skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody wants to accept liability if a fire gets out of control.

If it happens naturally, it's nobody's fault. If it happens because the state is doing a controlled burn, the state foots the bill.

Take a look at how many of the wildfires are due to unmaintained power lines if you REALLY want to blow a gasket.
Mental Health Advice
Do we even know why AIs "hallucinate"? Is it possible to prevent it?
At this point there are so many layers that it would be hard to figure out the common problems without doing some serious work profiling a whole bunch of applications
The Future of Transcribers of Reddit
I don't know.

It's easier to remember the html tags and to see if they are correct.

In markdown I have to remember the weird punctuation and get the | counts exactly correct.
What NATO offensive in Ukraine? There is no NATO offensive in Ukraine. It kept getting shot down by vatniks claiming it would start World War 3.
You can't eat silver.

Farms also shape rural communities, literally and figuratively.

>Ultimately people aren’t siding with family farms for economics or fairness reasons

What would you call Community supported Agriculture? (https://www.kneehighfarm.com/what-is-csa)the farm to table movement? Farmers markets?
For anyone wondering

List of pumped-storage hydroelectric power stations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pumped-storage_hydroel...

List of (non-hydro) energy storage power plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_energy_storage_power_p...

Largest battery plants in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_storage_power_station#...

"Really small capacity" here apparently means "roughly 4 hours of discharging as fast as possible".
How to become an authority on gods?
Fascinating but why not, light stimulation is well accepted.

It seems odd to me that the article lists anti-seizure medication last among proposed management.

That said, the absolute worst trigger I know of is stress relief. YES. You read that right. Some people have neurological conditions triggered by the relief of stress.

Migrains and epilepsy, once you relax. What a hellish experience
> I'm not certain I'd like 2 or 3 giant corporations deciding how much corn will be grown next season to maximize profits,

There are several sectors of the agricultural industry that are monopolies/oligopolies. And those tend towards making more money via producing more rather than artificial scarcity. If orange prices rise too much, then some other commodity will replace it. So instead of artificially restricting orange supplies, the industry spends tons of money researching and bringing to market more products that use oranges. Diversity and vertical integration are the name of the game here.

Even the pervasive corn industry isn't immune to being replaced by competition if prices go up.
I'm not sure. Imagine if life-critical safety documents were "fun to read". Or material safety data sheets. Or assembly instructions for heavy machinery. Or even code.

All of this stuff needs to be extremely clear, precise, and readable by professionals. That's not the same as being "fun to read", and certainly not by laypeople. You can't really know whether an academic paper is clear, precise, and readable unless you're a professional in the sub-discipline the paper was written for.
That is still supply and demand. The "demand" part comes from what you wrote about - how profitable the capital holders believe their tech ventures will be - this sets the ceiling for tech salaries. Currently, the capital holders are still very optimistic, which makes us in this profession still in very high demand.
> Interestingly, race relations were at their peak in 2008

You mean when a significant minority of the population was saying that Obama was a secret Muslim trying to impose Sharia law on the United States and McCain (whatever happen to people like him?) had to constantly squash it in his own party?
I agree that the voting can feel icky. It's just too low-content and ambiguous to be that useful of a signal. I think number of replies would be a better signal, but it's also easy to post something inflammatory and get a ton of knee-jerk replies. Though maybe under a reply-based scoring system people would learn to just let those comments die.

With regards to your second paragraph, I think the problem is that most real, meaty discussions are not a simple matter of factual right and wrong. If it really is that cut-and-dried then there's usually not much conversation to be had. When it comes to a lot of interesting discussions there's always going to be opinions and perspectives and feelings involved. Respecting that will get people to open up more and put more effort into explaining their point of view, and will result in less defensiveness and people trying to "own" each other. It feels good to do a big show of rhetoric and really drive your point home but it's almost always detrimental to reaching a shared understanding.
Well let me clarify, I didn't want to make the post too long :) I work at a great company working with different server cloud and monitoring solutions, and I rarely have a dull day. I meet customers and plan projects, now with almost 15 years experience I feel very comfortable

but it's all the stuff around I just don't enjoy anymore. For example the last year of AI hype didn't interest me at all, for some reason. But stuff like setting up Docker clusters or reading about scaling MySQL I can spend hours on, because its more like "hands on"

I probably want to work with software and servers until I die in my chair of age :)
The card punch machines at my school had a hopper for all the holes punched out. I would collect this confetti and deliver them to a little girl on my paper route who was delighted by it.
It was my first encounter with Hamlet so I didn't have another frame of reference to judge the performance.

And I had already watched him in other movies such as Rebecca (I didn't like the movie except for the (some of the) end) so maybe I was used to his acting.
Pixar Used AI to Stoke Elemental's Flame
What's crazy is that, unlike this ESA engine and prototype rocket, Raptor and Starship R&D is all privately funded by SpaceX's profits.

Starship will fly payloads to LEO before this European rocket reaches the Karman line.
Of English translations, yes the KJV. But I'm Serbian, so I primarily read Serbian translations, or a bilingual Bible, side by side KJV and Daničić-Karadžić translation.

As for the translation biases, that's kind of a separate topic, and comparing translations is very interesting for me personally, I enjoy using that AndBible software.

Apocrypha too has interesting stories which influenced art, literature, etc. etc. etc. Definitely worth reading.

A side note, since you mention the biases, I think you might enjoy the book development of the New Testament canon, I don't remember the author or the exact book title, sorry about that. I find it fascinating that the only books of the Bible whose author is confirmed are seven pauline epistles (perhaps three more, I think yes, but I'm a layman). I could go on, but I have to stop somewhere.
It's the question to observe how candidate approaches this problem. It's not about receiving right answer.
Russia investigates Wagner chief for ‘armed mutiny’ after call for attack
You do know you can create your IAM Policies from Cloutrail logs?

"Generate policies based on access activity" - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_poli...

"IAM Access Analyzer makes it easier to implement least privilege permissions by generating IAM policies based on access activity" - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/iam-access-analyzer-ma...
This is from March 25, 2022 - over a year old now.
She Built an App to Block Harassment on Twitter. Elon Musk Killed It
If I understand what you're asking, the Transformer isn't initially treating the image as a sequence of pixels like p1, p2, ..., pN. Instead, you can use a convolutional neural network to respect the structure of the image to extract features. Then you use the attention mechanism to pay attention to parts of the image that aren't necessarily close together but that when viewed together, contribute to the classification of an object within the image.
At least in the US market there isn't a single category of a thing in any walmart that you can only buy exclusively at walmart. If this was their strategy they would still be price cutting.
Yeah, it is updated from time to time. Mostly small changes, but the version from 2014 was much less detailed, so better to list it as newer.

Currently working on a more detailed "book" on this :)
Nobody is asking for "hype" or "bombastic marketing". Just a video of it in operation. It's a rocket, it's cool, people like to see rockets. If you used their money to build it, that doesn't seem like too much to ask.

I'm not a European taxpayer so nobody owes me a video. I'm just perplexed by the attitude of the (I presume) Europeans in this thread. Being proud of the fact that your government doesn't care if you're happy with their use of your taxes is...I'm not sure what it is, but it isn't modesty.

And before anyone (correctly) points this out: Yes, the US government doesn't much care what we think either, though it does a better job of pretending to. But you'd be hard pressed to find an American who will brag about it. And at least NASA releases cool videos.
And all of this cheap PV being produced required burning coal. We've basically outsourced this production, reduced our own coal burning, and then yell at China for increasing its carbon output.
People do sue for not getting hired.

https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/ruby-tuesday-pay-45000-settle-...
Missing cybernetic capabilities.
Meanwhile, China's solar industry is in rapid decline, dropping 40% in market cap y/y, due to overcapacity, falling price margins, bans on goods from China's Xinjiang region, and increased non-Chinese solar growth - US's solar industry seem to be on the rise. China's solar industry should follow similar trends as its electronics industry, with massive pullout of factories to other countries, and eventually only mostly servicing China's internal markets.

Plunging Solar Stocks Fly in Face of Booming Panel Demand https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-20/solar-sto...

U.S. solar installations to fall 23% this year due to China goods ban -report
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-solar-installatio...
Wouldn't lactoferrin, a peptide, be broken down by the stomach before it even enters the bloodstream?

http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/smal...
The ratio of DC panel wattage to AC inverter wattage is called the inverter loading ratio, and it has been creeping up over time in utility scale solar farms. The reasoning is indeed to give more of a plateau shape to AC output (which is limited by transmission line capacity) and to perform more steadily under hazy or partly cloudy conditions. In theory, this ratio could go up a lot if panel prices continue to decline faster than inverter prices.

In practice, inverters probably also need partial redesign for a high loading ratio. Higher ILRs in large solar farms has appeared to contribute to faster inverter failures in recent years.
High Speed Rail is expensive. Wouldn't be better to put the money towards Regional local services instead?
There are quite a few important numbers here.

Weight/thrust is important; thrust/area is important; ISP is important; thrust/dollar is important...
NT kernels were always better than the DOS-based hot garbage of 95, 98, and ME.

Windows 2000 is my all-time favorite Windows OS. NT-based kernel, literally nothing extra, fast, stable. Used it til the day support was finally shuttered.
I remember my last job I had in 2018, when a girl from marketing went past my desk and commented how weird it was I used winamp and streaming from my own shoutcast server from my mp3 library :P

5-10 years ago before that, that was like the norm. I also have paid Spotify, but even there you can't find everything

and yes, good point about videos. I personally really hate youtube videos about setting up a Kafka cluster or stuff like that, sometimes you want to have the documentation on one scren and the terminal on the other. you can't really stop and scroll a video
ISP isn't everything, even in space, as you don't have infinite time to get places, transfer burns etc are more efficient when closer to being instantaneous (in terms of dV) and capture burns need to happen within a fixed timeframe.

Also I think what they meant is that the engine's thrust dictates the height above it that it can lift. So lots of larger low thrust engines = short and stubby rocket, which adds all sorts of limitations (construction, transportation, aerodynamics).
Ah, that semi-answers my question - but why? Surely the signature of parseInt doesn't match what map requires for its function parameter?
How do you propose that those certain leaders would prevent any refugees from ever dying in the Mediterranean? By opening all borders and flying in anyone who’s interested in immigrating to Europe for free, no questions asked? Remember that if you even exclude convicted criminals and human traffickers and trafficees from eligibility, they would still attempt unsafe crossings so it needs to be indiscriminate.

Anyhow, I seriously don’t mean to build a straw man, I just cannot see some simple pushbutton policy fix for “nations that are a bad place to live will generate a flow of refugees to better places exceeding the capacity those nations will have to absorb them.” Good luck though, if you come up with a grand solution that provably works, which you can convince a democratic majority to support, I’ll be happy for you.
Something's wrong when a business's excuse for failure is that each of their customers acted rationally.
Imagine if your only responsibility is to check the work of someone deemed untrustworthy, to protect everyone else from their malice or incompetence, and you just skip doing that and lie and say you did it.

Why should you get off easy?
TL;DR: the author is more optimistic about BlueSky than about Mastodon. No reason given.
Thank you for delicious.

Funny note: I went to jail for 10 years. One of only about three sites (out of thousands I had accounts on) that I could log into when I was released was delicious. Sadly 99% of my bookmarks now pointed to dead wood.
Predicted in a HN comment on the first post about the missing incident here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36393019
> I am extremely skeptical of someone who claims this ability in themselves or others.

Have you never heard of someone being a good judge of character?
good point --- so replace it with a `sample()` fn that selects from an appropriate distribution over the data
For the curious, I think this is what pg is referring to: https://valleywag.gawker.com/paul-graham-says-women-havent-b... (so glad that “news site” is dead BTW). He made some Summers-like foray on female founder’s abilities, I remember it was a big deal at the time, now I don’t know if many people remember it (note to self about any moral battle du jour that seem so important). I have no data to back this up but always thought that this brouhaha was a big reason pg moved on from YC, not that he was ousted or anything, but didn’t want to deal with this crowd. Jessica Livingstone got embroiled, too.

Here’s a more recent, gossipy take: https://news.yahoo.com/y-combinator-entrepreneurs-were-kicke...
Does your inverter not allow that today?

They expect a number of panels to be connected in series, but you can have as many of those batches in parallel as you want.
Great for you that you do regenerative agriculture. You realise that the amount of money you needed to get to a point where that's an option to feed yourself is impossible to accrue for the vast, vast majority of the population? And - while not knowing your exact situation - I doubt you make a living off of this.

So it's a little off topic - regenerative agriculture is not going to feed the world. It's a little "I got mine, fuck the next guy" kind of thinking - not meant as a jab.

We're not going away from mono crops and fertilizer use anytime soon.

It's trivial to show that to feed animals, we have to grow food - monocultures actually. So not raising animals lets us grow less food - less fertilizer. We also cut down transportation of the feed, heating for the animals, running costs, and excrement production.

I am well aware that growing plants is not a clean, pure and friendly thing. But raising animals multiplies anything negative you find about growing plants.

(And about alarmism - I'm not reading headlines, I'm visiting farms, working on them and chatting with farmers, scientists and lawyers on the subject. I'm not just telling you to watch Cowspiracy or whatnot)
> Modern FAANG is a dead end too

Maybe I got really lucky then with my team ..., but I also sort of pushed for things to happen. Some people in the teams involved are working on crud or crud-like things, UI, and so on, I get to work on the bleeding edge of things.

> If you really want to grow - you have to find best teams doing some things you think are challenging and worthwile. Then you grow there by learning from the best.

I agree, 100%. To get to this point I kept challenging established beliefs and volunteering to build POCs and get things done. Granted, I "work" for 65+ h/w, I don't have a husband or children, but I enjoy it. Well, I enjoy the development process and getting things done, I don't enjoy the meetings, the politics, and everything else.

WHP I am an outlier and this is all survivorship bias.
Is AI tech good enough for bike fitting? AI vs. human bike fit at my local shop
Exactly why I personally never used their API
I see:

Combined Valuation (all companies): $600B
Combined Valuation (Companies with women founders): $45B

Still unbalanced, but closer to 15:1 as opposed to 49:1.

That's also a comparisons that is totally useless without the base rate. If half the companies had female founders, it might be valid to say "why are the companies with women raising at a lower rate" but I'd be willing to bet that the application pool is heavily skewed male, and thus that the accepted pools are also heavily skewed male. It wouldn't shock me if that skew were on the order of 50:1. It also wouldn't shock me if it were trending in a more balanced direction; that would lead to a fundraising bias towards older companies that have raised more money over time and are more likely to have only men as founders.
The standards are not secret, they are merely behind a paywall. The assumption has always been that the companies who have to (or want to) implement those standards can afford the expense. However, one point addressed by the Advocate General’s present Opinion is that it should be possible for citizens to check whether the relevant standards are being obeyed, which means that citizens need to have access to those standards, not just the entities implementing the standards. In addition, an important part of the current court case is about whether copyright (the basis on which fees are charged) can apply to standards that are effectively part of the law.
I for one appreciate bar cars.

Also it's not always much faster. Italy's high speed network eventually won with their national airline. And no wonder - a trip going halfway across the peninsula takes roughly as much time, but is generally more pleasant.
Once the Chinese run out of money or they have killed off the last competition the price will increase again.
This.

It's the natural progression of anything in this universe. Even people.

Your rate of physical growth between the ages of 2 and 22 was enormous. Your rate of physical growth between the ages of 22 and 42 was likely minimal. (Unless you grew, um, laterally.)

A 22 year old should not be comparing himself to a 2 year old and lamenting that he can't match the 2 year old's growth rate.
Analyse User Activities with Narrator and Activity Schema
A quick course where you can learn how to go beyond star schema when you want to learn how users interact with your services with activity schema and use Narrator to ask and answer complex questions quickly.
I use Caps lock as backspace. Go back a webpage, delete last character. Use it all the time. WHO NEEDS TO SHOUT?
> For example the last year of AI hype didn't interest me at all, for some reason.

I’ve felt the same, and similarly I can’t put my finger on the why. I’ve mostly burnt out on the technical side of things too, not sure why either. Last bit of “passion” I had there died with my last side project a couple years ago.

I frankly think it was just a mistake to turn what was originally a hobby for me into a career.
There's one thing I haven't quite grasped about transformers. Are the query, key, and value vectors trained per token? Does each token have specific QVK vectors in each head, or does each attention head have one set that are trained using a lot of tokens?
"The OceanGate CEO who is trapped on a 22-foot submersible on an ill-fated voyage to see the Titanic wreck once explained how he didn’t hire “50-year-old white guys” with military experience to captain his vessels because they weren’t “inspirational.”

The CEO, Stockton Rush, added that “expertise was unnecessary” because “anybody can drive the sub” with a $30 video game controller." [0]

[0] https://www.outkick.com/trapped-oceangate-ceo-refused-to-hir...
> I mean the kind where they grill you with question after question (often poorly phrased and sometimes insultingly basic)

I mean you'd be surprised at the number of people that can't write a for-loop ...
When CEOs make statements like this I assume they know they are lying for sake of the company.

What makes this more interesting is that he clearly believed it was safe. So he wasn’t necessarily unethical. It is more that he was a bad engineer and a poor judge of risk.
No. It's undeformed limestone karst, meaning old uplifted seabed that was not crunched up.
This is like one of those people who submits pull requests for reformatting code. Completely changed the structure, no idea what effect it will have but just wanted to submit something.

You can’t debug it anymore and you’ve possibly broken something because of the random functions you’ve pruned but you won’t be able to tell what you’ve broken. All to save literally a few bytes.
Maybe. The most compelling reason I have heard is it's an easy way to get attrition. You don't have to do layoffs, which are expensive emotionally and financially.
Also, could we grow feed for cows in more efficient manner maybe in areas where there are plentiful resources and other type of agriculture don't make as much sense? And could we with some process eliminate part of effective emissions like methane?

Somehow it feels weird that beef gets attacked in ways let's say vegan food as worst case doesn't. Should we brand all vegan food bad if some of it is grown with desalinated water in article circle with artificial lighting and heating during winter?
We are already using the most economically viable option. The trouble is that it's not sustainable long term. The solution then will not be the most economical one.
I agree that it would be nice if it flagged this kind of thing. But TypeScript disagrees.

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/FAQ#why-are-fun...
I am not really burnt out either, I just feel I want to focus on the real software part of things. Some big VC funded company creating a half-secret AI solution that also has some content filter policies feels so anti open software and programming in general.
Yes, the chart says that prices are adjusted for inflation and presented in 2019 US dollars.