skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it is a representative fraction of NATOs might.

So we agree that a small fraction of NATOs power that represents likely less then most of each seperate country is capable of holding back and likely defeating Russia.

> And so Russia starts "partial mobilization" to match it, so will have to see how it plays out.

Russia started a mobilisation (there’s no word of partial in the actual decree) because they are losing. But I’m sure that a bunch of conscripts in T62s will fare better then the current professional soldiers in T72s and T80s who lost close to a couple months gains in less then a week.

> I don't know why some think it is comparable as it was yet another "bomb a backwards country" and run kind of war. Completely different goals, completely different methods, completely different repercussions.

Iraq was a modern army at the time with dug in defences, they where also half a world away requiring a heavy amount of logistics and planning.

Ukraine is on the border of Russia.

> The state of Iraq army was a joke compared to modern Ukraines, less in size, extremely poorly equipped virtually no air defense, key Iraqi army officers were surrendering or even declaring that they won't oppose the invading force.

Doesn’t look like air defence is doing much for Russia in Ukraine either “what air defence doing” is literally a recent meme that mocks Russias poor air defence.

> The US had simply leveled the whole of Iraq, purged all the infrastructure and what they caputed was already reduced to a stone-age rubble, what a feat!

This is exactly what Russia does except with added rape and torture of civilians

And without the military progress either.

> And the US couldn't care less what happens next with all the people, the territories, with bandits and other paramilitary groups. They just hit and then they simply ran to a safe haven beyond the ocean.

I don’t think that the people digging mass graves for civilians care what’s happening to them either.

> No one had fought an actual real modern army before, no one cared about infrastructure (and likely Russia won't be too, judging by recent Zelensky's speech)

Russia has been bombing infrastructure and civilian targets from day 1, they don’t care about infrastructure either.

> Completely and totally incomparable.

Id still say it’s pretty comparable given it’s distance. But I can understand why others wouldn’t.

It kinda makes Russias army look pathetic, but then again that’s what they are.
A little historical tangent:

Tomorrow (23rd) marks the 176th anniversary of the discovery of Neptune (~ 1.07 years on Neptune; 164.8 Earth years).

Johann Gottfried Galle an astronomer at the Berlin observatory found Neptune at the behest of Urbain Le Verrier who calculated its position by hypothesizing that some body must perturb Uranus orbit to explain the distinct deviation from the predicted motion by Newton's law of universal gravitation.

Le Verrier couldn't find a single French astronomer willing to take a look out at the sky after presenting his extensive calculations to the French Academy on 31 August. On 18 September he then wrote a letter to the German astronomer Galle at the Berlin observatory.

After receiving the letter 5 days later Galle immediately set up his telescope the same night and found a +8 mag star (within 1 degree of the Le Verrier's calculation) not listed on the official Prussian star chart. The next night he managed to measure the star itself moving by 4 arcseconds, finally confirming Le Verrier prediction of a new planet (and to this day last).

At ~30 AU (30x the distance sun-earth; Uranus being at ~20 AU) the discovery instantaneously made the solar system 1.5x bigger ;)
Military didn’t say no. Congress stepped in and demanded accountability. Military is still having wet dreams about IVAS (military version of hololens).
Last I heard was an initial purchase for 1,000(?) units to continue testing.
Also the military loves Office 365 and Teams. Everything is done through it now, of course nobody knows how to use collaboration tools and there is no training, so they still email PowerPoints all over the place.
Not true. It is very hard to hire good C++ developers. They are in very high demand. Not surprising since the world mostly runs on C/C++.
Barely playable.

Forget the name of the location, but when I tried playing again about a month or two ago, I tried moving from the wake up point to the elevator to head out to the lobby. The elevator never rendered and it's the only way out. This has been going on since first playing it some years ago, and it requires reloading the game which takes ~10-15 minutes.

When the game works and you're not experiencing lag, it's fun, but yeah it's still essentially a digital paper weight unless you have a rtx 20 or 30 series and a gigabit connection...

Oh and rather than putting focus on making the game actually playable, one of their recent dev goals was making bed sheets have more realistic physics... this kind of shit is a joke.
I'm waiting for Star Citizen II. In my mind it is even more amazing still.
Google has had more than one product that I've been excited to use but was invite only, and then only got the invite after interest had died both for the public and myself. Ones I can remember are Orkut, Wave, and Ingress.
--device "cuda"
Mythbusters: looks like a job for "Buster" (the crash dummy).
But in ten years the state of the art will be something better than Stable Diffusion.
A couple seconds?
There is no constitutional time limit on when election results have to be complete. They have very frequently in the past taken much longer. At the time of their ruling, the SC did not know how the final count would turn out. They did not want to know.

I.e., the majority on the SC was completely OK with the idea of having stolen the election.
Reminds me of a recent scandal involving Adele, where she is accused of plagiarizing a Brazilian composer: https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-10-19/toninho-geraes-vs-...
What sort of regulations could exist around the frequency or size of a company's layoffs?
Agreed on all, thx for the note!
You also risk locking yourself out of your life with a setup like that
My version of pytorch didn't have CUDA. I had to install conda to get it, and now it's currently installing.

Whatever the default version that `pip install git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git` grabbed didn't include it by default.
I don't think anyone is being forced to add their gender identity to any profile. Powell seems to have questioned the inclusion of the option to add them at all.
Honestly if they are targeting percentages of the company, ditching entire products, divisions or slicing diagonally across the org chart is the way to go. Consolidation of like functions and just stop projects. If there are uniquely skilled people in the layoff, give them a chance to interview with other teams. Make it quick and as painless as possible, the longer it drags out with rankings and middle managers politicking the worse morale will be.

Also, any investors out there might hear “one time restructuring charge” in the quarterly results when they talk P&L which will affect the bottom line.
What has helped me with the consolidation is the ubiquity of my preferred key bindings. I use vim keys with spacemacs like bindings.

On emacs, doom-emacs[1] gives me the bindings. On VSCode, VSpaceCode[2], on Jetbrains Rider, Intellimacs[3]. While there are minor differences between the implementations, I have very limited friction when switching between IDEs.

I have paid for the Jetbrains ultimate subscription as I also use DataGrip. I think I’ll be satisfied with the current version of their IDEs for the next 2 years even if I decide to cancel the sub.

[1]: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs

[2]: https://vspacecode.github.io/

[3]: https://github.com/MarcoIeni/intellimacs
Thats development and marketing combined though, for GTA 5.

So the contrast is even larger. I doubt Star Citizen spent anywhere close to as much on marketing as GTA 5 did.
Not sure if sarcastic. Causation definitely implies correlation.
Everyone in HN keeps pretending like ML transformation = human inspiration. This is really funny - we don’t have AGI but we have an AGI-like capability to avoid copyright. Seems to be the only place where human rights and AI rights are matched is where it most benefits AI research. How interesting.

A for profit computer program =! A human being.
Something doesn’t add up… they sell “magic mushrooms” but actually they don’t and it’s just grow kits? Huh?
That’s what they get for consistently paying less than other FANG companies.
My usual conversion - 267 full modular budget NIH R01 equivalent grants, including 50% overhead.
And for those that don't want to dive in to VPS/Dedis there are services like PikaPods[1] that spin up services for a good price. I've been running a Matomo instance for a couple months and didn't have to do any backend command line stuff

On some apps they also give a percentage back to the developer so you'd be supporting them.

[1] https://www.pikapods.com/apps#analytics
FTX in talks to raise up to $1B at valuation of about $32B
CLIP Interrogator: reverse prompt lookup from image
How many criminals do you know well?

Sure, some criminals are people who make “mistakes”. It was an error in judgement, they feel remorse and won’t do it again.

But many criminals know what they are doing is hurting others, their attitude is “who cares”? It’s a risk they take, if they get caught it’s just “the cost of doing business”. These are people who take your sympathy and use it against you.
And if you can make consistent enough deathtraps you can perform any computation in it's validation time.
A promise from a well known con artist and a promise from a centuries-reliable government aren’t actually usefully similar.
> Neat, https://github.com/openai/whisper - they have open-sourced it, even the model weights, so they are living up to their name in this instance.

Perhaps it will encourage people to add voice command to their apps, which can be sent to gpt3
Ask HN: Why are quadratic Bezier curves described so obtusely?
A (non-rational) quadratic Bezier curve is a section of a parabola, which is the trajectory of an initial velocity under constant acceleration, which at most spans a plane as only two vectors are involved.

Basic vector addition lets us visualize that a parallelgram grid is formed from the displacement contributed by initial velocity and displacement contributed by acceleration. So it's pretty easy to see that the middle control point forms the direction of acceleration with the midpoint between start and end[1].

Why then are all the sources describing quadratic Bezier curves make absolutely no reference to any meaningful physical quantities of any sort, instead just treating them like some sort of magical incantation about "interpolations of interpolation"? And similarly cubic Bezier curve can easily be described by the parallelpipid grid spanned by the velocity, acceleration, and jerk vectors, so there's no sense in saying that this strange way of describing them is necessary for generalization. The only likely explanation I can think of is laziness, as it doesn't really make much sense to be motivated by some sort of elitism on something so exceedingly simple.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/vP9fLYh.png
Plastic-Eating Mushrooms (2021)
EC2 live migrates instances too. Not sure where we are with rollout across the fleet.

The reason, from what I understand, why GCP does live migration more is because ec2 focused on live updates instead of live migration. Whereas GCP migrates instances to update servers, ec2 live updates everything down to firmware while instances are running.

Curious, what instance types are you using on EC2 that you see so much maintenance?
I'm thinking more and more that the biggest new realization for big youtubers is that they have a very powerful marketing platform bundled for free with their business. You know, the thing they sell for lots of money to other companies to pay their staff and themselves.

And when utilized properly, it can do wonders for promoting first-party stuff instead. Look at how many youtubers found success in selling merch, for example.

I view this on similar vein. Vgdunkey may or may not actually come through with his goal of publishing good games, but regardless, they will probably sell to his fans enough just because of the marketing platform that is his channel.
You have already revealed your true colors.
I believe it's a layer of mdadm and lvm rather than anything proprietary.
Already exists

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000181019563.html
Unless you're experienced well in some other language then assembly is going to scare you off. I learned assembly by looking at -O0 output from c compiler code. Then I went ahead and dived in. Just doing bare assembly is not somewhere a beginner should start unless they are just absolutely in love with low level programming.
What? The US master plan is to replace Russia? Years in the making it must be.

The US would be perfectly content not doing so - in fact this only happened because Russia has committed a monstrous war of aggression.

The US had no say in becoming Europe’s gas supplier. It happened because Europe’s preferred gas supplier is a criminal state.
It's like 100 feet deep. Better hope you are at the surface if you are trying to grab a rock at the surface.
Is the training dataset and code open too?
> Neutralisation of cockroaches

Neutralisation means killing. Where I work it must pass by an ethic committee before experimentation. People may think of cockroaches as expendable garbage, but they deserve humane treatment like any other cobain. I remember a kit which was sold as a toy and allowed remote control of a cockroach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLTntnFeGE0 , sold as a toy this is pure animal cruelty.
They’re still actively recruiting and interviewing?!? They should have halted most of that and probably stop any contractual recruiting and possibly had HR layoffs.
Apple, Microsoft, and Android support passkeys. They seem like a much better solution yubi keys
I remember seeing a few videos on this, it's super interesting because there are accounts of how dangerous it is, going back hundreds of years. Fascinating stuff.
IIRC it's nearly impossible to ensure that the laser (or its reflection from something!) never ever hits the eyes of people, and so it's not a viable product due to liability issues.
I doubt it would be setup like that. Compute is usually deployed as part of a large set of servers. The reason for that is different compute workloads require different uplink capacity.You don't need a petabyte of uplink capacity for many GPU loads but you may for compute. Just switching ASICs are much more expensive for 400G+ than 100G. That hasn't even got into the optics, NICs and other things. You don't mix and match compute across the same place in the data center traditionally.
I wonder how much electricity Twitter is saving by running the scripts on their users' machines instead...
I think this is an awful way of learning for beginning CS students. It will scare off too many good kids who think this is all that CS will ever be. Top down is better. Bottom up is only going to be good for people who adore computer architecture guts and want to start at the bottom from first principals. Most kids want to use computers as a tool and not learn it's atomic structure.
Lovecraftian intelligence: Is AI an incomprehensible cosmic horror?
> Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG -1.79%▼ and Facebook Meta Platforms Inc. had the highest-paid median workers, at almost $300,000.

Actual number was 295,884

I chose a round number. Wasn’t too far off.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-alphabet-meta-and-other-s-...
I had even less luck than this with the elevator. I couldn't open the door! Apparently it's unlike every other video game in existence, where door opening is a matter of a) walking up to the door, or at worst b) walking up to the door and hitting a button. But in Star Citizen, someone apparently coded an elaborate "door opening simulator" that requires you to switch modes and active your arm and do something complicated. I tried reading all the button prompts, and hit all the buttons, and I was able to open the door once, but then I was sent to another lobby with another elevator door and that one I couldn't open.

I was an original backer. Years ago I was able to get to the hangar and fly my basic ship around and shoot aliens and asteroids. Today I'm confounded by doors. I expect that when I try the game again in a few years, I'll probably have to read tutorials about how to make my character breathe and blink his eyelids.
> Plus all of those 1GB+ models won't fit into a phone anyway.

I don't think that's a requirement here. I've been playing with Whisper tonight, and even the tiny model drastically outperformed Siri dictation for me in my testing. YMMV, of course.
I’ve noticed this shift too in my decade+ in the US. It’s actually really nice to learn someone else noticed it too, because no one I’ve mentioned it to has known what the hell I'm talking about.

I think I only heard in it in some African American English accents when I first came here, but now it’s common among younger Americans more generally. I’ve also heard it applied to other consonants - you can replace quite a few of them with a glottal stop and still be understood :D
I'd say that's a weak test of capacity. Would love to see on Azure - T4s or an equiv aren't even really provided anymore!

We find reliability a diff story. Eg, our main source of downtime on Azure is they restart (live migrate?) our reserved T4s every few weeks, causing 2-10min outages per GPU per month.
Not sure if this is an option, bit I have a pixel 3 Android and have explored a few custom launchers to achieve this.

Currently I use "minimalist phone", I've also used Siempo. Both are amazing, cut down on phone clutter and allow you to aggressively manage notifications.
I think OP is right: it used to be midwestern, but over the last 30-40 years, became southern.
>Do you think we will ever turn back to eugenics?

As the word is currently used, no, but mostly because it’s seemingly used to represent, in the public consciousness

> intentional genetic control we dislike

When we do things such as “screening for down syndrome” [1], we are already actively engaged in a eugenics project, but we don’t think of it as one because it’s the kind of intentional genetic control we like.

I expect many, many more “genetic controls we like” as medical and biological sciences advance, I think “eugenics” will always be viewed as a dead end.

[1] https://www.pennmedicine.org/updates/blogs/womens-health/201...
The thing that amuses me as an Australian is the subtitles when a pom, Irish, or Scot is talking. I've not seen it with Australians, but I wouldn't be surprised
Yup there’s quite a bit :) email me at ^ and we’ll try to set smthg up!
That is an interesting comparison. I think it highlights that engineers may need to constrain the design a few levels of abstraction lower than where they typically operate at any given time. I think performance constraints is a key motivating factor for when we need to peel back the layers of abstraction and tweak something under the hood(s).

I think another analogy is like building a skyscraper. The construction worker needs to worry about the floor below him and the floor he is working on. Everything below him is an implementation detail from his perspective.

If N is the cutting edge level of abstraction, N+1 is what research is doing, N-1 is where I like to operate at while I wait for N to stabilize.

Take a stack of AWS services for example. AWS comprehend medical is an abstraction built on a bunch of NLP building blocks. AWS health lake is an abstraction on top of AWS comprehend medical. At this point I don't care about the NLP underlying AWS comprehend but I don't want to use AWS health lake until it has a chance to stabilize and another abstraction is built on top of it.
I use OneDrive as my cloud storage provider. To me cloud storage from the top-tier vendors seem to work well enough at this point. I probably would’ve used Google Drive, but once I learned they take it out of your Gmail storage space I declined. To Microsoft’s credit, your OneDrive storage space does not come out of your app Outlook email storage.
>He was said to have been swallowed by the Strid in 1152 after trying to leap across.

As an American it's always startling to casually see a date that far back in history, and know a specific event such as the death of a child was recorded, and has been remembered for nearly a thousand years.
There are already mp3 players in a cassette form-factor, with output via tape head and 3.5mm jack. I think some of them can receive bluetooth audio, too.
No, more like you have, as others have pointed out.
Dude, it's a dysfunctional pile of shit that requires a high-end gpu and connection.

If they focused on improving the game's initial loading times, cutting down on a hate inducing amount of lag, and making the elevators actually render reliably for everyone at any time, instead of bullshit like focusing on making bed sheets have realistic physics, then alright.

Until then, it's a barely playable piece of shit of a digital paper weight. It boils my blood just thinking about how shitty the experience they provide is.
Speaking of subtitles. My god, on the UK Show DVD releases, the subtitles tracks made it a whole new show.
Agree, thank you for being first to say it.

That humanity is _converging_ on some "intentional" optimal outcome is dramatically depressing to me in a way that i wasn't prepared to read today.

Now i don't know what's left or right, but insofar as my time here is concerned, let chaos blossom! Way more fun
I wonder if it really just comes down to chopping it up for ads.

As in, the cost of reshooting is less than the cost of syndicating the original and re-cutting it for American ad time slots.

From my childhood, the only place I remember seeing unedited British shows was on my local PBS affiliate which doesn’t show ads (maybe once every hour).
I've only been alive since the 70s. What was life like before the Fed created money? Was it better?
What tools do you use to do this? I once hacked together an editor like this maybe a decade ago -- edit speech as text from OCR -- and sorely need one now.

Alignment of video to text is a big problem for me too.
I am a European who has actually lived, worked, and paid taxes in the US and 4 other countries. And no you are wrong. And it’s getting worse.
So a relic of the past?
Oh yeah? It's been a long time since I've stayed in a hotel. Pandemic. They say it. They pretty consistently say the floor too. I guess we travel different places. Better to be safe tho. Once they say it you can't put it back in.

Maybe you don't travel that much?
I've got a Peplink UBR LTE I like that I have in a remote location. Two different cell antenna pairs that can accept external antennas, 4 sim cards, Wifi, internal software that allows auto switchover if something goes down. Can take 12-24 DC so I can plug it into a car battery when the power is out. I use it in conjunction with a Starlink setup. I've got sim cards for both AT&T and Verizon, but in my area, the AT&T 20GB for $50/month works fine.

https://www.peplinkworks.com/UBR-LTE.asp
Scientists take giant step toward developing room-temperature superconductors
I can't speak for digital art because I'm not an artist but I can say it's extremely common for original music to (often accidentally/subconsciously) include melodies or pieces of melodies from other music.
It’s pretty bad if you have to compare the US with Syria to feel superior.
I love 2:58's reference to the Sony rootkit scandal:

> It’s never safe to unload a driver that patches the system call table since some thread might be just about to execute the first instruction of a hooked function when the driver unloads; if that happens the thread will jump into invalid memory.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-blog-archive/...
Hopefully anyone with a workload that's that latency sensitive would a have preallocated pool of warmed up instances ready to go.