skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually really like the analogy. You are running a "business" of ideas. You are competing against a lot of other very smart people who are also trying to start their own ideas business and competing for a very limited pool of support (funding, postdocs, tenure-track jobs, etc.). The professors you are trying to impress in grad school are "investors" and having their imprimatur on your business will help in both advice and in obtaining more funding and convincing others that your business is worth supporting.

If you can run a successful ideas business for 10+ years in multiple locations and convince several gauntlets of committees to keep supporting you, then there's a great deal at the end for choosing this education route--your business gets a significant degree of permanent support and protection (tenure)! But to get to that point, you have to sell your ideas and develop a product that will get buy-in and support from others in your field.

There are no limits on how hard or how much you can work. There are also no guarantees that working hard will pay off either. There's a lot of luck and sometimes the market just isn't buying what you're selling at that time, even if your product is great.
> The Fed/Corporations are aligning trying to stop inflation.

That's a big claim to make without any evidence. Do you have anything to suggest that big companies in fact are colluding with the Federal Reserve to keep employee salaries down?
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I have no idea about the structure of the ids, I just typed some random integers (Mostly to see what their 404 would look like) and to my surprise got a real tweet! What are the odds.

https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=6446
This has a very comprehensive detail of the exact evidence cited in the memorandum. Scroll to the bottom section for the play by play.
Yeah I hear this statement a lot too but macos is based on nextstep much more than it was on FreeBSD.

Of course nextstep borrowed some userland from FreeBSD and I think this is where the confusion originates. The actual kernel is totally different though.
Love this, thanks for building it!
You could use simple pricing to influence behavior. 1100 litres a day for each American is so damn much. When you hike and stay in the mountain huts you are charged 3$ for a 4 minute shower.

You could probably fix the drought situations by reducing consumption.
So what companies pay on average than FAANG[1] for developers.

The most money possible is far from meaningless. If I work for a company, which one will deposit the most in my bank account in a year and/or the most in my brokerage account when my stock vests?

[1] not literally FAANG, the most profitable public tech companies
That's good marketing.
Determining the Properties of Your Computational Universe
Sure, complications happened. But how efficiently was each day, each hour, used to solve these problems.
Not easy to wear two pairs at the same time, and not convenient either.
I wanted to go all the way to a PhD. So did my classmates. We were going to change the whole world.

But after an internship at a FAANG during my 2nd year undergrad, the money was too good. Got some return offers and basically slacked off the rest of my undergrad, just waiting to graduate.

I was not born into wealth. I am a 1/2-generation immigrant. My parents struggled to keep me afloat during my undergrad years. Even my internship pay was more than my parents' income at the time. So really I had no choice but to sell out early.

Now 10 years after undergrad and a couple of FAANGs later, the baby crying in the other room at 3AM, parents retired and vacationing around, I think I made the only choice for me. But I cannot help wonder how life might have been different, and if I really did have a chance to change to world.
Mozilla could at any time release a new version that does the nefarious things you're concerned about, and they could do it in a much more secretive way. The way they've approached this is consistent with their stated goals for this feature. I don't consider Mozilla to be the "enemy" and I have no idea what you mean by them burning their trust, but if you distrust them, I'd advise not using their software.
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Control of military and industrial assets won't be handed willy nilly to AIs, given the threat of legal liability for any mistakes the AI could make. Their tendency of making things up is well known by now.
www.fortressofdoors.com

Mostly write about my time in the games industry (and lately AI), this old article from 2018 kinda put me on the map:
https://www.fortressofdoors.com/so-you-want-to-compete-with-...
Could you inject it as a bookmarklet?

If not, you could probably just paste it into Eruda (https://eruda.liriliri.io/)
American middle school girls are some of the meanest things on the planet. Let's just say being made fun of and being bullied for having a crush on someone deserves righteous retribution. Unfortunstely it seems putting bullies in their place despite their gender is offensive to you.

And trust me, they could still sign back in.
https://janis.jo

Still under development but basically my life. I will publish more of my writings, songs and movies in near future. :)
Agreed, my only thought on the $1000 price tag was that I already have a seat that is well rated and don’t want to throw away or donate a perfectly good $800 car seat/stroller system.

Like cheap end car seats when we looked were in the 200-400 and nicer ones were in the 600-1200 range.
"Literally" untrue.
Phenomenal, but just another reason why it's difficult to drive in Vegas
We do know the answer to C. Pull the plug, or plugs.
To save someone else the time: StopTheMadness requires you to install OS-level software and costs $12
How is this different from something like https://cube.dev/
it's probably a good starting position to assume that since we all the share the same closed-ish system called planet earth, there's interconnections between different systems. Certainly the border areas between desert and not-desert aren't very crisply defined. Certainly (reference in other threads) nutrients can be blown by the winds from desert into non-desert areas far away. Certainly there exist some animals who go in and out of desert regions (birds, butterflies, ...). It's a really good idea to assume that things on this planet are connected to each other.
Every fridge with a cold water tap is literally this (in addition of being a fridge and a freezer, obviously)
Please state the assignment in detail. What are you classifying exactly, for example.

If it's just some simple text that is fairly regular then you might not need actual fine tuning. You could just use the OpenAI API.

https://github.com/leehanchung/lora-instruct

What exactly are the HPC resources. Are they GPUs and what type and how many.
offtopic, but I love such old-school niche forums, there used to be so many diverse communities out there... Probably mostly wiped out by one and only Reddit by now : (
You seem to be hopping from one vaguely connected argument to another. I am aware that gas price sets the electricity price when deployed, but it has nothing to do with BASF, they were hit hard by specifically gas prices because they use gas. I already posted the link(s). And furthermore, that BASF went to China in 2023 did not affect electricity use in 2020, nor is BASF responsible for 50TWh of electricity per year. There is no grand scale industry movement out of Germany.
> Inflation with money printing is a round about way of raising taxes it seems.

This happens all the time, and it's called debt monetization, when the Fed buys Treasury debt instruments.
Now we just need ChatGPT to read them all and give us a daily update on the interesting ones.
If Mozilla has completely lost someone's faith, that person wouldn't be using Firefox, and this new functionality won't be a problem for them.
from: https://clarkvision.com/articles/eye-resolution.html

How many megapixels equivalent does the eye have?

The eye is not a single frame snapshot camera. It is more like a video stream. The eye moves rapidly in small angular amounts and continually updates the image in one's brain to "paint" the detail. We also have two eyes, and our brains combine the signals to increase the resolution further. We also typically move our eyes around the scene to gather more information. Because of these factors, the eye plus brain assembles a higher resolution image than possible with the number of photoreceptors in the retina. So the megapixel equivalent numbers below refer to the spatial detail in an image that would be required to show what the human eye could see when you view a scene.

Based on the above data for the resolution of the human eye, let's try a "small" example first. Consider a view in front of you that is 90 degrees by 90 degrees, like looking through an open window at a scene. The number of pixels would be
90 degrees * 60 arc-minutes/degree * 1/0.3 * 90 * 60 * 1/0.3 = 324,000,000 pixels (324 megapixels).
At any one moment, you actually do not perceive that many pixels, but your eye moves around the scene to see all the detail you want. But the human eye really sees a larger field of view, close to 180 degrees. Let's be conservative and use 120 degrees for the field of view. Then we would see
120 * 120 * 60 * 60 / (0.3 * 0.3) = 576 megapixels.
The full angle of human vision would require even more megapixels. This kind of image detail requires A large format camera to record.
All too common it seems
Per the article, quarantined sites will only allow "monitored" extensions to run.

I presume that this means extensions for which they actually do verify that updates are non-malicious, which probably includes most of the popular extensions. Hard to say exactly which -- uBlock was called out as being one in the article, but there's nothing on its addon page[1] specifically flagging it as being on that list.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
I've tried to eliminate language around being "too busy" from my vocabulary and attempt to replace it with "can't prioritize". That's sometimes a bit awkward, but really trains better habits. Sometimes I prioritize hobbies if I feel I need it, and doing this seemed fun and useful besides!
What happens if an older couple goes on some wild sex spree, and unleashes a bunch of babies on the young couples?
It's that AA affects a different pool than the ADLC (athletes, legacies, rich people, faculty/staff people). The ADLC pool remains.
Porche, Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Volkswagen. They are the German darlings. Hard to shake them to move to full electric since they are knee deep invested in ICE engines.

Germany also shot themselves in foot by shutting down all nuclear plants and started burning coal.
Unfortunately I made a typo in writing my URL (should be https://observationalhazard.com/ not https://obervationalhazard.com/) and this has no way to update it.
Yes, my blog has RSS enabled on all list-pages. Just add /index.xml to path and it should work, for example:

- https://miikavonbell.com/fi/index.xml
- https://miikavonbell.com/index.xml

Best of luck with learning Finnish! It is a hard language to learn for foreigners.
Yes, and that's unfortunate, but it's not because "someone just had to make them not interoperable", it's because v6 addresses are bigger than v4 addresses and so can't fit into the same APIs/fields/data types, which means new APIs etc are required.

It's not v6's fault that people refuse to stop using the old ones.
https://banagale.com

Musings on technology and other topics. Some examples:

A Timelapse of a monstera deliciosia taken from frames of a Wyze cam:

https://banagale.com/monstera-deliciosa-timelapse-with-wyzec...

My first experience with the 3D holographic laser disc game, Time Traveler and Dragon’s Lair in an arcade:

https://banagale.com/xr-vr-ar-2022-pt-1-dragons-lair-and-hol...

Early notes on Spatial Audio:

https://banagale.com/apple-spatial-audio.htm

A highlight of a Devendra Banhart song:

https://banagale.com/new-devendra-banhart-track-fur-hildegar...
US to Restrict Chinese Use of AWS/Azure Cloud GPUs
If you really search for it, you will always find someone offended by anything.

Only a few years ago there was this German guy that bullied VS Code into removing their cutesy Santa hat which doesn't even have any religious context, it's originally a coca cola thing :')

Anyway, having ubiquitous usage is not a goal of FreeBSD. People are free not to use it if they don't feel like it. I guess there's not much overlap in people being offended by penguins and those offended by daemons so I might have another suggestion :P
The extinction risk relies on a large and nasty assumption, that a super intelligent computer will immediately become a super physically capable agent. Apparently, one has to believe that a superintelligence must then lead to a shower of nanomachines.
People's AC summertime electric bills regularly get into triple-digits - it's not uncommon to hear someone with a moderately sized home having a $200-400 electric bill in the summertime.

However, even in the midst of winter, gas heating bills rarely climb above $100 monthly.

What am I missing here? It seems a heatpump, while more efficient, will cost significantly more to operate. Natural Gas is cheap... and clean enough.
Pricing is definitely hard. Something we're testing out and learning about right now. Luckily we do have a subscription model too which can give us some flexibility. I'm happy to chat. My email is in my bio.
Modern Typescript is fairly decent. Plain Javascript is still awful. And I wouldn't say either are great.

I especially don't understand why Javascript doesn't have a "modern" mode where `var` and `==` are banned, prototypes are immutable, etc. You can do all that with linters but the people that need help with that stuff don't know how to set up a linter in the first place or what options to choose.
Lots of commercial Linux software use this still for installing their stuff. It’s a neat trick
So according to you, there is no limit at which one is allowed to say "this is absurd, stop"? Note there is no upper bound for potential absurdity. Below someone suggested "field" and was downvoted, presumably because that would be too absurd. But a few years ago censoring "blacklist" was equally absurd. You offer a finger, and over time, they demand your hand.
Cannot answer the question.
As a Spaniard when I read "tertulia" I associate it with radio/tv talk shows with 5% of content and 95% of blabbery and filler.

Oh, and talkers interrupting each other, everytime.

Then, I head do the teletext service (which is "alive", amazingly) and I have the same content in four or five lines.

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

What we need it's some service over web/gemini/gopher which news resumed down to the core. Yes, http://text.npr.org it's good for Americans, and http://lite.cnn.io used to work. But, instead of an endless wall, something composed of two or three paragraphs.
There are two peaks of entrepreneurship, the 20's and the 40's. Catch the second peak.
To be honest, I thought the inflammatory tweet against Walmart was suspect enough, both because one would assume that if there's a VMWare business deal with a fellow corporation it would be more at risk than one with the federal government (or not: https://siliconangle.com/2015/03/17/u-s-military-drops-1-6b-...). One would think that would merit more potentially scrutiny and censure, because when it comes to the government there's an element of protected political speech (so long as it does not trigger any security concerns) that provides plausible deniability, as the OP is engaging there. So no, I don't think it's equivalent to Tyson, because the latter is more of a business risk.

> Will that be acceptable? Should that be ok?

A lot of the language being heralded as examples of brave free speech on social media are far from acceptable or okay either, but that’s where those fights take place- on the margins, at the boundaries of social tolerance.
https://archive.md/q9Zyi

It will be interesting to see how the costs scale. I'd guess there will be more red tape, more people with their hand out than when they build the earlier reactors. Same as e.g. rail that's basically become impossible to build. Part of being serious about sustainable power will be cutting out the BS. Realistically, the profitable play is to be a consultant doing whatever assessments and consultations will go on ad-nauseum.

Edit: lol, I commented before I'd fully read it, sure enough

Any new nuclear facility in Ontario would require at least a decade for an extensive federal impact assessment and public consultations – including with local Indigenous groups – as well as final approvals by the federal Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.

The world is becoming a joke.
Agree with the documentation, its rock solid and NOOB friendly. 7 years ago I had to rebuild and restore an embedded server for a client and with no BSD experience at all it took me a few hours and has been working flawlessly since.
> ... we had to build our own physics algorithm for very specific problems, and ended up selling the software ...

Like a simulation algorithm? Can you elaborate on what kind of algo and the problem it solved?
definitely used something similar on VAX/VMS called VMS_SHARE (https://www.glaver.org/ftp/multinet-contributed-software/vms...) circa '90-91

in fact I found an old archive of mine floating around on usenet and wrote a python script to unpack it. Looking at the original, it was using a scripting. language bootstrap to make a COM script unpack embedded the original code.
Drawing a Cirle in Qt QML three different ways
The text is too wide. It gave me a headache to read somehow.
There's a saying I really like "the harder I work, the luckier I get." It being about how the time you invest makes you able to take advantage of more opportunities. BUT it also recognizes that the luck element exists. I think Veritasium also had a video along the luck+work lines. Basically if you just are unlucky you just have no opportunities and you'll fail no matter what work you put in. But if you don't put in work, you're also passing up possible lucky opportunities. Either way, it is a combination of a stochastic process plus skill (think about the design of any good {video,board} game. They require both skill and luck, just like life.

You definitely need both, and I think this is what people forget. Work is incredibly important, but you can do a lot of good and hard work and just be unlucky. That honestly is probably one of the more distinguishing differences between students/faculty at top institutions vs mid. Especially since success is a compounding event, thus an early success can catapult someone forward. We shouldn't diminish their hard work by saying it is all luck, but neither should they diminish others hard work and frustration as a lack of working hard enough when luck plays a significant role in the system. Neither is failure strictly due to luck. It is messy and we need to accept that this is the reality of the world, especially if we want to make the system more efficient and more "meritocratic" (quotes because previous comments and their relationship to Goodhart, the difficulties in evaluation and necessity to embrace noise).

Though your last point about the top tier breezing through, I can completely relate. I see a lot of low quality papers from those institutions get high marks and it is very surprising and definitely not consistent with a blind evaluation system... but I think most of us already know that.
Our Plan for a Sustainably Open Social Network
That makes me feel old. I was running FreeBSD back when that split happened, I can't believe it's been 20 years.

I think the BSD ecosystem was harmed more by the SCO lawsuit, and the rise of Linux than by the Dragonfly/FreeBSD split.
Er, that's actually what the article says. Ten years ago routing was done with fixed databases, whereby a "freeway" (motorway) was always deemed faster. Now it's done with live data, so if the freeway is recorded as slow by cars currently there, apps send you through residential routes. This creates problems for the residential areas, effectively scaling up "rat racing" problems to unsustainable levels.

The author studies this problem for a living, so I'd be wary of calling them up on receipts.
No thanks. If I need to review a table on mobile, I still much prefer just rotating to landscape, which mobile handles quite well. This very opinionated implementation forces me to switch to desktop mode and rotate to landscape when reaching for pragmatic utility. Surely there's a reasonable usecase, but I really can't think of any tabular data that I regularly review where "tranpose-serialize" would result in a net positive UX.
Rtx 3060 + i9 + 16gb ram + 2TB 980 + 500gb 980

My laptop slowed down but more like "hiccups" it's extremely annoying and super obvious it's because of updates.

Before it was smooth. Actually insanely fast. Now after the updates doesn't matter what software tricks or updates I do. It's just not as fast as it used to be period.
The disagreement was not over the capability but with your claim that it's already being used ("They started disabling extensions...").
Google released its search engine when it was just 2 guys.

If those two guys kept working on it for the past 25 years, but hired nobody new, I wonder what their product would look like? I suspect it would still be pretty decent.
In the case of Java at least, what helps is that the IDE can decompile the code or, which is often even more helpful, download the source code and allow you to step through it while debugging, at least if a source JAR was published (which is pretty often the case).

In the case of non-compiled languages, of course you don't even need this step since all your libs exist in source form already, so it was pretty simple for me to step through Ruby library code with a simple debugger and no fancy IDE.

I have a habit of sometimes debugging even horribly abstract framework (e.g. Spring) code when I don't understand what it's doing. That's maybe not the most efficient method, but it does usually make me understand why thing X is not working the way I expected it to work.
I wouldn't say inverted, just everything translated into french, because for whatever reason, the french feel like everything should be in french.

Everyone else on the planet can use english based acronyms just fine in the local language, except the french :)
Did anyone increase their holdings of $AAPL after the Vision Pro unveiling?

I sold all my AAPL stock as soon as I could.
Nothing at all, I was using it just fine earlier today :)
Origins of the Finger Command (1990)
https://mentalismguide.com/red-hammer-trick
A framework for fixing social media
Ideas for changing the incentive structure of social media to make it more charitable & less distracting.