skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mind doing the engineering. But penetrating the veil of some of these things, ill-defined as they are, with work on certain areas being sporadic and taking place of years or decades, makes it especially hard.

In fact it's the _absence_ of choice that hurts more than it is a surplus of choice.

As for OOMkiller: I think we're both wise enough to know that experimentation is a large part of what any team that consumes gobs of RAM do. So talk of a "resource manager issue" is all well and good in prod when you should have a reasonable handle on what's used by what and for how long. Less so when you're scaling a model --- say a monte carlo model -- to a larger number of simulations in development and you're testing things. When you're paying an awful lot of money for hardware you start to count (or you should, if you respect your company's money) the costs of things like this.

Regardless, the OOMKiller will indeed reap stuff; and more often than not, it'll pick something shouldn't (it's probabilistic and wrong as much as it is right) and that can cause headaches.

As for NUMA: I'm not blaming the kernel for anything :-)

And hypervisors are sometimes a given, and not a choice. We don't all get to pick our hardware, nor what hardware is made available to us.
I just tried it and it works well. Thanks for suggestion
Just a reminder that all this car infrastructure is max ~100 years old, and most non-North-American cities are older than 100 years. Human civilization just might last more than 100 years, so anything done in 100 years can be undone.

To put it another way, if you told people 100 years ago that we'd need to build 63,000 gas stations and 4 million miles[1] of highway in the US, they'd think you're crazy. It would seem logistically impossible. AND no one would want to pay for it. Yet tell those same people 100 years of "it's for the economy" and you end up where we are.[2]

[1] That is only a conservative estimate of all the infrastructure that was built to subsidize the auto/oil industry. It's a lot more.

[2] This is not me disagreeing with the article. Greening is absolutely a swindle to make money.
How about disallowing urls or even just vetting urls in the messages sent from your own service? One of the ones I received was a link to a fake PayPal login that was something along the of lines of (making this up) http://login.PayPal.com.somethingsketchy.biz/login.php and was a replica of the PayPal login screen. It was pretty blatant. Seems like they should figure out a way to avoid that is all, because I know my mother would have put in her PayPal credentials to that site and I'd be hard pressed to fault her for it. We train users to check if it's a valid/real email before clicking on links and this was a perfectly real email sent from PayPal with a malicious link. This seems like PayPal's responsibility to me. I'm shocked they don't care about this.
> When I looked at the offset market in the past, I realized that it was one of the few markets where both the buyer and seller are perfectly happy with fraud.

> I can't think of many other markets where this dynamic exists.

Recycling market is the same - UK government pays you to recycle plastic, £60 per tonne. You find someone in a 3rd world country that will take it off your hands for £30 per tonne, and pocket the difference. They give you a document saying the plastic was 'recycled' and dump it in the ocean.

The sums may be wrong, but you get the gist
It's also a sign of the times that schools have realized it's much easier (and cheaper) to create student outcome equity by preventing exceptional success than by preventing failure.
Half of all humans who ever lived did not make it past the age of five. We are living in the best time. I will take any of these problems over not knowing where my next meal is coming from, or dying from infection after a paper cut.
As a middle-aged man I am fairly sure that I would break if I tried to move fast.
The EEE strategy is still very much in play for certain companies, but not like this article describes.

If this article confuses people about what the term means, then it might be that much harder to for people to learn how to recognize the problem and distinguish it from other situations.
They didn't mention tenure because it doesn't exist in the UK or Norway.
Others have answered already, but I wanted to mention the book Breath by James Nestor which has a chapter on chewing in particular. I can recommend the whole book if this piques your interest.
I always wondered if it's possible to think without having learnt a language to put the thoughts into words. Sometimes I catch myself speaking nonsense in my inner monologue—the sentences are grammatically correct, but it feels like I'm just putting words next to each other in a way that's similar to GPT (next token prediction) while my attention is actually elsewhere.

Edit: The paper linked in the article disagrees with me:

https://archive.is/lpfDW
Not sure why people are down-voting this.

While theocracy is a clear and present danger, "modern" is too broad a label to apply as a counter to it.

The more accurate counter would be policy based on empiricism. This is not predicated on the idea that the progression of time advances all things, but rather a timeless philosophy that has had its peaks and troughs throughout history.
It’s only appears to be despicable to people who don’t understand statistics on a basic level (which, sadly, describes most Americans, even educated ones) or ardent racists who believe that “the race” supersedes “the individual”.

Notably, we can correctly observe that black people commit more violent crimes per capita than other races without implying any of the following:

1. black people are biologically disposed to crime

2. a significant percentage of black people are criminals

3. any given black person significantly more likely to be a criminal than any given non-black person

I definitely think your decision to pick your battles more carefully is the right one, and I encourage you to be even more judicious.
The paper was already discussed a few hours ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34596187

I guess I will copy my comment because I don't have change my mind about it: "So wait they only found 109 matches after generating 175 milion images using the prompt from the most duplicated samples from the dataset and SD v1.4? Also almost all of them have more than 300 copies in the dataset, so with a model with the same size and trained on a dedup dataset like SD 2.0/2.1 there will be almost no matches, even after generating 175 mln images and knowing the prompts used in the dataset. Finally Google at el need to explain how an attacker that want to extract images from a trained model somehow has the prompts for the top X duplicated images in the dataset but not the images themselves, and thus will going to spent an incredible amount of money to generate something like 175 mln samples and test them together to find the matches."

I also want to add that google seems to try really hard to show themselves as the good guys by not releasing its models because it's not safe enough, but in this paper they used an incredible amount of computation and show me otherwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGo5bxWy21g

"Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?"
I'm seeing plenty of intel folks move easily into other areas. I don't think this is true. We hired a test automation engineer who worked on the fab side at my last employer. They transitioned pretty well until a PCBA and server integration testing role.
Ask HN: Switching career to Dev, what's a realistic first job to target?
I'm considering switching from Technical Product Management to Development. I have degrees in IT so I'm familiar with tech. I'm planning on doing classes/bootcamp, but wanted to see what a realistic first job to target.

Should one look at QA? Or look for a Junior Dev role?
Yes but doesn't Stripe pass that fee on to the merchant ? If a dispute is lost, the fees are not returned back to the merchant so I assume Stripe uses that to pay the network.
Yes, but whatever improvements in radar will happen in the future, if they can see a stealthy jet twice as far, they can see a non-stealthy jet twice as far too. If the window of vulnerability of a stealthy jet goes from 2 minutes to 4 minutes, the one for non-stealthy could go from 20 minutes to 40 minutes. You still want the stealthy jet.
How the Supreme Court ruling on Section 230 could end Reddit as we know it
Call center in a cubicle farm to cold call people and ask their opinions on popular songs being played on the radio.

You'd play them samples of songs and ask them to rate them. Their responses were gathered for marketing research.

Some people really don't like getting cold calls (myself included) especially when you're male and asking to speak "Julie" who happens to be their wife.

Our time was so regulated if you were one minute late to work, returning from break, etc, mgmt would send you a message telling you to get your act together.

Red flag one was having to pass a spelling test as part of the job interview.
For folks who often find themselves searching the web for recipes, I'd recommend picking up a cookbook or two. My girlfriend has a stack of them she's inherited from family members over the years. We like to casually leaf through them to look for ideas.

I've come to prefer this method because it's effectively the opposite of searching for recipes. Here's a curated list of meals you can make, pick one. I'd recommend a used book store, if possible. You'll probably get some random Grandma notes in the margins for substitutions / modifications.
You (probably) won't be able to breed 100 Dodos from one initial pair, because of the minimum viable population restriction (genetic stochasticity).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_population
Not related to headshot per se, but I also noticed that when the C-level folks are talking on camera or on stage, they do this weird hand pose in which their fingers are touching in almost dove-tail fashion (e.g., https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/107010033-166673005906...). I wonder if it's taught to them by professional public speaking trainers.
Stop Asking for Feedback
Google ready to kick the cookie habit by Q3 2024, for real this time
I'm not a fan of the trend toward monochromatic, low-contrast desktops. Colour iconography seems to be frowned upon, whereas it's a definite aid to speed of comprehension. The settings list in particular is just a sea of text with small icons that are only minimally useful. Microsoft went this way with its Metro design language but has come to its senses in more recent years and both Windows and Visual Studio are more colourful now.

I'd recommend a tweak to the amount of whitespace, too. I'd prefer smaller dialogs or a larger default font (and maybe a wider one, too) to balance out the vast areas of blank space.
It reminds me of the rantsonas on YouTube, who inevitably have an arms-crossed pose so you know they meam business.
Transparent hugepage doesn't work well with VMWare Workstation. Everytime I install Workstation on a Linux machine, I would have to disable hugepage after khugepaged 100% of a CPU core and drag the VM into a molasses-like state.

I believe the consensus is that Workstation makes lots of memory allocation and fragment the memory, causing the defragment-er to kick in.

Vmware says won't fix lol.
Right, there's a world of difference between intentionally "shutting off" with a guilty pleasure and being a slave to rubbish.
Chat is the French word for cat anyway...
It's not much of an issue though it's so quick and effortless to scan a page. And I like the background info in the cookbooks I have.
It is power and the drive to preserve power that is behind much of this. Religion is a convenient scapegoat in the case of islam because much of the islamic world is some combination of poor and lacking freedom. Islam is also in the relatively unique situation of mixing religion with politics that leads to the power struggle in the first place.
There has been an ongoing thread that claims that hpc workloads need no kernel or very little and that sharing resources doesn’t make sense at that grain size.

This makes sense to me
I yarn for the simpler days of IRC, Pidgin and Skype where these apps ran fine on a 1GHz Pentium 3 chip with 256MB of RAM.

Now you need a quad core 3GHz chip and 8GB RAM just to run a chat app reliably. Where did we go wrong?
PIE:

1. Performance (10%)

2. Image (30%)

3. Exposure (60%)

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pie%20performance%20image%20exposu...
> This strikes me as weird.

It’s very normal. It’s why a lot of services immediately ban you for life if you ever issue a chargeback (regardless of validity).

Stripe was the sole sensible service out there (that I know of) where chargebacks wouldn’t hit a small business as hard as long as they could prove they were in the right.

But it seems Stripe is becoming everything it originally railed against.
> solar and wind only makes sense to use where it can offset the carbon footprint that it created when it was manufactured

IIRC, PV panels become (on average) carbon neutral after three years of operation. Given the lifespan, this suggests that there are very few locations you can put them where they won't more than pay back the carbon emitted in their production.

I'm a former nuclear fan. In anything like its current form it is a dead end, and it is past time we move on.
That may help determine if you are on the list if they reliably grant or deny redress requests based on being off or on the list (I'm not sure), but it doesn't help getting off the list if they've actually but wrongly chosen to list you, or if they aren't adequately convinced you're not the person they meant to list.
Could be an overly enthusiastic data augmentation bug
If I was an oil company executive, I would want carbon offsets to actually work, because they could enable my business to function for longer. Am I getting this wrong?
Ask HN: Why is Google Chrome covertly scanning my Hard Drive?
Many don't know this because of (quietly running) solid State Drives now, but Google Chrome usually shows a high level of disk usage whenever I start it on my legacy desktop.

I regularly hear a lot of noise from the drive. It is likely something that does damage because of the frequency with which it is run. It seems very invasive and there is no warning that it's occurring nor a way to disable it.

Is it supposed to be some sort of anti-virus scan? It seems to be a strange trojan app running within Chrome browser. I also wonder what data is being sent to Google based on that activity, as I don't use their cloud storage or any other active services.
I guess it depends on what you understand by similar/dissimilar rates of learning. All students are humans and even further they are humans who managed to access that school. So you will not find the difference between a potato and an ascendant god. Meaning the college students are more similar than they are different and findings will reflect that. On the other hand somebody learning even 5% faster all their life will gather a massive difference over the years. And in particular I don't think this conclusion is warranted:

> Our evidence suggests that given favorable learning conditions for deliberate practice and given the learner invests effort in sufficient learning opportunities, indeed, anyone can learn anything they want.

There's a lot of "given" in there. And you can not expect to invest infinite energy in providing motivation and personalized conditions for everybody. At the end of the day even if intellect, talent and learning speed would be equal, which they are not, somebody who can self motivate and learn in less than optimal conditions will go further.
It could be the network. Whatever he belongs to. Maybe they do protect each other.
To some extent. My wife is about to finish her PhD. She's not even a top-level publishing academic and the amount of work she's had to put in for next to no pay (sometimes literally no pay) is insane. Hard work is great and but there is such a thing as too hard and I would argue academia takes advantage of some of the hardest working and most qualified people in the country (I'm in the US).
You might enjoy the music video to “Nobody Speak” by Run The Jewels.
>I think we can all agree

No.
Note that I didn't make any moral judgment on the matter, or any specific suggestions on how to fix it. I merely pointed out what the arrangement is explicitly - yet all the replies are, essentially, saying "this is fine" (or, at least, "this is the best that we can do"). Fair enough, but let's at least be explicit about what's on the table, and let's not pretend that the resulting distribution of produced wealth is not a consequence of a pre-existing and self-perpetrating economic power imbalance.

Co-op employees seem to be doing better off on average, so I would argue that "usually better off for it" is not really true. Better off than trying to run their own business - yeah, probably true for most; regardless of who gets the profits, businesses still need professional managers to run them effectively.
and $900,000,000 today will someday be worth over $1B, but we don't call them billions.
As a fellow immigrant, can confirm, hard work works. That’s the main reason I came to USA – hard work didn’t feel like it would work back home. Nothing nefarious, just tall poppy syndrome and general environmental influence or multiplicative factor.

In America, with a bit of luck, it feels like 1x hard work produces 2x result. 3x if you’re privileged. At home, it felt like 1x hard work would get 1.3x result.

BUT! It is important to realize you’re solving a cold start problem. The hustle and hard work only gets you so far. You have to switch to using leverage once you have it. Do not grind yourself to dust.

Yes, dialing back is a luxury. That’s what the hard work was for. Now you can focus on using that position to do more with less. I liken it to running an ultramarathon to get to the start line of the marathon. You now have similar footing to someone who grew up in the social class to which you now belong, just a little later. Good luck.

edit:

I’m not saying hard work guarantees anything. In life there are no guarantees. But I do think it’s a necessary input.

Also there’s studies showing immigrants have the highest class mobility in USA. I’m sure “the immigrant work ethic” has something to do with it. -> https://economics.princeton.edu/working-papers/intergenerati...

At the end of the day, if you want exceptional results, you have to do exceptional things. Such is life. Only 2% of Americans have a PhD. Getting into the top 2% of the population sounds pretty exceptional to me. Doing it in a population you weren’t even born into? Heroic.
When humans repeatedly fails to be trustworthy, stop trusting at all.
Holy crap!

> "The gorge is known primarily for a cave that was the only inland site in Australia with evidence of continuous human occupation for over 46,000 years, including through the last Ice Age. The cave was permanently destroyed by mining company Rio Tinto in May 2020."

And

> "On 11 September 2020, it was announced that, as a result of the destruction at Juukan Gorge, CEO Jean-Sebastien Jacques and two other Rio Tinto executives would step down."

That's good at least.

Thank you for sharing
Which lines up fine with "that's not a thing" in the sense of "that's irrelevant".

Saying someone is irrelevant is likely an insult, also in English.
Last weekend, I was stuck on a data analysis problem: how to do dimensionality reduction with lots of censored data. There are a few ideas in the literature, but not many, so in a fit of desperation, I asked ChatGTP. After a few false starts, it told me about an algorithm called CenPCA that did exactly what I wanted. It cited a paper; it told me about the author. It even recommended Python and R implementations and showed how to use them.

The only catch? None of this exists! I couldn’t find the paper, couldn’t find the guy who allegedly wrote it, and couldn’t find the software (neither could pip or conda). When I asked for more details about the algorithm, it gave me something else meant for handling missing data instead.

On reflection, this is exactly what should have happened. I would have been thrilled to find something like that on StackOverflow or somebody’s blog, so it’s a great continuation of the prompt. It’s just not real!
> Those who chose an easier path, perhaps were less stressed but also didn't do or get as much.

This is could be true assuming that the goal of society is maximum production and not maximum well-being.

> But this is a luxury of being at X level to begin with and you mainly don't get there without hard work.

Most of the results of hard-work go to the owners of business, not to the people doing that extra effort. And that is also true for academia. To overwork human beings to increase profit in exchange of a fraction of the produced seems inefficient at least, evil at worst.
Why are you selfcensoring "God"?
...when people say "I use X fingers to hold this" and do not explicitly mention the thumb, they're including it in the count. Well, at least I am; I guess OP might be using one more finger than I'd thought. IG the unambiguous thing to do is say "digits" instead of "fingers" when that is intended; mea culpa (though if OP truly meant fingers and not digits their grip is more cursed than I'd imagined).

It sounds like you and I use much the same pencil grip.
Thanks for that tip! I'm due for an optometrist appointment so I'll bring those up in my next visit. I'm tired of having to remove my glasses to read things.
What are they going to do? Sue you over €40?
Being a cook at a diner in my twenties, in a horribly mismanaged kitchen.

I started just as the cook for colder items. Making salads and simple appetizers. It was perfectly fine.

However it quickly became like Darth Vader's super-star destroyer with people being fired or quitting. So I moved up to expiditing (calling out, tracking, and gathering all the dishes in an order). Then finally to grill cooking hamburgers to order, etc. All in a very short amount of time (within a month)

The amount of multitasking needed to work in a chaotic kitchen is insane. Lots of shouting and angry wait staff and customers. Needing to actually cover multiple stations (grill, fryer, etc). Difficulty tracking the status of everything. Eventually I also walked out.
Missed an opportunity to call it Zapiest
The thing is that folks who want this to be a thing would really prefer that folks like me go along with them in conflating productivity with industrial productization. I find that to be a distasteful kind of hide-the-ball. And yanno, maybe it's just me, but attempting to railroad humans out of the visual arts via economies of scale has no bearing on "human flourishing".

From where I stand, it's a cheap-suit excuse to bleed us of culture and art.
> This is one of the primary reasons why I am totally done with Tech

I don't get the impression that this a tech-specific issue.
My little dream project is to build a yelp for recipes. Books, internet or custom from users. I don't like Google results and also don't think search engines should be the place to find a good recipe or judge quality or authencity etc..
Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matra_Durandal so about $30k, which is quite cheap

Make a hole in tarmac, until it's fixed it can't be used, by the time it's fixed it can be targeted again.

It's all nice and easy when you attack third world countries with no real army from aircraft carrier but when a high intensity conflict with a real military power begins you can be sure most of your airports will be targets, which is exactly what happened to Ukraine, not even 2 weeks in the conflict:
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-war/russian-forces-h...