skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Originally, so you could group related VLANs together. e.g. VLAN30 is Marketing, then later you need a second marketing team so they have VLAN31. If you’d had VLAN1, 2, 3, etc, you couldn’t do this.

That everyone does it - even on small home networks - is just convention.
I’m guessing there’s just a lot left on the table—

> Maybe values could be represented as 0..1, and the values itself could be stored as 0.16 fixed point numbers. Use some generic compression on top.

Codecs like JPEG use a variable amount of quantization. You quantize by scaling the 0..1 float by some scalar, putting it in the range 0..k, and then truncating it to an integer, and encoding the integer. The integer value is encoded using an entropy coder like Huffman. The parameter k must also be encoded somehow, or fixed.

Look up “JPEG coefficient quantization” for how JPEG does it.

Codecs for audio and images are often made up of understandable parts that fit together: transformations, quantization, entropy coding. If you come up with a new transformation, you can make a whole codec by putting together the remaining pieces—but something like a new transformation is itself interesting, because somebody else can always assemble it into a codec if it shows promise.
Is there an infinite recursion in /tmp? Do you use a bubblewrap-like pivot_root trick?
Making a Bay Area tech salary is making a lot of money compared to people who don't--kind of like winning the lottery. Here's a fun(?) read about how winning the lottery is really bad for you, mostly because public information that you have a lot of money leads to other people trying to get your money and making your life miserable:

https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/-/5-1485089/?page=1#i404...
It’s still unlimited beyond that, you’re just “deprioritized.” Depending on how rural you are, you might not even notice.

It’s much like a cell tower where a geographical area has finite capacity. You use your “priority” data that has speed guarantees, then it slows down, but is still unlimited. Apparently some users were reselling the link & maxing out the upload/download 24/7. (yeah, I get it, but in this case some kind of QoS probably needs to happen to turn a profit)

I’ve been a beta user since the first couple months of launch. They’ve had growing pains, but it has overall been light years ahead of our local WISP or Hughesnet/Viasat in terms of speed and reliability. Several of my neighbors have no other option than traditional geostationary satellite providers, and I don’t think any of us every want to go back to 600ms+ latencies!

edit: I just wanted to add that for many people, priority speeds for 1TB & having sub-100ms latency is far, far better than the alternatives.
I dont mean to be dismissive or elitist. There is enough wrong with the medical system, that if somebody loses coverage and needs to see a doctor to get their prescription changed, that change alone becomes insurmountable, behavioral change not included.

My rub is that the conversation is dishonest. Saying "access to insulin is a right" and then changing the topic to modern delivery methods and such. Call a spade a spade, and have the direct honest conversation the first time. My pertubement goes beyond this topic into social justice/political correctness and just about anything. I may believe in the cause and the result, but be dismissive of how to get there by cheating and hacking peoples attention spans. It seems the only way to be an activist and get attention is to start with a lie, and now everybody is competing for the most inflammatory headline.

Everything you said is the conversation everybody should be having, instead of truncating it to "insulin is way too expensive."
65%+ Americans don't have 500 bucks to their name. They are one car breakdown from deep shit.

This is of course not true.
Added to the list of things that they have bungled.
That’s just the point. Very few people who bought an iPhone are going to let a $40 increase in battery replacement costs deter them.
Right. Unless you and your co-worker are at the same level and making the exact same, or you're making different amounts but aligned with your difference in levels, or unless you and your co-worker are both 100%-envy-free people... exactly one of you is going to be pissed off!
May I play devil's advocate? The fallacy of this paper granted, is it worth questioning our belief that there is more to intelligence than the "appearance of intelligence"?

What if the lack of hallucination in human being is due to our self-imposed guard (hello, frontal cortex) that is developed via an evolutionary process (aka, biological reinforcement training)?

To stretch the argument a bit further, what if hallucination is a feature, not a bug? At the risk of straying too far empirical science, how might we compare psychedelics-induced hallucinations in human with hallucinations in AI models?
Almost 43,000 people died in car-related deaths in the US in 2021 (and millions more worldwide). I hope we can stop focusing on the small number of deaths from this one car company that has self-driving features.

Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_bites_dog
90% of devs who like to talk about their salary online are in SF, and they forget that they are outliers. Even though the salary was probably a big part of why they moved there.
>I'm going to have to write it down the next time I have to do it.

Honestly, this is what I ended up doing with everything. Fuck remembering all the things. I have a note taking app (used to be a single large TXT), where I scribble down everything, from the model of our electronics, to the steps I need to do to make my ZFS backups. On one hand, it's great to feel safe in that this knowledge won't go away, on the other hand, it's also a boon to free up mental capacity. I'm much happier offloading everything I can.
Are all these people in danger? https://www.seethroughny.net/payrolls/
A Brief Review of ReactOS
Nowadays all my emails are from the browser(gmail,outlook,etc), I used to be a thunderbird user and liked it, just wonder if the 'traditional' email client user base will be further in decline? To me the browser is the thunderbird, not as powerful, but good enough for normal use.
The future AI you describe has language at the center of its understanding. For example, you would expect that the cameras and arm-feedback-sensors would produce text (or text-associated weights/tokens) that describe what the AI "sees" and the robotic arms would be receive some kind of language-derived directives from the LLM.

It will be very interesting to see what that system is capable of. I think a lot of people here don't identify language as an essential part of "thinking" and "being", and instead view language as a superficial layer whose role is primarily about social communication and secondarily about abstract reasoning. This is why some of us see these LLM examples as not really speaking to intelligence per se. It's hard for some of us to conceive of intelligence as being represented purely in language.

So your proposed system would be a extremely interesting exploration of that! I look forward to it.
A friend of a friend of a friend may seek some easy money (“six handshake rule”).

Friends talk about friends.

Guarding your family from various criminal activities may be hard.

This all may add up not in your favor eventually.
Next: an 80's office on rails: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HbrI3refig (first ~5minutes).
something something quantum entanglement blockchain AI?
The others were "intelligent" signals but from human interference. There's a lot of this so the unique patterns don't occur often enough to automate.

The paper is actually worth reading about this part[1]. They have a moderately complex pipeline that you can think of as a filter: it tries to find anomalous signals.

The stage-1 autoregressor filtered 115M signals to 3M. Then they perform signal processing techniques to remove things like GPS signal contamination ("t can be seen that certain observing frequencies contain a much higher number of events compared with the others—for example, the region around 1,600 MHz. This overlaps with known RFI at the GBT site specifically from persistent GPS signals.").

After this second stage they are left with 20,515 potential signals which were visually inspected.

The issue here is that we don't know what a alien signal looks like so we can't just use a classifier. The pipeline can only find things it has never seen before, but it takes human judgement to decide if these signals are "alien" or more likely contamination from human sources that weren't filtered ("Regarding the nature of the rest of the events, most of them look like false positives associated with RFI signals.")

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01872-z.epdf?shar...
Obviously they can't train this model on known alien signals so it seems this would mainly speed up sifting through signals that are out of the ordinary (known patterns).
Wow somebody at Google has friends at the New Yorker!
Considering that Google Bard spectacularly failed at basic history of the solar system even a child would know to be false, it is laughable that so-called AI could identify alien signals.
And that required 1000s of people
your question is pretty confusing. What dog? station is a vague word. Train station, police station? Case is a vague word. And asking whats in the station is still asking whats in the case, in a way.

Me: There's a blue suitcase in the airport and a policeman carrying a red bag opens the blue suitcase with a sniffer dog and fireman standing nearby. The dog is worried about the suitcase but the policeman isn't. What does the fireman think is inside the red bag?

ChatGPT: As a language model AI, I do not have personal opinions or emotions. I cannot speculate what the fireman thinks is inside the red bag as it is not specified in the information given.
It is not going to explode any more than a car will.

It may catch on fire, though.
Turns out it is just 18 hours of static.
Here's my crack at a podcast transcription website: https://podscription.app

I made this while unemployed and the skills I learned from making it helped me land my new job!
First off, thanks for the explanation in your other post! The main point I had is that there are gotchas when talking about improvements in R-value in terms of percentages that we the uninitiated won't be aware of. U-value doesn't seem to have that problem if it's just a simple reciprocal of R-value (IIUC, halving U-value halves heat loss, doubling it doubles the heat loss - that's a way easier relationship to understand to me).
Likewise, for many people, pretty tools make them feel better.

Of course, a UI revamp needs to be done carefully, taking existing users in account. If done well, it will be like someone living in the same home having done some cleaning.

Otherwise I agree, it's not good.
My first reaction was “I can barely tell what this does” so it’s hard to feel motivated to take action at that point.
> "and coast-ability of large tech companies"

Is this really broadly true? I worked for a FAANG for a ~year and half and was constantly over-burdened (rarely with enjoyable or challenging technical work).

I assumed outside of the TikTok "Day in the Life" PMs most folks were grinding away on build issues 50hours a week.
The deliveroo job is on the high side but £69k for a senior software engineer in London is definitely not! It's the government though so that's not exactly surprising. I wonder if he is not mentioning an amazing pension or something.
Maybe you missed the memo, but corporations are supposed to grow exponentially, for all eternity -- never mind the Laws of Thermodynamics (or any other sanity check, for that matter).
I think https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/rust_rust_api_design_... has a lot of general application outside of Rust.
TIL! I guess I'll find a better example.
Is it significantly cheaper in other jurisdictions? Like Canada?
Hmm, I don't think you know Colorado too well. Senior level dev makes about 2-3x of OP.
It's rare that "deadwood" and "quiet quitters" do literally zero work. Even if you feel that your job is secure, you might not appreciate having their work dumped into your lap, especially since there's a good chance that it's not critical-path work. And you might not want to be in an environment where morale is low and trust in leadership just took a major hit.
If you object to the term "mind", just leave it out and read "brain and mind" as just "brain". I'm a physicalist so I don't think the mind is something separate from the brain anyway, so it's all the same to me.
Yes safety first! Always be sure to measure the power of your radio signal, and if it's greater than the output of your galactic core, safely move your solar system(s) far enough away to avoid damaging your paint job.
Replication has reached crisis proportions now, especially in fields like medicine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
> like what?

Broker-dealer regulations. Related-party transaction disclosures, audits, et cetera.

> both approved to hold things for consumers, which is already a promise to redeem upon request

What Kraken is and isn't approved to do is uncertain. They have a Wyoming banking license, but it's unclear what that permits with respect to staking and custody.
Exploring the impact of code style in identifying good programmers (2022)
My biggest issue with Thunderbird is the Quick filter search I have thousands of emails in one folder and it can block the UI for a while when making a basic search :-( . And it's also not correct, it won't show all the results, so I have to resort to using the real search which is clunky to use on a daily basis. If only they could fix this ! The UI is great already, it doesn't need much work
What is modernity but a two-hundred year old experiment where the masters try to tell the other humans how they are just well-dressed machines? Soon to be replaced by the mechanical machine, then by the digital computer, then by the language model.

Of course you too, nerd-handmaiden, is a willing accomplice in this charade. Self-satisfied because it makes you feel special, above the herd, even though you are also not-special, in the grand scheme of things…? Well, no matter.
Yeah, that argument seems especially hollow.

Take someone and put their brain in a jar, with some Brain Computer Interface that enables call-and-response text chat. Are they suddenly not conscious, because they no longer have some transcendent connection with reality?
Supporting this type of activity(and other types) was discussed back in 2010: https://www.theonion.com/american-people-hire-high-powered-l...
Yeah, seems like all you see anymore for I/O engines is Mercruiser and Volvo, which do indeed use automotive engines. I'm not sure if there are even any other manufacturers left.

I'm less familiar with outboard engines, and I don't know what is more common (I/O or outboards) for recreational boating. In the Great Lakes, I/Os appear to dominate, but I've noticed that videos of boating in Florida and the east coast show a lot of outboards even on the bigger boats.
Financial independence, retire early (FIRE) movement
It's unclear to me by looking at these numbers that the network is profitable. Profit is the difference between revenue and cost, so we need to know the amount of fees earned and the operating expenses.
Just how bad does a Reddit mod have to be in order to get fired?
If you read the paper itself[1] the random forest is only used in the final stage. The main approach is a convolutional variational autoencoder (which of course is a deep learning model).

The VAE model itself is defined in step 6 in [2]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01872-z.epdf?shar...

[2] https://github.com/PetchMa/ML_GBT_SETI/blob/4096_pipeline/te...
There is nothing human can do that Turing proved a computer can't do. Gödel ruined the fun of manual theorem testing the same way.
Europe has atrocious pay in general.
Took me 2 scrolls to find an image probably generated by your tool.

https://www.tek.no/nyheter/nyhet/i/KnWn0G/ai-flause-for-goog...

You probably should make a personal account which limits the amount of images you can generate a month (10?) and a business account which offers unlimited generation but for a steep price.
>However, based on the information provided, it can be inferred that the fireman may be concerned about the contents of the case

this is complex "reasoning" (or whatever ChatGPT is doing. My 5 year old would struggle with the convoluted logic let alone complex language. In my layman view this is mind blowing.

>You'll notice that the question was "what did the fireman think is in the station" but Chatgpt comes up with an answer about the case because that's the token that would feature in a typical web page about theory of mind tests.

I'm not sure what you're dismissing here? At least from my point of view The "logic" that ChatGPT demonstrates here can't be dismissed with your explanation.

If anything I'm even further amazed by the example you provided!
You realize not every one of the 2.5 million developers in the US work in SF don’t you? Most work at banks, insurance companies, government across the US.
"inferior" is a funny word for "doesn't perfectly impersonate us".
> Why are these large companies so slow?

A combination of risk aversion, regulatory burden, and process. The corporate machine can't afford to trust the judgement of individual contributors or even their managers or even their directors or sometimes even their VPs.

Credit where it's due: some of that is because of real risks that large corps do need to worry about but scrappy startups don't need to worry about.

A lot of it though -- especially the burdens that come from standardized processes and distributed responsibility -- boils down to a combination of (1) the cost of treating employees like cogs and (2) some amount of empire building.

> Are the 10+ yoe engineers, scientists with deep domain expertise, experienced people managers, etc. helping or hurting this?

It can go either way, but the question is kind of ill-formed. The decisions that slow stuff down happen at the VP+ level. If you're being slowed down by an IC, it's usually not the IC's fault (you'd rather not even have to interact with them in the first place, but someone VP+ demanded that you must).

That said, generally the valuable people with tons of experience are the ones building/fixing stuff. The "process implementation cogs" are typically more commodity-like labor.
I live in Denmark, an entry level wage for a junior developer averages around 65K-75K EUR per year here depending on which part of the country you are in.
Should've kept Slack in a containered in a browser tab where it belongs so it can't go messing with your system or prevent you from blocking their tracking.
Code for the full pipeline including the autoencoder (and weights used) is available: https://github.com/PetchMa/ML_GBT_SETI
Nukes can't be banned in the current state of the 2A. But societal norms and expectations (the culture) have now superseded the Constitution, and amending it isn't necessary.
> This is a bold claim that seems built on a presumption of mind-body dualism.

Not at all. I'm a physicalist; I don't believe the mind is a separate thing from the brain.

> Brains don't have semantic relationships with anything.

Yes, they do: you describe them yourself:

> They are neurons hooked up to sensors and actuators.

Those are semantic relationships with the rest of the world. Although your short description does not by any means do justice to the complexity and richness of those relationships.
I don't know if its some crap in our top tier banking corporation's customization of Office 2016 suite, but outlook feels I am in Windows 95 era, running maybe some 486 DX2/66MHz machine with fabulous 8MB of RAM and loud clicky slow HDD.

I click on email, it takes few seconds to render that few lines of text. I click on one below, same 3-5 seconds. Emails I read few mins ago. Click on Calendar, again 3-5 seconds for switch. But then teams is same, effin' chat and nothing more, but also has proper UI bugs visible all the time, ie read stuff still has notifications. Having web call in it with screen share kills CPU for good. Our hardware is not the best currently but pretty recent and definitely things should be smooth.

What is it, implemented in javascript?
Interesting that it's such a conservative, opinion-less, air-tight piece. Guess its his technical writing background coming through.
It might, though I honestly really like Gnome. Going between MacOS, Windows and Linux on a near daily basis (work laptop and dual booted personal desktop), I am drawn to the flash of Gnome. It's reminiscent of MacOS but with some more sensible UX decisions.
I would consider the value to the consumer and use a value based pricing model.

The value you're offering is overcoming a few challenges.

First, the technical challenges of designing these graphics yourself - you have to pay for potentially expensive software suites (Photoshop, etc.) to get this kind of work done, and then you have to learn how-to do it. There is a financial and educational curve to climb there.

Then the second challenge is time. It takes time to sit and fiddle with a complex piece of software to make a screenshot do what your utility does.

So your value is you provide a single piece of software that does one job very well, and it's near instant and requires little to no learning curve whatsoever.

Further, you need to consider your own personal objectives with this software. I'm not in this field, so I do not have the foresight to see the potential growth with this software, therefore from my perspective it's a cute tool that does one thing. You might know different and can see potentially big markets.

Anyway. I would likely price this as a $15 one time purchase at the non-commercial level (targeting everyday Joe Blogs) with one year of upgrades, and around $50/year/user at the commercial end.

It really depends on the market and the user's pain points, Jobs To be Done, etc.
You really can't see how people could resent you for making so much money? Look at how much people resent MPs for making £85k, which is a totally reasonable salary. Probably too low actually.
> I used to swear by org-mode until I realized I’ll never look at nested folders and files again.

I do look at mine extensively. Though I invested a significant amount of time organizing them. Having a way of quickly searching notes and previewing their contents does help. I use fzfx, which is basically opinionated shell functions on top of fzf to do the search. In the future I want to autosync the public notes to my site and implement an improved search system there.

> Maybe you could automate pasting the url by copying it beforehand and having the new entry draw it from the clipboard.

C-C + C-V isn't a huge hassle at least for me. I have a bind on Neovim to format the link in Markdown format so I don't have to type []() and carefully paste the link in the right place but honestly I always forget to use and lately I'm just pasting the raw link and not caring about formatting. I think formatting should be done automatically in the background. In the future I may adapt or write a formatter for those niche cases. It can be triggered by a save or pre-commit hook (everything is in a repo inside a single monorepo). Might even hook up a LLM to it. Developing my own Notion lol.
Imagine refreshing FuckedCompany.com manually (no browser capacity for async fetch yet) to see which lavish VC-funded money laundering scheme in South of Market would now have tumbleweeds blowing past the empty Aeron chairs. This was my everyday for over a year, until I got a public sector job and could stop the era's equivalent of doomscrolling.

Yes, we came back. Nobody learned from the experience.
See my response to strbean upthread.
Of course metaphor trumps domain expertise.
The one sane voice at the SEC.