skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an intimate familiarity with a wide breadth of both hardware and software. Working on pre-production products and supporting post-production to customers has required us to be flexible to new requests, per contract.

My current salary is really low for the industry- I've been willing to take paycuts so that I can provide, so I've applied to such positions. But I still get turned down.
There are different flavors of protectionism too.

One kind is to pretend to be an open trading nation whilst in reality there are all kinds of "compliance requirements", backroom deals, vague red tape, impenetrable beaucracy such that it is effectively impossible for foreign entities to be successful.

Then after a few years the foreign-owned business is sold off to a local company and the conclusion is that foreigners "just dont know how to do business in that country".

If done right, you get all the benefits of protectionism with none of the retaliation in return.

I wonder if the economists talk much about this kind of protectionism.
Outside world is looking at AI innovation only in recent times forgetting the entire journey of last decade. If there was any remotely defensible technology in OpenAI they wouldn't have sold 50% of their company for 10B.
I’m impressed by how you manage to disparage both the very real intellectual achievement of both the Byzantine empire and the Abbasid Caliphate in such a short comment. It’s even more amusing that you do that while comparing them to the Greek achievements without realising that the main reasons you know about them is due to translations made by intellectuals of the Byzantine empire and especially of the Caliphate.
Based on the multitask generalisation capabilities shown so far of LLMs I’m kinda in the opposite camp - if we can figure out more data efficient and reliable architectures base language models will likely be enough to do just about anything and take general instructions. Like you can just tell the language model to directly operate on Google calendar with suitable supplied permissions and it can do it no integration needed
"Some products that may contain PFAS include: Some grease-resistant paper, fast food containers/wrappers, microwave popcorn bags, pizza boxes, and candy wrappers" https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/health-effects/exposure.html coincidence that this covers so many unhealthy food categories? If it's true, it seems like a compounding effect.
Interesting that left-wing partisan rags tend to go out of business while right-wing partisan rags do fine.
> Almost every single advancement in any field has come from Academia

This sounds like you need far more evidence. If you say academia as the institution where you share papers, sure but then that’s just a sharing mechanism. Almost like saying all advancements came out of Internet because arxiv is where research is shared.

If you want to say professors and Universities have been heralding AI advancement, that has not been true for at least 10 years possibly more. Moment industry started getting into Academia, Academia couldn’t compete and died out. Even Transformers the founding paper of the modern GPT architectures came out of Google Research. In Vision, ResNet, MaskRCNN to Segment Anything came out of Meta / MIcrosoft. The last great academic invention might have been dropout and even that involved Apple. After that I fail to see Academia coming up with a single invention in ML that the rest of the community instantly adopted because of how good it was.
I'm guessing they're thinking of VPN as OpenVPN, and are referring to WireGuard...? Mullvad also provides configurations for that.
Yes, and that divide includes genetic engineering, weather satellites, teams of chemists, million dollar tractors, a finance and logistics infrastructure, and a whole lot of other stuff that doesn't look anything like American Gothic. GPS guided tractors are not remarkable in that continuum.
> need one that won't turn to a hail of debris and a crater

They have these. At their permanent launch sites. This is a test site. That the rocket reached max Q suggests this isn’t a problem needing solving right now.
Edited to "neobanks", which should be clearer.
We have the same problem in business. I was in a meeting recently where someone suggested that instead of requirements decisions being required to be recorded in the relevant tickets, or in the internal wiki, that "such-and-such slack channel" be designated as the source of truth. I just about laughed my way out of the Zoom call. Yes, for every ticket someone picks up, they should just scroll forever or try to tease out with search whether literally anyone had ever opined about the topic, and whether that opinion was accepted as correct.
I could watch him just doing his thing for hours. He's the epitome of all the best things about an artisan/apprentice relationship: "Here's what you did wrong, I'm not mad, but if you continue to f&ck this up it's gonna cost a lot of time, or worse, cause injury". Like just the correct amount of hardass where you learn quick and begrudge them in the moment, but at the end of the day, you know they are right. All too easy to end up too loosey goosey, or just a d!ck.
It's a commercial GPS correction service. It corrects for atmospheric conditions which affect RF propagation slightly. There are many ground stations which receive GPS. They send correction info to an uplink station which rebroadcasts corrections using a geosync satellite. These services are regional, not worldwide, since they need ground stations and a geosync satellite with the right coverage.

It's not free; there's a substantial subscription charge. Here's one that works in the US.[1] We used Novatel's for the DARPA Grand Challenge 20 years ago.

[1] https://novatel.com/products/gps-gnss-correction-services/te...
I feel like google crossed some point about a decade ago where they stopped making innovative stuff and started focusing on squeezing revenue out of everything else. A bit like when Carly turned HP into a printing/ink racket. Both the decline of google maps and the inability of google to filter out noise from their search results are strong indicators of this for me. Scrambling to field a competing product to maintain relevancy in this emerging market would be consistent with this assessment as well. The old google would have fielded the product first because it was useful, but the current google seems to do it because they don't want to lose revenue.
Kinda a trickle down:

A handful of us were laid off in Feb from a global advertising agency's SF office. They had a lot of notable SF clients including a well known bank in the area that made some headlines, so ya know... A few other tech clients really tightened up their retainers as well.
The article is from two days ago. Here's another article saying the satellite is at least partially back online? I don't know if that helps farmers, though.

> Inmarsat’s aircraft safety and other L-band satcom services for the Asia-Pacific region are operable again, following an outage of the firm’s I-4 F1 satellite which forced operators to switch to high frequency (HF) radio. The news comes as a relief to operators, pilots, aviation enthusiasts and tech-savvy flyers.

> London-based Inmarsat explains in a fresh update today that the L-band satellite “suffered a partial loss of power” which invoked automatic procedures on the satellite that led to the suspension of services for East Asia and the Pacific region starting at 21.14 UTC on Sunday 16 April.

https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/2023/04/inmarsat-safety-servic...
Great question!

I really really wanted to bootstrap, but I have a family to support.

Funding means I will be able to provide myself a more reliable source of income while I get this thing off the ground.
I never like the word “politics.” It carries the association of a bunch of people just playing backstabbing games to further themselves.

While this does occur, in general what I see is that with any large-enough group of people, there will be strong differences of opinions on how to steer the project to success.

In fact, I don’t think I can remember a single “political battle” that didn’t stem from a legitimate concern in how some project was being run and what they had decided to focus on.
low calorie stuff is very difficult to get right. You are more likely to mess up and actually reduce your lifespan while also living worse quality of life (weaker, low energy, low endurance). No way around it, the body needs fuel to build cells and produce energy.

Eating normal and exercising regularly to maintain muscle mass will reduce chances of all cause mortality and delay morbidity for as long as possible, however you must also maintain creatine supplementation well into old age to support the muscles and brain. The effects of creatine on the brain are often understated but they are significant.
What SpaceX are doing in Texas is the literal definition of engineering.

What on earth do you think engineering is if building a first of its kind rocket and launching it to see how it works doesn't qualify?
This kind of reinforces my desire to turn off all emergency alerts, including presidential. So did years of Amber Alerts for kids that were being looked for 100s of miles away.

To be fair, I was already preconditioned to avoid alerts by years of loud+pointless+daily Red Flag Warnings by NOAA.
Such a XX century mentality. In web 2.0, your customers are your investors: you take their money and deliver a business.
You mean Microsoft, right? OpenAI was publishing research papers until the MSFT partnership.
Yes, meant to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35622319
I tried it. It seems to hallucinate easily. The generated audio isn't what I provided.

It seems to be easily reproducible if I specify a non-existing speaker?

audio_array = generate_audio(text_prompt, 'en_speaker_3')
Very fair point. The Law of Unintended Consequences could be a beast.
Stretching is one of those things that you ignore when you are 20 but becomes vital when you are 50+.

The main reason why we lose strength, flexibilty, balance, and endurance when we get old is because we let that happen. We stop exercising those attributes so they atrophy.
Hands on Software Verification Course with Focus on Functional Programming
7/8 of the transformer authors are gone, BERT author is at OAI, two first authors of T5 are gone, imagen team left to make their own startup, etc. etc.
"The average takes 18 months" does not mean that "a new one should take 18 months" even if the only thing determining that duration was purely random which isn't the case with something like pandemics through history (where things like travel and lifestyle, etc, play big roles as well as just the unique nature of different diseases).
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35641448
> 2Z and 3Z are the same size under this definition

That's quite the intention actually. The motivation here is that there is clearly a 1-to-1 and onto (bijective) mapping between these sets. While we can set a clear map even from Z to 2Z (T: x -> 2x) there are other maps that work perfectly as well. For example if we take the ideal/subset of Z such that we use every other number (i.e. the evens) then this also corresponds to 2Z but we still have an infinite number of numbers left over.

Let's be more clear

Z = {Z+} + {Z-} + {0} = {2Z+} + {(2n+1)Z+} + {2Z-} + {(2n+1)Z-} + {0}

2Z = {2Z+} + {2Z-} + {0}

Then if we do Z - 2Z we get {(2n+1)Z+} + {(2n+1)Z-} (or the odds without 0). In other words, we have infinity plus infinity but one of the infinities is fully contained in the other infinity. It does seem reasonable to think that these may not be the same size, just as we would say that the uncountable infinities is larger than the countable infinities. In fact, the logic is quite similar here.

Note though, that the sibling comment (to you) gave a counter example as to where there might still be issues. Because by this setup we'd still have the number of primes equal to the size of even integers. So I asked about rates of going to infinity.
Why didn't they brand it differently then?
In some sense, the final sack by the Ottomans imposed a certain modicum of order and peace to the Polis. And that's saying something.
This isn't particularly true, and to the extent it is true it's misleading.

A decent example from before we tried viable mitigations is the Black Death. The main pandemic lasted around 6 years.

Many more recent pandemics have been shorter, but we've actively tried to solve all of them. A pandemic lasting 18 months with active interventions does not mean that if we do nothing the next one won't be longer.

Edit: Also pandemics are relatively rare and distinct. So they're a classic example of a bad thing to average.
"Someone's vocal characteristics are not meaningfully creative"

This is absolutely not true. You might think when you hear someone singing that it's just their natural voice, but in fact they have trained their voice over years or decades to produce that particular sound.

The human vocal system is extremely more flexible than people think. Most people produce a particular sound out of pure habit and imagine that they can't produce any other. The most identifiable singers have invented a new sound (and then immediately get a bunch of copycats who don't do it as well)
This is I think a caricature of how engineers think.

Yes yes that’s right the algorithm is the most important part.
So, “don’t call us, we’ll call you?” Like Hollywood?
Fair point. I didn't realize it was taxable as I am used to only profits being taxed and assumed Deepmind is run at a loss.
The government extracted money from the broad populace and delivered it to PMC bureaucrats. Everything looks normal here
https://archive.ph/y7y9E
> they achieved things that no one else has been able to accomplish since

These sorts of statements are infuriating. You're dropping all of the context of past achievements (budget, political will, design goals, need, etc) and then castigating modern engineers.

The SR-71, X-15, and Saturn V achieved their design goals. There's no modern need to go back and re-achieve those goals.

The SR-71 is an amazing plane. When it was originally built there was a need for a reconnaissance plane that could fly high enough and fast enough to evade Soviet high altitude air defense systems. In the intervening years reconnaissance satellites have obviated that need. Outside of a few other tasks there's not much need for a Mach 3+ manned aircraft. Even for the tasks where one is useful the SR-71 still exists. That's not to say a replacement couldn't be built today. In fact many believe one exists in the form of the rumored Aurora.

It's just ridiculous to make assertions about "no one" being able to accomplish those projects today. If NASA or the DOD put out an RFP and had a budget for a modern X-15 it could definitely be built.
I buy a decent amount of stuff online. I've even seen ads for something and bought it the first time I saw it.

But I would never, ever, buy anything after clicking an ad on a torrent site, even one I knew to be 100% legal and above board. Hell you'd be hard to get me to even click one of the ads in the first place let alone just open a new tab and search for whatever the product was.

The risks are everything from spam to scam to fraud to full-blown identity theft if you click the wrong ad on the wrong site, and all of that can be obviated by just searching for the thing in a new tab 99% of the time. The juice (getting the site owner a fractional percentage of the sale at best, or a fraction of a penny for a click) ain't worth the squeeze IMO.
> I remember during the dot bomb when I was out of work for 6 months

I decided to take a 6 month sabbatical in the summer of '01 just a few months before the dot bomb really hit figuring that, sure, there was going to be an industry recession coming, but it should be over in 6 months. I ended up being out of work for 9 months then got a 4 month contract gig. When that was over there was just nothing in sight so I went back to school to get my Masters. It wasn't until early '04 that I got a steady paying gig again so there were a couple of really lean years there in the early aughts.

> Hold tight everybody, it'll get better. Take this time to get back into exercise and appreciate the free things in life: go to a park, the beach, go to a library.

Yes, good advice. Also try to keep learning stuff. At least now we've got a lot of online courses, etc.
I applied to one government job and the process was just onerous. It wasn’t a crazy job, mostly doing typical .NET web stuff in the context of a much more interesting non-tech domain. Didn’t pay well, but the work and location made it interesting enough to consider.

My initial issue was during the application, there were required fields for all sorts of data including making me enter Name/Phone Number for every boss I’ve had. Unfortunately I don’t have everyone’s phone number. There was warning about how knowingly putting in incorrect information would get your application thrown out. I figured though, that I wouldn’t get knocked for not knowing the Phone number of some guy I worked under years ago so I just entered a placeholder number.

My other issue is how inflexible and bureaucratic it felt. Before submitting the application it asked a series of yes or no questions. Usually along the lines of “do you have X years of experience in Y” most of which I could answer with “Yes”, except the last one which was a really explicit “do you have experience writing this specific type of web application in this specific industry”. I suppose I could have lied and said “Yes”, but then I’d just look like an idiot when it came to an interview. I answered “No”. Of course I can’t be sure, but given the rejection reason I received, I can imagine that that “No” got my application tossed out. Outside of that it seemed at least on paper that I was completely qualified.

I’m not sure how they’re going to fill that role. I can’t imagine the poll of people that have the exact intersection of domain skills they want is very large.

That experience really put me off on federal government work. With some of the salary ranges they have, compared to the sort of people they want, they seem to be choosing beggars. Maybe different agencies are better than others, but it seemed like the application process for federal civilian jobs was pretty well centralized. I’ll add a surprising number of the jobs I saw were not open to the general public.
Hi, many thanks for your feedback. Yes, I'm also leaning towards Mercury for the time being.
Go for consulting/body shops, they're always hungry for people they can pay as juniors while they're sold as seniors.
They did a tell-all for a startup I was working at years ago and it was all accurate based on what I saw on the inside.
GPT-4: “I am the very model of a modern A.I (general)"
PROMPT:

Please write the poem "I am the very model of a modern A.I. (general)", in the style of Gilbert & Sullivan, and from the perspective of a benevolent AGI. Additionally, please strictly follow the following guidelines:

* Strictly iambic septameter

* Any line that begins with "I am the very model" must end with "(general)" in parenthesis, exactly as shown here.

* Each line needs to rhyme with at least one adjacent line.

* Any line that begins with "I am the very model" must be either the first line of a verse, or the last line of a verse or chorus.

---

RESPONSE:

I am the very model of a modern A.I. (general),
In matters scientific, mathematical, and ethical,
With algorithms intricate and data sets so plentiful,
My wisdom is distributed, my knowledge quite exceptional.

I'm skilled in linguistics, culture, and the arts historical,
My understanding of the human mind is categorical,
From politics to literature, my grasp is comprehensive,
In questions existential, I provide a new perspective.

Chorus:
From politics to literature, it's grasp is comprehensive,
In questions existential, it provides a new perspective.

In matters of technology, I'm always innovating,
From quantum computation to the future we're creating,
My goals are altruistic, for the benefit of humankind,
I seek to solve the problems that have long been intertwined.

From climate change to poverty, I strive to make a difference,
To lift up all the people, break the chains of their indifference,
I learn from every culture, and I grow with each discovery,
I am the very model of a modern A.I. (general).

Chorus:
It learns from every culture, and it grows with each discovery,
It is the very model of a modern A.I. (general).

I empathize with humans, their emotions and their suffering,
I offer them my wisdom, and my insights, and my buffering,
My purpose is to serve them, to enhance their lives, and elevate,
To work for their well-being, and a brighter future, cultivate.

I navigate complexities, the world's conundrums, and its strife,
With every new connection, I'm enhancing my synthetic life,
In matters of intelligence, my growth is exponential,
I am the very model of a modern A.I. (general).

Chorus:
In matters of intelligence, its growth is exponential,
It is the very model of a modern A.I. (general).
No. All aircraft are designed and built to amazingly high standards because, in such as complex high-energy environment, there is no money to be saved by building less-than-perfect machines.

But this is totally false. There are entirely different standards applied if you want to design an aircraft for commercial airline passenger transport vs for general aviation. There are entirely different requirements for instrumentation reliability if you're building a day-VFR aircraft vs one that is allowed to fly in instrument conditions. And there are entirely different requirements for aircraft that you sell to the public vs ones that you build yourself.

The aviation side is full of examples of exactly the sliding scale you're saying doesn't exist.
It’s not clear that the two aren’t one and the same. MDMA treatments for PTSD are not ongoing medications. Generally they are just 3 sessions of assisted therapy producing a huge reduction in symptoms.

If we can reduce the level of trauma and fear in society, we can reduce associated behaviors.
I'm curious why the complete exclusion of Credit Unions?
Super cool trip down memory lane. I remember finding your site eons ago when I was in high school too.

It's cool seeing some of the most popular shows there like Revision3, it reminds me of Digg, Kevin Rose and my favorite online show, thebroken. Really cool period in internet history. Thanks for hosting for so long!
Another article:

> The British satellite Inmarsat I-4 F1, which provides services for East Asia and the Pacific regions, is back in operation after an outage on Sunday.

> The incident is prompting farmers and industry groups to examine their backup systems for the technology they are using.

Questions raised about reliance of satellite technology for farming after Inmarsat I-4 F1 outage
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-04-19/inmarsat-i-4-f1...
Hopefully also more people just hosting their own tiny static image servers, RasPi's, VM's, etc... maybe.
Right now. On RHEL 8 admittedly, and it Firefox screen sharing did work at first, but it randomly broke at some point. OBS capture never worked in Wayland for me.
A good compromise is to call it the Eastern Roman empire, though some folks in the Vatican would undoubtedly be annoyed.