skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unoosa Near-Earth Objects and Planetary Defence [pdf]
> The animus around unequal benefits ought to be directed to their union leaders, who need to do their fucking jobs and bargain for the benefits.

If you don't actively support your union by signing petitions, being a member (US unions can no longer collect funds from non-members, so membership rates matter), and voting to take action, there's not much the leaders can do. There's still some things the leadership can do, but it's typically not action that will get the company to do anything.

> you will only get what you bargain for

Negotiating in bad faith does happen. At my job management quickly agreed to, and paid out early, our bargaining. And then a couple months after it was signed gave out out-of-cycle inflation raises to non-represented employees. The first time this has happened that I know of. And my union can't do anything about it for a few years because our contract is signed.

Management said that all raises, even this special out-of-cycle one, was subject to negotiation. Even though our bargained contract stated that out-of-cycle raises could happen without negotiation. Heads they win, tails we lose.

Edit: changed "month and a half" to "couple months" because it was shortly after, but I may be a bit wrong about the timing.
It’s fine if you believe this, but this was not the reason the US public library system was created, and it seems wrong to me to have co-opted it and destroyed the original purpose in so doing without having a wider conscious public discussion.
Are you disputing the results? They seem inline with the article you shared as well as the actions of the Ukrainian people since 2014.

Russia's colonial relationship with the Ukrainian people has been disastrous and it is great to see them fighting against an imperialistic and genocidal regime.
> How many autogpt scripts can trivialize taking down the power grid?

Why does it need to be autogpt? It can rather create sophisticated plans for humans to exploit. Early nefarious use is more likely to go this route.

> We'd have a tool that's drive massive advancements that trivialize decentralized power generation, reduce scarcity, find cures for mental illness, improve equality.

Intellectual knowledge and cyber capabilities will vastly outstrip physical manufacturing. These threats will likely appear long before this transformation occurs.
I am shocked that it speaks the way it does when it was trained on random stuff it doesn’t have rights to.

They say they trained it on databases they had bought access to etc. And it seems that way.

Because how does ChatGPT:

1. Do what you ask instead of continuing your instructions?

2. Use such nice and helpful language as opposed to just random average of what people say?

3. And most of all — how does it have a structure where it helpfully restates things, summarizes things, warns you against doing dangerous stuff… no way is it just continuing the most probable random Internet text!!
I was playing chess pretty fanatically when Sargon came out and that was my impression as a computer person, but the chess people around me really didn't think that computers would ever beat the top GMs.
If my language teacher asked me for a deposit, I would find another teacher.
Surprisingly not about Kanchō…
We should probably ban the "no skin in the game part" instead of just the sector. Even though there have been a few court cases, the effect was tiny and they are still considered reputable. In some cases probably more personal lawsuits should be done more often (also for politicians and civil servants)
Context being "this branch is a link" or "this string is a creditcard-number" or "this employee here is-a Title-over there, at Company over there".
Title != Article
Something I've noticed is that there's a ton of work going into better vision transformers, but whenever there's a big new multimodal result or something, everyone's just using ViT. What gives? Like in CLIP or PaLM-E, they very easily could have used another vision architecture, it's not like they were running all modalities through the same encoder.
Yeah, I'm particularly curious about that -- there's already legal precedent in the US that an AI cannot author copyrighted nor patented work. OpenAI can try to curtail it through a clickwrap agreement, but those are notoriously weak.
Can we just lay out the next few goalposts so that we can be on the same page? Now it's embodiment, but next can we agree that parentage, play, childhood, and real time life experience are the next goalposts of sentience? It would be a miracle of honesty to map then out instead of shifting them ever three months.
"'Zig' Cracks Tiobe Index Top 50"

(it was #46)
I've tried Vicuna but it still seems inferior to ChatGPT imo. Maybe if it was applied to a version of LLaMA with a number of parameters matching GPT-4 but I'm not sure of that either
Predator-induced changes in the growth of eyes and false eyespots
The intention is to do all of your development in containers, in whatever environment you choose, and then deploy the containers into production on a Flatcar cluster.
It is steered by RLHF to give helpful, nice, structured continuations. it was totally trained on random text they never paid a dime for.
Yank Note: A Hackable Markdown Editor for Programmers
> In a democracy, it absolutely is a criticism of a political party that it can’t win elections among an electorate that is securely rooted in the country, and must instead rely on newcomers who will put aside their own values because of their precarious circumstances.

It can be useful to think of immigration as a species of (or perhaps just analogous to) the Monte Carlo method [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method
In the paper[0] they define "ultrafine emissions" as <0.1 microns.

"Diesel Oxidation Catalyst (DOC) and Diesel Particle Filter (DPF) has been very effective in controlling the emissions of solid particles and hence BC, but that there has been little change in the liquid mode (<30 nm) particles, and that concentrations of ultrafine particles (<100 nm) still well exceed the threshold for “high” concentrations (>10e4 cm^−3 /24-hour mean) defined by WHO. BC declined by 81% between 2014 and 2021, but the ultrafine particle (<100 nm) count declined by only 26%.

Looks like DPF/DOC filters use mainly interception, but they're not terribly effective at filtering via the diffusion mechanism.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...
flashbacks to the time I wrote up a speculative proposal to win a NASA/FAA SBIR phase 1 grant. related to airport sims (one we hoped was relatively novel, compared to prior efforts.)

my partner and I at the time ultimately decided not to submit. but we (well, mostly me) put a lot of R&D time into it
Came here to ask the same thing.

If so, how do people quit their jobs then, or do break-ups? They just never do or do they just disappear over night?
I know a few people who went into Audit after Masters in Accounting degrees. It was basically a 2 year post grad program to excel their careers. None of them wanted to go for partner it was just a 2-3 year box to check.

I know much more people on the IT Consulting side who are in it for the long haul to partner or whatever. The job was also much better than the Audit scene, 80+ hour days in a sweaty conference room and next to no days off.

They both had he same MO, send in the 30s\40s flashy employees who then delegate all the work to 23 year olds. Once the project is in full force they tend to leave and another crew comes in who interfaces with the low cost offshore teams or 23 year olds.
definetly.
I don't think it's right when openai scraped data without consent from other resources. I feel that if openai can get data from the internet bard or someone else too can do it. Now being that chatgpt is also a part of the internet it's a fair game IMHO.
You might consider some skepticism towards one-size-fits-all solutions.
Typo. He meant "Play-dough"
That sounds like a very coastal perspective. Plenty of middle American towns held them for quite a long time and many still do have these things. The 1990s was the decade of insane M&A, but it was far from total.
I wrote the SVGs by hand
I admittedly have not interacted with Vicuna yet.
I've seen comments that this is nominal dollars not adjusted for inflation. Normalized in real dollars value and investment is slightly lower than peak 2015 factory spending of 70B. 5-10B is fab subsidy via CHIPs, which puts rest of spending within norms of past decade of 50-60B.
Quantifying Cybersecurity Risk in Mergers and Acquisitions
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This article highlights the importance of quantifying cybersecurity risk in a merger and acquisition process, with a focus on the role of ResilientX Cyber Exposure Management in helping companies evaluate risks in the M&A phase. The platform has already proven its effectiveness in aiding enterprises in evaluating the risk of suppliers and partners.
If that's true, that demonstrates the sellers aren't exercising monopoly power to set prices artificially high. A preferred buyer means someone able to negotiate.
This takes twelve keystrokes and 3 mouse clicks to verify (including the click to take you to twitter in the first place). Certainly within the capacity of even the most incurious HN readers.
There is a spectrum of progressive values. Like business leaders can be pro-marriage equality but not be pro-union, like there are union members who aren't pro-LGBTQ.
I run ssh in a loop and auto-attach to a persistent tmux session on the other end. I also kill ssh processes as part of suspend so that the new one gets launched in the loop as soon as we wake up.
JB recently joined Tesla’s board. I’d like to see him assume the CEO role, and roll Redwood Materials up into Tesla. Let Tom Zhu run Tesla vehicles while JB maximizes the energy business (which is currently supply constrained and has a two year backlog) as described in Tesla’s recent Master Plan Part 3.

Elon can go do Elon things as a minority shareholder (13% ownership remaining).

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

https://cnevpost.com/2023/04/07/tom-zhu-becomes-1-of-4-key-e...

https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/Tesla-Master-Plan-Part-3.pdf
That's what I thought it was going to be.

(P.S. Something seems a little off about your username, but I can't put my finger on wha tit is.)
P.E Synthesizer – DIY 70s Magazine Synthesizer Built Month by Month [video]
There is a lot of massaging of inputs and outputs but at the same time: that's done by tweaking the model reinforcing those parts that are desirable and suppressing those parts that are not, not by rewriting the output, though there may be filters that check for 'forbidden fruits'. And it isn't the 'random average' of what people say, that would give you junk, the whole idea is that it tries to get to something better than a random average of what people say.

And by curating your sources you are of course going to help the model to achieve something a bit more sensible as well. Finally: you are probably not looking at just one model, but at a set of models.
They probably are very clear to each other, it's us foreigners who read the signals wrong.
Doing in-database computation can be very advantageous for some applications, and writing those functions in Rust would be fantastic for some uses, not least for the library ecosystem. I did some work on video similarity search with in-DB search which would've certainly benefited.
I haven't bought blades in 5 years; so I don't have a gauge. I was underlining the YMMV for folks. I remember back when I was a lurker. :)
Partners and managers review and sign off, but the people designing and doing the actual audit procedures are mostly in their 20s.
19:00-21:00 hits home hard for me

I used to have coworkers ask 'what programmers do you look up to?', and that question always felt icky to me because it kind of implied you can't make the same choices and become your own hero.

Over time, I found people whose life choices and personal advice I deeply appreciate. Andrew is definitely one; partly because of overlapping software goals, but mainly because of just how human & approachable he is. Genuinely just a great guy who wants others to succeed and share in his successes in life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jouhatsu
One of my winter experiments that never got off the ground was to make a lunargraph. I don't think there are many places you could "easily" do that. I did also try making a solargraph as a test, with a 3D printed enclosure, but I think the extreme cold does funny stuff to the reciprocity of the paper and it was a pain to wipe off the frost every day.
Are they? A traditional RTS like Age of Empires 2 or a Starcraft requires quite a lot of accuracy in quick-selection and movement orders, it would drive me nuts to try and do that on a mobile screen with no mouse. I know MOBA-style games are popular on mobile, but there's only one unit to control there.

The only non-keyboard-and-mouse RTS I can think of is Tooth and Tail[0], designed to play nicely with controllers (in a similar way that that Halo Wars was back in 2009), and while I'm sure high-level play in those games was indeed very high-level, the whole experience nonetheless just doesn't work for me, it feels 'dumbed down' still.

[0] - https://store.steampowered.com/app/286000/Tooth_and_Tail/
Interesting. In my case the targeting is not as bad. I.e. at least I can buy advertised products. Nothing like joining foreign army.
there was a blog long ago called Gaijin Smash where I learned what that was...still sounds better than an English boys boarding school...
They can simulate all they want. Having to move so many troops across the straight will result in tens of thousands of dead within the first hours. Not even talking about a years-long global economic depression if something happens to TSMC. Did they simulate that?

All these videos and simulations are as fearsome as those Russian Zvezda propaganda videos - "behold our fearsome new tank, shooting into the void". The reality catches up really fast.
Yes, that's a very good point. Effectively it is 'ping pong' right now, when you get to always on + push things will change quite a bit. Model efficiency is a very active field.
Daily reminder that TIOBE is beyond useless.

Can we instead use something like sport leagues do, get some cute animal and make a ranking based on its decisions? That would be much more accurate.
According to whom is the point of life is to enjoy it? There are different cultures and societies in the world. According to my faith and traditions, the point of life is to worship God. Of course we still strive to avoid suffering and to make things nice and appealing and safe and and, but we know that at the end of the day, we are all being tested and it can all be taken away from us at any moment, no matter how much we achieve.
Trade war looms over rare earths
Really enjoyed the first two chapters, curious to see the whole thing!
Somewhat similar reaction - not specifically to Twitter folks, but in general 'techbro' type situations, where people think $500k comp is normal, expected, or hell, even 'deserved'. You got lucky (genetics, right place/right time, etc) along with whatever talent and hard work you've put in.

Have been in your situation where I got in to debt (mid 5 figures). Even after getting new jobs, it was a few years of grind to get back to 0, then several more to have some semblance of long-term savings, all while reducing consumption/expenditures dramatically.

Unsure what "not enough" was, but the standard "3 months" savings advice - even doubling to 6 - is really at the low end. For mid-career software folks, I recommend people aiming for at least a couple years of cash-like savings. Yes, it's hard, but it's easier than in many other professions.
Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers,’ says Macron
> and create incentives

this... is 99% of times missing. Even the "We'll fire them" mentioned elsewhere in some comment, does not always work.
Sometimes, in government procurement especially, you have to realise that the 'program' and 'the outcome' are two distinct entities. F35 was a high profile, congress level program that everyone knew was a priority. If i was some Air Force general that has been thinking about halolenses, Advanced AI, manuverability, radar, cloaking, etc. You could get funding through the project. So many different things came out of the f35 outside of the f35.
What shall we call this? Being disrespectful? Inconsiderate?
The n+1 problem with graph representations of non-graph data is so common it begs for a solution in the core of the design, not as something added on or a "best practice" like dataloaders. It worked for Facebook when they created GraphQL because they already had the backend shaping the data into a Facebook social graph. Everyone else is probably using relational data, and I have personal experience with the pain of manually coding around N+1 for every instance.
The main thing about Mosh is you need both on the sever and the client. Installing on random servers you might be ssh -in only once feels gross.
The author has correctly and rationally identified the problem. He knows exactly why and how his students behave this way, and yet he still takes it very personally. I'm glad he has at least found an explanation, but it would really help if he consulted with a mental health specialist as to which steps to take to stop feeling distraught every time it happens
Seriously? I get that running Linux on random hardware is the modern equivilant of getting doom to run on a toaster. But, this machine has been out, what a year an a half (two?) now? And we are talking about the battery indicator? Isn't that just part of the ACPI battery spec, of which this laptop runs windows doesn't it?

All this really says is that no one should touch this hardware with a ten foot pole, given a random AMD laptop tends to work out of the box, and costs 1/2 of that thing, and likely outperforms it by 2x. And these days, most of these AMD integrated GPU laptops are in the 3-4W range for the entire machine, running linux+browser/etc. Which means your getting ~15-20hours battery life with a 65Wh battery.

So, its someones fun hobby project to get it working in linux, which will be useful when I see them on sale for $150, but until then I will stick with laptops that are supported by their manufactures and can have their firmware updated with fwupdate.
Then they'll find that it is our laws that matter.
Taibbi has been consistent with people who support free speech. I don’t understand the “you get what you deserve” mentality, when there is nothing he could have done differently to help expose government censorship.

You call out government being fascist censors, and you call out power-trip billionaires when they do it too.

It’s not like stupidly playing with leopards and having your face eaten. It’s more like being a journalist in a war zone, reporting war crimes from both sides, then being treated like a criminal by both.
Maybe. Arcade owners might buy a game that doesn't offer free plays instead.
I think that’s the way the US AF has always operated - a high low mix; a handful of expensive ultra capable “mission” aircraft with lots cheaper mass produced ones for “routine” use.

E.G. F-15 vs F-16

The F-22 vs F-35 was suppose to fit that mould too but the F-35 turned out to be more expensive than expected - although the cost has dropped in recent years and they are hard at work to reduce it further.
I see that same thing all the time. RStudio = R, and they have no concept of the language without the IDE. Which is fine, I guess? They are not professional programmers, but people with a job to do.

It is just frustrating to me when they RShiny all the things, and I have to pickup the pieces because the spaghetti has collapsed under its own weight.
I think this is a great framing. The tidy verse framework is straight up antagonistic towards base R and any non Hadleyverse packages wwith minor exception.

The other glaring rhino in the room is the relationship between RStudio and the Hadleyverse.

I find the relationship and degree of influence the tidy verse and Hadleyite way of doing things to be a dark cloud over the R community.
Great set of posts! This one brought to mind: I think there's an unexplored niche of vampire movies where our protagonist lives 6 months in each hemisphere per year to minimize downtime in a coffin. With careful planning and a private jet, you can probably reduce sun time to a few hours per year. This would be an interesting calculation to do.

Bonus Sunday thought: It's always said that ants are found on all continents except Antarctica, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant (surely there must be some ants in the buildings). I've always thought it would be interesting to try to introduce them there, sort of like a modern-day Herostratos.
I couldn't find it in the docs but does this also support working in a htmx like mode? Where the server renders pages and it does partial updates of parts? Or what some frameworks now call server components?

Or is everything more like a initial render on the server and pure wasm from that time on?
> a lot of things I liked a lot about CoreOS container Linux unfortunately didn’t make it into Fedora CoreOS.

Like what?
> But the more workplaces start abusing their employees

It’s hard to characterize these white collar jobs with great benefits, as being abusive.

It’s not like these workers are in coil mines 15-hours/day making below minimum wage.

They are working in an ultra luxury retail store selling premium devices.
Are you disputing Russia’s position? It seems in line with the actions of the Ukrainians in the Donbas region since 2014.

Edit, can’t reply:

Russia’s position is that Crimea and Donbas republics had the right to secede due to the fact that Yanukovych was removed via illegal coup (organized by the US). Ukrainian sovereignty was forfeit when Yanukovych was removed despite insufficient parliamentary votes to do so according to the Ukrainian constitution. The Minsk agreements, meant to resolve these disputes, were not implemented, and now based on statements by European leaders we know they were never intended to be implemented.
> It's telling that your comment is currently 2nd ranked.

Fwiw i think only because it's relatively recent. Not a lot of upvotes currently.

> It comes across generous "there are bright math kids everywhere" but really boils down to "don't talk about how they're black" and "don't talk about how they're women." And finished with "my male friend was disadvantaged, the conversation should be about that."

Wow now I think you're reading a lot more into it than what I wrote.

> Obviously a large number of the HN crowd agrees with you because these types of comments always land at the top of any article praising a woman or underrepresented minority for their accomplishments. "Why does it matter? We are all people."

That's not actually my claim. I do agree that representation matters. But I find it condescending when someone's accomplishments are only ever mentioned in the same sentence as some statistically surprising fact about their identity, as if what we were saying here is "not bad for a X". (And fwiw I do find it condescending when I'm a recipient of such praise in settings where I'm in the minority.)
The dollar is not "stronger than ever" if we're experiencing above-target inflation.
It’s one thing to be first and another to compete. He was basically the first in the market for a non-embarrassing EV and now is competing against, well, everyone but Toyota.