skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, GPT-3, Whisper, CLIP, etc are all trained on "hot garbage" and all of them are SOTA. Whisper is a great example, as it shows that this broader use of imperfect training data helps to make the models more robust and general than their "perfectly" trained counterparts. The trick behind all of these is to build mechanisms on smaller scale, human labelled data that can then be used to filter and label the broader dataset. Or use training methods that are more robust to imperfect data, like contrastive learning ala CLIP.
1) People won't find the content if it's not on Youtube.

2) You will struggle (even more) to monetize the views you do get, if you're not on YouTube.

3) Bandwidth is sorta cheap when you're getting a little bit of it bundled with other things that have high margins (say, cloud VM hosting) but video hosting can exceed what you can get with that kind of "free" bandwidth pretty quickly. It begins to really add up, after that.
Meta has announced plans to air a New Year’s Eve special in virtual reality hosted by former NBA player and TNT basketball analyst Shaquille O’Neal.
For the vast majority of people, the Wright Brothers' flight was also "just another Monday [or whatever day it happened to be]".

It's a bad criterion for judging something noteworthy.
Definitely not cold fusion. Using powerful lasers to heat up and pressurize the target.
A widespread use case is firmware upgrades for various hardware.
“First time ind history fusion releases more energy that is put in” is a big leap. The fact that it’s still a technology in its infancy and decades away from actual use doesn’t make it any less impressive.
Is this gonna be like blue light filter coating, that rubs off with anything other than a delicate microfiber cloth and ends up looking like a map of some strange planet? I'm replacing a pair of glasses soon and I'm done paying for novelty finishes that last poorly and whose benefits are not really noticeable.
> Why is this different than any loop in C? or function without a return?

Because it's non-local control flow. Did you just ignore my whole comment where I pointed out where cases like exit() unwinds the stack, invoking deferred block in each caller up the call chain back to the root? Does for/while do that?
The Windows CMD shell contains a built-in variable called %RANDOM% that can be used to generate random numbers.
“They betrayed us” - Michael Taylor on both Trump and Biden administrations for unwillingness to shield him and his son from extradition to Japan to face criminal system there for orchestrating, successfully executing, and profiting from an escape of wealthy criminal from Japan.

I am struggling to understand which part of that brief description of events is supposed to elicit my sympathy for the victims of the alleged betrayal? The way I see it - “they served public interest” is what I would have said.

Personally I’d like criminals, especially if they happen to be wealthy, to face justice just the same. And those who commit crime in an effort to help them avoid that fate in exchange for a share of that wealth - to face justice doubly so.

Strange how Mr. Taylor doesn’t see it the same way. I’d be interested to hear him present a moral argument from his perspective to understand how he interprets this situation.
The flexibility of software RAID is nice that you can mix and match hard drive manufacturers and generally have zero issues. For hardware RAID, I've always been told to stick to one drive family from one manufacturer and not to mix and match.
This is honestly a great thing for the planet
You're right and wrong.

The MLB doesn't "own" baseball nor does the NFL "own" football. Both of them are gestalt entities comprised of the member clubs.

The NFL are the 32 member clubs. MLB are the 30 member clubs. You can't start a football team and compete in the NFL because the 32 member teams don't want to play against you.

Any concessions a team makes "to the league" is really a concession made to the other teams. For the NFL, every year, the 32 owners get together and vote on various rule changes. Same with the MLB.

MLB is a little weird in that it does have a government allowed monopoly on professional baseball, but no other league does. Like, you could start a rival baseball league, but MLB could take whatever action it wanted to squash your league (assuming all those actions were legal otherwise). But nothing except very anti-competitive practices are stopping you from starting your own baseball league. Just, good luck airing your games, or finding fields that can seat more than 500 people, or being able to sell tickets online, or advertising. MLB can make agreements to exclude rival leagues from everything.

The NFL can't do that. Which is why you get the USFL, the XFL, the Spring League, the AAFL, the XFL again, Arena football, etc. It's just that no one is capable of putting up the money to compete with the NFL. You're either overpaying what any NFL club would pay for a player or fielding players no NFL club would take. And that's not to dismiss any of those guys in terms of athletic ability. Being in the top 1% of athletic ability is still pretty fucking good. But the NFL would be more like the top 0.1%.

But no one is doing that. Average salaries for all of these leagues were under the average salary for the NFL of the time. There just isn't the money because there's no base. And it's because the NFL has built its brand(s) over decades. The NFL makes money hand over fist because they've gotten there over the years. And they essentially got in when the competition was on their level. New competitors on the scene have a much harder path.

The biggest difference is that professional sports leagues are essentially team owned and team run. Collectively, but still.

A better analogy would be Wilson, Rawlings, Nike, Spalding, etc. Wilson make a football called "The Duke". It is made to the specifications set forth by the NFL. They also make the NBAs basketballs. Rawlings makes the baseballs for the MLB. Wilson/Rawlings gets exactly zero input into how the game is played. The people who agreed to play each other do that.

Whereas in eSports, the maker of the equipment (essentially) is the one dictating how to play the game. It would be like if the US Playing Card Company decided to start dictating how the World Series of Poker was run.

So what you have is that eSports is seen as advertising for the game rather than the product itself. That's what separates other leagues from eSports. Every other professional sports league treats the competition as the product. Mainly because they have to. Riot, Epic, Blizzard, Valve, WotC, etc. all see their "professional" leagues as advertising avenues for their "actual" product.
Yes, it's called counter-signaling.
This is how the DMCA, as written, is supposed to work.

Step 1: Alice uploads some media to Bob's website

Step 2: Charlie decides Alice's upload violates his copyright

Step 3: Charlie sends Bob a DMCA takedown notice.

Step 4: Bob takes down Alice's media, issues Alice a notice that he's received a claim, and is now protected from being sued by Charlie.

Step 5: Alice disagrees that her upload violates Charlie's copyright, and issues a counter-claim to Bob.

Step 6: Bob reinstates Alice's upload, notifies Charlie that Alice has contested his claim, and is now protected from being sued by Alice.

Step 7: Charlie sues Alice, because he still believes the content to be in violation of his copyright, or gives up

Step 8: Court case / counter suit decides damages between Charlie and Alice

The problem is not the DMCA system, which if anything is too generous to the media host. The problem is YouTube's added bullshit layer, which goes something like "Charlie hints that he might send a DMCA takedown, Bob takes down Alice's video and threatens to ban her from the platform"
Commercial transactions should make the incentives of the parties clear. Here, you are giving away something (20% equity) for a promise, which is bad for you. If they don’t deliver on their promise of bringing clients, and they still vest, that sucks for you.

Both you and the other party, may be better to have a commission based structure. You would be better off because you only pay if they deliver on the promise. They would be better off because minority shareholders can always be screwed, also if you “reinvest” profits then they get no dividends. If they refer you clients, then you could contractually give them a percentage of raw profits after expenses. You might allow them to “invest” those profits for equity? That keeps you both honest, and both incentivised to grow the relationship.

I suggest you spend some time thinking about what reasons a business would give away a future income stream and a percentage of control. Many people have a very naive view of what equity is. If some act can change annual profits from $1x to $2x then you might consider giving away up to 50% of equity (percentage depends on risk/volatility/probability-distribution, ignoring value of control, ignoring opportunity cost, other huge factors too).

Also think about how you split equity if you add 5 equity holders, where each holder can double profits. Hint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31733393 However, beware, because the party with all the power can usually snarf all the profits (typical employer employee relationship) and/or remove all their risks (e.g. get a percentage of contract price, rather than percentage of profits).

You also mention: “Currently the company has 4 software engineers as parters with each owning 25%.”. This is rather unstable because if one person reneges or underdelivers, you have a fucking serious governance problem. Vesting is the usual solution, but even that has some really perverse incentives. I have wondered about having monthly pay include X shares, that way those that work and then quit will get equity, but then get diluted over time. The X shares would need to decrease over time (probably non-linearly) since risk is high at start and lower over time. Maybe equity is some metric of $ invested (opportunity cost per person for the income they could otherwise earn) against risk.

As a generalisation, I suggest looking at the equity or pay structures of other consulting professions (legal, accountancy partners, engineering). Startup equity structures might not be a good fit for a software consultancy.

Another heuristic: if any HN user’s comments particularly resonate with you, search for the user’s past comments on https://hn.algolia.com/ and use a keyword to narrow down results. There is a lot of value in the back-issues of HN!

Disclaimer: Definitely my area of expertise, most of the above is ivory tower thinking and only a little is from practical experience. But I was involved with equity with a similar split to what you mention, so I have had more incentive to think about it deeply, and especially the downsides in retrospect.
Rust is still changing so much that this would be a very unsafe bet for maintainability. Plus you would absolutely have to use a whole shitload of `unsafe` for optimization, rendering all the advantages of Rust pointless.
Getting started with your own emojiwall
You can embed an emojiwall to your website as a nice gimmick, or just use it to make your community engage more with you while live-streaming. It can be used with Owncast, but is open/extensible enough so it could also be used for Twitch/YouTube Live stream (with minor effort). If you want a short demo and simple setup-guide, follow: https://smol.stream/emojiwall
The shirt gives a good idea of proportion and it could figure out the size of the rectangle pretty accurately from that
Yes, you’re right! Windows mobile, I totally forgot about the actual windows phone, that came later.
As a former employee #1, I can say all it leads to is killing yourself and bitterness, lack of control and resentment.

In my case I even had a decent outcome but you'll always feel like you got screwed because you're off from the founders by an order of magnitude at least.

Better to just angel invest if you have the means or start your own company where you have more upside.
How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business
“state certified harm reduction counselor here”

Which means almost nothing. Unless you’re a pharmacologist, or a neuroscientist (as I am), please refrain from giving scientific opinions in this field.
>Globalization and free trade are dead because most of the promised benefits for the west failed to materialize.

Your statement about the promised benefits failing to materialize is spot on, but this not the reason globalization is dead. Globalization is dead because the United States has stopped patrolling shipping routes with US warships and has, in general, lacked a foreign policy and interest in developing one.

The two might be linked, but just barely —- I suspect that one too many generations of mothers and fathers saw their children killed, maimed, or traumatized by senseless military misadventures, thus the appetite for these excursions remains low. Coupled with the fact that the US is aging —- fast —- and has fewer children to spare, the great unwinding is indeed before us. But I doubt, sincerely, that politically or spirituality the voting electorate had any realization of the sort you called out. That is, no contingency of American voters woke up to say, “Yes I can get a flat screen TV for $120, but what’s the real cost?”
> The only thing it's missing before I consider it full-featured is stable RAID 5/6. But it looks like that hasn't been forgotten.

I've been running BTRFS RAID6 since 2016 and have only had one issue (arch kernel needed to be rolled back) and never suffered anything catastrophic. It's perfectly happy humming along with a 15x8TB raid array.
No observable anxiety there. I assume you're drinking natural maple syrup.
Jobs was wise enough to keep his "asshole" under wraps from the public.

Musk? Not so much.
poor application of the gas law.
There is no reason to treat the situation as adiabatic.
Theoretical assumptions are important!
I’m not following exactly—are the lasers destroyed after each shot? The fuel being destroyed of course makes sense..
Bodied, and deservedly so.

Bringing FTX into a discussion of nuclear fusion to justify skepticism is parody-worthy.
actually works very well when it's combined with DMCA takedown request.
Interesting, I don't know what planes he was ferrying, and we lost contact years ago (I moved to Canada myself, he moved somewhere else in NL) so I can't ask. Possibly he did what you suggested, it would make good sense. Quite possibly Halifax was mentioned as the last stop before the end of civilization in terms of repairs and spare part availability, but I'm very sure he came through there.

It is an interesting thing though, the same planes that go fairly cheap in Canada are worth a fortune here in Europe so there definitely is money to be made.
Not really.

If you want to link to some useful examples of dimensionally reduced person detection models that exhibit this behavior, then by all means, but none of this is how any current models I've seen work. It also wouldn't make sense to deploy such a model if it were so easily confused by shirts lying around. That model would be pretty terrible by any standard. If they're using terrible technology, you probably don't need a special shirt anyways.

Teaching a model to notice people walking through the frame regardless of what shirt they're wearing is simply not "a cat and mouse game", assuming they're not intentionally using a terrible model or a terrible dataset.
Start with a simpler version of problem works well.
mdadm is software raid; it's just at the block device layer, rather than part of the filesystem.
Sounds a bit like TeamCity, except for the local execution. It has:

- Either GUI based configuration (serialized to XML), or Kotlin. So you can express configuration with a real programming language tracked with version control, or just use the GUI to define it.

- Can self host. There's one program to install for the master, and one for the agents.

- Can be extended with plugins. Not webassembly based, but those are theoretical anyway currently due to lack of better-than-C interfaces. You can write JVM plugins instead and get full GCd OOP.

The main thing it's lacking is the ability to run things locally. But then again, usually a TC step is just invoking a build system or script anyway so it's not that big of a deal.
That money doesn't go to the leagues however.

You don't have to pay the NBA. Hell, you don't even have to pay Wilson, the official basketball manufacturer of basketballs for the NBA. You could buy a Spalding, or any random brand.
> sure nuclear is very expensive up front, but a nuclear powerplant can run for 100 years while wind and solar had to be completely replaced every 25 years.

Hinkley Point C is currently expected to cost around $31 billion once finished for a measly 3,000 MW.

For that money you could build ~2,300 15MW onshore wind turbines - which would add up to roughly 34,500 MW capacity. So even under the assumptions that

- you have to replace the wind turbines 3x to reach 100 years life span and

- you always have to build more renewables since they don't run at 100% their capacity throughout their lifespan

wind make more sense economically nowadays.
> "Essentially solved" is at best a euphemism for "we speculate that this will solve it". Hardly conclusive.

No, it means that it's actually been solved. If you compare the theoretically predicted number of satellite galaxies to the observed number, there's no discrepancy any more. There was a discrepancy a decade ago. There isn't any more, both because of better observations (which detect more faint galaxies) and because of better understanding of the consequences of LCDM (in particular, how reionization and supernova feedback affect star formation in low-mass galaxies).

> rampant disinterest in challenging orthodoxy

That's just not the case. There's huge interest in challenging orthodoxy. If there were a MOND-like theory that worked, there would be tons of astrophysicists who would be very excited to work on it. The problem is simply that none of the proposed MOND theories match the wide range of observations that LCDM does. LCDM is a simple theory that works remarkably well, much to the chagrin of the astrophysics community. It would be really exciting to find a problem in LCDM, and a lot of astrophysicists spend their time searching for such problems. See, for example, the excitement generated by the possible Hubble constant tension.
I think as people gain experience, they can start substituting experience and cynicism for actual first principles thinking and curiosity.
But is the RAID handling remotely sane yet? See https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linu...

It has gems such as:

* It won't boot on a degraded array by default, requiring manual action to mount it

* It won't complain if one of the disks is stale

* It won't resilver automatically if a disk is re-added to the array

I think the first is the killer. RAID is a High Availability measure. Your system is not Available if it fails to boot.
I agree. Getting vanity truck engines off the roads is a fundamentally different problem than getting large truck engines off the roads in general. These decisions aren't made rationally for many people so attacking them with logic is bound to fail. If we can transition culture war conservatives from doing the wrong thing for the wrong reason to doing the right thing for the wrong reason, that would be progress.
I think the cynicism is linked to the cycles of bubbles.

When it was all on the upside, inflating the bubble, there was a fair amount of hero worship here for Zuck and others. People were talking about self driving cars being leased by the minute and changing the world, all with a straight face. Google paid an engineer over $110million because he was going to lead the effort to build a fully autonomous self driving car... As an industry, we've sort of failed on that one. AI/ML was going to lead to mass layoffs of people as we "automated" everything, there were companies just pouring money in to anything related to it to avoid being left behind. I think I heard at a conference over the summer that 90+% of all ML/AI project fail to make it to production; that's brutal, like half I could see but 9 of 10?!? Even if you're getting paid tons of money to do that stuff, wouldn't you want to actually achieve some success? Social media has sort of failed us too, the real media got involved and sort of took it away and then the Russians and Chinese have been using it to tamper with our elections and our ability to practice democracy. The internet is "decentralized" but just try to do that without Google or Facebook or Amazon or other... Since everyone seems to be convinced a recession is going to happen, it's going to take one to sort of get things righted and start the next bubble cycle. Or maybe how the gig-economy was going to change it all. Or everyone was going to learn to cook gourmet meals from blue apron and all the carbon used to move boxes of ingredients around was never going to be a big deal...

It's always based in hype. Every handful of years the geeks and nerds think they're going to take over the world again, maybe we'll do it next time.

In the mean time, any and every break through with fusion is awesome. I'm a geek/nerd so don't believe my hype, but when we crack the fusion nut, we will change the world.
What I meant was chips are increasingly being isolated at the hardware level so that they cannot access other peripherals directly. This would make them resistant to compromised firmware attacks.

People are discussing that in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33958252

It looks like the implementation isn't perfect yet but it's a start.
Arthur Hayes of Bitmex pleaded guilty to "willfully failed to implement an anti-money laundering (AML) program at the exchange." He got six months of home confinement and Bitmex is going strong. Not sure the house of cards thing will happen.
`𝜋` is a mathematical symbol, but you could also write `CircumferenceOfCircleWithUnitDiameter`. The reason everyone prefers `𝜋` should be clear. The same is true for a less extreme case like `fst` and `first`: You don't need to think about what `fst` means, if you are fluent in the programming language it is clear, and more concise than `first`. `fst` becomes an atomic symbol in the programmer's mind, it is not something you need to interpret like `first`. This is not about communicating with other humans or even the computer, it is about efficient representation within your own mind.
Maybe those times when a PharmaBro with zero moral compass connived an exclusive supply chain of a previously inexpensive drug nobody else was bothering to make any more, and jacked up the price x10000 for as long as possible to squeeeeeeeze the health system for outlandish profits
The biggest problem for hardware RAID is controller compatibility. If the controller dies, chances are the whole array is dead, if you couldn't find the exactly same model.
Do Meta not develop btrfs for their internal use? I don't think community sentiment is a big factor for them.
Is this compute alone? Also, how likely do you think it is that we’ll see anything in the next 12(ish) months?
Or watching a straight to DVD sequel of starship troopers.
Good luck peeking in the fridge every 5 mins like some do!

Maybe a pressure hatch is the answer to snacking
Rolling “coal” with biodiesel or renewable diesel is still a thing..