skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great, except now I have to "contact sales" to get a resolution because we use Tailnet Lock. I'd prefer a more hands off approach where I can just click some buttons like before, but oh well. I can't clearly tell if this is going to cost more or less now.
Imagine a gigantic "oil derrick" out at sea that instead of pumping oil out of the ground dragged it out of the air. Gigantic filters, MEA beds, regeneration loops, Sabatier, Fischer-Tropsch, all arranged around a nuclear reactor 100x the power of today's largest. The output is a variety of hydrocarbon fuels, and it's all overseen by a proper bond villain because the spice must flow.

I want to see this movie.
In the Netherlands every single project goes vastly over budget. It's never been a bitter pill. There's always more money to throw at things and people forget.

The entire European space program is but a rounding error in the grand scheme of things.
I agree that fundamentalism is good descriptor of the problem. A lot of comments replies arguing about the meaning of the word. To me fundamentalism means this. Where you fall on a certain issue defines a set of values. Fundamentalists are those believe that their one issue and the subsequent value structures are THE fundamental issue and value structure that individuals should be judged (morally and otherwise) as well as how we should see the world and organize society - above all other issues and value sets.
With that definition one of the things you see a lot in American culture aside from Christian fundamentalism is capitalist fundamentalism - that free markets divine what and who is right.
Social Justice fundamentalists do just that - dismiss or trample over other world views and values systems, in the name of equality.
Claiming someone to 'spread misinformation' is not helpful. All the people related to compression that I know are trying their best to find the technically best solution by ethically best means. No dirty fighting observed.

Check the site out:

https://cloudinary.com/blog/time_for_next_gen_codecs_to_deth...

"Meanwhile, it has been clarified that the AVIF limits listed above apply to the highest currently defined AVIF profile (the “Advanced” profile). It is also possible to use AVIF without a profile, and then the AV1 limits apply: a precision of up to 12-bit, and maximum dimensions of up to 65535x65535 (or more using grids). For HEIC, it is possible to use the container with a HEVC payload with a precision of up to 16-bit and with 4:4:4, although most hardware implementations do not support that."
I see this mentioned a lot, but is there any plan?
Logically speaking you are saying that there is no exist good people in the space. That is a really difficult assertion to probe. I am saying something simpler: there exist good people in the space.

Then, you are saying "but I don't know you or your company, so I have no way of knowing.". Well, that is not my job, do your work if you want to change your mind. If you need help I can present you to good people but I assume you can do it by yourself.

Also, again logically, saying that there is no good people in the space, we should first define good people in general. Not trying to sound pedantic but trying to show you that your assertion is about a lot of people, probably in the order or millions.
> We need it all.

No, we don't. Right now we need to cut the 90% of the problem that is caused by the same 3 things.

If you have some solution for a small part of the remaining 10% that is profitable or neutral, go for it.If you are arguing for research, so we can do it later, also, great. But if you want to divert attention from 90% of the problem just so you can improve your favorite 0.01%, just go sit in a corner somewhere until you get reasonable.
Bill to Repeal Section 230 Analyzed by ChatGPT
Govscent is a little project to analyze and categorize all bills that enter the US Congress via an LLM and provide the data for free.

Here we see S.2972 which is to repeal section 230.
I know everyone abuses words on the Internet, but voices are definitively not copyrightable.

What they *might* be is protected by other laws. The closest case the US has seen is this Bette Midler one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

But the circumstances there make it different from a lot of AI voice work since in her case there could be no claim that sounding like her was a coincidence since Ford had an impersonator sing one of her songs (which they did properly secure copyright to use).
This tool is cool but my biggest takeaway is that the key to attractive interior decor is better lighting.
This always triggers me to think that it is really difficult to give a score of what a CEO does. Many times they pumped up stocks and quit before problems they created surfaced yet. They were hailed as heroes and the next guy ate shit.
Amazon Adds Much-Needed Feature to Boost Dialogue in Movies and TV Shows
And most competing launch providers use solid boosters whose emissions are way worse via damage to the ozone layer.
>And chatting as an interface is so much better than navigating every different user interface and app associated with these tasks.

Puhlease, speak for yourself. I don't need to be a whole another part of the city because chatbot/humanbot mistook a similar sounding name for what I need. I don't need 'something healty' from a pizza joint nor avokado slushie with a mini bits of artisanal flour combs.

I'm literally in the cab now, I know it came where I pointed (not where GPS suggested), I know where it whould get me, because personally set the point.
Look up 'collective action problem'.
Someone already replied to this in another comment.
A leaf blower is about 11 lbs of CO2 per hour of use.[1]

A car produces about a pound per mile. Let’s say that is +- 30% depending on variables of trip.

[1] https://www.quietcleanpdx.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Gas...
I think we have different definitions of "smart phone"
"even if these attacks aren't feasible against current algorithms" lol, ok, if you say so....
NOx might be the bulk of it.
It doesn't mean anything to the night sky. The night sky definitely doesn't care one way or the other.
Yeah, I've found it fairly easy to talk to people at bars and I'm not even a particularly social person. The type of bar matters a lot though. Some are too loud and crowded to meet people at. The friendship are superficial, at least for me, but you often hear some funny stories.
This is quite interesting, actually. Perhaps it is cultural. My cousins had kids and the grandparents spent all the time with them. My other friends also did the same, once immigration concerns were handled. The positives I can see from the outside are:

1. Childcare is a lot easier with multiple people

2. Experience makes child care much easier

3. Principal-agent problem for child care is absent with grandparents. Grandparents obey parents' choices in broad strokes while providing a high degree of attention.

4. Fulfilling for grandparents

Overall, I'm in my mid 30s and watching the experience of my cousins, part of my desire to get going on the kids thing is that I want my parents to be able to help before they are too old.
Surely "faced the rap" comes from a rap sheet, the Record of Arrests and Prosecutions, aka the documents inside the manilla folder you see in movies, in the scene where the detective whistles and says "looks like our guy's been busy..."
Mostly standard VPN use cases. They can access my Plex server, Mealie instance and in turn I can remote access their devices without something like TeamViewer when they need IT Support or their home automation stuff is acting up.

Would their lives fall apart without it? No. But it makes my life as the family SRE much easier.
> Therefore, attempting to use DAC to mitigate climate change while fossil fuels are still being burned is pointless.

Because no one has suggested using DAC to offset fossil fuel use without reducing fossil fuel use, this is a straw man. DAC may very well be a valid strategy when used in conjunction with the reduction of fossil fuels to better reduce the amount of atmospheric carbon in a given time frame.
Yeah, SponsorBlock (https://sponsor.ajay.app/) is crowdsourced data for the in-video ads. Weirdly enough, I've never contributed timestamps, but the vast majority of the content I watch has submitted timestamps. I support a bunch of creators on patreon, but very much disagree with their double dipping.
It's actually neither nor.

They just used the MRI to map a high-resolution image obtained via light sheet microscopy. I doubt you can do that with living animals. Without slicing the brain that is.

The title here is highly misleading.
The problem with chasing tail risks is that there are an awful lot of them and our track record at picking the important ones is rather poor.
What is it that Tailscale provides over plain vanilla wireguard? Is it a static address somewhere to connect to?
Plex provides remote access without needing any additional services. Just enable it in the settings and you can access your library anywhere when you log in to plex.tv.
This turns into a philosophical argument too quickly though. Some would argue that because of fractional reserve banking, money has no underlying value either.

I disagree with you here, I think a _vast_ majority of people actually purchasing cryptocurrency are doing it as an "investment vehicle", regardless of whether it has inherent value or not. They are treating it very much like a security.
Also... here's the Kottke post about the video, in case anyone is interested: https://kottke.org/23/04/the-lisa-personal-computer-apples-i...
Honey, I Left the Tech Industry (2015)
It doesn't seem particularly well known. It works fine with TLS, but the origin servers need to do the TLS termination (IMHO, this is better for security than having your load balancers do it, but it does mean you have to work harder on key distribution). On a non-DSR load balancer, doing TLS termination on the origins means the load balancer has less application data to work with (request path, response status code, etc) in making load balancing decisions, but for DSR, the load balancer never had any of that, so adding TLS doesn't disadvantage the load balancer any more.

TLS session establishment is expensive, so why would I want my load balancers to do it anyway? :P
that's the thing. something that would take 4+ hours and $100 or more can now be done for free in under an hour.
Yep.

Apple is a jailor of gilded cages, and I'd feel stupid to trust them. :p
>to have all of my protons reoriented by a giant magnet

Only a tiny percentage of protons will actually get excited by a typical MRI. Like one in a million.
Voices are not copyrightable.

They MIGHT be protected under other laws.

This case is the closest the US has seen, but several features of it make it different than AI voices, most notably that an impersonator was hired to sing an artist's own song, so there's no room to say "it's just a coincidence".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Why do you think solar panels and batteries and computers improved so much over the last 20 years? I'm pretty sure it wasn't because people said, "This stuff isn't very good, so let's not buy any of it and just wait for 20 years to see if it gets better."
In my case that's actually multiple functions: remote login without using TeamViewer and also for general remote support, and I have a small backup server at the place for my off-site backups.
Airbus came much later than Boeing and managed to be a worthy global competitor. US being first was no advantage for them in the end.

Europe missed tech not because they were not the first (China also wasn't first), but because they ignored the growth and importance of this sector for decades, and still do.
Pollution implies harm, and there's no harm here. Contrast light pollution which makes all sky phenomena invisible.

If anything, this is adding something to the existing dance of the stars and planets.
Tweets do not kill people.
We agree, you don't need to keep trying to convince me.

I don't keep going to monthly events because I love the cadence. It's because the weekly event near me is "YC Startup Accountability Circle."
The vast majority of government workers (including such lowly people as the workers who check applications for food stamps) cannot give advice because humans are fallible and will get it wrong sometimes. The government doesn't want people suing them for that situation, so they just ban all advice basically.
I've had a few. There is definitely a weird feeling I get inside of them at specific certain points in the process, but I don't know if it is from the magnetic field, or if it is from some really high pitch vibrations/sounds that come off the machine.
This makes think, how can a CEO manage a tech team (headed by CTO) effectively? For sure he himself usually does not know much about the tech involved and even he does grow from the trench he doesn't know all arms.

The only way he can do is to trust his CTO and let him pitch changes and innovations and such. But how does a CTO do that? Again he has to rely on his generals to make the judgement.

This all sounds like a job impossible to do right. Any idea?
I had a MRI in college as part of a psychology experiment.

If you can get into one of those studies, it's a free way to get a picture of your brain!

I think I may have skewed their results, though. MRI is a very meditative experience and I'm pretty sure I fell asleep for brief moments when I was (supposed to be) memorizing and recalling pictures and words they were showing me on a monitor as part of the university experiment.
(A line at infinity, of course, as rotations are about axes, not points, and in three dimensions an axis is a line.)

As long as dimension n = 3 and so [dimension of R^n] n = n(n-1)/2 [dimension of so(n)]. Not to disregard these low-dimensional isomorphisms; there’s quite a few of them (they run out at about n = 10 IIRC), each one different from the next, and most are important in one way or another. But expressing momenta and angular momenta in those terms gives the impression that their existence is due to the (numerous and sometimes very complex) particulars of three-dimensional space, which it isn’t.
I have a NAS in my home, and my parents have a NAS in theirs. Everything is on Tailscale and I can SSH into either machine whenever I need. I've needed to do this a few times when I am on the road, but more commonly when I use Tailscale when I do a little remote tech support for my parents.

It took minutes to set up - dead easy.
Start talking to people or tech guys from other firms, usually an internal referal goes a long way.
The irony of using a USMC slogan and acting like Europeans invented that mindset…

The USMC has another famous slogan: Improvise, adapt, and overcome! I’m not sure many European companies share that mindset.
Last headline I saw, she made a comment about how fake women were taking away from the progress that real women had made via feminist pushes of the past few decades. That comment doesn't seem inaccurate to me.

What has she done to become the most prominent transphobe in the English speaking language?
Russ Cox solves Advent of Code 2021 (2021)
It is absolutely true that some hot-path code needs to be mangled into an ugly mess to reach performance requirements. The problem is that I have encountered people who somehow take this as a blanket justification for writing unreadable code, and who operate on a false dichotomy about a choice between readable code and performant code. It is important to keep in mind that:

1) Most code, i.e. at least 80% of the code in a codebase, will never be a performance hotspot and does not need specific optimizations (i.e. as long as the code does not do stupidly inefficient things, it's probably good enough).

2) Even in performance hotspot codepath, you should not write unnecessarily hard to read code unless it is strictly necessary to achieve required performance.

In both cases, the key point is to benchmark and profile to find the specific places where the ugly hacks need to be introduced, and do not introduce more than is strictly necessary to get the job done.
The big difference is that you get the results immediately and iterations take minutes not days
Note that, though, the only reason this issue made the news is that corporations are not actually free to assign locations to transactions without restriction, its just that the California sales and use tax system (like many other tax systems) accepts filings as true until and unless something raises a question (or a random audit occurs), and then audits, and then issues findings, and it has audited here and found that the rules were broken.
It looks more like it's re-skinning a room/space rather than trying different design ideas - all the elements remain where they are, but are restyled.

I think a big contribution of an interior designer is their ability to see potential in a space and reorganize it in a way that works better for a purpose / feels better to be in. This in comparison seems "skin deep"
- Key distribution
- DNS for your nodes
- IP addressing
- SSO integration

and so much more
Beginning with the XP I became a heavy Windows user until version 7. Those releases were the heyday for Windows IMO. But since 8 and, worse of all, 11 I ditched it altogether and none of the computing devices in the house run Windows.

This is all to say that my main gaming rig runs Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Gnome, heavily tweaked, to look and behave like MacOS and.... Its a dream.

Heck, in fact I like it so much that I prefer it to MacOS in every possible way. The only issue is, still, the lack of Adobe support.

And that is why I still have an Apple machine.

Give it a try. You will be surprised by how well so many games run.
If the SSDs were really maxed out you'd see high CPU usage/load as the CPU as blocked by IOWAIT.
I feel like something missing from people's perspective when thinking of load balancing is to consider pull models. All push load balancing algorithms try to somehow predict how busy downstreams are. Some even go as far as having downstreams send back some utilization metrics.

But if you use a pull-based approach, this is all sort of moot. Downstreams will pull work when they're ready for it.
A decision which was announced in December of 2015 per https://www.arianespace.com/press-release/esa-and-arianespac...

Of course, not much has changed since then…
The link about the US is about not using public money to promote a political agenda

The link about AU is about one company not using corporate funds to promote a political agenda

The link about Saudis Arabia is a wholesale ban on anyone selling rainbow toys because they might be related to the political agenda

These things are in no way the same. There is a huge difference in deciding how business or tax funds are appropriated and choosing not to spend those funds promoting a controversial worldview and outright banning expression of support for that worldview, which is what the Saudis did

The grandparent post is extremely disingenuous
Yes.

But the load balancers/brokers are usually far less dynamic. I've never seen a worker health check a RabbitMQ broker.
> I feel dramatically safer at 2am in Shanghai than I do in any US city.

To be fair, the US is a poor example. I’d feel safer in any European city at 2am then in a US city in the middle of the day. At least I don’t have to worry about being shot for no reason.¹ In the US I was reminded of that possibility every time I walked into a museum.

¹ https://text.npr.org/2023/04/18/1170593395/kaylin-gillis-new...
Ah - that makes a difference. Sorry! I'll see if I can fix this.

Edit: ok, I've merged the thread back to the original submission and edited the title to clarify that it has more information than just the blog post. It's late, of course, but better than never I guess.

Thanks for pointing this out!
I worked on "foundation models" based on LSTM and CNN technology just before transformers hit it big.

The idea back then was about the same: for instance we would feed abstracts of case studies from Pubmed into an LSTM to teach it how to write fake case studies. The idea is it would have a neuron or combination of neurons that light up when it is writing a "period that is really the end of a sentence" or when it is writing the name of a disease and we could easily train a classifier that could highlight important text.

Similarly the CNN model would be trained to do multiple tasks on a large amount of data and it would be able to learn other tasks more quickly.

There were numerous problems with those models that I saw as critical bottlenecks that would limit was those things could do and transformers targeted them all.

(1) Training a text generator to start at the beginning and work to the end has numerous problems, namely it learns to understand how things to the left affect the current position but not things to the right. The B in BERT stands for "bidirectional" and the "mask 15% of the words task" is a huge improvement over "predict the next letter or word"

(2) Subword features are also critical. I quit a project because they wanted to use word embeddings but for us out-of-dictionary words contained critical meaning that would be lost completely. It's like starting out a chess game with a rook, your queen and two pawns gone. Fasttext would break words up into smaller fragment which might not always be perfect but means you never get into a "can't get here from there" situation.

(3) Embeddings that include the context of the word are a huge improvement over word embeddings, possibly word embeddings make things worse by smashing together all the possible meaning of the word, but transformers generate an embedding that includes the context so you get help with both polysemy ("duck" the bird vs "duck the question") and synonymy with tools that are very simple to use like

https://sbert.net/

that will transform people's expectations of full-text search.

(4) With the LSTM we struggled to have coherence in terms of matching exact or approximate words and phrases. For instance if a story is about "Matthew Sweet", you'd expect to see that exact phrase used again or maybe "Matt" or "Matthew" or "Sweet" or "him" and what's great about transformers is that one part of the text can light up a connection to the other part of the text and handle that.

I had that list of four problems around the time BERT came out and it answered all of them.
The elites are always looking for some Boogeyman to shift political activism away from populist economics and toward things that will not hurt the elites
I call this "hope" and I consider myself "hopeful".
Nope! I used it for a while and had issues with screen sharing/capture in Firefox and OBS (it did work in Chrome but then my webcam didn't work there - classic Linux).

I never thought it would take 3 decades for Wayland to be mature.
get it from the horse's mouth, as they say... instead of baselessly pontificating on HN and not understanding the diff between algorithm and implementation
Not in this case, it's all mmap.
I think it is relevant when it comes to the ethics involved.
I was searching "imp constantinvs" which is part of the legend on many coins of constantine the great. Would expect to see these details listed on any hobbyist sites, as well as the commercial ones I'm not interested it.

BTW #1, 5, 6 are all good sites, but those are very mainstream - those will be top links in Google as well. #6 is purely commercial - an auction house. #5 is a coin dealer's commercial site, but has good collector resources (discussion board, Wiki, collectors galleries) as well.
Pretty decent article. People on this site fucking love getting riled up about stuff.