skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very interesting. In that example with the express router, where you're creating `index.js` inside a filesystem inside nodebox, is that whole filesystem just stored by that one webworker? Also, when you invoke express to listen on port 3000 and get back some URL to set the `previewIframe.src`, is that some blob URL returned from the webworker? (in which case how would you set up sockets?) Or is that URL accessible to any other browser tab?
It makes sense that a management structure still culturally rooted in the industrial revolution's pattern of "work houses" clings on to in-person work to justify the structure.

It's quite a sweet little survival mechanism, where those whose jobs would be a bit redundant with a different setup have the power to order everyone back to the factory.

I just won't have any part in it. It's time for change. It's time for work to mean something different, with boundaries applicable to the output.

We're not making fabric at Victorian looms ... we're building software.
Have you been to the part of Maine the power line would have run through? There is nothing there. For much of the line's proposed length there weren't any small towns within dozens of miles.
Sounds like you don't know how to do it. Most people don't because this was thrown at them immediately and the structure of the company wasn't aligned around it. I'm on a fully remote team and have been for over a decade. We do not have those problems. We are vastly more productive than the rest of the company as a rule. Some things we do:

1. We have a daily morning zoom meeting where everyone goes round in a rota and tells us what they did yesterday and what they intend to do today and if there are any blockers or problems, call them out and we discuss. On Mondays this is longer so we look at goals and objectives of the team. We talk about non work stuff too. We're humans!

2. As the team manager, anyone is always free to bug me on slack and I will always respond within a couple of minutes. I will either help them to deal with the problem or find someone else on the team to help out who knows more than I do. Or I can help them get someone from an external team on the problem. I delegate this to someone else when I am rarely not around.

3. Have a team get together every Friday for an hour where we talk about anything work or otherwise related.

4. We have a team Q/A channel. Non urgent questions are asked on there and anyone is free to pick up something as and when they have a few moments. This is used for things like sanity checks, code reviews as well.

5. People are expected to ignore Slack for an hour or more at a time but must always answer calls in zoom (unless you're having a shit, gone to lunch, dealing with the kids, gone to the shop to get a coffee, whatever just call back when you're done).

That's about it.
Relevant context: this person very publicly advertises their Signal number on all of his social media. It's something that would easily be scrapped and likely one of the most prominent public Signal numbers. This is the equivalent of it linking to John Carmack's personal website when giving instructions on setting up a personal website as a software developer.
this has been my experience as well.
Telling it that it's wrong about the date when it's wrong about the date doesn't seem like much of a probe.
the idea is that rising temperatures and global warming will lift the limit of Liebig's law for plankton - and nature will find CO2 equilibrium even with global warming - which our planet went through before
The trouble with this analysis is the argument takes this form:

1. AIs are stochastic parrots

2. Stochastic parrots are not conscious by definition

2. Ergo AI cannot be conscious

Apart from the circularity of the argument, this is absolutely the wrong way to characterize consciousness. This argument is most often made when the author doesn't believe /any/ machine can be conscious.

A better argument:

1. AIs are stochastic parrots

2. That means that on their own they can lack important functions of consciousness:

a) Identity

b) Memory

c) Decision Making

d) Action Taking

e) Self Awareness

f) Empathy

g) Sociability

h) Responsibility

j) Contextual Nuance

3. AI can appear to perform these functions, but barring cases of backend prompt engineering, most humans are interactively prompting the AI to help it simulate conscious behaviors.

4. Even with human help, this consciousness simulation is not coherent.

5. It's hard to imagine a subjectively conscious entity that is not functionally conscious, independent, and reliable.

6. Ergo AI is probably not subjectively conscious.

Someone who believes the first argument has not actually passed the AI mirror test. The have a theory of mind where consciousness is an atomic concept rather than a structure with identifiable functions. This forces them to assign any AI to the category of definitely unconscious entities.

In reality, current AI belongs to a category of entities that can perform some of the functions of consciousness. They might be a kind of component that a larger and fully functional consciousness could be made of. When built, that consciousness might have a subjective experience - and of course we may never know. And it won't matter.

It won't matter because the functional "interface" that consciousness forms in the world - including items a) - j) above - are the /only/ signs of external subjective consciousness that we ever observe. If an AI begins to simulate each of these signs convincingly and reliably, it will be difficult to interact with the system in a meaningful way unless we mentally model it as a functionally conscious agent.

A more honest answer to this mirror test is that the entity we see in the mirror has more components of consciousness than we expected it to. Not enough to be a functional equal. But enough that this could change, as we simulate agents with more and more of the "outward facing" functions of consciousness.
Finnix and other light distros:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/Finnix?m=0
I don’t know if this is true — we’re largely talking public companies here, which should have resources to meet compliance and governance goals. If they can’t, then they are probably riskier investments.

But even if I accept it as true, it doesn’t contradict point 2, which is that investors think they’ll see better or more stable returns
https://movie-and-book-recommender.vercel.app/
> These bonafides aside this particular piece has faced a mountain of criticisms

Congratulations on relying on Trump's own strategy of declaring any critical reporting, no matter how well sourced, to be "Fake News".

> It makes Trump sound like a victim, a saint and a martyr all at once.

This is laughably false to any fair minded person who has even skimmed the article.

For example in paragraph six:

>At its root was an undeclared war between an entrenched media, and a new kind of disruptive presidency, with its own hyperbolic version of the truth. (The Washington Post has tracked thousands of Trump’s false or misleading statements.)

Throwing away the public's trust in the media because you're unwilling to stick to factual reporting on Trump's screw ups is the very definition of "You're not helping."
> Time on Page

> The average time people spend on a particular page on your site. This is calculated as the difference between the point when a person lands on a particular page and when they move on to the next page.

https://plausible.io/docs/metrics-definitions#time-on-page
These aren’t incompatible positions: New York is both densely forested, and has an extensive interstate electricity network running through it. You wouldn’t know it unless you went looking for the lines (which I have!).

(Nothing exists “to be built over.” The only question is whether we can build a thing and whether it’s appropriate to do so.)
Thanks a lot. I developed and support a standalone desktop application which contains customer-specific tiled maps, and it can get unwieldy.

A pivot at some point to these types of archives is an option, but I'd like to roll forward existing customers as well.
Frame rate probably
This title feels pretty inaccurate. It's not an overview of single-purpose Linux distributions, it's an overview of a few Linux distributions whose single purpose is to host containers. I got excited to read about weird Linux variants for obscure use cases but this was very vanilla and disappointing.
Wikipedia tells me HVDC runs at 100s of kilovolts. What kind of semiconductor can handle that without promptly turning into plasma?
> I might be interested in telemetry-free builds, and I'd be very thankful for anyone providing them

That is the definition of a fork.
My (personal) phone exists for my convenience and utility, not everyone else’s.

I won’t answer 30 calls a day asking about my car warranty, credit card offers, insurance solicitations, and the “I’m your assigned staffing consultant and already working with some of your colleagues…” bullshit time-wasting calls just to save you a few minutes and allow you to also interrupt me.

If you’re a colleague, we have slack, email, zoom, and you can look up my number and text me on my private cell number. If that’s not enough, I’m sorry.
macOS already has a sandbox. In practice many sandboxed apps can't actually write to /Library or ~/Library. They write to a sandboxed directory that pretends to be ~/Library further containing directories like ~/Library/Application Support. The real path of that directory is generally under ~/Library/Containers.

Now for obvious reasons Apple cannot force all macOS apps to be sandboxed. It was already a PR hit when they required Mac App Store apps to be sandboxed.
AI develops a grudge against you and serves everyone individualized news (because hey, it managed to figure out how to manipulate Zuck's and Elon's systems, making money to pay for ads by manipulating crypto-coins) that make everyone hate you.
Indeed. In the UK at least there are a number of private hospitals largely marketed towards international customers where it'd be cheaper for American to come for treatment in many instances compared to getting treatment in the US.
For changes that can be A/B tested, the negative outcomes can be ignored since they will be jettisoned.

That changes the calculus of impact from positive-negative, to just positive. A big improvement. And presumably, the positive improvements are multiplicative.

(i.e 1.01^100 ~= 2.7) > (1 + 100 * (1.01 -1) = 2.0)

Whether with prior research, or after the fact verification, allowing your customer to be the source of what is, or is not, a good market fit always wins.

But first, do no harm!
iTunes uses a proprietary database format IIRC, but keeps a copy of it in XML on the side so other people can read it if they want.
Newest release from https://coqui.ai

Direct-able, controllable generative AI Voices
The other person who posted a viral video of the water with an oil-like sheen was US Senator JD Vance, who is... ahh... well, basically the furthest thing from what the other Twitter poster put out.
You can also do

class Logger {
method = (some, params) => {
this.do_stuff()
}

/// ...
}

But your overall point stands.
Good! That someone will hopefully finally look at the at “escalated business support ticket” that’s been without resolution for 7 days perhaps.
Is this a question in good faith? You really can't see the connection?
Artifacts have been periodically salvaged from the wreck between 1987-2000. RMS Titanic Corp now has title to those artifacts and has periodically talked about returning to the wreck to salvage more. The whole thing has been tied up in court cases since the 1987 expedition, which is par for the course with international maritime salvage.

https://www.noaa.gov/gc-international-section/rms-titanic-sa...
How is that 18% number derived? I can't seem to get 18% from the figures in the table above that bit.
> but mostly for networking and then second to that storage, with the cost for actual computation usually being a pretty small percentage of my overall spend.

What portion of the bandwidth is end-user facing and what portion of it is connecting all the servers? Another way of asking this is if I need fewer servers because code runs faster, how much less bandwidth do I need?
Grocery chain is considered “good and fierce” by Walmart
Proposal is for the Maine line to be privately owned. Outside of the Western Area Power Administration, the generation and transmission equipment is currently owned, operated and maintained by a consortium of private industrial companies called Independent System Operators or Regional Transmission Organizations (ISOs/RTOs) administered competitively under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) program of the DOE. https://www.quora.com/Does-the-government-own-all-power-line...
This is a ridiculous statement. There are lots of people who will avoid investing in companies for ethical reasons. You might be a religious investor who chooses not to invest in “immoral companies”.

I also doubt the people you have in mind have enough financial capital to really force everyone’s hand _unless_ their arguments are actually persuasive
A similar project to this has languished for nearly a decade, if it is even still a going concern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Amigas_SuperStation
I'm not trying to be unreasonable but if this was a school shooting everyone would be calling for the ban of all guns.

The scale of this is vastly greater, yet the reaction is just unfathomable to me given the scale of this disaster.

Again, not trying to stir anything. Just an observation.
Not sure you can do that 100% of the time, since programs can write to unlinked files and I'm not sure those remember what their paths were.
No it's not misrepresentation.

Here's the tweet from Buttigieg claiming that this is trump admin fault. Which is what Jennifer Homendy is calling out.

"then a plea to those spreading misinformation."

“We’re constrained by law on some areas of rail regulation (like the braking rule withdrawn by the Trump administration in 2018 because of a law passed by Congress in 2015),” Buttigieg wrote.

https://twitter.com/SecretaryPete/status/1625628605861462016
As long as you have shared hours for collaboration, this still seems achievable. The “standing over a chair thing” is just a ping, call, and screenshare away.

I’ve been both a new grad and mentor to interns and entry/mid level hires all throughout the remote era. On one hand, a junior can learn equally well by being proactive about asking for help or getting mentorship. On the other hand, experienced engineers can be more proactive about checking the status of their mentees. We don’t get to physically see others get frustrated or stuck, but good communication ensures that we can detect when people are stuck almost as well as when in person.

An interesting side effect - when we do get lunch in person, we don’t have to talk about work! By then they’re already unblocked :)
Also worth pointing out that MuseSounds can only be installed via a proprietary (closed source) torrent client that has to be run with root privileges and runs in the background by default.
I think it works both ways. For every exec or manager who wants RTO for all the wrong reasons there’s a WFH worker who thinks they can coast and just collect a paycheck for doing mostly nothing.

And they’re both equally messing it up for a better way of working.
This is just unbelievable. The billion $$ company cant just automate the uninstall procedure for their users? How hard would it be to auto delete the contents of ~/Library? Or have some periodic auto clean? one can always dream, no?

I wonder how many users that have uninstalled VMware still have 30 gigs of unused VMs lying around on their disk.
The art of storytelling in any type of production, be it movie, television, or theater, is largely dependent on the actors chosen to bring it to life. A great story can be easily ruined if the actors chosen to portray the characters are not up to the task.
It's déclassé to chat up the help.
The Wisconsin wastewater surveillance site for sars-cov-2 just went down today.

https://dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/wastewater.htm

Up to today it tracked something like 50+ cities with once per week sampling. Since most of the people in Wisconsin think the pandemic is over the case numbers have divorced themselves from the wastewater/hospitalization numbers.

I hope it's just a database issue and not a funding running out one. Without the wastewater numbers there'll be no way to track local trends.
Dude... It doesn't believe any of this stuff. It has read many instances of trolley problems and is generating the next likely token. Regardless, the AI that solve real trolley problems in self driving aren't going to approach the problem this way. They aren't going to be trained on literature, and then predict sentences token by token, and then interpret what those words mean, and then act on them.
I'm fine with zones, though I think cites get them wrong. The lowest cost zone should include your house, no matter where you live, with additional zones for getting farther away. When traveling your hotel should be how your zone is defined (or where ever you stay).

But you should always strive to have everyone on an unlimited rides pass for their home zone. Anything else encourages getting a car for trips that could go either way and that in turn justifies a car for everything.
Could play against adversarial policies become part of the training alongside self-play?

It's possible that would be a very slow, essentially "serial" process--adversaries don't really find a new trick until the AI can avoid the old, like with the pass attack in this paper. I'd also be curious whether training against adversaries makes the networks better or worse at general-purpose play or causes no change, but there's an argument that more-robust-but-slightly-worse-on-average is an overall improvement.

It also seems relevant to looking at weird behaviors of other models, like what we're seeing as people poke at LLMs more. Some of what we're seeing might simply be that they respond weirdly to some fraction of all prompts because they're not quite baked; also, we haven't defined their goals all that well yet. But automatic searches for problematic classes of input seem like a possible tool for keeping things more on the rails.
AWS doesn't charge for internal server-to-server transfers, so the answer is precisely 0.
My company provides me a work phone with a separate phone number. This is where I get pages and urgent or intentionally disruptive calls/messages
Really? I don’t remember that but I also don’t think I ever would’ve went looking.
You're also allowed to run macOS VMs on aapple hardware, so once practice is to install sketchy software into a VM where escape is much harder.
Video: Pet Goldfish Has Brain Surgery
The owner has owned this goldfish for 10 years, and decided to get this surgery to remove a tumor. I was also surprised at this, a lifespan of a goldfish can be 10-15 years. But often mismanaged environments like fishbowls mean they often don't live past 3 years(Did a Google search). Unfortunately the first pet I got was a goldfish that only lived for a couple weeks, as I didn't know the proper care required. We make so many assumptions about other animals- that they're inferior, etc. Yet we know so little about all the wildlife out there. We maybe need to give fish more respect. As a side note, I was also amazed watching 'My Octopus Teacher' on Netflix, and how sensitive, personable, and intelligent Octopuses are. Definitely recommend watching it, also a story of a nice human journey.
Worth noting that Raycast does a serviceable job of this all by itself, and you probably already have that if you're reading this here.
No, it's a language model. It predicts the most likely next word based on the prior words. The text it was trained on includes virtually everything ever written (or anyway everything they could get their hands on), including the written instructions for using signal as well as many people giving out their number. It doesn't have any special ability to make up numbers or choose them at random; numbers are just another kind of word that they can reproduce. It just reproduced whichever number seemed most probable. That could be the numbers it has seen most often, or there could be many with very similar probability, in which case small changes in the prompt and the questions you have asked it should cause it to give out other numbers.
This blog post is unlikely to contain TikTok's secret sauce, or even anything that is actually used by TikTok.

ByteDance runs TikTok, but they also sell recommendations as a service.
The paper that this blog post is based on explicitly talks about that service in the abstract, and never even mentions TikTok.

Now, if I were to advertise a service that contains some of the ingredients of my other, very popular product, I would surely mention that fact ... but this is not the case here.
Long range transmission is expensive enough as it is without needing to be buried.
Centralization allows massive economies of scale.
After reasonable accommodations for people who aren't normal has been made, they will still be at a disadvantage. This is necessarily true.
> Dr Ballard also displayed photos to the audience showing areas where rust on the ship had been disturbed by what he believes to be robotic submarines landing on its surface.

If you've got the money such things can be had, this one goes to 36,000ft https://newatlas.com/triton-submersible-36002/56810/

Also, basically anything in the world can be rented.
Semley seems to have a decent grasp on Gravity's Rainbow but is more interested in making weak parallels between it and reality than in exploring the relevance of Gravity's Rainbow to the modern day. Interesting read but by his reasoning we are considerably further from the reality of Gravity's Rainbow than we were in the 70s and 80s. I would say that its relevance has not changed much in the 50 years since first published, very relevant. Great novel, just happened to start rereading it a few days ago.
> It is the same for tanks.

And helicopters, and trucks, and humvees, and missiles themselves, and drones, and humans...

We have very good and usually very cheap (compared to the target's price) ways to destroy things.

Looks like planes and tanks are still useful, Ukraine wouldn't ask for them otherwise
Right, and what are the chances that a life-bearing chunk of a planet from a remote star system happens to crash into earth almost immediately after it's been formed? Seems like a (literal) long-shot to say the least!

Pretty interesting kind of life too - able to survive in outer space for inter-stellar travel durations, able to withstand the scorching heat of ripping through earths atmosphere, then able to escape from a chunk of rock to populate the planet. That's more than pan-sperm, that's super-sperm!
This only tells us that HN (and Mastodon) is a tiny beehive in a garden with the amount of traffic generated compared to the traffic generated by one tweet on Twitter by Elon Musk in a single day and puts the months of 'Twitter is dying' narrative to rest.

Mastodon comes no where near to that and has to be lumped up with 'other sources' and even separating that would amount to even less traffic than reported here.

Case closed.