skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hear, hear. A real side project opportunity!
Also a different one: https://github.com/noteable-io/genai with additional magics.
> "It probably makes sense to have a quick conversation with the risk committee to see if we should be doing anything other that [sic] eliminating all our documents and emails,"

Gah that is so incredible dumb and the fact that he didn't check himself before hitting 'send' is just perfect. Nothing like a bit of hubris to go with the mindset of a criminal. It makes you wonder what 'anything other' referred to.
ugh, yes. Google creates a new type of 'space' (unthreaded/threaded v1/threaded v2) - and... you can't change the space's type. You have to make a new space.

They released a 'new threading system' a while ago. So you now have rooms with two types of threading systems and can't 'upgrade' the old ones. So one organization has at least 3 types of spaces depending on when they were made and they can't be changed at all. (Also, you can't switch from unthreaded to threaded or the other way around.)

Your only solution is to kick everyone out of the space (can't be made read only) and make a brand new space (losing any history/context/shared files in the space). No one's going to do that so you just live with having all these different room types even if another would work better.

Recently, Google rolled out a new 'announce only' setting where only "Space Managers" can post messages. Cool! Let's apply it to an existing space that we are already using for that purpose (company announcements) and prevent other people from... polluting it as they sometimes do. NOPE - you can't! Either "live with it" or create a brand new space with that setting and abandon the existing one.

I could maybe see you not changing space types but something as 'simple' as changing who can send messages to a space? Force everyone to leave the old one and make a new one??? Really Google???

Are they just super lazy over there with developing features or what's their major malfunction?
For most of these LLMs, the challenge isn't really the code, it's the compute cost.
I would like to better understand your edit.

Can you explain why the thought divides symbols into good/bad and how it is projected to rational numbers? (What is the frequency domain of?)
Wondering which official phone was used to get AAA ratings for the crap synthetic CDOs during 08 crisis.
Note: Published at December 18, 2020
Can you point me to somewhere that backs up your claim that most electricity is renewable.

That appears to be outright false unless you cherry pick certain regions of Europe and North America.
>A business model is promising to fix a customer's problem, certify their software, and get vendors to support them.

This can also be described as assuming liability.

Fact of the matter is people don't want to assume liability themselves. If they can pay to get someone else to assume that liability (which Red Hat is happy to do) they will.

The rest of the FOSS ecosystem on the other hand is all about assuming liability yourself. No warranties expressed nor implied, no support, no nothing. For a business that is simply not palatable.

This is also why businesses happily pay tons of monies to Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, etc. for licenses and support. They assume liability, liability the businesses don't want to assume.
I like the book “first break all the rules.” It gives triage advice for new managers — what to get right first, what to do after that’s been done etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First,_Break_All_the_Rules
Hi -

I work at Red Hat for the last eight years, long before IBM had anything to do with us, and I cannot stress enough how much IBM is *nowhere* to be seen in not just our day to day engineering jobs, but pretty much not even periodically. I know nobody at IBM, I have no email addresses of anyone at IBM, nothing we get in our inbox (and we get a lot) ever has anything to do with "IBM" in it, I have no links or access to any IBM-specific intranets or resources of any kind. They truly have stuck to their promise of not changing Red Hat; our support system is the same, we still respond to bugs, ask for SOS reports, and customer support people do collaborative screenshares, just as we were always doing, there's nothing different about any of that. There have been no top-down changes or decrees or anything I'm aware of that would change how we do any of that stuff.

as far as Podman it's all I use for all of my server environments and I like it a lot better than Docker. It's simpler without all the weird "Dockerish" things getting in the way. Not having a monolithic server hang the whole machine due to a misbehaving container is well worth it.
The work Android or iPhone records calls? Is it even possible
Amazing! Is your team hiring? :)
I'm more worried that it'll end up kind of inferior to like, Google's other work, OpenXLA & iree, which seem to be the cross-target ML toolkit.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35078410

I really want this to be good. It's hard to really trust the web spec is going to live up to what the other really really good web ML work is. But it'll at least unlock some good speed up, whenever it lands. I genuinely don't mind more delay, if it helps get things into a better position for long term wins.
Even easier: https://jsfiddle.net/z67w94jr/

I was able to type that out on my phone with only a little bit of trouble.

Reworking jsfiddle's UX to be optimized for smartphones (aka remove the huge left div) is an easy win. I'd be surprised if there wasn't already something like that in the edtech space, where teaching kids to code is currently very popular.
A single dictator has never really been the problem. You can find dictators that do better than democracies throughout history (especially on long-term planning).

It's the transition of power that's the problem. Like, a real bad problem. Like raze half your country and set you back 50-100 years problem.
"The attitude difference with respect to document holds was hilarious."

megcampbell@google.com: "it needs to be history off"

https://ia802501.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.22...

schramm@google.com: "should we have history off for this?"

https://ia802501.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.22...

margaretlam@google.com: "Hi Tim, if OK, can I ask you to turn history off :)"

https://ia802501.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.22...

margaretlam@google.com: [interesting exchange with another employee who is trying to follow the rules]

https://ia802501.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.22...

Paraphrasing: "What policy? I'm on multiple legal holds as well. I ignore them every day [smileyface] But if you want to follow the rules, I'll respect your decision. I'll just communicate with the others off the record. I only included you for optics reasons."

Some would say that company culture starts at the top. Here's the 50-year-old CEO:

https://ia802501.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.22...
Nope, Chuck Testa.
In combative environments that's solved with a BFF maintained by the frontend team, and the backend gets away with exposing broad and generic API the frontend team reprocesses on their layer.

In sensible work environments, that's solved by aligning incentives at project level. If your frontend team crucially needs something done, but the backend can't give a shit, the problems run deeper than area of responsibility IMHO. Either what the frontend works on doesn't matter, or the backend team wants to sink the ship, or there's way too many fires to put out and the ship is already sinking.

Having mega teams or filling them with jack-of-all-trades types also has critical downsides.
Special Database 18: 3,248 Mugshots Used for Training Image Recognition Systems
You have no interest or knowledge in baseball or soccer or video games, yet you comment in bad faith on in depth conversations about them.

Please disclose your lack of knowledge or interest in the topic at the start so that people can avoid taking your opinion in good faith.
Why is it not a problem? They still have to respect people's labor rights.

I mean - they can choose to violate them. That wouldn't be new.
If you hire two people for the same non piecework role they should be paid the same regardless of a whole host of things.

If you pay someone widget wise - that’s entirely different.

Reminder:
Capitalism will exploit any time it can.
You can fly the plane into a building and kill thousands of people (source: 9/11)

As opposed to killing hundreds.
The actual history of the projects doesn't bear that theory out. Aside from the rename itself and a couple of minor API changes, the projects stayed pretty close together, and a lot of patches got copied between the pair.

ffmpeg is a fairly complex project which deals with a number of esoteric topics (audio/video file formats, compression, processing, etc). The number of open-source developers who are qualified to work on it, and who have the time and inclination to do so, is fairly limited; I suspect that there simply isn't a large enough population of those developers to support multiple actively developed projects in this space, and certainly not two as similar as ffmpeg/libav were.
Ask HN: What are your go to resources for product reviews?
I'm aware of the well-known product review sites like Wirecutter and Consumer Reports but wondering what else is out there. The web seems saturated with review sites but most are just a means to get commissions from Amazon, etc.

What are your go to resources to get quality reviews that you trust?
I read through these threads, and I think if you're going to direct such pointed criticism to JumpCrisscross, you should reflect on your own comments as well - you repeatedly berate them for being incurious and confidently wrong, but I think you're largely misreading their tone and failing to ask for clarification on their views.

The guidelines you've referenced prescribe editing out swipes, but you make them repeatedly. Maybe you could transform those swipes into questions in the future. Eg, instead of saying, "yet again you're confidently wrong," you could say, "are you aware that FTX owned LedgerX and the creditors were unable to access client funds?"
Writing against the ffmpeg c API is very very unpleasant. The official guidance you'll get is to read the source code of the command line app and copy what it does. This is not at all the normal use case. I would guess GPT will give you horrible advice here because it generally can't help with obscure APIs.
Does someone claim that they are?

But regardless, the architecture of the human brain doesn't have to be the only way to get to AGI (not that LLMs are necessarily the way)
Yeah the dude straight up follows that manual. It's uncanny ...

He even raises the prospect that there are other people (never mentioned) who has concerns about his own idea ... and he's the only one to bring those issues up, and argues against his own ideas.

Dude is either incompetent to an insane degree or straight up sabotaging the company.
AI doesn’t get sad.
AI doesn’t get sick.
AI doesn’t need to take a break.
AI doesn’t need to go to grad school.
AI doesn’t need to heal its trauma.
AI can just do the thing.
Yeah, as I understand it though, the SEC rules are to allow investigations (and "enforcement actions"/lawsuits) to happen quickly. I saw one of these "investigations" happening at one point and had no idea it was an investigation until I was casually informed that the strange people in the office were from the SEC and they had some questions about some trades, and that it happens all the time.
This is a very interesting discussion. One observation: I can draw a 'straight line from inputs to outputs' for almost every human interaction as well, and if you were to observe a human over a lifetime you could say that you have that straight line covered for their entire life. If you then take an LLM that you feed in all the inputs and outputs to mimic the person after how many new 'inputs' would the output of the model start to diverge too much to be able to say it is no longer accurate? And would that mean the model is 'conscious' to some lesser degree or is this a binary choice where you either are or are not conscious?
> $13.50 plus 10 percent = $14.99

That math doesn't check out at all.
bernie sanders filibuster lofi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm6qy_9E0rY
My biggest takeaway from this fiasco was when a repo maintainer (he was libav) changed ffmpeg to libav in the Ubuntu (or was it Debian?) repositories.

That was a lesson that distros and their repositories are walled gardens just like the various application stores over in the mobile world, curated strictly at the whims of certain individuals or organizations.

It gave me a newfound appreciation for the "just find, install and run whatever whenever wherever" gung ho attitude found in Windows (and to a lesser extent MacOS and Android).
What about people trying to use any of the other browsers? Further if you have control over the server it makes more sense to do an extension there.
I can only think to myself, well, yeah, that's what that industry gets for all of the bullshit shenanigans that have been pulled in the past. Is everyone commit flat out illegal shit like Wolf Of Wall St? No. But this is the only way to allow any semblance of trust by anyone. That being said, I personally believe every company if finance/banking is doing something shady somewhere, even if only a small number of people are involved. There is no trust whatsoever from me to that industry
>At least in US airports, not only must all the liquids, gels, and aerosols be within 100ml containers, but these 100ml containers must all themselves be contained in a single clear zip-top plastic bag per passenger of no more than 1 liter in volume.

That's the theory. In practice, enforcement of the zip-top plastic bag rule is next to non-existent.
Create a class what enforces this and use the new class as a type?
Let's suppose it ended up like that.

It would mean one of the BSDs would have become popular instead. And we'd be better for it.
Customers want to pay more for better service. Seems like this will eventually be rationalized and done officially and impersonally, like paying more for overnight package delivery?
IIRC, it was a product designed for a huge Federal RFP. So it was built to meet a meaningful standard.

The facilities guys at my former employer were very excited about it as they did an LED pilot previously that didnt go well.
That seems like a perfect SSD for NAS.

Do we still need things like Data Scrubbing on SSD?
If anything I read the original comment as being the opposite of what you seem to have pulled out of it. HN actually has a guidelines entry on this:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can you elaborate what is silly about it? The reversing, or the DNS, or both?

A package called com.example.foo would be package foo in the namespace "example", which is under the namespace "com", which is how a lot of languages do namespace nesting.

DNS can be said to be "reversed" from that point of view.
Bidding Farewell to Virginia T. Norwood, the Mother of Landsat
Well, I think the physical mechanism of turning off chat history on most of the modern chat platforms is to have a database delete each message after everyone in the conversation reads the message, which is a lot closer to destroying evidence than not making records.

Also, if you destroy evidence that may be under litigation hold, the judge will instruct the jury to infer that what you deleted was harmful to your case.
I wonder if you could just duct tape a kernel to a modern browser and boot right into it. Ok, well, I know you can do that, but I wonder if you could get people to use it.

You'd need some tinkering to open a new browser window per monitor, couple of routes on 127.0.0.1 for config.
Last year I was digging through my archive and found my old Gom player installation folder from ~2011 or so and just got a blashback of when I modded the interphase of it to be Protoss themed when I would watch GSL streams on it!

Indeed the emotional value of said sometimes silly things can't be understated
9/11 probably killed millions of people if you consider the destabilizing effect on geopolitics.
> decompression

Does this refer to DNA -> MRNA -> to protein or is there some other mechanism here?
> Notice that, even if their formulas look quite similar, the Fourier series is not a particular case of the Fourier transform. For example, a periodic function is never integrable over the real line unless it is identically zero. Thus, you cannot compute the Fourier transform of a periodic function.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I do think the latter does generalize the former. I vaguely remember seeing it derived as essentially linking +/- infinity so the function is "periodic" on the real line. But I could be misremembering

This is the class I took, it's incredible: https://see.stanford.edu/Course/EE261/137
I'm not so sure - there was a lot of talk about "impromptu hallway conversations" and "the magic of bumping into your colleagues in the kitchen." I assume they surveil everyone's computers very heavily, too.
> Who gets to decide what is "potential evidence"?

You have an obligation to proactively figure that out yourself. There is then oversight by the court.

> If we're going to play language games

Judges don't play that sort of language games

> turning the chat history off doesn't really destroy anything

What Google called off the record chats were 24 hour history chats. So the history was deleted after 24 hours, when it should have been preserved.
Not a great example for nefarious off the records communication & coordination, as it wasn't required for this to occur.

CDO credit ratings were a perverse incentive race to the bottom in terms of quality, because it was issuer-paid.

The ratings agencies essentially bid on future business with the banks by issuing rosier ratings than their competitors.

Also, they paid billions in fine settlements after the fact.

The record keeping likely contributed to them being able to piece together the agencies becoming more and more lenient, and the internal dialogue between analysts & sales.
it's an interesting example of how much seemingly superficial, non-fundamental things can matter.

A lot of AI experts are asserting (probably correctly) that Open AI really has done nothing new and is just putting a shiny sticker on what was already known and published research.

But human perception being what it is, having ChatGPT produce a beautifully formed, polite and friendly sentence seems massively better to lay people than a response that has a more terse, unpolished output. It won't surprise me if there is already a giant layer of heuristics pasted on the end of the Transformer model for ChatGPT cleaning up all sorts of ugly corner cases which researchers would hold highly impure and completely value-less while it actually is responsible for a large amount of ChatGPT's success.

I think there is a bit of a lesson there in terms of how much academia does undervalue the polishing part of research work, even if fundamentals ultimately drive progress.
It's all a combination of both explicit (traditional software that's faster/has better specific accuracy but is brittle) and implicit (machine learning/etc where fuzziness is better) optimized hardware (wetware?)/software all up and down the biological stack, so to speak.

And it's been optimized over billions of years.
Now apply this same reasoning to, say, hospital capacity.

Some things need to optimize for the ability to absorb peak load, not steady-state operating costs.
Right. The nature trained all the nervous systems with genetic algorithms for millennia. Individuals rather fine tuned their own with natural noise and dropoffs and natural feedback. Fine tuning our brains are rather expensive.
Disk space is cheap and it also works with Chromium which is open source. There's no reason not to temporarily run a browser if you would install an app to get the feature. A lot of things that should be extensions are apps and this ought to stop.
No, the chat system recorded history for 24 hours and then deleted it. Google had a legal obligation to proactively find and turn off all the automatic deletion system that could delete potentially relevant records. That's just how the law works, every big corp knows how to do it.
I always drink the liquid, bring the empty container through, and then fill it up at the water fountains.
Having a standard is not even possible technically when you have 1 player that is too good. Due to Hyrum’s Law, any small divergence from the spec will be observed and relied on. Why would you work against the spec which is nebulous, when you could be testing against 99% of what your user use?
They are a bit higher, sure; but there is still quite a bit of competition inside the airport: surely, one of those vendors would defect to get a ton of surplus business... unless they are illegally colluding; so, we should expect most of the floor in pricing is coming from some external shared pricing irregularity (aka, the sky-high rents).
I don't think this can be overstated enough. The incentives for vc-backed companies these days don't align with this model, hence the reason it's not more widely in use.
I knew it was Matt Levine before clicking on the link. His column is always a pleasurable read.
The trouble is that's not how any of the ML or data science Python code is written at the moment. Such practices could help although I think more elegant solutions should be explored.
Someone posted some story about this resurgence earlier making the same claim and I went to the Barnes and Noble in SJ and was rather unimpressed. Poor selection (shelves have cardboard where books should be to make shelves seem fuller), a ton of games/funko figures everywhere. Not sure I fully buy the narrative here. Like how Best Buy competes with Amazon I get, this I don’t cause as a book fan I was rather underwhelmed.
You asked for documentation of legal holds. Pardon me for interpreting that as such and providing a link to Google’s legal hold documentation.

It sounds like you are looking for the laws “that requires google to hold the data for this particular topic.”
Tell HN: Apple services appear to be down
Despite the status on this page stating everything is working
https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
But can you really? The pilot doors are now locked from the inside and impenetrable.
Make three people rich while making the government look bad at the same time. Brilliant
What do ya think it compares with a Discord channel?
Another tool worth looking at is vpncloud (https://github.com/dswd/vpncloud). I used to use tinc, but switched to vpncloud 2 years ago.

In my use case, I have a modest number of nodes. Although nodes learn of other nodes from each other, I use ansible to keep each node's config updated.

I use vpncloud (and previously, tinc) between docker hosts. So, you have to be careful about interface MTU's inside of docker, particularly if you use containers based on Alpine.
>This is as professional as a certain former US president suggesting we should shine strong light into the body or inject people's lungs with disinfectant. It's not a "hypothesis" it's just you being stupid.

Ultraviolet light treatments introduced into the tracheas of five critically ill COVID-19 patients appeared to be safe and associated with a reduction in the respiratory load of SARS-CoV-2—the virus responsible for COVID-19—in all but one patient, according to a study conducted by Cedars-Sinai. [0]

Maybe people should be trying wild stuff on themselves. Granted they shouldn't make sweeping recommendations from it. But moving fast and breaking things solves more problems than waiting for scientific consensus. Planck's Principle and all that.

[0] https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/reduced-viral-loads-se...
I wonder how much those executives make