skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He is a potential whistleblower.

Your linked article says: "[My client] would like to make protected whistleblower disclosures to Congress." "[T]here are no specific examples provided to support the accusations."

I don't understand the tone of this post. I guess the implication is that whistleblower support relies on the political leanings of the people involved?

Is it my politics talking if I say that the scale of this argument is completely underwhelming to me given the level of true atrocities being committed in the world?

The article details 'incredible' examples of retaliation. That's the biggest concern here, not the whistleblowing.
I appreciate the spirit. Not treason, but definitely anti-making-shit-better.
This site (which currently wont connect) was created by some redditors. I understand the sentiment, and the reasoning but I predict it will fail as did previous attempts to create a very similar landlord rating site.

Why? Because unless there is rigid control over who is allowed to input and some verification of that input, there will be an influx of garbage comments that will make the site completely useless. Much like YELP reviews, you can read 'em but do you actually trust what they say? Is the submitter an actual tenant, the landlord, or the landlord's family and friends? Who knows?

Secondly, I think a single lawsuit may bring it down. There have been similar private sites for tenant information that landlords shared among themselves that have been shut down by the privacy commissioner. My understanding is that this site is going to try and anonymize certain data, but Im not sure how its going to hold useful data and anonymize it enough to make a landlord unidentifiable at the same time.

Yes, everyone has a bad landlord story. But every landlord has quite a few bad tenant stories. If this site flies, prepare for the same to be done for tenants.
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> However, we all know the rest;

That does make everything a lot simpler, doesn't it.
Me too. I thought it was my crap ass iphone 11, but if you're also suffering on a 14 pro... maybe it's a bug, not a hw constraint.
But doing that when Carlsen announced his forfeit after the candidates would be silly. If there's a time to change the format, it's now before the next cycle begins, not in the middle of the previous cycle.
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Sounds like what Richard Stallman would say.

I'm going to pass.
Yes it’s possible to use a transfer plate to adapt cookware that’s not induction compatible, but it’s very inefficient. One of the benefits I appreciate of induction cooking is not heating up my house while cooking - a transfer plate would negate that.

I understand not everyone wants to buy or can afford new cookware, but cast iron pans are very cheap. Also see brands such as t-fal that make affordable non-stick aluminum cookware with a small steel bottom to make them induction compatible.
> Nonsense. He gave the material to Greenwald and a Guardian journalist in Hong Kong. He stayed in Hong Kong for a while, and when it became apparent that he could not go to other countries he went to Russia.

Is that just another way of saying he fled the country before releasing the stolen intelligence?
I am not doubting that Falcon 9 is a great success. It took 6 years of attempts to reliably land the Falcon 9 first stage, at some cost to capacity. The second stage is not recoverable and it appears unlikely it ever will be.

"...following the same formula" of rapid iteration is what they are doing. It worked well for learning how to fabricate a giant rocket out of stainless steel. That formula is bumping up against the cost of iteration. They're trying an Agile-ish approach to making the biggest ever rocket when Agile might be insufficient to, for example, make car software at VW Group.
It’s my company and I’ll ruin it how I like!
James Clapper needs to be cuffed and perp-walked in front of the TV cameras, for so many things besides this.
The case in UK as well.
> The same supervisor also told employees in the meeting not to complain "about pay or any other issues" to anyone higher than the regional manager.

The "or any other issues" is extremely broad, and seems reckless. When an employee then tried to _internally_ escalate a concern, that employee was suspended and fired. A minimal slap on the wrist means that Tesla is likely to continue to suppress discussions of wages or workplace conditions, which sucks for workers -- but if the message coming out of this is that escalating _any_ concern above local management is likely to get you fired, I wonder what other kinds of issues will go unaddressed? Workplace safety issues? _Product_ safety issues? Would some of the quality control issues that were in the press some time ago have been more quickly addressed if internal communication didn't put people at risk of being fired?

An organization in which people cannot honestly escalate concerns _internally_ is dysfunctional, and has the potential to create harms for customers and shareholders in addition to employees.
Jenny Odell (the person interviewed here) actually references that in her latest, Saving Time. Alas, I already returned the copy to the library, but her references are thorough so it’s bound to be in there.
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The insertion of the word “just” would change the sentence from an implication to an explicit statement; there would be no room for ambiguity.
>>>It's pointless without knowing the trend, which is how conspiracy theories work.

What?

Conspiracy theories work specifically for seeing the trend over time.

For example, I have no memory for what I ate yesterday, but I can recall news stories from as far back as the 80s which corroborate malfeasance decades later.

Did you know that John McCain was a filthy grifting criminal who was involved in the savings and loan scandal, was a complete coverer for the Iran Contra debacle, and the CIAs BCCI money laundering scheme for their importing of drugs through Mena Arkansas, which was shielded by Bill Clinton, and for being a CIA minion was awarded the next POTUS position...

Look into BCCI and a name you might be familiar with, Khoshoggi not the dismembered journalist by MBS, but his relative who was the arms dealer that sold his yacht to... donald trump. Who bragged about the purchase on nightly entertainment TV.

"It's a big club, and you aint in it" -- George Carlin.

The CIA runs the USA, and the drug trafficking and child trafficking industry, and Israel runs the CIA... Guess who was handling Epstein ;; Maxwell (AKA mossad)
https://archive.is/HWdlx
Those are all part of the mix, but the car is an essential part of it as well.
That's one way to look at it. Another interpretation would be that he knew about specific things, assumed there were other bad things he hadn't learned about yet, and couldn't filter through it himself.
People always bring up San Francisco in these arguments as some sort of "gotcha", even though they know full well that it is an extreme outlier for many reasons.
It's a giant undergrad school (36,000 undergrads and barely 6,000 postgrads). There are more undergrads at Waterloo than at MIT, Stanford, CMU, Caltech, Harvard, Princeton and Yale... Combined! and they do coop, meaning their "break" semester alternates from from summer to fall to winter.

From what alumni told me, undergrads are incentivized to apply everywhere for internships as part of their courses and especially during the off-cycles (winter) for internships when they are effectively the only ones looking. Coop also means someone who can't convince an employer to pay for them won't graduate, so there's a nice selection bias.
The timeline is what it is. Specs such as V, H or the Zb* needed for server/workstation workloads were ratified in late 2021.

Assuming hardware was developed alongside the specs, which didn't change much near the time of ratification, then 2-3 years need to be added for actual products. We are about to see the first wave.

We know Tenstorrent (CEO: Jim Keller) has a design they expect to release in 2024 with performance competitive with projected Zen5 (also 2024), but using less power. That's Ascalon, a design led by the same person who was M1's chief architect at Apple.

We also know SiFive, MIPS, Rivos, Ventana are each working on their own very high performance designs, and have teams full of extremely capable people who have a history of success in high performance chips. That's a lot, and that's just what we know of. There's necessarily more efforts beyond the surface, which we don't yet know about.

Ventana's Veyron might be the first to market, with server chips expected 2023H2.
I'm using a seedbox and I can access it from anywhere, just fine. I'll be honest, I'm not sure about the implementation details, but I'm pretty sure it's done via a reverse proxy like so: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/caddy/
They also transfer heat to the house, whereas induction does not. Huge benefit in hotter climates
I think many games have important events that aren't obvious to inexperienced players/spectators. In football/soccer, for example, off-the-ball movement is very important, but usually ignored by inexperienced players.
This exactly. I'm actually really surprised that so many people here who are head-deep in the open-source software community think that books are somehow different.

Is restricting the use of your software or the blog post you spent a long time researcher or whatever to paying customers really want you want?

When I write software I want the most people I can reach to use it. I get a kick out of people finding my software useful.

The world we live in now with a huge universe of free software is a bazzilion times better than the world of the 1980s when I started programming. I want the same for other industries. Pay people to live and let them do what they enjoy. Some of them will create stuff for others.
Slashdot was a hacker forum, initially (prior to 1999). This has been a forum seen as an adjacency to a seed/VC incubator from the get-go.

People keeping to their roots and not going for the money like Richard Stallman are mocked. Steven Levy glorifies him in Hackers, then takes a break from books glorifying the Google corporation, and when Stallman is down delivers a coup de grace to Stallman in Wired, for soi disant very progressive reasons.

Of course Wired was founded by Rossetto as a continuation of the "New Right" project he was talking about in the New York Times in 1971.

I myself am not surprised that people wander out of their prep schools and universities into these corporations and hold these views. People's hegemonic ideas are borne from the material conditions and class relations they are in.
Agadmator on YouTube makes excellent post-game analysis videos: https://www.youtube.com/@agadmator/videos
What kind of performance issues? I haven't experienced anything like that personally
How about the ancient pyramids of Egypt and elsewhere? I'm sure they must have seen a few earthquakes during their thousands of years.
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Apologies if this causes offense, but: you have a single, formidable paragraph with nine questions in it. This is a lot to put on a reader all at once. Consider breaking it up a bit. That many questions all at once can feel more like an interrogation, while good communication feels like a conversation.
You don't have to be patronizing, it's off-putting.
> In a statement, Meta spokesman Dave Arnold said the conditions that led to the layoffs are “well known and reverberating throughout the industry.”

Sad that you can get away with a statement like that.
I really enjoyed Giri and Caruana's commentary. I can't really understand chess at the WC level but listening to them explain it along side IMs shows that even IMs are in similar a position. Sure they understand more than I do but they miss most of the deeper or sutbler ideas.
How is it unfounded? How is it unreasonable to question the relevance of an optimization from a time where the relevant parts of computing were completely different?

"Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.", Donald Knuth

Maybe doing benchmarks for a comment isn't worthwhile. I guarantee you have to do different benchmarks for different contexts anyway so I can't blindly trust the benchmark anyway. Not to say it wouldn't be interesting.

I wouldn't mind someone plotting the cost of instructions over time and how that affects choice of algorithms. But to expect that from a comment?
If we want to forget about the other 3 co-founders that were basically robbed by Zuckerberg then sure, he built it all by himself.
ChatGPT and data from a soil sensor that measures soil temperature and humidity
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New dust is constantly showing up, so it’s still a finite area.

https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/leaping-lunar-dust/
Fundamentals of Music Theory course from University of Edinburgh[1] and its accompanying textbook[2]. It's a centered around western music but certainly a good resource.

1: https://www.coursera.org/learn/edinburgh-music-theory

2: https://books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-diamond/catalog/book/ed-978...
A serious better would short Bitcoin right before it happens.
Eh, like 2 others that could contend it. You might disagree, but its not a stretch.
As a operator in the space, I assure you I have. :)
His associate, Jean-Luc Brunel, a French modelling agent, was found dead in his prison cell too.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60443518
Then how about: One common way to learn orbital mechanics is playing ksp. For this you need to [buy a computer] [purchase and install the game] and [do the tutorial]. For maximum enjoyment it is recommended to watch [Scott Manley's playthroughs on YouTube] between sessions to deepen your understanding.
These facts are alarming, but don’t we need to have some sense of the base rates for these events to determine how unusual their confluence is?

For example, how often are cell mates transferred? How common is it for a prisoner to go a night without a cell mate? How often do guards actually do mandated checks (versus what they say since apparently they falsify records at least sometimes)?

I can imagine this being a murder, but I can also imagine an environment where “mandated” checks are just a box on a form that gets checked with no connection to reality.

One base rate we might have is the number of suicides that happen at this facility (apparently almost none) which does lend some credence to the murder theory.

I feel the facts you highlight would be more convincing if there was public information we could use to put them in context (and hey maybe there, if someone knows about it, please share).
An end to pop?
Is there any kind of indication VR (or its cousin, AR) is important to any extent? Everything I know suggests it's a niche technology that has little chance of becoming anything but a niche technology. It's not made any significant headway in gaming, in entertainment of other kinds, nor in general business settings.

There are some specialist domains where 3D visualization is worth the cost and inconvenience, but it seems to me very unlikely that it will ever escape those. Meta's gigantic investment with little to show for it seems to me to support this observation.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights defines the right to adequate standards of living. It includes housing, food, medical care.

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including foods, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

So, yes, they're both part of the same human rights. Note that the US has not ratified the UDHR, because... Well, it's the US.
About 15 years ago we had our first chickens. Due to space and time constraints, we did not build a new chicken house, but bought an old children's playhouse on stilts. The chickens should get an automatic chicken flap. But unfortunately, at that time all purchasable automatic chicken flaps worked on the principle of a winch and the flap had to go up vertically. With our chicken house, however, only a horizontally opening flap would have worked. So I built an automatic chicken flap from parts of an old inkjet printer, two limit switches and an Arduino. It has worked flawlessly for many years. Another advantage was: my control opened in the morning at 8 o'clock and closed in the evening depending on the calculated sunset (+ 30 min). Such ingenious control I have not seen in any automatic chicken flap until today.
All automatic chicken flaps that can be purchased in Germany today work either with a timer or with a brightness sensor. And then either in the morning and evening only by time or brightness as trigger. Time combined with brightness can none. And the brightness sensors usually have the disadvantage that the flap opens if you shine at night longer than 1 min on the sensor, for example with the flashlight, if you work something next to the chicken house.
If it's a straw man feel free elaborate on your incomplete commentary with "If you knew what it's not".

GPT offers you zero value because you don't know how to use it, so you're limited to cheap tricks.
Isn't the price the point? The question is whether the poorer of the two is comfortable with the expense. At many times in my life, I was the one "not hungry" when invited to a restaurant.
Can you share the promo you give to gpt?
Bing chat is programmed to never be rude, but also to respond in the same tone that it was spoken to. And so, if it tries to mirror a negative tone, it will instead respond with that goodbye message, to avoid being rude.
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...of course? If he's correct? Who would ever argue he wouldn't count?

But I don't know what your point is in picking one potential whistleblowing example out of thousands. Let's not inject partisan politics where there's no need for it. Whistleblowing has nothing to do with being right-wing or left-wing.
I've had the exact same experience with Google Home.

"Play music on dining room speaker."
(dining room speaker starts blaring music at high volume)
"Turn down dining room speaker."
(No response)
"HEY, GOOGLE. Stop music on dining room speaker."
(dining room speaker music volume decreases)
(from the dining room speaker) "Can't find dining room speaker."
(dining room speaker volume increases, blaring music)

I did follow the advice here to rename all my speakers lowercase, since google home's VOICE interface seems case-sensitive:

https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/jsadkp/i_unders...

And since the Google Home android app is, literally, the worst and least-reliable mobile application I've ever used, the voice interface is pretty much all I've got.
This is our latest project on making LLMs accessible to everyone. With this project, users no longer need to spend a fortune on huge VRAM, top-of-the-line GPUs, or powerful workstations to run LLMs at an acceptable speed. A consumer-grade GPU from years ago should suffice, or even a phone with enough memory.

Our approach leverages TVM Unity, a machine learning compiler that supports compiling GPT/Llama models to a diverse set of targets, including Metal, Vulkan, CUDA, ROCm, and more. Particularly, we've found Vulkan great because it's readily supported by a wide range of GPUs, including AMD and Intel's.

BTW, an interesting data point from Reddit that it also works on steam deck: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/132igcy/comment....
> the tone of the "just simply" writing comes off as condescending because it implies the author is considerably more knowledgeable than the reader

If the author of some library was not considerably more knowledgeable than myself, then I probably wouldn't be poring over said library's documentation.
You could probably go with an AM4 board and a 5800x3d instead. Pretty close performance, a lot lower price, not many complaints about lack of magic smoke retention.

Sure, you lose out on future proofing, with no pci-e 5 and no ddr-5, but eh. Might be better to get into something at the end of the platform, rather than the beginning of a platform. Or you can stay on the wait and see train and maybe next year's systems will be a better choice. AM4 had issues for the first round or two, and Zen3 was pretty nice; it's a pattern that repeats (which is probably why AMD keeps sockets longer, Intel shows this sometimes too, but it's not so pronounced)
Vindman lied to advance the interests of the security state, which attempted for more than four years to get rid of an elected official. The only difference is unlike all the endless parade of false “anonymous official says this”, Vindman was exposed, and his report was not just false but widely reported to be so, unlike many of the others.

That’s not whistleblowing. It’s a (high ranking) government agent attempting to use his power to manipulate the public for the security state (literally one of the elite as a member of the National Security Council) and in opposition to democratic processes. Once again: a government agent “whistleblew” a lie in an attempt to bring down an elected official.

NB: this comment is not an endorsement of the elected official.

Edit: I just learned today that Vindman was born in Ukraine, which also rather changes the color of his “whistleblowing.”
This is one of the coolest things I've ever read. If you don't mind me asking, I'm really interested in how you read, write and edit code. What tools do you use? What's your typical workflow like?
Light is a platform for text-situated dialogue research
In my opinion the consoles for all the cloud providers are a convenience and should not be relied upon nor routinely utilized as part of operations.
It started with the pandemic but stayed because of inflation. Eating out is becoming expensive. Restaurants need to pay a lot more to attract workers which gets reflected in the food prices. Restaurants who were able to transition to a take out model are able to keep prices lower as compared to a full service restaurants and customers don’t want to pay more. My favorite brunch spot for some eggs and coffee used to cost $50 for 2 even during the pandemic shutdowns (they are fully outdoors). Now, it almost touched $100. But my favorite breakfast burrito place used to cost me $13 for a loaded burrito and it now costs me $15. Guess which one gets more business from me now?

To make things work, the tip inflation has made it even worse. More tips for reduced service only encourages more people to order takeout. If I’m ordering at the counter, grabbing my order when it’s ready, eating it at a table and then cleaning up after myself when I’m done, if you ask for a 25-30% tip, I’m going to order takeout and tip 10% if I’m feeling generous.
I think that you missed OP's argument - they're arguing that "wealth" and "social class" are orthogonal. Neither of the two would see each other as their social peer since they have neither wealth nor class in common.

* PhD barista: Low wealth, high class

* High-school educated trust fund baby: High wealth, low class

This sort of framing does seem very medieval though - I get mental images of rich merchants and indebted aristocrats when reading it.
Right, but in NK you starved to death at the governments whim as they had little to no ability to feed themselves.

These conversations are barely worth having unless you're willing to go into long chains of explaining the complexity behind the situations.