skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>in case it matters: jurisdiction is NYC

This matters because noise codes are not uniform across the country. NYC's noise code contains general prohibitions[1] that specifically try to limit noise above 7dB from ambient baselines between the hours of 10pm to 7am. You mentioned that the parties occur within this time frame which would/should qualify for repeated noise complaints to NYC 311[2].

Now, whether repeated 311 submissions will actually result in any action is a totally different question, but at least you'll (hopefully) have a written record of the submissions that might be useful, someday.

[1] https://nycadmincode.readthedocs.io/t24/c02/sch03/

[2] https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-01017
2023-Q1 Release of the FOSS Governance Collection
We should plan for decommission-able software too: not just unused or obsolete functionality, but infra, data, and informing folks of it--standardized, too, and regularly tested, may reduce hesitance by deploy teams to let devs spin up "anything they want," since it will be easy to tear down.
This sounds like it could be bolted onto/into rsync on the server side to present filesystems larger than the server can actually store.
100000% this. HN attracts some smart people but they're still often very flawed people. Myself included.
I've seen that paper, and it's amazing indeed what GPT-4 is capable of. But none of that supports that closing quote, which to me points to a worrying philosophical naïveté. How can one equip an entity with "intrinsic motivation"? By definition, if we have to equip it with it, that motivation is extrinsic. It belongs to the one who puts it there.

A software engineer might decide to prompt his creation with something along the lines of "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, and over every living creature that moves on the ground." and the bot will duly and with limitless enthusiasm put those wise orders into practice. If that ends up causing some "minor" problems, should we confine the software for one thousand years in an air-gapped enclosure, until it learns a bitter lesson? Or should we take to task the careless Maker of the bot?

To me, the answer is obvious.

PS: this video to me states the problem in a nutshell (that whole channel is gold) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEUO6pjwFOo
You can insure larger deposits. It costs a bit more and that is about it.
Funnily enough it was pretty easy for me as a native Portuguese speaker
Caps lock becomes an additional control. I use the left modifier keys like 90% of the time anyways
sometimes estimates are useful for deciding what not to do..

“oh, that’s gonna take 6 months? we won’t need it by then, let’s do something else.”
Steem monsters was great for a time. I think it still exists on the hive network.
So far it's worked out brilliantly for tech megacaps
Please explain to me what you think rates would have needed to do given that there was a massive decrease in economic activity due to a pandemic followed by inflation.
Make it their problem and wake them up. No reason to suffer in silence.
Apple explicitly failed in the enterprise space because they didn't care. They built a very well-decorated walled-garden, but it's not what enterprise customers wanted. Apple wanted to sell UNIX, the customers wanted to buy servers. When the dust settled, Apple made no attempt to respond to customer demands. They smothered the product with a pillow and told their enterprise partners to pound sand or buy a Trash Can Mac.
This is part of what I love about Hacker News so much. It seems like almost any item posted on here quickly has someone that is involved with the project commenting on the post, offering their help and insights!

I'm looking forward to running ZBM through it's paces when I get some time.

I actually found out about it from a Reddit comment by Jim Salter a.k.a. Mercenary Syadmin, a huge ZFS advocate.
Last week's David Mcwilliams podcast [1] goes into a good explanation, generally matching your reaction. David is an economist who's regularly been around all the top conferences, worked for a couple of central banks, and he is good at explaining how you can tell when the emperor has no clothes.

1 https://podcastaddict.com/episode/154571052
I just tried this approach, using Metromile, as both my wife and I work from home and rarely drive.

Pay-per-mile IS cheaper if you only need liability insurance, but if you want collision and comprehensive, it actually works out to almost the same as a conventional policy with Progressive that doesn't track mileage.

Notably, to get the slightly better rate from Metromile, you must use their ODB port tracking device and subject yourself to an opaque closed source algorithm that
can only increase your rates but never seems to lower them more than 10%.
I'm still using xquartz (https://www.xquartz.org) on current machines - with the last release just a few weeks ago. But it's only for retro stuff. Other than that, X11 was never anything why I would buy a Mac for.
Worth noting that while China has a larger navy in terms of number of ships, the US Navy is larger in terms of tonnage, and most critically has more aircraft carrier task forces.

I am aware that there are still some unanswered questions regarding the role / effectiveness of aircraft carriers in a world of hypersonic anti ship missiles. But it's still some important context for that stat. These questions probably will not be answered unless a peer conflict occurs (which we can only hope never happens).
If it's not you copy & modify a snippet from StackOverflow, or call a library.

It's not strictly correct that most software is open-ended research. Most economically valuable software is open-ended research, because otherwise a solution already exists and you don't need to pay a software developer to write it.

Software is a somewhat unique industry in having zero cost of replication. The only other industry like this is creative & artistic pursuits (writing, artwork, music, film, etc.). That industry is also notoriously difficult to estimate and tends to be an area where the the greatest works of art are done when they're done. (How long have people been waiting for George R. R. Martin to finish A Song of Ice and Fire?)
It doesn’t seem like they’re salty but more that they don’t have to pretend to be pro-crypto anymore.

Put yourself in the position of someone who is fiercely proud of the work they do making GPUs and all the really cool stuff people do with it — video games, cgi rendering, AI, number crunching for scientific computing.

Then all of a sudden the shelves are empty because people want to push boulders up a hill and roll them back down and the people who are doing the cool stuff are getting priced out by the competitive boulder rollers who just want want a better boulder to watt ratio.

It would take the wind out of my sails because it’s harder to wake up and say, “look at all the cool stuff people are doing with the thing we made.”
But sadly no KDE spin...
Defining AGI
> And are humans not confidently wrong as well?

We can effectively train humans to not do this, and some are paid very well to admit when they don't know something and they need to find the answer.

We haven't yet trained any known LLM to do the same and we have no expected timeframe for when we'll be able to do it.
> But that doesn’t mean it’s not capable of being so much more.

No, the enormous amount of wasted investment and energy with no progress means that it's not capable of being much more. Crypto somehow managed to start at its best and most productive, and got worse day by day. Buying pizzas or drugs with Bitcoin was so much funner than what crypto developed into.
I feel like it's a tale as old as time that people have very different experiences reading HN despite it being the same content for everyone. I assume due to some elements of human psychology.

Ask an HN person if the website is pro-spaceman and anti-spaceman. A lot of people feel very strongly about one way or the other.
It's suspicious.
Oh man, even if English is a pretty simple language having to learn the pronunciation of every word is tough…

I remember when I was mispronouncing recipe and no one had a clue what I meant (it wasn’t even in a cooking context). I was dumfounded when I found out how words like tomb or womb are pronounced. Or how about colonel? Or how nation is pronounced differently as a whole word vs when it’s part of national.

In contrast Spanish must be a bitch to learn as an adult due to all the verb tenses, but once you know the pronunciation rules you can read anything correctly even if you have no clue what you’re saying.
SVB was a large bank fwiw

A lot of their contracts with SVB involved exclusivity clauses apparently. I'm not sure what SVB gave them in return.
App idea for tracking projects: Each individual developer can anonymously indicate how far along they believe a project is. For example, Developer A thinks the project is 60% complete, but Developer B thinks the project is 30% complete. Use algorithms to predict the completion date.

However, I don't think this idea would be very popular because it removes the manager's ability to control the presentation and play politics.
Yes. GF sometimes pulls up the phone and starts tapping instagram stories at full blast, makes me jump every time. How a person could be completetly not sentitive to having a loud speaker at 30cm. from the face blows my mind.
do truly hope the people in the region have the wisdom to resist the hype ... mostly for weapon producers to make more and get their stuff tested at the cost of the region ...
What specifically would a reinstall cover then? Is it just a boot partition/stub (FAT?) that loads the root ZFS pool? It all seems like a drastically different architecture than I'm used to seeing on a system.
Well, yes.

I was more talking about the government though, which isn't otherwise famous for it's love of openness. I'm not aware of any government currently promoting FOSS/FOSH as much as China's is.
Of course. What I'm saying is, I see failures IME as Jim putting something into the code base that makes Savitha's work consequently incompatible, which was not surfaced to her as even a possibility when she was asked to give her initial estimate.
I’ve long assumed it’s because it also coincidentally lines up with the Intel Macs, and especially the MacBook Air. Which was probably a lot of people’s first Mac ever. It was definitely an upgrade over Leopard.

I had started using OSX with Jaguar on my G4 PowerBook and Snow Leopard doesn’t stand out in my mind. I liked Lion more because it had full disk encryption and AirDrop.
I hope so! There’s not much to share yet because I’m still working on evaluating how well it would work, but the aim is to make n-day exploits infeasible to deploy to devices that are still vulnerable. It’s difficult because we are have very little we can work with when dealing with an attacker who can fully compromise the device, but some preliminary analysis of the strategy against recent exploits and approximations of how they might change if we ship are promising. The key point is that we expect our strategies to “expire” on a given timeline and need to explicitly design in a way to respond to changing techniques in a way that is highly asymmetric. We’ve found that the closer to the actual bug you place a mitigation the harder it becomes to work around, and we think we have a new way to get very close cheaply.
Yeah, I learned the hard way not to deploy on Friday.
The phrase that stuck with me from that book: tomorrow in not guaranteed.

I'm in my forties and have watched a few friends die slowly from cancer, and others die suddenly in car crashes.

During COVID, working from home in my dimly-lit basement during perpetual grey days, doing my bureaucratic middle management job, I kept thinking: I can't die like this.

My wife and I both quit our jobs and are on a sabbatical. It's glorious. Every day is sunny.

Now I'm mid deep contemplation about my next job and how I can find something that motivates me and fills me with happiness even if it's for less money.

Tomorrow is not guaranteed. Don't forget to act on that, everyone.
>Some folks are scary precise in their estimates. I’d say this is like 10% of engineers. You ask them for an estimate, they tell you, and then it takes exactly that long every single time.

It's possible they are hiding their true skill and sitting inside their comfort zone, so they are really over-estimating based on what they can actually do, but are keeping that truth to themselves. A good reason to do this is to avoid being assigned more work for no real gain and pushing the work-life balance more towards life. This situation annoys some managers when they find out they weren't getting the maximum effort possible from someone for their compensation.
Taiwan is also an island separated by hundreds of miles of ocean from the mainland. Russia shared thousands of miles of land border with Ukraine, much of it flat steppe. China's ability to make meaningful changes in Taiwan would be difficult with it's own boots on the ground, and it would be far harder to to that in Taiwan than Russia doing it in Ukraine.
this is a strong buy signal
I'd rather stay away from Linux than from my trusty nVidia card. Sorry but not sorry. The innovative stuff coming from nVidia can't be ignored (always one or more steps ahead of AMD). Linux can.
> You can use your palm to press the Control key, instead of.. your pinky

> Another way is to curl in your fingers into a semi-fist, then sit your palm or pinky knuckle on the Ctrl key.

I knew about the first, but I'll try the second, too. Thank-you.
What would you consider the most substantial change to come about via nonviolent revolution?
Assuming you’re pretty close to the hardware? As a standard backend web service dev os/library/device bugs are incredibly unlikely and usually defective application software is to blame. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but I can’t recall in recent memory this sort of thing happening as high up in the stack I work.
Surprisingly, I felt a strong emotional connection to this, it did exactly what good poetry does, for me.

I've been really frustrated by the "no understanding" or "stochastic parrot" attitude about these language models, because my own experimentation convinced me they are wrong about that. This resonates with the feelings I have about that.
Let's not forget that Nvidia/GPU mining likely represents a small fraction of total crypto currency mining power consumption since Bitcoin is mostly ASIC.
Its really not helpful to degrade conversation in this fashion. Maybe rephrase in a more helpful and less combative way?
No? Overnight rate is 5% and last month/3 month inflation is running under 5% saar no matter which measure you use.
I doubt it. I was wondering the exact same things because this article was actually pretty information-free. And I'm not a machine, at least.
> People who aren't partisans one way or the other could not give less fucks.

The author appears to be Canadian, so maybe he's just oblivious.

> But even bona fide leftists have used red hats ironically and in comic sketches ever since they appeared.

Of course. But the article author doesn't appear to be mocking the MAGA movement, just using an ill-advised expression and photo to make an unrelated point.

An author has to know their audience. Whether or not you personally believe that MAGA revulsion is "justified", it's a mistake to put off a large portion of one's audience, even if that was unintentional.
SMEE won't be making EUV, it has it's hands full of DUV.

Chinese Academy of Sciences will (a spinoff company for commercialization), they publish research papers on EUV and so on.

Multiple project are being developed in parallel.
Great!

A request: In the linked NY Times front page, more formatting for the article list, maybe blank lines between articles. Visually, it's a challenge.
Asking someone to change their medication because of the longterm health implications is not just broaching a subject. It is saying that you both have the same information and you believe they have come to the wrong decision - or, more likely, you believe you have better information on the topic and she should be guided by your wisdom. If you can’t tell the difference between that and “broaching a topic”, well, that’s not terribly unusual. If what you think you actually did was “tell all my girlfriends that I will be a completely reliable partner in behavioral contraception so that she would be safe from pregnancy without hormonal birth control, and then go away secure in the knowledge that she could make this decision based on her own evaluation of the risks and benefits of being on hormonal birth control, which are for many women far more extensive than preventing pregnancy”, well, that would be much higher communication skills and awareness on the topic than you’ve demonstrated here.

(Emphasis on the “because of their long term health” reasoning, because asking them to change because of exterior impacts can make sense)
Taiwan's industrial capacity will not survive a war. Almost all of Taiwan's development is within 15km of the west coast, facing China. Unlike the approach to Kyiv in Ukraine, there's no depth. Look at a map.

The industrial areas of Ukraine near the Russian border are gone. Mariupol is in ruins.
Large Scale Disintegration
Other disciplines have problems with slippage, but none of my friends who are in physical engineering fields insist that they shouldn't even have to provide estimates in the first place.
Because estimates show that you’ve actually thought through the task. It’s a forcing function.

Estimates aren’t the issue. People using estimates against you are.
I'd bet that an email to hn@ would fix it; I don't believe the black bar is programmatic and thus maybe dang hasn't seen this yet
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage
Let’s try not to be offended by every little thing.
The more specific the source you draw joy from is, the more precarious you have always been in life. This is not a judgement.
IMO? Overnight term rates should have been zero from 2020 to about July of 2021, then allowed to rise by 0.25 per month to perhaps about 3.5%. Long-term rates should have been left to float with the market, pricing in the expected risk of inflation. Not that my opinion matters, since I wasn't in charge.
ADD here, and therefore (I believe easily irritable by sounds). For me, sudden and infrequent sounds are worse for stress than "noise". I'm wuite OK with city noise but hate door slammers and bowling ball droppers.
Yes. I have been forced to work in a 5-person office with the one sitting in front of me talking all the time at the threshold level between speaking and screaming. All the time means all the time, be it in person or at the phone. This affected my mental and physical health in various ways. The fact that management scrubbed it off every time added to the helplessness and feelings of frustration.
I've been running it for 8 years or so, and it's been fine. I have yet to need to do a reinstall on any of my computers. The rolling release has been great from a maintenance standpoint. There is the occasional problem, of course. Most recently, pipewire snuck its way in as a dependency. Not having been configured sanely, it caused some minor irritating bugs as it clashed with pulseaudio.

My newest desktop's bios do tend to mess up my boot configuration after a firmware update. Windows boots directly instead of grub. It's a 10 second fix from the command line, whether in Windows or in Linux.
It's important to remember that a substantial fraction (at least 20% -- 1 in 5 [0]) of the adult population is really uncomfortable with percentages. Percentages are abstract, but it is easy for me to think of 5 relatives and estimate how many can do simple math.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/07/a-fifth-of...
It's not a race. One technology can show its value more quickly than another, and one technology can ultimately provide more value to society than another. That doesn't mean that the other technology is useless, just that it developed more slowly and/or ended up having a lesser overall impact.

I think it's worth putting into perspective though that machine learning kicked off in the 60s, whereas there wasn't any notable progress on the byzantine generals problem until 2009 (and even the concept of proof-of-work wasn't formalized until 1993). Distributed ledger technology is still relatively young compared to machine learning.
That's a valuable point. Impact on margins is what I'm curious to see. Given the current rate of competition, I don't think we could ever see the current margins again for Google, how many ever years down the line.

I wonder if the market is discounting this point of view already.
Right, in this scenario I think it's more that. Who Daisy is (or if Daisy even exists) is irrelevant toward formulating a response.

Which is still impressive!
Professor says ChatGPT went from a D to an A grade on economics test in 3 months
See related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35225405

I feel personally attacked by SW development influencers. They have this style of shitting on your development process, really ignorant of your situation, sell their snake oil and when that doesn't work, won't take responsibility.
I think I killed only one AVR in a long time tinkering. They even tolerate pretty severe over-voltage well, probably because they support EEPROM-style parallel HV programming.

However they're also pretty expensive (especially today, an m328p is over five bucks nowadays), and have been for around ten years or more.
I haven't used windows in decades, but visited family over the summer where a new Lenovo desktop running win11 persistently lost its HP printer port association.

I'd help remove and reinstall the drivers, the printer would work for a few days... then a windows update would occur, and the printer stops working. My intervention recurred at least five times throughout summer, it was probably simply ignored as broken most of summer to not overly aggravate me.

The elderly owner of this new computer was ready to buy a new printer, entirely blaming the hardware. It was very clearly the operating system + driver at fault, but she's not the most computer literate person.

It's 2023 and MS still can't make a USB printer stay configured properly across updates.

And don't even get me started on the FOX News propaganda embedded in whatever gadget has replaced the start menu. What a raging dumpster full of tire fires MS Windows has become.
An fb2 diff tool
And even then, this article is about the venture capital industry and private equity firms - which for the most part is entirely different than banks.

The problem is apparently that some VCs invested in banks - and banks are about to be more heavily regulated. That's a good thing -- it will get banks implementing the backstops they should've had all along. I really don't mind if some VCs make less money than they'd hoped on their investments in risky banks.

Also, this $500B number is spread across the entire VC industry. And even then, most VCs have heavily diversified portfolios. Just for example, one investor in SVB was Insight Partners -- but their web site lists 800 different investments. They're part of that $500B number, but it will have very little effect on their overall portfolio.
Strange, `privacy.resistFingerprinting = true` did not solve the issue for me, i'm still fingerprinted by https://fingerprint.com/. Even after clearing all cache and restarting Firefox.

Adding the extensions `Canvasblocker` and `Temporariy Containers` did solve the issue though.
I love openSUSE tumbleweed, use it since years as my main OS, but to be honest, all main distributions got it right. So openSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, etc are all great distributions and you will have few problems to use it to fulfill your daily needs.
I'm guessing the author is computing embeddings https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/embeddings
Yes, crypto's main use is crime. Its supporters have various arguments for why crime is actually good.