skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've touched on what is probably the real issue, but without further measurements, we cannot know for sure. The author said (in the comments) that they used an antenna as the load. With a minimum SWR of 2:1, it's obviously not a very good match. If the match is bad, the length of the cable could have a big effect on the measured power. Other comments suggested using a resistive dummy load instead of an antenna. THAT is the way to go if you are measuring cable insertion loss.

The two cables with the poor insertion loss were 3 and 10 meters in length. None of the good cables were of these lengths.
Ah, right.

I'm not sure why death of the author should really be a factor; why not just a fixed period, whether that's 20 years, 40 years, or something else?

I don't like "20+ increasing yearly price to maintain copyright"; the basic idea behind copyright is that authors or their estate will be able to make a living from their creative works. I'm not opposed to people or corporations make truckloads of money if their work is successful, but under this scheme the more successful your work is, the longer you'll be able to afford renewal fees and the more money you will be able to make off it. An author who made a slightly successful work that still rakes in some money after 20 years (say, €50/month) won't be able to afford the renewal fees, but if something is wildly successful (say, Harry Potter) then they'll be able to afford the renewal fees for a lot longer.

The more successful a work is, the more it's part of our culture. Things like Star Trek or Harry Potter are just as much part of our culture as the Homeric stories were part of Greek culture, or Shakespeare is part of English culture. As far as I'm concerned the biggest reason why we should limit copyright at all is that culture belongs to everybody and that everyone should be able to contribute to that in their own way.
Wouldn’t everyone always swipe left if it’s anonymous?
The phrasing of this feels a little hyperbolic. If you’re found in possession of illegal guns, you’re “automatically assumed to be guilty” unless you can prove you have a valid reason to possess illegal guns. That’s how making things illegal works. You could just say “possessing hate material is illegal under this law”. Which is not a weird thing snuck into the law - it’s literally what the law is about.
> Frankly

I see what you did there
In Sweden it's pretty easy as an developer:

1. Start a business

2. Start contracting anything north of 80$ will give you a really solid income

3. Through your business give yourself a ~45k SEK a month salary

4. Pay yourself dividends from the business profit. You pay very low taxes on dividends

This is a model many many SW engineers in Sweden follow, also running your own business it super simple and for finding clients you can use bigger contracting firms(AFRY) which will take a % of your hourly salary.
US food pesticides contaminated with toxic ‘forever chemicals’ testing finds
This is also a requirement for the research conducted under a project funded by the european comission.
I share your sentiments and it is incredible. To an outsider this might as well be a parody of programming blog posts. Such impenetrable syntax taken in stride:

We can improve this approach by recognizing that we can handle the edge cases by using a catenation:
⍸0 1⍷0,⍵
⍸1 0⍷⍵,0
Notice immediately how much better this feels.

Ah yes, how immediate is the feeling, much better, indeed. APL is so ridiculous, you have to love it.
I remember playing with SGIs as an undergrad and they seemed so "sexy" (from the case, to the window manager, to the demos).

In grad school we had a mix of machines. My professor bought the cheapest Indy's you could buy (minimal RAM and CPU), basically for the OpenGL performance. But next door another group ran a computer graphics lab and they had a bunch of high end SGIs (including an Onyx with InfiniteReality, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniteReality which was quite impressive for its day), as well as DEC Alphas running TruCluster. All these machines were maxxed out on hardware (huge RAM, max cores, large storage) and represented the best of what you could do with UNIX at the time. No Suns, though- the group had a terrible time with NIS and never touched Solaris again.

My wimpy laptop- a 486/100MHz could just barely run OpenGL (in software).
When I finally got budget I spent $15K on 6 PCs to build my first cluster (1997-98). Everybody sort of laughed at the time (compared to their machines, my floating point wasn't so great) but it wasn't too long before nobody was buying "Real UNIX" machines any more.
That's ... insane. We can get an appointment same-day sometimes, and never more than a week out.

Maybe it's a very popular doctor?
Clever idea.

At a job a few years ago, managers and project owners were in the habit of canceling meetings last-minute if no agenda.

In principal this was great - give people back time - but it was unfortunately unilateral and too late. Basically, if you don't see the Slack message about "hey, anyone have stuff for this meeting, if not I'll cancel" in the thirty minute window before the meeting, you didn't get a say - so in practice this meant the managers/project owners were the ones making the decisions and upward and sideways communication just didn't happen very frequently. E.g. if manager A has a standing meeting with individuals B, C, and D, and A individually was up to date on what all three of B, C and D were doing, A would cancel the meeting and B/C/D wouldn't be up to speed on what they were doing unless they all set up more individual meetings taking up more time than the original one "gave back."

That was less of a problem in-office where others are likely to bump into each other anyway, but when things went remote it was isolating.
Great article, thanks for sharing.
You are missing the point entirely. I am not comparing entire countries, just the companies and skill of their management.

To make my point clearer, lets replace Germany with Kazahstan.

Lets say we are examining if Starbucks management is more or less skilled than some random coffee company in Kazahstan.

Revenue per customer in USA will be higher. Sometimes workers in Kazahstan could be sick because there is outbreak of the literal plague and that will hit revenues.

Could you replace management in Kazah coffee company with American management and achieve the same results as in US?

Does the great skill of American management prevent outbreaks of the plague, or stops mafia from raiding your corporate office? No, in Us management doesn't even have to think about these kind of issues.

If not, then lets not assign the entire success of American society to corporate upper management?
Diminishing returns, probably, especially if you live in a location where you're going to be setting your watch twice a year anyway for daylight saving.
So how do I kill this “zombie”?

I know there has to be a better way using modern tech.
> Heck, I think XClock is challenged to run in 20MB today.

Assuming you mean the 'xclock' binary you'd find in Xorg installations, it seems to use about 8MB of RES memory. But keep in mind that it drags in a bunch of libraries (objdump shows Xaw, Xmu, Xt, X11, Xrender, Xft, xkbfile and the math and C libraries as direct dependencies) and those drag their own (ldd shows 26 libraries) and all of that stuff add to the memory overhead for their own purposes even if at the end xclock didn't use them. Chances are an xclock reimplementation that talked the X11 protocol directly, used only the minimum functionality needed to display the clock lines and was statically linked to some minimal C library without any external dependencies would use much less memory.

Though even that would probably feel as too much memory since a lot of the memory used by a program in a Linux system relies a lot on what is already there - including the hardware and kernel drivers.

(which is also why these articles comparing memory usage between various desktops tend to make zero sense as they measure the entire system memory usage, the largest part of which is outside the control of the desktop environment in the first place and in most cases will vary between different computers even with the same distro)
Back in the before times it wasn't uncommon for people to release malware without any explicit monetary benefit. Sometimes they just did it as a "fuck you" to Microsoft, who at the time had a very very poor reputation for a myriad of reasons beyond the scope of this comment.

tl;dr they might just do it for the lulz
I recently got added to a WhatsApp college reunion group. I was happy to see my classmates being active again. And I was busy. So I quickly crafted a message using chatgpt and reintroduced myself and started a conversation.
Now I will be wondering if I was the only one preventing the cancellation of an unpopular meeting
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Yes, that's where the improvements to sounding natural really compound.
Reminds me of this little-known Seuss book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHyrVyCqKwo

If it's not a scheduled appointment, but a "next available time" one, ask to be put on a cancellation notification if you're near the doctor's office; they get a cancellation, call you, you're there in 10 minutes kind of thing.
Glad to see this idea actually built! People kept talking about wanting this on Twitter. Makes a lot of sense inside companies.

Definitely wish I had it at some past employers that had certain regular sync meetings that were pretty useless. People tend not to want to point it out so as to not offend the manager who loves organizing them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifier#/media/File:3_phase_... shows the visual of what full-wave 3-phase rectification is. Note how very low the ripple is between the high and the low of these peaks.

3 phase is 120 degrees out of phase. Wall power only has a single phase, 360 degrees. Via +/- rectification the situation gets more complex. The key thing, as the other commenter points out, is that there is always always power available. Where-as with wall-power you literally drop to zero voltage as you go + to - & back.
One method I've known to work for people is to buy an Oculus. You need a Facebook account for it and Oculus tech support can reactivate your Facebook account. After that return the Oculus. This is the post where I first heard of this [1] and it worked for my brother-in-law. YMMV.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29624826
Crowdfunding Year-to-Date by Portal
99 Wefunder

72 StartEngine

33 MainVest, Inc.

31 Honeycomb Portal LLC

30 Republic

16 NetCapital

14 SMBX

This is based companies filing a Form-C (Crowdfunding) with the SEC. Does not include withdrawals of filings (which might make the numbers smaller).
The best way to deal with them is to never engage with their sales team. Use what you need, don’t let them talk you into more.

Every year, I get a barrage of phone calls and emails from them, and I actively choose to not engage.

Pricing has remained pretty much flat aside from the expected growth. They work hard to get you to overcommit and overpay.

Also, you don’t need all your logs indexed. Saved a company I’m under contract with a massive amount of money (10s of thousands/month) by pointing out that you should just index (sample) a percentage of them to identify if there is a trend, and you can rehydrate later.
The lazy solution is to put something like:

sleep $((RANDOM%=60))

...or longer, at the top of the script your cron is running.
what are you talking about? Drive _anywhere_ in the UK and you'll see an aerial TV antenna on almost every roof.
Dispute each charge with your bank. Give them the evidence that they have not responded to your attempts to contact them.
早安 is made up of 2 characters but is a single word. If you fall into the trap of thinking 1 character = 1 word, you won't understand a thing. In this case you'd have thought it meant "early safe" instead of "good morning".
If it's a recurring meeting, you can attach a google doc or whatever to it in calendar with meeting notes/agenda. People can add to the agenda whenever, and if there's nothing on it the meeting can get cancelled.
Um, yea, I would expect an app that is meant to help manage your meetings needs access to your calendar invites... that's the whole point.

If you used this logic, you couldn't use any non-open-source calendar tool, or apps like Superhuman.
Memorandum came to mind as well — something that must be remembered, I guess.
That's a useful breakdown in terms of how to think about it.

One angle I am curious about is whether it's to some extent an artefact of how you regularise the model as much as the number of parameters and other factors.

You can think about it in terms of, if you regularise it enough then you force the network instead of fitting specific data points, to actually start learning logic internally because that is the only thing generalisable enough to allow it to produce realistic text for such a diverse range of prompts. You have to have enough parameters that this is even possible, but once you do, the right training / regularisation essentially starts to inevitably force it into that approach rather than the more direct nearest-neighber style "produce something similar to what someone said once before" mechanism.
>Then the spammers sell the hardware and real customers gets affected

A site could chosen to only ban a computer for day or just give it a bad reputation (require a credit card number or phone to make an account). Or real customers could learn not to buy from shady sources and instead by new, safe devices.

>uniquely-identifying tracking of the user and its hardware, which I don't believe is what's missing in the internet right.

It is missing from the internet and it is part of the reason why spam is a big problem.

>which would make reality the fears of the FSF and co. regarding secure boot and the trusted platform module being used for user control.

User control? It allows services like GitHub to provide a better experience to users by having much less spam. This makes the lives of average users better.

>start banning "deprecated" or "unsupported" hardware from accessing services

It makes sense if you want to have your service be more secure. You could also provide a degraded experience to people with insecure hardware. For example you may not be able to make a PR with insecure hardware, but you could still bookmark a project.
Good point. Shouldn’t be using that either.
Seems like naming a product F1 when that's one of the most popular motor sport brands in the world might be slightly a bad idea in terms of trademark / branding?
sorry to be snarky there. Your post read to me like, "I haven't seen a banana in the US in 10 years. We don't eat them anymore."
Solving a critical bug in the default Rails caching library
I read it as coax from outside to the cable modem, not between 2 Ethernet capable devices.
Death by paperwork is the symptoms of late-stage bureaucracy. In the early days of something, it's all fly-by-pants and everything is so good compared to the previous alternative that nobody cares, but as it gets more and more "finalized" the paperwork mounts more and more to "prevent" issues, because the issues the overload of paperwork causes aren't accounted for.

Ten patients die because there was no doctor to see them? Nothing important.

One patient sued because a doctor made a mistake that didn't even kill them? Hugely important, ten more pages of paperwork will have to be added; the paperwork won't prevent it happening again, but now it'll clearly be the doctor that is liable, not the practice/hospital/insurance company.
This is particularly hard for LLMs because they don't have words input as characters but rather as tokens (1-N characters). I haven't tested this, but they might do better at counting words?
When people speak in bad faith, you don’t have to listen to them. The boy who cried wolf was in the wrong, not the townspeople who ignored him. Perhaps this is the one time when a normally un-reliable source is presenting a thesis that is intellectually sound - but unless a more reliable source picks it up, it’s not worth taking seriously.
None of those things actually make any impact into how secure or privacy-preserving an app is...
whats a good british english dictionary?
NYC Guessr
Yes, and almost no radio stations program indie artists, so they make pretty much zero from radio. They make a little from streaming, but mostly make money from live gigs and fan merchandise.
Do you do any exercise or strength training?
Train a multi-modal chatbot with visual and language instructions
Haven’t heard it, but I like it
Friendly PSA: If you're going to use ChatGPT to generate code, do everyone a favor and add something like "...and write a passing unit test" to the prompt.

If you want to really do everyone a favor, consider that TDD has never been easier. Don't write a prompt, write a unit test-- and instruct GPT to write the code that makes it pass.

(Don't ask AI to do your work...ask it to finish your work.)
Do they really do it?

In the past 40 years several FTSE 250 companies have collapsed, gone bancrupt or suffered some other disaster.

I can't name any example where shareholders replaced upper management before it was too late. Can you?
Disclaimer: all of my beliefs are based on assumptions, and any of the assumptions I am making here could be wrong. This is my perspective on this issue and has been for a while.

I look to the beliefs of the people pushing such measures. They believe hate speech is violence. Not that it merely is bad, but that it actually equates to violence. In fact, certain forms of hate speech are not just violence, but genocide. The government could arrest someone for having materials on your device to commit violence in the form of bombs or shootings, why can't they arrest you for hate speech then? How did we treat the Nazis after their genocide? Since they believe that going against the government's beliefs is equal to genocide, will we be treated that way for "wrongthink"? This leads me to believe that it is possible in the future they may even try to kill you under the guise of preventing hate speech. It's happened before in many countries thay believed they were modern, rational, and scientific. Why can't it happen now? Because "we're not in a history book"? I wonder if someday this comment of mine will be used as exhibit A of evidence I "committed genocidal acts of hate speech" and should be shipped off to the gulag or concentration camp.

The beliefs of these people are creating a mathematical gradient pushing our society and culture towards punishment, revenge, hatred, and tyranny.. and who knows what the limits are to how far it will go.

For those of you inclined to disagree because of how extreme this conclusion sounds, I understand why you would do that, but that heuristic would also have led you astray in the numerous atrocities committed in what people in the 1900s believed were "modern times". The atrocities seemed to have been a product of human nature and our nature certainly hasn't changed in 80-50 years; if anything we have become prideful and don't think we need to watch out for our nature, which I would assume exacerbates our susceptibility to the flaws in our nature.

I am very interested to hear the thoughts of those of you who agree and disagree with me.

God bless
Pre COVID I joined an all remote startup as a very experienced first employee .. phone calls / skyping / email throughout each day always minimum length and minimum participation as needed... the project flourished beautifully... same approach is valid today for similar very early startups

key is only highly productive engineers with track record of fully independent powerful problem solving

never any coding questions as a service during hiring

I've been fully remote for over a decade and never again will take any on location requirement jobs

I taught myself coding by myself while working on a ship pre Internet just me and some books... more important than experience early on is creativity and can do attitude coupled with fortitude and perseverance... I have never assumed failure was bad instead a learning opportunity
> future passive participle, typically ending in -ndus, -nda, -ndum.

...

> It means that something needs/ought to be done.

> something needs/ought to be done.

> "she who must be loved."

All of your examples are in the present tense.
They have used this defense before in his various spats with the FTC.
What would be great is the same feature for rescheduling.

Sometimes a meeting is important and shouldn't be cancelled, but the scheduled day/time ends up being inconvenient for one reason or another. Not inconvenient enough to justify claiming a last-minute conflict, but enough that you would still rather do it another time if it turned out that everyone else was in the same boat.
Curious if you can share any examples of this happening?
It isn't behaving randomly, no organism does. It is reacting to stimuli. The mechanism that determine how it reacts to the stimuli have just changed with the mutation
Actually it is very expensive. I am talking about consuming a lot of grams every day, 50 to 100 grams, which is not a lot given it is roughly 1/1000 of the weight of a normal human, but it is the luxury of a millionaire for the moment. It is true that we most probably don't see any statistical correlation between saffron consumption and intelligence, especially in a country level, but i would argue, that the dosage makes the genius.

Some of the virtues of the article, are a state of mind anyway, that's why i mention saffron. Many people are eating too much, only to feel better. Food has certainly the ability to alter our state of mind, which in some cases ends up in obesity.

Virtues in the article, like apatheia, ataraxia, eudaimonia include in their meaning, not indulging in every pleasure in excess, and food is one of them. Well, that can be automated by producing more saffron and lowering it's price.
Asking for other people's opinions gave it away.
60% of employment in 2018 was in roles that didn’t exist in 1940
Well the person who scheduled the meeting clearly thinks it's important, so they aren't going to be swiping left on their own meeting. I don't see how this gets many meetings canceled, except maybe standing meetings that nobody wants to go to this week.
Which of the digital assets were not approved for listing in every state of operation?

Did US states approve these assets for listing on cryptoasset exchanges that do not sell securities?
It's pretty much a rite of passage as internet millionaires to have a safe room with 9,000 lb safes isn't it? Who doesn't have a house with a ballistic safe room? I'm just trying to put the helicopter landing pad on my house and the damn HOA won't pass my building plans. I think I'm going to have to buy a bunch more houses so I can get more votes. #noNimbys
NextGen Healthcare says hackers accessed personal data of more than 1M
Chroma is not an LLM, it is "just" a database that you pass vectors into to search.

A Ruby client would be great. Our FastAPI spec makes this pretty easy - it's at localhost:8000/openapi.json when the docker backend is running.
Check out https://github.com/intuit/devtools-ds
Attestation would only serve to lock out new platforms and people using Linux or other lesser known platforms.
Don't forget the other reasonable part, testing that 50 caliber machine guns can't penetrate the safety of your home walls. That's pretty normal too, right?
It's been rock solid as long as you don't use nvidia cards. It's been great on my laptop, but on my desktop with an nvidia card installed there are always minor annoyances every update (fixed an issue but has another issue appear, etc), probably nvidia driver's fault.
I've always found this to be one of those "manager schedule/style" vs "engineer schedule/style" things.

Hard blockers get added, but otherwise I've found ICs to be very hesitant about adding to the agenda. Especially when it's just "I want to know what's going on in the other teams/projects" because nobody wants to admit ignorance.