skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is SpaceX also, so presumably in some regard piggybacks on StarLink.
"good (benign)"

More accurate word choice would be "less bad".

I don't believe dietary science knows of a benign sweetener at this time.

Kind of like the situation with alcohol; there's some that are worse than others, none that are beneficial, none that are neutral.
If there is one thing I know about tech companies in the last 20 years, it's that they never want VC money unless they are in trouble... right?
A reality check for dream jobs?
Yep, it seems like you get a transmit window every ~2 hours max. All in all this service is much more reasonable(cost/antenna size/transmit rate/power) than I expected. You can basically send 2kb/day from a large chunk of the world(with a view of the sky) for $5/mo. Somehow even cheaper than m2m cell plans I've encountered, though granted I haven't looked at services in the past few years.
I think the idea is that we would keep them in a lab and feed them whatever works.
I'm fairly confident CPI will be down quite a bit in 9 months.
Fair enough. I guess the root cause is the need to have sweetness in your diet, though? Which, yeah, might be mostly unchangeable now that you're already in that state (presumably from a long diet of soda).

incidentally as a person who did not grow up drinking soda, it's sickeningly sweet to me. It bothers me a lot, also, that it is actually much sweeter than it tastes due to the carbonation -- if you drink a flat soda you get a better impression of what you're "really" drinking, which is basically just watered-down syrup.
> another 10% is foreign dubbed garbage

Foreign to whom? Or do you mean, whatever your nationality, Netflix has a constant 10% of "foreign dubbed garbage" that will be foreign to you?
He was fired (at least as it's commonly referred to in the United States), see the image of his termination email at the bottom of the post
This was a separate company originally. In this case the RF protocol is completely different (~140MHz vs 12+GHz) as well so you'd have to add hardware to the StarLink satellite to support this (which obv. could be done moving forward)
We may well have a special structure for language processing, but Chomsky's claim that it is unique may be wrong.

Convergent evolution is a thing in nature, some structures evolved independently multiple times. Humans and octopuses have very similar eyes, which emerged from different structures.

I wouldn't be surprised if corvids developed human-like intelligence traits independently.
> spin off the browser to technically-focused (cf policy focused) group

Browser development is the main project of the technically-focused Mozilla Corporation, while it looks to me like the project here is under the policy-focused Mozilla Foundation.
People often blame England, but it was the whole of the UK, there were enclaves of opposition in all of the home nations.

Also, there were plenty of opposing voices in the UK (I realise we're party of the World, still!). Financial experts unanimously agreed it would damage our financial system; they only differed in whether it was worth it. Those for Brexit agreed that there would be up to a decade of economic damage.
I skimmed the paper, but I could not determine what TCP congestion control method they were testing against. Given the stall time, I expect that it was not BBR (which is the congestion control used by QUIC). If you improve TCP's congestion control and can also control the client TCP stack, most of BBR's advantages over TCP disappear.
> I think it's important to call out that Rosetta 2 on Apple silicon uses a special mode that changes how the memory model works to support x86 style memory ordering. That massively reduces the amount of work needed to emulate x86 and x86-64. Pretty sure apple both has a patent on it and a special dispensation from ARM to use it.

>Myth: Apple chips are the only ones to implement the x86 TSO memory model.

Nvidia Denver/Carmel and Fujitsu A64fx do too.

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1534053625110351872
At some point I noticed that Netflix had created different priced packages for 4K, 1080p and 720p (I think) and automatically enrolled me in the 4K package. When I found this I just downgraded to 720p (I think) and ended up saving $5 a month. I haven't noticed the quality difference but my TV is from the 2000's.
Loved this report so much I'm putting it in my weekly newsletter for remote working parents - https://thursdaydigest.com/

Btw - who can help me understand how did they create this cool responsive design? https://imgur.com/a/OuEDNEq
Or maybe intentionally screwing people (coworkers, your employer) over is an unethical thing to do even if we lean into the extreme credulity you profess here and say, "hey, we don't know if this poster signed one of those special 'FYI I will be screwing you over' contracts, it is not for us to make assumptions, we haven't reviewed the contract."
He will be effective in doing so because the email screenshot he included indicates exactly that: he was fired for non-performance related reasons. "Your recent behavior has violated multiple policies" is pretty unambiguous to me.
Three weeks PTO at Stripe, that's it.
To play devil's advocate: If Mozilla were purely focused on doing good for the internet, and had a funding problem that threatened their ability to do that, it's possible that carefully investing money in places that do some good and gives them returns is a good way to try and solve both problems at once.

Not that I have any faith in them. But this could be a good thing.
There’s no way these people chat in a Signal chat group?

It’s funny how people on a technology forum discount other normal humans also using technology

I mean Musk’s Twitter texts just revealed they do exactly that.
That's the definition of "pink slime", pretending to be a local newscaster when it is not.

This is a separate definition from ones in national broadcast news and one who pretend to be a national broadcast newscaster, which is a mute point when it comes to freedom of press.

Back to "pink slime", it is critically important to organically raise local newscasters as a local business.
The US state of Pennsylvania still has a special hunting season just for flintlocks:

https://www.goerie.com/story/sports/outdoors/2021/12/29/prim...
Correct. All investments need to be compared to the “risk free” alternative.
>> it is more likely to promote community growth

What does that mean?
Because there are too few, due to market dominance of existing players?
I don't think I'm unbiased? I just believe I'm taking the bias into consideration. Pointing out an obvious bias isn't a useful counterargument, it's just a way of saying "whatever you think you've noticed in your life, ignore it, you will always be wrong". Intellectually it's a complete non-starter, it's just a way to write off impressions you don't agree with (instead of, say, debating it, offering supporting or counter-evidence, etc). Obviously you are free to ignore the opinions of a random internet commenter, of course. But I like to mention what I've noticed in case it resonates (or anti-resonates) with any other casual readers.
> Limiting yourself to english is extremely shallow

I get what you and parent post are saying, but do remember Netflix caters to other audiences. "Foreign" is relative. To me, English is a foreign language.
No, I didn’t mean it that way or in reference to a specific company - although I can see how it read that way! Your comment made me laugh.

The point was more that layoffs can take out big slugs of staff without considering the individual, in a few different ways: initiatives we can just cancel completely (self driving cars); people we will likely need later but less in the shorter term (recruiting); or places where we consciously take on added risk (losing security).

I do think that for the company that sacked their security team, the executives may very well have had a full understanding of the risks it created — but couldn’t easily say so publicly (“we chose to 10x our risk of a security incident, so we keep 1 more product initiative staffed which might save us”). Just speculation. Not a situation I think many of us would be comfortable in.
According to the big W, part of it is due to inhibiting digestion of normal sugar, which tracks my understanding of chemistry. So there's a lot of factors.
Yeah, it's possible for a web server to detect and change the returned data maliciously. Even with user agent and all other factors changed to match, it's possible to detect even the difference between being piped into another command vs being redirected to a file.
wtf is happening in software? it seems tough to break in, and apparently it gets tough after ten years? so there's a ten year gap where the 'going is good'?
I think the idea is that it shifts the incentives. Sure, a rich nation state could buy tons of bot accounts at $10 a pop. But is that still the most rational path to their goal? Probably not, because there are lots of other things you can do for $100M.
Not that I want to defend a $150k RV (my family loves the popup trailer I bought used for $3k) but there are reasons that small RVs can be more expensive than large RVs.

Large RVs are built up from a bare chassis. Much of the internal construction is done with the walls off. Small van-type RVs start with a fully assembled body. You have to build, plumb, wire in tight quarters.

Also, small custom fixtures are generally more expensive than standard fiberboard RV panels, drawers, etc.
The difference is that the stream coming out of curl and entering sh is ephemeral. With this device, there is no checksum or signature (as with apt). If you pipe curl into sh, you also leave no trail of what you've run. A malicious actor can also hinder analysis by serving different payloads per user-agent, per time of day, per subnet; or only serving the malicious payload intermittently.

With .deb-files you're expected to verify the checksum. Maybe you don't, and even if you don't, you can theoretically go back and verify after as part of a forensic process. This checksum is also typically distributed across different mirrors, making bait-and-switch attacks difficult. It means that if you're going to do a supply chain attack, you must do it in the open.

Compiling from sources is a bit sketchy, but it is also the vector that is easiest to analyze, so I think they cancel out.
UK inflation in September: 10.1%

Eurozone inflation in September: 9.9%

I've seen some wild claims circulating that, for example, 80% of the UK's inflation is caused by Brexit but those don't seem at all plausible. No EU member has inflation that low, France's is about the lowest at 6.2% and that's with some fairly substantial and expensive energy price subsidies keeping it down. In fact I don't think there's any country in the developed world with inflation as low as that would imply the UK's should be if not for Brexit.
Reducing salaries opens a whole new can of worms with legal and immigration involved. Basically, if you hire someone on a visa, it is going to be a hassle to reduce their salaries - and the knock on effects could include restarting the immigration process. It might end up costing more than the dollars saved, and employees will likely leave anyway.
I would be surprised if it didn't caramelize. I don't know of any good sources, sorry.
> The intent is to represent everyone and not just the majority.

This has nothing to do with my point and, tbh, sounds like a canned response that you just mindlessly repeat instead of seeing whether it applies to the situation. To explain: suppose the population of Cuban ex-pats decided to disperse all over the country. The political makeup of the country, in terms of median voter opinion, is exactly the same, yet the net effect on foreign policy is massive. That is not a voting symptom that "represents everybody".
Could also be that some objectionable behavior patterns are much more common in some ideological groups than others, which makes it appear as if the moderation is biased against them. It is, just not in the way they think.
I'm sure it works across the population at large but I avoid doing business with people who engage in that kind of manipulation. They're fundamentally untrustworthy in my experience.
The UK is in a very, very bad situation. Just look at the crisis management being done at the Bank of England compared to the ECB. Inflation affects the whole of Europe, yes, but other countries do not have anything like the cost of living crisis in the UK. And the recession is also much worse in the UK in general (some specific EU countries fare better or worse on some specific aspects, of course). None of these countries are talking about austerity right now.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/software-engineer...

https://80000hours.org/career-reviews/software-engineering/
SpaceX acquired them last year.
Yeah, all valid. I guess the reason it seems obvious to me that the diet soda is directly affecting weight is that so many of the people with weight problems don't seem to think the soda can have anything to do with it. "But it's diet!" says, for instance, my mom.
AMD’s next-gen RX 7900 XTX and XT GPUs start at $899, launch December 13th
Yea, same-same.

It'll happen eventually, that projects like HL-A won't seem sooo risky and not require an entity like Valve that seems to have done it mostly for bragging rights - or something.

I think given the size and cost of games like this, it's going to be a very slow crawl... and not an explosion like iPhone was.
what is a center drive van?
Not everything that doesn't make sense to you is a grift. Vans are tempting for a whole host of reasons and building one out as opposed to plopping a box on the back of a cut-off is going to be more expensive.
I don't have any visibility into how many DOA NICs we have, so I can't say that Mellanox is better or worse at that point. But I do see most NIC related tickets for NIC failures once machines are in production. In general, we've found Mellanox NICs to be very reliable.
I'm making the narrower argument that the WMDs don't matter, which I'm standing by.

- If the war had gone well, nobody would care about the false claims.

- If we hadn't claimed there were WMDs, and the war had gone badly, there would be other reasons to dislike the war.

- If we had found chemical weapons, and the war had still gone badly, nobody would newly think the war was justified (everyone knew that Iraq at one point had chemical weapons, obviously).
You are an individualist, maybe even a trendsetter. We are talking about a trend that has reached the well-off yuppies (does that word still exist?). A friend of mine was just about to shell out 70,000€ for a small van, without really knowing what to do with it, because some of his neighbors bought one recently..
The Internet needs to have a verified public identity / reputation system especially with deep fakes becoming more and more pervasive/easier to create. Trolls can troll all they want but if they want to be serious with their words then back it up with his or her online verified public Internet /reputation ID.

If this is one of Musk's goals with Twitter he didn't overpay. The Internet definitely needs such a system..has for awhile now!

He might connect Twitter into the crypto ecosystem and that along with a verified public Internet / Reputation ID system i think could be powerful.
Yeah.. I'm one of those who bought the expensive perpetual license with the promise of access to new versions just to discover a few years later that it wasn't "perpetual".
Someone asked a dumb question, I replied in good faith. The conversation goes on and on and becomes weirder and weirder, until the person said "You shouldn't have replied me.", and left.

Haha wtf, why would they do that?
How come the UK has had Universal "Income" since 2015 and nobody found out?

Aha, it's not Universal "have £16,000 or less in money, savings and investments".
Another value in consistency is that when people are browsing aimlessly, they know when they can check your channel for new content. If I check some channel for new content a few times and there is none (and no indication of any coming), I will simply forget about it. Not intentionally. Someone else who posts predictably will have captured my idle time.
AMD Reveals Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT: First RDNA 3 Parts in December
Is this true? With Simple I believe they were profitable, they just decided to sell to BBVA to grow larger (and to let the founders get a huge pay day). Then BBVA sold to PNC, then PNC absorbed all its users.
In Germany that is required by law (if your employer sees you working when ill, working too long, working too much - they have to force you to stop).

If not by law, then because almost noone is happy working 60-70h and it puts pressure on others who feel like they also need to work similar hours. Additionally the efficiency gets worse as the weekly hours increase.
Targeted advertising is invasive of my privacy, and it doesn't matter if it's legal everywhere -- lots of things are legal everywhere and remain ethically abhorrent -- and insofar as every single user retains control of their individual machines we can put that genie back in the bottle right now just by installing an ad blocker which, in case you haven't noticed, more and more people are doing precisely because of this entitled attitude towards users' personal information. As long as people think that they are entitled to my information I will continue to both use an ad blocker and recommend ad blockers to everyone I know. Stop being nosy.
I'm confused, do you think some individual leaving is a failure state? Realistically I don't think you can avoid banning or pissing some people off as a moderator, at least in most cases.

There's a lot of people whose behavior on internet message boards/chat groups can be succinctly summarized as, "they're an asshole." Now maybe IRL they're a perfectly fine person, but for whatever reason they just engage like an disingenuous jerk on the internet, and the latter case is what's relevant to you as a moderator. In some cases a warning or talking-to will suffice for people to change how they engage, but often times it won't, they're just dead set on some toxic behavior.
> Precisely, or even find a way not to require commas.

Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33457176
Andrej Karpathy was recently on Lex Fridman's podcast and covered this to some extent. He has the same perspective on this topic and expanded on it quite a bit. Great listen overall IMHO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiD-9MMpb0

I like his idea of finding 0-days in physics. :)
In terms of fps/$ or fps/W perhaps, but the 4090 is still king for raw performance it seems.

Can’t wait for Gamers Nexus’ and JayzTwoCents’ benchmarks.
Lmao not at all.
Finally bringing some sense to the GPU market. Thanks AMD!
I always had the hope that Lout[0] would take over LaTeX: very clean & reasonably small implementation, functional programming instead of macros. I guess it's just hard to move against the inertia that (La)TeX carries.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lout_(software)
While that certainly is an issue, it's orthogonal (and not really relevant) to the point I made.
As someone who studied Neuroscience in college, I remember this paper and some other examples showing just how different computational neural networks are from real neurons. It's difficult for me to believe that professional researchers could really believe a NN is an accurate model of the real deal.

The paper also does not have any reference to a study or paper that explicitly states that a neural network is a good model for grid cells. (Please correct me if I am wrong.) So I am left wondering why this direction was chosen.

Maybe it's a little cynical, but this topic seems to have been chosen (at least in part) to produce a splashy headline. Or in other words, to give the Stanford and MIT PR engine something to print.

This is the sort of obvious thing we all knew to be true. Why people with access to lab animals and a fully stocked microbiology lab needed to prove it (again) I do not understand.
You aren't going to be streaming video from the Atacama through this but it is no where near useless. 192 bytes is actually substantial amount of data depending on what you're interested in.
Discord is already considered a groomer hotspot, at least in joking. You can join servers based on interests alone and find yourself in a server with very young people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid#...

Looks like!
Back of the envelop guess is ~400Gb/s. Each node has enough memory BW for about 240Gb/s, then factor in some efficiency loss for NUMA..
> Challenging the cultural dogma [doesn't work]

That is a byproduct of Reddit specifically. With 90s style forums, this kind of discussion happens just fine because it ends up being limited to a few threads. On Reddit, all community members must interact in the threads posted in the last day or two. After two days they are gone and all previous discussion is effectively lost. So maybe this can be fixed by having sub-reddits sort topics by continuing engagement rather than just by age and upvotes.

A good feature would be for Reddit moderators to be able to set the desired newness for their subreddit. /r/aww should strive for one or two days of newness (today's status quo). But /r/communism can have one year of newness. That way the concerned people and concern trolls can be relegated to the yearly threads full of good-faith critiques of communism and the good-faith responses and everyone else can read the highly upvoted discussion. Everything else could fall in-between. /r/woodworking, which is now just people posting pictures of their creations, could split: set the newness to four months and be full of useful advice; set the newness for /woodworking_pics to two days to experience the subreddit like it is now. I feel like that would solve a lot of issues.
I've known people to be laid off from one position, apply for a different position at the same company the next day, and end up hired into that position. It can happen.
Signal has repeatedly been audited[1] so there's more reason to believe the protocol has the capacity to be secure than other options. Obviously if you believe the company is actively subverting their goal, you should use your own fork.

Edit: to be clearer - signal both publishes a protocol (that is thought to be secure) and provides a public service (that claims to use the signal protocol). Signal has claimed that the binary blobs they add to their public client (and the other restrictions) are required to run a public service (anti-abuse, etc). You are free to believe them or not - I do.

At the protocol level, which you are free to use, none of the problems you or the ancestors have pointed to apply. All of the alternatives people are pointing to here are at the "protocol" level - accessible only if you or someone you trust has setup a node. There's nothing wrong with that - it's a good idea - but it's no reason to attack signal's service for not being a protocol (which they also provide).

[1] https://community.signalusers.org/t/overview-of-third-party-...
$900/$1000 and 300/355W. 2x 8-pin connectors only.
Vans are usually a lot better equipped than traditional motorhomes. Before vanlife, a motorhome (in Europe; I don't know about the US) was basically just for driving from home to a campsite, without the hassle of towing a caravan (travel trailer). The batteries were maybe enough to power the lights while you cook dinner and the only way to charge them was by hooking up to mains. The water tank was tiny, barely enough water to wash up, and the toilet needed to be emptied every other day.

Today an off-grid van will have two or three ways of charging the batteries, enough water to last a week, a toilet that needs emptying once every few months, and a heater and enough insulation to comfortably camp in the next big freeze. Traditional manufacturers are starting to realise some of these things, but most are still primarily designed to be used on a campsite with a mains hookup.