skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know your situation, but I'd encourage you to find one that isn't "soul sucking" that you can actually live with. Life's too short to spend it in a job you hate, especially if you have an in demand skillset.
Eye tracking is must for fauviated rendering
Non profit is a tax designation and that's it. Non profits, especially healthcare, still pay their execs and c suite multiple times *more* than physicians and staff, and cut corners and costs in many areas. Non profit status doesn't mean shit.
>Everyone - everyone - is certain that the codes are all overzealous and their little thing needs an exception. Politicians get elected promising to 'get rid of the red tape'. And then an event occurs and we learn why these building codes exist. Like workplace safety rules, they are written in the blood of the dead.

Can't it be both? A more restrictive code does not solve the problem of construction scams. Enforcing a useful code, might
Would these be race conscious layoffs too?
I would guess that the average person has higher expectations for Google. Bing has been a bit of a punchline for years, so I don't think most people care as much.
The amount of trust people are willing to place in AI is far more terrifying than the capabilities of these AI systems. People are too willing to give up their responsibility of critical thought to some kind of omnipotent messiah figure.
Almost every city has a "the fire of XXXX", those no longer occur for a reason. And to state the obvious, that reason is fire codes.
We don't know it will happen. The release of seismic stress can happen in many ways and we don't know enough to know anything for sure. A series of 7 or 8 quakes over a decade could relieve identified stresses to the point where a 9+ is put off for another 100+ years. After that even if statistically you can expect a major event "at some point" in the future, the damage from that event decreases with time as our building methods improve. Even today buildings are being built (in Tokyo) going up designed to withstand a 9.0 quake.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34773865
OpenAI raced past 100 million users, that's hardly niche. All tech people i've talked to have played around with it. Some use it every day.
Doesn't matter, someone looking over your shoulder while you're using your own machine, without asking first, is spyware. Period. Doesn't matter a bit what they're collecting.
The official public statement is here:

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/

The tweet is a politician campaigning, so it uses their personal account and plays it up pretending to be an official source.
Are suggesting that we should root for and accept blatantly misleading, false, and probably harmful search results just because they're the "underdog"
So it's limited to those who use bing and who opt in? Still fairly niche in that case.
AI should probably stick to selling paperclips. There's no chance to screw that up.
It seems like Hossenfelder is arguing that a lot of theoretical physics is Lakatos degenerative:

* https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lakatos/

* https://aeon.co/essays/imre-lakatos-and-the-philosophy-of-ba...

* https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Imre_Lakatos

> The difference between a progressive and a degenerative research programme lies, for Lakatos, in whether the recent changes to its auxiliary hypotheses have achieved this greater explanatory/predictive power or whether they have been made simply out of the necessity of offering some response in the face of new and troublesome evidence.
International Boundary Commission
Yeah I have lighthouses set up for my Vive and for gaming would only consider lighthouse-based tracking for any future headsets (I've tried inside-out for stuff like Beat Saber and it's night and day), but for casual movie watching or virtual desktop use it's definitely a tall order.

I think for the "casual" use cases it might be possible to get away with a single lighthouse (~$100) and no controllers (stick to keyboard/mouse, console controller, or HOTAS) but that's pushing it.
Well, the code is always overzealous

It's only overzealous to people trying to cut corners. It's never overzealous to the people who are killed or hurt.
I second this, AI in the Culture series is the most positive example I've read. It's notable that AI co-exist with humans everywhere in Banks' novels—unlike say Star Trek, where Data is a rare outlier.
What could rule that out in your mind then? Seems to me that if it had hardware that didn't serve any purpose with regard to weather data collection, calling it a weather balloon is, at the very least, an incomplete description, if not intentionally deceptive branding. Especially when said hardware has very clear use cases for intelligence collection.
Explaining the physics of transfer learning a data-driven subgrid-scale closure
Of course! As you’ve found through digging into the js, it uses the official SQLite WASM build. The site currently uses a slightly old vendored version built from the SQLite codebase, but the SQLite team have recently released a binary at https://sqlite.org/download.html (under the WebAssembly section) that anyone can try out. You can find the docs at https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/index.md, which have been rapidly improving over the past few months.

The process for building the database is a bit complex. I want to support all browsers, so unfortunately need to use local storage to back it up. Firefox has a while to go before it supports the Origin Private File System, but once it does so the build will be a lot smoother.

I build the index as part of the site’s CI (using nix), by running SQLite-WASM in deno to pre-load local storage. I then extract the keys from local storage and populate them as part of the site load using the hand-rolled load-db.js file.

SQLite WASM does have better support for importing / exporting databases on OPFS, so this process should be simpler as soon as I can move to it.

I’ll write a follow up post at some point on the implementation details.
Yout amicus: fighting for developers’ right to innovate
Am I not allowed to make an independent comparison unless the OP made the same comparison?
I like the Substack app - for all the substack newsletters. https://substack.com/app for ios and android. And their web reader (https://substack.com/browse) is pretty good. I just wish I could plug in RSS and other syndication feeds, and make it easy to migrate subscriptions from my mail inbox to the reader.
burnout is not a competition and this response suggests you may not have learned what you need to from your break....

you can get normal human levels of exhausted without going bonkers unhealthy woeking through it.

OP is a sustainable and healthy tactic
I'm also doing BJJ; due to <life stuff> I haven't been able to be consistent. I would say I'm about at the 1-year equivalent mark though. Hard part for me is that I'm big, so it's hard to tell if I can fold up beginners because I'm big or because I've learned, though I'm sure it's a combination of the two.
Thanks, yes the quality can certainly vary, however have been a subscriber of HN for as long as I can remember and find a great deal of value, but yes, as time goes on most of my feeds/site do you require a bit more effort to find as much quality since so many are shouting these days. I've recently switched RSS readers and that improves for my needs in almost all aspects except with the major one issue of not properly support linkblogs/hn etc. So until that's resolved figure a different feed that has the comments page as the primary link will be a good workaround. Sounds like HNRSS.org maybe the solution. Can't seem to find an HNRSS equivalent to the main /rss feed however. This appears to be the closet https://hnrss.org/?link=comments but where /rss just includes a few of the most popular per day, that HNRSS feed seems to show every single one that hits the front page which wouldn't be ideal for my needs. It looks like you can use points such as https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=5?link=comments to get closer. Do you know if the main /rss page is based on some point threshold and what number that may be? Or is it based on other metrics beyond points and thus HNRSS won't be able to provide an exact equivalent?
In the third world, building contractors collude with politicians and bureaucrats. This is a mutually reinforcing mechanism.
If it's the same as a crib mobile, then what benefit does it provide?
I don’t understand. Don’t research papers usually have a summary, provided by the authors?
Oh ok, good point. I didn't remember the discussion from the time in detail and I didn't read TFA because it asked for so many cookie permissions and the opt out button didn't appear :/
That doesn't matter because earthquake deaths are big and obvious and a bunch of homeless Turks/Kurds dying on the streets doesn't attract news. People see "house fall, housing bad" and then demand safer construction so the death will be hidden elsewhere.
Something that could be very cool would be AI driven monitoring analysis and troubleshooting pre-work to support operative staff. Trying to figure out what's exactly going wrong in a complex, distributed system requires the system and the user to ingest a lot of information at times in order to make a guess what's going on. This is something an AI could really help with - ingest all of the information over some time period, and output a number of guesses or possible problems with probabilities and possible root causes assigned to them.

Think of an operator logging into the system at 3am with a C&C EVA voice calling and greeting them, "Hello Operator. We have 24 customer-facing systems offline. Preliminary analysis indicates that these are caused by 3 internal services and 2 postgres clusters being offline. With a confidence of 83%, the internal services are also offline due to the postgres clusters. I will now send you what I have found out about the postgres clusters with a probability of the scenarios and monitoring indicators for the different scenarios. It looks like the clusters are failing to elect a leader after several network-caused timeline switches with a confidence of 72%. Highly matching runbooks exist for 4 out of 7 highest probability scenarios"

Well, maybe I'd prefer that in text on a website, but no need to be that serious right now.

It is possible to get monitoring of this quality even with existing tools and maybe some internal extensions of these tools, sure. But that's a barrel you can pour effort into and it has no bottom at all. And it gets harder and harder the more complex and the more dynamic your environment is. It'd be great to dump all of that into a black box, even if that black box just establishes a global timeline of events.
> As far as I know, there is no viable solution to pay $0.01.

There are a few coins in the crypto space that could legitimately handle this, such as Nano. Its transactions are fee-less and generally confirmed in under a second.
I can understand a single layoff to "right size" the company, but a second layoff always points to an underlying problem that they didn't either believe or recognize only a few months previous. Which kind of makes me nervous. This as the Meta layoffs means that they didn't have a handle on the problem only a few months back.
I had this idea the other day concerning the 'AI obfuscation' of knowledge. The discussion was about how AI image generators are designed to empower everyone to contribute to the design process. But I argued that you can only reasonably contribute to the process if you can actually articulate the reasoning beyond your contributions. If an AI made it for you, you probably can't, because the reasoning is simply "this is the amalgamation of training data that the AI spat out." But, there's a realistic version of reality where this becomes the norm and we increasingly rely on AI to solve for issues that we don't understand ourselves.

And, perhaps more worrying, the more widely adopted AI becomes, the harder it becomes to correct its mistakes. Right now millions of people are being fed information they don't understand, and information that's almost entirely incorrect or inaccurate. What is the long term damage from that?

We've obfuscated the source data and essentially the entire process of learning with LLMs / AIs, and the path this leads down seems pretty obviously a net negative for society (outside of short term profit for the stake holders).
I put something like this together: https://solvy.app/ – really fun project. my goal was to make it collaborative and real-time. Might still do that someday.
The point is to get representative users. So you really want go's development telemetry informed only by the uses of Google employees?
This is a global problem: construction red tape and regulations are one of the most annoying and expensive to adhere to, and with real estate prices sky rocketing around the world the most tempting to cut corners on to dodge costs (they are also very difficult and expensive to inspect, unlike in restaurant business for example where it is quite easy to inspect that the kitchen is clean).

Take for example the Grenfell tower fire in London a few years ago, almost a 100 people burnt alive and it came down to the management company economising on external cladding (against regulation).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire
> "However, if their whole goal was "smallest lightest headset" then you can't really blame them for removing every single piece of tech from the headset they possibly could and outsourcing it to another device to maintain that claim."

Sure you can - IMO (and of course reasonable minds can disagree) - you can surely blame a product when they've optimized to the point of going below-MVP.

I get the desire to be smaller and lighter than the rest, but IMO inside-out is table stakes and is part of the "minimum viable" requirement...

I've seen the portable lighthouse setups, but IMO that's even worse. I've done the lighthouse setup back when it was I had the Oculus CV1 - and those didn't even need to be positioned high on the walls, and IMO it was a huge pain the ass. I think I ended up using them a total of 5 times because of how much fiddling was required to get into VR.

PCVR is already a vanishingly small market, this particular quirk of the spec IMO puts the product below minimum viability.
Waiting for GPT-4 to take over.
From what I've read elsewhere the Ukrainians were using or going to use Starlink to guide drones. This use has been banned.
We have the same problem in Telluride. I have to pay an extra 20k to get an upgraded circuit to charge my Rivian when I am already under the limit.
So you agree it's possible, desirable, and game changing? I think those are hugely positive indicators this will happen and people sitting comfortably in the status quo are going to lose out.

These corporate AI instances will take huge configuration, and like when IBM started adding infrastructure to large corps it was a huge effort. But the reward and advantage it provided was worth the millions of dollars and years of work. Eventually it all permeated down to consumers.

How long this will take it up for debate, but I don't think we can easily dismiss that it's inevitable.
I'm asking why the difference? Why is it good for society sometimes, and sometimes terribly wrong, in your view?
Couldn't New Delhi just tell Youtube HQ to obey worldwide and enforce it on all their subsidiaries, or lose the market?

In that case it wouldn't matter how many intermediary entities are there between HQ and local operations.
Every time I see a psirt (seems common still after 30 years) for adobe, I laugh a little and think "who actually still uses adobe?". Then I realize it's the old boy network with microsoft still. I occasionally still need to produce a pdf or sign one, but I haven't used anything adobe in 30 years and my life is better for it.
Options, but they’re worthless at the moment.
Hey author here. AMA (about the book). I know there are many books to read out there so let me add the book has at least one positive review by Poul-Henning Kamp of Varnish-Cache and FreeBSD fame:

> You don't need to be stuck on a bus between Oslo and Göteborg to enjoy reading this book: [...]
Much interesting stuff to think about for the thinking and practicing programmer.

https://toot.community/@bsdphk@fosstodon.org/109829843037038...
I should have been more specific. I am aware of some automatic metro systems but in my opinion the challenges they overcame are very different from the challenges freight or even long distance passenger trains would have to overcome.
Seems like it would a great addition to Plex. I can already share libraries with friends/families, would be awesome to have a VR client and an option to add someone.
Inside out tracking is good for casual games, but you miss out on a lot of the experience in more in depth games. Lighthouses are also super easy to setup on tripods.
I wasn’t saying anything about less content. What I meant is having a substantial anime selection would be a plus.
To make my statement more precise, I know what you're saying is true but what I mean is, in a three month span one can put noise abatement panels along a freeway, in say, Charlotte North Carolina. (Just to be optimistic in this hypothetical) Three months isn't enough time to propagate effects from the long term changes that you correctly mentioned are responsible for reducing auto noise on a larger scale, and those panels aren't going to make the sound go away entirely, but they will abate the noise on the other side. That's what I'm saying is happening all the time and is analogous to the conditions in the article which seem to be newly constructed data centers. Of course there will be changes over time inside the data centers that make them more efficient and whatnot, but if there's a nearby residential zone when a new one is being built, just put some abatement into the site design. That takes no R&D, but it does take more capital.
That's a good initial relevance filter, actually. Unless the writer is zealous enough to invest his time and money in order to convince me of his opinion, the topic probably isn't very important.
well, people already do that with their news feed.
Well, in response, the US govt could (in theory) break up YouTube into YouTube and YouTube India, thus freeing the US version from foreign influence. Perhaps this is another reason why companies shouldn't be allowed to get so big.
> They want to build ever larger accelerators just for the hell of it at this point.

This is simply not true, as a quick perusal of any proposal for a future collider will show: they all start with motivational statements, not with "it is a truth universally acknowledged we need another" as you claim.

What you are thinking of is ballistic missile defence, now that's a self-serving boondoggle.
Many other US citizens have been rotting in Russian jail for the same crime with no effort made to free them, so it stands to reason that any normal tourist wouldn't have a lot of bargaining value. Biden only traded for Griner because she's a woman and famous, despite the fact that she was 100% guilty.
> judging by the way it allowed the Bharat Jodo Yatra

I mean, sure, yeah, we're not North Korea yet. And is that the bar we are setting for the "World's largest democracy?"
> Everyone - everyone - is certain that the codes are all overzealous and their little thing needs an exception. Politicians get elected promising to 'get rid of the red tape'. And then an event occurs and we learn why these building codes exist.

> Like workplace safety rules, they are written in the blood of the dead.

Some of the rules are, but some of the rules aren't. When code calls for a maximum distance between electrical outlets, that's partially for convenience, and partly because of unsafe practices with extension cords, so there's some blood there, but if you miss the mark by a foot, it's not disasterous.

Uniform application of some rules without considerations for cost or practicality is foolish. For example, where I live, with my size house, any permitted remodeling triggers a requirement to retrofit fire sprinklers, despite the fact that I have a well which likely couldn't supply said fire sprinklers in a reasonable manner --- especially if a fire resulted in electricity being cut off, or was caused by unsafe heating choices when utility electricity was out of service (this is a common cause of house fires as I understand it). You could mitigate that with a high mounted water tank, but that's not actually required, might require substantial engineering to ensure the weight of the water and tank doesn't exceed the structure's weight bearing capacity, and would add significant maintenance to ensure the condition of the tank such that it did not leak and cause major damage to the structure. Oh, and how are you supposed to get such a tank into an attic like that anyway?

Structural requirements tend to be more likely to be written from experience though. And earthquakes and high winds have a way of striking everywhere. TR is known to be seismically active, so cutting corners on earthquake safety is a worse risk/cost tradeoff than in places where earthquakes are rare.
My point precisely, for them a 'normal' update includes precluding the ongoing use of a working package and replacing it with a novel and buggy one. No idea on the current state, I've largely stopped using Ubuntu.
No but here's the thing: for all of those regulations, the US still has more fire deaths than most of Europe. So they're not working anyway!

https://twitter.com/MarketUrbanism/status/160882533241258393...
You seem confused. I fail to find anywhere in the article that claims that hard work is not useful, nor that outcomes are entirely out of anyone's control. Your argument pre-supposes assertions that are simply not present in the article.
> Or, how about, what regulation would prevent it, while still allowing critical goods to flow?

Personal liability for the beneficial owners would go a long way. Don't let the people making the poor decisions hide behind corporate liability shields. Make them risk their personal wealth.

Alternatively, levy massive fines that wipe out profits when a company cuts corners to the point of negligence. Make it unprofitable to be reckless. For example, I think Norfolk makes something like $3 billion per year, so fine them at least $3 billion for a preventable incident like this.
The reality, as always, is somewhere in the middle
Electron microscopes can only see atoms with lots of electrons (high atomic number). So to observe a biological specimen with one, you need to coat the sample with heavy metals first
Somewhat opposite - if LLMs continue to perform like that with made up information and such, their credibility would erode over time and a defacto expectation would be that they don't work or aren't accurate which would result in less being reliant on them.

Same like self driving cars didn't have a mainstream breakthrough yet.
This is also what I focus on. Energy is fungible for a great deal else in the economy. Energy is fungible for transport. Energy is fungible for food. Given enough energy, cheap enough, then energy is even fungible for salt-free water.

There are other possibilities, such as the breakdown of certain international trade systems, or less productive legal regimes (expanded judicial review and expansive due process) but energy seems like the most likely, most direct cause of the slow down.
Soft robotic wearable restores arm function for people with ALS
I think a lot of the time the bulk added is in sales and marketing, to capture the most of a 'wave' when it shows up. The penalty for over hiring remains less than for under hiring in these cases.
The nerve of people not wanting to get stuck in predatory subscription models. Do these outlets still demand an international call at ungodly hours to cancel subscriptions?
That DMCA reference makes no sense. The addon doesn't distribute any copyrighted content.

It also sets a pretty worrying precedent. What is the advertisers start claiming uBlock Origin messes with their copyright?