skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a dumb person - I like to think at least - and am able to work complex software, run linux (arch) and use powershell quite often.

I have no idea how to work in programming, and the environnement that is shown (non stop meetings, pointless hours of work wasted, weeks of crunch) is very very unattractive to me.

I think it's just too weird still - unless you had an oportunity fall onto your lap to learn it, or went into CS in school, I doubt most see a way in or are not interested in the work environnement.
Same background. I don’t have experience with Geovision, but Axis is rock solid with a great API. (Axis also led the ONVIF standard, but it’s no where near as nice as their own API which makes sense. Cisco’s dead standard was much better but DOA due to mismanagement)

I think they’re still the industry leader too. The catch is that they are expensive and they’re mainly enterprise solutions
> I didn’t hesitate to pop my AirPods Pro 2 in. (Since they’re rather compact, they fit my stadium-approved bag with no issue.)

I'm dying to meet the person with earbuds that don't fit in a stadium bag. Maybe someone tried bringing their XM4s or Airpods Max?
Considering that SpaceX keeps raising cash from private investors, I doubt that very much.
i love posts like this as it mixes my passion of coffee ( as a roaster) and a community of tech folks that we can discuss all the history... Coffee has such a wide and interesting history rooted in capitalism.
I don't believe Strong Towns advocated for ending rural towns. Advice for improving cities doesn't say anything about people who don't live in cities. The closest I ever heard was that they should park their cars at the city border and go to the center by train.
I guess that will happen, when they have a functioning system, i.e. a product. (Showing off with some in-between, not fit for purpose stage may be deemed somewhat embarassing, compare cultural differences.)
> But don't feel bad for farmers. To inherit $10 million+ in land because your family's had it 100 years is a blessing most people don't get in life.

... I still think this is pretty sad. I married into family involved with farming and seeing this dilemma is not heartening. One of my in-laws is currently in farming proto-retirement (renting out land now and not actively farming), and I can vividly see how selling out is basically not an option for him. If you spend a lifetime cultivating practices of living modestly and working towards the ideal of the small family farm, a big pile of money:

1) does not interest you very much, since you've built your life around hobbies like going to the bar and socializing with a dwindling crowd of other people who have your lifestyle. Nouveau rich family farmers seldom seem to do much better with a windfall than lottery winners.

2) further, selling out really is the antithesis to what you spent your life doing. Basically you're saying that your lifestyle has outlived it's usefulness in the spirit of "Death of a Salesman" is worth more dead than alive.

I'm probably being overly harsh sounding because I'm not an expert and I've been exposed to the idealist perspective in person quite a bit. But I do have pity for those who have been put in a hard place when they are suddenly surrounded by "game of thrones" and skepticism that massive consolidation will work out well in the long run.

edit: and yeah, I get that adapting is also an option but by definition it's an option for increasingly few.
> You haven't noticed many of the companion apps for IoT(of Shit)

coulda just gone with Internet of Turds (IoT)
Commercial enterprises could pay a licensing/verification fee that gets split between the spec authors and third party verifiers.

After all, isn’t the entire value of a spec in the verification that it is correctly implemented?
Agreed, this is nonsense. Macronutrient proportions will be more or less the same from culture to culture, but will be much more variable at the individual level. It's micronutrients that are more likely to change more widely, due to different foods containing different amounts of them.
Hunter S. Thompson's Daily Routine
I don't see a connection to the larger practice of coffee breaks. It looks more like one guy had an argument about whether or not to pay workers for break time.
> You cannot pass in an arbitrary number of arguments to other functions.

More specifically, you could in C89 but it was removed because it's a bad feature.

https://godbolt.org/z/j4v4GT3Wd
Interesting but certainly disagree with the reasoning, that somehow having to explicitly discard the unused parameters would be "burdensome", certainly compared to the need to explicitly declare types for complex arbitrary data structures. If you're not even prepared to write, say, array.map((n, _, _) => parseInt(n)) then why bother using a strictly type checked language...
No, you really won't notice even if you know it's coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUfF2MTnqAw
I would not be sure about lack of raping part... At the top it seems somewhat common and mostly hidden... Occasionally it comes to light, but even then people involved go away...
> they simply didn't have the modern technology to stop a fire started by lightning.

Or as much fixed and immobile infrastructure that would be endangered by fire-- if there is nothing you care about nearby, why not set a fire to aid in hunting or to clear out plants you can't eat in favor of ones you can?

Just because they intentionally set fires that doesn't itself make it environmentally good-- it's an extraordinarily racist view that the indigenous people weren't capable of environmental destruction just because they were less effective at it than industrial civilizations. The noble savage protector of the land is a racist fantasy of people raised on a diet of Disney movies, not reality.
The article doesn't explain why this wasn't a problem before, I mean at least I don't remember having "fire season" a decade ago. Maybe it's some other cause but I'm still doubting the reasons behind what I would call "society engineering" in politics instead of incentivizing alternative technologies so that they are better and cheaper.
been like that for a while now
That's an absurd generalization. They contribute upstream. They aren't forking every project and keeping changes for themselves and customers. Just the sheer amount of development and testing RedHat puts into the kernel alone, funded by RHEL, should be sufficient to disprove this argument.

There's nuance here. TFA has a legit complaint that supporting RHEL puts extra hassle on you as an open source contributor.
RedHat is also fully in their right to strictly adhere to the license of the software they distribute.

Supporting RHEL as a distribution for your software means access to users on that distribution. That might mean nothing, but that depends from project to project. For the article's author that has little worth and that's a cost-benefit analysis for him. That might not be the case for other projects.
I dont understand - ChatGPT says that it outputs inaccurate information RIGHT BELOW THE PROMPT BOX?! Illiterate lawyers?!
RTSP streams never work, they always have several seconds of latency, and web browsers don't support them well if at all. Someone should invent a webcam that directly speaks WebRTC. Open a HTTPS connection and POST a SDP to get it started.
I know you won't get this so long as you're frustrated, but there's some real irony in this comment. Maybe in a few weeks come back and reread this to find it.
> how does such a process capture the essential high level perceptual aspects well enough to be able to replicate large scale features

Layers and lots of training. Upper layers can capture/recognize large scale features
It still hasn't, that has been unfortunely a common theme in D's evolution, chasing the next big idea that will this time bring folks into D, while leaving the previous ones half implemented with bugs.

So now there is GC and @nogc, lifetimes but not quite, scoped pointers, scoped references,... while Phobos and ecosystem aren't in a state to fully work across all those variations.
40 percent of U.S. corn is used for ethanol

36 percent of U.S. corn, plus distillers grains left over from ethanol production, is fed to cattle, pigs and chickens

Much of the rest is exported.

Only a tiny fraction of the national corn crop is directly used for food for Americans, much of that for high-fructose corn syrup.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-rethink-c...
Preparations for test flight of Ariane 6.
Designing for Water Scarcity
He has accounts on both but it looks like his Bluesky is inaccessible unless you have an account. In terms of "can I access your posts without logging in?", that's one point to Mastodon. Forced login has consistently been the bane of browsing Twitter for me.
Actual Title: "Wagner chief accuses Russia’s military of attack and says ‘evil’ leadership must be stopped"

Reaction: Zzz. It's yet more belligerent squabbling between the same old Russian military leaders/organizations - who are all very obviously beholden to Putin. That's been going on for a year or more now. It both helps Putin look good, and helps keep in securely in power. Hardly news, and hardly worth a skim.
"you can't eat silver"

Meaning it's a perishable good, it's a different market. It's good to have a lot of small farms to not have monopolies and as a stopgap to massive crop failures/blight or just bad management.

Like corn: the existence of extra corn (currently making ethanol) to turn into food in case of emergency/war, so it's subsidized.
Its certainty an interesting engine but for a very advanced space program, as they Europeans want to be, it isn't anything ground breaking. If some US startup would announce something like this everybody would shrug and call it par for the course and not particularly innovative.

Europe has never developed first stage close cycle engine. The Soviets have mastered close cycle engines as far back as the 60s and even today (at least until the Ukraine war) great Russian/Ukrainian engine were for sale. And today many even startups are working on close cycle engines.

This engine is another open cycle engine while the world for real competitive launch vehicles is moving to more advanced engines. And those that do not, are not doing it because they want their next generation rocket to be there as soon as possible. While a European rocket with this engine is at least a decade or more out.

It is targeted at being reusable and that is good of course but pretty much every modern engine program is gone be restartable and reusable. We don't have much information how many times it will be reusable, what its startup mechanism and we just generally don't have that much information.

So the thing that's kind of stunning here is that Esa/Arianespace is developing this one next generation engine and keep hyping it and building it up as this next generation engine for Europe. But its really nothing special, there are many engines in development (some much further along) in the US that are just gone be as advanced or more advanced. ESA here looks more like a random startup, rather being a leader in technology:

Relativity Space Aeon-R:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91fO97WAPo https://www.relativityspace.com/terran-r

RocketLab Archimedes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_(rocket_engine)

Or how about Launcher E-2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th1mP0bU9L8 https://launcherspace.squarespace.com/engine-2

Ursa Major:

https://www.ursamajor.com/engines/arroway

SpaceX Raptor 3:

https://youtu.be/h_5ltDjun3g?t=72

BlueOrigin BE-4:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdS4azOaF2M

There are more that we could mention.

So Europe hear is more like a small fish in a big pond. And compared to efforts like Raptor, this is many generations behind.

This is not big ambition from Europe, but doing the bare minimum to have something that is somewhat modern. But by the time they will get it into a launch vehicle it will look old compare to the competition.

The problem is that engine development in Europe is just very slow, and integrating engines to rockets is even slower. Consider the fancy new Vinci Upper Stage engine. It has been in development for over 20 years now, and will likely be 25 year of total time from start of development to first flight.

And the worst of it is, the Ariane 6 Upper Stage mass is so heavy that Vinci amazing performance is held back by a terrible structural design. So even as they have this advanced engine, they resulting rocket isn't really great.

ESA has a very, very long way ahead if they want their rocket to be more then just launcher military launches from its member states.
It seems to depend on the market.

For example CPUs that run Linux open reference manuals are still the norm in the industrial range (chips like the NXP i.MX series, the TI SAMA ones or the fairly new STM32MP1) whereas in the mobile market (Qualcomm, Exynos etc) you can't get any information without a NDA and they'll only sign one with you if you're going to be buying millions.

The first category also tend to have good mainline support, the second stuck on ancient vendor kernels.
China's PPP should reduce in half this year. It has seen massive layoffs from every industry (average 22% decline in revenue across all industries). It has seen 50% reduction in wages, even in stable positions like government offices. It has seen unpaid wages for anywhere from a few months up to a year!!

This is reinforced by 50% in price cuts in real estate listings in tier 1 cities, 10X increase in real estate inventory this year, and 90% physical retail decline

China’s Latest Source of Unrest: Unpaid ‘Zero Covid’ Workers
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/world/asia/china-covid-pr...

China's Industrial profits in the January-March period declined 21.4% from a year earlier https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-27/china-s-i...
I wonder what kind of onsite loads they could have to use extra capacity? Is there any high power industrial process doesn't require too much space, setup cost, or transport infrastructure for materials in and out, and can run when there's sun available?

Maybe carbon capture, if that's a thing yet?
The q,k,v projections are trained, usually per head. But each token goes through the same projection (per head). In some architectures (see the Falcon model) the k, v projections are shared across the heads.

During the forward pass a "query" is "created" for each token using the query projection (again, one projection per head, all the tokens run through the same projection). The keys are created using the key projection, the values are created using the dot product of query with the keys for each "token" then projected using the value projection.

But again, different models do different things. Some models bring in the positional encoding into the attention calculation rather than adding it in earlier. Practically every combination of things has been tried since that paper was published.
I don't really know who to follow on Mastodon. Many of the people that led me to use Twitter have not moved, and are still tweeting away. A couple have moved, but its really not a good experience searching for someone on Mastodon and coming up with nothing.

Lemmy on the other hand I'm finding to be great, because it already has small communities I can join and participate in.
Yes, age discrimination is illegal.

If your feedback is "You're too old", then you probably shouldn't give that feedback to the applicant. But you also shouldn't discriminate in the first place.

If not giving feedback is an excuse to cover up illegal behavior, that's not a good excuse.
I'm convinced that most closed source software made by big companies has sleep() everywhere. Theres just no other explanation. Maybe synchronous animations.
In recent years historic mega fires have raged across the globe in Siberia, Australia, the Amazon, Canada, and throughout the American northwest. Not sure how you can blame all that on American forest management practices.
I think this is background and person dependent. I find it easier to remember the markdown syntax than the html tags
Byford Dolphin Incident
This would be true if code using the borrow checker was easier to read than to write.
An oil rig that experienced an explosive decompression in 1983 that killed four divers and one dive tender, as well as badly injured another dive tender.

The divers were killed by a pressure of 9 atm. The pressure the Oceangate Titan experienced was over 400 atm.
Agreed, this sound like astrology for the Stanford set. Baffling.
I'm not sure. I think humans would make a reasonably good source of protein and animal fats. I would think human chum would be a low carb diet and might increase the health and longevity of the mice.

Anyone offering to donate their corpse to science?
In my city office buildings are being converted to residential housing. 3 buildings recently in an area of population size 250k.
How/why is this better than molten salt energy storage?
Why is Myers Briggs being referenced when it has zero substance to back it up? I thought it was common knowledge that pop psychology stuff was garbage, at least amongst this website’s readers.
Yes, I was surprised to see screws and industrial fastenings being made in the UK in what looks like really modern highly automated factories. I guess shipping them isn’t worth it.
Step inside the world's only nuclear-powered passenger ship
Maybe, but they’d need to prove that it has an effect on how I do my job. They cannot just fire me because I say something they don’t like.
Browsers are missing a long list of features available in modern JS animation libraries like Anime.js and especially GreenSock. For simple and short transitions/animations CSS will take you a long way though.
Instead of beating your wife seven times a week, consider implementing "Beat-less Mondays" as a compassionate alternative.
What would the modern day's equivalent of Florence be?
lost me at the unordered map
Just to add, the first user who replied to you is quite wrong. You can use CNNs to get features first...but it doesn't happen anymore. It's unnecessary and adds nothing.

Pixels don't get fed into transformers but that's more expense than anything. Transformers need to understand how each piece relates to every other piece. That gets very costly very fast when the "pieces" are pixels. Images are split into patches instead with positional embeddings.

as for how it learns the representations anyway. Well it's not like there's any specific intuition to it. after all, the original authors didn't anticipate the use case in Vision.

and the fact that you didn't need CNNs to extract features first didn't really come into light till this paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929

It basically just comes down to lots of layers and training
Well, I'm certainly no theologian, I just grew up in a christian household and according to scripture Jesus was neither shy or subtle about his views on wealth and greed. He returned to it again and again and again. It was clearly a pretty big deal to the guy.

A jewel encrusted prayer book is basically "Tell me you're a hypocrite without telling me you're a hypocrite"
If you're not sure about the tests, you can use this quick framework in this comment to help you find your letters.

Extraverted (E) vs Introverted (I)

“E” generally means gaining energy from other people, while “I” means people drain your batteries. This one is not always immediately obvious for people. In general "E"s talk more when with groups of people and "I"s think more. Even though I spend a lot of time at home with my wife, I'm an E - I get energy from social interactions.

Sensing (S) vs Intuiting (N)

This is about how you process new information. S people see what's actually in front of them - they think and talk more in specifics. In general, S types are better at detail oriented work.

N types intuit things, so they sometimes aren't great at focusing at what's in front of them, but are great at coming up with ideas and next steps based on what they see.

Feeling (F) vs Thinking (T)

Everyone feels and everyone thinks. A good way to judge this is people's reactions to situations. Feelers react with empathy first, thinkers react with problem solving first.

Very basic example: Your friend comes in with their arm bleeding. Is your very first reaction?

"Oh no! What happened?" - Feeler

"You should go to the hospital!" or "Let me get something to wrap that", etc etc.

In general feelers are more likely to feel empathy for someone, even if they they think they are dead wrong or disagree with them.

Judging (J) vs Perceiving (P)

This is about how you make decisions. And it has nothing to do with the dictionary definitions of judging and perceiving.

Some defining traits of Js:

Achieving the goal is more important than the process.

You are comfortable making decisions with limited information.

For Ps:

Being true to your moral system is more important than achieving the goal.

You prefer to collect more information before making decisions.

The side effect of these two things means Js tend to have steadier lives with more commitment, while Ps tend to have a broader range of experiences and a bigger variety of life experiences.

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Lastly, the temperaments:

ExxJ - Organizes people

IxxJ - Keeps systems running, also good at absorbing and teaching information.

ExxP - Collectors of experiences, achievements, pleasures, etc.

IxxP - Being true to your convictions

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Now, people who study function stacks are going to shit on this comment, saying the letters don't mean anything, its all about functions like Extraverted Thinking, etc. But I find these letter rules make a great shortcut for 97% of people.
Relevant: https://lennytroll.com/about.php (example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frlde-PUrPA )
Or Enron Musk. :D

Come on introverted, basement-tanned Muskies hiding behind your 500+ karma, gimme your curious and thoughtful downvotes! You are so funny!
So, yeah, you are strawmanning my argument to be that "pollution says you can't do controlled burn." :(
Huh? Even the most bearish projections about Chinese economic growth are at about 3% per year. For PPP to actually halve you'd have to actually see a recession comparable to the Great Depression, the Peso Crisis in the 90s, or the 2015 EU+US sanctions in Russia.
I’m not sure how true that is. I seem to remember that some of the problems in JVM bytecode verification are due to a wrong design and not shared by e.g. WASM, and I’m under the impression that (if you don’t try for the absolute best performance and streaming) WASM verification is fairly straightforward. Also, eBPF should probably also fall into the “designed for verification” category, so I can’t figure out what your point is here.
Trust are good and even needed for the producers. Just look at OPEC... It would be lot worse for them if they did not manage supply. Same goes for farmers if they can't control the sell price.
Because something like slotmap has to use `unsafe` to get around the inadequacies of the borrow checker...
Vision Transformers don't use CNNs to extract anything first. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929). You could but it's not necessary and it doesn't add anything so it doesn't happen anymore.

Vision transformers won't treat the image as a sequence of pixels but that's mostly because doing that gets very expensive very fast. The image is split into patches and the patches have positional embeddings.
Should we make ordinary laws also paid? The lawyers earn ridiculous profits so it is only fair that they share some of it with law authors.
Oh boy, no wonder we invented religion.
Ask HN: What are some good books on GTM (go-to-market) strategy in tech?
Any self-respecting AI researcher writes self-updating papers.
Here's the explanation with a map (couldn't resist):

https://youtu.be/Yyj5cv5FPWA
I mean as much as politicians go after old peoples votes, you might be right.