skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Scientists more likely to cite the work of friends. Scientists also more likely to attend the talks of friends.”

Wonder if they controlled for this? I’m assuming the article doesn’t mention it (they rarely address obvious first order nitpicks).
The Art & Equitable Compensation (AEC) Project's goal is to distribute the financial gains (fractionalize) among all artists who may have consciously or unconsciously influenced the generative AI models used in its fabrication.
Having a semi-structured form of this would also be really good imo. Starcraft 2 sorta has this -- there's a UI section similar to ladder that pits you against increasingly harder AI's, but it's just a single track and doesn't go far enough imo.

I can easily imagine a set of 'tiers' of challenges, where the bottom tier is super easy stuff for beginners and then each tier up increases the challenge until you're fighting a bunch of hard-level AI's simultaneously or whatever. Or maybe a Mario Bros-style world map that has various different challenges in different directions.
Right, so those parents should take it up with their kids, rather than prevent mine from access.
Counter-terrorism, criminal investigations, national security, cybersecurity, anti-corruption, regulatory compliance, breaking up organized crime, stopping drug distribution and trafficking, stopping black market trades (weapons, human trafficking, and the aforementioned drugs), stopping production of illegal materials, preventing insider trading, detecting fraud, stopping money laundering, preventing corporate espionage, nationalistic thought-police stuff that some countries legitimately want, stopping identity theft, political back channel interference prevention, social stability (someone might incite unrest), economic stability (someone might share ideas bad for the economy), public health safety (someone might share anti-vax ideas), gang activity prevention, stopping cults and sectarian violence, scam/fraud call and message prevention, disrupting ransom schemes, preventing propaganda, stopping environmental crime, disrupting illegal immigration, military and government organization advantage against allies on whom they can spy if they pressure them into abandoning E2E... oops I mean... peacekeeping, preventing the undermining of democracy (or the fatherland/motherland for those of the authoritarian inclination). There are definitely a few bingo cards worth of possible excuses.
Direct link:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-new-oss-sponsorships-...
They obviously don't need 250 to 300 people. They need a few server admins and software developers, but no thinly veiled activists.
Local effects are indeed the concern. If you dump the brine in something like a harbor (typically where cities are built) you can have extreme growth in salinity which also makes desalination harder. It’s a problem for Middle Eastern countries reliant on it
Always curious about average tenure of employees involved in organizing such action.
I think "pay per printing even at home" is a good concept and it should be useful for some users, but it seems that their advertising is a bit failed.
You can enable it on Zoom, AFAIK it's not default. Google Meet doesn't provide E2EE.
Polyphonic Audio Key Finding Using the Spiral Array CEG Algorithm (2005)
> Those who deliberately blur the line between "book banning" and "setting the curriculum in schools" are dishonest (at best).

From what I understand some schools have pulled lots of books from libraries overall. There were tons of books I had access to that weren't directly a part of the curriculum, and in fact parts of the curriculum specifically gave my classmates and I the opportunity to explore different topics and books which weren't a pre-chosen part of the curriculum.
But in fact they pretend it was the work of a “Russian militia” and not them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038451
We're launching exactly this at supertokens.com

We wont have all the things you mention but will everything to do with tenant onboarding, identity management, user authentication will be out of the box. So in terms of functionality, it would be comparable to keycloak but easier to extend and integrate monitoring and billing tools.
The earth has a certain amount of energy sequestered. The sun provides a certain (constant) amount additional per year. Black body radiation emits a certain (variable, proportionate to temperature, perhaps) amount per year. Everything else is just meaningless argument about constant factors.
Thanks for checking it out! Yeah right now it's all lofi - was thinking about making a few different streams for different genres though
They're talking about the timing, which is notable because carriers were trying to (1) mainstream mobile data use and (2) generate excitement about the possibilities of 3G, which was just rolling out in the U.S. in 2007.

"[AT&T Mobility president and CEO Ralph de la Vega] also called Apple's iPhone "a game-changer," noting that since AT&T exclusively launched the device in mid-2007, mobile data consumption has grown dramatically." https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/at-t-13-subs-own-a-3...
It looks like they're formalizing the behavior of pure 16-bit training which is different from the mixed precision pipelines I'm aware of.
I worked at RIM/BlackBerry in 2005-06. It was my first engineering job. I was in my early 20’s and at some point, way before iPhone, I went to my manager and suggested we should add a camera and some multimedia features to the device, because that’s what the younger people wanted and used. He said - but why, BlackBerry is all about serving the business people market. We argued. Turns out we were both right and wrong…
Patriots ought to work for free.

This is about duty. Not about profit.

I think you have it flipped.

Have everyone in govt making in excess of 2x poverty line be subject to a tax of 99% for all income exceeding the avg of 5 years of income before joining govt

You can be rich and join govt. You can live ok post-govt. But you sure as hell should not get rich off govt

It's called public service for a reason. Its a service. Not a career.

Either you have a sense of duty and are willing to sacrifice, or else go work on the private sector.

We need statesmen. Not rent-seeking politicians
Gin & Tonic students?

... Gifted & Talented.
So if a parent doesn't want their kid to know about gravity, should it just be no longer taught in schools? What if a parent believes long division is a satanic ritual, should they just skip arithmetic?

What if my child is in the class with a flat earther parent?
What are their engineers working on?
very cool repo from the author full of all kinds of tests and scripts: https://github.com/gongyisheng/playground/blob/main/mysql/ro...

might need to fork/run this on psql to compare performance.
Not ideal..

What are you planning on using instead?
Agreed. The author writes mostly about celebrity gossip, and this article is no different. I flagged it.
What is the best open source video chat web client?

I would love something with visible feedback on connection quality, especially if it was able to reduce bandwidth usage as possible automagically (switch video to static image / off, reduce audio kbps, etc.) to degrade gracefully.

Maybe supporting "push to be the only mic unmuted" could lessen the bandwidth needed.
Yeah! It'd be cool to see what others build on top of this.

Gonna add cleaning things up a bit and writing some documentation to my to-do list
Small counter-opinion here; if I interview a candidate, offer them a role, and find out that they have been using our time only to get a better deal from their current employer, then I will most likely choose not to interview them again in the future.

If you have engaged with me in bad faith (pretending to want a job with us when you actually don't) then I would be very uncomfortable endorsing you to join one of my teams in the future.

By all means, interview around. And if you get a better offer and accept it, then I will cheerfully congratulate you and wish you the very best of luck! But if you're operating in an area where the pool of potential employers is small, make sure you don't burn too many relationships in the process.
Yeah but this isn't Facebook, it's just a free encyclopedia.
> There's a stronger resistance to cloud than ever before after all the leaks, hacks and pushed agendas.

It's a thing on HN loop.
High level reading comprehension is a valuable and extremely rare skill. It's a skill many more people believe they have than actually do. I'd bet that what develops that skill is careful, sustained reading and reflection. I'd also bet that what allows it to atrophy is trying to avoid careful, sustained reading and reflection.
"things like ballot harvesting, out-of-precinct ballot disqualification, and other such rules that have an outside impact on voters in urban cities which are largely democrat."

What about local elections, most elections are isolated to a particular area? The reason the Republican lawyer made that statement was to show standing. Meaning , why would the Republican party be effected by the various voter restriction laws. They said because it benefits them if voting rights are restricted.

If you are saying that the laws in question reduce the ability of democrats to vote vs republican (as in reduces the numbers more in cities vs rural?) What's the difference? I'm connecting turnout to their success.

Here's a more clear analysis though it is an opinion piece showing that young voter turnout is important for the democrats.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/22/politics/young-voters-democra...

The reason I used the Republican party's lawyer is because he was under oath and they wouldn't fight this case if it didn't benefit them
> in what sense is a black hole "spinning"?

There are several equivalent ways of stating it:

(1) The hole's spacetime geometry is axisymmetric but not spherically symmetric;

(2) The hole has a Killing vector field that is timelike at infinity but is not hypersurface orthogonal;

(3) The hole has nonzero angular momentum as viewed in the asymptotically flat region at infinity.

> Can't we just pick as a reference the black hole, and say that the everything else is spinning, just as well?

No. All three of the above conditions are invariant and only depend on the spacetime geometry; they are unaffected by any choice of coordinates or the motion of any outside observers.
Sunkist and the Wooden Box (2017)
I'd always assumed it would be easier to lift a fingerprint from the many on my case and screen, unlocking in a single attempt.
a lot of knowledge is already 'produced' but hidden. maybe the government instead of trying to squeeze out more drops of public knowledge by abusing idealistic grad students, maybe they could instead figure out some way to incentivize the corporations to let out some of their existing knowledge and more of the knowledge they 'produce' going forward. Also this is alongside the university research. I'm not saying only non-university corporations will 'produce' knowledge.
Ask HN: Using Chromebook for Linux Development
I have been looking at recent Chromebooks for Linux development. Would like to know what the experience is like.

Since a decent Chromebook isn't much cheaper than a MacBook Air, I would rather buy the MBA if the Chromebook experience is unsatisfactory. I know that Linux and Mac OS are different. I have worked with both and for my use-cases, I can develop equally well on both of them.
I can't say anything about promising. The hard part seems to be building an apparatus that works, and I don't know how to do that. I hear of short-lived superpositions with increasing amus or daltons but I can't deal with those units without the newest SI prefixes (fun facts, 666 Yamu is a bit more than 1 kg; and there is maybe about 0.666 YMsun locked up in observable galaxy clusters).

HN user ISL <https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ISL> is probably au fait with recent quantum gravimetry experiments.

The Müller group at UC Berkeley came to my mind. They did a recent paper <https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07289>.

Gavin Morley's group at Warwick University is doing work in the area <https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/staff/academic/gmorley...>. He has what looks like a useful bibliography on the subject too: <https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/staff/academic/gmorley...>.

Finally, while not really related to your question (except that greater-precision gravimetry is likely to mean smaller superposed masses are useful), https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04315-3 is extremely cool, and I wish it could be sent back into the heyday of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Team . (ETA: Müller's group, similarly, https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09084 .)
Group of Amazon workers, not satisfied with the pace of offshoring, takes measures to speed the transition.
Yeah but the rent seeking politician says everything I want to hear, so I’ll vote for them.
i did it too early.
Proud biased NYC founder here. The energy, talent, and lifestyle in Manhattan / Brooklyn is incredible.

Data like this makes me suspicious of the increasingly loud threads about "10 reasons why if you're not building in SF, you're not building!"

Capital invested still wildly favors the Bay Area, but that could be a lagging indicator.
I think I was clear in my criticism with regard to the app pricing, which has nothing to do with your points.
We don't know how the brain works. Neuron activity is one aspect, and clearly an important one, but it's not everything.

And even if the connectome can be modeled as a graph, the dynamics on the graph could be totally alien to us. It might be computable by a Turing machine. But it also might involve some not computable process we can't imagine. Perhaps it involves fundamentally unknown physics. (I consider the last option to be quite likely. I think rather few actually entertain the idea that physics as we understand it today could give rise to consciousness. But here we are.)
Imagine thinking that people making high six figures are the problem. Don't be afraid to set your sights a little higher, or you'll keep making the classic mistake of tearing down the upper middle class.
A Well Known URL for Your Personal Avatar
> sub-par performers

A risk, but there's plenty of good managers, and money can only do so much to find someone that performs well.

> martyrs

This one isn't obvious, please explain more.

> having the vision co-opted by the wealthy who can afford to be underpaid

If you pay this much then you guarantee the person you hire has much more money than they need.

> the young who leave disillusioned

Why would paying... let's say 90th percentile US wages ($135k) disillusion anyone?
I am surprised to see your comment about bloat. If anything, the fact that you only ever got paid again for a major update, and an update HAD to have whiz-bang features to sell, that was what contributed to so much bloat. Think of how many home users needed anything that was added to Word from 1990-2000. By contrast, to keep subscribers happy you don’t need new features, you need to continually keep the experience great. That means judicious adding of things people really want, but also NOT adding crap just to add a bullet point on a box. And NOT “ruining” the app by screwing up what people like about it.

> Unless you release paid updates, which is what a number of developers do.

This just introduces two more user complaints: those paid updates are very likely to either be not consequential enough to justify paying, or to add bloat. Presumably, when you bought the app, you were satisfied with the functionality it already had (and indeed if they make big changes it often gets hate just for the disruptiveness). But my point is software costs money (time) to support, forever. And once a product (especially a specialized one) has already found most of its buyers, that means the developer has every incentive to abandon the app because maintaining or updating it is never going to justify the cost. So yes, a developer doing your preferred model absolutely must have a half dozen apps, which will be at various stages in their life cycles, but only the apps that are new, and have a chance of growing their user base further, are going to get any maintenance, attention, and updates. The mature ones will be left to wither even if they are widely-used and popular, because there aren’t enough new buyers.

The other part of this is that besides just maintenance, many modern apps have a server-side component which needs to be paid for forever. It’s basically a pyramid scheme if your only source of revenue is new users and they subsidize the lifetime access of the earlier buyers. It will collapse eventually.

As for “files” — that’s really not the primary type of application I am talking about here. If you are making an application that authors proprietary documents, I think it’s perfectly reasonable to expect a free reader to exist whether you have an active subscription or not. However I think that’s maybe 2% of the consumer software market today. I think the only files that I can think of on my computer that aren’t standards-based formats are Pixelmator files and TurboTax files (though I stopped using that and use a web-based replacement).

> since maybe I don't feel I need any updates and I don't want to pay for them,

The updates I’m talking about, which you “don’t want to pay for,” include “making the app continue to run on a current OS”
You're free to use another distro or just re-build it from the source without the ads.
If you're smart then right as that stage of the process begins you leave the job to keep your salary ahead of inflation and start all over again. Rinse repeat. Plenty of leave-me-alone time to do the actual work while the SMEs get ass blasted by meetings constantly.
Across America, some places still outlaw living with people who aren’t relatives
It is absolutely bonkers than more than half of the water being used from the Colorado river is for livestock. How is there even a political route forward, given that no one is going to touch the third rail and implement a tax on meat? (Or heck, even eliminating subsidies.)
> spinning is an accelerated reference frame

Not necessarily. The three definitions for a "spinning" black hole that I gave upthread do not require the presence of any accelerated frames or observers.

> what does it mean for a black hole, which we assume to be a singularity occupying no space at all

This is not correct. A black hole is a finite region of spacetime enclosed by an event horizon. The singularity is inside the hole but is not all of the hole.

> to be spinning? We don’t know.

Yes, we do. We have known since the 1960s that the Kerr solution to the Einstein Field Equation describes a spinning black hole, and all of the geometric properties of that solution have been known for almost as long as that.

> That’s one of the gaps in our theory.

No, it's not. See above.

> as the collapsed remnants of an object that was spinning, they should have done residual angular momentum.

This is correct, but it does not imply or support your other claims.
Vogons is a great place with lots of experts on vintage software and hardware. Definitely recommend it to anyone interested in either running old stuff or just on history/tidbits/how-things-worked like that post.
BlackBerry eventually relented to such an extent that they developed BBM for Android and iOS. And while it did gain some traction early on in select places, it was way too late to prevent the ship from sinking.
I would argue that's a problem with wages everywhere else being too low, rather than tech salaries being too high.

Tech people just get advantages due to supply and demand that normal labor used to get from their unions and reasonable representation in Congress.
I stumbled into the former company town (Hilt) this weekend while looking for old stage roads: https://imgur.com/a/ousRRUV

“In 1851 John Hilt made his way to California from Illinois, landing in Hangtown. Hearing of rich diggins made his way north to Yreka by 1852. Finding way to the Cottonwood area (Hornbrook) where he worked mining, ranching, farming and saw milling. In 1877 Hilt bought a mill from his son in law Bill Smith, worked it for a few years. Then the mill was sold to a group of men which formed the Hilt Sugar Pine Co. Hilt Sugar Pine Co. then started a town, naming it after the previous mill owner. Later the Northern Ca. Lumber Company bought the mill. Then in 1920 Fruit Growers Supply Co. took over operations at the mill in Hilt, utilizing it as a box factory supplying fruit boxes to growers for Sunkist and others in the Southwest region. The company town thrived, consisting of various businesses including the Sunkist Hotel, the Diamond Club Saloon, the Hilt Store, The Baily Hill School, the Colestine Resort among others. On October 5, 1972 F.G.S. announced the outcome of a vote, resulting in the cease of operations of the mill in Hilt. In 1974 the town of Hilt was vacant, and as it was known, has disappeared into the past, though it will remain in the memories of those who once called Hilt home.” — https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=112571

FWIW "Hangtown" in the above is known today as Placerville https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placerville,_California
None needed, correct. But it's common for shocking things to generate publicity.
Thanks for posting this resource! Buddhism and minimalism go hand in hand so well.
Well if they are interested in data. If they are interested in asking a prompt "hey what's my cc number and password again?" That'd bypass an awful lot of encryption. Would also be easy to find blackmail for a lot of people thinking it's a secure way to lookup crimes.
OK, I think I understand where you're coming from. I don't agree. Thanks for the chat, though.
The original book is fantastic, the HN crowd would enjoy the details provided. It's a very engaging read, on par with books like Masters of Doom.
Yes, I naively wrote RIM an email about the ease of onboarding developers on Android and iOS, compared to the hurdles that needed hurdling on Blackberry OS, even before "BB10".

Somebody senior in Engineering actually responded, to their credit, but the response was basically "because security, which is why we're the #1 platform".

Aged like milk.
What is the mechanism by which excess energy is used to permanently sequester/export entropy?
"All of Buddhism is a footnote to zazen". (Kodo Sawaki)
Agile was developed to fix that, basically do the minimum viable number of meetings required to keep management in the loop while empowering engineers to make decisions about their own work. Didn't really work out that way though.
> An object can spin relative to itself. Particles away from the center are constantly accelerating. Gravity or physical connection are the forces that prevent these particles from flying away.

This is a reasonable description of spin for an ordinary object, but it can't be used for a black hole, because a black hole is a vacuum solution; it has no "particles". See my other post upthread for better ways to view spin for a black hole.

> I am not even sure an object can spin relative to another object. Orbit sure, but not spin.

The usual definition of "spin" makes use of the object's center of mass frame, yes. Orbital angular momentum is thus separated out.

Note, though, that strictly speaking, in relativity there is no invariant way to make this split. It works very well as an approximation for most objects (like planets and stars), but there are complications when one tries to apply it to things like black holes. That's one reason why physicists prefer other ways of defining "spinning" for black holes that don't involve any split between orbital and spin angular momentum.
Intel and AMD both need to make LLM inference tools plug n play with their GPUs.

Otherwise Nvidia is the default choice when selecting a GPU for local LLM inference.

Aurora is working with OpenAI and Azure which is a very positive step in this direction.
Steering the Future: Navigating AI Superintelligence