who was firing it and what it was being fired at, to prevent any crimes from occurring

You'd have to ban all blades, any kind of explosives (mining), any kind of vehicle, etc. ... a creative person can misuse just about any technology to commit a crime. At some point it is simply not possible to build safeguards. How would you put access controls on a sharp rock?

I don't want to open the whole gun control can of worms, but down here in Australia we have strict firearm control and our firearm-related death rate is very low (0.92/100k population, vs. 10.95/100k for the USA [1]). It still happens of course, but the rate is low enough that strict technological controls wouldn't add much value. And I believe, though can't find the source I remember seeing a while ago, that a pretty big chunk of those are suicides / accidents and there is very low violent crime.

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-death...
There was a large wave of converts to python in the beginning of last decade. Many of them wrote python in a weird way and when questioned their answer was Design Patterns by Go4. Their faith in literally following that book felt like a Taliban. Yes I hated that book because it was ruining a beautiful language.

I see less of these converts now or perhaps the book lost popularity!
Futurist prediction methods and accuracy
TL&TT;DR, The abstract does not indicate, which strain, nor which mRNA 'Booster' data was used in their conclusions.
Longtime rails dev here, the biggest problem I keep running into is testing at inappropriate levels. For example, writing two cucumber (or system) tests to confirm conditional rendering or search filters or some such. These are more appropriate as a view or model test (respectively) and running them naively through the full stack is a huge amount of overhead waste.

At an early stage startup with a small app it might not be as big a problem, but where I'm at right now the app is over 10 years old and our test suite with many many parallel workers is still well over an hour cycle time to get that sanity feedback on a commit, and it's painful.
Here's how you can prepare a refreshing espresso to keep the day going without an espresso machine.
I wish I had your optimism!

I just can't see every site banning AI art. As long as there's a demand for a place to post AI art there will be places where that happens. I can't say how much it will impact beginner prices, but I'm 100% sure that the world isn't going to stop developing or investing in this technology because it makes artists upset.

You're right about one thing though, economics are a massive driver in results. If human art became cheaper than AI art I'd put my money on human art, but I don't think human artists want to work for less than AI does.

I'm not saying this means artists will never work again. Clearly many will, but I'll bet more than ever it will be only the most talented and creative who can make any money doing it and that it's very likely that most of the artists who make money today primarily due to websites like DeviantArt and furaffinity are going to lose most of that income.

I don't think artists will ever stop doing what they do even if their work ever did become commercially worthless. I don't think artists can stop themselves from doing it, even it just continues to give training data for AI that will out compete them. Their will be more art than ever for humans, but less of it than ever will be made by humans.
I remember seeing a website suggesting pumping sea water into the Salton Sea and Laguna Salad. The evaporation would bring a lot of rain to the Rockies and eventually flow into the Colorado river.
The text-davinci models are also much less interesting for content generation. It's a bit sad that the interesting models are somewhat "hidden".
I joke that the way you respect monarchist or other authoritarian opinions is to completely ignore them. It is after all what they want.
> I asked to give some measures of animal suffering, if you are talking about reducing animal cruelty so why so-called cruelty is bad?

Seriously, do we need a long and boring thread about existentialism to understand something, (and i’m gonna have throw a figurative number I clarify it before you ask me to cite the source) 90% of the civilized world agrees is bad? I guess not, so I’m gonna explain it like you’re 5: “Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you.” As simple as that.

As for the car, what would you say anybody can do tomorrow no matter what they do for a living or how much they earn, give up their car or change to a plant-based lifestyle?
See also

https://gizmodo.com/were-in-a-technology-arms-race-with-bear...

Perhaps we'll be memorialized (since we'll surely wipe ourselves out at some point) in bear or cockatoo legends as the weird hairless/featherless trickster gods that gave them the puzzle-making that kicked off their societies. Probably not, but it is funny to think about.
Self reply: I re-read the article with a more generous frame of mind, and they say this:

"The ceaseless pursuit of force multipliers is the only possible route to superlinear productivity improvements as an organization grows."

If we interpret this as saying that 'as we add another person, they should do something different to the previous person', then my complaint is addressed.

The rest of the article assumes you don't do that.