skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if any of that holds true anymore.

Marginal Cost to Manufacture - Not in terms of cardboard boxes and CDs, but you can't scale up your user base without paying hefty fees to cloud providers or payment processors these days. In any case, software companies aren't valued on the basis of gross margin but recurring revenue and operating cash flow.

Barriers to Distribution - OK, this is still mostly true. I will say that "enterprise" type software tends to require RFPs, SSO integration and regulatory compliance that can let monopolies fester, like Microsoft (and Adobe).

I wouldn't say software is displaced at all though. Companies are simply buying the competition as in the case of Figma, (or Instagram, or Activision) or pouring money into developing vertically integrated solutions to strengthen their moats further.
Creator should consider combining those that are still or share the same number of frames into a single image, or atleast an image that combines ~100 so that its a single web request, then splice them using CSS.
Ok, maybe a little bit of big marketing in calling it an artificial pancreas.

This is an incremental improvement on existing insulin pump tech right?
They exist (e.g Wegmans, HEB). None of them are public companies. I don’t believe this is a coincidence.
> "The tech industry layoffs are basically an instance of social contagion, in which companies imitate what others are doing."

I think this social contagion can describe a lot of the moves that have been made in the tech industry over the last few years. Some examples:

* "Embracing remote work" - prior to 2020 the prospect of working hybrid, let alone fully remote, was extremely rare in tech. Mid-pandemic a couple of large tech companies announce that remote work is here to stay, and pro-WFH policies spread like wildfire. This is a positive example IMO, but still seems like big tech gave this trend the kick to get going.

* The pandemic hiring spree - this one feels the dumbest IMO. As expected from being stuck at home, FAANG in general saw an increase in usage and therefore an increase in revenue. Either leadership made some willfully ignorant revenue projections, or maybe it was just a land grab, but a couple of the big players started aggressively hiring, and all of a sudden the market for tech employees was at an all time high. Less stable companies assumed the bigger players knew something they didn't, and a lot of them followed suit only to get burned by the current bear market we're in.

And now the mass job cuts. So many tech pundits are heralding these waves of layoffs as FAANG forecasting darker days ahead. "If companies with troves of consumer data like Meta and Google are trimming the fat, they must know something we don't!"

_Maybe_ big tech is right this time around, but it doesn't seem like they have the greatest track record. At what point are we going to stop assuming these companies are omnipotent, and realize the man behind the curtain is just some mid-level data analyst with a penchant for SQL queries.
No, because resources are limited. Like if a user indicates they want to go from A to B, and then half way thorough the transition decides they want to go back to A, then you need to cancel and clean up everything for the transition to B. Otherwise you’re wasting battery, network bandwidth, main thread cycles, etc. on useless work.
Then you really shouldn't start paragraphs with:

> The same goes for the Eastern Europeans, a typical Eastern European...
I would just consider all those intermediary states as one “loading” state. It is pretty simple to have a “loading” and “error” state in addition to your other ones.
The problem with your example is it's the situation in which torture (in fact interrogation in general) isn't going to work no matter what you do: it's an example of what I like to call "the car keys fallacy".

Most people contemplating torture think in terms of "how long would I let bad things happen to me before I handed over my car keys?". Not literally, of course, but nothing in their life is that important. If someone points a gun at you, handing over your car keys just makes sense.

What they should be thinking is "how long would I let bad things to happen to me, if I told the people doing them where my children are so they can go kill them?"

The guy with information on where the nuclear bomb is knows how long he has to hold out to make the information useless. Otherwise, why didn't he give it up the moment you arrested him and said "yeah you'll be in jail forever?". Or when you threatened to have him executed if it goes off? If none of these things are actually compelling to him, then why would any level of torture be effective when he already is accepting his life being over anyway?

People think torture is prohibited because it's a bad thing to do, and that would be a good reason to prohibit it. But it's not just that's it's bad, it's that it's ineffective. And it is a dangerous lie that allows ideas like CIA torture programs to exist that it is: that torture actually works, and is just taboo. Because it advances the idea that the man with the will to torture will have an advantage over the one who doesn't - or that not doing it is some type of luxury. It's an argument in favor of it, despite that the fact that CIA program never found a god damn thing - and that should be an optimum torture scenario, because there's no fixed timelines, no ticking clocks, just a promise of eternal torture.
This article mostly quotes a report by a Tokyo-based think tank. The report is here:

https://www.renewable-ei.org/en/activities/reports/20220922....
ChatGPT will have the same problem, since it works on the text iOS gave it. It's not clear to me it would perform any better at reformulating your query.
Spoiler alert, this is the fate of all Hydrogen strategies not based on massive investment into nuclear.

But since when did physics ever stop anybody from believing in fairy tales?
A model more like a credit union might work or some cooperative. Costco is fairly close where they have a very thin profit margin and excellent supply chain management.
Open access doesn't mean open source. You have access to models through their APIs, you don't have any access to similar Google models.
I remember seeing a similar study years back… the claim was tracking of positions of bodies. The mechanism reminded me of Project Soli, using signal processing to make 2D/3D inferences. This sounds like the next iteration on that finding. Wild.
Please stop spreading FUD.

> And about $120 billon of that is stable coins

Check any reputable source (like [1]) and you will find that BTC market cap is 438B today without any stable coins.

> unless you bought pre-2017

Get your facts straight. BTC was <4K in Q1-2019. Heck, it was <10K for the entire H1-2020. Today it is 22,762$.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/
The sound of axe grinding is evident from the outset. Just another indication of how deeply unsettled establishment figures were by Posner.
My mom recently died of Parkinson's (more or less anyway).

One of her symptoms was complete denial that anything was wrong with her (My understanding it that this isn't uncommon). For instance, she had become bedridden and was quite weak, and during a larger group visit commented that someone had put sand in her clothes. She was entirely serious.

I couldn't really see that she had any quality of life towards the end. My uncle made the very good point that it was pretty hard to say what her subjective experience really was.

The denial can be a real issue. There is an anti-psychotic (Nuplazid) that did her quite a lot of good, but she started to think it was the cause of the problems she was having!

The article discusses the possibility that earlier identification can possibly make treatments more effective, and that exercise may be effective in slowing the progression.
Correct link is https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-23/activist-...

(There was a trailing '=')
Seems like the “sunk cost fallacy” Wikipedia page might need an update.

The choice to pursue hydrogen-fuelled combined heat and power is particularly mystifying, given that Japanese companies are market leaders in heat pumps. Tokyo’S climate is also ideally suited for heat pumps, given the need for air conditioning in summer and the fact they’ll heat just fine in the coldest conditions greater Tokyo ever experiences.
Apathy Was Killing Me
The Insane Engineering of the Spitfire
The days of 'fun flying' are long gone: How U.S. air travel became a nightmare
I love the idea of sparse templates like this one. A list of sections you might one day populate. That makes it a helper, not a dictator, of how I document.

One question though:

“Don't includes Tutorials or Q&A sections”

Why?
A banking nation who even holds money for basically anyone, including nazis back in the 1940s. Nice example.
My point was that some of the best Cricket players of all time are Asian (India, Pakistan, Srilanka etc), which is a very similar sport to Baseball.
Not sure what developers are they talking about. I was using state machines since the 90s. Even wrote business process middleware and management front end to it based on the concept.
Btw, the chants from the book are real (and part of the interludes if you get the audiobook - which I recommend since the initially boring but ultimately important parts it aren't skippable without effort).

https://soundcloud.com/ztutz/sets/iolet-music-from-the-world...

The Thousander Chant is fun if you've got the right audio setup.

https://longnow.org/store/iolet/

> In Neal Stephenson’s new novel Anathem, the Decanarian Erasmus’ daily chore is to ring the Clock bells in his “Math” in a special sequence each day as he chants out the sequence. Those sequences and chants are all based on mathematical formulae that composer and coder David Stutz has put together into an album called Iolet.
> My understanding is that modern society in general (not the specifics) is the most likely outcome of human development over time... It was just a matter of time before population density and technological advances led to civilization as we understand it.

I think most contemporary scholars, definitely in anthropology the discipline that Graeber and Wengrow are operating from, would call that "teleological thinking" and warn strongly against it -- the idea that the way things turned out is the only way they could have turned out, that everything was necessarily leading to this. There is actually nothing particularly innovative or unusual about arguing against it, it's quite mainstream to reject that kind of teleological thinking -- if it's a bias or agenda, it's one that is shared by mainstream scholarly disciplines.

I understand you disagree, but what you are proposing is not a current mainstream anthropological or social science way of seeing things, and to challenge it is in fact quite mainstream.

So again, I think in fact one error is giving Graeber and Wengrow too much credit for being groundbreaking here. They are not being innotivate or unusual in disagreeing with you that "it was just a matter of time" until society wound up as it is -- and scholars don't need to want to make an "attack on modern society" to disagree with you here!
'Product of the Day' on Product Hunt Using a Trello Board
As somebody with a more critical stance towards capitalism, monopolies strike me as the logical conclusion of a market system. Firms that reach this stage become (even more) parasitic and should be dealt with, but it seems counterproductive to dismantle that success. I'd like to see nationalization considered in more of these discussions.
Chicago. Chicago is a real city too.
Intergarting ChatGPT into Your Products
2023 wave of layoffs have a purpose: to reset inflated salaries
The Great Resignation between 2020 and 2022 was a turning point for many workers. The tight job market and low unemployment rate gave people the power to demand higher salaries and better benefits. Employers were scrambling to hire and retain top talent, leading to an inflation in salaries across the board.

But now, as the job market has shifted and unemployment has risen, the tables have turned. Big companies are using layoffs as a way to send a message to the job market: they are in control. By shedding excess staff and creating a surplus of available workers, these companies are able to reduce salaries and negotiate better deals with new hires.

It's no secret that salaries have grown out of control in recent years, making it difficult for companies to stay competitive. By resetting salaries to more reasonable levels, companies can remain profitable and continue to grow.

It's clear that the layoffs we're seeing in 2023 are not just random events, but part of an orchestrated strategy to reset inflated salaries and regain control of the job market. While it may be painful for those who have lost their jobs, it's important to remember that this is the natural ebb and flow of the job market and that better opportunities will arise in the future.
https://youtu.be/s86-Z-CbaHA?t=673 nicely visualizes it. It's an infinite number of infinitely thin filaments from the center of the sphere going outward in every direction.
My opinion is the status quo of anthropology. Your claiming that the opinion is wrong and not inline with reality? Do you have evidence other then something along the lines of "read the book or your delusional?"

I can tell you other people reading this thread who also believe in traditional anthropology aren't liking what your presenting.

At the very least offer something from the book. Wow. Just wow.
Ask HV: multi-room audio/video, preferably IP-based
Any advice for how to do multi-room (whole-house) audio and video? That is being able to distribute a source (audio/video) to multiple rooms in a residence. This might be mostly for music, but sometimes you want to distribute video: For example watch the same movie in the living room and kitchen while preparing dinner.

Requirements:

* Use Cat6 cables between rooms, not HDMI.

* One-to-many - i.e. watch the same program (or listen to the same music) in multiple rooms.

* Forward USB keyboard/mouse. For plain A/V just supporting IR signal forwarding might be OK, but keyboard/mouse forwarding works for A/V and computers.

Strongly desired:

* Should support at least 4K 30Hz.

* Prefer standards, and avoid single-vendor solutions. A single-vendor solution may be acceptable if vendor is solid and well-established.

* Any device with HDMI output (encrypted or not) can be usable as an input (source). This includes sharing a laptop screen.

* Output can be any TV/monitor or A/V receiver or soundbar with HDMI input.

* Be able to share A/V and IP data over the same Cat6 cable.

* Prefer if inputs don't all have to be a single central location. Ideal is that any "satellite" (non-central) location can switched between
input and output. However, that may not be realistic.

* Should support at least 2 (and preferably 4) independent distributed "channels". Any output should be able to select any of distributed sources as well as local non-shared sources (like a laptop). It is probably fine to hook up each shared stream and each local device to the HDMI inputs of the monitor/soundbar and use the "input" or "source" on the monitor/soundbar (or remote) to switch.

* Ok if video is compressed or not 100% synchronized, but any lags should be small and hard-to-notice, especially if not all the same.

* Bonus if using WiFi is an option (even if reduced quality).

* CEC pass-though is a plus.

Resources:

I like the concepts of SDVoE (Software Defined Video-over-Ethernet) - https://sdvoe.org/. I like the idea that the central "crossroads" unit is just a fast Ethernet switch. However, it seems very much focused on business rather than residential uses, and requires 10G Ethernet.

HDBaseT doesn't seem quite as elegant, but seems a little more accessible for residential installation.

I also see a number of "HDMI over IP" solutions. Unclear if they adhere to any standards. It's hard to find something that supports both one-to-many and keyboard/mouse forwarding. The former seem to be intended for AV while the latter is more intended for KVM applications. Something that works well for both would be preferable.
Thanks. What is the reviewer's background, if anyone knows?
I'm a big proponent of state machines. They are an excellent tool for unambiguously communicating how a certain critical part of a system should work - to that end, they are not only a coding tool but also a social one to get everyone on the same page. I've wandered several times into a situation where the state is not being well-handled and while it's not often loved, getting the team to hammer out a state machine does wonders for system reliability.

It's true that they have limitations and are not always the right tool, but it's often valuable to realize that you implicitly have a state machine already whether you wish you did or not.
(Almost) Everything we do in machine learning and optimization uses some graph traversal algorithm

In RL we use Bellman's equations as a core component and implementations of Dijkstra's are embedded in many software suites as a useful tools for navigation (navmesh) etc....

This algorithm is faster than all of those, so you know: The same but faster

TL;DR: Everything will continue to speed up
I've had the same experience ... The other fun thing that blows mind is to use Karnaugh Maps to minimize the logic needed in complex condition statements.
A 692 page book needs more then "right there" as a reason to plow through it. Just saying.
I suspect one man’s “sunk cost fallacy” is another man’s “attempt at regulatory capture with patents in their back pocket”.
It's in the article I linked. They deployed models similar to Codex, like LLM, and saw a small boost in productivity. They have also deployed many other models internally.
Surely only if you need to name each state and define every transition. However a sparse representation would be useful here right?

If there are fundamentally transitions that are impossible (or errors) then just only define the transitions that make sense and have the rest map to a error condition if they ever come up.

Also, if the state space is factorisable (like in your example) then it is easy to represent. You never need to name every state separately if e.g. you use 2 enums (or more generally a GADT) instead of trying to fit it all into 1 variable for every possible state.
> Regarding this point: "Despite some impressive lab demonstrations we have not actually seen any improvement in widely deployed robotic hands or end effectors in the last 40 years" : Yes. Manipulation in unstructured environments is still very poor. Brooks' startup in that area, Rethink Robotics, failed on this problem.

(I worked at Rethink Robotics)

Rethink Robotics was not working on the problem that Brooks is complaining about here. Today’s robots are still using parallel electric fingers or vacuum suction cups, which are much poorer than even the most primitive claws in the animal kingdom. That’s the problem.
Thanks, in this day and age it's so weird to post an online article, and mention the source title without linking to it when it's also an online publication.
This is sort of tone deaf considering the context of the 88x31 gif.
Our government is nothing more than a facade at this point working for the monopolies and oligarchy.
pdf here https://www.renewable-ei.org/pdfdownload/activities/REI_Japa...
Bank Clerk Stole $600K Got Plastic Surgery and Went on Run Caught After 26 Years
Fair enough. Thanks
2024 Chevy Corvette E-Ray
The email thing is company by company (Google seemed particular bad). Every company is doing it differently but from what I’ve seen/heard I’d say there are a few factors and the weight and use of these factors is based on company and even sometimes director/vp org. 1) performance, drop the low performers who were marked as such at some point recently, this won’t get you enough but it’s a start. 2) cut product lines/orgs that have no current impact and low future likelihood. 3) cut headcount to low profit/high burn product units. For 2 and 3 whole teams might be cut regardless of perf or directors are left to their approach for figuring out how to slim down by an amount. 4) cut specific roles that are not needed as much right now (ex: recruiting).
TrueOS (née PC-BSD) Has Been Discontinued (2020)
If things go wrong and contempt of court charges need to be issued, will Reddit be subpoenaed for the mods identities?
Language tooling makes a big difference on whether state machines work well in your code or not.

Rust is awesome for state machine. The "enum" type can hold data, and modern Rust has a bunch of convenient ways for destructuring enum's.
This is nearly a ludicrous leap of logic with an ad hominem attack only slightly disguised.
It's not too hard to make the compiler (or more specifically, the language) know about this. The solution isn't even that clever, you just don't put "this" into scope until the super() call.
It’s good to see this ‘validated’, but anyone who has actually tried these types of practices knows how effective they can be, there’s absolutely no doubt about any of this stuff. And why should there be? the Indians figure this stuff out like 1000 years ago or more and have been writing it down and telling people about it and what? cause we’re Western science we’re just not gonna fucking believe that? It’s ridiculous. Sort of like seeing a paper in physical review letters: class M stellar entity periodically illuminates US east coast from distance of one AU, and period of 24 hours. tell me something I fucking don’t know
Green hydrogen, blue hydrogen, grey hydrogen, clean hydrogen.

I’m glad everyone agreed English words are meaningless now. It makes trying to understand articles so much more fun.
Sexagesimal could map to Alphanumeric dropping C,O,S,V,W,X,Z and adding ~!@$%&? and optionally 1 for #
You seem to assume that the government is efficient and incorruptible. I have not seen evidence that is the case.
I'm here to shout out about russets. Russetting is when the apple skin becomes like sandpaper. It typically becomes "rejected" fruit by shops, its seen as a no-no. But this ignores that russet apples exist as a sub-species, and are enjoyed by British people as an accompaniment to cheese. They are often very fragrent, and can have Nashi-like texture in the flesh.

I find it very odd it's universally regarded as an abnormality, when quite a lot of food speciation is this kind of divergence from the main path.

They're basically unavailable in Australia. I suspect if it occurs in fruit trees here it's rejected at farm gate, and if it occurs in import stocks the quarantine process rejects them.
> It was to me the social network for grownups without the Facebook clickbait - I liked the circles model too (I did one for professional stuff one for personal) and great photos support.

There was probably no viable business model for that as it was, closest is LinkedIn, which is rife with influencers, grifting and inspirational chain mail.
Is this the paper where they try and detect "emotional states" from heart rate and motion with moderate success? I could imagine this technology being deployed in public spaces in autocratic/repressive countries to screen for citizens who seem to be feeling hostile or angry.
> and their response was proportional to the crime, is most likely down to your skin colour.

And also due to the fact I was calm, reasonable, cooperative, and didn't point a gun at them. If you are trying to argue that a person's behavior has no effect on how likely they are to be killed by a cop then you are just completely wrong.
I'll go one further: Hydrogen does nothing. It's a bad battery.

After following this for more than a decade (starting with a bit of undergrad research on possible alternative fuel cell electrode materials -- albeit not a field that I'm in any way involved with any more), it just feels like there's been very little progress on fuel cells, or on storage and transport. Meanwhile, progress on Li-based batteries has been slow but steady. It's not really clear to me what advantages H has over Li as an electron donor, at this point.