skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m saying this level is perfect. I am not a practicing physicist, but I have a PhD in the theory side of condensed matter from many years ago - mostly focused on numerical simulations.

What is difficult is that most introductions to this topic tend to involve word soup, often employing terminology from category theory and topology that is completely alien to me. The result is that I can’t read a paragraph without looking things up.

And hell, you’ve managed to do that yourself. Homology groups? Simplicial complex? This is sounding more and more like botany to me.

But that’s the best think about intros like this. I’m not one for words, but concepts I can handle.
Conda is still unbearably slow. Mamba is a vastly better mostly drop-in replacement.
Which hardware/software pairing do you see dethroning NVIDIA that quickly?
>"We’re continuously working to understand the best ways to communicate with people who use Firefox. Ultimately, we accomplished the exact opposite of what we intended in this experiment and quickly rolled the experience back.

What absolute lies.
All they would have to do is a quick search on HN and boom - enough user input to last quite some time.
In my country (perhaps others), the best way to "continuously work[ing] to understand the best ways to communicate with people who use Firefox." would be to actually communicate with people...
"Ultimately, we accomplished the exact opposite of what we intended in this experiment" No, you got called out for trying to cheat people.
We still do that now and even worse. We used to do it for pure survival and need. Now we do it for pleasure more than anything else.
I never called anybody stupid, I called the analogies and the arguments stupid.
There's a lot of weird disease stuff going on. There was an article on how schizophrenia is linked to some multi million year old retrovirus that hangs out in our genome.
You could make it output HTML instead of DOM elements fairly easily, and that's what server side renderers do.
There are related old news for the open source world, though, in that Qt 5.x LTS is no longer open source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25748335
I've used AWK to output (flat!) JSON in ETL pipelines, because it's blazingly fast and "zero" deps.

But I'd never try to implement my own parser or output deeply nested JSON.
Building a Personal VoIP System
Sortie's Paradox.
> This is where singular homology really shines: You prove that simplicial homology is isomorphic to singular homology and don't have to worry about that ever again. Also functoriality only works if you have maps which preserve the simplicial structure, whereas singular homology has no such restriction.

See, this is what I mean :D
> We agreed on a definition of artificial intelligence–the Turing test–for 50 years.

No, we didn’t. There was plenty of disagreement over it. Heck, the Chinese Room is very popular rejection fundamentally of the premise of it.

That aside, even if in a blind scenario (where the builders didn’t know the criteria used to test) being able to fool humans in linguistic interaction would be reasonably likely to be a good test of general intelligence, LLM’s are about as an obvious of a direct and deliberate attempt to Goodhart’s Law the Turing Test as one could imagine.

Using a particular capacity to test a more general capacity is obviously vulnerable to systems built to specialize in the tested capacity, as opposed to those that have it as a consequence of general ability.
BRICS is not a real thing. It's just an acronym someone made up, like FAANG. There are no BRICS summits. These countries even have border disputes with each other.
I disabled suggestions on installation some time ago.

Then it appears they recently added an additional sponsored option, and defaulted it to enabled, in an update, even for users like myself who had every other sponsored option disabled.

They're hardly the only organization that does this, but it is extremely disappointing. Were Firefox not the only major browser with very useful extensions, I'd certainly switch to something else.
That's a myopic take. Soft enforcement is still enforcement.
Part of the issue is that "Polite" in american has trended towards indirection. "I'm not sure that was the best choice" is American for "That absolutely was not the best choice and must be reverted immediately" .
I bet that there is some sort of food processing facility there. That is why there is a Marshall Islands consulate in Springdale, Arkansas. <https://www.kuaf.com/ozarks-at-large-stories/2017-10-02/new-...>
An American company can't hire those workers without either an H1B or moving the company from American to LATAM / Eastern Europe.
This is literally false? Ever since the H-1B has been in law the requirement is that the person has a degree and is working in a speciality occupation related to that degree. The INA imposes no conditions like “occupations for which there are no US workers”.
Let's show some hate for the dreaded Box Elder Maple! Only tree I know that can outcompete grass.
I was going to say that FANG companies don't make up a very large proportion of H1-B visas and that the majority go to Infosys, Tata, Cognizant and the like... But I just looked it up, and it turns out that trend has been reversed considerably in the past few years, which is great to see!

2016 numbers - https://h1bgrader.com/reports/sponsors/lca/2016
2022 numbers - https://h1bgrader.com/reports/sponsors/lca/2022
The Alexandria Index
right, but so are batteries and electric motors. hybrids give you a modest engine simplification and better efficiency at the cost of a second simpler type of engine.
Oh wow that's really impressive. Thanks a lot !
I have taken on intractable problems and succeeded in finding novel solutions to them (with a team) Here's some advice.

Don't give up before at least you:

1. Prototype many solutions, and identify their "dead ends" through engagement with reality.

2. Share your progress as widely as you can - If at a company, share your progress internally once you reach a dead end / challenge you can't overcome. "Many minds make light work". Your challenge might not be the same as a colleague or leader has encountered before, but it may be similar in some way, and there may be a smaller piece of the puzzle that they have solved before. Have faith that creative solutions you could never have anticipated at first most likely will emerge, but maybe not first from your own mind. If a public project, share as widely as you can. When sharing, skip to the dead-end part quickly so you can spark the minds of your audience and engage them in the search for solutions.

3. Use true "design thinking" which is abductive reasoning and reframing. For more on what exactly that is, and how to do it, I recommend the writing of Kees Dorst in his book "Frame Innovation". "Universal Traveler" is another good resource.

https://www.amazon.com/Frame-Innovation-Create-Thinking-Desi...

https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Traveler-Soft-Systems-Creat...

Here's a good video of a talk by Kees Dorst that can help you understand what Reframing is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j60jMV00kfk
They are referring to this book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swarm_(Sch%C3%A4tzing_nove...
Vulnerability of US East Coast sea-level rise due to vertical land motion
That would be neat. Flip the script, have an AI manager instead of AI assistant. It could:

- keep track of todo items

- assist with progress

- check in on mental + emotional state

and down the road

- keep track of state over time

- give feedback/make observations

The paradigm shift is having it contact us, instead of the other way around. The ToT model has 1 additional parameter on top of the LLM - probability of success. What would the parameters be for a more open-ended conversation?
I'm strictly referring to the intent of the H-1B program, not the actual letter of the law. The Department of Labor's website makes this intent explicitly clear:

> The intent of the H-1B provisions is to help employers who cannot otherwise obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce by authorizing the temporary employment of qualified individuals who are not otherwise authorized to work in the United States. [0]

You are mostly correct that the actual Immigration Act has almost no legal teeth to enforce this. The only explicit provision in the law is that H-1B dependent companies (≥15% of the workforce is H-1B) must "take good faith steps to recruit U.S. workers for the job for which the H-1Bs are sought." [1] In practice, this almost never applies, but it is nonetheless token lip service towards the ostensible intent of the H-1B program as strictly a specialized visa program, which is the pretense under which it was passed in 1990.

[0] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/immigration/h1b

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/20/655.739
I don't think it works that way. IANAL...but Lobo does not have its own government. Nor any annual tax revenue, which might be pledged to make the payments on bonds.
Seems like a weird place to apply conservatism. That is, right after inventing entirely new tokens and grammar. But the keyword semantics SHALL NOT be modified.
2nm and 1.4nm / 14A for GAA. We are looking at 1nm or 10A for CFET if we are optimistic. Considering TSMC's traditional conservative approach it is more likely we will see CFET at 0.8nm / 8A.

This means we will have at least another 2-3 generation of CFET. So 10A to 3A, or roughly progress to ~2035.
>>> The only entity in the US that wanted and continues to lobby for H1B to continue is industry and their sole reason for doing so is keeping their salary expenses as low as possible. In the software industry it began with the fake premise that there was a shortage of qualified labor. Without a loophole like H1B, when a labor shortage occurs, you have to raise wages to attract people to the profession. With H1B, average wages (not FAANG) have been allowed to stagnate because the visa workers come from countries with a lower cost of living. I'm all for immigration, but not sure it's humane to tie it to a profession - if someone is allowed to become a citizen because of their profession, are they not allowed to give it up and do something else in the future?

Some quick googling indicates there are around 65K H1Bs issued every year, and around 4.4 million software developers. So even assuming that most of those H1Bs go to software developers (they certainly don't all go there) it's still hard to imagine this having a serious detrimental effect on salaries, although I agree it's probably an incentive for the few companies that actually get H1B workers.

BTW, to answer your second question, yes if you become a US citizen you can generally abandon the career that led to your getting whatever visa you had before. In fact you can do that long before you become a citizen. You can do it once you have a green card, which in most of these cases is a minimum of 5 years before they become a citizen.

For most H1Bs it's going to be something like 3-6 years on the H1B during which time you're basically "indentured", followed by 5-6 years on a greencard, during which time you can do whatever you like for a living as long as you don't do anything that suggests your H1B sponsor was lying, followed citizenship.
CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint)
The LATAM worker doesn't exist.

The competition is the Eastern European+Asian+Israeli developer with 15 yrs of experience available for $100k.
I'm not a trained computer scientist but didn't Daniel Lemire (purportedly) answer a different question from what OP asked? In OPs question k is fixed, wouldn't that open up avenues to implementation different from when k is not?
"ispace Announces Results of the "HAKUTO-R" Mission 1 Lunar Landing" - https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=4691

"... Based on the review of the flight data, it was observed that, as the lander was navigating to the planned landing site, the altitude measured by the onboard sensors rose sharply when it passed over a large cliff approximately 3 kms in elevation on the lunar surface, which was determined to be the rim of a crater. According to the analysis of the flight data, a larger-than-expected discrepancy occurred between the measured altitude value and the estimated altitude value set in advance. The onboard software determined in error that the cause of this discrepancy was an abnormal value reported by the sensor, and thereafter the altitude data measured by the sensor was intercepted. This filter function, designed to reject an altitude measurement having a large gap from the lander’s estimation, was included as a robust measure to maintain stable operation of the lander in the event of a hardware issue including an incorrect altitude measurement by the sensor..."

"...One major contributing factor to this design issue was a decision to modify the landing site after critical design review completed in February 2021. This modification influenced the verification and validation plan despite numerous landing simulations carried out before the landing. ispace as the mission operator maintained overall program management responsibility and took into account the modifications in its overall analysis related to completing a successful mission. It was determined that prior simulations of the landing sequence did not adequately incorporate the lunar environment on the navigation route resulting in the software misjudging the lander’s altitude on final approach..."
It would be great if people under 50 could get this vaccine without a prescription (in the US), now many years after it has been generally available to boomers.
It’s very tough. For me, an important moment is realizing that these situations are rare and where the most growth can happen, which helps me push through sometimes.
Reminder: you're welcome to join the Ukraine foreign legion, if you feel so strongly in favor of the war. Otherwise, you should acknowledge that you want other people to kill each other, despite being unwilling to die yourself.
I at least partially share this sentiment for hiring interviews. In that setting, the goal of any kind of coding exercise is to evaluate a persons coding skills in a real-world environment. For something like that, it does not make much sense to hobble the developer by artificially limiting their access to coding resources that are normally employed while on the job.

However, I feel like an academic exam is a bit different. The goal of these exams is to evaluate what students have _learned_. Unless the class was about how to find helpful code examples on SO, it does not make much sense to allow AI/internet-searching during the exam.
The thing with Fox is that there were four people on the same TV or movie set that all wound up years later ill with Parkinson's.

But it's such a rare illness that most people who have it won't have ever met someone else with it before they got sick. For four people who all worked together to have it, it's a statistical anomaly if the disease is purely by chance.
Chinese hackers hit critical U.S. infrastructure, intelligence agencies warn
Extremely weird to have either opinion.
That's somewhat like asking how to win a fight if you get knocked out.
Real Property Disposition: Historic lighthouses
> There would have been a cost to keeping him as well. There is a significant percentage of tech workers who are gay or trans, which would have reduced the hiring pool available to Mozilla.

Having the best pool of workers in the world aren't going to make a difference[1] if they are working for power-mongers who use outrage to achieve a coup.

The reverse is not true - having fewer skilled workers to choose from can be irrelevant when they are working for someone who is focused on goals that are aligned to the user.

IOW, there's no point in having the absolute best and the brightest people employed by self-serving schemers who wanted to use firefox as a vehicle for their political/virtuous ambitions.

There might be, however, a point in having "only" the 90% best people employed towards making firefox better.

[1] And, it looks like it didn't make a difference.
I'm sure you can see how having a single correct answer for a math problem is useful.
"What would the parameters be for a more open-ended conversation"

Engagement! Just like social media!
Original Gangsta: the person who started the gang.
There are also security implications for how HTML is constructed.
Ah. We handwave away the efficacy of "policy" in America. Surely government will save us, right?
It's been two decades since I took an ethics class, but here's my stab:

Kant would call this unethical because he argued against any philanthropic impetus towards lying. Of course he would also call the misrepresentation by the students to be unethical.

Utilitarianism has trouble dealing with cheating because any single act of cheating seems to cause benefits for the cheater greater than the damage a single cheater does. Rule-based utilitarianism attempts to resolve this by considering that if too many people cheat, the negative outcomes to the school then outweigh the sum of the individual advantages of those cheating (particularly since any performative aspects of getting a high grade go away when it becomes well known that many people cheated to get those grades). Many people argue that rule-based utilitarianism just devolves to utilitarianism since no two situations are ever identical.

I never really quite grokked virtue ethics, but it seems to me that if the professor is upright and is acting with the intent of helping the students who didn't cheat (by raising their grade relative to cheaters) then this would probably get a stamp of approval.

Moral relativism would acknowledge that his actions will be deemed immoral by his students (who just want to pass the class, and feel attacked and deceived by this), but moral from the point of view of a teacher who is required by their position to come up with some form of practical assessment for a class of nearly 100 students.
How does Glasdoor validate that a reviewer actually worked at a given company?
I know it's a different company, but after SpaceX's most recent launch spewed debris 10+ miles, I wouldn't be thrilled about being in close proximity to a Blue Origin launch site.
define good camera.

it's a bit weird because it often turns out that cameras with user interfaces are cheaper because of economy of scales. that being said, a market for almost barbone sensors on pcb's seems to be building and is lead by raspberry pi's camera modules, where the hq module has a reasonably sized sensor but is still a far cry from mft, aps-c and full frame sizes. the hq camera is almost on parity with most phones. from there it pretty much moves into cameras with ui's but controllable with some kind of vendor sdk or libgphoto. i imagine it's a matter of economy of scale and it's almost impossible to buy a good almost barbone sensor. If it's even possible e.g. the 61mp ff sensor used in the Sony a7rV is available almost barbone for astro photography, it's still very expensive. i imagine there's a pretty big market for all kinds of industrial cameras but from tip toeing into that, it seems very very very expensive.
Why not both? They don't have to be mutually exclusive!

For example - I'd be in favor of abolishing the current H1-B lottery in favor of taking in the first 85,000* applicants with the highest paying job offers. Maybe have some carve-outs based on sector, weighted by demand, so eg academics aren't competing with SV-tech salaries. Not a perfect solution, but solves a lot of the major problems we have today.

*I also think we should increase the cap
What I'm really going to do is put a trailing stop[0] on it in case it does continue to go bananas, and the stop can catch it on the way back down in case the banana scenario doesn't happen. :-)

[0] Somewhat oversimplified for discussion purposes.
So the purpose of academia is teach pupils a subject, that they can the use in real life.

When you're solving the same problems in real life you do have access to all those tools that you banned. Because in real life, if you manage to solve a problem it doesn't matter that much how you solved it.

Sure, if you just Google things and always solve your problems by copy pasting. Your solutions will lack depth, and at some point this will catch up to you.

My point is, cheating is primarily cheating on yourself, and it will catch up to you.

I think this is the framing you should have with regards to cheating.
What it takes to build a ML feature using an off-the-shelf LLM
When I think of building an engineering first company, Bosch comes to mind. Great products, great engineering, solid governance that prevents someone from ruining the org by strip mining it for short term gain.
For someone who suffered from govt overreach, he for some magical reason is very pro govt intervention in people's lives, almost like some kind of Stockholm syndrome.
> > You come up with a stupid analogy based on children behavior and now you invoke people throwing acid ?

> It’s called an analogy. Given we’re talking about nuclear war, it’s not an insane analogy.

It looks more like a slippery slope bias to me. You can "prove" any dangers with that analogy but it's running against what history and reality have shown us so far.

> > claim that a country would nuke another one to go and settle there, it's up to you to prove it.

> I never said they’d try to settle the wasteland. I think you’re struggling to understand the analogy.

True, true, somehow the "threaten to" stayed in the keyboard. I still stand by the fact that this analogy doesn't scale to the real world.
Yes, we're much worse towards animals, and really the entire ecosystem, then we were even 100 years ago. Pretty wild.
For the desire/cow/elephant fans out there, this Instagram account shares satisfying photos of urban desire paths (and the attempts to block them): https://www.instagram.com/olifantenpaadjes/
It's also the gift that keeps giving when setting up capybara-webkit on a new box
This post has two problems:

1) Dinosaurs never got extinct. Most died, but some of them evolved to birds.

2) Some birds are very intelligent, not human level intelligent, but parrots and crows are mammal level intelligent.

So my guess is that without the meteorite or other disaster, some dinosaurs could have evolved to the human intelligence level.

What about the big ones? We killed all the mega fauna in America, Australia and Europe. For some strange reason, there is still mega fauna in Asia and Africa, but we are "fixing" that too. So my guess is that the smart small evolved dinosaurs would have roasted the big ones in huge barbecues.
This makes me think of the "The White Ship" by H.P. Lovecraft.

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/ws.aspx
There are multiple effects going on and some are hopeful, but it is worrisome that key factors seem to be the cooling impact of negative events: mismanaged financial systems, pandemics and geopolitical strife.

The bigger and counterintuitive picture is that vast numbers of people do not enjoy the quality of life that is nominally achievable with todays technologies and a more peaceful and better managed world would actually enormously increase emissions unless we find sustainable substitutes for whatever really contributes to quality of life.

We need to snap out of such absurd incentives and false dilemmas. The task is global sustainable prosperity and we are lucky to have a worthy purpose.