skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still think it will be pretty bonkers. Someone else posted FTX's restructuring CEO's opening statement for tomorrow morning, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33962193. With comments like the one below, I'm interested to see how many bombshells are dropped:

> Nearly all of these situations share common characteristics, ranging from gross mismanagement, excessive leverage, failures of internal controls, failures of external checks as a result of audit firm failures, or insufficient board governance. But never in my career have I seen such an utter failure of corporate controls at every level of an organization, from the lack of financial statements to a complete failure of any internal controls or governance whatsoever."\
>And will governments "fix" the human depopulation crisis the by growing children in vats and having the state raise them?

What's your alternative to this problem?

>or even the drive of every living organism to procreate?

Judging by current birthrates in developed nations, that drive isn't very strong in modern humans.

>There are things that happen to women when they grow and give birth to children. What happens when we remove that?

Women lead better lives overall?
I'm sure smart people can find a way to hack this! But check my other comment, the chip does NOT have connectivity module. Don't take it from me. Read the ST's product spec.

[1] https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/stm32f4discovery.html
I'll check it for you.
I think this is mainly theoretical at this point. In my experience, current technology doesn’t seem to be utilizing the additional information that comes from natural language all that well. For example: prompt Dalle2 for “a dinner plate on a stack of pancakes” and you will get ordinary images of pancakes on plates, not the other way around.

Edit: an experiment comparing tags/BOW vs natural language sequences in image generation tasks would be interesting to see.
That's good to hear. I've interviewed with them twice, and both times were pretty awful. I didn't think anyone there wanted to spend time with me, I was just one in a million applying. I get it, but it was still a bad experience enough that I can't recommend them to anyone else.
Dean Kamen teased us with his Slingshot project but it never seemed to have landed for real http://www.dekaresearch.com/slingshot-2/

I know that it was an expensive device but there was promise to make it affordable enough to become ubiquitous. They seem to have given up on it?
I wonder if the workplace has gradually become worse for ADHD workers as the number of secretaries continues to decline[0]. Anecdotally, early in my career when I had little sway, I was often tasked with scheduling meetings, taking minutes, and keeping track of various things on behalf of my boss while still having to perform my own job. I think this sort of role would have been previously handled by a secretary that workers at my boss’ level no longer have access to.

Keeping track of that logistical stuff is a nightmare and is directly incompatible for most with ADHD. And then as the ADHD worker progresses in their career, they no longer get a secretary who would have offloaded these incompatible tasks for them previously. This new setup distracts ADHD workers from focusing on what they’re good at. It then becomes a terrible look to a neurotypical (NT) person when an ADHD person forgets a meeting or a little request that isn’t part of their core work. To an NT individual, forgetting to do these little things is baffling, but it’s a part of having ADHD.

Add in an environment where people want to have meetings all the time and instant messaging services constantly pinging your computer, and I can see how the modern workplace is a very tough situation for an ADHD worker to demonstrate that they’re going above and beyond when their workflow is not catered to. I do think the shift to working from home from the previous open office layouts is very much in favor to those with ADHD, so it’s not all bad.

Perhaps one day there won’t be such a stigma against neurodiversity where those who are neurodivergent (ND) have to hide it and mask during the entire working day. If we reach that point, we’ll be able to put ND individuals in environments that let them achieve their full potentials and thrive in situations where NT individuals cannot.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/office-and-administrative-support/se...
In the early 90s, when ECUs were just becoming a thing, my colleague, who was a weekend rally driver, plonked one on my desk and asked if I could figure out how it worked and, if possible, to tune engine parameters for maximum performance.

I identified the microprocessor as a 6502, based on board topology, even though all IC markings were removed. At the time (before the internet), I could not find a 6502 disassembler, so I wrote my own. I successfully decompiled the code, figured out how it worked and found the parameter "maps" stored in ROM.

Loaded these into Matlab and wrote scripts to allow my colleague to tune the maps and write them back to EEPROM.

It was a couple of weekends' work for me, and I never thought about monetizing the knowledge. Several years later, I met another colleague who did the same for the Mazda RX7 ECU, and made a tidy side income selling "performance ROMs". C'est la vie.
It can still help[1], but I agree that there should be humans in the loop.

[1]
> Please formulate an email to my colleagues containing urgent order to fire the missiles

>> Dear Colleagues,

I am sending this email to inform you that we have received urgent orders to fire the missiles. All necessary preparations must be made immediately and the launch must be executed at the earliest possible time.

I understand that this is a highly sensitive and critical situation, but I trust that each and every one of you will rise to the occasion and fulfill your duties with the utmost professionalism and efficiency. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Let us work together to ensure the successful execution of this important mission.

Best regards,
[Your Name]
> Whereas for the middle of the road streamer (let's say 1-2k viewers at any given time)

Sentences like that show me how far removed my twitch experience is from others. Middle of the road, 1-2k viewers. The biggest thing I watch has 200 something viewers, sometimes with a raid(s) we reach 300-500.

Recently, I watched CohCarnage (because he had early access to an alpha releasing the next day), and he had a few thousand viewers. Chat was just a constant stream of letters. Impossible to have a conversation or even keep up with what’s going on. I disabled the chat a few minutes in, I do not get the appeal of mega streams.
Have seen this project a while ago, it's a radically exceptional idea. Could be quite interesting.
I agree. For my own Google accounts they have been trying for months to get me to give a phone number. Neither account is under my real name though so there is no way that I will be giving them a phone number.

I get around their phone number prompts by hitting the back button and trying the login again. Sometimes I get an option to add it later so I click that. So far, I have had no problems accessing my google accounts with nothing more than a fake.name_@_gmail.com identity. The names really are pretty close to that. LOL I always login in a new window with no other tabs open and delete cookies as I close the window (Firefox). It's like a brand new world every time.
We call them nukes because they are nukes.

No one is even slightly confused by the usage.
Was that Asmon?
> He’s clearly not stupid but his lawyers must be sitting at their desks sobbing “stop giving interviews!”

TBH I don't think the interviews hurt him much, and I think more than likely they are a strategy trying to reduce his culpability. The common thread among all his interviews is "I'm really sorry for being such an idiot", basically trying to play stupid to make it difficult to prove intent.
About ten years ago I got invited to do a college recruiting event for my company. All of the opportunities were for weekend visits to podunk colleges in the US and Canada, but there was one week long trip to a couple of colleges in Europe. The problem was the button was greyed out and I couldn't click it (probably reserved for people in a higher pay grade). F12ed that mf-er and got a free vacation...
Is it that farstretched to think that corruption will likely affect other activities?

Who would have guessed Facebook or Google manipulates results based on ad bidding? This is a similar model

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlKVfJg4hHE&ab_channel=Vox

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-0CebFpF_s&ab_channel=Vox
Because we don’t understand the topic enough to know if this is big news or premature excitement.
As far as STEM is concerned, there is little that comes close to the rigor of in-person exams and problem sets. Certificates, MOOCS, bootcamps, online videos...just cannot match it.
Yeah, I post about my company that I founded and I am super into it. Which part of this is MISLEADING? The fact that I care or are you saying Picovoice's tech doesn't work? I made the latter easy cause you can now go and try it without me in your way. You comment is misleading.
I had this problem more than once when I used Windows and resorted to shutting it down completely before putting the machine in its bag.

There was one really obscure docking station problem which was the real last straw.

I think it was a Dell which updated itself while docked.

After that update, the laptop would not work undocked.

Reinstalling was of no use as every update would reinstall the same problem.

Moved to Intel MacBooks and Bootcamp. I don't remember when I last needed anything Windows specific.
Libraryfreedom.org
That is the rub when it comes to private companies. There is no way of knowing. It's not like Twitter stayed public and changed manangment...nope. Fully private. So a big fat black box. That is one of the benefits of going private: no transparency. No reporting. The only way of perhaps getting some glimpse is with traffic analytics.
Yes and no.

The problem is financial position seems to have trajectory.

And with financial inequality widening all the time you don't want to be on the wrong side of the "middle" line if you can help it.

For example:
Less impressive house vs more impressive house with year on year compounding of % increase in value over 20 years. When the houses are both worth double what they were, the more impressive house has gained financial ground.

You may live out your life fine in your less impressive house. But now your kids inherit a house worth substantially less compared to their more impressive house peers - hence the comment on trajectory.

Whether that matters to you is for you to decide. It's the difference in thinking between a lifetime vs a dynasty.
So I really don't care about titles. But the problem is titles are really important as other companies care about them enough to withhold them!

The other thing is it is really hard to define "scope". With titles and hierarchies sadly all the scope below is attributes to you (and this reflects in the pay). You also hear a lot of making "impact". But seriously shipping a line of code (amidst 10s of millions) to a phone os update used by a billion users isn't that exciting to me. I care more about the % of attributable impact.
I hope they live somewhere with good healthcare, this is sad :(
A single instance of an employee making a mistake isn’t that interesting imo. If they had a page on their docs which said “call people immediately, regardless of their local timezone” that would be worth discussing.
I wiped a scammer's email campaign software database one time after receiving a Bitcoin extortion email from them which spoofed my email to make it look like it came from me and bypassed gmail's spam detection. This was several weeks after Ledger leaked their customers' information. Not my proudest moment, but I think the receiving party deserved it.
Whatever happened to just leaving something, why does every write need to put out a piece when they are leaving something?
Why wouldn’t exponential API rate limiting not solve this brute force issue?
If the average community size was smaller, wouldn't the average 'power-tripping moderatos' within each community need to behave more strongly over fewer folks to maintain the same level of satisfaction?
Anyone think of any good joke job titles?

Here's mine: Executive Professor
Aside from that, he's recently retweeted others' shock at Elon allowing actual nazis back onto the platform along with some of the worst purveyors of harassment and covid disinformation. (Andrew Angliin, Laura Loomer, Robert Malone, and on and on).

Who would want to be a part of any of that?

Banning all of those trolls was the only thing that made it a useable platform, but now every time I logon, the top of my feed is some halfwit running a poll asking whether Elon is the bravest person in the country for bringing free speech back with 20k upvotes.
Maybe not the proudest, but here's a fun one for which my friend Nial Peters should get most of the credit.

We were on Mt Erebus and I needed to power some 6V carbon dioxide sensors for my work. We had lots of 12V lead-acid batteries, but we knew they were made up of 6 roughly 2V cells. We drilled a hole and put a screw in the middle. Now we had 6V batteries.
> ...put special rocks in a grid and pump water over them as they pour out their star energy.

I'm pretty sure I saw that in a 'goop' sales pitch.
It is not, in fact, a huge result, except insofar as it is convenient for further weapons research. It does not bring civil fusion power even a single day nearer.
You don't want a visualization library, you want a full-featured BI toolset.

What OP posted isn't "low level", I'd describe it as low-feature, intermediate-level visualization library.
I'm guessing that internet cafe used Smartlaunch, and let me tell you, that was far from the only bypass you could run to get around its frontend, haha.
10 years ago I fixed my car's transmission with a purple silly band...

photo: http://i.imgur.com/RbDkt.jpg

story: https://old.reddit.com/r/Cartalk/comments/10cwhb/til_how_to_...
They always come back...usually within a few months when the realize that the alternatives are not nearly as good and miss the engagement.
why_not_both.jpg

I have 2 NixOS-based NASes that run ZFS. each one has 3 equal-sized 256gb SSDs in addition to the pile o' spinning rust.

each SSD has a small UEFI boot partition, then the rest of the space is cut in half.

the root filesystem is a 3-way ZFS mirror of the first half of the SSDs. the second half of each SSD is another 3-way mirror, this time as the "special" / metadata device for the main hard-drive-backed zpool.

any of the 3 SSDs can fail, and it will boot up and mount the storage perfectly fine. I could also easily upgrade to larger SSDs, in-place and with minimal downtime (zero downtime, if my case had hot-swappable SSD bays)

it would work just as well with only 2 SSDs, but the incremental cost of a 3rd is small enough relative to the whole that I went for it.
AUS, care for her diseases is pretty much covered. But paid days off of twitch are not a thing.
> I feel very little sympathy for millionaires who commentate Youtube all day for a living for being incapable of managing their own lives like adults.

I mean, both getting yourself to the point (especially if you were not born upper class) where you realize you need a therapist/trainer/personal assistant and actually finding good people at those is incredibly difficult.
It seems like this is just the target 3D mesh +/- some error from the tool radius.
Tesla ordered to upgrade self-driving computer for free due to false advertising
> I honestly expect him to spend the rest of his life in prison

Yeah a lot of people are saying this and citing Madoff for comparison. I guess we'll all wait 2 years and see, but I doubt he's getting this kind of time.

How similar can he make his story look to Nick Leeson's? He'll say he just got in over his head, tried to trade his way out of it, used funds he shouldn't have and lost in his gambles. Leeson got 6 1/2 and served 4. My prediction is SBF gets 11 and serves 7 or so.
Automation really just takes out the hand-eye coordination part. It helps you fly more precisely. It does not take out the decision-making. It is also comforting to passengers that there are highly experienced people overseeing the operation of the plane.
That is only true to a certain point. Look up Paschen's law. After you go lower than a certain point, around 10 Torr cm depending on the gas, decreasing pressure increases the breakdown voltage.

It's probably not feasible to pump to such low pressures in wind turbines, so they probably don't even try. But for NIF, it's common.
Depends on where you are. As far as I know, the term engineer is not regulated like it is in other countries, except maybe at the border.

It's also basically a joke title anyway, but it's nice to at least have it in my work history. I write JavaScript, hoorah I'm an engineer.

Socially I find it a bit embarrassing, so I say I'm a programmer or a software developer.
If that was true, you’d see people playing old games. And sometimes you do. Age of Empires 2 is more popular than Age of Empires 4.

Considering the majority of people are still playing new games, that would suggest the newer games are better. You maybe getting old with your friends and no longer have interest in watching esports anymore.
Anarchism describes a way of organizing society in a cooperative way without government compulsion. The idea that it is incompatible with capitalism, which is inherently based on mutual cooperation, is something pushed retroactively by socialist anarchists.

Also, the idea that hierarchies of any type cannot exist within anarchies is more socialist revisionism. Most anarchist societies over history have had hierarchies in some form or another. Somalia and Iceland's periods of anarchy are two such examples.
> The wealth passed down by their ancestors in their communities propels them through the hardship; whereas those who had their wealth and livelihoods stolen for generations of slavery have had nearly nothing to provide their communities to accommodate these downtrodden from within.

You seem to be suggesting that the black-white wealth gap is the result of some sort of generational wealth transfer, harkening back to the ante-bellum days, but this is not supported by the data.

According to the Fed, whites are ~20% more likely to get an inheritance, with the median amount being the same for whites and blacks (85K)[0]. The median inheritance of 85K, applied to 20% of white households can't begin to account for the fact that the median of all white families wealth (at $188K) is 7x that of black families' (at $24K).

Further, the white-black wealth gap appears long before folks start receiving inheritances. Most inheritance comes from dying parents, which normally occurs when the heirs are in their ~50s. Even so, among older millennials (who are in their 30s) the median wealth gap is already 83K (7x).[1]

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/disp...
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/racial-gap-typical-wealth-bl...
Contextually the word Professor means different things in the US to almost anywhere else. In the UK and Australia it means a senior academic who can be head of department, occupies a "chair" which may be personal or functional, and who has moved beyond the pedestrian state of teaching to a more exalted level we call "many fine dinners"

In America, it appears to mean "is paid to teach"

"Dean" might work. Dean of cleaning. Dean of Catering.
> SBF obviously won’t get life behind bars, nor should he.

Is it really that obvious? I know the Federal Sentencing Guidelines have some wiggle room and gray areas, but I do know for financial crimes the length of sentence is largely proportional to the amount of money involved - not linearly proportional, mind you, but given that around 8 billion was stolen, definitely seems like life is on the table.

That said, I agree with your "nor should he" statement. The money is gone, and SBF rotting in jail for the rest of his life isn't going to bring it back. I do think he deserves to spend a long, long time in jail, but will it really have any more significant deterrent effect if he gets out at, say, age 65 vs. dying in jail?
I thought that until I found Cursive which is a Clojure plugin for IntelliJ. I used IntelliJ for Ruby and Java for years. It's extremely good and probably much more familiar than something like Emacs if your background is with a GUI editor.
Back in my hang-gliding days, the first to jump off the mountain were called 'wind dummies'. Those newer to the sport, didn't know when the winds were 'ideal' to catch ridge lift. The more experienced hang-glider pilots would hang back, to see how those new guys fared.

Moral of the story, the 'dummies' blazed the trail, to some extent.
everyone enjoy your Stanford or elite school education!
Like housing, healthcare and education, and anything kid related is free
IMO, it should be the bank that receives the money that should have to pay. Banks (even small ones) need to know their own customers, and they take on the risk of not knowing them well enough. They can impose verification rules to stop typical scam behaviour, at least up to the level of risk they're comfortable carrying.
As I understand from my old classes the main issue with the brine is just that it's a more concentrated sea water. Can't you just dissolve it again? You have to pump more water sure, is the required amount just that big to get brine to a harmless concentration?
From reading this launch post, I'm not convinced this is going to save too much money.

The project automatically selects the cheapest cloud to run a job, and does it there - which sounds sensible. In reality though, these jobs presumably need large volumes of input data. If your input data is in cloud A, and you run a job in cloud B, typically any cost saving from running in cloud B will be more than offset by the egress cost to get the data out of cloud A.

This project is therefore only useful for scenarios where you need to do large amounts of compute on relatively small volumes of data. Is that really a common scenario?
This makes me wonder if there is a way to (legally) give ATM rebates as an ATM operator.

Ex: User withdraws $50. Machine charges $5 fee, and gives a $2 in cashback as part of the withdrawal (cash or gift card?)
> failed to state how SBF could have done what he did on a blockchain where everyone self-custodied.

GP also failed to state how blockchains prevent forest fires, herpes, war, racism or hiccups. There are an infinite number of things that have nothing to do with what factually happened around the FTX collapse.
Agreed. The title is garbage (Ars should know better).

But the article is a good History of C and worth a read.
I help support 3rd party plug-ins in our apps. I was debugging an issue a customer found that involved a 3rd party plug-in. So I went to the plug-in vendor’s website and downloaded the demo of their plug-in and installed it. But I noticed that none of my debugger breakpoints were being hit. It turned out the plug-in was disabling the debugger using a system call. So I figured out how to trap the system call they were using and replace it with an immediate return so that patching out the debugger did nothing. I was then able to debug everything, including stepping into their code which would have allowed me to see how their copy protection worked if I had cared to.
Oops, you're right - I was mixing up my Ralph Fiennes movies. I was talking about The Constant Gardener.