skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The dial/hangup buttons map to modifier keys and power control, and the trackpad can be mapped to mouse/arrow/scroll keys. No plans for touchscreen yet :)
Controlled burns and prescriptive cullings of deer do wonders.

Honestly, the fools that prevent these end up suffering when fires and deer accidents jump up.
Oof.

You're not wrong, this is really really bad, especially for Dropbox, storage is their business so I expected way better.

These stats are no different to S3 at all. All of this engineering and moving away from AWS and for so few gain in availability.

I was initially excited when they moved away from AWS and expected industry leading higher availability when they moved away, but I was wrong.

This is disappointing for Dropbox which this is their main business, storing files without any minor hiccups or outages for years.
The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism [pdf]
Pushing electricity onto the grid does come with a cost though and if the electricity is pushed onto the grid at a time when it is not needed, you need to deal with it somehow. In some jurisdictions (parts of Australia) they cut you off from the grid if there is an overproduction of solar.
So, the problem is money just like the previous poster said. You can pay the poor employee for a few months while building documentation to CYA or you can fire them immediately and potentially owe them the 3 months (and likely more) from a settlement. Taking months to fire an underperformer is simply an exercise in risk management not a legal necessity.
Asda (owned by Walmart) solved this one - you can pull a shopping trolley up to the larger self-checkout and there's plenty of space.
WORDSTAR!!!!!!

https://awritersden.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/george-r-r-mart...
When even users are recommending a subscription service, that's when you know we have become brainwashed into thinking it's a healthy or required practice.
I prefer Pachinko, a vertical wall of falling metal balls being shot upward and then fall down thru strategically placed studs, lighted barriers, and sometimes returned to the top with flippers, especially played for money.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachinko
How do these Secretary’s of State and Generals end up on boards like this?

Like how do they find the company in the first place? Who connects SecDef Mattis with a blood test company?

what value do they gain out of being on it measurably? Equity? Salary?

and once there what do they really do?

Does Henry Kissinger really have a connection to the modern day FDA to move things along for Theranos?
My completely unfounded take: Culture.

In Europe, you have a millennia-long culture of classism, feudalism, aristocracy, guilds, etc., that's still somewhat ingrained in modern society. People are more content with being born into a certain class, not expecting or striving for upward mobility. You'll see people picking a profession after school and sticking with it until retirement, and it's out of the norm to switch or try to start a business.

Whereas in the US, a few hundred years ago settlers came in and had to start from scratch. It doesn't matter what you were in your previous life, everyone had an equal start (more or less), and they had to build whole cities from scratch.

I think this partly also explains the differences in salary between the US and Europe. There is a deeply ingrained sense of "ordinary workers shouldn't make more than $X, that doesn't make sense" creating a kind of tacit collusion between employers, which does not exist in this form in the US.
Restitution can be paid out of many types of income. Book deals, inheritance, future earnings after she gets out of prison (she probably won't serve the entire 11 years), etc. In some states, the restitution could also be taken from her spouse's income.

It seems unlikely that she will ever pay the full restitution amount, regardless of how much jail time she serves.
> attempting lock-in; adding half-assed features behind subscriptions gates; shoddy cloud services which will be abandoned in 18 months; dark patterns to trick people further into their channels; difficult, delayed, or non-existent OS and security updates

The reason that this is the only way to create a viable business is because your competition will be doing it.

Unfortunately, non-technical customers will eventually fall into one of these traps as long as one of your competitors is doing it. Therefore, it is only a matter of time after one company deploys the regressive standard, before everyone else copies it (or goes out of business).

The phrase they like using is "leaving money on the table".... makes me think of tipping...
Holmes' father was a VP at Enron and her mother was a congressional staffer[1]. She is the absolute definition of an American elite. To try to characterize her as an outsider is absurd.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200211105506/https://www.busin...
The difference here is Russia deliberately converted it into a aerosol form that can be absorbed by the lungs. It’s not the same as carfentanil dust (or vapor) as a result of bad storage.
Running on trails is like that for me - you must focus or you'll have some face time with a rock.

But I also think that just sitting is a more advanced and more rewarding type of meditation. My belief is that it is a skill which can be practiced.

One technique is to go through each body part and relax it. Eventually it happens automatically.
I wonder what captcha-like mechanism they'll use for annotating this new dataset for their self-driving cars. Gamifying the videos post-drive with AR?
Child support generally can't be removed in bankruptcy
I think this is a sad vision of the future not because a lot of programmers will be forced to do something else, but because it seems like this represents a fundamental failure for formal methods. We're hurtling towards a world where we automatically generate low-quality, buggy code, produced by stochastic parrots who mimic code written in possibly a different era by humans tackling different problems.

Forget about being employed producing software in a world where these are the norms, I don't think I'd want to be a software _user_.

I'd love for programming to be higher level and accessible, but I wish the process were:

- write a _specification_ that describes functionality, invariants, etc

- generate signatures compatible with that specification

- interactively seek implementation-relevant information from the designer, e.g.

- "I see Users can have an unbounded collection of Bars, which can each reference an unbounded number of Wugs. How many Bars do you suppose a typical User would have? How many Wugs per Bar and how many Bars will reference each Wug? How large is a Wug typically?"

- "Which of these DB queries do you expect to be run most/least frequently?"

- "This API method allows for pagination. How often do you expect a user to page beyond k?"

- generate tests

- generate code aligning with signatures, _and which cause tests to pass_ (i.e. program synthesis from examples)

- static analysis / abstract interpretation / model checking to confirm that some invariants are respected

- explicitly reporting which invariants or properties were not able to be confirmed automatically which a human may need to confirm via an ad-hoc analysis

Software is one of the domains where we can actually do a lot of sophisticated automated reasoning, but the current trend of ML code generation as text completion ignores basically all of that, and this seems like a giant waste.
> Most companies, in my experience, don't actually know how to make use of Staff+ engineers.

Absolutely spot on. Making use of Staff+ engineers requires giving them a hard problem that would catapult your company forward if it were solved, and a ton of autonomy in how they go about it. Give them dedicated time to prepare presentations on what they're doing and what they've learned recently. Give them dedicated time to mentor other staff members. Give them a routine, but not a schedule. Stop asking them for so many fucking estimates. Give them access to support staff. And then get your fucking hands off them and let them veritably radiate value to your company.

All of this is, of course, antithetical to whichever imposter-syndrome micro-managing MBA vice president happens to have landed in the chair that gives them authority over these people in their never-ending game of Management Musical Chairs. No fucking way are they going to let some grunt just work on a hard problem without constantly getting in their way, nagging them about pointless deadlines and bullshit estimates, and showing visual progress via good-looking DOM elements so they can take credit for it and get Business Points before their 2-year tenure in that chair is up and they move to Head of Brand Awareness or wherever. No: doing so would reveal that their entire position is literally pointless. Can't have that.
My favorite version of Staff Engineer is "Person whose prospects for career advancement are limited by their seniority, who is consequentially incentivized to care about doing the right thing".

Least favorite version is the one who doesn't realize this, and makes a muddle of an already working system to demonstrate their impact.
AFAIK Transformers and context size are orthogonal concepts. You could have large token contexts before. The transformer directs the “attention” to a specific word/token inside the context.
"full stack" programming is actually incredibly hard since you can no longer push new items once the stack is full. If this happens you better go the route of "stackoverflow" programming.
That is not too different to what the food industry is doing. Soon there will be 100 million people with diabetes.
Thanks! We plan to offer 2 cases (CNC aluminum and clear transparent plastic) once we're happy with the design
What rulings are you referring to? Been reaffirmed that scraping LinkedIn is legal multiple times, even by Supreme Court. https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/
This seems super cool; have you considered selling a model with a battery and case? I would think that would be far more useful to most?
I entirely agree that the explanation in the article is somewhat confusing, because we're selecting 3 items starting from #3 in a list, counting both from the top and the bottom. So which of those three options does the 3 stand for?

The very first demo in the MDN doc for :nth-last-child helped me understand: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:nth-last-c... – just change the "-n + 3" to "n + 3" to match the example in the article.

In that case the selector starts at the third element from the bottom and ends at the top element, matching a total of 6 elements.
Most of the land West of the Mississippi is Federally owned. You wanna do fire abatement on BLM land, you got a long hard fight ahead of you, before you ever get to a written regulation you can cite. Much less laws voted on by Congress.
I like how you say this from the perspective not of a team lead but as another person on the team. Which means you actually don't have any real sense of how much documentation your boss had to do, just what your boss told you they did.

"Sooooo... What's going on with Charlie? Are you documenting? I don't feel like you're documenting." sounds like you hounded your boss into firing your teammate instead of continuing to coach them.
As someone else pointed out, you're overestimating Chrome/ium's market share.

Regardless, after the web.dev/baseline announcement, I looked at Browslerlist and one of our site's analytics and it is shocking how many people are not using the last two versions of evergreen browsers. There is a long tail of browser versions in those stats.

https://browsersl.ist
The old capitalism vs communism discussion again. I'm sure we'll get it sorted out this time.

In hope of sparking some new thoughts, I've just realised that this is one of the subjects where you don't get that "enlightened centrism" thing happening.

Presumably because there's a fairly well defined outcome where the rich get all their stuff taken off them. And so if you meet in the middle then you end up with some kind of modern social democracy, which your average enlightened centrist doesn't want.
I've had a couple complaints about Empire:

1. I was threatened once with fisticuffs because the person spent too much time playing Empire

2. I was blamed for causing one person's divorce

3. I was blamed for a student flunking out

4. Empire was blamed for consuming all the resources of Caltech's PDP-10, and was banned during daytime and during finals week
Thanks, but I'm sticking with R.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35975690
Even if it worked, I would expect bankruptcy to only let you escape the backlog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World_War_glass%E2%80%93...

Not exactly the same, but the history of (potential) trade during conflict isn't really that unique.
Why Being Secure-by-Default Should Be Free
Non-hacker here. Is there any possibility of this being made into a non-touchscreen 5G/4G-VoLTE phone that can be carried in a pocket without damage?
Absolutely not AGI.

I'm talking about AI - made up of multiple modules that focus on different aspects - that can comprehensively build software products, with nothing more than human sign-offs to get from start to finish. Nothing even remotely close to the difficulty of building AGI (which I don't think will happen in the next 30 years at least).

In this scenario the AI has human assistants that sign off on decisions before the AI can proceed further, before it can continue writing more code. The human developers that build this system will include a judgment for checkpoints, for the AI to judge when it thinks it's necessary to ask permission from a human to proceed (hey human, do you want me to go this way or that way?). The AI will occasionally present the human prompt clicker to choose from multiple viable development paths (for example overnight it'll build three different approaches to solving a problem after you leave work at 5pm; when you come in in the morning your task will be to pick the one you think is best, and the AI will proceed from there). I think a pattern of: AI development -> checkpoint approval by human -> continued AI development, will be the superior way to utilize AI to build software (rather than letting it get too far down the wrong path by trying to let it build without oversight most or all of the way).

The human decision making process at checkpoints will become by far the slowest part of building software. The AI will spend most of its time waiting for someone to sign off on a path.
It's not always possible to prove criminal negligence or malice from incompetence.

There are a lot of well intentioned people doing things that directly or indirectly harm people. We generally grade people on intentions and not results.

Other countries have different strategies and those also come with trade offs.
You have to keep going. You must endure and let your brain process, and learn to relax and exist in a non-stimulated state. Facebook and Tik-tok have fried our brains so much that sitting in silence for 30 minutes is painful because we are used to constant dopamine.

Try going on walks, doing guided meditations, leaving your phone in another room and reading a book for 30 minutes. You'll find your brain slowly relax, think more creatively and in a more coherent fashion. It's painful at first, but it's the most important thing you can do.
It took me a second to think through why this comment didn't resonate with me.

It's because I use Bluetooth with laptops, and my desktop has over half a dozen USB-A ports (and Bluetooth!)

Are there common scenarios where the WiFi dongle being plugged into a USB-C to USB-A adapter is better than Bluetooth?
Who says restitution is the most important goal?

The actual goals of the US DOJ are set out here https://www.justice.gov/doj/doj-strategic-plan-2022-2026

1: Uphold the Rule of Law

2: Keep Our Country Safe

3: Protect Civil Rights

4: Ensure Economic Opportunity and Fairness for All

5: Administer Just Court and Correctional Systems
For the rest of her life she will have money garnished from her paycheck and applied towards what she owes. There's a formula they use to ensure that the person still makes money to cover themselves.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/30-cppa
Regarding framework in general (I have 12th gen): I'd like a full-size SD card expansion card for trasferring photos.

Other than that and my 12th gen is nearly perfect. A few really minor things that are probably software issues.
LinkedIn lost the HiQ case. Your GC claiming it’s a win doesn’t change that you lost, repeatedly, in multiple courts of law:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn
>t’s not really something you need to understand unless you’re an ML researcher

What kind of an answer is this? No it’s something you should understand if you are at all interested.
I'd say it's not so much that it's really hard, it's that the compromises aren't worth it.

note, I worked on S3 2015-2017
I've just started getting into Julia for one of it's best use cases: It's super easy to do arbitrary precision math. But you have to be very careful when using string literals with BigInt or BigFloat:

julia> setprecision(1024)
julia> a=BigFloat(1.0E-300)
1.000000000000000025059091835208759685696146807703705249925342319900466043184051484676302812181950100894962306270278254148910311464998804130812246091606190182719426627934584275510414782787015070222639260603793613924359775094030143866141479125513590882591017341692222921220404918621822029155619541859418525883262e-300

Notice without quotes on the literal you only get ~15 decimal digits of precision because the parser treats the literal as a double and then passes that to the BigFloat variable.

julia> a=BigFloat("1.0E-300")
9.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999988e-301

With quotes we get the full ~308 decimal digits of precision for the configured 1024-bit binary precision.

Now we can add it to 1.0 to validate the precision of a calculation and use the @printf macro for C-style formatting to round the output to 308 decimal digits:

julia> b=BigFloat("1.0")
julia> using Printf
julia> @printf("%.308f\n", (a+b))
1.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000100000000

I'm not sure why this is the default behavior, it seems like a really easy way for people to screw up their calculations, especially scientists that don't do a lot of programming.
Remember that new york times tried to sympathize her or I don’t know what you call this kind of article. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/business/elizabeth-holmes...
There is a simple reason why megacorps don't spin off projects: they would need someone with vision to search for these projects and with high authority to proceed on the spin off. They don't have this kind of people, for the obvious reason that it is not their main concern. Executives in any megacorp are 100% busy making the core business a success, and investing time in small projects that may come to nothing is just a distraction. This may just explain why big corporations are just a waste of time and resources, in the long term.
> Nine year olds are not famous for their critical thinking and deep research skills.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35975422

> No, pretty sure he concluded exactly what his teachers wanted him to conclude.

Do you know us IRL or something?
Structuring Technical Blog Posts
Every change that has ever been undertaken in any industry has been externally imposed on the customer by industry including the shift from the merchant fetching goods to the customer doing so. You are expected to gripe about it and keep paying. So long as every major player is doing the same thing it matters little if you gripe about it because your decision is going to be self check at A or self check at B. You could also self check at the company website and have it delivered if you prefer.
this is an overreaction. Dropbox is mostly storing files that are already stored on the customer's device, so customers usually won't notice an outage.
If you want to go back to the Labor movement...

I do not. I would like an example from within the last, say, 75 years. Regardless, you didn't even cite an example.
Agreed; I don’t mean to imply I’m firmly against controlled burns now.

I am disenchanted with our current system for executing them in the US, however. Like you say, we need a system for accountability to deal with the externalities.
Not coincidentally I've noticed a significant trend of opinion pieces in Bloomberg, WSJ, Fortune, etc. (quite arrogant in tone) consistently attacking remote work from all kinds of angles.

This must be really hurting influential wallets.
Are they all Republican? No.

Mostly Republican? Very likely, based off what we know and observe.
I doubt most people do know the name. If you're not into westerns and haven't read about the history of the labor movement or of US law enforcement (and they sure as shit don't teach those things in most schools, so you'd have to find it out on your own) you could easily go through life without ever learning who they were/are.
Unions are big, but Corporate Money is bigger.
Unions sadly have little power, especially in the US.

That may be starting to change, though.
For those wondering, the entire top banner is the volume bar. Just drag the volume icon to the left.
The reason she is being punished is because she committed very flagrant fraud. Fraud that likely lead to deaths as people trusted theranos’s fake blood test results.

Also, her cofounder got a little more prison time than she did.

Not everything has to be part of some grand conspiracy.
I'm unconvinced. You've described that it transforms an input to an output, but you've ignored the possibility that the hidden layers in the neural network have discovered that generalizations are the best approach to predicting in entirely novel situations. Long before GPT came about, machine learning researchers have discovered (in research examining the purpose each neuron serves) emergent generalizations in image classifier models.

To use the example in the article, the answer to

"Here we have a book, nine eggs, a laptop, a bottle and a nail. Please tell me how to stack them onto each other in a stable manner"

is not something the original 'lookup table' could possibly help you with, other than by manually reasoning about how the various parts of a 'concept web' fit together. This question represents a completely unfilled gap in the training data.
I remember back when Gary Bowser got found guilty of $14.5 million restitution for Nintendo, and would pay back 20%-30% of his income for (basically) the rest of his life for providing Switch tools that offered automatic downloading of pirated software. The general feeling was that this was "Unethical, immoral, inappropriate regardless of what he did, contrary to rehabilitation."

Now we have Elizabeth Holmes. $452 Million in restitution. Yes, what she did was much, much worse - but is anyone seriously arguing this is immoral, unethical, inappropriate regardless of what she did, contrary to rehabilitation?

I would say that it appears to me to be a double-standard regarding paying back large fines for crimes.