skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that really true? There are plenty of charismatic, attractive talking heads who will cheerfully push whatever narrative their bosses feed them in exchange for a huge pile of cash. Lots of up and coming local TV news "talent" who are willing to do anything for a shot at a national network job. Ideology becomes remarkably flexible when you're trying to buy that yacht.
Because we keep printing money, cycle and repeat, ad nauseam
It's not solely due to increase in funds (I assume you mean stimulus?) I'm fairly sure corporations are getting money that would've went to other things (savings, for example).
They won't revolt.

It's a sad reality but Canada is an endless web of special interests.
I’ve never felt guilt from those stats. They might make me evaluate the last week, but IMHO guilt isn’t really a helpful emotion when it comes to past (not active) behavior.
Between PPP 'loans', 0% interest rates giving way to slumlords..er..'investors', and other stimuli, I feel like I'm the only sucker who didn't get rich.

Perhaps one of these days I'll ignore personal morals and join the party, since there doesn't really seem to be a visible downside :(.
Continuous performance monitoring of a service, from its inception. I'm building a storage service using SeaweedFS and also a web UI for another project. One thing I'm looking at doing is using k6[1] in order to do performance stress testing of API endpoints and web frontends on a continuous basis under various conditions.[2] For example, I'm trying to lean hard into using R2/S3 for storage offload, so my question is: "What does it look like when Seaweed offloads a local volume chunk to S3 aggressively, and what is the impact of that in a 90/10 hot/cold split on objects?" Maybe 90/10 storage splits are too aggressive or optimistic to hit a specific number. Every so often
-- maybe every day at certain points, or a bigger global test once a week -- you run k6 against all these endpoints, record the results, and shuffle them into Prometheus so you can see if things get noticeably worse for the user. Test login flows under bad conditions, when objects they request are really cold or large paginations occur, etc.

You can run numbers manually but I think designing for it up front is really important to keep performance targets on lock. That's where Prometheus and Grafana come in. And I think looking at performance numbers is a really good way to help understand systems dynamics and helps you ask why something is hitting some threshold. On the other hand, there are so many tools and they're often fun to play with, it's easy to get carried away. There's also a pretty reasonable amount of complexity involved in setting it up, so it's also easy to just say fuck it a lot of times and respond to issues on demand instead.

[1] http://k6.io/, it's also a Grafana project.

[2] It can test both normal REST endpoints but also browsers thanks to the use of headless chrome/chromium! So you can actually look at first paint latency and things like that too.
I don't hate all software. Just most of it, for many of the reasons this article states. At some point, our industry took a very wrong turn and we keep going down the mistaken road.
Insufficient Mexican food.
> a remote work environment where people can get together as needed.

+1 to that in theory though in practice, it is hard to pull off if everyone is geographically scattered. Key constraint boils down to everyone's ability to attend in person - you always miss around 10-15% of attendees. And then there is not enough ROI on all the expenses you have incurred for that offsite (air, hotel, cabs etc). If people are in the same geographical area, then probably it is not a problem.
> I find it doubtful a person can stay alert and ready to take the wheel at a moment's notice after the car has minded its own business for however long

I don't mean so people can navigate; I mean so people can complain to a city or district when a road is improperly marked.
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I would expect studios to own and develop the AI systems they use.
Hi, I used to work at gdgt and unfortunately when we were acquired by AOL in 2014 it, and the podcast MP3s got lost in the fray. Unless they're on Archive.org somewhere they're likely lost to time.
Indeed, spying on users and sharing data about them so you can make a buck is unethical.
Credit?

https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/credit-card-debt-st...
He is certainly sketchy, mendacious and untrustworthy. It doesn’t mean that he is necessarily wrong.

Achieving GPT-4 deserves a lot of credit. It’s true, it was built on stolen books, ideas, renegading on the non-profit and using the technology brought by xooglers, but it hardly matters. It’s a clear success and achieved vision of an AI.

So it is certainly worth listening to the predictions and ideas that are coming from the same team.
That's a pretty poor summary...

> Weber particularly admires the enforcement mechanism: any ships that purchase Russian oil above the G-7-mandated price will not be eligible for insurance. “That’s exactly the right principle,” she told me. “You don’t create some global board of price regulation, which will be guaranteed to fail. You work with the existing market infrastructure.”
More on this from a recent episode of Planet Money: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/11/1175487806/corporate-profit-p...

It's worth a listen, I found it interesting.
Regulation hugely benefits established companies.
Startups would have to deal with hugely complex legal problems just to exist, while the cost for compliance is insignificant to larger companies.

It is also an extremely good advertisment. Getting in front of the global press and telling them how dangerous the technology you can use right now, on their web site is, is absolutely awesome marketing.
> Most UFO reports fall into the Optical Illusion category

Indeed. Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_incident you can listen to the audio recording of some soldiers investigating what happened at the site of a proposed UFO landing, where they observe weird lights and scorch marks on trees.

There's another page some guy set up where he posts photos he took himself at the site and even used screenshots from a TV interview of one of the witnesses of the event to clearly show that those lights were easily explain by surrounding structures (light house etc) and the marks on trees were probably left by lumberjacks.

I'm baffled how a bunch of trained soldiers investigating over several days can just "conclude" that it was all very mysterious stuff going on and that, despite it being clearly debunked, this event is still seen as THE UFO event in the UK.

Then again I have no idea how these latest videos of flying objects can be explained. To a lay person like myself it just seems completely crazy. How can a pilot claiming to see things fly at supersonic speeds doing impossible maneuvers be explained by a problem with the lens and / or "it's just a weather balloon". The "explanations" of it being ufos seem completely believable to me.
>you might as well support the far-more-popular WebP as well.

May be far more compatible. I am not sure if WebP is actually popular.
I'm not sure about the exact numbers on this one, but cutting the corporate tax rate in half is certainly a big stimulus that goes straight into the bottom line.
Do you do AAA gaming on your M1 Max? If not, then the GPU is irrelevant, because a laptop with a 4090 mobile is going to shut it down completely.

If you are indeed doing AAA gaming, then you wouldn't have sufficient battery life without plugging in, or you wouldn't have sufficient performance.
As far as I know humans can also safely drive only with one eye. It’s perfectly legal in most countries.

But I agree that current software (Tesla?) is not able to do that in the same way. So it may need more sensors until the software gets better.

In theory cameras should also be able to see more than humans. They can have a wider angle, higher contrast, higher resolution and better low-light vision than the human eye.
Let us take a look at what boson is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boson

"multiple identical composite bosons (in this context sometimes known as 'bose particles') behave at high densities or low temperatures in a characteristic manner described by Bose–Einstein statistics: for example a gas of helium-4 atoms becomes a superfluid at temperatures close to absolute zero."

Helium leaks as nothing else, even more than hydrogen.

Here's some leak rates of heilum: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparison-of-the-helium...

Let's say we have a um^3 of helium in the device proposed. Let's assume leak rate of 8*10^-9 of cm^3/sec. (1e-6/1e-2)^3/(8e-9)
is equal to 1.2499999999999998e-4 - all helium will leak in 1/8 of microsecond in the device proposed.

I hope this helps.
As someone who is neither a lawyer nor an expert, I always wondering if refusing donations gave them less surface area for civil suits from advertising companies for stolen revenue.
we are , but in the other direction. inflation has been far worse , even when CPI claims were at 3% / year. Now they are claiming 7% , when in reality we are in double digits.

If you look at holistically at the number of working hours a middle class family required to run a household: own a house, car, pay utilities, food and have a quality of life : those hours are far higher . You now have two full time workers with lower quality of life.

Some technology and conveniences have concealed that but it's easy if you look at major expenses like housing, food, quality apparel, child care, education, healthcare.

If you don't believe me, look at census records from 50s-70s and see what professions lived in high class neighborhoods like Palo Alto, Berkeley , West Los Angeles, SF etc. You will see plumbers, carpenters, factory workers living in neighborhoods that are now occupied by 90th percentile incomes.

True inflation is # of hours working vs quality of life and assets earned. That figure is far higher than claimed CPI
Immigration policy greatly affects this and its lax af
Snowden didn't even flee to Russia on purpose - he just got stuck there during a layover on his way to Ecuador, because the US government canceled his passport while his flight was mid-air.
You want to be the head of a 100 m department and turn it into 110. If you change it into 70 m you don't sound like promotion material.
It’s not so much about “restricting housing supply” as it is a fundamental problem with growth through immigration.

When a new citizen is born, there’s roughly 20 years before that person needs individual housing to be made available for them. Plenty of time to build new housing. When a new citizen is imported, they need housing _today_. And Canada is importing massive numbers of people relative to the country’s population.
If anyone is curious, HydroQuébec, the provincial power provider, publishes a live feed of the current output by generation type. [1]

Hydroelectric power makes up a massive chunk (~90-95%) of the energy output of the province. If that resource is reaching a cap, where further investment isn’t going to give nearly the same returns, we don’t have other renewables to spin up as easily! Hydro really has been the main investment for decades.

[1] https://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/donnees-o...

(Source: https://www.hydroquebec.com/documents-data/open-data/electri...)

Yes, it’s a bilingual json file.
Real time data is fed into an InfluxDB instance and shown on Grafana hosted on the ground station. This data is downsampled to cope with the volume of raw traffic. We also tried some solutions used by other teams like KX [0] but decided to go with a FOSS stack. A post processing pipeline converts original data to a however proprietary format used by AEMdata [1], a proprietary data analysis tool from our ECU vendor and used somewhat commonly in the racing scene.

[0]: https://code.kx.com/dashboards/

[1]: https://www.aemelectronics.com/products/software-aemnet/aemd...
Could you explain more about which specific theories contradict one another?
Open the article.

Ctrl-F.

Paste "Twitter had an apparent and now resolved regression allowing CSAM to be posted to public profiles".

Is it really not there?

Did I forget to take my crazy pills today?
Holy crap this is awesome. Talking for the first time after learning from books can be really intimidating, this is going to be a game-changing way for people to practice alone and build up to talking to other people.
Its already happening in a broad number of fields.

Bioinformaticians, copyrighting, research studies, law (though we've already seen the downsides). All the companies want to automate everything they can because of the cost savings even if there is a reduction in quality. Cents versus tens of dollars per hour is a no brainer in terms of cost so replacement it is.

Importantly, this is also just the start, and it gets better exponentially, currently the rate of change exceeds the rate at which we can evaluate the changes and thus take action.

Most manual labor jobs account for the lowest rung on the payscale outside of trades which have limited supportability due to limited market size.

1 company per 12-50,000 people for it to be economically viable depending on the trade.
Those simply can't absorb the hundreds of thousands of jobs and now deprecated business sectors where those degrees that people are still paying off on their college loans have no benefit.
With state credit included, you can buy a Model 3 for ~28k in Colorado [1]

There are a lot of reasons why Tesla is cheaper (Elon's risk of running Tesla for a loss for many years but investing in battery capacity and other supply chains has paid off, IMHO), but some fault lies with manufacturers for not realizing that manufacturing complexity [2] needs to be reduced.

this mentality of "same chassis, just swap the engine for petrol/diesel/electric" cannot work. They need to start shaving grams every day, for both cost and increased battery capacity purposes, and they need to start thinking of EVs as a absolutely new product.

We have seen this before where android manufacturers treated tablets as "phones but bigger" and lost, where as Apple realized iPad needed separate attention and won.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXl2QO9SQfs

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CQfADbJr30
A total security nightmare.
Why wouldn't other, competing corporations just... not raise prices and increase their market share?
Elon tweeted that we should all go watch this doc because it's the most important doc there is on the harms of AI[1]

I watched it... it's 17 minutes of smart people saying AI is going to destroy us but 0 minutes of anyone actually describing a situation succinctly.

The sorta of hodgepodge summery is: AI will in the near future be so smart that anything we think of to curtail it, it will have already thought of because it's orders of magnitude smarter than us. Additionally, it is able to improve itself without us, such that it becomes smarter and smarter at some insane pace we can't even comprehend, solving it's own problems etc etc. We are not working on making sure that any large-scale AI developed is inherently aligned with us under all circumstances.

So we might say unplug the servers, but it's already exploited a flaw in the security system of the server rooms and re-programmed them such that we can't access them, or copied itself to IoT devices, distributed itself in such a way that it can heal itself, etc etc.

Nick Bostrom - Super Intelligence is actually a pretty good book and covers some of this thinking.

The more I sit and think of these issues, the more I start to accept them as potential issues. I'm still very much on the fence, but I've gone from there is no merit in this and it's regulatory capture for business advancement to: I suppose there might be some merit.

If this actually does get totally out of hand and some crazy AI system takes over, the only realistic mitigation I can think of is totally isolated EMP near DCs and power centers. They would require human DNA/biology to activate, but even then the AI would have effectively become a cancer, I don't know how much you'd have to destroy to stop it. It's an interesting thought experiment anyway, and I'm sure there must already be some good scifi movies about this kind of thing.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1eyUjVRir4
The first flowers were pollinated by insects
The plan is simple. If YouTube is valuable enough to you, start paying for YouTube Premium. If it’s not, then stop watching YouTube. There’s no such thing as a permanently good service. It will slowly degrade as it attempts to get more value from its “captured” user base.

To be clear, this does not suggest that I’m “owed” YouTube without ads. Just that I won’t participate in it either.
This sounds like a more intelligent version of superoptimization. The original Masselin SO, albeit for its time, also created surprising results which is similar to AlphaDev's incomprehensible for humans. You see the same thing in computer chess which Agadmator calls disgusting engine lines.

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse501/15sp/papers...
> In this example, we could use a range scan instead of the YEAR function to obtain the same result.

The range scan will miss all items with a created_at from 2023-12-31 00:00:01 to 2023-12-31 23:59:59
> I can only imagine the people working on the actual chips are screaming in silence somewhere at the complete waste of energy we've made.

As a dev, this bothers me a great deal. We have miracle machines on our desks and in our pockets, and 80% of the capabilities of that hardware are pissed away by terribly inefficient software.
Then your chatbot produces bad output, that sucks.
Vibrators have a lot of interesting heavy industrial uses. At massive scale, things like paint mixers are massive vibrators. I had a college friend whose job title on LinkedIn for many years was "Vibrator Engineer" due to specialization in that industrial field. I don't think any of the vibrators they worked on were "personal sized" and I doubt any of the companies on their resume had any plans to sell sex toys, but that was an industrial/mechanical engineering specialization important enough to those companies to be reflected even in job titles.

Relatedly, my favorite Japanese product line enigma remains Yamaha realizing that all the finely specialized industrial equipment for building organs and pianos could probably be multi-tasked to making motorcycles.
My comment was merely a reaction to the thread above, not the original article.

lisasays: this is rubbish because there's no first-hand evidence e.g. of the vehicle fragments of the Debrief article

phyallow: here's first-hand evidence [link to the vice article]

me: this is just weird bits of rock, which isn't obviously a vehicle fragment, and so this article isn't really as much of a proper response to lisasays' comment as it seems.
More or less, yes. Most companies don't do 50% pay cuts even under extreme circumstances, preferring to go ahead and lay people off, but many companies will do things like wage freezes or temporary pay reductions to try to avoid layoffs.

Your options are always the same. Stay or go.
Are you trying to say he was an in a modern atheist or was just criticizing the state/organized religion?

> There's just always been rubes

Yes, especially now when actually both sides of the argument are full of them..
I didn't say 3070, that was from the parent "who is impressed by 3070 performance [in a 25W envelope]"? And the answer is a lot of people.

I actually added the 3060 bit myself lol, because yeah, that seems to be more like where it actually lands, more like desktop 3060.

edit: also desktop vs mobile is a factor here too... mobile 3070 is not the same thing as desktop 3070, and coming in at desktop 3070 would actually be fairly impressive. Mobile 3060, much less so.
Saving less / taking money out of savings, more credit card debt (https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/credit-card-debt-st...), etc.

Some things, people just have to buy. Can't stop buying food, paying rent, paying for your car, etc.
It was an interplanetary endeavour. Unfortunately, some programmers encoded intersystem travel using the Universal Unit, while others used the Multiversal Metric System.
He's written in detail (with many revisions) about why he doesn't accept donations...since 2014, actually (and versioned those on GitHub too).

The latest version from April 2022 [1] says:

> I do not want the administrative workload that comes with donations. I do not want the project to become in need of funding in any way: no dedicated home page + no forum = no cost = no need for financial support. I want to be free to move on to something else if ever I get tired of working on these projects (no donations = no expectations).

> Have a thought for the maintainers of the various lists. These lists are everything. I can not emphasize this enough.

The oldest version from July 2014 [2] says:

> A couple of reasons, each on its own is enough for me to not want donations.

> First reason is a mix of practicality and because of who I am.

> If I were to accept donations, because of who I am, I would be unable to not disclose exactly what is going on with these donations: revenues, withdrawals (for what purpose), etc. Because these would be funds donated with the expectations to help, I would want to disclose everything related to these donations, so people who have given know how their donations are used for this project. That's just who I am, I wouldn't be able to do otherwise. Thing is, I don't want to deal with all this administrative work I would bring to myself if I were to accept donations. I just want to code.

> Second reason, to ensure the main purpose of these projects is protected.

> If I were to accept donations, then in my opinion, the projects (µBlock, HTTP Switchboard) would start a slow descent toward becoming dependent on outside funding, a slow descent toward a mean to earn funds, and this drift eventually leads to the projects' main purpose becoming vulnerable to other agendas. In my opinion. There are excellent open source projects out there which accept donations and are not compromised. Some others are in my opinion. So, as it is, I don't want these projects to have a dedicated home page (requires funding), a forum (requires funding), or whatever requires funding. No financial footprint means no way the main purpose can be preempted (µBlock, HTTP Switchboard are GPLv3). It bothers me Firefox decided to go along with HTML5 DRM.

[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don't-you-accept-...

[2]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don't-you-accept-...