skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see it quite like that. It may be true that many employers are looking for postgrads. I don't know. But since practically _every single company_ large or small wants to know how or if they can take advantage of AI right now, there are plenty of opportunities to go around for anyone who has any knowledge or skills in generative AI.

And by far the most deployed technologies, even for postdocs, are going to be basically off-the-shelf or somewhat fine-tuned existing models via API or tooling being used for text and/or image generation for specific applications. In other words, things that in no way require the degree. That isn't to say that having real machine learning specialists isn't desirable, but there is plenty of room for people who just know how to apply the tools rather than invent new ones.

Actually there are plenty of "academic" papers coming out from people with advanced degrees that are mainly just applying GPT-4 to write code in some DSL to solve some category of problem. That stuff doesn't even require basic understanding of neural network architectures.

The latest models are so powerful it seems to be having a democratizing effect rather than increasing the class divide. From my perspective.
Can users set their own rulesets for allowable content?
Because you can't make money that way? Just a thought.
Unfortunately that's what modern architecture has largely devolved into: inhumane austere glass boxes devoid of any individuality or character. And robbing places of their local character and tradition: Copenhagen looks exactly like London exactly like Shanghai exactly like Rio exactly like Melbourne...
Presumably base 32 means 26 letters + 10 digits - 4 banned letters

So adding an excluded letter is not easy.
In my case I made some choices following my belief that we don't have transcendent souls (took transporter), then the game says we do have transcendent souls, so I changed my course of action based on this new knowledge.

The game criticized me for being inconsistent, but the new me on Mars is acting on new knowledge to save their life. It's the same choice original me would have made if I'd been alive to make it given the circumstances.
Agreed. In your shoes I would take a year out to recover. University is not going anywhere. A year can seem like a long time when you’re 17, but it’s really not.
It seems obvious now, but it was different. And not worse than most contemporary architecture either. But it would be nice to return to a more human, beautiful and sustainable style, true.
Come on, be serious. China can't even get the metallurgy right on turbine engines. Never mind flying saucers. If they are doing any airborne surveillance over the US homeland then it's either with spy balloons, or cheap little short-range drones launched by agents on the ground.

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/china-air-force-may-take-a...
Also worth checking out Lil Data [1], an artist affiliated with PC Music who uses TidalCycles and also has a doctorate in some pretty interesting musical research [2].

[1] https://soundcloud.com/lil-data
[2] https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=APvoBhUAAAAJ&hl=...
Price Discrimination Explains College Tuition
Aren't most musical scores these days all done in MIDI? With the other option being to hire X number of musicians plus a conductor? So seems like a pretty AMAZING thing that this 80s technology is able to do what previously took a score of people to do, and a use case that was probably not considerated during it's creation.
I agree, but that's the point-- they're going to try a lot of things to achieve those ends. They may not create a single component of a functional firearm, but they're going to develop a lot of unrelated technology in trying. Even if we never made it to space, the attempt would still have given us Velcro.
> A lot of my college friends where Chinese-Canadian-Americans alleging that Canada was just their stepping stone to the US.

Basically, yes. According to the Canadian government <http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-008-x/2010002/article/11287-...> (table 1), for every two Canadian-born people moving to the US, one person born outside the US or Canada moves from Canada to the US. Given that during 2001-2006 20% or less of Canada were immigrants <https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/221026/g-a00...>, that implies that a Canadian resident born outside the US or Canada is about 50% more likely to move to the US than a Canadian native.

I've heard that New Zealand is similarly used by those seeking to move to Australia.
Good point.

I think container queries are cool and intuitively useful, much more so than queries based on what the browser window size happens to be.

These are not nearly as obvious to me. I get the nav bar scenario, but I think I find the quest for "CSS purity" where any design, no matter how dynamic, can be expressed without Javascript seems a bit silly. I have no problem with it, I just also don't think it's quite as noble as some seem to think.
That’s a bizarre statement. SF has ugly areas but still feels very safe. Would feel much more comfortable being dropped off in the worst places there vs Chicago, St Louis, LA, Miami, New Orleans, Atlanta and a bunch of other places
Agree. I can't stand the coldness of brutalist architecture, it's dystopian. It's disagreeable in summer, let alone on a grey winter day.
How would you suggest they install dependencies then?
This really does make me worry about FLOSS applications. I am afraid I'll have to start treating it all with the default level of suspicion that Windows and Android apps get.
That's in Firecracker, time it takes to boot the kernel aka before we start running init.

Including userland -- i.e. "boot to login prompt" -- it's around 450 ms on the same VM; I haven't optimized the userland bits all that much yet.

Real hardware will take longer and will vary of course; we can't do anything about the time between poweron and when the boot loader starts running, for example.
AI model GPT-3 (dis)informs us better than humans
Researchers find new CRISPR-like system in animals that can edit human genome
You are probably thinking of Sterling, Chantilly, etc.

Ashburn is literally like the Embassy Suites next to the Five Guys, the Aloft next to the taco place, Equinix, Digital Reality, Verizon, NTT, CenturyLink, etc.
Very expensive but well-regarded enterprise Network-Attached Storage.
Might want to email the mods to find out what's up. hn@ycombinator.com
Does it work on airplanes and websites that actively detect/deny vpn servers? any ad block features?
Hi! I'm trying to work on understanding how to make websites more accessible right now and probably the first thing people generally think of are blind users. However, I'm having a hell of a time figuring out how to use screen readers. Is there any screen reader or documentation/tutorial you might recommend for sighted users to learn how to use screen readers?
The search link in the footer says "Suchen" instead of "Search."
That's interesting.

When I see such a message from a service where I'm a customer, it removes worry.

- It validates the product.

- It tells me that they're more likely to succeed than their competitors.

- I'm confident they won't go away anytime soon.

- I expect them to improve their product faster.
This thread is about suppressing wages...
Your README cuts off:

> For example (3,8x(3,16x-xx(3,32xx-x)))) would read as "Three
> is nonetheless obviously not conscious

This argument has played out before so I'll just link to that discussion. quoting from https://www.scottaaronson.com/response-p1.pdf

> There’s two responses to this. The easiest response is to say that φ is merely
necessary for C —problem solved. GT’s response would be to challenge your
intuition for things being unconscious. Here’s a historical analogy; imagine
when the Kelvin temperature scale was introduced. Here Kelvin was saying
that just about everything has heat in it. In fact, even the coldest thing you’ve touched actually has substantial heat in it! Think of IIT as attempting to put a Kelvin-scale on our notions of C . I find this “Kelvin scale for C ” analogy makes the panpsychism much more palatable.

Then, Scott's response to that:

> Suppose, again, that I told you that physicists since Kelvin had gotten the definition of temperature all wrong, and that I had a new, better definition. And, when I built a Scott-thermometer that measures true temperatures, it delivered the shocking result that boiling water is actually colder than ice. You’d probably tell me where to shove my Scott-thermometer. But wait: how do you know that I’m not the Copernicus of heat, and that future generations won’t celebrate my breakthrough while scoffing at your small-mindedness?

Ok, pretty dismissive, but this doesn't actually address what the first quote mentions. Maybe phi's necessary but not sufficient for consciousness; that would still be pretty interesting. (I.e. maybe the pesky function does have high phi, but phi is not itself consciousness, because Consciousness(system) = phi(system) + Corrective_factor).

Or suppose we add an axiom like "feedback loops that affect future trajectory" to exclude such a pesky static function definition, or better still suppose IIT moves towards something that generally accounts for more subtle dynamics as well as structure. I can't help but think of the relationship between euclidean/noneuclidean geometry here, especially when "obviousness" comes up in these discussions. It seems productive to play with adding/discarding axioms and looking for richness/consistency. And isn't lots of modern physics about exploring model parameter-space ( https://www.quantamagazine.org/using-the-bootstrap-physicist... ) to zero in on "the" model given "a" model? Like 1D-Ising won't phase-transition, maybe current 1D-IIT won't cut it but has some fruitful generalization.
I get it.

I think it's right there in the post itself. If you have certain occupations, live in certain zip codes, or have medical problems, a test like this can prove invaluable.

If you're just curious, your mileage may very.

I do push back on the idea that not knowing is somehow better. Or people cannot handle learning new information about themselves. It's an old idea from medicine I hope we can move past as it just entrenches the power dynamic between caregivers and patients.
> The US military is better than the next top three militaries combined.

Partially due to institutional experience and economies of scale (for certain capabilities). We probably still exceed what the next top 3 powers (China, Russia, India, BTW) are spending in PPP terms, so it shouldn't be that surprising.

> The Ukraine war is showing the superiority of decades old Western tech.

For every video of HIMARS blowing up a Russian ammo depot, there's a video of Ka-52 helicopters popping M2 Bradleys from 5+ km away.[1] M777s were lauded for their accuracy....until they broke. [2] Ukrainian brigades have been lavishly equipped with Western armored vehicles and they've bounced off a brick wall of positively-ancient minefields and artillery, very similar to the defense-in-depth that the Soviets used to defeat the Germans at Kursk ...in 1943.[3]

This conflict is so complex in terms of difficult-to-measure soft factors that are influencing the battlefield (training, maintenance, corruption, NATO ISR support, information operations/propaganda, etc.), that drawing conclusions about the merits of individual technical systems or especially the overall tech base of the two main powers (Russia vs "the West") as a whole is....unwise.

[1]https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraines-armor-appears...

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/us/ukraine-artillery-brea...

[3]https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/world/europe/ukraine-coun...
30 Stories in 30 Days with ChatGPT
> Alcubierre drive

Relies on "exotic matter" that violates known laws of physics.
Thank you for your encouraging words on our project's impact. You're absolutely right - our aim is to make the process of building a high-availability cluster for PostgreSQL as seamless and straightforward as possible.

While our automation tools indeed make the initial setup easier, the importance of ongoing maintenance and optimization can't be understated, especially for larger companies where high availability and optimal performance are crucial.

In such cases, having expert PostgreSQL consultation can prove to be invaluable. Even though our project allows companies to configure their clusters in-house, having a PostgreSQL expert can ensure that the systems are not just set up correctly, but also continuously optimized and properly maintained.

Thank you again for your feedback, and please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any more thoughts or questions.
Appears to be susceptible to model collapse[1], depending on how you do it.

1 = https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493v2
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That link is not to a Google project named Piper. It's to a company named Piper that uses Google Cloud.
This article strikes very close to home. My current project is a web based multiplayer game that I’m working on as a hobbyist.

Games are complex creations. I didn’t fully understand what I didn’t know until I started programming games. Learning has made me a much better software engineer.

There’s also too much noise and too little signal in the game pedagogy space. I spend a lot of time synthesizing information to really understand how to make a game because I have to.

I’m excited to unveil my current project as it’ll represent a release of the type of software I wanted to be making from the start of my game dev journey: multiplayer experiences.
I can vouch for suspected fraudulent traffic being enough for authorities to warrant a raid.
> So, all bugs are security bugs.

That's an unreasonably wide and rather useless definition of "security bug".

> Some bugs aren't as important as others, but they're all just bugs.

I think nobody questioned that bugs are bugs :)
I understand if you criticized their decision but saying they deserved to die or that it was a good thing or even wishing more rich people would have the same fate is what my comment is about.
Well, that might be an ambiguity that needs to be brought up before its final if it is an issue.

So if we look at https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bi...

For list item #3 it says "Random data for each new UUIDv7 generated for any remaining space." without the word "optional" and the bit layout diagram says `rand_b`

But when you read the description for `rand_b` it says: "The final 62 bits of pseudo-random data to provide uniqueness as per Section 6.8 and/or an optional counter to guarantee additional monotonicity as per Section 6.2."

Reading section 6.2 https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-uuidrev-rfc4122bi..., it all involves incrementing counters, or other monotonic random data.

If you can guarantee that you custom uuidv7 is globally unique for 10000 values per second or more, I don't see why you can't do what you do and treat your custom data as random outside of your implementation.

I think part of this is my mistake, because I assumed you replaced most of the random data with information, but reading it now, I read that you replaced just the last 16 bits. Also since most people used random data for UUIDv1's remaining 48bits of `node` then your variation is no worse than UUIDv1 (or 6) while also being compatible with v7.

I think I just got too caught up on the the bit layout calling it `random` and misread your information. Sorry for the misunderstanding, and thanks for discussing it.
> U.F.O. skeptics and experts in optics have long said many of the videos and sightings by naval aviators represent optical illusions that have made ordinary objects — weather balloons, commercial drones — appear to move faster than possible.

> Military officials have largely come to the same conclusion.

…

> Another video, known as Gimbal, shows an object that appears to be turning or spinning. Military officials now believe that is the optics of the classified image sensor, designed to help target weapons, make the object appear like it is moving in a strange way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/us/politics/ufo-military-...

I don’t know, define discredited. Define consensus. I really love that it’s a game developer who seems to be thinking outside the box enough to provide explanations for the public materials. I guess the expertise is not as valuable as it seems, in the narrow problem of explaining camera rendering, and indeed someone with a games background knows a lot about that.
I can't quite make out the actual number but Sony said TLOU2 took longer than Horizon Forbidden West's 5 years to develop. Let's just call it 6 years to make it an easy number. $220m over 200 people over 6 years ~= $200k/year/person? That seems if anything low, no?
Someone has the signing keys for Apple os/apps, baseband drivers, oma-dm toolkits, etc.

Whoever that is can sign whatever they want, send an update notification targeting a single user, and the phone will then execute anything as instructed.

A court order could tell whoever holds those signing keys to sign something to decrypt all messages, or install a dummy encryption key, or make the random number generator always return 42.

Just because Apple has successfully gaslighted the courts by claiming they cannot decrypt phones, does not make it true.

Supply chain attacks on a proprietary system lacking reproducible builds and public accountability is indistinguishable from remote code execution as a service.
Efficiency!

- Where are you going?

- I'm going on vacation.

- Have you finished your project?

- Not yet. Just submitted the diff.

[^_^]
I'm moved by how flexible and creative some of the early computing paradigms were compared to where we ended up. It feels like for all the processing power and advances, people really got locked into some 'standard' ways of interacting and organizing information, and we lost the creative joy that was present in places like early Xerox PARC, etc.

This is why I love stuff like this – there's a wealth of old ideas, tree branches we never went down. So much of the SAAS websites, etc, you see today feel so clunky in comparison.

More of this!
Stir fry recipe!
Honestly the question felt very Llama in the sense that it didn't really pass my Turing test, so I couldn't really answer it in a way that didn't feel robotic.
Ah! I was misled by the general comparison to an unpowered balloon that they make a few times. It’s not much propulsion and they take special care to differentiate it from a submarine that can actually travel the world.
this paper is the real deal! However it might be a bit tough without context, which this post does decently:

https://medium.com/code-music-noise/euclidean-rhythms-391d87...

(it goes at length into the algorithms, but the intro is well enough; in the end you can hear some examples too)

I second the other post recommending the Tidalcycles music livecoding language, as it uses euclidean rhythms as a base from which you can compose on. Livecoding combined with euclideans is such an interesting musical paradigm that I'd name it as one of the widest musical revelations I had.
The only source for that is SBF himself, and he’s not exactly reliable.
Death threats? WTF? What metaphor are you using that git clone requests are now suddenly death threats?

Anyway, I don't think your example aligns with the argument you think you're making: https://www.fcc.gov/enforcement/areas/unwanted-communication...

Yes, phone companies definitely can be liable for bulk targeting by their users.
Montreal and Quebec generally is the exception to the rule. You can't compare it to Toronto or Vancouver. Quebec has chronically depressed real estate prices, and has for decades. It has gone up some, but nothing like BC lower mainland and southern ON.

There's all sorts of reasons for this. But bad medical services is a big problem in Quebec, along with language politics.

I like many things about Quebec, but I wouldn't relocate there.
Expanding on that topic:

* Supporting Collaboration in NoteCards

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/637069.637089

* Reflections on NoteCards: Seven issues for the next generation
of hypermedia systems

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...
Yeah, the problem is definitely that the recycling numbers on plastics aren't detailed enough... /s

Bonus points if you can tell me what each recycling number on plastic means without looking it up (it's the internet, so I have no way to enforce this).
We sell both to customers and businesses. Help me rationalize having two analytics products.
I don't understand this mindset. The only way a congestion charge can possibly actually work is if it's high enough to discourage people from making car trips into the city. If it's low enough that people can ignore it, then it's useless for its purpose.
You do not need to compile it yourself. The build just needs to be deterministic and compiled by multiple independent parties you trust. This is the entire point of the reproducible builds project. Participating projects make themselves immune from a single release engineer executing whatever code they want on end clients.
Speaking for myself, the pattern has been like this on the occasions that I've had a really severe case of vomiting:

At some point I start noticing an intense "bloat" / gas feeling - with lots of burping and farting - as well as possibly some nausea and diarrhea. This will last for a few hours. Maybe 3 or 4? I wasn't keeping notes unfortunately. Then, at some point I'll just have a sudden urge to vomit (it comes on fast) where I'm lucky to make it to the bathroom to expel everything into the toilet. The actual vomiting last 2-3 minutes, after which I go back to feeling relatively normal, other than slightly drained feeling, and that slightly acid-scarred feeling in my throat.

The worst part, in many ways, is cleaning up afterwards. Even though I've made it to the bathroom both times this has happened, the stream of vomit is so intense that I can't necessarily keep it all in the toilet. When I said "power vomiting" that was no joke. So inevitably some winds up on the floor, the wall beside the toilet, my clothes (if I'm wearing any), etc. Getting the bathroom clean and back to smelling normal is... not fun.
As I understand it, aside from the local manufacturing, Michigan has one of the best testing programs in the country.

In other states, testing has been laggard. Which is maybe why some states have "low" levels.