skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before PyTorch there was Torch (which was Lua-based, hence the Py- prefix of the follow on PyTorch). With Torch, like the later TensorFlow 1.0, you first explicitly constructed the computational graph then executed it. PyTorch's later innovation was define-by-run where you just ran the code corresponding to your computational graph and the framework traced your code and built the graph behind the scenes... this was so much more convenient that PyTorch quickly became more popular than TensorFlow, and by the time TF 2.0 "eager mode" copied this approach it was too late (although TF shot itself in the foot in many ways, which also accelerated it's demise).
Interestingly Saudi Arabia has been super wasteful of their water too.

They have all but drained their aquifers that takes thousands of years to replenish in a bid to become self sufficient in their food supplies. Now they are taking some corrective action with investing more in desalination, reducing certain type of agricultural produce etc.
Anti-Putin militia claims to have overrun Russian border village
Flush toilet requires your private house to be connected to a centralized communications OR to your personal water pumps.

#1 is not an option if you leave far away from a town.

#2 is not an option unless you can pay for it and its maintance.

I understand that this sound like a problem or some savagery but in reality this is not much different from the fact that most countries do not have centralized hot water or heating.

My summer house also does not have a flush toilet despite the fact that I can easily afford one. What's the problem?
Is that illegal?

I don't see how you can sue someone over "discrimination based on phone manufacturer".
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/12/colorado...

Alfalfa and almonds are thirsty yet we grow them by the square mile in the desert. It doesn't take much googling to realize this is not a smart thing to do in a drought area.
The US generally will not break treaties with other countries. Kinda makes us look bad if we do.
Or perhaps even more damning (as the article also mentions):
"We expected to get away with paying our workers lower than the legal minimum"
> Some kind of virtual memory driver that would map old pointers to new adresses transparently for the programs

You would need hardware support for this, since the hardware is what decides what gets returned when a program attempts to read from a memory location.

Hardware already does support virtual memory but the granularity is the page (which are a minimum of 4KiB in most OSs).
Hmm? I've not heard of any such thing. The main problem I've heard is that it's hard to come up with a test that will confirm or reject the hypothesis, let alone distinguish between the different variations.
You never get the same salary growth by staying in the same company as a programmer.

I'm not sure why exactly (there are many factors including your initial most probably underestimated salary as a reference point etc.), but I never seen it working.
> I could see they justify this as value-based pricing. As in, it would have costed more for you to travel farther to get the food from that particular restaurant if you were to order pickup.

If this isn’t going to the driver, it’s absolutely unacceptable. DoorDash does not have to do more work because you would have had to drive further, but the actual driver does have to drive further, and is working for a flat fee.

To hear people on HN say things like this explains exactly why these companies do this. This is absolutely not a reasonable way to think.
they might be cosmic whale blow holes too
This is a point that deserves closer attention -- thank you for mentioning it. The notion of an affirmative defense is an important part of how our legal system balances rights.
IMO anything more than one page of A4 in 12 point Times New Roman, is too much for a website where you connect with people and groups, chat with them, and share status updates and pictures.

Preferably half that.

(Advertisers are allowed longer agreements because they can be expected to hire a lawyer to explain stuff to them).
The fact that HP isn’t asking for the ink back tells you all you need to know about its actual value.
That is the magic of EMacs. If Lem manages to capture that, and improve in other areas like performance - they might make something really special.
Interview fraud is on the rise. Is your process setup to handle the threat?
Is your basis for this claim anecdotal? Do you know that the effects aren't down to avoiding the "junky" foods as opposed to the powder's themselves?
Is it still a widespread theory that depression is a purely physical condition that can be treated with just a chemical intervention? I thought the medical community moved past this notion.
It's not as if someone who has already been making several hundred grand is in dire need of financial stability between employment opportunities.
I can see how steganography applied to images can result in hard-to-detect watermarks or provenance identifiers.

But I don't see how these can be effectively used in text content. Yes, an AI program can encode provenance identifiers by length of words, starting letters of sentences, use of specific suffixes, and other linguistic constructs.

However, say that I am a student with an AI-generated essay and want to make sure my essay passes the professor's plagiarism checker. Isn't it pretty easy to re-order clauses, substitute synonyms, and add new content? In fact, I think there is even a Chrome extension that does something like that.

Or maybe that is too much work for the lazy student who wants to completely rely on ChatGTP or doesn't know any better.
Thanks for the write-up! I met one senior engineer like this and it was a fantastic experience.
Related:

How to Be a Know-It-All - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15439701 - Oct 2017 (48 comments)
> Russia already has such a thing (as does China).

Did Russia widely deploy it?

> It'll never be perfect, especially against peer adversaries invested in countering it. (This includes Trophy!)

You could say the same thing about antitank missiles. The system doesn't have to be perfect to prevent a boatload of Javelin's from becoming some kind of trump card.

> All the more reason to do it in advance.

Sure, but supply chain problems could prevent that. Isn't the West pouring so much of their available stockpiles into Ukraine that they may not have enough send to sit in a Taiwanese warehouse?

> Folks thought the Russians were competent up until they had to prove it in combat. You don't think that gives the Chinese pause?

It will give them pause, but not a despondent "we give up forever because this proves we will always fail" pause, but rather a "lets make sure we're even better, so we can succeed when we try" pause.
There already is a tokio_uring. I'm still a bit dubious how much help it is for application level stuff outside of normal file operations. E.g the data dependencies stuff is a very granular scheduling operation to generalise in an easy to use way. But it's definitely real and worth watching.
Or you could buy the entire car from BYD [1][2] and cut out the middle man.

[1] https://ev-database.org/car/1784/BYD-HAN

[2] https://electrek.co/2023/02/17/byd-han-first-drive-chinese-e...
Winstron's divestment to Tata was honestly a good move.

A big reason Foxconn, Winstron, and other Taiwanese/Malaysian/Singaporean assemblers were able to succeed in Mainland China was due to cultural competency within the existing Chinese diaspora (eg. knowing how to communicate to who, how to manage workers, etc).

Foxconn, Winstron, and co would just straight up have Taiwanese/Malaysian/Singaporean/Thai Chinese move to Mainland China (in reality mostly Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang due to cultural and familial connections plus the easy commute from Hong Kong or Shanghai) to help manage operations.

Taiwanese companies don't have that kind of advantage within South Asia. At that point, it makes sense just to work directly with Indian conglomerates like Tata, who already have in house domain experience manufacturing everything due to India's Chaebol-esque corporate culture, or Japanese+Korean companies that are open to training from scratch.

I've seen first hand how South Korean and Japanese companies managed their assembly plants in my dad's village in India (they manfuacture the electronics and computers for Wind Turbines) and it was a night and day difference to a similar attempted Taiwanese operation there.

The difference was SK+JP companies would actually try to hire management locally, and if there wasn't anyone qualified, then invest in actually training from scratch, or alternatively, make a partnership with an existing company in India to help manage the local operation.

Meanwhile, the attempted Taiwanese operation underbid severely, saw significant timeline overruns, tried to manage everything in-house, and the project was eventually scrapped and given to a private sector South Korean-Indian consortium. There was also a bit of corruption/malfeasance with the Taiwanese operation which pissed people off in the district.

All this happened in the 2009-2012 timeframe
Can you give me some pointers where you read this?

I mean, at the end they even write "It's only once you got close would you realize that you are not looking at a black hole." I take from that that they are aware that black holes are different from topological solitons. And I read at no place that they consider black holes actually being topologial solitons.

So, when the authors think that those two things are different and they classify solitons as "defects in spacetime", wouldn't this directly contradict the headline "Black holes might be defects in spacetime"?

I would be glad if you showed me where my reasoning is wrong.
It's understandable until you consider that you live in the same food web as those fish, and ecosystems are a little more complex than "Divert all the top-level resources to humans".
Maybe it could be used for the fluid used in hydraulic fracturing operations?

https://oilandgasinfo.ca/know-fracking/what-is-frac-fluid-ma...
Meh we need supply not bandaid'ing high rent costs. The housing crisis goes well beyond the homeless (which get the bulk of the attention, if not adequate solutions), which only ever results in half-baked subsidies or forcing skyscrapers to add a small amount of low income options. While the drumbeat of ever increasing housing costs continues.

Housing needs radical reform. There isn't a lack of capital to build this stuff. We don't need government to put up a bunch of money. The second they make building possible, in the places/ways the market demands, there will be a flood of new development which will directly benefit the low end of the market by not making tiny houses cost $1M and low-density suburban housing the only alternative.
When Chinese Industrial Espionage Goes Wrong [Video]
> No. But the way you first picked to do the thing is very likely impossible to make work. Don't decide on a mechanism, like cookies, and fixate on it without regard for practicality or effectiveness.

GDPR is not about cookies. Cookies are mentioned only once in the entire legal text as an example of a technology that can be used to associate users with personally identifiable data. If there is no risk for this association, GDPR does not care about cookies.

GDPR is about ethically acquiring and handling personal data.
Resources will always be finite even if they increase over time. Won't A always receive more resources than any one B (if you're looking at them as individual companies)?
The current title of this post ("Mimestream, a native Gmail app for macOS") isn't great. The title from the post itself is "Mimestream 1.0 is here!".

What's news today is the app's Mimestream 1.0 launch [1], and the new pricing model. Changelog is at [2] for the curious.

[1]: https://mimestream.com/blog/whats-new-in-1.0

[2]: https://mimestream.com/releases
If you like that, I've got a non-profit that pays 100% of net income out as a severance package for its ex-CEO, who is currently helping as the interim CEO (and only employee) for a token $1/year. I will accept all donations in the spirit of joy in which they were given.
This sounds brilliant. Very good thing to have achieved and you certainly should be proud for pulling something like that together.
Think of it this way: to provide a monthly subscription, they can either send a new cartridge once per month with 100 pages in it (with all the shipping, plastic, production, etc costs associated with that), or they can ship one six times bigger a single time. That’s much better for the environment.

If they couldn’t turn off cartridges when subscriptions stop, they’d have to send less-filled cartridges. Otherwise, there’d be huge incentive to sign up for one month, get your big cartridge, and cancel.
The Planet Can’t Sustain Rapid Growth Much Longer
You can grow things in an arid region (desertification has more to do with being unable to retain water in poor soil). Whether those things are what people want to buy at the market is something else.

There are many design patterns and practices for better water management. Some of them are only just being implemented — California is now just starting to credit growers with putting water back into aquifers during seasons of excess rain (and mitigates flood risks). But there are a lot more to be done, including water harvesting structures that slow down water (converting surface water to ground water).
As a Peter Schickele fan (soundtrack composer), I would say Silent Running is underrated.

https://www.schickele.com/wp/peter-schickele-bio/
> The earth is a sensitive system

How sensitive exactly is called equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS). Climatologists compute it using global climate models and different climatology groups have different models, so they produce different numbers. Unfortunately the span is wide and has been getting wider with time as the simulations become more detailed, so confidence in this value has been falling. This isn't meant to happen and we're rarely directly told it is, actually we're told the opposite (that there is consensus on everything).

IPCC 2013 AR5: "No best estimate for equilibrium climate sensitivity can now be given because of a lack of agreement on values across assessed lines of evidence".

The most recent IPCC reports try to solve this by de-weighting the models that compute a high ECS i.e. a highly sensitive climate. They do this because they know the models must be wrong, as they conflict with observational data. The climate can't actually be all that sensitive to CO2 relative to what some climatologists try to claim. Unfortunately most climatological research does not do this and assumes all models are equally valid, so justs averages all of them. It's clearly not valid when error bars are so wide.

Also, this situation leads to the obvious question of why not simply compute ECS from observed data to begin with? Unfortunate answer: because if you do, you get a very low value indeed (see the work of Lewis). With ECS values that low CO2 stops being a significant environmental problem and is probably less important than other environmental problems like e.g. clean rivers, biodiversity. Climatologists don't like to do this and prefer to continue deriving values from models, even though they know that at least some of them cannot be correct.

tl;dr - what you state as fact is actually one of the most bitterly argued and controversial aspects of climate science. They have a way to express it numerically but nobody can agree what the right number is.
I couldn't find any other reference to this rogue bee thing (except other inspirational essays).

Wikipedia's entry on the waggle dance seems to suggest that bees often don't make use of the information in the dance. It's not some rare maverick bees per se. It's more that the information may not be important given the season or climate or presence of competition for the food. So it can be adaptive to ignore it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waggle_dance#Efficiency_and_ad...
I suppose many of the institutions responsible for national security are making worst-case analyses all over the world. Of course that research wouldn't be public.

As for the "naive pipe dreams" as you put it, I suppose being more pessimistic will soon lead you being labelled as a doomer and ignored. There is some material though, like Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells. It's a depressing read.
If you have an interest in the managerial career track, talk to you manager. In engineering it’s relatively rare for people who are good developers to be interested in management.

There are two books I highly recommend to anyone considering this move. The Manager’s Path is one. The Making of a Manager is the other.

If you have any concrete questions, I’d be happy to answer them. Contact info is in the profile.
Where those who were diagnosed on medication? If so, did this medication help their symptoms? If so, then they wouldn't be truly matched with controls who weren't diagnosed (presuming no self-medication).

Presuming this isn't the case, what is it about psychiatric diagnoses (or this specific diagnosis) that causes a decrease in QOL? Is this constant throughout the cohort, or does it differ? It might be reasonable to have a control group of kids diagnosed with another psychiatric diagnosis, as well as one of non-diagnosed kids to parse out any effects from a diagnosis in general.
A serious pain point is that Jitsi stopped supporting Ubuntu 18.04 with no warning, well before its EoL date.

An update led to a dependency issue (I would have to go remind myself which but I think Prosody) and that was that - just a ‘well lets stop supporting Ubuntu 18.04 then’.

I think over time the advice has been to go manually downgrade some packages or try and find the relevant versions somewhere. A more satisfactory solution would be to support the up to date versions of dependencies available to the distribution jitsi is installed on.

We’re getting to the point where this doesn’t matter of course, as 18.04 goes end of life. But you can understand why we are reluctant to recommend jitsi as a stable and reliably maintained option after this experience.
Only handful of Vim plugins have dependencies and even then you need to install them explicitly
Yes Snap and Flatpak directly help solve this problem.
Is there a clear definition of a trip that these studies subscribe to? I would guess they attribute any change in perception to "tripping". K-hole is not the expected experience in most Ketamine-based treatments afaik.
Any other L4 OSS around with support for HTTP/3 except Katran?

I've tried to use it but it was pain :).
> Delivery apps are an interesting industry because it seems that no one is making money.

There are a lot of potential industries that have to start out like this.

Suppose you have a downtown where there are a dozen restaurants within a few blocks of each other, and then customers in a residential area on the other side of town. If you try to hire someone to go pick up the food for one person and deliver it to one customer on the other side of town, it's totally hopeless and you'll never make any money.

But if you could get the same driver to pick up meals for a dozen people at once and then deliver them to customers who all live near each other, now you have a chance of turning a profit. That's a chicken and egg problem, because the first customer isn't going to pay the full price of the trip, so you have no first customer and never get enough business going to reach the level of efficiency required.

Now suppose they operate by burning VC money for a while until they get enough usage to turn a profit.
From https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.0... :

> We show that topological solitons are remarkably similar to black holes in apparent size and scattering properties, while being smooth and horizonless. Incoming photons experience very high redshift, inducing phenomenological horizonlike behaviors from the point of view of photon scattering. Thus, they provide a compelling case for real-world gravitational solitons and topological alternatives to black holes from string theory.

This is certainly interesting but so far they have only looked into Schwarzschild black holes (the simplest kind of black holes). Their case would be much more compelling if they also found soliton solutions that looked like non-static (Kerr) or even non-stationary/dynamic black hole solutions (<-> black hole formation). I know far too little about solitons, unfortunately, to estimate how easy/difficult it would be to find/construct those.
"Fantastic Planet (1973), a.k.a La planete sauvage. Κινούμενα σχέδια" - https://youtu.be/9PcqitDkOGc
You are right. People get easily offended. But your tone does seem a bit _freaking_ upset. Over what? The fact that someone posted the same link like you did and got more clicks from random users browsing the internet? Is that what upset you? What do you get if you got billions of clicks and upvotes?

They say that people who need external validation don't have their own values and need to seek approval from others...
Apple is so huge that they treat their manufacturers like a freelance design contracts... "We'll let you build our devices. We can't pay you, but think how amazing it will look to have Apple in your portfolio!"
It's very low - Staples starts at 20 cents a page for B&W.
At first sight, the headline appeared to be about a "BYD" battery chemistry.
Tokyo’s trash-collecting samurai takes a fun approach to cleanup
At least with Huawei, the backdooring is silent.
If you eliminate 100% of suburban water use you will still have a water problem. If you want a land analogy, it would be like looking at people in San Jose and saying they're the reason for a lack of farmland in California.

Plentiful and subsidized year-around food is a security issue on the federal level - but when compared to other industries it brings in comparatively little for the states involved. You can't reasonably expect a few water starved states to export the majority of its water via crops while sacrificing its own economic prosperity for the sake of the broader country.
what portion of apple assembly for things like macbook/watch/iphone aren't 100% done by machine, and if they aren't 100% done by machine (which they aren't), it sounds extremely not easy to do by hand (especially at scale, for "low wages")

what parts can't they automate?
Did you arrive at this certainty through reading something other than what OpenAI has published? The document [0] that describes the training data for GPT-2 makes this assertion hilarious to me.

[0]: https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/master/model_card.md#da...
Last time the US was afraid of Germany developing nukes this resulted in nukes actually being developed and then promptly stolen by the Soviets.

Admittedly, at the time, socialist/communist were to some degree supported by the U.S. intellectuals - were’ve been quite a few that were sympathizing. So recruitment was easy. Hopefully this is not the case now. As it is quite clear that there is no good reason to support Putin, unless you happen to be his buddy, crony or an asset (i.e. Trump).