skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good point. There must be one though that other cities can look up to. I would guess Singapore does a good job on these problems. I would be curious to hear of the best examples of large cities that have done a better job on housing.
Glad to hear there's a roadmap. In my PAAS thrashing I've got quite a few notes:

- no wildcard subdomain ssl
- poor metrics, nothing per instance
- poor dyno granularity - (jumps from 2.5GB RAM to 14, no cpu/storage control)
- no transparency on what each dyno actually is
- external postgres replication disabled (deal breaker)
- no first class postgres metrics and access logs/alerts (kibana recommended, but not great)
- no external postgres backups (e.g. S3)
- no deletion locks on dynos and add-ons, esp databases!!!
- no warning when add-ons like databases are being deleted as a result of apps being deleted
- deleting an add-on also irreversibly deletes all replicas and backups
- painfully inconsistent naming for databases through their connection str env
- dyno types for build processes use Perf-M? Not configurable
- No lambda or github action style computing
- No scheduled scaling
- Unable to choose aws-us regions
- Hard 30s timeout limit
- Limited to 1 api key per user. No labels, configurable permissions, usage logging
- no http/2
- frustrating enterprise offering. massive over-sell, near zero value
Just has a link, at least for those of us who use old.reddit. And that's a good thing.
>but it is enough that many are unwilling to spend that kind of money on a 5 year old phone, versus for $35, it's a low enough amount that many might just stick with their phone and replace the battery, leading to less e-waste.

Are there people that find spending $99 on a battery replacement expensive that are really making the decision to replace their whole phone for 5-10x that amount?
Just tried it on some random GoPro footage and was very impressed! First - by the quality of stabilization. It is if not better then at the same level as in Gopro itself (which is considered having best e-stabilisation on the market). And second, that now I can shoot with disabled stabilization and choose amount of crop in post. I know that Sony offers similar thing with Catalyst Browse, but it is very unconvenient to use additional application to render stabilized footage, here I can just use plugin for Davinci and have seamless workflow.
Same with the majority of tech companies. All you do is endless meetings, plannings, reviews and extremely little actual human brain is used for productive output.
I see. Thanks for explaining. Yeah I guess that re-distribution was a little rogue and could perhaps be called a leak. I personally dislike that interpretation but I can see it.
The amount of computation in the world devoted to deep learning, in aggregate, might be a small slice of total computation. But in terms of costs borne by individual organizations who train such models, deep learning could be extremely substantial. Particularly if it takes millions in additional investment to achieve only marginal reductions in error.
These are hard to scan for. Also people can change?
I got “scammed” three times on social media.

1. Purchased electric scooters by following an Instagram ad. It was around Christmas time. The scooters were really cool looking. Turned out, they used the promotional videos from another company’s real product. I did get the money back from the credit card company.

2. Purchased a pillow by following an Instagram ad. Never received it. It turned out to be a fake store to just steal people’s money. Wasn’t enough money to worry about it.

3. Followed an ad from Twitter for a marshmallow company. Placed an order as a gift for someone else. Turns out they never actually send orders. They just take people’s money. The online store was amazingly designed. Awesome photos and functioned really well. I think it was a legitimate business at one point, but decided it was easier to just steal people’s money. There wasn’t any reason to think the store was a scam. If I checked online reviews first though, I would have found the warnings posted everywhere not to order from them.

Came close to placing an order from a clothing store. Prices were slightly too good to be true. This time I checked online reviews and it turns out they never ship orders either.

All three times were years apart. Happened while mindlessly scrolling and when your guard is down. I don’t order stuff from random sites either, but the products were just the right thing to peak interest.
That is basically my story.

Started learning programming in high school. Went to college for engineering. Worked in (real) engineering for 8 years.

Now I automate engineering jobs.
I don’t think people “think” otherwise, but they do apply human “ideals” or “emotion” to corporate action and while corps are run by humans they are not themselves human, obviously.

So it’s a slippery distractive slope.
I only knew about it because a popular mod Space Exploration for the video game Factorio has its wiki hosted on it. Actually even then I never went up to miraheze.org to look at the rest of the site.
Oklahoma is not seismically inert. The region has active fault systems that have always generated earthquakes. Injecting fluids into faults can trigger earthquakes, essentially pulling future earthquakes forward in time.
Your examples are all rare edge cases, when the day to day is police using unconstitutional excessive force, including deadly force, with little to no accountability.

The idea that being a police officer is an incredibly dangerous job is just false, and in many cases, the violence is caused by police escalation. Police already have guns, tasers, pepper space, body armor, other police, etc. You are just as likely to be murdered on the job as a convenience store clerk as a cop. Over 600 convenience store workers are murdered on the job per year [1] compared to about 60 per year for police [2], about 5-7 of which are during serving warrants. Convenience store workers are murdered at about 7 per 100k, while police are about 7-8 per 100k [3].

As for giving police access to sweeping facial ID. Whenever the new thing that whittles down the 4th amendment is talked about, it is almost always with a slam dunk case that is also an incredibly serious case. But the average investigation rarely ends in a slam dunk. Allowing police to bypass protections of privacy and checks and balances to their scope of investigation also destroys lives. Semen found inside a person is pretty obvious, but what about just DNA found at a crime scene. If someone is stabbed in a back alley and police just sweep up DNA and run a massive database and tie it to a homeless person without an alibi. It might not matter that the homeless person slept there a week before, in the absence of a better lead, they might push for a conviction. Or just sweeping up all phone pings in the area during the crime. Maybe someone was in the neighborhood but was completely unrelated. In the absence of a better lead, an innocent person could be targeted. Police being able to fish for facial recognition hits is no different.

School shooters? Adding police to patrol schools already has led to police attacking and arresting more students for smaller offenses and ruining more children’s lives, all while failing to stop any school shootings, and it should surprise no one that black and brown kids are the overwhelming victims. “Black students were subjected to more than 80% of the incidents of police violence accounted for in the survey, which analyzed more than 285 incidents over a decade. At least 60% of police assaults on students resulted in serious injury to the students, including broken bones, concussions and hospitalizations. The report also cited 24 cases of sexual assault on students and five student deaths as a result of police force in schools.” Pepper spray drones patrolling schools will be used to target black kids, and when they fail to stop the next 7 school shootings, people will say they really need to be armed with guns to really be able to stop the next school shooting.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/cwc/assaults-and-violent-acts-i...

[2] https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-release...

[3] https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/police-2018.htm

[4] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/report-police-schools-ou...
The term engineer is a little vague can be applied to anyone who makes something. My buddy who put pontoons on a picnic table could be considered an marine engineer. ;)

I guess graphic designers could be considered engineers, since they use color science and UX research.

There's definitely a subjective element there.

I personally define engineering where the design ends and code/implementation begins, otherwise its UI, UX, and design and even the tools used are different up to that point.

And typically in a lot of companies the design vs code responsibilities are differentiated as well.
Two Words. Data Density.

Same with this website.
No, just the ones that people are strongly motivated to brigade, and ones where I saw discussion of discord groups where links to such polls were posted to mobilize brigaders. But none of that should matter. If you claim your poll is representative, you need to demonstrate it. Don't make claims that outpace your evidence. It's not that hard.
I got mine for MSRP, $75. Though I am sure even as things ease there will be resellers marking up.

The fields may not be fertile yet, but rain is on the horizon.
Wikipedia also says that water starts conducting at 1.23V, and the common Li-Ion nominal voltage is 3.7V.

3.7V - 1.23V == 2.47V.
2.47V / 0.2Ω ~= 30W (12.5A).

You will be able the find your phone on the seabed from the bubble emanating from it.

Though the battery protect circuitry (which is inside the battery package) will most likely cut power before the battery is risks damages.
You may be interested in DuckDB's CIDR talk on the little miracles that made it possible. [0]

[0] https://twitter.com/motherduck/status/1615487300523429889
Canada is both dense and sparse. It’s paradoxical. Huge landmass. Almost everyone living in a thin slice near the U.S. border. We have massive housing issues all over the place.

Nobody’s building in the great wilderness above.
Meaningful prices for the rest of us
Its kind of crazy that Canada now has the same population as California, and is 25 times bigger physically. Whereas Canada's economy is 50% smaller than California's (3T to 2T).
Ontario is culturally 2 provinces, southern and northern Ontario.

The north is what you normally think of Canada: rocks, trees and lakes. The south is similar to the neighbouring US states of Michigan, Ohio, and New York but with a distinct Canadian identity and a French region in the east.

Most of the population (13.4M) lives in the southern part (114,000 km^2)
It's the second largest country in the world. It has half the population of Germany and ~28x the land mass. Their problem will be actually building houses and making them affordable, not "sparseness"
I run a thousand member subreddit that is probably going to vote to stay open. Insignificant but it’s a data point.
Breaking peers into groups and letting them compete on wargames is also a fun exercise. Not sure how this will be impacted by LLM-powered coding software, however.
No, that's purely destructive greed.

Ancient civilizations invented the jubilee (loans should be repaid in 7 years) to prevent speculation on them. But unfortunately, preventing extreme concentration of wealth has fallen out of favour
Are you blaming Apple for not introducing the first iPhone until 2007?
Not just below replacement -- far below.

Canada's TFR in 2020 was 1.4. https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/960-fewer-babies-born-c...

And the last time TFR was above replacement was in 1970. Meaning Canada has been at below-replacement fertility for more than 50 years.

Canada's population, however, has doubled since 1970. That represents an extreme amount of immigration.
Can second the Django/Gevent/Gunicorn stack - we use it in production and IMO it's much easier to reason about and code in than asyncio. Just write synchronous Python, including long-running `requests` calls, and the system will yield control whenever you're blocked on network or disk I/O, no matter how deep that is in your stack. The entire ecosystem of Python libraries just works. I also wish more people knew about gevent - it's truly magical, especially if you need to work with APIs with unpredictable latency!
The one I just tried was "urbit key rollover"

Upon closer inspection, I think there's something disconcerting about using this engine in that—I don't know the right words for this but—it filters 100% by all the keywords. So, "rollover" is kind of a strange word, and because you don't have any results with these three words, I see nothing.

I'd prefer to instead see results for "urbit key," given the circumstances. I imagine the algorithms to do this well are complicated though.

Another query that had no results: "multi-band compression maselec"

A query that has surprisingly few results: "qmmf-4." It shows a single forum post from a forum that has probably hundreds of posts matching this query. Why just one?
Have all the fan wikis now consolidated under the horrible ad-ridden Fandom brand wikis now?
Every Louisiana driver's license holder exposed in cyberattack
It’s interesting to think about an information-deduplication solution for internet. Maybe now we can use LLMs and embeddings to create an archive of all (factual) information, then build a search on top of that?
You just compared apples to oranges.

~6.954 (as of 2016 so actually higher) million of those 15m people live in 8,244 km^2 in the Greater Toronto Hamilton area, which works out to 843 people per square kilometer (vs 3368 for Istanbul).

Yes, 1/4 the density, yes, but nowhere close to the bizarre comparison you gave, where you used literally uninhabitable/barely-settled areas of the province (Ontario is huge and mostly rock and lakes) and compared to one of the densest cities in the world. At least compare urban area to urban area.

Toronto is the 3rd or 4th most populated city in North America, depending on how you count. Not some quaint arctic getaway. Also sits at the same latitude as e.g. Marseille in the south of France, or Florence in Italy. So not exactly northern at all.

Also if we restrict to just the actual technical city of Toronto proper, the density is higher than what you gave for Istanbul: 2,794,356 people in 630.20km^2 == 4435 people per square kilometer.

So... Check your biases at the door.
So, you're basically telling me that there is (or was) a bioinformatics prof @ Berkeley who was fucking with the data.

Yeeeesh.

I guess my science career was relatively clean. I knew a few fellow students who got screwed over by their advisors in the sense that the advisors demanded an excessive amount of publishable work to graduate.

And I saw plenty of personality conflicts, many of which could be lain squarely in the lap of the advisor.

But I never saw or heard of outright fraud, which makes me happy.

I'm not naïve. I know fraud is everywhere. And I know there's a lot of pressure to produce interesting results. I probably just got lucky.

edit: for anyone taking the plunge into grad school. I made my choice of advisor largely based on his reputation of looking out for his students ... and on his research as a secondary consideration. That may have helped me.
Discussed at the time:

Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28646256 - Sept 2021 (84 comments)
Like they never would tolerate being forced into USB-C or being forced into allowing other app stores?
uTorrent took over an entire market segment by being super fast and small. Some people value fast and small software when it happens, there is no reason to accept ridiculous bloat like rust needing multiple megabytes to print a string to stdout.

This is just a reminder of how much nonsense languages like rust are packing into their binaries without regard for the people using them.
Yeah, it's best when companies self-regulate, because they're the ones who understand it best.

Government steps in when companies don't self-regulate. There's a saying that regulations are written in blood. Every regulation that exists can be tied back to some incident of somebody getting killed or injured.

Despite anti-government claims, regulators don't write the rules for fun. And they often do understand the domain, sometimes better because they are surveying a whole industry rather than a single perspective.

If AI companies want to avoid being regulated by government, they'll come up with their own regulations before somebody gets hurt. When it comes to AI, there's a possibility of a whole lot of people getting hurt all at once, which leads to governments having to regulate in haste. Haste is bad and leads to bad regulation. But it's better than allowing harm to go on while industries clutch their pearls about how bad government is.
Part of this is reprioritization as you get older. The old saying:

When I was young I had time but no money.

Now that I am old I have money but no time.

Like you, I did a lot myself when I was young/poor, pinched pennies etc.

It got me to the point where I was successful. Now that I am older I value the things I am running out of time to do. So the money is well spent on maximizing my time left.
Is there any information about when the model will be available or what it is capable of? Anything like a position on a leaderboard or a score related to reasoning or code generation?

Will it be able to run on AMD's new MI300X? I keep hoping that will put a "chip" in Nvidia's dominance since it seems more efficient.
I see your point but... not sure if I agree. Here's an example:

Mozilla makes Google the default search engine in Firefox for all users. That's FAANG + misinformation + hypocrisy + perversity on my book.

Misinformation because you can´t be serious about privacy if your default search engine is Google.
Hypocrisy because they position themselves as a privacy-focused product but they still push Google, Pocket, ads and other nasty stuff.
Perversity because they emotionally manipulate users to make them feel safe, while at the same time they make them vulnerable to tracking.

Today I installed Firefox on my iPhone. When you launch the app, there's a child-like drawing of a smiling woman hugging the FF logo.
A heading reads "Welcome to an independent internet". Subheading reads "Firefox puts people over profits and defends your privacy as you browse".
Whatever you type on the URL bar connects you to Google. So... because of their defaults any user action will lead such user in exactly the opposite direction of what they were promised a second ago. That's perverse and disturbing.

I'm done with Mozilla and Firefox, they need to be exposed and shamed like any other FAANG orgs.
I've been wishing and hoping they get things right but this behavior has now been going on for over a decade.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230616192004/https://www.nytime...
I'm undecided on scrum and story points. The most productive team I was ever on used them, but they primarily served two purposes:

* Are we breaking our work down small enough? Big stories often had too much ambiguity and increased delivery risk.

* Are we over extending ourselves? Committing to deliver too much leads to so many problems.

All estimation was done entirely async. We only debated/discussed if people had radically different views on size.

We did run daily standups, but they served as part social function (a necessary forcing function on a remote team). We did not force updates or discussion. People brought what they thought was necessary to the group and left it out otherwise.
This reasoning is true of every real number, yet it's been proven that almost all real numbers are absolutely normal and therefore contains every finite sequence of digits
There’s been brigading from both sides, it’s just more noticeable when it’s an outcome you personally disagree with. I’m having to remind myself that just because a) my subreddit has someone who’s never posted there vehemently arguing to stay open and b) staying open is winning the poll, that doesn’t mean it’s a brigade.

(There would be more people voting if it was a brigade, so I’m pretty sure it’s not. But emotionally it bugs me.)
Is is possible to boot iOS devices into an alternative OS? Googling around I found OpeniBoot but it seems to only support older iPhone and iPad models (and iPod).
If they (employers) can change the terms of contract, why shouldn’t the worker as well?
Look at the intended semantics [1], and then read the implementation [2]. Can you figure out if the implementation is correct? Can you infer the possible limitations of the approach at glance? Can your async library actually handle being called with multiple event loops installed?

I have zero trust in this code and I have been bitten by fixes to this library that introduced deadlocks in my own code.

[1] https://github.com/django/asgiref#synchronous-code--threads.

[2] https://github.com/django/asgiref/blob/main/asgiref/sync.py#...
So according to you it’s paranoia to assume it’s impacting anything?

I never claimed you were a bot or LLM or anything of the nature, I also never claimed it was everyone but that clearly SOMEONE is doing it and it’s blatantly obvious. Stop making strawmen to attack. I pointed out patterns that people were seeing and your response is “but it doesn’t impact anything.”

Maybe you should check your biases first before throwing stones. Evidence was presented of someone clearly astroturfing against the blackout but it’s just my bias of course. Not evidence.

Honestly I’m getting strong “my opinion is the only valid opinion” vibes from your reply simply because you dismiss actual evidence to go into a straw man that I was attacking you.
> So even if a 3PA user cost 5x in terms of compute ...

> I asked you several times to show your math how you came to 5x. Please show if you really interested in meaningful discussion.

Consider this: The Apollo app could generate significantly more requests (5x, 10x, 20x, ... ?) to serve the exact same content and still not justify the new pricing it is being charged. In other words, the app would have to be incredibly inefficient, which doesn't align with Occam's razor. It seems more plausible that Reddit has made allegations that are only loosely based on fact, rather than Apollo being so inefficient despite its high-quality reputation.

There is no specific mathematical calculation to present. I did not conduct benchmarks for you, if that's what you expected.

Your argument revolves around comparing an active 3PA user with an inactive Reddit user, which is fundamentally flawed and easily refutable. I focused on that aspect because it is not a valid comparison.
> to ensure [..] ecological sustainability, Canada needs to triple its population.

This is beyond farcical.
We could have had reasonable tax policies and reasonable spending policies for a few decades instead of running huge deficits to keep financing tax cuts for the ultra wealthy, but we didn't do that. Mostly because of the reality distortion field coming out of certain schools of economics that tell us it's gonna trickle down any moment now.

For the record, I don't advocate confiscating 99% of their wealth as some scheme to fund the government. (Did I mention the government? no). And I don't advocate confiscating the money out of spite or a sense of moral obligation. But as a society we might want to consider the instability that every example throughout history suggests. When the peasants revolt, they don't tax the rich, they chop their heads off. (And for the record, I am not advocating that either, sheesh).
One of us doesn't, that's for sure.
Me too please
I wonder if global warming could make it into one of the most populous countries in the distant future. Would be funny if there is some canadian cabal trying to speed up global warming.
When I was coming up, we didn’t have no dashed lines dividing the displays into 8-byte segments. And color? Everything was orange text on black. If you wanted green on black, you used a coworker’s terminal.