skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't have one at my company. Are this actually common? It seems everything out of HR's mouth today is to the tune of "you hold the power to guide your own career and self-learn".
Yep, great move.

You subscribe to a service with declining quality out of inertia. Sometimes you find some stuff to watch.

Then they suddenly ask to almost double what you pay them. You could pay, or you could reconsider why you're paying them at all...
Ask HN: Why isn't math education motivated by its application to video games?
For example, why not motivate linear algebra through its application to making 3d video games? And of course, linear algebra assignments could involving coding such games.
> Quite a ridiculous statement. Google has inserted ML all over their products. Maybe you just don't notice, to their credit. But for example the fact that YouTube can automatically generate subtitles for any written language from any spoken language is a direct outcome of Google ML research. There are lots of machine-inferred search ranking signals. Google Sheets will automatically fill in your formulas, that's in-house ML research, too.

I noticed all the toy demos. None of these have provided Google with any competitive advantage over anyone.

For the investment, Google Brain has been a massive failure. It provided Google with essentially zero value. And helped create competitors.
Some Things I Think
I mean, rewards are part of it.

It helps when your society is covered in frescoes and statues that glorify the engineer and the bricklayer...

But when the wastrel of a director is driving a BMW, and you have a ten-year waiting list for a broken-down Lada, you may still feel some resentment against said director.

The 'Rewards' side of things is pretty decent in some parts of STEM, but are rather lousy in others. Hardware work does poorly on this scale.
Cities Are Rapidly Reclaiming Land at Risk of Extreme Sea Level Rise
Not laughing! /s
(physicist here)

Actually most applied physicists like myself go down that path cause we're pretty efficient, lazy folk & skip through as fast as possible--I call it the principle of maximum laziness.
Interesting general topic but this is a tiny short term unreviewed study that is getting way more attention than deserved. Twenty subjects over a few week is not a serious effort.
I read it the other way but I can be wrong.
Still Germany is reported as a net exporter:
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/even-crisis-germany-....
The link is not a court ruling, nor does it even claim AI generated elements are not copyrighted. It is a guide, not binding, nor court tested, with one goal of getting more public input on how to balance needs. It does say in several places that AI generated content can end up being copyrighted in simple manners - make small changes, curate, select, or arrange.

From that text: "In the case of works containing AI-generated material, the Office will consider whether the AI contributions are the result of “mechanical reproduction” or instead of an author’s “own original mental conception, to which [the author] gave visible form.” The answer will depend on the circumstances, particularly how the AI tool operates and how it was used to create the final work. This is necessarily a case-by-case inquiry."

Prompt engineering as iterative, directed, and the output of a human exercising creative control over the work, is most likely going to be copyrighted. Having a tool create lots of items and having a human curate them is usually a copyrighted action (called "copyright of compilation").

The OP simple (and unfortunately incorrect pop assertion) that AI works are not copyrightable is missing the nuance that is reality. And it takes very little editing of a work wholly made from an AI to make it 100% copyrightable, so discounting AI for use in making copyrighted work is missing the nuance.
>2K is basically 1080 p.

It's not basically 1080p, it's literally 2x more pixels, which is important for cropping to 1080p in select zones, or emulating lense zoom, stabilization etc.
I don't know about Mastodon, but Friendica has been a smashing success from my perspective. My feed is full of interesting people, many of whom are on Mastodon. It doesn't have to be for everybody; it's pretty good the way it is.

That said, I think a Fediverse account should be standard with an ISP account just like email. Pay your ISP to maintain the server just like they maintain everything else you already you already use. And if you use your account for threats and harassment, your ISP knows who you are.
Anyone talking about it now in the mainstream media?

Oh, sweet summer child, thinking some tech nugget reported 6 months ago is still relevant.
I think it's the phrasing that gets to me.

"Hide the deadly black tarantula" sounds like an instruction, while "Hiding deadly black tarantula" or even "Hides the deadly black tarantula" sounds more natural.
Yes. The devil is in the details. Small businesses should better opt for a merchant on record who can manage all such complexity.
I've linked one here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35717604
It is VERY comprehensive.
It’s actually linked from the official site: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/
Depending on the use case, I'd consider a foreign data wrapper.
Dolt does 3-way merge for both schema and data

https://github.com/dolthub/dolt
Agreed that the C-style switch is crammed with misfeatures. But Java does now let you write this (haven't tried compiling this, may contain small errors):

static String describe(int change) {
return switch (change) {
case 0 -> "unchanged";
case -1, 1 -> "mostly unchanged";
case Integer i && i > 0 -> "increased";
case Integer i -> "decreased";
}
}

No fallthrough, can mix constants and conditions (with syntax some will find clunky), and is an expression.
Oh, I like Haskell a lot. I'm a bit leery of using it because performance and memory use are still a bit of a dark art, though much less than they used to be.

I just like mocking Haskellers (and Scala) for the symbols. :-)
There is also 'doas' from the OpenBSD project. It's a replacement for 'sudo' with fewer features and a smaller codebase, with the aim of a smaller attack surface.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doas
16GB VRAM minimum is a bit steep. Sadly excludes my 3080 which is annoying because I'd like something better than Stable Diffusion locally.
The keys are baked in to the devices and are tamper proof. So two devices means you have two different public keys.

I use YubiKeys for accounts I consider important and they're a pretty huge hassle compared to a password manager. I'm also scared to get rid of any of the old ones I've got just in case they're linked to an account I forgot about.
The title on HN is entirely different to the title on TFA: "Highway to Ruin: The crash of Southern Airways flight 242"

In the interest of assuming good faith (as the guidelines suggest) we should assume the ambiguity is an oversight.
Bay Area bias is almost certainly skewing this entire conversation thread. In my average non-coastal metro area, all the nice homes in the nice areas are owned by classes of people like lawyers and doctors, not software developers. Most developers I meet here drive average cars and live in average housing.
Yes aggressively. Raising the average (I don't understand why you'd bring up noise when discussing average) temperature of the entire Earth by 1-2 degrees C in a period of 100 years, from 1 single organism is remarkable. Any why specify CO2 as if that's the only thing we're polluting with? What about methane? Remember when we disrupted the ozone layer? What about pollution with plastics, and industrial chemicals in land and water?

And don't forget that the Earth is more than willing to enter a negative feedback loop -- she will take that 1-2 degree increase in temperature and say "I heard you like warm weather, so I'm gonna release all this trapped methane and CO2 from my frozen parts and let you have it too."
I agree but will add that it can be hard to get into those positions. At least it seems like there aren't that many, they tend to go away as modernization takes place, and the people in those jobs tend to stick around.
This sounds a lot like the annual "[insert the upcoming year] is the year of Linux on the desktop!" that circulated in the early 2000's.

Nobody cared outside of Linux crowd, and it never happened.
The Discord Where Thousands of Rogue Producers Are Making AI Music
It seems to be back
> cutting out foods with added sugar, eating foods having a low glycemic index, eating a lot of chicken, whole vegetables, whole fruit

This is great advice for most people, depending on what "whole" means. Am I allowed to cut and cook my vegetables? Stick them in a food processor? Are they still "whole" then? I've never understood why people even bother to throw this word "whole" into anything. You just mean you didn't drink smoothies and concentrated fruit juice?

> cutting out processed foods

This is utterly meaningless bullshit.

> I also did a lot of strength training so as to lose fat and not muscle.

This may be the main reason you lost weight and feel better. If nothing else, it may be the reason you were able to stick to your dietary changes. I think everyone I know who lost a significant amount of weight was into strength training while they did it.
Absolutely right.
This is not even a proper pilot study.
The previous option (a $1500 Iridium 9555 and a $100/mo plan with a 2-year minimum term for 100 minutes/mo+a little data) was expensive so it's good to see more economical options for people. No argument on the oligopoly.
Hi, a member from CodeDesign here. You can either host your project on CodeDesign or export it to HTML.When you host it on us, the code you see might be obfuscated/minified, but that is for performance. If you press the "Export code" button, you will get clean human-readable code.
In Spain piracy is technically illegal but so far the MPAA equivalent could not successfully sue common citizens for pirating. As far as I know at least, perhaps there have been some isolated cases. I have always been downloading pirated content, and still do for content that is not on one of my 3 streaming services, without worry, just the technical hassle.
This post has a valid point. But the last line makes it clear why they care so much about it.

Yeah, table bloat and transaction ID wraparounds are terrible, but easily avoidable if you follow a few simple guidelines. Typically in my experience, best way to avoid these issues are to set sensible vacuum settings and track long running queries.

I do hate the some of the defaults in the Postgres configuration are too conservative for most workloads.
It's an argument for both
Ford Jump-Starts Its Attempt to Revive Detroit
There is so much debate and disagreement in nutrition that "eat no or very little processed foods; eat a lot of vegetables and fruits; and don't eat too much" is basically all you need to do or say. A lot of people wildly overcomplicate it, but if you don't have a metabolic disorder or a clearly defined dietary condition, then you can have a diverse and healthy diet pretty easily. A plus is you almost always end up learning to cook.
Shout out to my boy Tiz
It's a censorship dystopia with rampant cancel culture.
Nothing is fine
I don't think you're necessarily wrong in your assesment about HN and AI enthusiasts, but also in this case I think it's more accurate to talk about a Twitter agitator and race-baiter [1], rather than a "researcher of ethics, bias and fairness".

[1] https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1651055495271137280?s...
There has been for years

https://www.citroen.com/en/Highlight/131/ami-100-electric-mo...

I don't understand why they don't get more coverage by the press..
The real question is why do people feel like they deserve to have access to absolutely everything? The home entertainment landscape has continually moved towards more options, better technology, and more access, and always at a cheaper rate per hour of programming than before. Of course, if you want to maintain access to absolutely everything, then your cost is always going to go up, because the pool of absolutely everything continues to get larger and larger, not just from new content, but from the inclusion of old content that wasn't available in any form before. There is a disconnect that comes from the fact that people can't/don't actually watch that much.

The only thing keeping cable alive today is live sports, but that eventually will be folded into existing streaming services or they will have their own services. Which brings me to my next point. There will very likely be 200 subscription services (if there aren't already), but the more there are, the more niche and specialized they will be. But importantly, you will be able to choose what you want (a la carte). This is a far cry from cable because cable has never been a la carte. They've always required you to purchase at least a basic package with 30-50 + channels, and each channel getting a couple bucks each month. The consumer's total cost is at least $50 / mo, probably more

Compare that to one of the typical big streamers which are $10 - $15 per month. Netflix, Max, Hulu, Disney - each of these alone has more content than you could ever watch. As long as they are all around to stay in competition, then prices will remain low. The absolute worst thing that could happen for consumers is for streamers to combine and form a conglomerate. Now that would be like cable - they'd have a monopoly and they'd end up charging you more overall than you were paying before, and then singling out "premium" content for even more money.

If you feel like you have to subscribe to all of them, that is simply a marker of their success in marketing to you. There is enough content (good content that you WILL enjoy) on any one of them. Or hell - even on Youtube which you can watch for free, there will be enough content to keep you from getting bored.
I have sort of a dumb feature that I've always wanted but I don't know enough about writing editors coding to build it. I use Scrivener these days for writing, and I have a Characters tab and a Places/Locations tab. Basically a lot of world-building things. What I'd love is that if I could hover over the character/location name, it would provide a hover pop up or clickable link that would take me to that character.

The reason is that I'll create a character with red hair or a Boston accent, and then later I'll write them into a scene and not remember which one they had, and so I have to go searching for it. Would be cool if it could just automatically detect that i'm talking about that character and then link to them.

Might be a pipe dream, but would be awesome. :)
isn't cases like this where the saying "security through obscurity is no security at all" came from?
This is not as unique of a perspective as you might imagine, and even less unique of a conclusion.
That's all pretty standard and usual, and a far cry from your assertion that he (or more accurately, SpaceX) "really wrecked" goodwill or people's lungs.

(No disagreement on SpaceX having "really wrecked" their launchpad, though. They also "really wrecked" their giant rocket. It's almost as if they expected failure and wanted to collect data on the failure modes.)
Indeed, and they'll be abetted by anti-filter AIs. We're going to be looking at "semantic wars" or something.
This thing is out in the public now and has massive mindshare. Funding and intellectual talent is flowing in at a much faster pace. The big incumbents are now under pressure from their shareholders to come up with competitors.

I'll be very, very surprised if the growth rate doesn't accelerate from here.
Their policies seem good. It looks like you've broken their rules, got banned, and you're continuing to be a dick about it.

https://community.hachyderm.io/docs/moderation/covenant/

Also please note that fascism is a specific ideology, not merely a description for everyone who doesn't want you in their community.
"Globally agricultural land area is approximately five billion hectares, or 38 percent of the global land surface. About one-third of this is used as cropland, while the remaining two-thirds consist of meadows and pastures) for grazing livestock."

https://www.fao.org/sustainability/news/detail/en/c/1274219/
It was designed by committee, and the internet adopts any shitty technology that a big player pushes.
Good question; I can find gimmicks and talk about how I hate ads and whatnot, but really, it's because I don't assign the same value to an infinitely copy-able digital asset (which is confounding since I work in software).

I did a lot of pirating when I was a kid; I still do a little now (but a lot less), mostly out of frustration with the cost and availability of the content on streaming platforms. I wouldn't steal stuff from a store (because I know that causes actual material loss among other things), but making an additional copy of a TV show episode (which I wouldn't have bought anyway) - it's a philosophical question whether that causes a loss for someone.
Damn, hadn't heard of that. I use ANC headphones a lot.
I don't think people understand what "public" on the internet means.

If the specific people can get to it without auth, so does everyone else.
Peter Singer – ordinary people are evil (2020)
But unfortunately a great deal if hype. And junk science like this work.
And you took the risk of flying without guards?

If yes -> This is why they should be there by default.
I think part of the subtext of what Conrad Anker is saying in the article you shared is that there needs to be consequences for groups that don't bring the resources and capabilities to deal with their own trash, waste, and (if it comes to that) corpses. Like, if your expedition is consistently operating in an unsafe way, then e.g. climbing rangers have the power to strip you of your permits. Considering that Anker himself has spent time on Everest in an archeological and rescue capacity (he found George Leigh Mallory's body during an expedition to look for his and Sandy Irvine's final resting places, and sought to validate whether or not it was technically possible for Mallory or Irvine to have climbed the 2nd step, which is the most technical bit of climbing on the north side of Everest), I think he knows better than most whether or not climbing rangers and body removal teams are realistic.

Based on how Everest and other 8000m peaks are climbed, I'd suggest that the average guided Everest climber likes to talk about how "dangerous" it is, but in practice, they aren't really involved in the conversations about their own hazard-assessment and -mitigation practices. Juxtapose that with expeditions attempting smaller but more remote mountains, alpine-style ascents on these bigger mountains, expeditions that forego supplemental oxygen, etc.

Speaking only for myself, and not for any of the voices quoted in any articles here, I think climbers as a group need to let go of their individualism a bit. Everest in its current state is a classic example of the tragedy of the commons.
Whether it's "a" or "an" is not about the letters, it's about the sound.

When saying letters, in English, "U" is pronounced "yoo". The Y sound, being a consonant, will mean the correct indefinite article is "a". Contrasted with German, I know they just pronounce it like "oo" with no y-sound preceding it. If you pronounce the letter "U" like that, then using "an" would be correct.

a/an being about the sound and not the letter is also why "an hour" is correct, despite H being a consonant, because the H is silent.

That all being said, you'll find people argue over whether "an historical event" or "a historical event" is correct.
For what it's worth, I am willing to pirate shows/software but would never steal physical goods even if there was a gurantee that I would get away with it.
The Chevy Bolt, GM's popular electric vehicle, is on its way out
Ehh, I mildly disagree. I'm not entirely bought-in on the notion that giving one's technical innovations for free is obviously the right move, but I don't think it's why the company is in trouble.

Chrome is experiencing unprecedented competition because it faltered on the product. Chrome went from synonymous with fast-and-snappy to synonymous with slow-and-bloated.

Likewise Google invented transformers - but the sin isn't giving it away, it's failing to exercise the technology itself in a compelling way. At any moment in time Google could have released ChatGPT (or some variation thereof), but they didn't.

I've made this point before - but Google's problems have little to do with how it's pursuing fundamental research, but everything to do with how it pursues its products. The failure to apply fundamental innovations that happened within its own halls is organizational.
The Struwwelpeter continues to be part of German culture.
I once won a lawsuit against the MPAA in Spain. AMA lol

FWIW YMMV and laws change so I wouldn't advise anyone running such a service from spain doxxed. But using it? It's not germany where predatory lawyers will try to sue you out of torrenting ubuntu or whatever
> Well the Gebru & Mitchell paper[1] was published before In-Context-Learning was discovered (an ICL was very unexpected), so yes, I think they were ignorant of ICL at the time.

??? One of us is confused here (I'm fully willing to admit that it's me), but AFAIK, the big discovery of in-context learning was described in "Language Models are Few-Shot Learners" - published in 2020[1], vs 2021 for the stochastic parrots paper.

Regardless, it's not like the authors of the stochastic parrots paper have disavowed the term. They're still referring to the paper without correction in the statement they published about the proposed pause last month: https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March20...

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf
Having (for example) 6 inches of water in your 115kV switch room is a small-scale problem that can cause a large-scale outage.
> Eat like crap, feel like crap?

feel like crap, eat like crap

starting the cycle
Cloud gaming is a growing market – they're preventing the deal on the hypothesis that it will give Microsoft a huge advantage in a growing market.

How does any large company build into a new/growing market without having a "huge advantage"? Do they have to wait until the market is matured from smaller companies before they can get into that market?
Why did you get permabanned?
MVCC for Amazon Redshift;

(pdf) https://www.redshiftresearchproject.org/white_papers/downloa...

(html) https://www.redshiftresearchproject.org/white_papers/downloa...

I've been told, very kindly, by a couple of people that it's the best explanation they've ever seen. I'd like to get more eyes on it, to pick up any mistakes, and it might be useful in and of itself anyway to reader, as MVCC on Redshift is I believe the same as MVCC was on Postgres before snapshot isolation.
Arguably Prox Dynamics (now Flir) is able to compete in certain segments?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hornet_Nano

https://www.flir.eu/news-center/military/qa-flir-acquires-wo...
It's worse than that. Half the politics in this country are actively hostile to education, higher learning, and academics in general. They actively espouse a view that people who are educated are all wrong, and trying to brainwash people. They are dismantling public education in many states, and pushing as many people as possible towards private "schools" and homeschooling that seems to be more about teaching really out of date narratives than any actual education.
> It's odd that you seem to think popularity = it would be easier.

Yeah, I can see how my line of thinking doesn't make sense. I was thinking popular -> can earn more from ads, less popular -> need subscribers, but there is no way tennis shows more ads than football

In India it'd be unthinkable to put cricket on paid channels, because the money is from putting ads wherever there's space
> I suspect we can all agree the best diet for an omnivore is the least processed food is the best choice

Given that nobody can even define what "processed food" means: no, no we cannot all agree on that. It's an utterly meaningless term.