skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lex Fridman's interview with Johnathan Haidt provides an excellent conversation about the harms of social media, particularly on pre-teen girls mental health.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0un-l1L8Zw
Can LLM help in this task?
There’s a history of actual usage among some subsets of people, not for everyone. Regardless, it doesn’t really matter if there’s history as long as usage is in fact changing. “Literally” meant one thing much longer than it has been a superlative.
First, ATM is OSI Layer 2, where PDUs are not called "packets", they are called "frames". ATM calls these frames "cells", so a cell is 53 octets (which literally means 8 bits, because guess what, not all bytes are that size.) ATM also covers Layer 1 (where PDUs are called "bits" or "symbols") and Layer 3 (where IP starts).

Second, TCP/IP is Layer 3 and up, which means it runs on ATM just fine, like it runs on ISDN, Ethernet, Token Ring, PPP, and the various ITU standards for modems.

ATM is commonly used in DSL implementations, so it also "won" as far as DSL has penetrated as a broadband technology.
I hope you pursue your dreams! If they change then so be it, but if they continue to be about tech, I hope you don't let this stop you. The industry needs motivated women!
Isn't that a test for a software company?

Texas Instruments' value is mostly in their integrated circuits IP (as well as manufacturing prowess, process knowledge, and a little bit of software). They're still solidly a "tech" company in my books.
Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding
Great story and thanks for sharing! As someone newer to mailing lists, how did (or do) you use them without flooding your inbox? Lots of rules/filters and directories? Using mutt, alpine or gnus? I appreciate the USENET newsgroups perspective of having a separate directory (other than your inbox) to read and respond to posts but it seems not many projects use NNTP these days.
AOL had some crazy password vulnerabilities. For awhile "12345678" would validate if your password was actually 1234, 12345, 123456, 1234567. So that means you could speed up your cracking by removing some of those shorter passwords from your list. Another I remember was for awhile(99-2000ish?) you could change your password and old passwords still worked. I don't know how long it took AOL to fix those but at least a few months for each one from the time I found out about them.

If you first connected to another dialup company like Earthlink you could then change AOL's connection settings to TCP/IP instead of dialup which let you go from the AOL sign-in window to completely logged in just in a few seconds. That means you could skip the entire dialup process when having to re-connect to AOL after either getting a successful crack or disconnected from the guest login screen for too many invalid guesses. Later on some guys figured out how to make "winsock crackers" that were actually really fast but would get patched when too many people started using the different methods people were finding.
Thanks for this! Booked my ticket for Oppenheimer at one of the places in the UK.
"the main thing still in my mind is that the lab escape version of this is so friggin' likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario"

As an understatement, I don't think the authors accurately conveyed what their priors on the origin really were, nor what data they encountered to so dramatically shift these priors.
Jonathan Haidt: The Case Against Social Media [video]
My clients are home owners who are looking to do what it takes to avoid a non-renewal and mitigate/ reduce their personal wildfire risk. We give them the reports and data necessary to challenge a non-renewal. He can hop on our website right now and schedule an inspection. We service the entire bay area.

But I can tell you this right now, with what I saw in the video he won't pass. He's storing combustibles too close to the structure. It puts him at significant risk.

At my company we see customer service as the top priority and try to partner with homeowners to both understand their risk and take action. This is why we focus our reporting so much on education around the issue and communication about what matters for risk.

Ultimately however, the onus is on the homeowner to take action. It's no one's responsibility but theirs to understand and mitigate their risk. I think many home owners are naive as to how high their risk really is. Look at the reaction to Oregon's recent risk maps. The maps were accurate, and the public panicked. Now they are wordsmithing the science to down play the risk. Rearranging the deck chairs does nothing about the underlying hazard.

Link to the Oregon story:
https://katu.com/news/local/oregon-lawmakers-insurance-commi...
Totally agree, modern PHP is quite fun.
> You raised rationalizations that minimize the struggles of real humans who need to work 70hrs a week to feed their families

Uh, no. Here you go again, painting with some broad ad hominem brush that assumes the worst intentions.

Taking the article at face value, the situation is people wanting to work more than 40 hours a week while a certain type of work is in season - essentially making hay while the sun shines. This certainly could be a convenient narrative covering for a more prevalent worse dynamic, and if you've got reason to believe so please make that argument! It wouldn't be with me, but rather with the original article.

I'm merely pointing out that assuming the described workers' motivations are actually true, a limit of 40 hours/week seems straightforward to work around by splitting time between multiple employers. If the choice is 70 hours/week at one job, or 35 per week at each of two jobs, "second job" isn't this heartless condemnation you seem to think it is. Having to juggle two employers certainly is an imposition compared to before, but it's not clear how much that imposition is itself a problem compared to the dynamic caused by previous lack of standard overtime pay requirements.
Yeah.

The article points out one instance in a long, systemic conga line of instances where the regulators find the best option that people have and ban it. Yes, we have seen the middle class shrink. If you want the middle class to grow, people need to have freedom to take the best option available. If workers are paid more than the value they produce and there are policies that push people to work 40 hours a week when there are opportunities to work 70 then quality of life isn't going to go up.

A lot of the growth has gone to places that let people work [0] at wages you would probably call unfair. Those people are much better off than they were 50 years ago. They worked in hellish conditions and it turns out the theory is correct - after working very hard and saving their standards of living started to improve. That isn't possible without combinations of hard work and low consumption.

> I’m pretty sure the issue is a shift in the balance of power, moving it from labour to capital.

Then you're choosing a damn stupid strategy by advocating that people get paid more. You should be advocating that they have better opportunities to own and create capital. If labour is at a disadvantage, why encourage people to be labourers? The goal should be to make everyone a capitalist.

It is like those people who are proud of the wins of the union movement. Y'know, congratulations. They locked themselves into being the losing side of a losing game. If they'd been going for more legal support for co-ops and better access to capital there'd be less workers and more people'd be better off.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_China#Macroeconomic...
A CTO and a the VP of Engineering are very different roles. Traditionally the CTO is the person in charge of research, stays up to date with tech, and explores how to apply tech on a high level to business problems. The VP of Eng. is the person who is in charge of making that vision a reality (so implementation).

And they both report to the CEO - if your VP of Eng. is reporting to the CTO that's a really bad thing.

> I have a rule of thumb — the smaller the company, the less CTO has to deal with people, and the bigger the company, the less CTO has to do with technology. At some points on this spectrum — it’s either full coding or full strategy.

This is just totally wrong. It's completely backwards. In a small company, the CTO is dealing with people and technology direction, because they are probably also doing VP of Eng. roles, unfortunately. This will not be good but may need to happen until someone else can step in. In a large company, the CTO should only be focused on tech, and should not be managing many people at all. That's the VP of Eng. job.
Yeah. Food wins wars. The system is setup to motivate generating a huge amount of calories quickly and cheaply.
What I meant is that if the compromised host was unable to use broken boltdb cache, the cache should be zeroed and repopulated. Was it really hours of such cache rebuild vs hours of trying to fix the boltdb?

Btw I am happy I got only small amounts of data in any of bolt databases...
> a complex chip with many hundreds of process steps can take months to manufacture.

"Three months, 700 steps" for the GlobalFoundries Fab in Malta, N.Y.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/three-month...
I agree, and I should not have made a definitive statement about what I think it is instead. I don't know whether their wife is narcissistic. But having close experience with BPD-afflicted people, I feel the need to defend them. I understand pretty well what they go through (and watching for example videos where other people describe it, and even reading papers, seems to confirm my understanding), and mislabeling other disorders as BPD does them a disservice, in my opinion.

People are going to read this, and then when they meet someone who they know has BPD somehow (for example when getting close in a relationship), they are going to think that that person can become that delusional. That's not what happens.
Because you think the US managed to get above shooting each other? Ah, my sweet summer child. Enjoy your mostly empty continent surrounded by oceans and the quirk of history who briefly put you were you are. It’s unlikely to last long.
That’s a bit more expensive than I’m open to for some random personal website.
Does anybody think that something like this is useful except as an academic exercise? I can't get there.

There are many languages better suited to delivering native apps. The pitfalls of electron are already well understood. If you need electron ANYWAY, then you might as well just use electron.
False equivalence.

A better example would be having the confederate flag. Except that the confederacy being dissolved is already a decided issue at the national level. (Also most Americans are only familiar with the confederate army flag, and not the confederate national flag.)

China and Taiwan have no such agreement. Taiwan says one thing, mainland China says the opposite. There is no resolution.
An LLM does not generate "the next token" - from an input text, it generates a vector of probabilities where each slot in the vector corresponds to a token. The value in a token's slot is (approximately) the probability that that particular token might appear next in the text.

Programs like ChatGPT "interpret" that vector of probabilities to generate text by selecting (sampling) one of the top tokens. But sometimes this is too flexible -- for example, ChatGPT might generate invalid JSON when you want JSON output because it chose a token that does not conform to the JSON grammar.

A way to "force" an LLM to generate e.g. JSON is to change the sampling process. Instead of choosing any top token, we first filter the tokens to just those that conform to the JSON grammar. Then, we sample one of the top tokens from that subset.
But how many security flaws will the killbots have? Who's programming them?
In other stuff too.. PlayStation 3 through 5, but those are closed systems.
> "Taiwan embraces capitalism, we have a monopoly in the surely insignificant niche of the most insignificantly sized transistors, we do not seek monopoly rents but we'll take your money if that's what we must do to let the system self-correct.". Basically turned their back on capitalism as a concept unto itself

I am very interested in hearing your description of capitalism that does not include taking windfall profits when demand shoots up and some examples of it in the real world.
The level of CO2 rises dramatically when cooking using a gas stove in our house, by at least 1,000 ppm to around 1,500-1,900 ppm in the upstairs of a two-story house (kitchen on ground floor). And this is with a properly working hood above the stove.
My most memorable example was some support discussion that went something like “we think you have a race condition, <description>”

“It can’t be a race condition as those two events happened in the exact same time”
Show HN: Datalake for Computer Vision Projects
Buddhika, Kelum, and Chong Han here. We are building a self-hosted data infrastructure platform for computer vision. Our community page is https://www.layernext.ai/community

In the past, we worked on a couple of high-scale computer vision projects in retail, farming, and hospitals in various capacities. These projects involved 2D object sections, 3D object tracking, and more advanced 3D perception. Like other CV Engineers, we observed a common factor during these projects: one needs a large volume of high-quality data to build a production-deployable CV system. Our biggest challenge was not having a robust data infrastructure to handle large volumes of data. Our S3 buckets were like a data swamp; we had so much raw image and video in storage buckets without tracking. Instead of working on CV, we had to develop tools for data operations.

We understand that many of us have our own custom scripts and stitch them together to make things happen in the CV pipeline. However, it is brittle and cumbersome to maintain.

We wanted to build a system on top of the cloud buckets such as S3 that store all file indexes, labels, metadata attributes, inference outputs, model training outcomes, and literally anything related to machine learning/computer vision. This makes it possible for us to search for anything and consume efficiently. This behaves as a DataLake (by the way, "DataLake" is an overused term). All other downstream processes in the CV pipeline can access data more efficiently via SDK and can also return data back to the Lake (e.g., training/inference outcomes).

The reason we made it self-hosted is to address data security and privacy concerns. Since data is fundamental to AI, we believe that companies and organizations should have complete control over it.

Currently, we support AWS, GCP, and Azure cloud buckets; soon, we will support local storage. We ship this as a Docker container so you can just install it on any VM or local server. The installation script will do all the configuration automatically. The Python SDK and documentation are available but not perfect yet.

We’ve launched this under MIT and Elastic licenses so any developer can use it. Our goal is not to charge individual developers. We make money by charging a license fee for things like multiple users, multiple buckets, scalability with K8, and providing support.

Give it a try: https://www.layernext.ai/community Let us know what you think.
I've been growing carnivorous plants for more than 15 years and own a business selling them. I can assure you these Sarracenia will not do anything against your fruit flies problem. Pinguicula or Drosera will catch more of them and can actually grow indoors all year round given enough light. But even then, they're not really good at pest control.

Sarracenia are outdoors plants, they need a ton of direct sunlight and a seasonal rest in winter. They already look light deprived in your pictures.
I wonder if we could just stop flying planes for a while (which might lead to global cooling, like the days after 9/11/2001)
I'm aware that "software engineer" as a regulated profession exists in Canada. The only consequence that I'm aware of is that tech companies in Canada call their engineers "software developers" instead. In years of working in tech I've never had a coworker who was a licensed Software Engineer.

All I'm saying is that it's unlikely that the bulk of activity we currently think of as "software engineering" will someday full under a level of professional regulation comparable to surgeons, pilots, or civil engineers.
*cries in Dance with Dragons
That's how you get a dust bowl with all farms growing only the most profitable crop.

It's already bad with with corn and soy monocultures
That's a false choice. If you think food security and a healthier food economy are incompatible, you lack imagination, or have never visited Europe.
If your definition is "The systematic application of scientific knowledge in developing and applying technology." I think we can agree.
This is a really good point. I wasn’t at all aware of this case study. Makes me suddenly very pessimistic about carbon dioxide removal efforts as well.
Perhaps one of many on this list[1]? ULID is listed as having 1.21e+24 unique per millisecond. I have no idea though about what may match up with your timeline(s).

[1] https://github.com/swyxio/brain/blob/master/R%20-%20Dev%20No...
So, aren’t we asking for too much then?
> As a journalist I think it misses the mark somewhat by failing to account for the value of reporting.

At a revenue level how do you quantify that value? Unless you are a brand (TIME, Washington Post, etc) the only metrics are page views and time spent reading the article that eyeballs wander across ads.

Arguably a clear well written article may perform worse than an AI generated article that bleeds over on to a second page. Some of the most valuable content on the internet is not well written pieces on the political climate, but "OMG YOU'LL NEVER GUESS HOW THIS CHILD CELEB TURNED OUT" with a 75+ image one per page photo gallery.
So does this mean I can detect "Sorry" at the start of a response and prevent it?
She may have something more, she isnt honest with anyone including therapists so its certainly possible.

However, you kinda have to be there but she didn't arrive at owning the town all at once but a series of escalations over years.

It all started a few years after we moved in. She started claiming the property line was further back and I corrected her. Unable to admit she was wrong she started going off on me, I let it go because it didn't matter. Then a few years after that the neighbors redo their backyard, cutting down a few old, mostly dead trees. This set her off. Those were "her trees" and they housed a cornucopia of wildlife (they didn't).

First it was the property line claim from before, so she hired a survey company, the neighbors property line is actually a few feet in from where I thought it was. So she was way off.

She then spent six months looking at pixalated maps and essentially having pareidolia. None of her claims about the maps made any sense but she argues they prove she is right and "Since in 1900 when this was built they forgot to add a line here so we own all of our town". She only has made that claim a few times and I think understands others find it odd, but I'm pretty sure she believes it.
Reagan did, and he was somewhat popular.

Seriously, preventing future politicians from doing this is part of why the central banks are independent in G7 countries.
As the article clearly lays out, there's no need for profession ethical considerations to be "of divine origin". It's simply a set of rules which an entire industry can hold as superseding the whims of the flunkies with MBAs that write our paychecks.
Nowhere on the planet Earth do "markets play out as they are supposed to". There exists precisely zero economies without significant public involvement in private markets. Zero.
Not to be confused with Quokka.js
I've personally never used an SQL DB but I think this would make it a lot easier for those who do to use CouchDB and might entice them to take a fresh look at it.
Just like how no policy has killed more people then Communism&Socialism nothing has saved more lives and increased the standard of living for more people then Capitalism.
No, we're not. It controls for wealth, and then says that the policy itself affects the wealth of alumni, which makes it entirely inappropriate to remove that as a variable. In essence they are arguing that legacy preference systems are not what motivates higher donations, but they are a causal factor in the outcome of higher donations.

"the policy allows elite schools to over-select from their own wealthy alumni. In other words, the preference policy effectively allows elite schools essentially to discriminate based on socioeconomic status by accepting their own wealthy alumni families rather than basing admissions on merit alone."

" we show that prior to controlling for wealth, there is a strong correlation between alumni giving and legacy preferences. This suggests that greater alumni giving at elite schools with legacy preferences is driven by the school’s ability to over-select from their own wealthy alumni populations—not a result of the preference policies themselves inducing additional giving."
This is how you write a proper title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16194112
Are they trying really hard to shoot themselves in the foot?

Google needs to stop this bullshit start innovating again. First AMP, now this? Leave the web alone!

Where's the Google that makes great web applications with simple, great UX, like Maps, Gmail, Drive and Search (which has severely degraded)?

Or great tools like Go, Lighthouse and Devtools?

Disappointing!

It's like they're trying really hard to be the villain.
interesting, but I should have probably mentioned that something scalable would be nice

mac instances are 30 bucks a day on AWS
/shrug I got 15 dead fruit flies in my Sarracenia. YMMV I guess.
Without porn I’m just too horny to function even though my wife and I have regular sex.
Does it work without their Cloud thing?

Edit, from the release notes:
> In the last few months, we have ported and open-sourced all Netdata Cloud APIs to the Netdata Agent, allowing Netdata Parents to drive the same multi-node / infrastructure level dashboards Netdata Cloud provides!
> So, as of today, Netdata Agents and Parents present the same UI, exactly the same dashboard, charts and features with Netdata Cloud!

I haven't tested this yet, but looks like that was all my biggest frustration with it
Yup. The terms "Open Source" and "Free Software" are pretty much interchangeable when it comes to licenses. The difference is political, not technical.

This part of the article is pretty misleading as well:

> Free software, as specified by the Free Software Foundation, is only a subset of open source software and uses very permissive licenses such as GPL and Apache.
At least for this particular case it was not a matter of teaching journalists statistics or anything STEM-related. If it weren't for the leaked messages, we'd never hear about it. Epistemic sincerity and a good notion of statistics are important for sure, but giving whistleblowers legal cover and a means of releasing this kind of material is just as important.
it's fine tuned specifically for that tone. The base model without fine-tuning will tend to be a lot less corporate, and respond more to the prompt (chatGPT can still imitate other styles reasonably well if you ask for it, so long as you don't trigger one if its safeties)
The Birth of the Institute for Advanced Study
Do they share in residuals? I expect not.
It's a matter of degrees. I've been to truly "communist" countries (e.g. Cuba), and lived in several European countries, and without a doubt US has a much more capitalist bend.
Ethics doesn't require a divine origin. You're thinking of morals.