skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This unexpected new version has focused on supporting the training and evaluation of reinforcement learning algorithms in NVIDIA Isaac Orbit. Added: a) Isaac Orbit environment loader, b) Wrap an Isaac Orbit environment, c) Gaussian-Deterministic shared model instantiator
Do you have a link to the article/video? I shouldn't be, but I'm always surprised when the racism is that blatant
It's that Japan is so advanced, but different. Most other countries are either less developed or similar to the west.
What would the Japanese bounty hunter arrest the person in Japan for and on who’s authority?
Then we might as well give up async/await, promises, generators, recursion, null coalescing, and more.

After all, they are all “syntactic sugar”, right?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLAe3RyMDk
I assume that any general purpose user should probably begin with web workers? I’m guessing this is very fast for specific kinds of processing tasks?
The code was lost eons ago, sadly :'(
So the two AIs will be talking to each other, trying to suss out if the other is fake (a sort of Turing test), trying to con the other to keep talking or to really buy in?
I don’t understand the reasoning here, are you saying that GoT was a tech demo? To me it made sense that as the show got further along and the situation grew more dire that it would be visibly darker as a metaphor.
This is why I put tape over my Wi-Fi router
I'll agree that there are certainly different types of diets that we'd have to examine more closely. But what this does seem to tell us that there is basically no diet that really works for most people most of the time.
It certainly challenges the genius tech CEO story when they’re all just copy-pasting each other.

None of the software CEOs are charting a net new course for tech manufacture; they’re just managing data center footprint that host vapid content.

The older crowd is aging away and the younger crowd that grew up with a Gameboy in their face, not WSJ, can start making their own content with ML (like I am).

The emotional temple that is social media is not interesting to the next generation as they know how to Docker pull Twitter and the like into existence. It’s a solved problem from an engineering perspective. We’re bored serving politically correct capitalist memes.
I like the overarching argument and continue to recommend the book to people, but it's worth noting that the book really struggles with its factual basis. The authors aren't experts in most of the examples they discuss and their lack of familiarity really shows.

But yes, they definitely take an interesting stance that's worth reading in its own right.
I appreciate that many people have negative reactions to religion, for good reason, and I sympathize. I was there myself. I hope you find your peace, and take it easy on the personal attacks online.
For what it’s worth, one way to build a network is to join an early stage startup and distinguish yourself. The founders will almost certainly have a much better network than you and may be able to help you out down the road.
> Panning shots are a stuttery mess.

It's worse in some movies than others. I don't know all the photography lingo, but from what I understand it looks worse when the shutter speed is high, giving each frame a very short exposure and therefore little motion blur in each frame. With longer shutter times, each frame has more motion blur and therefore a 24fps pan doesn't look nearly as bad.
Hmm, i don't see how the vitriolic and largely unsubstantiated attack on Harari (where does he even remotely suggest that neoliberal capitalism is the pinnacle of civilisation?!) does the work of Graeber any favor.
At the end of the day, this is society doing what it does best: create a new market.

Well meaning people want to use big words and think they're doing great progressive work. But they're just idiot pawns for the market.
Twitter isn't mentioned in the article but completely agree that its new CEO does not have a reputation for acting rationally or with empathy.

Personally if my employer was acquired by him or his companies I'd shart shopping for a new job immediately.
AlphaGo was trained on high-level human games, so had those biases. AlphaZero was only given the rules and trained from self-play, so didn't have any human biases in evaluating outcomes and outplays humans by a larger margin than AlphaGo.

We can't effectively/safely do that in other fields due to the time and danger to train by letting the machine make an (initially random) decision, record the outcome, repeat. I suppose we have to do the painstaking work of unbiasing like is done for important surveys but isn't easily done on the scale of training sets.
Think what can be done with an AI trained on all the data that's been collected about you.
So what do you suggest, printing more and more forever, solving the problem once and for all? Troll.
Russian fossil fuel export data 09 to 15 January 2023
Indeed, you can allow players to adjust the base input delay or even have separate hardcoded input delay profiles for online and offline play, but that introduces its own problems when it comes to a player's muscle memory. In the worst case, this introduces its own design constraint where you might avoid designing your game to include frame-perfect inputs solely to make it easier for players to transition from high-delay to low-delay scenarios.
The inspiration for the coop in the mars trilogy actually exists in the real world.

I think it’s called the mondragon collective and it’s a meta-coop ?

Here is the wiki about it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

I don’t have time to skim it now but it’s not small potatoes, it’s in the top ten of Spanish coorporation.

If it’s not in the Mars trilogy; it’s in another of Robinson book
Link directly to the research paper:
https://vpnoverview.com/wp-content/uploads/2301.00250.pdf
> Customer: Will my medical condition be ok on the plane?

> Support: What is your medical condition?

> Customer: I don't see how that is relevant

...

It's downhill from there.
> Point to point transport on Earth in an hour or so (using a BF rocket).

This is just question of money.

All necessary technologies already exist, just very expensive, so even military avoid them.

For example, imagine, we decide to use first stage of F-9 to suborbital transport to ~12000-14000km.

It will have payload capacity ~ 10 metric tonnes.

Cost per launch could be be approx half of space launch (because second stage costs comparable to first), so ~$33mln, so 3.3mln per metric tonne, or 3300$ per kg.

I know, Iphone cost more than 3300$ per kg, but even planes cost less then 100$ per kg, and cars ~10-20$ per kg, and current commercial shipping by plane costs ~50$ per kg from China to Europe (other continents not much more).
Megan Smith and Tony Fadell too
> businessmen (or CEO's) will optimize for what's best for the business. No?

Really? I feel most optimize for their short term bonuses. Which makes them take too great risks since they won't owe the shareholders anything if they fail. Like all these overhiring sprees.
The photo in article is some random stock image and has nothing to do with the research paper[1].

[1] https://vpnoverview.com/wp-content/uploads/2301.00250.pdf
It should be possible for every device on the internet to easily communicate with ever other device. A silver lining of the poor designs of the past is that it is practically very difficult to attack services listening on private network addresses. This difficulty also makes it hard to do useful things.

IPv6 is a step in the right direction, but the resolution to security issues can't be more firewalls or more network equipment. It has to start with operating systems. It is completely ridiculous that applications have access to the network and most of the filesystem by default. Operating systems need to give limited access to the filesystem and other services so that a compromised service isn't a big deal. A successful attacker doesn't own the whole system. They owned a poorly written application and the small sandbox that it's in. This is an obvious idea to most engineers, but neither windows nor macOS get this right out of the box. The iPhone's sandboxing model and fine-grained permissions are way ahead here, but there is still more improvement to be had.

And then there's the issue of most applications not requiring network access in the first place. There is no reason for Word, Photoshop, Blender, etc. to ever need access to the network. A firewall that only administrators can manipulate is also not a solution, that has to be in the users hands as well. Reasoning about a global table of rules is the wrong UX.
What's ROGD?
If the employer asks for it, you can decide whether or not you want to provide it. If you don’t, I’d not expect your candidacy to move forward.
No comment on how useful this is for real world applications. But here is a technique of the algorithm. Most of my knowledge is from CS 270, where this was taught last week. (The course notes are public, the lecture is not.) https://cs270.org/spring23/lec/

A naïve attempt at adapting Dijkstra's to graphs with negative weight edges is to add a constant bias to every edge weight to make all weights positive, then run Dijkstra's. But that doesn't work because it changes the ordering of paths (wrt. cost) if their lengths differ. A path with length one will have its cost increased by B, while a path with length 100 will have its length increased by 100 * B. If the length-100 path was cheaper before adding the bias, after adding it bias it can be more expensive. So path ordering is not preserved.

But that idea, modified slightly, is not too far off a technique that works. Instead of adding a weight to each edge, the technique is to add a weight to each vertex (call this phi(v)) and modify each edge (u, v)'s weight to w(u, v) + phi(u) - phi(v). It turns out that modifying each edge's weight in this way preserves the ordering of paths that start from s and end at t. Consider a path s -> a -> b -> t; its new weight under w_phi is:

w(s, a) + phi(s) - phi(a) +
w(a, b) + phi(a) - phi(b) +
w(b, t) + phi(b) - phi(t)
= phi(s) + w(s, a) + w(a, b) + w(b, t) - phi(t)

Notice how phi(a) and phi(b) cancel each other out. In other words, any path from s to t's weight will be changed by exactly phi(s) - phi(t), which is a constant! Therefore, the ordering of paths under cost is preserved under this new weight function (weights modified by phi).

This technique, called "price functions" is not novel -- it has been known from the 70's. The paper's main contribution is how to discover price functions very efficiently. The main way the paper does this as follows: first, decompose the graph into smaller strongly connected components (SCCs) whose paths have a "low" number of negative edge weight graphs by removing some small subset of edges (low diameter decomposition, or LDD). Second, recursively find a phi function that makes all edges in the interiors of these SCCs have positive weight. Third, modify that phi (since phis compose additively) for the DAG induced by the SCC decomposition: "fixup" weights of edges that cross from one SCC into another. Finally, modify that phi again to account for the edges that were removed from the graph. (This last part is usually "slow," but it turns out that it is fast because of the LDD algorithm tends to only remove a small number of edges in any path.)

Glossed over a lot of things, and probably not completely accurate -- see the lecture notes or the paper for the real analysis.
> The system is self-adjusting. Because there is no guaranteed payment amount and it’s based just on the amount collected from the tax, then as people work less, the payment will be lower and people at the margin will more likely choose to work, pushing the tax revenue back up.

Those people at the margins are going into minimum wage jobs, and contributing only ~10% of that minimum wage towards the budget, which gets redistributed to everyone. That's not going likely to push a below-subsistence income level very much at all, and in practice the causality is more likely to work the other way round (tax receipts drops in a recession along with employment opportunities; the benefit payouts decrease at the time people are most likely to need it).

If the plan is in addition to welfare payments people depend upon to live on, that may be less of an issue. If it isn't, then some of the people that most need it are going to be worse off.
Good point. Maybe companies working together? Like teams in a larger corporation.
I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe.

I'm a 40-something SEI&T engineer, Senior Principal, at Large Aerospace Firm A. 20 years of experience. My beard is completely and thoroughly gray, my bald spot is spectacular, and my demands on my employer are high.

I could shit on my boss's desk and management would politely ask me to not do so again and move my office further away.

If I quit, Large Aerospace Firm B would hire me and if I didn't like their offer Large Aerospace Firm C would hire me.

If I no longer wanted to work at a Large Aerospace Firm, NüSpace Firm X would hire me. Maybe with a slight pay cut but they also tend to be in lower cost of living areas.

And I'm merely average. Shitty school paid for with GI bill with mediocre grades due to having to work full time while taking 15 credits a semester, a couple of professional memberships I don't invest enough time into, and a history of working on projects that have imploded due to scope creep or poor management.

In what fields do engineers work where unemployment is even possible? What locations?

In my field (rockets and satellites and the like), at my location (middle Atlantic), we are starved for employees.

Except for the junior engineers, hired in a mad dash directly out of school to snap up bodies as space has exploded, everyone I work with is ten thousand years old. There's a massive chasm between 20 year olds and 10,000 year olds because everyone in their 30s and 40s has gone to work for some dot-com company whose only purpose in life is to steal their user's personal data and invent new ways of spamming ads everywhere.

Being old is a net positive because you know where the bodies are hidden, how to hide them, and can teach the kids how and where to hide them.
Pretty much the Polybius of literature, right down to it becoming real.
Oh my god a future where you are never ever quite sure if your online circle of friends are human or not.
Why would anyone judge you? I used to use CT as well, over time I realized I needed it less and less so its job was done for me, nevertheless it trained my focus well. The founder is great too, I accidentally bought an extra copy back around ten years ago and the founder reimbursed me nearly immediately after I caught the error and emailed them.
Same. I had read most of it ahead of a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico, a state with a strong indigenous presence and a lot of within 3000 years human archeological sites. Although Graeber was writing about a much earlier period, having read the work made it much, much easier for me to build a sociological mental model (wrong, sure, but interesting) to appreciate the sites and artifacts we saw.
The 1.0 release of sigstore-Python
FB failed i think is because the ReactJS codebase is becoming unmaintainable due to some infinite useEffect hook ;)
The stereotypical comment from the dev who doesn’t understand how an ORM is a tool and not a crutch.
Yeh. The entire org has to rethink what progress means with such cuts and that takes time, which impacts deadlines.

We’re far too controlled by the short term anxiety of investors. Financiers need to learn more about how the physical world works and not just fetishize abstract math conveniently labeled in politically correct tradition.

The burden should be on finance to prove its value and not be allowed to leverage recent history when the market could only go up as the post-WW2 world was a crater. Other countries have caught up and don’t have to play by the US’s old rules. Why should the next generation within the US? People who lucked into winning have an extraordinary burden of proof their success wasn’t just being born in a time-place.
> At a tech company that did this [10% pay cut for everyone in lieu of layoffs], the best people would leave.

Why would that be? Is it trust?

If I was making FAANG Staff+ TC, and a 10% paycut seemed necessary to avert layoffs in tough times, I think I'd take it, and have good morale about that.

I suppose, if the company currently had large profits, and people didn't trust that belt-tightening was necessary, there'd be morale problems.
At the same time, it's not necessarily pleasant to consider the prospect of an internet where 99.9% of traffic is generated by AI-powered spambots engaged in adversarial games with AI-powered anti-spambots.
Proly gonna get downvoted for this.

Being in bay area, (being charismatic white male helps), around YC and VC circles, with some traction of previous startup success, it's the perfect place to take high risk, high reward bets.

Bay area is an outlier where you can raise billions of dollars, lose millions per month for decades, incrementally work on a moonshot, that's seen as OK. 1% of successful bets offset the 99% failed. They rain money! Some change the way the world works.

Watching Sama's videos, he has very high conviction on AI, he understands the tech, he is able to get top talent together, he has raised billions in war chest to be a solid contender. I think he makes a fantastic leader.

Cruise is another good example. Kyle Vogt has raised a huge war chest, losing millions a month, far from profitable. However they have driverless cars in SF right now. Other than Waymo and Cruise, no one else has been able to achieve this feat.

The valley is a different beast in that regards. Bottomless capital, high concentration of talent, top tier universities like Stanford and Berkley. It's the place where turning science fiction into reality is highly encouraged.
Wouldn’t companies collaborate with shared interest and risk?

For me, it feels like corruption would be more the risk from a cap.
Related:

Francis Bacon’s Frightening Beauty - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27252557 - May 2021 (36 comments)

Sacred Monster - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27171624 - May 2021 (3 comments)

Francis Bacon: Revelations review – a landmark biography - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26290955 - Feb 2021 (7 comments)
Exactly! Duplicating my point in a thread below to drive your point home:

NAT was an added layer on top of firewall rules because inbound ports had to be mapped to a particular host and port since the router would not know which host to send to. This created a default opt out experience because for a port on your machine to get accessed, a packet must pass inbound rules and match a port map table entry.
> If you could purchase any drug OTC at a fair price, virtually no one would be risking their life on dodgy street drugs.

I had a big post here comparing the black market for marijuana here in Oregon (spoiler: it’s larger than ever, half the cost of retail, and now largely run by cartels) but ultimately the larger issue society seems blind to is that addicts don’t think rationally about their addictions.

So yes, opioid addicts absolutely will risk their lives to get a hit that costs half as much.
"It is issued without the permission of Intellectual Ventures Management LLC"

Certain GM staffers won the IP bid during the bankruptcy, but I Vultures still managed to acquire it.
Illegal immigrants can be, have been, and are deported all the time.

Is there any evidence any Han immigrants to Taiwan were ever deported under the Qing?

Anyway, this is pretty irrelevant. It's just incorrect to say the population controls were effective.
Consumer choice doesn't work to affect shit.

For example many people want smaller phones. However manufacturers all decided to make them bigger instead.

To function in society I need a phone, so I either buy one that needs 2 hands to be operated or be an outcast and have major problems having a normal life with no access to banking, communication and so on.
If as a (hypothetical) Nigerian prince spammer I get a "masterfully crafted response" from a mark, it would be obvious right away that I am talking to a bot. The kind of people who respond to such bait would hardly be able to write anything like that.
It's hard for me to believe that a senior engineer would be unemployable due to overqualification.

It seems like all job openings these days are for senior folks. Entry level jobs are really hard to find.

Are your skills still relevant? Are you off on the salary? Mayne you're just bad at interviewing.
Having read the book:Pro:It's a great question and mission.I'm sympathetic to their general critiques and main points e.g.:

- prehistoric human were just as smart and creative as us

- there's a ton to learn from them.

- there is not enough evidence to accept an inevitable path to a state with ever growing power.

- prehistoric people tried a bunch of different societal types we can hardly conceive of.

- We should strive to be as experimental and playful.

- There is interesting new evidence in there (e.g. about potentially non-authoritarian per-historic societies)

Con:

- Evidence / word ratio very low

- Authors have a HUGE Ax to grind. even if I like some portion of that axe, I can't afford to trust them, they are more biased than the folks they attack (not that I like Yuval Harari so much either...)

- Poor reasoning processes: 1)X is conceivable 2) Y might be evidence of X, 3) (Much later) As we demonstrated: X is True

- Super repetitive

So net, I'd say read a few reviews (e.g. Tides of History) and skip the actual book, and hope we can find some better avatars for this mission.
Go listen to some Mike Duncan podcasts.
Coming from someone whom loves their career(engineering not tech) - I am learning web dev for fun on the side. Got some cool ideas for websites and low effort income streams.
When I turn over the hourglass my mantra is "this hour shall pass". A reminder to myself that I have this time to work; sometimes I dread the work ahead, and am reminded that the work will eventually pass, and sometimes I cherish the work ahead, and am reminded that my time to enjoy it shall pass.

I like that the hourglass cannot be reset, you turn it and sand flows, the sand cannot be reset with the push of a button. The hour passes whether you get distracted or not, no starting over.
tl;dr: I don't know. That's why evening after evening I go on the internet and hope somebody smarter than me will solve humanity's problems.

Reflecting on my remarks, I think I had large configurations in mind as they occur in kubernetes or terraform which can be tens of pages.

> How can that be too verbose?

I meant that yaml indentations eat up screen space, every attribute needs to go on a new line and is terminated by a colon, which seems redundant since the newline already delimits attributes. If you ever have written a large k8s deployment descriptor, you'll know that yaml is not the right language for describing complex configurations.

> How do you suggest specifying a variable?

Variables should probably be set outside the template, eg. reference environment variables or be set in INI or properties files... which makes them parameters rather than variables but potato potato. The template could then reference variables by a special notation eg. $myvar or following a naming convention eg. vMyVar.

> how do you suggest I differentiate a generated image from a named one?

I worded that poorly. I think parsers get too hang up on the details. '"`’«» etc could be all syntactic equals, unless a good use case justifies different meanings. Eg. bash has different meanings for different types of quotes. The parser probably could infer when a statement is a literal vs. a reference simply by checking if the reference exists.

> Thank you for your feedback.

If you put the specification for your configuration language on a git repo then interested parties could open issues and discuss specific topics.
Good point. From my pov they can then shove their service up their ass but it’s a valid concern.