skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Hurricane Ian hit Florida, is it a disaster? Legally it isn't a disaster until the governor signs the disaster declaration.

Similarly are we in a recession? Legally the National Bureau of Economic Research gets to make that call. The rule of thumb is it gets called when for consecutive quarters of GDP contraction. However they have said they refuse to call it because unemployment is low and wages are doing well.

So you can call it whatever you like, legally it is just another day.
This isn't a very compelling argument. First of all, they aren't a "mish mash" in any real way, it's not like snippets of images exist inside of the model. Second of all, this is entirely subjective. Third of all, entirely inconsequential - if these models create 80% of the video we end up seeing, is it going to matter if you don't think it's a tasteful endeavour?
Performance is pretty hard to measure without resorting to gameable KPIs.
Glad you didn't have to deal with any of Treasury Direct's nonsense. If you make a mistake logging in, you have to wait on hold with customer support for around 2 hours.
People do die. It's called burnout.
VUI's are just text interfaces with a different input system and more error checking. They implement operations that give you convenience in exchange for versatility.
Democracy and authoritarianism are not mutually exclusive. I think most people's gripes aren't with their political leanings, but the way they chose to respond to things like the Farmer Protest (where Modi's administration basically admitted they were wrong). Stifling communication and censoring the internet isn't what any just democratic ruler does, regardless of their party affiliation.
> who is going to determine what is misinformation

Furthermore... if your main concern about Musk taking over Twitter is that certain information (of any kind) is going to be shared, then you're concerned about the existence of the unregulated internet in general. Not only does the "they're a private company, they can censor whatever they want" not apply here, it's turned on its head.
I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that an IOS device has the page open in a tab and refreshes it from time to time. I wish manual refresh was an option, especially for pages with redirects to another app or the AppStore.
https://www.cybercom.mil/About/Mission-and-Vision/ ?
I am also interested by this question. Energy => machine/labor => GDP
So, my first naive take would be that we could extract/build/ship more for less, and then potentially keeps the "growing" economy humming.

Maybe due to my past education/experience, I still feel uncomfortable about more waste (if energy is cheap, why not like in Quatar build stadiums with AC ? keep AC stores doors open in summer, and in winter when the heat is on, etc.)

I have a sense that increasing energy waste will come to 2nd order cost on other resources (water, minerals, etc.). Thoughts ?
I read the nvim v0.8 release note so you do not have to
Try to see if they can text you instead
Zero COVID has shown that China can lock down the world’s largest container port and without batting an eye. More importantly, there is no end to that policy in the foreseeable future.
They only updated the front end main landing pages, not the core experience of opening accounts logging in, filling out forms, making mistakes. That is all the same as it's always been. Painful.
You need a US SSN or TIN
Is this going to end up into a single model, where its trained on text and images and audio and videos and 3d models, and it can do anything to anything depending on what you ask of it? Feels like the cross-training would help yield stronger results.
I believe the author would agree fully with this model. They aren't against writing as thinking, they're against focusing on your note-taking system as a meaningful artifact in itself. And especially against it as an elaborate distracting one.
ClickHouse Cloud provides port 443 as well as 8443.
You can insert one row at a time, it's perfectly ok with "async_insert=1".
we can't even get a robot to fix a dishwasher or to sort trash. Let alone am orbital telescope
A lot of additional work, because the industry was growing like crazy in tandem.
At the rate this is going we are only a few years from generating a new TNG episode
> So.... you're saying we shouldn't end the drug war?

You might want to reread his post or take reading comprehension lessons.
> The point is though that the visualisation isn’t the occupancy network. And the occupancy network is a lot closer to a substitute for ultrasonics than anything shown on car screens.

What is it then? Because it's my car, detecting the occupancy of something that isn't a car that it previously did not show visuals for, and the release notes don't mention anything that would enable this visualization aside from the occupancy network[0].

> Added control for arbitrary low-speed moving volumes from Occupancy Network. This also enables finer control for more precise object shapes that cannot be easily represented by a cuboid primitive. This required predicting velocity at every 3D voxel. We may now control for slow-moving UFOs.

> Upgraded Occupancy Network to use video instead of images from single time step. This temporal context allows the network to be robust to temporary occlusions and enables prediction of occupancy flow. Also, improved ground truth with semantics-driven outlier rejection, hard example mining, and increasing the dataset size by 2.4x.

Additionally the wording they use when presenting the research was vague, they say it's not currently shown, but proceed to show raw visual data. What I take this to mean, is that they won't ever show the raw data, but will build visuals from it. They even detail this by mapping occupied space to "the nearest available item"[2]

FWIW, _if_ this is the occupancy network in action it's lacking a lot. It can't detect thin (~4" squared, floor to ceiling) poles in my garage, but my ultrasonic sensors can. (I know this because my car showed a path going straight into one.) I also can't find anyone discussing the visuals that I am seeing on my car either.

Additionally, the cameras on teslas have a very big blind spot in the front of the car, exactly where the ultrasonics were. [1]

[0]: https://www.notateslaapp.com/software-updates/version/2022.2...

[1]: https://nitter.net/greentheonly/status/1216194238146383879#m

[2]: https://youtu.be/jPCV4GKX9Dw?t=779
You know which Russian gas pipeline is still in operation?

The one that goes through Ukraine.

These things are a tad more complicated.
Oh, buddy, I'm 1000% with you here. Hell I was just trying to explain to someone why the Afghanistan war was, in fact, not a source of great wealth and economic prosperity for the US and I used an extremely similar argument (If we sent over fewer tanks would we have had more steel for cars, and a cheaper used car market now?).

My cynicism is more along the lines of

A. Lots of people think GDP == real wealth and can't seem to wrap their heads around our argument

B. You don't have to do better than you have been to keep the global-economic pole position, you just have to be doing better than everyone else. I'm not gonna elaborate on the rest of this, I'll leave that as a sad exercise to the reader.

I really really hope we don't start or find ourselves required to participate in a war.
The AI world can't decide either.
Think about where this stuff was 2 years ago and then think about where it will be 2 years from now.
> this is the exact same technology Apple lets China use to hunt down their religious and political minorities.

QR codes? HTTP requests? I’m not sure what technology you’re referring to.

> one thing is for certain; Apple doesn't treat privacy as a human right.

They have put a huge amount of effort into privacy technology; more than any comparable company I can think of. I don’t think your certainty is even remotely justified.
Perhaps call your old number and see if that person is willing to share the code with you?
This is a quote/reply/retweet/whatever of a tweet that is also on the front page in its own right:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33095608
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The hate comes from more of the system's administration side. Back in the early days, I've spent long long hours on an all day calls due to a product being down arguing with Java Developers that their is nothing wrong with the server and it's their code and the release they didn't test as well as they thought. Eventually a day or two later a "fix" is released but that releases change log is usually worded in a why to throw us under the bus further and save face with the C levels. As IT was considered a cost center vs the Developers that added features that made the company money, it was insanely harder to convince a C level that it was not something that changed on your side. I have had to put together charts, graphs and PowerPoint RCA's just to prove a point. Do that 100 times, over a 10 year period and it'll make anyone hate a specific language or technology.

I don't hate Java like I use to and it has definitely got better over the years, but it's not the first tool I reach for or consider for new projects because of past experiences. I understand that a lot of the issues were because people were not "leaving their ego at the door" but regardless it still created a negative experience that followed me for years.
50% of Americans are considering going on a diet within the next 6 months.
The author literally said:

There are serious reasons for systematic note-taking: perhaps you need to summarize the literature on some element of the mitochondrial background radiation of early childhood geography, or something like that, and you have to keep track of a million references to do the thing at all. If your note-taking system is adapted to a specific context of use such as this, then you’re working.
You can also have all numbers (calls) not in your contacts just go straight to voicemail via the "Silence Unknown Number," feature within the phone settings.
I think you're right but I disagree with your assertion that we couldn't manufacture these products in the US. Certainly we can't overnight, but it doesn't mean we can't at all or that we couldn't or shouldn't try to, generally speaking. Add to the fact that in China in particular as it grows into a more middle income country it no longer becomes the "cheapest place to build stuff" and instead comes more inline with other first-world economies which will cause companies to relocate factories provided cost is a concern, which if it is, it means leaving China and if it's not then there isn't an argument for not relocating outside of China in the first place.

> It’s a lot harder to justify paying more for lesser-quality labor and to upend logistics because of some false idea that “made in America” means anything.

Well it kind of does right? It's a geostrategic concern where certain components or products need to be made in safe harbors. Instability is bad for business, and the fact that we are discussing this proves the point. Made in America doesn't necessarily have to mean the rah-rah Eagles soaring kind of thing, it can also mean actual national security concerns relative to geopolitical and strategic realities that necesitate hire costs that outweigh other benefits.
Supply chain diversification is a good thing. No, it won't happen overnight, but it is happening.
Why the heck is a math paper in Nature? I'd put Nature somewhere just below vixra in terms of math credibility.
Thats just whataboutism. Also the us of a is pretty much leading the effort for ukraine’s independence along with the uk.
> The problem is that the world is at neoliberal capitalism's end, as predicted by Marx

Well. Its capitalism's end. Neoliberalism is just an attempt to return to actual capitalism that existed back at the end of the 19th century. Before those pesky regulations, antitrust laws, all those workers' movements and rights for the plebs...
Thanks, I knew it must've been there somewhere but couldn't readily find it. Keep up the good work at RC!
Tim Cook is latest CEO to question the ‘metaverse’
They're going to 1) rent it out as a paid API and/or 2) let you use it to create ads on Google platforms like YouTube, perhaps customized to the individual user
> The claim that printing away 127% debt-to-GDP won't lead to hyperinflation is very extraordinary

That's not the claim. Government bonds are like 30 years, so it's not 127% of the GDP all at once. Second, the context was not all debt everywhere, it was Chinese held debt, which is at about 5% of GDP, without spreading it across the duration of the bonds.

> you still haven't posted evidence from an authoritative source.

https://www.theonion.com/fed-raises-interest-rates-in-effort...
Here is an excellent video of McAfee doing it to a fox news anchor: https://mobile.twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/13053832859...
Bringing it back?

The US was never a bluetooth headphone manufacturing powerhouse. We make other stuff, and we should continue to make the high value goods we are specialized in, not consumer trinkets for low wages. Value added in manufacturing is far more important, and building headphones doesn't do that. Leave that to some other place.

I suspect that you have been listening to too much news entertainment. The US manufacturing industry is as big as it's ever been in terms of real output (not jobs). There has more than a trillion dollars in expansion since the pre-covid peak in manufacturing. The US is #2 in the world for gross manufacturing output, and in the top 10 for value add.
You need visibility, because if something is done, but nobody knows about it, it's almost as if it wasn't done at all.

You need predictability, so that people who depend on your work can make future plans (and I'm not talking about promising the day of delivery, but simple "this week / this quarter / this year / probably never")

And yeah, Kanban is a good alternative, but the article does'nt mention it at all
>As most of them were via 5-6 digit short codes, and those additionally respected the STOP keyword.

I just counted and I have sent STOP to 26 5-6 digit numbers this year and they still come, all for one specific political party I've never donated to. It seems like they technically respect the STOP but your number is already passed on/gets passed on to other PACs/politicians regardless.
I think there will be tons of jobs that resemble software development for proper, quick high quality generation of video/images.

That being said, it’s possible that it won’t pay anywhere near what you’re used to. Either way, it will probably be a solid decade before you’ve really felt the pain for disruption. MP3s, which were a far more straightforward path to disruption took at least that long from conception.
These diffusion models are using a frozen text encoder (e.g. CLIP for Stable Diffusion, T5 for Imagen), which can be used in other applications.

StabilityAI trained a new/better CLIP for the purpose of better Stable Diffusions.
In other words, it's a vice.
You really need something like sentry to report all unhandled exceptions. I learned that lesson when I realized everyone on Safari couldn't use my website (submit forms) because a feature I used wasn't supported on Safari. Easy way to drop your conversion rate by 30%.
"Mellavora" - is that honey-eater, in some language?
Simple solution --- don't use Google Authenticator.

Google didn't invent any of this, it is fully standardized (see RFC6238). There are lots of fully compatible alternatives with better options for security and backup and restore.

Personally, I use FreeOTP+ with a password lock and secret keys backed up off device.

Secondary opinion, why is the Google app lacking? Because they really don't want people to use it. They much prefer you reveal your phone number and use SMS instead. This way they can easily identify you personally.

Remember, everything Google does is subtly designed to help violate your privacy in some way. The quickest way to convince me not to use an app is to put a "Google" label on it.
Some excerpts from your website in the future:

"We use AI to optimise our early-stage iterations"

"AI is great for generating initial concepts. Here are some of ourfavourites, and some that didn't turn out so well!"

"Did you know AI can reduce our turnaround for clients by up to 50%?"

In other words: it'll help. It won't replace you.
Start making content and charging for it. You no longer need institutional capital to make a Disney- or Pixar-like experience.

Small creators will win under this new regime of tools. It's a democratizing force.
I could not agree more, and I think this take is one of those mental jumps that the pro-Sprint crowd hasn't made yet, but would if they adjust their mental view of how organizations are structured to see it.

My long term pet theory (like, next 10-30 years) is: we have this cohort of "kids" growing up now in an environment where there's plenty of money to be made in non-traditional independent ventures; think YouTube, Etsy, Fiverr, or even professional consulting. Not millions for everyone, but a stable living. The internet unlocked this; it just took a couple decades for it to really blossom. Synthesize that trend with the growing "r/antiwork" "end stage capitalism" "quiet quitting" mindset that many people millennial and younger hold. Then you consider declining western populations. I think there's real potential that traditionally structured top-down companies will face challenges competing for talent in the coming decades; and we'll see an increasing trend of peer-driven organizations (you can think of this like worker owned or highly unionized shops, but its less about the ownership structure and more about the power structure and incentive/responsibility culture).
Calculus is not easy to teach to children. We fail to teach it adequately to most college students in their first two years of study. Even a few historically noteworthy mathematicians failed their first contact with the subject.

Elementary linear algebra is far easier to understand and motivate. We can deal with finite, concrete examples without having to delve into the subtle complexities of limits, continuity, and infinity.
Aren't you very clearly and explicitly warned to print out the recovery codes for this exact emergency?

All 2FA sites do that?
Crypto Loans in Latam
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30692794
This is excellent! You should make a T-Shirt with this quote on it!
My personal phone is also my business phone which means a potential customer could be calling me from anywhere. My project is software that is in open beta, so the calls could originate from anywhere in the world. If I simply ignore any calls that are not in my contact list, I risk alienating a customer. Some might leave a voicemail, but I certainly can't count on it.
Alternately, Facebook's project is not to be confused with this significantly older one.
I don't understand this.

The only reason this is a problem is because we rely on computers for communication too much.

So the issue is less the service and more the fact that we live in a world with a lot of texting applications and emails being sent?

I would understand if you're claiming that it would make us speak more "robotic"
Harmful and "false" content shouldn't be censored by tech platforms either. There's no API for truth.

There's some role for courts, through libel/defamation lawsuits. And even then, the general criteria is false factual statements (not merely opinions) causing demonstrable harm _intentionally_.
That construction work is just as bad as software delivery, when the same shortcuts in quality are taken.
At least for a while fusion isn't about being cheaper.

It's about being abundant.
> That being said, it’s possible that it won’t pay anywhere near what you’re used to.

Also won't nearly require the amount of work it used to.
> Something that managed to evolve in a medieval monastery, during an era of warring kingdoms, must've been significant, and we dismiss our roots at our own peril.

Nope, in such 'warring kingdoms' environments science and education were not able to prosper. The middle to latter parts of the middle ages in Europe were rather stable times to allow the development of both of those.

Even with that, its still a medieval institution. It must progress and adapt to the 21st century.
Right, from zuck himself?

"They trust me — dumb fucks," says Zuckerberg in one of the instant messages, first published by former Valleywag Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider, and now confirmed by Zuckerberg himself in Jose Antonio Vargas's New Yorker piece. Zuckerberg now tells Vargas, "I think I've grown and learned a lot" since those instant messages.

https://www.gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-callin...
So are you a wordcel or a shape rotator, apparently aka mathcel? [0]

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/wordcel-shape-rotato...
So let’s not use a phone for calling anymore?
And a lot of automation in manufacturing doesn’t negate the need for human labor anyway. It’s still faster, more efficient, and better QA in many cases to have humans assemble certain things than to use machines. That won’t be the case forever, but the level that people think that the automation is going to be superior or even faster than the human element is often forgotten.

I agree with you that automation doesn’t necessarily lead to a loss of jobs. It can create opportunities for whole new skills and job types.

The struggle has been, especially in the US, that we haven’t then properly prepared or skilled people to do the new wave of jobs that can’t be automated.

I always think of this article [1] from January 2017:

> When the German engineering company Siemens Energy opened a gas turbine production plant in Charlotte, N.C., some 10,000 people showed up at a job fair for 800 positions. But fewer than 15 percent of the applicants were able to pass a reading, writing and math screening test geared toward a ninth-grade education.

So out of 10,000 applicants, less than 1500 were even qualified to interview for a job, of which they only had 800 positions. That’s a problem but the solution isn’t to shun automation.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/education/edlife/factory-...
Resistive heating for homes in cold climates becomes economical, so many can more easily move off of natural gas / propane in northern climates.

Battery advancements and supply logistics become the only holdup to clean transportation (right now, there isn't sufficient renewable generation or storage to completely replace fossil electricity).

Atmospheric CO2 scrubbing becomes more economical, so waste heat is not an issue I suspect.

Completely moving off of fossil fuels makes petroleum extraction much more expensive, as the primary products are not used as much, so anything currently relying on petroleum (plastics, makeup, asphalt, etc etc) becomes more expensive until renewable synthetic production becomes mainstream.
Yes, that's more accurate.
The virtual keyboard on the Treasury Direct login page is terrible, especially for those of us who use a password manager. I use the following bookmarklet that "types" each letter via the exposed JavaScript function on the page itself.

javascript:prompt('treasurydirect.gov password please').split('').forEach(PasswordVK)

easy-peasy
Less probable but it's quite trivial to make a browser extension or something of the sort for cheating (feeding moves to engine and showing suggestions)
Ask HN: Looking for an extremely simple logging tool
I just want to be able to insert a line of code...

Example: await thing.sendLog('Here', payload)

...and have that log sent to a Slack workspace.

Just super simple logging to speed up dev time, particularly for debugging. It's just a pain to refresh and comb through CloudWatch or other heavy logs.