skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All Starlink sats will deorbit in under 5 years if unmaintained, please get a basic understanding of orbital mechanics before repeating nonsense like this.

Edit: And shame on Scientific American for spreading the same nonsense.

Also Starlink has automated collision avoidance systems that make them even less likely to collide than most sats currently in orbit, see the comments on this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/p7c96z/spacex_starli...
8th for me on Kagi
Polio is slow, and it has to go through the blood to cause severe disease. RSV and COVID-19 (or really SARS-CoV-2) don't. IPV can't stop transmission, and OPV has dubious long term protection from spread.
> the big innovation that your profile had to be your real life identity early on.

This came after facebook was wildly successful, so not early on. I also have never met a single person who was attracted by it, or was confused as to who their friends were before it existed. That being said, tying real names to online identity allowed facebook to buy data from brokers to fill out the sliced up audiences they sell to advertisers, so maybe it was important to their profitability.

What made FB successful was that it was a platform that other developers could program for, so it filled up with games and quizzes. Farmville,
"Which Harry Potter Friends Spice Girl Are You?" etc. was all the edge that it took to kill myspace, a site which seemed to stop any sort of development about 10 minutes after launch.

But, as you say, even myspace made it very easy to write on the web. You could scribble on other people's "walls", put whatever you wanted on your own page, and every profile came with a blog.

Against what you say, however, is the timeline where you could just post random crap and all of your friends would see it and comment on it; the dopamine stream. There's no easier way to write than to spit out a random sentence or upload a random picture, and broadcast that instantly to hundreds of people.
From what I understand from the demo on the website, it's not a Large Language Model.

The following is how I think it works :

They are probably using diffusion model conditioned on the input prompt to organize the spaces of link.

Search engines in the deep learning era usually embed responses (here links) and queries (here text prompt) in some joint space.

And to get the response they usually do an approximate near neighbor search.

Here they probably replace this neighbor search by a diffusion process.

This is akin to building a learned index. The diffusion process is an iterative process that progressively get you links closer to your query. This diffusion process is kind of a learned hierarchical navigation small world.

Because you need your response to be an existing link at the end of the diffusion process you must project to the discrete space of existing links. There are two schools of thoughts here : If you did your diffusion in a continuous space you can do an approximate near neighbor search in the buckets around to do this projection. Alternatively you can stay in discrete space. You do your diffusion along the edges of a graph. Something akin to train your network to play wikipedia speedrun but on the whole internet.

But diffusion model can be more powerful by not embedding them in the same space (you can do still it but you can do something more powerful).

The problem of embedding in a same space is that with this embedding process you define what is a relevant answer instead of learning the relevancy from the data.

With a diffusion generative model, among other things, what you can do instead to build your database is for each link you read the associated page and you use GPT-3 to generate n queries that would be appropriate to your document (or portion of document). Then you use the diffusion model to learn the mapping query to link with this generated example pair (generated query, link).

Diffusion models solve the mode collapse problem. Aka one query can have multiple different responses weighted by how often they appear in the training data. So they are the natural candidate for building a search engine.
Twitter entered into a voluntary agreement to avoid prosecution.
These definitions that the author laid out seem either intentionally intended as strawman or simplified beyond usefulness:

* Computer programmers cause a machine to perform a sequence of transformations on electronically stored data.

* Painters apply colored goo to cloth using animal hairs tied to a stick.
"Why shouldn't we go back" doesn't have any more weight than "why shouldn't we stay". The old normal relies on the acceptance of a lot of life-time wasted and a certain amount of misery, and people were increasingly unwilling to accept it. The pandemic simply provided an impetus - that's all.
It sounds good as long as the White House doesn't try to use the FTC as a political weapon to disadvantage their opponents. Like going after Amazon for their union stance or Facebook for their censorship stance.
Ask HN: Do top programmers look forward to staff cuts?
Don't these staff cuts improve the average ability of the programmers left at the company thus making the work more rewarding for top programmers?
From my experience, this is the first of two technical coding interviews they do during the superday. For me there were five other rounds before I was invited onsite, including two take home assessments.

This feels like the question they expect you to finish in the given time, the "easy" question. The question I was ask was a bit harder, but in hindsight my unfamiliarity with the question made it feel harder than it was. The minimum expectation is a mostly complete and actually working implementation. I can't confirm this but my understanding is missing major edge cases means failing the interview. I am surprised the interviee started typing as quickly as she did, I believe I was asked to write more detailed pseudo code first.

There is a second more advanced technical interview asked after lunch. I didn't interview online, I interviewed in person so I am sure that changes some things.

I did not pass every stage of the onsite, but it was one of my better interviews experiences. No one applying to Jane Street does so without knowing how rigorous the process is, I don't hold it against them. It felt like everyone I met wanted me to pass the interview. I can't say that about every interview I have been on.
> what makes options trading fun? the allure of turning a profit

Absolutely, that is a major element of it.

> how is realizing losses fun when the goal was supposed to be to turn profit?

Well, if that is your goal, then I agree that it isn't going to be much fun.

Perhaps you are mistaken in assuming that everyone going to the casino or trading options has "turning a profit" as the primary goal. I don't think that is the case. It certainly never was with me. But I could be unusual ;)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a consent decree something that all parties agree to, in order to avoid going to court?
Your math assumes the money was spent entirely on labor, not on equipment or prototypes.
On the flip side, we're just starting the 100 years now trying to extract carbon dioxide out of the air as fast as we can to get a livable planet out of it.

Granted we (as a species) have huge challenges ahead of us, but with collective effort it could be possible.
He's been embarrassing himself for a minute already but the answer isn't definitely no.

What I realized is he saw contraction in demand at Tesla and wanted a public pretense to sell some without triggering a panic. He had all the Tesla projections long before his tweet about feeling "super bad" about the economy. This deal turned funny money into feeling like a club promoter.
Cruel Changes at Twitter
Suffer is the right word for when it's not carefully executed or understood.

Self organising or autonomous teams is not a replacement for strategy, vision or a clear task. That's leaderless organizations which isn't a good thing.

Who grants the authority to the team is a skill to test and develop. The point of the research is to find such leaders by what they actually do and how, not what they say they do.
Thus many EU countries reduced the maximum note value, reduced allowable amount for buying things in cash, and .se has mostly eliminated cash with everyone using cards.
I find the arguments against means-testing less compelling for one time transfers.

Large income and large student loans is actually very typical for early-career doctors and many other professionals who have very high expected lifetime income.

FWIW, this transfer was means tested - it's just that they consider the lesser of 2021 & 2020 income and we were in school in 2020.
Really shows how little oversight any of these venture funds have.

They come across more like frat bros with huge pockets casually giving away billions under a pinky promise of eventual returns.

At this point, they are doing the same level of DD as those degens in WSB.

But I guess you don't have much leverage when the fed is printing trillions for years and we end up with dozens of Zuckerberg types, too much power and no oversight to hold them accountable.
You know if unemployment is low and the economy is having solid growth at the time.
Er no. There are both social and legal norms around employment. I’m not saying he’s breaking any laws here, but companies are a certain scale aren’t just the playthings of the boss they exist at the convenience and for the benefit for society at large (ie they are granted the privilege of being a company). That means there are constraints on corporate behaviour.
So I can input pseudo code and it will turn that into real code? Is that a proper description? Can you give me a use case? Thank you.
> But there is a LOT of space in the US.

It's pretty obscure, but a little known fact is that a surprising number of people don't live in the US.
They used to ask you to open the window shades for takeoff and landing, idea was to actually be aware of what is going on outside incase an evac is necessary.

Now they ask everyone only to close the window shades after landing to better control the temp, the APU a/c is often no match for direct sunlight. Then most people just leave them closed.
Certainly.

Just because it's technically possible, that doesn't make it "good" or even "sought".
Half a million UK workers drop out of workforce, citing long-term illness
Just signed up. I like the simplicity. I currently use Cloudflare pages for my personal site and I like the idea of using this in stead since I can fire up anything I have a make a quick post. Price is in a good spot for my taste. Quick question -

- Do you have any plans for sub-pages? I like to keep my resume / CV handy on my personal site and don't really see a way to do this cleanly.

- I don't see a way to edit or delete a post.

- Posts with images see to show the raw filename like [[img111.jpg]] . Will there ever be thumbnail previews?
(not a lawyer or french) but generally yes - it's your responsibility to give the password to the police, forgetting it would be equivalent to forgetting to pay at a store or forgetting to put on a seatbelt while driving - it may be accidental but still illegal. I don't know of any laws where you can legitimately claim ignorance
Excellent direction. I'm already using React tsx email templates and ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup(). It allowed me to reuse React components and take advantage of TypeScript type checking in vscode. Existing state management code can be used inside these email templates (MobX). I've used many email template parsers but this setup has been the most optimal.
Most importantly you communicate to investors that your government does not respect the pricing mechanism of the market. That'll make investors worried about which other norms of economic stewardship your regime will violate. The uncertainty alone will be a heavy burden for the economy of a country that decides to impose arbitrary price ceilings on commodities.
Exactly this. I was paraphrasing the definition of source code from the GPL: "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it."
UK does have official "media phone numbers" https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/inform... but none that are widely known and used I think.
I think that here Android is a better ecosystem: you distribute your application as a bytecode, and then it's the phone itself to compile it to a real binary when you install it. This allow far greater compatibility with even very old versions of the OS or old applications in newer OS and simplifies the build process.

Working in a company that builds both Android and iOS application I have to say that building iOS apps generates 10x the problems that you have with building Android applications, in terms of CI infrastructure, that means that Android you run gradlew and it works, provided you have the right JVM version installed, with XCode it's always a mess. Also for how it works the ecosystem with Android I'm not forced to upgrade, that means that if a project uses SDK X I can build it forever with that SDK and it will still work even on latest devices, with Apple you have to build with the latest toolchain if you want to execute on newer terminals. That makes Android far more suitable for b2b applications.
Locking an account doesn't obviate the expected courtesy of a "Followers Only" post. Locking an account just makes it harder for new followers to follow without a vetted request.
I think there is a place for frontier carbon removals, but I agree with other commenters that it's not as effective as some of the (much much cheaper) solutions that we already have.

There's nothing wrong with incentivising carbon avoidance, deforestation etc while also keeping an eye on burgeoning solutions.

Another caution is that most removals are selling you forwards, not credits. So you can't actually claim you are offsetting your carbon today.

Full disclosure, I work for Fenix Carbon (www.fenixcarbon.com) where we're specifically focusing on high quality offsets and connecting buyers directly to the project developers.
"Btw. with new iPhone they just need to hold it close to his face while handcuffed."

Honest question. Do people on HN actually travel with this enabled on their iphone? Like, the ability to just hold you to a wall with your phone and open it?
I agree, we love it too!

We bought from here: https://www.solidteknics.com/

It’s absolute iron cookware porn imo, best stuff I’ve owned.
This is a classic result of socialism. See Hayek: "centralized planning, which inevitably leads to totalitarianism" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom
Lowering the denominator is a fun way to get to half ^_^
And Musk has repeatedly demonstrated that he has no respect for legal contracts.
I'm actually curious if this has security implications? Is this making public anything that some app developers have thought important to obfuscate?
Omit internet tropes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
AMD EPYC 9554 and EPYC 9654 Benchmarks
I like how some people equate "innovate" with "break the law and make other people pay".
Wow, if that means that the engineer is personally responsible that Twitter follows the FTC rules, then RIP the engineers. I would just stop writing code at that point. No compensation worth that risk.

And it opens up interesting questions. If I decline to implement something then can the company fire me at all? Or do they have to prove first that what has been asked does not goes against FTC rules.
ActivityPub makes it easy to crawl and index the whole Fediverse, you don't even need to start a server. I played with the idea a bit before I learned more about the community. If you're being intentionally malicious, disguising your traffic as legit shouldn't be impossible
No, that's why we have labor laws. Being a billionaire doesn't make you a king.

Every company is spending "their own money" to pay employees. It doesn't matter if there are a thousand shareholders or just one. There is still a corporate structure and formal employee relationships. They are employees, not serfs, and they deserve the respect that entails.
All tech companies have been hiring bottom of the barrel engineers who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. This is just a realignment where where knowing how to put the lego pieces together isn't enough any more.
I’m actually not criticizing SBF here.

I am criticizing people, possibly including myself, who should have developed more realistic and convincing models clarifying why his behavior was increasingly suboptimal despite his near-linear personal utility function.

His behavior doesn’t really look like self-deception to me. It looks like blindness to poorly articulated limitations of a mathematical model he was taught and understands very well, and I suspect he wouldn’t have been so blind without the “poorly” above.
It would be interesting to be able to search with descriptors of the content rather than questions / keywords /content match searches. maybe?

But I feel this page is offputting. the templates make it feel less flexible than it probably is.

> Here's a
> wikipedia page
> about the most
> Elon Musk
> -like figure from the
> 19th
> century:

This is an interesting query that you can't do in google. I like it.

> Here's a cool demo of
> GPT-3

This one is bad. It's more cumbersome than a search of "GPT-3 demo" and probably not going to give you anything more noteworthy.

I'm curious if there's a reason 3 of your prompts try to identify content that is "cool"?
As long as the technology does more harm than good, we should not see it as a solution, nor even a component of the solution.

Funding research for improving efficiency, maybe.

But the main actionable policy NOW is detecting and reducing emissions. The US still subsidizes fossil fuel.
I figured this would be a response. I knew just about everyone pretty well, it was in a very nice area of town and is a small rural community.
That's great!

Sub-pages are something I'm considering. Some users have linked out to a Notion. Also, the site supports embedded files - so you could even embed a PDF on the homepage.

Would you mind emailing me the formatting of the page you expect? Resumes formatting can get complex, so I want to make sure I support what you're envisioning.
I've always said their tax attorneys contribute the most alpha!
Well, your account still shows $100, but Chase has paused withdrawals while they "sort out liquidity issues" so it's effectively $0
Even if you can't really quit, you can just pretend to work, or "silent quit"
Unless I'm misunderstanding your comment they do, it's `async def` to denote a coroutine.
How does that stop the money from being less valuable?
I think the purely remote workers were already axed.
I don't disagree with you sir
Related: https://xkcd.com/1240/
AMD EPYC Genoa Gaps Intel Xeon in Stunning Fashion
Buy iPhone. I'm switching from iPhone to Pixel because iPhone bans some apps which are essential for me. Android is just so bad. The day Apple allow side loading, I'll switch back.
Q2 revenue was $1.18B on 237.8M mDAU. If they want $590M (50%) in subscription revenue, that's 24.5M subscriptons @ $24 per quarter. So they'd need to convert about 10% of the reported mDAU to subscribers?

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twitter-announces-s...
Exactly... and they will have to prove the opposite... :P
And for anyone who wasn't familiar with this guy and doesn't click on the link, he was a US Senator and then NJ Governor who ran this fund immediately after leaving office. He's the guy Chris Christie replaced.
Ask HN: What don't you like in TO DO lists you'd want to improve?
I have a question about TO DO lists. Mates, what to do lists u use and what things you want to have there?

I wanna create a solution to improve productivity and help people with their.

I'll be glad to hear your proposals!
I worked as Director of Engineering at a company for 10 years that built a SaaS for clinical trial document management.

There is a weird perversion of incentives in the industry driven under the guise of "quality" and "safety" that from a software engineer's perspective, looked pretty bad to me because of how manual and error prone the process is.

The problem is that the people who have the knowledge aren't incentived to make it more efficient or cost effective; the purpose of many of these folks is to simply extract rent from the system and blame regulations and "patient safety" concerns.

At an MES startup, one of the industry stalwarts (starts with V) was more or less using mafia tactics to force the startup to use their software or they would voice no confidence with pharma companies where big V was already entrenched.

One of my passion projects would be to build an open-core clinical trial document management system with a focus on automation and templatization of common processes and workflows. It's insane how much waste this system has.
The cult of personality never ceases to amaze me.
Article 5 C.p.p. is about jurisdiction ov criminal and civil courts. Did you mean a different article?
It's a fallacy that "flat" org structures have no hierarchy, they just become more opaque. A team that shares responsibility can have a dynamic hierarchy based on relevant capabilities at relevant stages of work. It's also important to note that I addressed teams in this article not organisations. To cultivate autonomous teams you also need to understand authority, where it comes from and who it's granted to and by whom. The more intentionally authority is understood the less likely power becomes a corrupting force.
Thanks! Postcard already supports embedded posts, a newsletter, and even full-text RSS. Check it out in action on my personal site: https://www.philipithomas.com
Did you sign a new contract making your work location "remote"? If not then it was never going to be permanent.
Alleged LockBit operator to be extradited from Canada to U.S.
Ah I misread - I did not know that there was that kind of glanularity, that you could set specific posts as private. My bad!
I wouldn't use it to calculate, but I would use it to explain why the calculation is what it is.
Yeah like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UztCDH2xuQ
It's possible that a lot of office workers have decided they have good reasons to prefer working from home beyond the highly contagious airborne disease. I know that I personally have, but further research is probably necessary to determine whether this is a widespread trend.
Not exactly, because banks tell you that they will loan out your money and you might not get it back, that's why you get interest on the account. They can't go horse betting, but they can loan it out. You don't have "title" over the USD in the bank reserves.

This is like if you put $100 in Chase's security deposit box, and they opened it up, took the cash, and lent it out, and then when you come to get it, they say, woops, we lost it all. That would be just straight up theft or fraud.
Why should they give you a "deal" that they do at a loss or near-loss if you aren't willing to sacrifice the necessary currency for it?

Allowing people who don't care about their privacy to sell it seems like a fair transaction. Sabotaging capitalism & markets by not allowing consumers and producers to engage in barter seems inadvisable.

I personally care about my privacy, so I choose not to use overbearing services. I don't think that I should rob others of the ability to trade their privacy for better deals.
A lot of people have been trying to misdefine and mischaracterize it from the very start.

Largely people who get angry at the idea that black lives might matter.
No problem. Check out their site for some wonderful examples of what it can do and have fun!
Wait.. why wouldn't the blocks be genuine and voluntary?? Instance admins are volunteers, often times literally the instance is on their hardware. If they didn't like it they can ban activists and defederate from activist instances.
I can't see a reason they would become more successful if there is less competition. It's not like they are not sending spam if someone else has spammed a target recently lol.