skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quoting fully the tweet:

"GPT-4 will never be built.

Absent a fundamental breakthrough, a human-level 17T parameter model would take about 149 years and $350B of compute to train."
Big Tech has really big datasets esp Google. With YouTube, Photos, Music, Gmail, Docs, Maps, Books, Waymo, Search … they have giant multimodal datasets that capture essence of all human knowledge. They have 10+ products with more a billion users creating data for them.

If Google Brain/DeepMind were to crack AGI, it would make Google/Alphabet crazy rich at the detriment of millions of YouTubers, Book authors, musicians, drivers.

AI will concentrate power and wealth to fewer individuals.
We have such AI already that scores work for how likely it is to be infringing on a prior copyright. It is written by Google and operates on Youtube.

The big question is if we think that Google made a poor work of that AI and if more money and more data rich company can make a better AI that teach originality.
Isn't Substack.com like the old "blogosphere" and hence like the old internet? There certainly are many quirky people publishing on Substack who are writing, creating and talking (via video and podcast) about anything and everything. I myself publish essays about the life lessons found in movies, and I'm creating a four-panel comic strip on Substack. Others are putting up original music, poetry, fiction etc. And of course there are many technical Substacks, covering economics, politics, research, etc. Many of these are large enough to have their own communities. Can't you get what you liked from "the old internet" on Substack?
Note that they opened both in the same vs code instance. And copilot uses other files in your vs code project as context to make predictions, so it could have reproduced this code without knowing it before.
If it doesn't get security updates, you really can't do online paying/banking with it.
Do Kwon says charges against him not legitimate and politically motivated
Seeking fast food is a fools errand: The ritual of preparing food is quite important IMO. Psychologically and for satiation.

Fry some eggs and add some salad on the side takes 3 minutes (like em soft!). It is a side project as I do the main thing: make a latte! I keep the pan as-is for later use.
I would if it were true however I don't think India has been particularly friendly to Sikhs or any other minority community.
At first seems like a silly idea. But in reality we really need much better enforcement here. The amount of badly tuned cars is insane in England. It's like the only purpose these drivers have, in modding their cars, is to cause annoyance.
FreeBSD really deserves all the love it can get. It is an amazing system to work with and develop on, and I'll never stop evangelizing everyone about it.
> she’s under close supervision by the Parliamentary Conservative Party.

Interesting. Only 20% of the PCP voted for her, yet she's nominally PM. Reportedly many conservative MPs are considering crossing the floor. Others are trying to figure out how to get her to hand-over to someone else (who?) without another leadership election, and especially without letting the party members have any say.

How are the PCP supposed to keep her "under close supervision"?
Not everyone is in the US.
I would say that the logic is more like:

Proposition: "They either do not use private code or they did something very very stupid."

Proof: "Not using private code is very easy (for example google does not train its models on workspace users' data, which is why they get inferior features) and they promised multiple time not to use private code so doing in would be hard to justify"
Neat. For those who don't want to tinker with hardware (just software) - is there a nice app providing TOTP for the PineTime smartwatch?
This investigation should not stop at GitHub Co-Pilot, large language models currently that are trained on huge amount of data should also be investigated as I'm sure there are lot's of problems to be found there.
Yeah. My brother worked at a Husqvarna warehouse for a few months. It was the most depressed I’ve ever seen him.

I’ve chatted with my dad about Amazon working conditions, and he retorted with tales of his own days in un-conditioned factories and warehouses in Oklahoma in the 1980s.

There are a lot of crappy jobs out there. Those of us who have found enjoyment and balance are fortunate.
Free speech isn't just about political speech though.
Correction: even if Google is down, you won’t notice, because DDG works just fine. Last time I went to any of Google websites was 4 years ago.
As someone with auditory sensory overload I'm always amazed how much noise people are able to tolerate, and perhaps even enjoy?

I don't even think the issue is custom exhausts or revving engines honestly, because it seems many stock motorbikes have incredibly loud exhausts already. Certainly loud enough to drown out speech. Yet no one seems to care. If I'm walking down the road having a conservation with someone then a noisy motorbike goes past people don't seem to react to the motorbike, instead they just instinctively start shouting at me so I can hear them over the bike as if that's a perfectly normal thing to do.

Same thing seems to happen when I go into shops and restaurants these days. I feel like I'm going into a club or something, yet no one seems to notice until I point it out. The music is always so loud that people are literally shouting over the noise, yet no one thinks this weird. In fact they think I'm weird because I can't handle the noise in these kinds of places.

I get I'm an outlier here, but I've always been amused by that. It seems to me people must actually like noise and shouting at each other because obviously no one is forcing anyone to buy really loud cars and bikes, nor is anyone forcing restaurants and shops to play music so loud you can't hear people speak. People seem to actually have a preference for loud exhausts and loud restaurants.
I’d love for my city’s government to do something similar. Peeps reving their engines and playing cool for no good reason in the middle of the night is such an asocial and egoistic behavior and ruins the quality of life for whole neighborhoods. Not to mention the terror it entails for the animals in the city.
> reliable like nuclear

To be clear, the capacity factor of France's nuclear power stations is "about 70%"[a] (and was "61 percent"[b] in 1988), while recent offshore wind farms manage a "65% capacity factor"[c].

It's also worth noting that there is less parallelism in nuclear reactor designs than in wind farms, so a single mechanical or structural fault (or just the need for regular maintenance and inspection) can take out an entire nuclear reactor, whereas a wind farm can shut down a single turbine without much impact.

So there are certainly differences in the sorts of guarantees that the different types of power station can provide, but I think you need to be a lot more precise about what you mean by "reliable" in order to judge what, if anything, renewables are lacking as an alternative energy source.

[a] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-pr...

[b] http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/electricit%...

[c] https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/worlds-first-fl...
`ripgrep` is my favorite of the "new" linux utilities

Yeah, but only when used together with fzf, the other favorite new cross-platform shell utility. I mean, after rg spits out a list you do want to narrow it down and then do something with the files in that list, right?

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/ADVANCED.md#ripg...
Engineer’s Guide to Watering Plants
Noise Abatement Society
Can't you tear off specific bits into their own windows?
Software registrar of settlement operations do not make my taxes to grow (buying laptops and internet connection is not a tax because it is possible to use nothing except of one smartphone for everything). So, I would call it a surveillance enforcement.

My opinion is that we the people used to allow a lot of misrights to us: firstly by using a lot of proprietary software which turns to smartphonisation of everything under the rule of Google/Apple; then by eating with pleasure all the covid restrictions; this is just another step at tightening up the bolts. Kind of notoriously "Patriot Act" in US: nobody would agree with it before 9/11, and nobody wants it today - but nobody used to have enough balls to protest it immediately after 9/11 when the emotion level was hysterically high.
> Fair warning: everything I know about orbital mechanics is from Kerbal Space Program.

Knowing what I know about that game I read this as: Warning; I actually know what I'm talking about here.
It seems they've finally come to the realisation they're gonna have to start paying people to use their software.
“JIRA acknowledges that it is a net negative to humanity”
They commit incomplete changes directly to master after trying to make them unreachable. Personally I’d rather commit when ready, even if I’m going to be using a runtime experiment to ramp up slowly from zero. I don’t like being one mixup away from breaking prod.
I wonder if any legal minds here could comment on whether they owe me $1.5billion if I sign up for this. Technically it's an offer with consideration that I'm accepting, and happy to pay $-1.5billion for this service, even though I know that trying to get this to stand up in court would be a fools errand.
But it’s not. You can see here now that everyone is aware of these bad practices by amazon. This means less people apply and even lesser accept the position. This leads to more time and resources taken for hiring and giving higher wages eventually to compete.

You can see that even though amazon mass hires candidates, they still have to shell out more salaries than say Google and Microsoft. It’s easier to fix bad salary+good wlb reputation (by increasing salary) than fixing good salary + bad wlb reputation (idk how they can even do it).
What's cooking on Sourcehut? October 2022
The case against Effect Systems (e.g., the IO data type)
You’re right, trying Copilot is equivalent to committing murder.

/s
TOTP for 2FA is incredibly easy to implement. So what's your excuse?
Incredible. Maybe we can use this to shoe horn in docker support without the long lived VM
> San Francisco collided with an undersea mountain about 364 nautical miles (675 km) southeast of Guam

How is Newsom still in charge after THIS?
Yep. Four years might be a long time in Silicon Valley, but not in Redmond. Satya Nadella has worked at Microsoft 30 years. This is a company that can think past the next quarter.
I think this is a great idea, but my concern is that these boy racers tend to stick to residential areas where you don't often get speed cameras, which makes me think that noise cameras will also be placed in areas that these people won't be driving.
While it's widely prescribed in Germany, it is actually pretty restricted, too, but there seems to be a lot of off-label use. It's only supposed to be prescribed for strong pain, or for fever only if other medications don't work. There is a risk of agranulocytosis, which is low, but the reason for the restriction in various countries.
The only use case I can see is script kiddies toying with credential stuffing using Open Bullet 2 and well-known compromised accounts.
I used to be like this, treating food as a mere annoyance to get out of the way as quick as possible so that I could move on to actually important things.

Then as the years went by, I started picking up cooking techniques, learning about nutrition, and became less worried about being "on" all the time.

We're humans, not machines. Time at rest actually does us good, as does time away from tasks. I find that my overall performance has massively improved simply by stepping away from a problem and coming back to it later.

Food preparation and eating is one of those "stepping away" times. Once you have a repertoire of recipes that you can do on automatic, plus a few more ambitious meals for when you feel like it, food becomes an enjoyable experience in its own right, as you slow down to prepare it, and slow down to eat and enjoy the good quality food you have prepared.

On the other side of the coin, the only way to reliably avoid highly processed foods (which cause a whole host of health problems) is to prepare food yourself from primary ingredients. And even these kinds of meals can be brought down to 10 minutes of prep time in some cases, or in cases where they're not, you could prepare large batches to keep in the freezer and reheat for those times you just don't feel like cooking.

All you really need to get started is a basic 12-16 piece spice set, a few simple recipes, and some basic tools like ladles, spatulas, a mixing bowl, measuring cups/spoons, a good quality chef's knife + sharpener (Victorinox is plenty good and inexpensive), some pots, a frying pan, a hand mixer, a microwave oven, an air fryer, and maybe an instant pot.

Take the time to learn how to prepare good quality food. It will pay back in dividends for the rest of your life.
That may be true for the feeling of nausea but smart phones almost certainly give rise to all kinds of maladaptive behaviours and subtle mental illnesses.
What Is “Engineering for Software?”
By "sick", the worst cases are feelings of headache, nausea, and dizziness. I've never seen or heard of someone actually throwing up. The most severe cases happen in about 1% of people. It takes actively ignoring growing symptoms and forcing yourself through the experience to get that far.

90% of people have no problem at all.

The last 9% of people will feel a mild dizziness. If they take it slow, don't spend more than 15 minutes in their first time, and ramp up usage, they'll be fine.

And mostly, this isn't a VR problem. The hardware and OS-level features have eliminated large swaths of the causes of sim sickness. The one they can't solve is application design.

The thing that causes sim sickness in people today is artificial locomotion, moving the virtual view without moving the physical body. Moving users without user input, or accelerated linear movement from joystick input. And the article calls out that the test app used joystick movement. This is well known in the industry to cause issues for a large number of people. Yet the author lets the researcher claim "our environment doesn't do anything to cause [simsickness]" without pushback.
A welcome development. I wonder how quickly it boots.
In your opinion, what is the best thing that FreeBSD offers?
Is a roof you have to redo every 20 years, or a paint that only lasts 10 years faulty? Is a car that needs brakes replaced every X thousand kilometers faulty?

It is only faulty if it does not run according to spec, or if you it run outside the spec.
Is that "燒賣"?

As a HongKonger I didn't learn much about pinyin.
Labour laws do not apply if you're freelancing, which you have to do most of the time for US companies.
Full UI redesigns are usually as much of a fail as code rewrites or even more...
Wow inflation really popped in a week!
Sounds very familiar.
> was measurable in Germany

It still is measurable. Only 5% of the reactor mass managed to escape into the environment. There are effective safety mechanisms but like in Fukushima they are subject to economic realities. The luck here was that water is a very good radiation absorber. It will still go into the food chain and increase risks. Perhaps not by much if we are lucky.

This is politics and letting them run is populism in my opinion. They won't run longer than to their next security inspection. Even the owners were reluctant because you have to reorganize the demolition, which isn't trivial for NPP.

Nuclear can be a source of energy, but the way it is currently hailed as a solution for climate change should only really convince filthy peasants. Emotional is as much a reluctance to consider better options because it is expensive and there are a lot of unsolved problems. Beginning from mining Uranium to getting rid of the waste permanently.
For $1.5B / month I’d use Jira. But only for a month.
If you can't get your pricing page right you have to wonder what else is a mess under the hood at Atlassian
Good Investors Make Investing Harder
100% agree.

Now I’m scared …. Is JetBrains changing the Pycharm UI? Why? For fashion?

Please no, this is the tool I use every day all day.

JetBrains if you’re listening… don’t fuck up the UI. I do not want a redesign. I do not want your IDE to be like VSCode. It’s a GOOD thing that JetBrains does not look and feel like VSCode.

I hope you are listening to your users.

I pay money for Pycharm … don’t change it.
Human brain cells in a dish learn to play Pong
https://archive.ph/GpPCN
this was me an hour after I dropped $500 on my PSVR a few years ago
Long time warpd user here: You should ditch grid mode for the much more efficient hint mode. Also, check out keyd by the same author. The combination of warpd/keyd easily saves me an hour of work every day.
They have done so already with their license and there's no legal reason for them to have to opt-out.
He did specify high school though, rather than college/university (or a generic like “school” or “academia”).

We’re probably all over-reading this quote but it did come off as a “grow up” comment in my reading as well, intended or not.
AWS asks you to sync by inputting subsequent codes if it detects keys from the wrong time window.
The premium tier is even worse:

Standard
-$765,432,091.03
per user (average)
-$7,654,320,910.25 a month

Premium
-$1,506,172,824.28
per user (average)
-$15,061,728,242.75 a month
What makes you think that they haven't already considered it? It's rather offensive to assume that a group of UX professionals decided to take on a massive overhaul just for fun. Given UX has never been a major priority at JetBrains, it implies that they decided it was valuable enough to spend the time and money on this. I just can't imagine this was done on a whim
Well, I guess I'd be fired quickly because between 7 and 8 PM CET I put my kids to bed, usually fall asleep too.
The German Startup MARA Solutions launches their new AI Review Reply Assistant on Product Hunt.
The assistant helps companies replying 3x faster to every customer review with individual responses written by your personal AI assistant. No templates are needed. Works for all sources (e.g., Google reviews, Tripadvisor reviews, Booking reviews, Trustpilot reviews, etc.) and industries.
This sequence of comments is literally a joke template. Completely unoriginal and predictable. You can get plenty of that on Reddit.
Just in case this disappears:

https://i.imgur.com/KuYKeXY.jpg
Here is the link to keyd: https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd
You seem generally very knowledgeable about this environment and I'm by no means an expert in the SQUID, but the way I understand it it's effectively a magnetometer with sensitivity down to about femtotesla scale. Clearly that could in principle pick up the magnetic effects of many objects well beyond a decimeter, even with consideration of the field rapidly declining with distance.

The main problem in using it, as I understand it, is rather that picking up everything the sensor could detect would usually result in an unmanageable deluge of unwanted information, and it's a normal operation context to filter the signal for distance so as to not pick up too much interference from equipment, staff, etc.
But personally I don't see any reason it would be impossible to arrange it to band-pass instead of low-pass in that filtering.
That's nice for the software. Now how about the hardware? How about the electronic hardware's not-exposed firmware, does that count? Did the subcontractor test it for three years at 10,000 feet for radiation-induced bit-flips? With or without lightning strikes?
> Dealing with oppressive governments as a visitor is the rule around the world, not the exception.

It may be, but I'm happy to have the choice not to visit such places.
On an annual basis, negative users are expected:

Standard
$790
a year
User tier: 0 - 10

Premium
$1,525
a year
User tier: -987654320 - 10
I hate the smell of Atlassian in the morning. It smells like failure.
If a broad cross section of society cared there would be enforcement. You don't see blatant drunk driving or insane speed get ignored. If a cop sees that they at the very least turn into Mr. Krabs with dollar signs for eyes and get to enforcing.

There's really not much societal appetite for that level of enforcement against people who are engaging in annoying but mostly harmless behavior that almost everyone will grow out of hence why dumb exhausts are mostly ignored except at the extremes.
-$7,654,320,980 for 1 user
-$3,827,160,486.13 for 2 users
-$1,530,864,189.80 for 5 users
-$765,432,091.03 for 10 users
There are all sorts of things in law about “reasonable persons” and contracts needs to be beneficial for both parties. I am sure this would not be binding.
Why? Because if Tether has $10 billion in actual assets, hands out $20B worth of USDT, and whales redeem $10B, the remaining $10B USDT are worth nothing.

And, yes, it is virtually certain that they have taken massive losses (seen the state of the crypto markets and ecosystem lately?). The big unknown, as ever, remains how much actual assets they have and how liquid they are.
Until the last sentence I was thinking “go build em a saas!”
>The developers have solved this by making the player the origin instead

Perhaps such a brilliant idea came to them in a dream. But maybe they forgot how they did it in another dream.
Stock motorbikes are actually pretty quiet these days, because there are laws about how loud legal exhausts can be. Even legendarily noisy Harley Davidsons come with quiet-ish exhausts by default. It's just that it's very common for people to swap them out, even if they're leaving the rest of the bike otherwise unmodified.

And yeah. Can't speak for restaurants, but people really like loud exhausts. For one, there's a saying within biker circles, 'loud pipes save lives' - as in, if your exhaust is loud, people can hear you coming and you're less likely to get flattened by an oblivious driver. Whether or not that's true is very debatable (studies seem to say it makes no difference), but people believe it. And secondly, people do just like loud things in general - there's something about being kicked in the chest by pressure waves that seems very enjoyable.
The US was the only country to decrease emissions over the decades while growing our energy output, all countries in the Paris Climate Accord failed to do so.

We did it because of fracking nat. gas replacing coal due to innovation. Capitalism brings a lot of innovation including advancements in green energy too.

Tesla was able to economically compete and take a huge segment away from the automobile giants through capitalism, forcing them to compete and develop EV cars.

I don't see many socialist countries actually doing much, hell Germany still wanted Russian gas so much someone (wonder who) had to blow up the pipeline!
It's a 10x discounted option by the looks of it.

They must be A/B testing.

https://imgur.com/xGaepnA
I don’t have a diagnosis of any sort that I’m aware. Personally I’d have motorcycles banned, I don’t see any (net) benefits of them, and the noise is ridiculous. I made it a top priority to live «far» from a main road when moving, after living too near one for a few years.

Shops - I don’t think I live anywhere near you. I haven’t had that experience.
Under the hood they might prefer to do accounting in floating point. BigDecimal isn't meant for true programmers.
No, it won't. Earth will either be a scorched planet or will be engulfed by the Sun. And it won't take those 5 billion years either for life to vanish from Earth. We're currently near the inner edge of Goldilocks zone (Mars is just a bit outside of the outer edge) and we have only like 500 million years. Either start colonizing other planets or we die, there nothing in between (assuming we don't destroy ourselves meanwhile).
New York's War on Noise:

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013...
People do care, it just doesn't kill anyone like drunk driving does.