skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say you’re not cut out for it, but that you want to try again in a year. To me that signals that you’re just overwhelmed in the moment. Startups are hard, that isn’t going to change in a year. There’s always going to be technical debt and you’re never going to have a perfect hiring record.

I think you should take a moment to breathe, talk to your cofounders about your feelings, and try to work through this. It’s hard, but you can do it.
But in this case the job of the hardware is to prevent the software from doing things, and it pays a constant overhead to do so whereas static verification as integrated into a compiler would be a one-time cost.
Motion sensors are cheap these days, but for some reason they're still so uncommon. To me, this would be one of the easiest wins. Even if 25% of the lights were tripped at any given time, that would still be a 75% reduction from those residential outdoor lights.
Small businesses are a very good thing for local communities, if only because they engage people in productive work, enable them to feed their families, enrich local communities with more available goods and services, and promote community building and engagement. All business (in the classical sense, meaning productive work) is a good thing.

Large businesses are the ones that tend to abuse their power, gather data inappropriately, promote monopolies, squash competitors using underhanded tactics, make inappropriate financial deals, lie to investors, and rent-seek at a grand scale -- in other words, all the anti-patterns of badly regulated capitalism.
Suppose you wrote this AI yourself, and you trained it on data you own. Does it change anything? It makes no sense that because there is an AI in the middle, that you lose copyright over the output.

What if you trained it on public domain data?

I think, in the case of an AI without rights being the upstream of a piece of work (and no other licensing issues with the owner of the AI), the next proximate entity to the work owns the rights, so it would be the author/curator, whatever you want to call it. It doesn't matter how little they did. It's that they did something and nobody else is claiming rights. There is no point referring back to a world where only humans are interacting with each other.

It's a dangerous precedent to say that AI output receives no copyright, because it is the same as what you're implying, that AI is not a tool, but an entity that siphoned off some of the rights, like maybe a child or a slave. If the USCO wants to declare that then they should do so, otherwise the case is wrongly decided and needs to go in front of a more intelligent judge.
> They aren't - I don't think you realized whats happening here

I mean, the text of the linked page contains the following:

> While the CIA was developing the revolutionary U-2 at great speed in late 1955, a sceptical USAF pressed ahead with an alternative means of photographing the Soviet Union. Over 500 large camera-carrying balloons were launched from western Europe, the theory being that the prevailing jetstreams would carry them west-to-east across the Soviet landmass, so that they could be recovered 8-10 days later in northern Asia.

> Codenamed Project Genetrix, this scheme was not a great success, with less than 10 percent of the camera payloads recovered. Many others were shot down by Warsaw Pact fighters, or simply drifted down to earth. The USSR collected the evidence, displayed it in Moscow, and issued strong protest notes.

> The CIA wasn’t enthusiastic about the project, and the success of the early U-2 overflights in 1956-57 suppressed any thoughts of balloon reconnaissance.

Which reads like cheerleading for the U-2 (see also the Global Hawk comment at the end) and cherry-picking from the relevant history to do so.
Informed consent isn't a legal requirement. It's down to ethics and occasionally the journal's publishing requirements. So it we bring the analogy back to ChatGPT, using it for queries isn't breaking HIPAA or any laws.
How to Get Rid of Enterprise
Ok so, I have a school chromebook where i'm enrolled into enterprise. They can control extensions, look at our tabs, and block every good website.
Bullshit. You had to worry about acquiring even food beyond bread and potatoes. A tiny minority employed in strategic area were afforded a middle class life at best.
Photons are photons, reflected or not.

So what prevents the ebook to lower the brightness of backlight to match the energy of the reflected light from a paper book?

(For e-ink ebook readers, can't they just be read without backlight, with just reflected light?)
NNs are inspired by the brain, it's wrong to suggest they're not and also wrong to suggest brains are _merely_ NNs.

Activation functions in NN map to action potentials/postsynaptic potentials, weights map to synaptic strengths/connection patterns between neurons, dropout to synaptic pruning/apoptosis, convolutional layers from the receptive fields of our visual cortex.

Certainly our brains are more complicated. Temporal spike timing, dendritic signals, synaptic plasticity, compute of synapse themselves, lots more I can't recall, none of these concepts are currently modelled in our NN architectures.

NNs start from the simple premise of interconnected neurons. As the field develops and we find what works or what doesn't, perhaps we will take more bits of inspiration from the brain.
How so? You can go right to Google maps and see "1Password Park" right there. Do you not think that thousands of people seeing "1Password" on maps and other signage as they pass by will one they lead them to choosing 1Password as their password manager instead of something else? Not even a single person?

That's exactly how name-id advertising works.
I don’t remember the name but I read a book years ago that was set in a future where humans live in dense cities with everything in between returned to wilderness. I always thought it was a really compelling idea if it were possible.
Yeah I have no doubt the way I was raised had an influence on my life as a result of I suppose boredom and the huge amount of free time due to TV restrictions I became heavily invested in electronics and technology, as a 13/14 year old I would buy computer and electronics magazines and read them cover to cover, I'd spend hours pulling apart and reassembling electronics. I would go to swap meets buy old broken second hand computers and upgrade/repair them and then resell them. My room used to be filled with old motherboards, keyboards etc stacked up to near the ceiling. I think it drove my parents nuts I had so much junk parts hoarded all over my room.

All of this led me to studying Engineering.
This is good advice!

> Use Docker layer caching on GitHub Actions or your favorite CI (https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/build-images-on-github-a...)

Since the time that article was written, BuildKit added native support for interacting with the GitHub Actions cache, so it's even easier than they describe:

- uses: docker/build-push-action@v4
with:
cache-from: type=gha
cache-to: type=gha,mode=max

Kyle actually wrote a blog post with more details if you're interested: https://depot.dev/blog/docker-layer-caching-in-github-action...

What has to happen with cache-to and cache-from is BuildKit has to create cache tarball files for each of the layers to be cached, then upload them to the remote cache destination. Then next build when there's a cache match, BuildKit downloads the tarballs from the remote store and un-tars them so that it can continue the build.

This process can be slow, from creating the tarballs, to transferring them over the network, to unpacking them again. This is one of the reasons we created Depot in the first place. We had several commercial projects with highly optimized Dockerfiles, where saving and loading cache to GitHub Actions took several minutes, representing a significant amount of the overall build time. We also wanted to use some more advanced Dockerfile features like `RUN --mount=type=cache` that are entirely unsupported in GitHub Actions.

With Depot, builds re-use the same persistent SSD, so you get perfectly incremental performance, similar to the speed you'd get on a local machine, without any network transfers. So if you put effort into optimizing Dockerfiles as you describe, you actually get to keep all that time savings. Our app backend's CI Docker builds usually complete in about 20 seconds for instance.

> hadolint is a good docker linter but there is no tool in the market that helps people optimize docker images

We're just getting started on this, but we'd like to provide insights like this through Depot, since we control the build execution environment and can observe what happens inside the build.
Interesting article - but I'm left to wonder how it applies to where I live - we have a two month polar day in summer - but AFAIK no increased incidence of cancer. Some people certainly struggle with polar day (and night in winter) - but 10 000 plus years of human habitation seem to indicate white nights aren't such a big deal?

There's a lot of research going on effects in humans - but admittedly I'm not really up to date.

I do recall this one that's tangentially releated:

"A circadian clock is not required in an arctic mammal"
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20226667/
DNA tied a noted French-horn teacher to unsolved sex crimes
> They generally do not charge people unless they have substantial, if not overwhelming evidence.

Well that's simply untrue. Very often prosecutors will overcharge to force a plea deal on the defendant who doesn't want to risk it, and overwhelmed public defenders don't have the resources to properly examine the evidence or collect their own evidence in defence of their clients. And often it's a fraction of the sentence, not 75%, because charges are often dropped as part of the deal.
Well, phenotypic selection is natural in the inevitable, Darwinian sense. Genotypic selection is not because "nature" can't observe genes directly, only their expressions.
I don’t think that’s true. Recent (2020) stats at https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/housing/housing-occ...

“…from 1999–00 to 2019–20, the percentage of Australian households that own their own home:

…
Without a mortgage decreased from 39% to 30%.
With a mortgage increased from 32% to 37%.”

And that’s only talking about owner-occupiers, not investment properties, which I suspect would overwhelmingly have mortgages.
Again, I appreciate the feedback. It's a post I really struggled with the details of, and I've been putting off actually publishing it in some form or another for months now.

The problem is... yeah. This stuff, as I see it, is very literally killing us. Our modern civilization, in a wide range of shapes and forms, is "human toxic" - and as a random blogger in the backwaters of the internet, I see no harm in calling a spade a spade.

I left computer network security for a while, because it was becoming a mental challenge to argue that "everything is broken." Because, as I see it, everything is broken. And nobody will admit it.

As far as CRI/R9 go... yes, it signifies improvement, but a lot of those also still spit out a lot of blue. You can spew a lot of blue, still have a high CRI, still have a high R9, not dim worth a damn, and still screw with human sleep. It's better than a 5000K "blue screamer," but it's still not good. I have a bunch of bulb reviews queued, and I've yet to find anything decent. I'll probably spend another couple hundred on high end high CRI LEDs, but... meh? Just not too exciting, when you're dropping that much on a bulb that's still likely to overheat and die if you use it in a regular fixture.

Incandescent bulbs are getting harder to find and more expensive, yes. Dimmers are rare. But dimmers are straightforward to install, and incandescents can still be found. If the question is, as I've formed it, "Your lighting vs your life" (and I recognize this is harsh, but it's also the conclusion I've formed from the research involved), then, so be it. If you want to sleep well and have high overnight melatonin levels, you have to do these things, because I've not found (yet) an LED solution I'm willing to use.

The energy savings? Install dimmers. Come on. I write about this in the post. If our LEDs are interfering with sleep, at great cost to our health, then I don't care what their efficiency is! They're toxic after the sun goes down. If you disagree, great. Use LEDs, hopefully they turn out to be fine. But human history is filled with "This is fine, this is the future, this is... wow. How was this ever allowed to be used?" stories, and I'll argue (as I have) that LED lighting is one of those.
>At the beginning of the pandemic, juice from MINUTE MAID in half gallon was $1.34 -- currently it is $1.68 11.25% inflation increase for this sugar water alone.

That sounds like a lot until you realize that "beginning of pandemic" (February 2020?) was almost 3 years ago, and the CPI itself has gone up 15.8% in the meantime.
Coinbase beats on revenue and earnings, but usage continues to decline
Supreme Court admits they're not the best choice to decide internet future
There are significant differences, because proof-of-work crypto mining is inherently a digital logic operation, so it's not amenable to photonic analog computing used for, e.g., approximate matrix multiplication and summation used in neural nets.

That said, photonic gates for digital circuits hold some promise for power efficiency and speed in their own way. For many of the parameters which apply to crypto mining, it's not so clear whether photonic digital circuits will significantly outperform the best near-future electronic transistors though.

(Source: I worked on a photonic crypto circuit design based on 4-wave (non-linear) mixing. Non-linearity is required for digital logic. Even though 4-wave mixing is energy efficient, the design was less efficient and performant than I'd initially hoped from the high spatial parallelism and basic THz figures. The principles still hold a lot of promise.)
Nope, they're just going to make the model 100-8000x bigger then try to double then quadruple the width of the optical transformer.
The thing I’m objecting to is framing the discussion as brownie points. For something or some things this complex, you either can’t or more likely should not proceed without a lot of talk. Here is a great place for productive conversation to start to form consensus. It can’t do that if planning and philosophizing and design and critique of ideas is precluded.
Interesting. Reminds me of something I built a few years ago.

To demonstrate low latency for a proxy we built, we decided to do a small publicity stunt at a local conference. We found an old pinball machine, managed to reverse engineer and findbfrom patchwork docs and some experimentation that we could send some commands to control flillers over a serial port.

Then we built a web application that would receive commands over http, and forward them appropriately. Ran this on a laptop connected to the pinball machine. Then we setup our proxy on a raspberry pi, setup some mobiles to access the webapp via the proxy, and had a fun little demo.

Users can tap left and right halves of screen on mobile web page to send requests, and could see the pinball flippers move. Our stunt was that see, it's pretty fast and low latency even with some simulated background load on the system.
You'd still have to drive quite a way out of the cities in most places, suburbs or not. The sky glow is noticeable for miles in places with any humidity.
I've not looked into it that much (yet).

Short answer, from my view, is that if we've screwed up lighting enough that we need supplements, the easier option is to fix lighting.
Keeping rates artificially low/stable is a subsidy, to keep asset prices growing at a rate that matches people’s expectations so there is not any political unrest when people’s 401k and pension and house price does not end up where they think it should.

My model is about helping people acquire a home they can live in. Which means having a home available for them to live in, and giving them cash to obtain it.

Using taxpayer funded loans is wholly unnecessary to accomplish that, and is a wealth transfer from non land owners to land owners in the long run.
The answer is that mathematics is a thing that you can actually assert that someone is doing incorrectly, but for which it will not be obvious to non-mathematicians. If a programmer writes a bad program, the user can tell. If a mathematician writes a bad proof, basically it takes a mathematician to tell. It doesn't take an incredible mathematician, but it does take one.

If you want to say that you learned mathematics, you have to do more than this student did. you may have chosen to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I did not. I checked his work, and its mostly wrong. The reason that it is mostly wrong is because the practice of mathematics requires some training to get to the point where you can be relied upon to know if you are lying, and the author of this blog did not reach that point.
Isn’t the solution better “mechanical” and language integrations for “off-cpu compute”?

CUDA and subsequent libs arguably provided this and caused a pretty massive acceleration in the amount of GPU-utilising code that got written. Now, CUDA might still be pretty awful to write, but if general-propose-GPU API’s continue to evolve and refine, we might be able to get to a point where something like an LLVM compiler can auto generate efficient GPU code for matrix ops, much like how it can auto-vectorise certain patterns now.
I checked out the link. The information is great but I have to wonder if the author of the website is color blind or not. The chosen combination of text color and background color is so difficult for the eyes. If they got something so obvious wrong, I can't help but question the quality of the visual vocabulary they are selling.
Lanterns (incandescent kerosene), or incandescent lights.

The Kobo Clara HD is rather easier to read in low light than my aging Kobo Aura. It also has warm glow, but I'm not sure it matters, and the better reflectance on the display is the major win.
> The point of my anecdote was to illustrate how Agile makes it easier to lie, and makes it difficult for honest people to call out liars. If a manager tells me that the deadline is Wednesday, and the deadline passes without anything bad happening, then he or she looks bad. If a manger estimates a "3", and I estimate a "3", and then it turns out that our definitions of what a "3" is differ, then I look bad.

If your manager says they're following agile/scrum and says you took too long on that "3", they're lying and you should call them out; you don't look bad, they do.

> I'd much rather that people be honest and up-front about the deadline (even if it is BS) than try to hide behind some overly complicated poker-game kabuki.

If you've got a real deadline then be honest about it. But most everyday tasks don't need a deadline; agile isn't about pretending the deadline isn't a deadline, it's about actually not having a deadline.
That is kind of a problem if companies are fine with lying, or hiring an artist willing to lie and claim they created something, just to get copyright protection. I can't say for sure that we'll have (or always have) some means of telling if something was created by AI or not.

Removing AI generated works from copyright entirely means that if you can demonstrate your work was created by AI you wouldn't have to worry that it violates someone else's copyright. People would be free to use the technology for whatever they wanted as long as they were willing to give up the idea of copyrighting whatever the output was.
As a technical artists, dabbling with AI, I can tell you that it takes a lot of time an effort to generate prompts, asses the quality of the generated images, curate collections of images to be in the same art style. I haven't even started trying to work out how to get the same characters in different pictures.

If I wanted the look of my product to be "ball point pen on post-it note"
it would have been a lot less work and effort and it would get copyright protection.

Effort is the wrong measure.
Those are culls, not slaughters. They aren't the same thing. You cannot sell culled chickens for food, they are culled due to disease and are considered biohazard, because they can infect other parts of the flock or other flocks, and in the case of bird flu are also infectious to humans. Generally, the USDA requires a full cull of flocks if any birds are affected. My sister is into urban chickens and bird flu is very much not a joke, and trying to prevent it is hard because humans can carry it and infect chickens and chickens can infect humans.

Also, the chicken you eat and the chicken that lays eggs aren't even the same breed at industrial scale.

Also, I know that many regulations, including USDA regulations, are a bit of a joke in the US, but bird flu is one thing they very much do not fuck around on. The loss of those 60 millions birds is a straight economic loss that's non-recoverable for those egg producers.
I often wonder - what if "something" happened 13.8 billion years ago that generated the CMB but it wasn't the beginning of the universe? If we keep detecting galaxies all the way back to that point...
Popular DSL is fine-ish. But please tell your coworkers to NOT make yet another pointless, poorly thought DSL.
Wanna cite your sources?
>and reporting record profits

1. Does that say much? Thanks to inflation, every year is basically guaranteed to have "record profits".

2. If we look at their margins, it has indeed gone up, but we also see that it has gone up in 2015 (when there was also a bird flu), then subsequently dropped back down afterwards. What explains this? Did the CEO get visited by the three ghosts of christmas and got less greedy? Or perhaps it's just the case that companies make record profits when supply is limited?

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CALM/cal-maine-foo...
Motion sensors tend to provide safety as well as reducing wasted lighting. Seems like a win-win, yet they're rarely used.
To ameliorate this problem, I've moved the "Viewer" link to immediately underneath the "Home" on the left side menu on the latest version of the website.
How useful are wind vanes and anemometers on typical home weather stations?

When I was putting together my DIY weather station I got this weather meter kit [1] from Sparkfun that includes a rain gauge, a wind vane, and an anemometer.

Later I realized that because of all the tall trees all around my neighborhood (Western Washington) and the less tall trees at my house and the house itself being in the way the wind direction and speed a couple meters above the ground near my house would not really be all that interesting.

In retrospect I wish I had just bought the rain gauge. Sparkfun doesn't sell that separately but Argent Data Systems has a product that seems to be identical to the Sparkfun one [2], but they also sell the individual sensors separately. Here's the rain gauge [3].

[2] https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?products...

[3] https://www.argentdata.com/catalog/product_info.php?products...