skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This meta analysis cited in the OP is good for context: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9000914/

>"The overall incidence of myopericarditis from 22 studies (405 272 721 vaccine doses) was 33·3 cases (95% CI 15·3–72·6) per million vaccine doses, and did not differ significantly between people who received COVID-19 vaccines (18·2 [10·9–30·3], 11 studies [395 361 933 doses], high certainty) and those who received non-COVID-19 vaccines (56·0 [10·7–293·7], 11 studies [9 910 788 doses], moderate certainty, p=0·20). Compared with COVID-19 vaccination, the incidence of myopericarditis was significantly higher following smallpox vaccinations (132·1 [81·3–214·6], p<0·0001) but was not significantly different after influenza vaccinations (1·3 [0·0–884·1], p=0·43) or in studies reporting on various other non-smallpox vaccinations (57·0 [1·1–3036·6], p=0·58). Among people who received COVID-19 vaccines, the incidence of myopericarditis was significantly higher in males (vs females), in people younger than 30 years (vs 30 years or older), after receiving an mRNA vaccine (vs non-mRNA vaccine), and after a second dose of vaccine (vs a first or third dose)."
Projects to run the Haber-Bosch process with clean hydrogen are already underway:

https://www.bicmagazine.com/projects-expansions/renewable-su...

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/08/26/avaada-to-invest-5-bi...

https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/egypt-...

They use electricity from wind and/or solar power to electrolyze hydrogen from water. Then the hydrogen gets combined with nitrogen in the Haber-Bosch process like usual. This is not a good bet for VCs because the capital commitments are large (billions of dollars' worth of physical chemical plant) and there's no prospect of winning the market by being early. Big industrial players are already earlier than VCs could hope to be at this stage.

In some ways this is a trip back in time. In the 20th century, many renewable ammonia plants were constructed and operated using hydroelectric power:

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4079/3/2/11/htm

It peaked in the 1960s (figure 6). A combination of rising demand for electricity at home and industry, plus optimization of hydrogen production from fossil feedstocks, made electricity-to-hydrogen (and from there to ammonia) less popular. But now rising natural gas prices and climate concerns, plus falling costs for renewable electricity from wind and solar, make it attractive again.
Yeah I read that part and immediately thought “tell me you’ve never read a single book on tech leadership without…”
Can't speak for aliqot, but I am now somewhat more confident that the NIST changes were suggested by the NSA, and slightly more confident (or at least less unconfident) that SHA-3 is insecure.

I still think it's probably fine, but I feel better about insisting on SHA-2+mitigations or blake3 instead now, even if the main problem with SHA-3 is its being deliberately designed to encourage specialized hardware accelleration (cf AES and things like Intel's aes-ni).

(To be clear, the fact that Schneier claims to "believe NIST made the changes in good faith" is weak but nonzero evidence that they did not. I don't see any concrete evidence for a backdoor, although you obviously shouldn't trust me either.)
The wide poster that the author was originally searching for seems to have been featured here: https://hellosubscription.com/2019/01/the-curiosity-box-by-v...

I do like the style of that version more if it wasn't for the enormous typo in the middle of the map on Main 'Cardiod'.
If you're talking about Brooks's law, that's a pretty specific observation that doesn't seem like it applies here. It's very specifically about adding workers to a project that is already behind schedule. It doesn't certainly doesn't mean anything as broad as "a company cannot do more things by increasing its employee count."
SBF's still in the news, bro.
If anyone wants to self host a robust dbt workflow on AWS - dm me. I have a solid infra as code (AWS CDK) solution that accounts for a lot of functionality, including hosting generated docs.
> Not really, you're just endangering women again by driving it underground where they can't protect themselves.

Not really, that's a pure invention of yours. The Nordic model does protect prostitutes from pimps and johns.

Go educate yourself:

https://nordicmodelnow.org/
For most PGP use, the MDC only serves as an integrity check [1]. That is the same for the proposed modes as well. In the case of symmetrical encryption it does in fact serve to authenticate the encrypted material based on the passphrase.

It does not use the popular combination of an encryption function acting more or less independently of a MAC (message authentication code). It uses a different method[2]. This seems to cause much confusion.

[1] https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:authenticated

[2] https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:mdc
just curious, can one collect unemployment during severance?
I'm on MacOS; I think I found the issue in the code they use for navigation. It's checking for ctrlKey on the MouseEvent and not MetaKey as well, which is what CMD maps to on MacOS. I might email them about it.
Is it progress? I don't think the time required to fly over an ocean is really a major problem. Time-sensitive clients can simply book an overnight flight during time they would be sleeping, and those who would be rich enough to afford supersonic flights can already afford comfortable accommodations on such flights. The benefits would be minimal and would be overwhelmed by the environmental damage and/or waste caused by the high fuel burn.
Like TFA, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-12-15/the-uk... was paywalled, so I don't know, but it might be relevant?

I wonder how much the existence of words such as хохол, as muscovite pejoratives, helped shape UA national identity?
Hi Hayk, I see that the inference code and the final model are open source. I am not expecting it, but is the training code and the dataset you used for fine-tuning, and process to generate the dataset open source?
It's amazing. They've really got something revolutionary here.
Not true for men under 40, myocarditis higher from vaccine.
I would argue it also lowers the barrier to entry for experimenting with new techniques for generating/processing audio. For example, you could pretty quickly create a page that has touch controls for adjusting parameters, uses a neural network for generating MIDI data, and then outputs that MIDI to a VST running on your computer.
Perhaps management sees tech work in the way they see assembly line workers - they believe that doubling the number of teams will double the ticket throughput.
> Yes, but now that we have a tool, it will never go away.

Tools can go away. They can come back, too. But they can go away. I would also point to the Japanese experience with firearms. But I'm guessing you already know about that too.
I sympathize with artists on this matter, but they're really bad at protesting.

AI Mickey Mouse is a possible copyright as well as trademark violation which would likely be enforced in the exact same way if you were to hand draw it. This type of violation is not AI specific.

The main threat that AI poses is not that it outputs copyrighted characters, instead brand new works that are either totally new (idea is never drawn before but the style is derived) or different enough from a known character to be considered a derived work.

Another way to put it: artists' current job is not to draw mickey. It is to draw new works, which is the part AI is threatening to replace. Sure, Disney may chase the AI companies to remove Mickey from the training set, and then we lost AI Mickey. That doesn't solve any problem because there are no artist jobs that draw Mickey.

Even in the case of extreme success where it becomes illegal to train a copyrighted image without explicit consent, the AI problem doesn't go away. They'll just use public domain images. Or sneak in consent without you knowing it. As was the case with your "free and unlimited" Google Photos.

Finally, if there's any player interested in AI art, it has to be Disney. Imagine the insane productivity gains they can make. It's not reasonable to expect that they would fight AI art very hard. Maybe a little, for the optics.
From that recording it's hard to tell what's being caused by the speakers and what's being caused by the phone recording and doing it's noise-reduction thing (it sounds like it's recorded with a phone). Can you record the main output of the mixer into a DAW instead and post the MP3 of that? What model of mixer is causing the problem?
I think the much better blog post directly from DeepMind might answer your questions [0], but suffice it to say, the model does seem to be solving novel problems.

[0]: https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-a...
Everybody here keeps talking about how reliable Z-Wave is, and I absolutely HATE mine, and was telling someone last week that I would never recommend them to anyone. Have I just had a bad experience? I have 3 Z-wave switches, and once a month at least one of them needs to be reset. They just stop responding until the air gap switch is pulled. I hate them and I can't rely on them at all.

Conversely, I have 30+ Zigbee switches, and they are quite reliable.

The only reason that I have the 3 Z-wave switches is that I needed paddle switch fan controllers with an almond color, and I could only find them in Z-wave by Enbrighten. (Side note: why are almost ALL the smart switches only available in white?)

Of course, as I type this, my RPi with HomeAssistant got bricked with the latest update, so now my SmartHouse is not merely dumb, it's stubborn!
No mention of the Momus $22 million lawsuit
Building subscription based unlimited design/development services business
Possibly. The problem itself is not in leetcode, but it almost certainly has been leaked somewhere. However the program was able to make a few changes to the code with some prompting, which hints a little bit more smarts than just regurgitating an answer.

Nevertheless the point is moot. I've invented completely novel questions (promise!), and saw them leaked online after asking them twice. The process is fundamentally flawed and large language models are just making that glaringly obvious.
Atari: The Golden Years – A History, 1978-1981
Compiler/runtime bugs are always painful, I don't see that type inference is a special case there.

Fortunately such bugs are pretty uncommon.
I don't have a right to determine how you use and/or modify your body and you don't have that right over me. That's called bodily autonomy, and is about as clear cut a human right as you'll be able to articulate.

The social context has nothing to do with it, that's just a way to say that if enough people say that you can't do to yourself what you want to that that makes them right, which has historically led to all kinds of wrongs. See also: the right to euthanasia, abortion, being gay and so on and so on. It's always the sanctimonious groups that are hell bent on telling others how to live, but it never was any of their business.

How 'we as society' view this has no bearing on something that is ultimately the domain of a single individual, the person affected.

In the United States this is codified by "The right of the people to be secure in their persons" though of course there is plenty of hairsplitting going on about what that actually means, even though the simplest reading is to take it for what it says.

The implications of this are far reaching (for instance: I'm on the one side against a vaccine mandate because it would infringe on that right, on the other I think that a lot of people have allowed themselves to be pushed towards this on a pretext).
You're never going to _accidentally_ run into an MD5 collision.
For passive carbon capture, I don’t understand what you’re proposing. Let’s pretend: Joe Biden gives you a nuclear aircraft carrier and a team of nuclear engineers. Now what?
Some of this is more a complaint about Unicode than about IDN. I'm not seeing suggestions of what would have been better. For example, regarding the confusables mappings, the list simply cannot be complete as Unicode can add new homographs in the future. Of course, IDN is crazy, but much of the craziness comes from Unicode.

Still, if the craziness comes from Unicode, one could be forgiven for wishing IDN had never happened and that Unicode in domainnames was not a thing.
I take the copious downvotes as confirmation!
That's only true if the company is better-suited to be run by someone else. CEOs are prominent, but they're still just people. A person can make mistakes and still be the best person for the job.
Is he not entirely wrong in warning “Cancel culture is bad” or not entirely wrong in Canceling someone?
Essentially garbage comments, Meson is anti-MSVC and will not comply. How is Meson any different from Waf (a dead project)?
Doesn't that make the PM just a programmer then, but with a more powerful tool?

We used to code in ASM. Then we coded in high level languages. Soon we'll code by giving prompts to auto code generators.
Also Tron 2.0 game nailed the aesthetic, I wish Tron Legacy did. It just looked like your run-of-the-mill orange-and-teal sci-fi film. Such a wasted opportunity.

edited: You know I never paid attention to the soundtrack to the game, just listened to it... holy cow you're right they did a great job! Tons of cues from the original film... thanks for this!
>> whereas art can be very wrong before a client even notices

No actually, that's not how that works. You're demonstrating the lack of empathy that the parent comment brings up as alarming.

Regarding programming, code that's only 95% right can just be run through code assist to fix everything.
Good question, honestly I'm not sure. I will try to remember to ask next time I fly up.
Not all of that is dev. After a certain point, a lot of growth comes from marketing, sales, sales engineering, consulting, support, customer success, etc.

I'd wager most core engineering teams in a co like Apollo are probably quite small and focused. I'd guess the cuts are coming from the ancillary teams.
Unpopular opinion, but I'd argue the last ~50 years of legalized abortion, with over 60 million lives lost, also accounts for a large percentage of the missing workforce. (Even more so when you consider the loss of their children and their children's children.)

> 18% of the workforce has been wiped out by abortion, and this number will climb to 23% by 2035.^1

> While labor force participation may rise in the short run due to mothers choosing to work instead of taking time off to raise kids, unrestricted abortion is likely to decrease labor supply in the long run. Since the Roe decision in 1973 an estimated 63 million abortions have occurred in the United States. If all of these aborted babies had been otherwise carried to term and survived until today, they would add nearly 20 percent to the current U.S. population, and nearly 45 million would be of working age (18 to 64).^2

(1) https://www.hli.org/resources/abortion-affect-united-states/ (pro-life site warning, but it cites sources including the Census Bureau and Planned Parenthood's own research arm, the Guttmacher Institute)

(2) https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/b8807501-210c...
Back in my day we didn't have L1, so our code just ran on 16 registers.
The idea of connecting CV to audio via spectrograms pre dates Jeremy Howard's course by quite a bit. That's not really the interesting part here though. The fact that a simple extension of an image generation pipeline produces such impressive results with generative audio is what is interesting. It really emphasizes how useful the idea of stable diffusion is.

edit: added a bit more to the thought
Your own corporation pays corporate taxes that a non-profit does not, and you cannot transfer personal wealth to a corporation without paying taxes on it as you can with a non-profit.
An hour before he died, Grandpa George could have sold the house and excluded $500K of capital gains (if his spouse died within the prior two years) or $250K otherwise. He could then pass his estate tax-free to heirs (assuming it was a typical "normal person sized" estate). In that case, the value of the house is now in [stepped-up/not taxed] dollar bills.

Why should the fact that he transferred a minute after he died rather than 60 minutes before make a difference to the taxes owed? Sell it for a fair market price to Alice a minute before you die, then transfer the proceeds of the sale to her as part of your estate. Same effect.
The problem isn't just the quality or sensitivity of the displays (though that could also be a problem). The problem is that any interface designed for drivers that requires you to stare at the interface and not the road is a bad idea. Any control that you are likely to operate while the vehicle is in motion needs to be something you can find by touch alone. A fixed, physical button.
Chill out, people. Humans are still great generalists. We are pretty capable of leveraging these tools to amplify our productivity. It's only the specialists between us that are going to suffer a lot with these new developments. All these AI innovation is truly showing us how pathetic our ability to deeply understand and specialize at something is. We are always going to lose to computers, be it in chess, go or art. Therefore, we should cultivate our generalist skills and stop fighting AI progress.
Say the truth.

The expected growth of revenue by growing our workforce did not happen. Together with the tough economic climate, we came to the conclusion that letting 15% of our workforce go will put the company in a better position to survive and navigate the future. Hopefully there will be future opportunities that allow us to grow again.

We are all very sorry for this. Personally, I can barely sleep thinking about the stress and troubles my former colleagues will face having lost their job. We feel it‘s our duty to provide a fair severance package with at least x more months of pay, y months of health insurance, etc.

I am not a writer! Others could do this much better!

At least pretend to be a fucking human and don‘t write disgusting copy-paste trash that sounds like it came from a lobotomized HR junior like Mr. Schmidt did.
There are a large number of other datasets beyond the big name ones like OSM. There are governments all over the world uploading thousands of layers to thousands of different open data portals. Dozens of satellite operators selling optical and radar data. Commercial vendors selling information about property, mobile phone reception, demographic information. And it's all in different formats uses different vocabularies and was built to different standards.

And it is not just about maps but as an input to other systems and models. Knowing the location of a customer, machine or business tells you a lot about it and this kind of data unlocks that.

Also, ESRI are quietly putting a lot of effort into data curation and aggregating it in one place. But whatever they build will be slow, buggy, and focused on ESRI and its customers. In fact a lot of government open data providers have been moving their portals to ESRI and access to raw flat files is being lost.
Private interests have gotten us into this mess, to think that the same can get us out of it is wishful thinking of the highest order.
It has already happened with their self driving.
Exactly this, and it was clear based on the backlash got SD 2.0 after they removing artist labels and getting 'less creative'. Most people are not interested on the creative aspect, just looking for a easy way to copy art from people they admire.
For startups such a step is likely to ruin the company. And in any case that founder would keep their stake in the company while not being able to influence it anymore. Doesn‘t make sense.
Considering 80% of the water in CA is consumed by commercial agriculture I was surprised to see that 75% of all the water in SoCal is consumed by people and businesses watering their lawns! Lawns are kind of stupid most of the time, but some places should probably just give up on them.
Not to mention it also may spur innovations in different mediums: More time-based art, installations, video games, etc.
Hopefully the setting will help it avoid the soap-opera/theatre look of The Hobbit
I would think not. The one time I was on UE (back in 2008), you had to report any income you received.

edit: apparently in some states you can - at least in Colorado in 2008, you could not. Generally your unemployment would be reduced by the amount of income you brought in. So, in any case, severance payments from a typical tech job would far exceed UE anyway...
We've been doing remote-only interviews for years now.
Hmm, I thought this was a good question so I looked it up. At least in my state you cannot.
What if the board doesn't want you to quit? Surely it's better to do what's best for the company going forward rather than to broadcast your self-flagellation.
I've used at least one programming language whose keywords and supporting library function names were not in English. There exist more than one.
The human experience is an embodied one, it is not just information processing
Many other people have replied with great information, but I'm going to respectfully disagree with:

> The problem is the massive leaps of logic being made by people who have (quite wrongly, based on available evidence) become convinced that the vaccines are a greater threat to healthy people than the virus is.

I believe the problem is that we were so convinced that our solution to covid was infallible that we removed a basic human right: the ability to make informed choice about your medical care.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, I believe that most people involved did this out of a genuine desire to save lives and help people.

The issue is the hubris.

The idea that "I know better than you do what's good for you and for society, so I'm going to force you to do a thing".

This is where we went wrong. The forcing.

If we'd presented vaccination as informed choice, had recommendations but not coercion, I think there would have been a lot less resistance.

We decided that public health was a trump card that allowed us to ignore almost every civil liberty the U.S. was founded on.

We actively limited speech and debate, going to far as to silence and destroy the lives and careers of qualified physicians who dissented.

We restricted freedom of assembly.

We seized property through forced business closing without compensation.

We restricted free movement.

We coerced vaccination in the strongest possible ways shy of physical force.

The list goes on.

We did this out of a hubris that "we know better than you".

It doesn't really matter whether this is true or not, it's fundamentally anti-liberal.

It's made worse by the unfortunate fact that in most cases we were wrong.

Asymptomatic spread wasn't a thing. The initial studies that said it was were based on flawed methodology. Even China isn't counting asymptomatic cases anymore.

Pretty much every model that we based policy off of, predicting extreme fatality rates and recommending extraordinary interventions, were dead wrong.

As others have pointed out, mortality counts were wildly off due to many factors, including how death certificates were filled out (died with covid v/s died from covid).

The vulnerable populations were identified fairly early on, but we chose to implement draconian restrictions for everyone, regardless of their individual risk.

This was the problem.

Hubris.
If the advances create catastrophic consequences there will be a stop by definition. Death of art(ists) and coders may not be a catastrophe, but it could be coincident with one. From OP, "Art AI is terrifying if you want to make art for a living". Empathize a little with that to see coding AI making coding not a way of life. Empathize even more and see few people having productive ways of life due to general purpose AI. The call to empathize is not about "feelings" necessarily, it is a cognitive exercise to imagine future consequences that aren't obvious yet.