skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree about things like mission statements being rather silly and tedious, particularly in a corporate context where, as the author notes, the only real mission is to make money for shareholders. In fact I think a mission statement is marginally less pointless in the context of a public institution because, frankly, it's not always clear what the end goal of a lot of those institutions are.

I don't really see the problem with this, however:

> What, for instance, was the mysterious "quality" that we discussed at every meeting? What did people mean when they spoke earnestly about "aims and objectives" and "learning outcomes"?

If people are discussing "quality" I presume they are referring to quality of output, ie, you want whatever good or service you are delivering to be good, not bad. And knowing the aims, objectives and outcomes of meetings, projects, etc, is absolutely a positive thing.

There is no "fake sincerity" as far as I can see. There is politeness - sure, maybe it is fake politeness (discounting the possibility that your server actually wants you to enjoy your meal). But it's still better than rudeness which is quite often the alternative.

Frankly it sounds as though the author is simply annoyed at (i) the private sector, for being the private sector, and (ii) the public sector, for looking to introduce the same focus on customer service and accountability that has long been present in the private sector.
I got a retractable screen door for my bedroom door that goes to our back porch. Instead of a swinging screen door it just unhooks and rolls up to the side, and can be pulled back out.

It's great for getting a breeze on nice days, without letting mosquitos in. There was one on the front door when we bought the house, wish I hadn't waited so long as it was super easy to install. Will probably get one for the door to the garage as well this year.
> Imagine a formula 1 driver installing an AI :)

As an unpopular opinion: I don't watch races, but maybe I would watch that. I mean, Roborace is pretty cool (but it's mostly about the tech rather than racing, and IIRC it's all strictly driverless), I wonder how a man-machine pair would do.

Similarly, I find most sports boring and hardly worth watching (unless in a good company, but then it's not really about the sports), but if some day there would be Olympic Games NG+ without any doping or gear restrictions, I'd most likely check those out with great interest. I do realize there would be tons of drawbacks and nuances involved (and more than a lot of people screaming hate how this is wrong to them), but that'd be a) interesting on a personal level - watching some folks who trained for their whole life isn't really resonating with me - I'm happy for them being beyond good but I can't say I really care; and b) would produce enormous effects on society, in terms of medical and technological advances, just like the space races of the past (and hopefully the future) - I'd surely cheer for that.

Then, I'm a proponent of machine assistance in computer games, too. In my opinion, human bodies and minds are inherent sources of unfair advantage and machine assistance - if equally available to everyone - is the greatest equalizer. Though, of course, I acknowledge that a lot of games are designed solely or mostly around imperfections of human performance (mechanical or perception).
> "A players hire A players," he said. "B players hire C players. Do you get it?"

> Apparently not. Somebody in the back of the room raised his hand and asked, "so how do you hire more B players?"

I think that guy did get it, but he worded it wrong, he meant to say, "so, who hired those B players?"
It does not "presuppose a Foucaultian worldview". You have centuries of this sentiment permeating culture at the very least.

One example of many:

> Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

~ John Stuart Mill
Does the Tesla Semi Make Any Sense? Part 2
cool! Does quick-lint use this pattern? https://github.com/quick-lint/cpp-vs-rust
For me it means, that kernel, zfs, bootloader and initramfs-creating scripts are tested as a whole, by the distribution. For the user it means, that he can fearlessly update any of these packages and upon reboot, the system will successfully start.

That is not given if you have one-off custom integration of these parts. For a while, I had a CentOS box with openzfs kABI modules; having to tinker after updates to mount the pool was not fun.
I would absolutely buy a better, faster, crispier oven for $100-$200.

I honestly didn't understand what they were at first and didn't bother to find out.
someone oughta donate a NEO-GEO cabinet and a copy of Windjammers
Those are low numbers compared to the smaller prop shops that routinely pay 1MM+.

Gotta have a PhD in pure math though. That shit is bananas.
If the result of this is an image that infringes on his copyright — I'd imagine this would have to be a pretty 1-1 copy, since his style appears to very generic — then the burden should still be on the person who produced the image and published it.
"Drunk the cool aid..." In the UK case I've heard the idea that the Publc School system emerged for exactly this reason. ('Public' schools being the most elite schools in the UK).

A relatively small number of schools shaped a class of people who all thought in exactly the same way, so they would behave predictably even when far away and in a new context.

Public schools, are not coincidentally noted for a focus on 'playing by the rules' and 'fair play', as inculcated through sport. Not to mention never breaking your word. All handy traits if your goal is breeding administrators you can trust without supervision.
No, I'm saying why does Apple choose to be "home" in America.
I play disc golf and it's fascinating all the different flight characteristics discs can have. I can't remember the last time I threw an Ultimate disc though.

Fun fact - the popular coffee maker AeroPress was also borne out of Aerobie.
A significant resource for the concept of curiositas is the virtues section of the Summa Theologica

https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3167.htm

For those new to the Summa, generally speaking, it is good to read an article starting with the On the Contrary and the I Answer That, and then proceed on to the Objections and Replies
Congrats Matt, this is awesome news!
I'll be signing up the day those are available!
Would that still be the case if Microsoft know that such infringement is likely to occur? Microsoft has been in the software industry for 50 years, has like Apple a app-store and has distributed software from millions of different rights owners. Can they with good faith argue that they had no idea that software often has multiple rights owner and thus a single person who upload software to github is unlikely to have sole copyright ownership.

I doubt Microsoft would make that argument. It is more likely they will argue fair use, but by not using closed repositories owned by paying customers, it seems to show that they themselves have doubt about the legal status of using other peoples copyrighted work for copilot.
Generally, the idea is to invest each year, and hold those investments over a long period of time.

You can use this calculator to run different scenarios.

https://themeasureofaplan.com/net-worth-scenario-tool/

Example inputs: a 25 year old with a starting net worth of $10k and who invests $7k per year over 40 years, at a 5% average annual return.

Output: net worth of $915k at age 65. This provides retirement spending of $37k per year (using a 4% safe withdrawal rate assumption).
That is because the AI doesn't have enough context knowledge to distinguish prominent signatures from stylistic flourish or a thing being represented in the painting. The generated signatures themselves are usually very different, though in some cases they can come very close to the original artist signature when properly prompted for artists with "big" signatures. Better image part tagging will solve this.
Ah, yes, my apologies -- it's done via a connection mode.
This is how many PIs treat their students: as an AI tool with paper writing capabilities.

The upside: soon we can all be PIs!
> What new crops exactly can we replace those crops with?

for a large number of them i don’t think we replace the crops with anything… why are we treating massive chunks of some of the dryest desert as if it “must” grow something?
Here's a shot at an answer, lifted from 'The Mythical Man Month', Fred Brooks:

"Software entities are more complex for their size than perhaps any other human construct, because no two parts are alike (at least above the statement level). If they are, we make the two similar parts into one, a subroutine, open or closed. In this respect, software systems differ profoundly from computers, buildings, or automobiles, where repeated elements abound."
When the cashiers in the big supermarket chain store in my neighborhood started to use a standard, corporate mandated phrase that included the company name and ended with something like "did you get everything you need?" I was irritated at first and started to get angry after a while.
I'm usually a cheerful person that gives the cashiers a smile and a nod and wishes them a nice weekend or something.
But that phrase felt totally alien, it deprived the whole little exchange of any humanity.
I think the cashiers hated it, too.
Luckily, it didn't catch on. Maybe it was German stubbornness or something. I'm really glad it's gone.
> When people stop and think about factory farming, they hate what they think about. The trick most people employ is to not think about it.

Exactly, this is known as "cognitive dissonance".
That isn't necessarily an indicator of something nefarious. I've been active in a community using an account that has identifying information about me. When I joined the mod team, I did it under an alt to avoid disgruntled users becoming a personal safety issue.
I am not talking about BSD vs Linux, i am talking about systems where no shitty driver can bring down the system....i say that as a FreeBSD user btw.
They picked metals to bet on, and I'd be curious to know if the bet would already be in the black for Ehrlich.

Charts I could find show long-term increases in nickel, copper, and tin.

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/nickel
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/copper
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/tin

They don't have data for chromium or tungsten. I don't know how that compares to inflation, but the absolute price has certainly not fallen.

To quote Wikipedia:

Asset manager Jeremy Grantham wrote that if the Simon–Ehrlich wager had been for a longer period (from 1980 to 2011), then Simon would have lost on four of the five metals. He also noted that if the wager had been expanded to "all of the most important commodities," instead of just five metals, over that longer period of 1980 to 2011, then Simon would have lost "by a lot."

Ehrlich seems to have been silly to pick a ten-year timeframe (that's not long enough to document a centuries-long consumption curve), and on top of that he appears to have gotten unlucky. A 50-year time frame for such a bet is more reasonable, and even if you correct for inflation, he seems to have had the rough idea.

We probably can feed the world if population levels off in the ways it's predicted to. At least, we can produce enough calories. Right now, the world has more obesity than malnutrition. Agriculture is a renewable resource, but metals and fossil fuels are not -- and neither are places to dump the waste.

So Ehrlich may have been right to pick metals rather than agriculture -- though we're rapidly running out of fish.
> The maturity and stability of the US stock market (by which I mean institutional and structural stability rather than price stability) make it the most frictionless, transparent and predictable place to raise equity capital.

The number one way that Apple benefits from this is giving shares to employees as compensation, right?

They aren't commonly "financing" projects with stock as far as I understand it. aka, they aren't diluting existing shareholders by issuing fresh shares to take advantage of the share price.

Since they aren't doing that, how do they benefit financially from their share price?
Perhaps casual "Frisbee" use has, but disc golf is continuing to explode in popularity: https://udisc.com/disc-golf-growth-report
Yeah, my impression is that healthcare exchange plans are much better and cheaper in blue states than out here in flyover country. It's a shitshow out here. A wallet-emptying shitshow. Not exactly worse than before—at least stuff like pre-existing condition exclusions are gone—but definitely not good either.
It would be an essential feature, imo, to have this 'near-verbatim check' for copyleft code.

Overall it feels like it's a bit too much of specialized learning on GPL/Copyleft code to be fair. It's not like a human that reads some source code and gets an idea how it works. It's really learning code from scratch on Copyleft code, without which it would likely perform much worse and not generate a number of examples. It's not just copy-paste, but it's closer on the spectrum to copy paste than just super-abstract inspiration to feel fair.

As others have said, I don't think it would be fine (specially from big companies pov.) to decompile proprietary code (or just grab publicly available but illegal to reproduce code) and have AIs learn from that in a way that seems different in scope and ability to human research and reverse engineering.

I think we need a good tradeoff that isn't ludditism (that would reject a benefit for us all, i.e. that is good for everyone), but that still promotes and maintains open source software. In this case it's really a public "good" that's being seized and commercialized, that doesn't seem quite right: make copilot public, or use only permitted code (or share your revenue with developers -- although that would seem more complicated and up to each copyright holder to re-license for this usage). I remember not long ago MS declaring Open Source was a kind of "Cancer", now they're relying on it to sell their programming AIs. I personally think Open Source is quite the opposite of cancer, it is usually an unmitigated social good.

Much of the same could be said for the case of artists an generative AI art.

And this isn't even starting on how we move forward as a society that has highly automated most jobs and needs to distribute the resources and wealth in a good way to enable greatest wellbeing for all beings.
casual frisbee throwing has always been greatest in high school and college campuses.

You see them less in populated parks, because you need a bit more space to be safe with them than, say, a nerf football or tennis ball.

I played ultimate in college, a decade or two ago, and it was a huge and growing sport.

Disc golf now is one of the faster growing sports in the us, full stop.
https://archive.ph/3fTdN
It shouldn't if you transition to heavier weighting of cash/bonds as you approach retirement (which most people do and most financial planners advise)
Web2 is going just great
In California, specifically, there is an impressively strong opposition to building new above-ground reservoirs (think dams, tanks, lakes, etc). The opposition usually cites environmental reasons, but in California we're effectively a One-Party state so there is no meaningful pushback.

That's not to say environmental reasons aren't good reasons (with a certain balance of course).

However, in California, this has become the "go-to" excuse for blocking most new public-works projects, often tying up projects in decades of litigation and studies... which typically means the project is dead before it even starts. Californian's have become skeptical of these weaponized "studies" as a result.
> perform certain special actions on the English Wikipedia

What about other languages? Aren’t there any admins for those too?
What 2014 invasion? The annexation of Crimea (which in historical terms has never really been part of Ukraine anyway) was certainly NOT an invasion. The referendum, which had some international observers, was overwhelmingly in favor of joining Russia. Russia took that step in response to Victoria Nuland and the US installing a puppet government.
There are some AIs being planned for you in the coming years...
> GDP is growing at a slower rate than this

Over what interval are you observing this?
One difference is Google, etc are all doing massive layoffs and i doubt JS, Citadel, etc will do this.
which mask?
Note that this is still just a role within the Mediawiki software. They aren't actual sysops with e.g. access to the servers running the software. Only WMF has that.
How does this save Amazon money? Wouldn’t they always pick the optimal GB/$ DIMM? Do we expect half-increments to be a better value per GB?

I would expect this to only make a difference for dedicated server offerings, and I imagine amazons margins will still be the same on a per-GB basis.
There are stairs that only go up or down?...
People focus on cities use efficiency because it is a way to do more with what water the cities have.

If people use half as much, you can have twice the population with the same water budget.

The only viable alternative is to purchase more water rights for the cities, which is generally a political non-starter
But several in your search, including the twin study, report no correlation, and others report correlation only within race and sex groups.
It made perfect sense. Laws change all the time... in some cases they're invalidated by the court.
A few years ago I got a letter from my bank which said something along the lines of "At [bank], we understand that your banking needs evolve over time. That's why from [date], we will be moving you from a graduate account to a regular account".

The graduate account and the regular count are exactly the same except that the regular account has extra fees. Apparently over the years I had evolved a need to pay fees. Good thing my bank were looking out for me.
> a gradual contraction to a more sustainable economic structure

Why do you assume that it requires a contraction to reach a sustainable economic structure?

What prevents the economy from growing for the foreseeable future while also becoming more sustainable at the same time?
This is partly true.

The other reason is because lawns are ornamental and food is utilitarian.
This HOCl generator has been amazing for removing household odors and reducing cleaning supply usage. Lots of applications. Great hack for natural cleaning supplies.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0B26KK4K2
Being a contrarian rationalist doesn't magically compensate for bias. Evidence does. Lack of evidence isn't evidence against something.
Software fragility is actually very similar to physical fragility.

Think of Jenga tower: the more blocks you have, the more fragile it is. And that is despite Jenga being nicely layered (each block has limited number of direct dependencies).

There are two main ways to decrease fragility:

1) lay out your blocks more carefully.

2) decrease the total number of blocks.

What's interesting, is that most software development practices focus on 1. How to make complex system less fragile? Use a big framework, do unit tests, use static typing, have protected branches, write documentation.

While the biggest payoffs are always in the reduction of blocks. KISS.
Does this eventually "wear out" our monitors/displays because now they never turn off. I have expensive monitors and I work from home and keep my laptop always docked. Never turning off the displays makes me wonder if I am rushing them to going bad too soon.
The difference has maybe always been in the interaction between the artist and the market. Even very competent and painstaking replicas of "great works" that are indistinguishable to most command a small fraction of the price of the original.
What you and others replying to you, seem to be missing, is that there are several flavors of Server Side Encryption, and where the control layer is concerning the access to the key when you ask for decryption. The article did not explain it well, and in any case the automatic option being enabled here, will not achieve this additional control level.

If the leak was due to credentials leak would not help. But if the leak was because somebody accidentally made a server side object public AND you are using a KMS customer key then you have an additional layer of control required.

You can easily see that, if you make a server side encrypted object on S3 public, but you are using a KMS customer key, you will get a different message from the default decryption of the object granted by this new default...

You will get something like this

<Error>

<Code>InvalidArgument</Code>

<Message>

Requests specifying Server Side Encryption with AWS KMS managed keys require AWS Signature Version 4.

</Message>

<ArgumentName>Authorization</ArgumentName>

<ArgumentValue>null</ArgumentValue>

<RequestId>B24FYZDV760J6TK0</RequestId>

<HostId>

Xi2fLZvfHxu5VopeLIrP292lg7WMV5ubVaBVpFdlynjL6V08IbdEFWYJuYwQZdLP/cZF2USWdNg=

</HostId>

</Error>

This blog might help:

"How to use KMS and IAM to enable independent security controls for encrypted data in S3" - https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/security/how-to-use-kms-and-...
Kindle Paperwhite. I increased my reading so much with it.
I didn't know this. That's unfortunate.
Software is more malleable than, say, a bridge. This leads to a lot of input about how to best do things, which generates a lot of rework, which generates a lot of billing hours, and keeps us all employed.

Does it need to be like this? No. But until the VC MBA gods get their hands off the tiller and we face actual energy scarcity, expect more stupidity.
Similarly I have a really old email account that's infested with spam. I mostly keep it around because the spam box is genuinely entertaining and I sometimes get really creative ones. The kind of spam you usually don't even find in your spam box nowadays. Like the real "Nigerian prince" classics
I'm unsure which point you're following up on.

Yes, it's a legitimate extra layer of security if you do what you're suggesting, but that's not what's occurring here, though it may be what's happening within AWS's own data centers. But again, let's not conflate the two.

From a customer's perspective: calling AWS will return the data unencrypted regardless of if this flag is on because AWS will decrypt before returning it, seamlessly. If the credentials allow access to the S3 bucket, that's that, and your data will still be compromised regardless if this feature is on or off.
I poach mine in the microwave with a bit of water, drain, then shred with forks and add salsa/tomato sauce/etc.

Dead simple. Super tasty. 10 minutes, easy cleanup.
JP Morgan must face suit from Ray-Ban after crooks drained $272M from accounts
What exactly does the stirring function allow you to do that you couldn't do before?

And which model of stirring air fryer did you end up going for?
Space is tight for me, so I bought the "Bowflex SelectTech 552 Adjustable Dumbbells" on Amazon. They were like $300 for a pair, which was more than I wanted to spend, but they are super convenient and versatile.
I've edited the title. For reference, the actual article title is "Wikipedia admin jailed for 32 years after alleged Saudi spy infiltration" – which does indeed make it sound as though the Wikipedian was jailed for "alleged Saudi spy infiltration". That's not the case.

Instead, what is meant by "infiltration" is that the Saudi government has allegedly infiltrated Wikipedia and that this is the reason why the Wikimedia Foundation recently banned all Saudi-based administrators from further involvement in Wikimedia websites.

What two Saudi Wikipedians have reportedly been jailed for is "swaying public opinion" and "violating public morals." See https://dawnmena.org/saudi-arabia-government-agents-infiltra... and https://alqst.org/en/post/extreme-jail-terms-in-saudi-arabia...
Yup, that figure I posted was just base but we often see folks getting multiples of that through bonuses.