skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Terrible how commercial lobbies are now able to hurt populations

You make this sound like it's about legalizing a dangerous chemical or something. It's extending copyright limits. I don't feel particularly "hurt" by not being able to legally publish Mickey Mouse fan fiction.
I find this analogy harder to understand. What am I hiring the mathematician to do in this example?
I believe that was the case. The 9/11 Commissions Report is actually really, really well written and quite a gripping read. Highly recommended but IIRC that was the reason. And the report is freely available if you don't want to pay for the book: https://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf
I watched it for the first time a month back and was blown away. And the central conflict around water scarcity in CA is still incredibly relevant today. What a movie!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20300008
The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs
Fair enough. This is the kind of cyclical process without discontinuities, so it will follow the average.

However, for things like animal migration - and generally the more immediate threats of climate change, such as increasingly destructive weather events, ecosystems dying out, crops failing, wet bulb temperature hitting levels that make some countries uninhabitable in the summer - tracking the high and low points matters much more. E.g. the average may even go down, but if this is because cold point drops and high point goes up, ever for a small part of the year, we can kiss farming in the region goodbye.
It’s just… half baked. It feels like the CDK team constantly has to work circles around the lacking functionality in CFN. Want to upload a docker image to ECR, use this hacky lambda function. Want to create an object in an S3 bucket? Use this other hacky lambda function.

Then a lot of the resources depend on each other in funky ways, but they’re not always implicitly defined, so whether everything will be created in the right order is anyone’s guess and you often have to define the dependencies manually anyway.

Then when it fails to bring up/modify a stack you get the helpful message that resource x failed to create, but nearly never why.

Like, CDK is marginally better than plain CF, but something like Terraform or Pulumi is so much better that it’s hard to imagine anyone would want to use anything else.

Also, like someone else said, the stacks are directly bound to specific accounts/regions. When I bring domething up that is my QA environment, I’d enjoy it if I didn’t have to split every stack in twain (cloudfront certificates that can only be in us-east-1 or something).

Oh, and when you finally work through all these issues and work on your app for a few months, the dreaded message will come up… “Maximum of 500 resources in stack reached”.

Now enjoy splitting it all up.
It's not quite a pressure differential, but a chemical potential differential (but thinking of it as a 'pressure' gives a useful mental model).
I have major issues with inductive charging in the road but truly in a snowy area the waste heat from it would automatically clear the roads which in a place like Florida has no use for but in Canada it would be great.
Musk is welcome to say "that's a deep fake, I never said that".

He can't say "because I'm the target of deep fakes, you can't use any video evidence against me".
AMD is fabless (GF was spun off years back), so despite them both being in the x86 CPU business, they're not in easily comparable situations.
The headline did not sit well with me either, maybe something like "coverup related to 9/11" would be better?

It's funny, I have a very different take on the use of the phrasing "lab leak," since to me it seems intended to preempt any consideration of an intentional release.
Lets be honest, FB lost its appeal with young crowd. I'm about to hit 40s, I keep my FB disabled, occasionally log in and only keep my account, because I have a lot of relatives who still use it and a lot of them are older people.
Amount of Ads in FB lately is unbearable. It used to be a great place, because I could see what my friends like and interested in. FB removed that functionality. Now, I only see that my friends like Cartier, Omega, Rolex, LV.....
Fake ad emails. Coming soon.
But estimating revenue is just as much of a shot in the dark as estimating effort, and if the effort is great enough it will cancel out the revenue.
Trinity Test is front and center in trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer
> Notice how Ryu's teeth white color comes from his clothes. For Ken, artists had to reuse some of the skin color because Ken's kimono is red.

That's interesting that I never noticed the slight differences in color on the teeth given their restrictions.

Also... Ken is wearing a Gi, not a Kimono. Kimono does literally mean "thing to wear", but a Gi is the training clothes pictured in Ken's model.
You're basically describing C++.

Nothing in your link suggests a practical way of constructing unboxed arrays of structs in CL. And even if it did, it would presumably be one that worked only on a specific architecture.
This is fascinating, within a few years or so there will be no way to determine whether a video was deep faked or not with 100% accuracy.
People have faked letters and documents for centuries.

I’m not a lawyer, but don’t courts have a way of weighting the trustworthiness of a piece of evidence?

In Mr. Musks case, there are many witnesses who observed him making the statements that are shown in the video.
Probably several well-funded ones. We just never got to know them. That whole event wasn't even remotely spontaneous.
> Won't firing people impede that?

Not if their upper management has deemed the output/productivity of those employees "not worth it" from a business perspective, or not if the employees they are firing are in the wrong department/organization for that goal.
A proper restaurant will have a literal waiter (the name of the job comes from that) ask you to be seated reasonably quickly anyway. And if it's overfilled, inform you of that.
I assume it's like USB where power moves at a safe level (if at all) until both ends have had a chat about it.
If this isn't the sign that Intel has no inspiration to invest and profit on their assets I don't know what is.
makes you click to read the comments and get a TL;DR
I think so.

I spent some time pitching ideas for an intelligent data analysis tool and I have slide decks for it kicking around. Later on I worked for a startup that developed such a tool. If you contact me through my profile I can send you some decks.
If you are able to copy it off the laptop it becomes something you know. One important property about something you have is that you the owner of the account have that thing in your possession then no one can hack you. If someone is able to copy it then that invariant is not true.

Writing your password on a piece of paper doesn't turn that password into something you have.
That would represent a revolution in terms of how the court operates and how many cases are thrown out. There will be riots.
It may need a bit of clarification nod.

<Training> by any definition you care to give it does not rise to the level of copyright violation (In the case of training eg stable diffusion, on average only a couple of bits worth of "notes" are stored per image. If that's a copyright violation then pretty much anything would be). The main issue -believe it or not- is actually the part where images get temporarily downloaded.

As stated: explicitly legal in the EU. May need some work in the US.
I guess the market will reach an equilibrium. Over time, if workers prefer WFH, they will demand a premium to work in person, so employers will end up paying.
It is easy to blame the nuclear policy for the lack of sufficient climate goals, however it is even easier to blame the climate goals them selves.

A reduction from 45% to 30% of the whole German energy market in less than a decade is certainly a sizeable reduction, I would even call it significant. However I agree it wasn’t sufficient, anything above 0% is insufficient, we are in a climate emergency after all. But I fail to see how keeping the nuclear powerpants open is a guaranteed strategy while faster rollout of renewables isn’t. We have proof of the latter, and we also see different energy markets such as France where the renewable rollout is a lot slower, and so is coal reduction.
Current AI is no different than a switch controlling a light bulb. You press switch on your keyboard it turns LED pixels on your monitor as per the switch logic.
A setient being is more complex than a switch.
I'd recommend reading about stakeholder capitalism. E.g. "Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy that Works for Progress, People and Planet" written by the founder of the world economic forum.
Normally in court you have to provide foundation that the evidence is accurate, for video that normally means the person that recorded the video tells the jury it is a true and accurate representation of what they saw.

however the courts have been lack of late allowing police to download social media and YT videos and attest that "the video is a true and accurate representation of what I saw on social media post" because they often can not find, or can not secure the person that actually took the video (or the video was taken by the defendant who can not be made to testify against themselves)

It is very dangerous when we start lessing the requirements for foundation in the law, and the courts have been doing that on many fronts when it comes to "forensic science" (see bite mark evidence as another example of this)
Will it be too late? Balmer's stench is almost completely off Microsoft.
Then let Musk hire an expert who can act as a witness. Let the prosecution do the same. AKA - how technical concerns like this are already argued in court.

Photoshop, videos with doubles, and other such impersonation issues have been a thing for a long time, and the courts have found ways to deal with them.
Should it be? Is it true for everyone? Or is just that what we're mirroring through society?

Sexuality is true for nearly 100% of the human race, whereas violence has no need to be.
it's definitely early in the race.
Close to 30k people now displaced as Alberta continues battling wildfires
>Typical reverse osmosis filters produce one unit of clean water for every three units of intake

That's actually a very optimistic figure IME:

I recently started using a consumer under-sink RO system from GE Appliances at my off-grid cabin, the kind you find at Home Depot.

If you use the included pressurized accumulator tank, the stated efficiency is ~10%.

Since I'm off-grid, the reject line is run to a 5-gallon water cooler bottle, making product:reject water ratio comparisons trivial. Even 10% is somewhat optimistic.

The efficiency is about double if you disable the pressurized accumulator, that way there's no pressure on the other side of the membrane (except when stopped). It's not a simple fixed ratio since the efficiency decreases as the accumulator fills and the pressure difference across the membrane approaches zero. It's actually pretty insane how wasteful the system is as-delivered if you use the accumulator, towards 100% full it's mostly just rejecting water for an hour+.

Without the accumulator, but using the included reject water restriction orifice, it's more like 20-25%. I've ended up adding an adjustable restrictor valve on the reject water line to keep it closer to the 3:1 you described, which shouldn't damage the membrane AIUI.

I guess it's just safe defaults they ship in an unsophisticated system connecting to potentially high inlet pressures. This combined with a luxurious pressurized accumulator tank, makes it spectacularly wasteful of perfectly good water. Most wouldn't even realize the waste volumes having the reject line plumbed into the sink drain.

I've been making huge hexagonal concrete pavers with the reject water...
Distinction without a difference. When Chevrolet added a convertible top to the original Corvette they didn’t go in people’s driveways and cut the roofs off
I don't know how anyone hasn't mentioned this yet, the $180 Nvidia Tesla P40 24GB is about as capable as a 4090 for running LLMs (~70% of the token throughput for 8x cheaper). You can even run two or more in SLI to run 65B or larger models.

Just search eBay for Nvidia P40. Be sure to add an aftermarket cooling fan ($15 on eBay), as the P40 does not come with its own.

The P40 is a LOT faster than an ARM Mac, and a lot cheaper.

(Note: Do not go older than a P40. Pascal or newer is required to run 4bit quantizatized models. For example. the $100 M40 24GB is effectively only 6GB as it must run models in 16bit.)
>average commenters

Average commenters hasn't been worth the effort, at least pre chatgpt.

Everytime one of these foreign (non English country) programs gets revealed, the underlying pattern is concentrated effort coordinated against visible voices on public platforms with high dissemination potential (not HN). There's a reason they're spamming reporting to silence instead of just drown out with counter content is because it takes a lot of effort, disproportionate amount, to disrupt even one voice. Especially by non English speaking countries where English fluency is much better allocated and rewarded for other sectors. Up until now, coordinated groups are limited / busy with a few dozen/hundred state enemies, not yhour average commenter, and even then they don't have time/energy/resources to "particpate" in discussions. Even PRC, with all their resources, coordiated campaigns was mostly limited to twitter size responses, most of the time splamming pro PRC platitudes instead of engaging in topic, because ROI of genuinely exchanging paragraphs of discussion with some nobody on HN or reddit is terrible.

Of course this is pre LLM.
Taiwan and South Korea transitioned from military dictatorships to fairly robust democracies. Is there a similar future ahead for Vietnam? Why or why not?
Awesome! thank you
Why New Cars Are So Expensive in the US
Or the version in take away business, the hidden packaging charge.
Since you brought up McD's, then how do you explain why they're now rolling out Big Macs with more sauce, not less [1]? Along with a bunch of other improvements like melting cheese rather than sticking it on burgers cold.

If nothing else matters than making numbers in a quarter, if companies "only ever cut back on things like product", then how do you explain this example of actual corporate behavior?

It's not like McD's vs Burger King is full of competition in a way that Hellman's vs Miracle Whip isn't, to use your mayonnaise example. (Or Kraft, or store-brand, to continue with mayo.)

This idea that there are major "limits to competition" in "almost every consumer-facing product" just isn't reality. Companies compete with each other ruthlessly.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/mcdonalds-t...
The CIA operates outside the law by design. They just need to say they're doing it for "national security reasons". There are laws that attempted to curtail these powers, but it has never done anything other than creating additional paperwork.
Dishonesty toward the tribunal is a violation of the rules of professional responsibility/conduct (model rules 3.3 and 8.4(d), the latter is what they disbarred Clinton for).

Federal courts have rule 11, where an attorney can essentially call out the opposing counsel after some cure period and ask the court to impose sanctions on the attorney that's getting out of line. State courts have some equivalent.

In practice, most lawyers don't lie to the court because their career is dependent on maintaining a working relationship with the courts in which they appear. Even within the same case, if the presiding judge has good reason to believe you're a liar, every subsequent motion or argument you make is going to be viewed with skepticism.
The onus on the prosecution/plaintiff is to prove the defense guilty at whatever standard of evidence is required for the case. Not to prove or disprove any claims about evidence. If the defense makes a claim about any piece of evidence, it is up to them to prove to the court's satisfaction that their claim is truthful.
You know there's a Disney park in California too, that has a monorail and shuttle services too?

So why not compare Disney to Disney and the metros to... well...
> This is pretending that, as others have noted, Google haven't made a habit of locking out accounts for no reason and providing no path to recovery

No. Other people have posted incorrect claims but repetition doesn’t make them less wrong. If Google locks your account, you lose the ability to add new devices to that account but all of your current devices will still have their synced keys stored on their devices as well as the ability to use other passkeys, recovery codes, etc. If Google locks your account, this is nowhere near the biggest problem you’ll have.
> For our own use-cases, I built a framework from scratch, and it was the best decision we made.

My thinking precisely.
So you just used the "raw" OpenAI (I presume?) API, and no other tech on top?
Snippet from said document.

> Any serious effort at transformation
must occur within the larger framework of
U.S. national security strategy, military
missions and defense budgets. The United
States cannot
simply declare a
“strategic pause”
while
experimenting
with new
technologies and
operational
concepts. Nor
can it choose to
pursue a
transformation
strategy that
would decouple
American and
allied interests.
A transformation strategy that solely
pursued capabilities for projecting force
from the United States, for example, and
sacrificed forward basing and presence,
would be at odds with larger American
Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century
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policy goals and would trouble American
allies.
Further, the process of transformation,
even if it brings revolutionary change, is
likely to be a long one, absent some
catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a
new Pearl Harbor. Domestic politics and
industrial policy will shape the pace and
content of transformation as much as the
requirements of current missions.
"The United States can always be relied upon to do the right thing — having first exhausted all possible alternatives." -- Unknown

Here we will expend a bit of money to find out why it is (or isn't) possible to actually recharge untracked vehicles on the fly (inductively/wirelessly). I look forward to seeing what is learned from this effort.

[Edit - add detail]
That's generally true: you "waive" certain defenses if you don't state them, at certain points in the litigation process.

That said, at the most important moments, typically lawyers will focus on the 3-or-so 'best' (in their view) defenses and focus on those. Then if you lose, you can appeal and say the judge didn't consider your 15th-best defense closely enough :)
Adding this to help understanding, even though we appear to be enemies:

There is an information war going on. Many headlines and things that you might try to call “news” I see as malicious and violent. How can a news organization write that hurricane damage is more expensive than ever, allow many readers to believe that it is all because hurricanes are worse, and refuse to mention how coastal areas have developed in the same time?

This is war. Clutch your pearls all you like, but we are done pretending that your intents towards us are anything but malicious. This is us trying to intimidate you into backing down, because it is the right thing to do, and better than the alternative.

We see you for who you are. We don’t care if you agree or not. Stop this madness before more people get hurt. Stop the lies, stop the fighting words - coded or not. Just stop it.
Are there any examples of elegant CL code that performs lots of vector geometry calculations? I'm skeptical that this sort of code would come out elegantly in CL (at least if it had to perform reasonably well).
> Even the most dense simpleton understands that having no rights means having no rights.

I understand this is exaggerated, but I'm not sure it's true. Plenty of people argue all the time that taking away their own rights is not a problem:

"if you're not a criminal, you have nothing to worry about",

"if you have nothing to hide, you don't need privacy",

"we need to give up freedoms for a greater good",

"the government knows best",

"if the government is watching, everyone will behave better",

"if you can't trust the government, who can you trust?",

"the founding fathers didn't prescribe freedom X",

"only terrorists need freedom Y" (like privacy),

"if you give people too much freedom, they will abuse it",

"if you don't like it, you can leave the country",

and the pandemic favourite — "it's only temporary", despite ample evidence in history that temporary stripping of freedoms is almost never temporary.

I don't know... I've heard too many self-sabotaging arguments for stripping away freedoms from ordinary people that perhaps I'm convinced a good chunk of "the most dense simpletons" would be fine with it. Maybe they'd champion it if the right political party proposed the removal of freedoms.
Ouch, hope they figure things out, would love to see them come out of this better.
And a glorious world it is. We had to go through millenia of chaos and violence before we found a system which can channel greed and status and power seeking into something mostly productive.
“Trendy” isn’t the word I would use, I would say “urgent”.
This had been true forever for documents and letters and other kinds of evidence. Courts can deal with uncertainty
Or people expecting their field gives them infinite knowledge in another. These are both authors from a business school, and it shows.

It basically says "In this essay we will use the economic theories of Adam Smith to show why something should be ethically ok from a philosophy of law perspective".
>“With climate change, it’s very easy to recommend what you should do: you just stop burning carbon. If you do that, eventually things will be okay. For this it’s not at all clear what you should do.”

If we accept (I don't, but for the sake of argument) that AI is a catastrophic danger, isn't the answer equally as easy? You just stop burning carbon and you just stop training AI.
Can’t they be used as a source of non-potable water? Like toilets, irrigation, maybe laundry?
What type of lifestyle does $1 billion make available that is not already affordable with $200 million?
Strictly speaking that's not true and, it's not fair to call it a dumb article.

Corporations are supposed to what's best for the shareholders. Milton Friedman equated it to maximizing profit, but it's not necessarily so.

Even if you assume that the profit is the sole reason for the corporation, it's not clear laying off 20% worker would necessarily lead to maximizing shareholder profit in the following years (e.g., it could lead to stifled innovation, lower employee morale, etc).
Let's preface everything I say here with "on paper" or "theoretically" or "in an ideal world" ...

The FBI's goal is to arrest people, charge them, and send them to jail. Everything they do will be presented to the public, at trial, and examined by the opposing side and presented to a jury. There's not a lot of room for nuance here. There's also not a lot of room for secrecy. The accused has the right to confront their accuser.

The CIA's goal is to "protect the nation" and almost by definition deals entirely in secrets and ambiguity. "Sources and methods" are some of the most closely held and valuable secrets. "A person we kinda trust, sometimes, accused someone of possibly planning to maybe do something nefarious." -- not going to hold up well in court, even if it's totally reasonable to now put that person on some kind of watch list (and yes, at this point, all of us are on some sort of watch list -- see the disclaimer above; we're now at 30,000 days of the condor and counting)

So -- intelligence sharing between the CIA and the FBI sounds great in theory; in practice it may be tricky.