skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not even 4 deaths a year, I have to say this is still a magnitude safer than swimming or skiing.

The only meaningful comparison would be a _rate_, not total number of injuries.

Google says there are 40 skiing deaths per year in the US. It would be very easy to believe there are 100x more people skiing than uniboarding.

This passes my back of the envelope test for "dangerous".

If you've got better numbers, I'll listen.
That makes sense, thanks. Isn't the Javelin unguided (or self-guided), though? This means it doesn't need wires not because communication with it is wireless, but because it doesn't need to communicate at all.
If I had to guess, I'd say NVIDIA.
"unsafe area" is so broad and vague that who knows what a jury will deem unsafe enough for a conviction.

And you've got to remember that neither the arresting officer's actions nor the DA's actions were objectively reasonable, so why make any assumptions about whether the jury's actions would be objectively reasonable?
Please don't have opinion that are different from everyone else.
He doesn't know how to, he hides behind anonymity, preferring to insult the work of others than contribute something themselves. Don't feed the trolls, I say.
There was a lawsuit that involved stealing intellectual property in Germany. A company accused google of stealing lyrics from their page [0].

They managed to prove in court that google actually took their texts by embedding a Morse code. They used ' and ` as Morse characters in their lyrics to mark their property.

However, as far as I know, they lost the case anyway because the judge rules that the lyrics doesn't belong to the lyrics page, but to the song owner.

[0]: https://www.golem.de/news/vorwurf-von-genius-com-google-soll...
> Weirdly, he was there due to some sponsorship related to disabilities because he had ADHD.

Can I ask why you find that weird? ADHD is, and is also comorbid with other learning disabilities.

ADHD has so many dimensions and interrelationships between those dimensions that everybody's lived experience is different. If you know one person with ADHD, then you know one person with ADHD, you don't know everyone with ADHD.

Heck my best friend growing up had severe ADHD, what used to be called "ring-of-fire". Both his parents are clinical experts in ADHD, and have been since he was young. Yet despite knowing me incredibly well over a couple of decades none of them suspected that I had it. To be fair, three psychiatrists and dozens of psychologists missed it too, until one had a hunch that finally led to me getting diagnosed in my late 30s.
The images look like Stable Diffusion riffs based on an example image.

Might it be that they are doing something like this:

* presenting some images to a subject, converting them to some captured MRI signals.

* training an A.I. image generation system on those same images, using the MRI signal as the associated text, instead of text.

* then generating images using MRI patterns as prompts

Still, scary what the method is able to infer.
I am not sure. If I owe $8B and I raise $8B and then give it to the people whom are owed $8B, what exactly am I giving the investors? Basically he has an $8B hole and let's say everything else nets to zero (e.g. assets - liabilities = -$8B.) No one in their right mind would give $8B to get what is otherwise worth nothing. This is a non-starter, especially now that the brand is also completely tarnished.
Christ, I wish PIPs were that easy where I work. Some days it feels like the public sector trying to get rid of employees that coast for months at a time before we can work our way through the process to can them.
Jay Foreman, the Map Men guy is actually an extensive collaborator with Tom Scott. I seem to remember Tom Scott did some video titles for him.

Also interesting is that Jay's brother is Beardyman the beat boxer that was a YouTube sensation some years ago with his cooking show!

https://youtu.be/K7NIxKseRus
Singapore’s Temasek Writes Down $275M FTX Investment
It's unreasonable to expect researchers vet someone who promises them $500K? In what insane world does this statement make any sense? It's not just common sense, but also necessary for keeping track of conflicts of interest.
For some reason having trouble getting the full study, anyway I'm no AI specialist so idk if reading it would answer my question, but : is this generalizeable? E.g. can they reconstruct and arbitrary visual stimulus, or just one that appeared as training data?

If this is a case where they showed a patient an image of a giraffe 1000 times and mapped their brain, generated output,then backpropogated, etc and then now they can recreate a decent image of a giraffe when shown 1 of the images from training data : This is not that impressive. I mean it's cool and interesting but doesn't sound remotely ground breaking, because it's not actually mapping arbitrary inputs to arbitrary outputs.

But if they can reproduce arbitrary visual stimuli this is pretty damn incredible, to me at least.
Part of the issue is they can't/won't compete on comp or benefits with other big tech companies, but still have high-ish standards on hiring, relative to the industry as a whole.

That means they need a huge candidate pool, since most won't make it through interviews, and most of those who do won't accept their offer since they can get better offers from other companies.
Doesn't this guy have a lawyer to tell him to STFU?
The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly at his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are merely a poor man's closures."

Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell, intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire "Lambda: The Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and implemented a small Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system. He learned much, and looked forward to informing his master of his progress.

On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by saying "Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now understand that objects are truly a poor man's closures." Qc Na responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying "When will you learn? Closures are a poor man's object." At that moment, Anton became enlightened.

- Anton van Straaten
Historically, at least one cryptobro could.

Unless you hold that meeting with the chairman of the SEC disqualifies you from being a cryptobro. In which case it's tautologically zero.
Wow, he's still tweeting. Does he not have a lawyer? At all? Half the thread are deleted messages from days ago. And he's still continuing on the same thread! Unbelievable. Here's a giant pile of shit I shouldn't have said that can easily be recovered through archives along with some more text messages I really shouldn't have said.
I wonder how long it will take weeds to evolve to being 'invisible' to the robots' eyes.
> I tend to interpret a written message in a much worse way than I do a message that is communicated verbally.

I see this happening on Twitter a lot and I can see why it causes people to get into online arguments.
This is a common response. unfortunately it doesn’t hold water: the average lifetime of a paid user of Splice is somewhere in the 7-10 week range (source is confidential).

What super users of editing products do you know that only stay 10 weeks?

None. What’s actually happening is Bending Spoons is exploiting the App Store’s ease of payment and dark patterns to trick unsuspecting users into enrolling in a super high priced subscription without their knowledge.
It's amazing how good some of the apps on the F-Droid app-store are.
> causes a non-permanent record of important discussions

That's your organization's problem, not Slack's. The same could be said of discussions in conference rooms, video calls, hallways, or email.

In fact, Slack improves on most of those situations by giving you a permanent record that can be searched.
Google CAPTCHAs work in Firefox for me, on multiple devices and OS's.
> Historically, at least one cryptobro could.

And that is out of how many cryptobros in existence?
Well, the invisible ones will thrive immediately. So, 1 generation.
This reminds me of a place I used to work. I used to get my real work done between useless meetings. A couple months after I left, they laid off like 20%.
Ouch. That’s not a common break, IME, but either an outstretched arm or direct trauma can cause it.

I’ve mildly separated both shoulders a few times over the years. Thankfully no major separations or breaks - just some MRIs and PT (plus a few concussions). I did break my forearm when I was 5 - fell jumping a fence, reached out, and snap. Classic broken arm.
The concept of pure functional programming is totally independent of what the compiler generates. Of course, in the end, there will always be something running that executes effects and that will be impure instructions. But for the context of pfp only the programming language matters since that is what we are working on. If you work with assembly directly then yeah, that is impure by all means.

> Slapping IO on your function is making it explicit that it is impure.

Not sure what "slapping IO in your function" even means here.

To maybe some it up and get the discussion to an end: if you have an expression and can freely duplicate it and have it evaluated anywhere within your code (e.g. by assigning it to a variable) and it does not change the semantics of your program (so e.g. performance can be worse, that's okay) then the expression is referential transparent. If all expressions in your programm are referential transparent, you are doing pure functional programming. That is the simplified definition.
Gah! The present commercial shipping fleet is eighty thousand vessels, not eight. Lost a 'y' there.

About 1/3 of that is devoted to liquid fuel transport (oil tankers), a percentage which is down from the 1970s when it was roughly half the global shipping fleet. The absolute number of tankers has increased AFAIU, but other carriers, particularly container ships, have increased in fleet size faster.

There are also bulk solid (coal) and gas / LPG (natural gas) fuel carriers, though both are smaller than the oil fleet AFAIK.

And though I focus on shipping, synthetic hydrocarbon analogue fuels would also be useful to aviation. Probably the only way that large-scale long-range commercial flight will remain viable, if it does at all.
The arguments I could see revolve around creating some sort of moat.

There's an extremely shallow one in "I already have A on my phone, it would be three minutes of clicking and enterring my payment and delivery info to try someone else."

If you could give-away-the-store to get sufficient market share-- maybe like 70-80% or more-- you might be able to start leveraging the restaurants, demanding exclusivity (or offering some cross-promotional incentive in exchange for it) to keep competitors from emerging.

Or maybe this was an offshoot of the Uber endgame hypothesis: if you can survive long enough to get to driverless vehicles, you can own the largest fleet and actually get your hands on economies of scale.
But the problem is, fixing existing broken stuff might not be rewarded as much as working on the "new feature". This means that if I focus on just fixing the broken stuff, I'd be managed out. Even say I put in the extra effort to fix the broken stuff, and deliver my new features, other thousands of engineers won't do that same- meaning I can't make a meaningful dent.

(i dont work for amazon, but I can imagine it's similar everywhere)
You're right. We are unable to be full consequentialist because the computational cost of seeing all ends is infinite, and unable to be full deontologist because competing heuristics are arbitrarily instantiated and mutually contradictory. Even if we're stuck in the middle forever, I know which way I'd strive.
Maybe they are dogfooding their future offerings, hence the experience.
Chemicals are maybe the smallest cost of agriculture. Used to be < $10/acre. Costs for equipment and labor >>

So saving even 95% is maybe not a compelling economical argument to use this.
Agreed. Comments that explain in English exactly what the next line does drive me crazy. Even if the line is complicated. I pretty much only ever comment things these days when I change from one approach to another. ie.

// This code is weird. I tried doing it the obvious way, but that doesn't work because .. reasons ..

Sometimes, if the code is short, I'll even leave the old/obvious code there for future reference when I look at the weird code and say to myself:

"This is weird! Obviously it should work in this much simpler way.."
This. Most ML people we work with, including new hires, are CPU-first and don't think in bandwidth/throughput, so we have to untrain basically every DS hire to this. Nvidia SW+HW is so far ahead here as they got it early. Sure, Intel will pay startups to port individual algs to make some steps do well, but the ecosystem gap is just getting bigger. AMD/Intel/etc are still playing catch-up to status quo from years ago, while we work with Nvidia on next-gen and making accessible. Ex: GPUDirect over parallel SSD arrays is nuts.. and you can do it in python! Only really Google is competitive here (limited to ~TF), and maybe one day Apple.
You're supposed to have a hearing at which a judge determines if probably cause was met and then set bail. So a judge should have reviewed this.
I notice the author is in London. For people in the US, my suggestion is to go instead to https://www.cisa.gov/report to report things like this. Especially when you're dealing with a company that doesn't have a clear vulnerability-disclosure process, or if you have _any_ concern about your own safety (physical, legal, etc.) when making a report.

Personally, I would have stopped right before "The Cleanup", and made a report.

Which option would I choose from https://www.cisa.gov/report? None of them stand out, so I would have chosen the last option, to send an email.
Introducing... The Scrub
In general, or just on the Guardian? Anyway, doesn't happen here on FF 107 und Linux with µBo. With always fresh cookies.
Yes, notice how much variance there is between the images. They are the same types of building, or similar sized animals, but the details and shapes can be wildly different.

It's pretty clear what's happening is FMRI meaning -> stable diffusion image generation. Now this _is_ cool, but it's important to understand all that's happening is the natural language input to stable diffusion has been replaced with FMRI input. i.e the image is still generated by stable diffusion, not you, you are just inputting meaning by visualising a separate image, and that meaning is abstract enough to be coarsely learned through an FMRI... but ultimately the image is not produced by your brain, which will probably be more obvious to any of the test subjects.
Except unlike the others Ligma Johnson were made up names to make a "funny" homophone (to sound like "Lick my johnson" ). I guess Musk found it so hilarious he just had to hire them. I wonder how "hardcore" they will be as employees...
A ton of brands announced, on the day he took over, that they were suspending their ads.
If i may offer a few suggestions;

* Given your current family obligations, Take any job you get in any field you are offered. Putting Food on the table and taking care of your Family are the primary non-negotiable needs.

* You wanting to work in C/C++ are wants which you pursue on the side to develop expertise in and then make a switch to when you get the right opportunity. This thread already has a lot of actionable good suggestions for you.

* Since you already are a "Mobile/Web App" person, go down the Software Stack in the same domain to scratch your C/C++ itch and become an "Expert". As an example for Android go through Roger Ye's books; 1) Embedded Programming with Android: Bringing Up an Android System from Scratch and 2) Android System Programming: Porting, customizing, and debugging Android HAL.
Just an email they sent.
There it is again. Not perfect; no matter how far ahead the model predicts its said to be not enough.

This absolutism is so, so easy to spout. And shows no understanding of the value of models and the many useful results.
Psst: and, apparently, just hours ago, removed from said bin by a giant rat:

https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/28788-disney-...
Managers are heavily expected to keep growing their team(s). A manager whose team is flat in terms of size and scope year over year is going to be viewed as underperforming, even if they dramatically improved what they do own (in most of the company, at least).

This means a lot of managers hire for the sake of hiring, and create projects to facilitate that hiring rather than because the projects add any real value. They'll work with their PMs to invent some numbers to sell the project to leadership, but at the end of the day a lot of what goes on there is makework, solving problems that don't exist or re-solving solved problems without improving the solution significantly.

That said, since there's so much cutthroat resource contention, plenty of extremely important/valuable projects are chronically understaffed. I'm sure there's meaningful work for most to all of the engineers currently working at Amazon, but a pretty significant chunk of them are absolutely not doing anything meaningful today.
Interesting bits there:

Detective work using intuition and assumptions.

The existence of mechanical computers as given in another answer.

The use of language in the linked paper (1). A mix of formal and informal. After all there is nothing to prove,
just an explanation of how he did it. Examples:

> The conclusion was inevitable

> It is well known that every factor of 2^n — 1, p being a prime,
is of the form…

1. https://projecteuclid.org/journalArticle/Download?urlId=bams...
Count me in – I was pledged $300K for research on oogenesis and meiosis which I'll never get.
Don't know if this is related, but the Fed still has them under an asset cap (size limit) and reiterated in Sept. 2021 that they are not likely to get out of the doghouse anytime soon [1]. This is speculation, but it would not be suprising if they tried raising ARPU.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/19/heres-what-the-wells-fargo-c...
4 deaths in 3 years for a motorized vehicle sounds good to me
You worked in cuBLAS? You mean the internal code that makes up cuBLAS?
I made it up. I like the idea of taking Biblical stories and putting them into a sci-fi setting and trying to make a believable scenario. Like black mirror meets religion. Thanks for the message!
I feel the ADHD is a strength not weakness mentality is generally harmful. There are some aspects of it that can help, especially when you are not deep working on one thing, but in general, I think it is unequivocally not a benefit to almost anyone who has it.

edit: I would add there is some survivorship bias to it too. Successful CEO says ADHD helped? Huh. Cool. There is a reason alcoholism and substance abuse have significant overlap with ADHD communities. For example, I built and sold an infosec consulting firm and I have ADHD. I could tell you stories about how in some limited circumstances operating a business it helped. But that ignores all the times I struggled and had to dig deep into my well of ADHD management skills to stay focused and efficient on chores I don’t like doing.
It's a terrible analogy no matter how you interpret it.

Approval of cars is based on whether those cars can harm other cars.

If I want to "drive" (use) an unapproved "car" (app store) on a "public road" (my own device), I should be able to do that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvqIkJfYzX8.
Hello,

Guy who embedded Xbox 360 serial numbers into the Xbox 360 beta dashboard UI to identify leaked pics here - there was a big HN thread on it some years ago.

Just to point out, using extra spaces and different ascii space is basic steganography that's been used since WW1 and WW2. Elon brags about using spaces and other "Canary" techniques. Not super complicated

Elon appears to send emails in a fixed width HTML file in a lot of cases, which gives you some extra options with ascii characters on line breaks for steganography. Using a tool I wrote a decade + ago to find inserted line breaks in images - here was what I pulled out from a screenshot of Elon's email to employees from earlier today.

https://twitter.com/cullend/status/1593022922603786240/photo...
Can you explain why a neural net is not an algorithm? I know the definition of algorithm, but I don't much about neural nets, so I'd like to know an ELI5 explanation.
No, but there are some good apps on the F-Droid store.
This brings to mind a proverb, "对牛弹琴", since the Han Dynasty.
Interesting claim -- what's your reasoning?

I would suppose it would depend on the cc of the motorbike, so, tentatively, yes, that makes intuitive sense -- a Honda Ruckus for example might not be much heavier than 3 e-bikes.

All the same: big bikes are heavy, and that turns out to be a good thing, balance-wise. Really different feeling. You can't really put it in words, it has to be experienced!
Are you saying you'll post proof if someone eponymous asks for it? Consider yourself asked.
A New Sperm-Blocking Male Birth Control Method Is Being Put to the Test
Any reason why that you could share with us?
I work with NanoVMs and nanos.org can work under both qemu (by default) and deploy to hyper-v under WSL2. Also, nanos.org itself is a go unikernel so we have excellent go support.

Also, from parent comment, ops, can deploy to esxi/vsphere perfectly fine.
I'm sorry but you honestly have no idea of what you are talking about. The tooling in Amazon is developed by hundreds of engineers and it doesn't suck because of small bugs here and there but rather because of systemic issues related to how it's been architected.

It's not something that is fixable at all, let alone by a lone engineer.

That said, I also want to be more tempered than the author, I don't find the tooling to be that bad. Most teams are on full Native AWS now and the few non-native tools actually do make your life easier because of how well they're integrated in the whole Amazon ecosystem.

Some tooling does suck, but it's more like 2% of my time spent fighting bad tools, not 40%.
<< from article: Chemical imbalance

I was curious about this one and wondered if you could based on your expertise shed some light on that section and whether it is also off.

Human body is obviously a rather complex piece of machinery, but chemical imbalance can put things in a bad spot ( lets say too much vitamin D ). I get that 'chemical imbalance' is a very simplistic model, but I always thought it describes some of our bodies' interactions with the world rather well ( even if they are still not understood ).

Would you be willing to elaborate on whether ( or maybe how ) chemical imbalance is used/described in psychiatry in your experience?
1) The energy cost of the desalination would have to be added to the energy budget of the hydrogen production.

2) The atomic weight ratio of oxygen to hydrogen is something like 16 to 1, even with H2 and O1 you end up with a ratio of 8 to 1, so about 100g hydrogen in weight per kg of water.
Latin is "older" than English because Latin has been fossilized for over a thousand years due to having no native speakers. A better example would be French and English. Neither is "older" than the other since both are spoken and learned anew every day.

Of course languages known to us only from a certain time period are associated with that time period. They're a snapshot of that linguistic tradition. Living language traditions don't really permit comparisons of age, because they exist in the present.
This is an under-appreciated point. Look at the solution suggested in the top comment -- paraphrasing, it's "learn to game the system like the spammers, and accept that as a cost of doing business".

Google should be specifically designing towards mitigating this.