skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A mistake, I should have capitalized both. I was reading what the parent wrote when I typed it and they didn't capitalize it.
This claims to explain diffusion models from first principles, but the issue with explaining how they work is we don't know how they work.

The explanation in the original paper turns out not to be true; you can get rid of most of their assumptions and it still works: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09392
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It does if they do the very immoral thing they praise against in that message.
Installed on my NUC (all dockerized)

* adguard (i used to love pi-hole but adguard home is better) - ad free LAN

* transmission that runs over vpn - for seeding linux iso

* homeassistant - automate my switches, monitoring

* zigbee2mqtt - zigbee to mqtt bridge

* eclipse mosquitto- mqtt broker for my zigbee devices

* node-red - integrated with home assistant to write some of my automations

* duplicati - backup all the data from all these service and upload to remote storage

* grafana - visualize my network/devices/services stats

* prometheus and several exporters

* nexus repository - to proxy external libraries

* wyze-bridge - so i can view my Wyze cameras in home assistant via rtsp

* tailscale
> they had cheap oil, we'd be seeing people using more energy

America produces more oil than ever [1]. (We also produce more energy than we consume [2].)

Your argument that waste equals production is flawed because energy doesn’t turn into production at a fixed rate [3]. The fact that per capita energy intensity falls while per capita real production rises means the economy is becoming more efficient.

> cheap oil in the US has been extinct for more than a decade

American crude is among the cheapest in the world [4]. (Bonus: look at Canadian and Mexican crude prices. Cheaper still.) Production costs aren’t Arab, but it’s way cheaper than what China pays, even before transport [5].

What makes this fantasy particularly stupid, beyond being trivially fact checkable, is that it mistakes China’s strategic weakness for America’s. The weakness that pushed Japan to bomb Pearl Harbor: their energy comes in from abroad, mostly by sea. The United States can strangle their economy from thousands of miles away by interfering with their shipments of seaborne coal and crude.

This is why the South China Sea is militarising. This is where Belt & Road comes from. The Russia dependency. It makes sense. It’s a weakness Beijing is working to buttress. One which America doesn’t suffer from on account of its geography and geology.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/crude-oil-product...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_intensity

[4] https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts/

[5] https://www.statista.com/statistics/748207/breakeven-prices-...
"Estimations will be asked even when you don't want to give them"

I think usually it's not a matter of not "wanting" to give them. It's a matter of not wanting to take a wild guess - which is talked down if it seems too high - and then be asked to finish the work in that time frame.

Time or scope, at least one of these things needs to be flexible, and stay flexible until the work is done.
There's a reason for this - having /etc/shadow in the title breaks searching from Algolia search due to a WAF.

eg try this

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=What%20We%20Do%20in%20the%20%2...
I think that it's because America is such an important market. Compared to Europe, Americans are richer and they all speak the same language. Many European companies struggle to expand from their home country to other EU countries.
https://eliothertenstein.com/

Inspired by an iPad-style layout, along with some other personal sites I admire. Not too fancy, just a home for my photos and some (not very much) writing.
https://www.johnxie.com/

A random collection of my favorite GIFs and SoundCloud embeds over the years
Yes that. But also in addition to that you can set A or CNAME records and do whatever you want. Just like with any domain. You can even set NS records and manage records with cloudflare.

So yes you can use your own domain but edit the profile with omg.lol
Oh wow, thanks for pointing me to Standard Ebooks! I wasn't familiar with them.
It's somewhat ironic that the government and specifically the army corps of engineers created the central valley. It was a desert / dust-bowl before.

It's also sad that a central valley project could never happen today. There would be endless environmental impact studies.
Yes, Soundslice does indeed support drums. Lots of people use it for that!
My badge was working at Amazon's SF location without anything of that. Only international travel required security contact.
Rare work-life balance. In other professions, your work day ends at 18:00,
and you forget about the job. Not here. You will most likely always be
online and checking the code, even in the evening.

If that's the case, quit immediately. I've been in this industry for over a decade (oh god, has it been that long already?) and I have never had a job where I was "always online and checking the code, even in the evening". Not even when I worked at Amazon. Yes, I've been on-call. And yes, I've been paged, but never at anything like the frequency that would imply that I'm "always online".
> Generating a small enough pattern that runs in a reasonable amount of time required a lot of effort.

lol. Programming skills and expert-level understatement. Nice. This is a cool thing.
Charles Ponzi's "business" was originally based on arbitrage with respect to international reply coupons (IRC).

Sam Bankman-Fried's "business" was originally based on arbitrage with respect to "Bitcoin" (BTC).

Both proceeded to engage in "borrowing from Peter to pay Paul".
Do you guys have a listserv or IRC channel? Are you accepting new members? :D
That's what it says on the Falcon Heavy Wikipedia page.

The payload is definitely for expended boosters (check the footnotes). I agree it's not very clear about the price. Wikipedia could be out of date I guess and they're not giving a discount for booster reuse? But then why would anyone ask for reuse?
Using like operators isn’t full text search. It won’t find results where the words you typed are switched around for example. It wont even work if you accidentally put double spaces. This could work for a toy project but for any respectable app, using like as the search operator will suck. Not to mention it’s unscalable.
The assembly line gives the company the Tech Aura which gets them funded.
>> Managers like numbers, estimates, and asking for estimates with an idea written on a napkin. It's just how the real world works — a business has some monetary goal, but before committing to it, it needs to understand how much it will cost.

I think everyone squirms when asked to make a prediction with too little information. If you want to see a developer squirm. ask for an estimate for how long it will take to build a given product or feature. If you want to see a PO squirm, ask for an estimate (in $) of the expected cumulative revenues for the same product or feature.
The dictionary definition of information technology (IT) almost exactly describes software engineering. So what is wrong with calling it "working in IT"?

For reference, Merriam-Webster defines IT as follows:

> the technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data
> Highly unlikely that you will make a meaningful difference in the world

This is an example of negative self talk, stop this, the reason you are broken is because you are trying to fix something, this just leads to more anxiety.

Most self-improvement content by developers for developers tends to be very negative like I can't explain it really well but to compare it to this sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85HT4Om6JT4
Found this comment when I did a ctrl-F to see who was breaking the first rule of Usenet LOL
Welcome to Amazon, I love you
Dyson sphere problems
- adguard home (ad blocking)
- plausible analytics (open-source analytics)
- assistant relay (depreciated)
- duplicati (backups)
- changedetection.io (change monitoring for websites)
- ESPHome (control microcontrollers for smart-home)
- Homeassistant (home automation)
- PiAware SkyAware (flight tracking w/ an additional stick on my roof)
- Grafana (monitor the server)
- Shlink (url shortener)
- assorted other projects (like the backend for a modified version of the late Weather Timeline)
It's a factoid only until it hits ground truth.
Then it becomes a factite.
Agreed. At the turn of the century, Argentina was a similarly prosperous country to the United States.

I’m sure given an investment in Argentina’s stock market in 1900, it would have now been lost many times over.
I had similar thoughts. It seems the post is more than a couple years old (and it's certainly fair to apply via email) but is hiring really done by a manager opening up raw emails?
Sure testing a beginner is hard here. But testing someone who learned how to debug means testing their knowledge of the moving parts of the system they are debugging. And this can be explained by the person being tested.

E.g. "I am going to ping an IP on the outside first, to see if ICMP message reaches the outside server. If yes I will check if the DNS server responds, if no we check the physical connection."

That would be an ideal answer, judging less ideal answers fairly is certainly a challenge, but not impossible.
" they are able to violate human rights much more easily than agencies that have more openness and less political valence."

I asked you to show evidence for this statement ""Historically, the agency has been one of the most corrupt from the beginning". Not if it's easier for them to violate human rights.

"Most USG agencies did not have programs similar to COINTELPRO."

COINTELPRO is a secret surveillance program. There's been similar secret surveillance programs from the CIA and NSA, many discussed here regarding internet surveillance. [1][2]

You also claim the FBI is the US secret police, similar to other countries secret police. What makes them like other countries secret police? What makes them more secret than the NSA or CIA?

"since secret police suppress internal dissent with tactics veiled in secrecy,"

How is the FBI suppressing internal dissent?

[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-...
[2]https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying
> Doesn't Go have a similar serialization/deserialization library?

There isn't anything as flexible or widespread as serde.

> In this case, what about stored procedures?

That works but moves logic out of the query and into the DB. Keeping logic in the query is nice to keep server releases independent. The lifecycle of app (and query) code is easier to manage than DB migrations.

> The trouble with templating is that dynamic queries are hard to do in a type-safe manner.

Where-clauses and order-by-clauses are straightforward since the structure of those clauses doesn't affect the structure of the query results. Group-by and table clauses are troublesome since a query might work during codegen but fail at runtime.
Companies do this all the time. The Android team famously had their own isolated building for the longest time. Some of the newer acquisitions and bets are not accessible to Google employees. Most places have this sort of thing.
"For many decades, part of the premise behind AI was that artificial intelligence should take inspiration from natural intelligence. John McCarthy, one of the co-founders of AI, wrote groundbreaking papers on why AI needed common sense; Marvin Minsky, another of the field's co-founders of AI wrote a book scouring the human mind for inspiration, and clues for how to build a better AI. Herb Simon won a Nobel Prize for behavioral economics. One of his key books was called Models of Thought, which aimed to explain how "Newly developed computer languages express theories of mental processes, so that computers can then simulate the predicted human behavior."

A large fraction of current AI researchers, or at least those currently in power, don't (so far as I can tell) give a damn about any of this. Instead, the current focus is on what I will call (with thanks to Naveen Rao for the term) Alt Intelligence.

Alt Intelligence isn't about building machines that solve problems in ways that have to do with human intelligence. It's about using massive amounts of data - often derived from human behavior - as a substitute for intelligence. Right now, the predominant strand of work within Alt Intelligence is the idea of scaling. The notion that the bigger the system, the closer we come to true intelligence, maybe even consciousness.

There is nothing new, per se, about studying Alt Intelligence, but the hubris associated with it is." - Gary Marcus

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-new-science-of-alt-int...

Here is the audio of the interview and the one mentioned with Sam Altman

Gary Marcus Jan 6, 2023

https://nyt-injected.simplecastaudio.com/3026b665-46df-4d18-...

Sam Altman Dec 23, 2022

https://nyt-injected.simplecastaudio.com/3026b665-46df-4d18-...
I learned SwiftUI by taking an app that I admired on Android and attempting to recreate it in Swift (along with the help of the official tutorial[0] and hacking w/ swift[1]).

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/tutorials/swiftui
[1]: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/
drones , remote weapons, surveillance tech, “lingering weapons”, has shown that physical security absolutely does not boil down to “ capable men with guns”.
It would normalise that behaviour. There are plenty of studies that show pornography warps the watchers' minds.

Even video game violence would do it but a vast majority of the experiences are easily identifiable as cartoonish. So it may give you the idea that you slaughtered a 1000 NPCs but each kill is nowhere close to the visceral reality. The games which have a focus on realistic killing, either do so to aliens/monsters or they are so off-putting that they never manage to find a large audience.

In any case I look at the public discourse about war and violence and I find that people are eager to jump into fights and don't think twice about supporting their government in bombing and killing the shit out of other populations. They couch it in some shallow moral argument. Often the deterrent to war isn't some moral concern but the fact that the other side also has significant weaponry and might inflict casualties on your side as well.

In any case I hear a lot of this overton window concept and there is a lot of merit in the argument that excessive amount of AI generated deviant porn content will eventually make people think that all this depravity is normal and we should just look the other way.
After sufficient time has passed, every company will need a new CEO, as no CEO lives forever. Each new iteration of CEO, whether internally or externally recruited, will bring a fundamental change in dynamic. You simply can't guarantee that the next generation will have the same values, views, and ways of working as the previous.

The CEO of a different company in charge isn't that different than an internally sourced CEO in charge.
uh, how do high taxes preclude a fascist takeover? I fail to see the connection.
I assume landfills have been much rarer in past times.
doesn't just build muscle-- heals cartilege. fixed my tendonitis
Somewhat unsure of what you're implying by the tone, but reading through the issues linked above and these seem like... um, good things? I know I'd certainly value working at a company that debates things through RFCs, supports hackathons, and puts real effort into updating every repo to eliminate racist historical baggage from git branch names.
Maybe the author overstates and understates some things but I’m glad to see some pushback on this pass that Buddhism seems to get. One only need look at Myanmar to see that Buddhism isn’t necessarily so perfect.
There is an enormous difference between ChatGPT being able to put words in the right order and a robot being able to act out the intent behind those words.

It’s like the difference between ELIZA and a self-driving car. The Turing test fails to take into account that words are cheap for computers but interacting in an environmental context is not.
Censorship of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics (2022)
Judging by the numbers of boys and girls who happily engage in sex under the age of 18, I would say there would be 80% of 'children' who are 'sexually abused' according to your criterion.

Average age of loss of virginity appears to be around 17 in most Western countries.
Yes, especially because there are things like high-oleic sunflower oil with a completely different fatty acids profile more similar to olive oil.
I really appreciate all the work Valve is putting into Linux.

My first experience with linux was when I was only 15 years old, this was 15 years ago. It was usable and it gave new life to the laptop I had gotten from my grandma that didn't work with windows very well. It was amazing.

After that I kept using linux for personal use for a while, but there were always issues, for one I couldn't really play any games (it didn't matter to me that much, but I couldn't recommend it to friends for this reason). But there were tons of quirks you'd be constantly fighting against.

In the past ~5 years the situation has changed dramatically, I remember when proton first came out. I told everyone at my work place (we were all using linux at work, given that we were doing deep learning research) and it tanked our productivity for a while. One my my closest friends had moved entirely to linux years ago but used to be a massive age of empires fan, now he could actually play again without any effort whatsoever. I thank the wine team and valve for this effort.

Now the gaming situation is pretty good, but there are still some linux quirks that need to be solved for it to be really mainstream-friendly. But the future looks bright, people have been joking about "this is the year of the linux desktop" for a while and I do think it is finally coming. I'm not sure about mainstream adoption because, well, it's impossible to compete against pre-installed operating systems in the big manufacturer brands. But I'm hoping there will soon be a time where we will be able to do everything mac users or windows users can do without having to put any significant effort into it. Of course, some software (such as adobe software) might never come; but the move towards the cloud has also helped and will continue to facilitate usability.

Anyway, linux is in a great place and it's still improving. That's good and I love it.
> Surely with a German passport this wouldn’t be a biggie.

The U.S. PR lottery couldn't care less. Neither many other non-EU countries.
> Meetings are there to ensure that everything is going smoothly and on schedule.

Are they? At one time in my career you just let people know when something isn't going smoothly/not on schedule. A quick email (or equivalent) was more than sufficient to raise awareness.

For various reasons I eventually fell into this meeting culture. I don't get it. It produces this weird state where everyone saves up what they have to say for the meetings to avoid an awkward lack of participation or "I have nothing" in the meeting, which results in a barrage of mostly useless information, all while the nuggets of gold that the meeting would benefit from regularly get missed because everyone is too overwhelmed by the information overload.

And because everyone saves up what they have to say, the team seems more distant, which diminishes other beneficial outcomes that arise when everyone is regularly chatting with each other. The information lag also dramatically decreases the overall efficiency of the team, not having useful knowledge as it becomes available.

> You might not like it, but the information must be shared for the system to remain efficient.

The thing is, I actually like meetings. After you've recognized something isn't going smoothly, calling a meeting to formulate a plan of attack under the narrow scope of that specific problem at play can often lead to really great outcomes.

But I dare say that if the meeting is there simply to find out that there is a problem, you are doing something wrong.
Climbing is also about core strength. I started bouldering much more regularly about a year ago, and was amazed by how much my trail running improved without any special effort.
I love how many kinds of automation there are!

One kind I rarely see is "autonomation", which is basically automating so that a failure prompts a human to fix something and then resume the automatic process. I don't see many people make these, but they are great for tasks that need to run constantly. You could (for example) make an ETL process that halts on errors, allows a developer to fix something, and then resumes right where it left off (rather than starting over from scratch, which would be like throwing out half-finished goods!)

Another is the "incremental automation", where you start out with literally just a checklist of manual tasks, and you slowly automate one piece at a time over a long time. You only automate the pieces that produce the most value or have the most need, so you end up spending your time wisely. If you clock how long it takes to complete each time, you can plot the cost savings over time of your automation, justifying to the business dweebs why they should let you spend more time automating :-)

Yet another is cost-benefit automation. Basically, don't automate it unless you can prove it's going to save you more money to automate it than if you hadn't. There are a lot of different kinds of costs and benefits, so this is more complicated than it seems, but it can be used to justify a costly automation effort (such as hiring an entire team just to do automation!) or reject one. Any time someone says they're going to manage some centralized service or team for a group of other teams, I ask them if they've done the cost-benefit analysis, and if they haven't, I pray for their users...

In general, you should not try to automate things completely (which could be defined as "it not only runs by itself, but also fixes itself") unless there is a very clear cost-benefit. Automate small tasks and run those tasks individually, and if it's convenient, tie the small tasks together into larger automation chunks. About half of the more complicated one-liner shell commands that I run end up in my junk-drawer repo, and eventually I end up using them again.

But my favorite kind is self-service automation. Bottlenecks are the worst! One person or team has to do things for everybody else? Make it self-service! Start by making the cheapest, crappiest, least-reliable, most-embarrassing solution that gives users the ability to do something themselves. Even if it stops working... you just go back to doing the original task for the users. You often hear "well we can hire button-pushers overseas for cheap!" as an excuse to avoid this, but then they're discounting the cost in time from the button-pushers not being efficient enough or misinterpreting requests, etc. Cost-benefit isn't simple! But self-service is (usually) going to give you back time, which is often worth more than money. (I think, anyway.)
I don't know if everyone's work can be automated. I hear people who have automated close to 100% of their work. I don't even understand what kind of job that would be. Maybe someone could illuminate me.
Because that would be ridding yourself of doubt, not gaining new doubts.
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