skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really think this is comparable to bring it up ?

Worst case a few sats get lost or the booster doesn't land correctly. As long as they test this on their own sats first (which are rather cheap) I do not see the issue.

They will want to test to breaking point after all.
The various leaderboards show that, in aggregate, LLM's acting as evaluators match other LLM's and humans remarkably closely.
‘It’s pillage’: thirsty Uruguayans blast Google’s plan to exploit water supply
Clean code, is it worth it?
It depends on how often you have written loops just like that though. To my eye, setting a min_value, then looping through the numbers updating min_value when something lower is found and returning the end result is just a single "chunk" that's immediately obvious.

With the highly unusual addition that there's an extra if statement inside. That's weird.

And the initial value of 9999 is highly suspicious. All the numbers may be higher than that.

I'd say it has complexity value 4 -- "find the minimum value, in the usual way, except only look at odd numbers, and use 9999 as the initial value".
It's RHEL. Or rather, it's CentOS with the serial numbers filed off.

Of course you can. It is a snapshot of an old version of Fedora, with a lot of extra Q&A, and an extremely restricted set of packages. E.g. you get GNOME and nothing else.

But if you don't need many drivers, or you're running on old hardware that is directly supported, sure you can run it as a desktop.
I'm all for it. Let me pay twice the price for my phone and keep it ten years. It's a better deal for everyone, and firstly for the planet - no need to dig up rare minerals and waste energy and water to churn new phones all the time.
Many comments here say the key to maintaining a fair free market economy is regulation. I’m curious how that works for other countries. From a US perspective, regulation is next to useless.

The FDA and USDA are captured by Monsanto et. al. The FDA is captured by pharmaceutical companies. The FCC is run by telecom companies. The FTC is a toothless shell of itself which cannot stop any but the most blatant of anticompetitive measures (and often not even those).

What is the public to do? They can exercise choice in the market, but not when an oligopoly exists, which often only offers the illusion of choice under different brand names. The regulatory bodies have no elected positions and thus no accountability to the public. The public can elect new officials who hopefully appoint new officials to the regulatory entities, but the politicians put forth are only two flavors of the same pro-corporate regime. The media, which is deeply entangled with politicians and their will, degrades every third-party or outsider candidate at every chance they get to ensure the public never sees anything else. So even if the party at the top changes, it is still the party setting the tone, mostly, and they are funded to huge extents by all the largest corporations; and thus we have the inmates running the regulatory asylum.

Direct election of heads of regulatory bodies seems like a decent solution, but it could fall victim to the same issues as the major political parties. We could fight to get money out of politics, but with both sides benefiting from the current state of affairs, it seems impossible.

As far as I can tell, our hands are tied. I’d love for someone to tell me I’m wrong, and that it isn’t the world of multinational companies, which we just happen to live in.
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I haven't worked with CDK. I would avoid cloudformation like the plague, aws support for terraform is really good. There were a few "gotchas" regarding RDS, ElastiCache and some other-resources that do counter-intuitive things, but there were workarounds in the past, my guess is that the situation has been improved or at worse... Well use the old workarounds.
How to "fix" this ? I can see this all the time where I work. I call people out on it. And from bosses POV I am seen as the guy who delivers.. but from peers perspective I am a bit of a hard ass... And I feel like that anytime I don't look and inspect their work they go into this mode, maybe even as a sort of a revenge ?
But its expensive. Bob Dylan songs alone is 300 million $.
Doesn't work for things that are, or use plugins, which is typical in pro-audio. (Our software is primarily used as a plugin.)
The issue here is software, not hardware. An old Android device would be perfectly capable of running the updated root store if the manufacturers bothered to update it. IE6 also could be switched from, at least theoretically.

> If 6% of Android users globally are on an ancient OS version, how many man-hours would it be sensible for my to spend testing that our systems work for them? How many of those 6% are likely to be paying customers for us?

From a purely financial point of view, I agree. But it stills sucks for the 6% and indirectly this is one of the reasons for electronic waste.

In a way there is a long tail of consumers with smaller incomes and living in countries with weak currencies that benefit from computer hardware and software and services that are developed targeting wealthier consumers but still have to deal with the fact they aren't really the target market.
As a game dev who uses Windows threads like this are super interesting. I’m still moderately convinced that Linux users are suffering Stockholm Syndrome. Linux devs still don’t have a debugger as good as Visual Studio and insist that printf is good enough. Y’all are crazy and don’t realize how horrible your workflows are. IMHO. Of course it could be me that has Stockholm Syndrome!
> that run those operating systems can also replicate some subset of the desktop pc experience

But Steam Deck is just running a fork of Arch not some other operating system. From analytics perspective it's indistinguishable to any Linux PC. Also IIRC you can just connect it a display which would turn into a desktop PC.
That is inevitable with super low interest rates for a super long time, especially near zero. Your options are to acquire appreciating assets quicker than your competitor, or you get left behind.

See people who bought homes at 5% down versus people who waited to have 20% down. The people who took on more debt were rewarded nicely with huge gains, and the people, who were prudent, now decide on paying a few hundred thousand more, if they were even able to keep up with saving a larger down payment.
Also, why does one need to pass probation to get paid? Surely you also get paid before that?
I believe a lot of this is affected about how familiar idioms are used. The second example simplifies to me as something like "Loop to find the smallest", "check parity". The thing that seemed to take most of my cognitive capacity was the unstated assumption that 9999 was clearly bigger than any of the possible numbers.

The first example did have a bit more complex condition, but it was fairly logical and not hard to understand. Again what bothered me was that there must have been a hidden way for the result of run_payroll(name, employee.salary) to pass its result to write_letter(name)
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Sure, maybe :-). Would you mind explaining it to me, then? It went like this:

They said:

> I think most people [...] can understand the comical take of that title.

I said:

> I did not find it comical at all

To which they answered:

> I never claimed to be funny

To which I answered that their previous message literally said "the title I wrote was comical".

As you mentioned, I am "lacking English comprehenshion". Can you explain to me how saying "I wrote a comical sentence" does not imply "claiming to be funny"?
Not true. Property dualism and panpsychism are neither of those things. There are other ideas as well that don’t involve souls or life forces.
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> Because they belong to Microsoft

They don't — 49%, and they get to buy themselves out of even that, and if they do that by eating MS's lunch? Then it would suck to be an MS shareholder.

And they've been cautious since before the investment, with the cautious announcement of GPT-2 a month before the change in corporate structure to allow investors.

But even if OpenAI were owned completely by MS, why should MS care? Disrupting all employment sounds like the raison d'être for most if not all of silicon valley.

At the very least, imagine all the employees MS could let go if GPT-4 was even 80% as good as the advertisements in the form of "buy my guide for how to use GPT to make a fortune with best selling books/award winning advertisements/fantastic business proposals" keep claiming.

> Why would you think rich American engineers are in general any more worried about the overall safety of the world then their own self interest?

One is a subset of the other.

People regularly disagree about how risky things are, but they don't generally pick "destroy all things" over "destroy that which is close to me" when they actually believe that's the real choice and not, say, a panicked Chicken Little (which is how I think LeCun sees Yudkowsky).
Some features are only in the paid version which is fair enough, but when I tried it a few months ago there was a small but permanently visible message on the app reminding me this was the free version. That was annoying.
Do we consider the government a customer?
I mean, everyone needs a hobby
Maybe you'd like the third-party Memories add-on?

By the way, how do you share files between Nextcloud and Photoprism? It's my biggest problem with NC, it's hard to share files with other apps.
I smashed my old 21" CRT when I got rid of it about 12 years ago with a sledge hammer. It was a very heavy screen so I enjoyed it quite a bit.
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> Yes. I don't see how this is different than function call.

If you need atomicity _across services_ it's very different, hence why everyone resorts to eventual consistency and all the associated extra complexity. If there's a decent way to have true transactions that span multiple services, I've certainly never seen it.
The second interpretation of my comment is what I was attempting to allude to. I am reminded of this particular quote from Orwell's 1984: "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
The reusability of the Falcon 9 is something still something without a lot of public information. I'd love to know how much they're spending to refurbish each of these – is it 80% of build cost or 20%? Are they decommissioning other rockets earlier than 16 launches because they're finding faults, or are most just waiting for more launches? What are the decisions to re-fly based on, are there common failure modes that aren't causing mission or recovery failures but are causing SpaceX to rule out the booster for future missions.

We do know that they're turning around boosters for re-use in less than 30 days which suggests they aren't doing extensive work, although I don't know how long building a new booster takes so maybe this is most of the time anyway.

Maybe none of these details really matter with Starship on the way, in the long term that will probably address all of these much more obviously, but it's still a way off and for now the F9 is the core of their business.
I think the parent poster is saying that it’s grading the prompts and not the output generated from the prompts.

Yeah I agree there. Unless you can check against the output, it’s not really telling much.
Flies are clearly the master species.

There is a lot we can learn from a creature whose life purpose is eating shit all day, every day.
IME 99% somebody is feigning concern about Wikipedia's "reliability" it's because they want to use sources that are far more suspicious and unreliable.
I guess Hacker News does have ads.
Related notion to numerical range is numerical shadow. And we have an entire website about it:

https://numericalshadow.org/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer

> The word engineer (Latin ingeniator) is derived from the Latin words ingeniare ("to contrive, devise") and ingenium ("cleverness").
We're talking about passenger rail here, not cargo. Amtrak has a legally mandated monopoly, so you can only compete with them by building your own rails or using a different travel mode (e.g., bus or air).

If you find their service to be good and cheap, I can only assume you've never ridden a train in Europe.
Yes! Maybe we can start caring about stuff that actually matters now instead of obsessing over IP-addresses maybe touching US soil when loading a font from a CDN.
Yeah the Mixture of Experts might have not been called out by name, but it was pretty obvious you were getting different models depending on the question.

It goes to show how LLMs are nothing like AGI. I think combining it with a calculator is just a bandaid. A useful bandaid, but its not going to be able to do science ever.
Your analogy is backwards, nlogn > n.
If I am going to host something myself and not pay i'd like to do so without a "this is the free version" reminder all the time. At that point I'll just keep paying for my Apple One subscription.
I go outside and take long walks during all my meetings.

You might also consider getting rid of your chair and sitting on the ground or on a stool. I find that when I work on the ground I naturally move positions a lot because it's uncomfortable haha
In the case of the UK water companies the parent fund was often involved in getting or making the loan e.g.

Water company does a debt bond issue, parent owning fund takes a % of the issue (enough so that the bond issue is a success at a good price), parent fund extracts all the funds raised as a dividend, and sells the % of the issue it own too

All while extracting management fees etc too
I'm disappointed that we can't come up with a way for encryption to work forever.

Like, if I find a knife from 150 years ago, it still cuts cheese. Sure - it isn't the most modern tech, but it still does the job it was made for. Even though cheese recipes have changed, they are still compatible with an old knife.

Yet a phone in 150 years will be 100% useless. Not only useless because other things have moved on, or because the hardware has degraded, but useless by design because root certificates expire.

We shouldn't be putting anything into consumer electronics with an expiry date.
Huh. My mother hand no issues. I guess your mileage may vary.
Personally yes though the courts disagree except under HIPPA police need a search warrant to get them.

So culturally we do think they should be even if the legal system disagrees.
If only I could smash Outlook.
From the article:
certifying Falcon 9 boosters for up to 20 flights for Starlink missions

So yeah, seems that they want to reduce their starlink cost
You can reduce the error by just averaging over longer periods.

A 100 MHz clock has a 10ns step size, and if you measure one cycle of the 1PPS signal, that 10ns of noise is 10 parts per billion.

But if you instead measure 100 cycles of the 1PPS signal, the same 10ns of noise is only 0.1 parts per billion.
I think printers are a nice example of "Tragedy of the Anticommons" [1] or maybe a fine example of enshittification [2] where all printer producers are equally bad and therefore continue to be bad because of lack of competition.

Also, try to start a new printer brand today that is user-friendly, and you'll be blown out of the water by patent trolls. And if you do manage to live, your shareholders will force you to squeeze more juice out of your loyal customers.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36678914

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36611245

P.s.: I should also mention that my Brother Laser printer has been functioning just fine for quite a few years new.
This happened to a dell laptop provided by work. After contacting support I had a new battery the next day and the laptop survived.
HP should have just added stickers that said "FYI, PC means paper carrier".
OEMs could update the cert store on those old Androids. It's a cheap phone problem.
Samir's ax kick is what really got me.
Lots of money promoting climate change. Look at the anti-natalist movement.

There is a lot of money trying to nerf the world and reduce the population.
The North East of Scotland around Aberdeen certainly did benefit from the oil and gas industries. However, I doubt if this made up for the collapse in heavy industries elsewhere in Scotland.
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The article asserts that water bills have gone up 360% in Britain since privatization, then that "bills are lower in Scotland, whose water company is government-owned".

I'm not in the UK, but searching for what those is Britain and Scotland pay for combined water and sewage annually I found claims of an average of around £410 and £320, respectively.
> IBM/Red Hat has deep pockets, they can drag competitors into meritless lawsuits for as long as they want just for the sake of deterrence

If IBM sues SUSE, Oracle might try to intervene, on the grounds that a ruling against SUSE could negatively impact them as well.

I'm not sure if IBM vs Oracle is a lawsuit either would want to have. Both have very deep pockets, and substantial corporate experience with litigation. So, that factor may help protect SUSE
The way I would put this is that I would expect a system with competitive generators and retailers mediated by a well run "free" market to more accurately discover the "natural" price for electricity than a public committee unilaterally setting the prices.

But those more efficiently discovered "natural" prices may be higher or lower than the prices previously chosen by the public committee. It's possible that the committee was setting artificially low prices subsidized by the public purse, and it's possible they were setting them higher than necessary. Either way, it could just be an accident - that they tried as hard and in as good faith as possible to pick the right prices, but just didn't have all the information or didn't model it exactly right - or it could be that they were responding to political pressure, choosing low subsidized prices because it's popular with voters, or choosing high prices because it's popular with lobbyists from utilities.

Markets certainly come with their own trade offs, and they certainly don't do price discovery perfectly either, but where they do have the advantage (in my view) is in spreading out the information-gathering, modeling, and incentive-following responsibilities across all the market participants, rather than concentrating them in a public committee that is inevitably a small group.

But this is really just the generic age-old argument between central planning and market structures. I tend to find market structures more appealing because I can contribute my ideas and my work into them as an employee or entrepreneur, whereas I'll almost certainly never be a central planner. But it's not a panacea by any means. There is a good reason we keep penduluming between more centrally planned solutions and more market based solutions in different areas; there are real trade offs between them and it's never obvious what the right balance is.
Somewhat related: anyone knows a service/tool which creates short movies like an iphone does automatically?

I have a nas to which I automatically upload all my phone and DSLR photos/videos. I'd love to see automatic montages every not and then with some animations/music etc. without having to do them myself...
Anyone also used Synology Photos and able to compare it's functionality to this? Which is better?
There are millions of fake account over at FB. There are multiple duolicates of accounts too. I personally had near 20+ FB accounts. Believing Threads having 100mil in such a short time especially back by a company that famously need billions of accounts to be valued in billions, is like believing Libra will be the next bitcoin.
I look at some of those suggestions and I wonder if this product is going to drive me notes with bogus warnings.
What I think is interesting here is how in the larger rocket industry, specially small launch all the competitors talk about how they need to make rocket production like car production. Lowering the price or production by mass production.

SpaceX the most successful company doing by far the most launches, is producing about 1 new Falcon 9 Upper Stage about 2x a week at most.

A successful car is produced 5000x a week, maybe even 10000x. That gives you real cost savings, but 1-2 is really just serial production. That does give some savings but nothing like automotive.

So any small rocket company that talks about improving launch cost by mass production and talking about 'using methods from the automotive industry' is just delusional. Even if the were spectacularly successful and the was actual demand (there isn't) and launching as often as SpaceX.

The cost saving from mass production would still be really quite small. Going from the price of your first rocket to say 100 every year saves money, but nowhere near as much as reuse does.

RocketLab the only company that actually launches small sat regularly was absolutely convinced mass production was the way to go and then the CEO literally eat a hat and pivoted to making the rocket reusable instead. But somehow the we gone make small launch cheap with mass production story still convinces some investors.

Edit: Prat of why I mention this is just recently I was listening to interview with the CEO of Augsburg Rocket Factory from Germany and they made that argument again.
Related to correctness, aren’t employees paid during a probation period?
It's not about the fee (generally it's small for you (though for the OEM it's critical, and one of the ways MSFT gets OEMs to do their bidding (a small example is how they all "recommend Windows" on their sites; it's a discount on the fees they pay MSFT)). The fee also is why you get so much crapware on new Windows boxes.

It's about the hardware's support of the OS (see the firmware discussion above).

It's also about your support experience as a customer (do you have to reinstall Windows before the OEM will give you the time of day, let alone fix the hardware glitch you're hitting)