skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a multinational seafarers' union called Nautilus International, so it's certainly possible. I don't know if in practice it's three national unions in a tight federation, though. A lot of labour law is national.
If the number of safe and enjoyable places to live approaches 0, it will be much much much better to have “at least profited” than to have not profited.
Fundamentally untrue, and disheartening that it's the top comment.

You can't use a model's output to train another model, it leads to complete gibberish (termed "model collapse"). https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493v2

And the Llama 2 license allows users to train derivative models, which is what people really care about. https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/LICENSE
They know what part failed, and how; the implication is it shouldnt'a failed there and they plan to sue someone's liver out.

Gotta suck to be the manufacturer of the widget that wouldn't. "we told you not to spray paint it!" might get you off legally but then tell others that no, your widgets will work! This time fersure... ouch.
The customer upset staff so they were cut off to protect staff welfare is a valid business reason.
Very possible that this is a factor, it's very hard to sort out. I see execs and investors are nervous. Is it the bullwhip effect or am I seeing a real increase or decrease? You'll know looking back in a few years!
That's basically the same process here. GPT-4 figures out the info from the raw text, without needing to worry about parsing any HTML.
> Profiting by fixing problems is how we fix problems.

I take your point. But only partly: the profit motive can be useful to some degree for some situations, provided that market failures don't undermine the connection between private action and public benefit.

(Aside: Many classes of problems are solved without an explicit profit mechanism.)

Also useful:

- rules for such mechanisms (a "floor", in a sense, for how they operate)
- expectations for such mechanisms (what we hope they accomplish)
- philosophies and moralities for people that guide us

P.S. Bonus points if you can answer this question. Mathematically speaking, what would it take for a market to incorporate the relevant time horizons and externalities such that we might have even a 50% confidence that a market would get the incentives right to reduce global warming?
Didn't think I'd come across a DTW paper here.

Have you seen anything worth reading in that line of literature which addresses a more practical issue of segment sizing and segment overlap on accuracy?
Exploring World of Warcraft just out of beta in the Elf staring zone will always be very special to me. An mmorpg in early 2000’s was a very new and exciting thing
The word used should be “simulates”, not “emulates”.

The software is designed to mimic the look and feel of the old projectionist software (which ran on PP). It does not in any way emulate PalmOS or the PP hardware.
Depends on the place. I was on a PIP. I met the requirements and at the end of the period, I was taken off the PIP and returned to "regular employment" status.

I quit anyway, but that's a whole other story.
> E2E Encryption is a “get out of all surveillance free card.”

That's the misdirection the pro-surveillance agencies use but it's not true at all.

People still ultimately exist in meatspace (as it used to be called). If you get a warrant based on legitimate suspicion to follow someone, you can assign detectives to follow them, plant bugs in their home, wire up collaborators and all the endless techniques that were used before the internet was around. People are still people and they walk around in the real world, they can be spied upon.

Sure, it's not as easy as sitting back in the DA office and spying on everyone all day long with zero effort, but it should not be. When the power is given to remove fundamental rights to privacy from someone, it needs to be based on a legitimate process and it must take effort. If it is zero-effort it will be relentlessly abused.
What is the best piece of software the musl/suckless/cat-v crowd have to offer? They smugly moan about the state of modern software but only manage to write alternatives to relatively trivial programs. For instance, it's ridiculous to recommend tinycc or pcc as an alternative to GCC or Clang.
It's not clear what point you are trying to respond to. I am aware that McNamara discusses the firebombing of Japanese cities cities as a warcrime. The main point of the movie is asking the question if nuking two cities was a lesser evil than continuing to try to force Japan into submission by continuing the campaign. The movie is not presented as evidence of anything: it was presented explicitly to provide the alternative viewpoint to the post I replied to.

Certainly the death toll would have been higher without the two bombs. By what measure would you claim that there is no dispute that Japan was "militarily crippled"? There is difference between losing a war and being unable to mount a punishing defense.
Top 3 :
- FPS : Duke Nukem 3D in solo or multiplayer, unmatched fun, terrific background music on a good MPU401 midi card (Gallant SC8000 / Guillemot Maxi Sound 32 Wave FX PnP, better MIDI samples at that time than SB AWE32). And its buggy/hard to use "Build" map editor that gave nighmares to every map designer wannabe.

- Hack and Slash : Diablo II, first game I believe that introduced grinding.

- RTS : Total Annihilation with Core Contingency. What's better than stopping your foes with a swarm of Krogoths ?
It was T3 that was the bomb back then, wasn’t it?
Halo: Combat Evolved. It had so many elements that would become standard to many FPSs. And The Library still creeps me out.

Halo 3 is still the best one, though.
OpenAI’s head of trust and safety Dave Willner steps down
Absolutely.

When I was first put onto the game I was lamenting the state of media lacking alternatives to "punching your way to a solution". This game is a first person shooter that replaces guns and violence with science equipment and archeology. It is a breath of fresh air.

Also, I love surface to surface space travel, and have to say that I found more enjoyment from a solar system of ~9 imaginatively unique planets with distinct biomes and gravity to the slew of other popular procedurally generated alternatives.

I recommend it to just about everyone and have known many people who stopped because the flight mechanics were difficult initially; abandoning the game saying "this must be for people who can actually fly this thing". Truthfully, you will get good at controlling your ship and suit, but also, crashing is ultimately a hilarious "part of the gameplay".

The music is excellent and integrated into the gameplay in a meaningful way. I found myself playing the game with a guitar nearby so I could take a moment to jam with the characters in the game.

The expansion is perhaps my favourite planet, but play through the main game first!
"Retinoic Acid and Arsenic Trioxide for Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia" by Lo-Coco et al. from 2013.[0]

This paper presents a cure for an extremely aggressive cancer using vitamin A and arsenic. Its a unique, relatively benign treatment strategy that completely avoids chemotherapy. As far as I know this is the best result in all of oncology, though the cancer it treats is very rare.

The most well known paper in oncology that is probably more interesting to a general audience is "The Hallmarks of Cancer" by Hanahan and Weinberg.[1]

[0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1300874

[1] https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(00)81683-9?_re...
You don't heal 50 years of bad urban planning and bad housing policy in a short time.
FreeWilly 1 and 2, two new open-access LLMs
ah I think even that is a bit pessimistic. I'm optimistic that we can figure out carbon sequestration and transition to renewables in the next few decades and prevent any catastrophic sea level rise. I fully admit that the global North will not give a shit if some peripheral nations are destroyed by climate change, but I think this summer is starting to show people living in Vegas and Phoenix that their days there are numbered if we don't do something. Maybe I'm being optimistic though.
> Firing versus resignation makes no real difference.

In my experience, it makes a very large difference.

> It's easy to stay where you're not wanted

I think this depends on personality. It would be unbelievably difficult for me.
This was the only game I played on Stadia. The cryptid part at the end definitely made me feel some kind of way.
True enough. I have Pythonista installed on my iPhone, but to be honest I don’t play with it a lot.
I wonder why they chose Palm, but then why not, and what else would they use? Ipaq?

It's not clear, but I assume it sends commands to the actual film hardware, and its not doing some real-time control.

"The software shows a handful of controls for the projectionist to queue up the film and control the platters that feed film at six feet per second. " [0]

[0] https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/imax-using-20-year-old-pa...
At the same time Joni Mitchell was making it up the charts there was Motown and the Brill Building (famously employing Carole King whose songs were often sung by men, n.b. to the “article” authors) and the Monkees and so on. And the Tin Pan Alley stuff before that. “Songwriting like a factory” predates recorded music. There’s nothing “modern” about it.
Yeah, sounded cool too. Back then 512kbit ADSL was exciting.

T1, T2, T3, OC-3, OC-12, and OC-48 are terminologies you don't hear anymore.
Having no Buyers is politics. Reforms in farm law which would have opened up markets for farmers were repealed because of politics and protest by vested interests.
I think it may be a self-reinforcing attitude. When I mentioned to a coworker that I had been on a PIP and transitioned out of it, he was amazed. He'd never heard of anyone being removed from one so he assumed that once you're on a PIP you'll eventually be fired.

I think most people put on PIPs think the same: I'm going to be fired anyway, so why bother doing anything about this?

That said, I am absolutely convinced that the reason for the PIP is that they were trying to get rid of a number of (expensive) senior engineers.
That 16K Sphere in vegas could be worth checking out
I hope you're right. Keep in mind: TSMC is entrenched in a lot of markets, and a 10% drop is larger than anyone -- including the company -- was expecting.

Sometime ago I recall seeing that changes in TSMC's revenues are pretty highly correlated with measures of global economic activity such as changes in Apple's revenues and changes in global GDP.
What is your use case for this? Is there a specific website that you're targeting?
Not trying to start an iPhone complaint thread. iPhone has been my preferred phone for many years, and continues to be so.

I am still disappointed at having such a powerful piece of hardware in my pocket and not being able to write and run a native application for the device, on the device.

Many years ago, when smartphones first became a thing, I had certain expectations about what would be possible and yet here we are over a decade later and it’s still not possible to do that thing, simply because Apple doesn’t want us to be able to do it.

I think we should continue to talk about this until the day comes where it becomes possible.
How do people who do this pay their water and electric bills, since utility companies don't have stores to pay bills in?
Desktop Dungeons blows my mind because it is so incredibly well balanced and I have no idea how it can be. It's a puzzly kind of "coffee break roguelike." It marries an emphasis on the puzzly aspect of gameplay (e.g. enemies don't move) to the typical rogue-like fashion of explosive combinatoric possibility in a perfect way that just doesn't make sense. The result is that you'll often find yourself looking at impossible-seeming situations and still finding a way through. I've not had as much relief-extacy with any other game, including adrenaline-trembling hands, despite -- or maybe because of -- the fact that it's entirely turn-based.
Scheduling is probably the most obvious example of a real problem. You’ve got a space that has many different ways of being bounded and need to efficiently search that space.

Physical design systems (modeling possible boat hulls, say—not the physics itself but the interaction of numerous variables) and resource allocation (drafting a baseball team, say) seem like other likely areas, though I’ve got no idea if constraint tools are the best option or whether they’re even used.

Broadly: if a multivariate problem can’t be modeled, a constraint-based search strategy is the(/one) next-best tool.
You were similarly not precise in your skepticism. ;)
The big difference between US and EU was that in EU you had to pay for the minutes on the phone. So basically you were never really free to use the internet for as long as you wanted.
Even for medias such as photos, songs, videos, you have a source. That is the raw materials and the projects from which you rendered the image, the video or the audio output.

The source of a language model is more in reality the model, that is the code that was used to train the particular model. The model itself is more of a compiled binary, altough not in machine code.

So for a model to be really open source to me it would mean that you have to release the software used for generating it, so I can modify it, train it on my data, and use it.
Fez - beautiful art, beautiful music [0], nostalgia with a modern take

Journey - beautiful game that does not center on combat

Braid - good art, great puzzles and a game mechanic that is fully realized and explored (time rewind)

Cuphead - gorgeous art, like playing a Fleischer brothers cartoon

Monument Valley - simple but perplexing puzzles wrapped in gorgeous art

One Hour One Life (and, smaller in scope but Passage) - an MMO where you spawn as a helpless baby then grow into a full adult in one hour. The game forces others to cooperate or else you die within the first few minutes [1]. Passage was one of the first games that took me aback [2].

Not sure if "memorable" is the right word for it but "addictive" and "things I play too much" are: Beat saber, Pistol Whip, Crypt of the Necrodancer (all beat games)

For nostalgia reasons: Doom, Angband, Nettreck, (original) Legend of Zelda.

Games I haven't played but have heard are good: The Witness, Legend of Obra Din, Undertale, Transistor, Night in the Woods, Dwarf Fortress

The AAA games, or their equivalent, are like blockbuster movies to me: well scripted, well animated, have lots of "game feel" but ultimately lacking in the artistry it takes to make a memorable game. AAA games can have an impact on people in that way but I suspect this is mostly due to someones first exposure to a full game which usually happens in their teen years. You can probably guess my age from the games I like for nostalgia reasons.

EDIT: added features I like about the games and some links

[0] https://music.disasterpeace.com/album/fez-ost

[1] http://onehouronelife.com/

[2] http://passage.toolness.org/
The code exam would be for a commercial telegrah licence though, isn’t it? Did the license become combined somehow?
Its not untidy, but it is an open air workshop on residential property.
Consider replacing this link with the blog post from the Dolphin team directly: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2023/07/20/what-happened-to-dol...
You aren't responsible for an independent contractor's breaks. You have no obligation to tell a wedding photographer to take a lunch if they have worked 8 hours straight. That's entirely on them as their own boss.

>Each week you might be in a different town, chasing whatever work is available to you. I can absolutely see it being onerous/possibly impossible to follow different ordinances in each city.

Even our small town of 7000 people managed to employ two entire construction empires. If the amount of money in that system is not enough for you to give enough of a crap to provide required breaks and other health important things for your workers, I cry no tears when you are fined.

It's always the same people crying about "onerous" regulation because they refuse to even do a simple google search.

>Any reasonable company would already have water breaks more often than that, and presumably OSHA has rules for that too.

Then you have nothing to worry about. If you have rules that are above and beyond any existing standard, you are not violating a standard. This really isn't complicated and people are bending themselves in half to try and justify this clearly hostile act. Stop with the devil's advocate bullshit.
Maybe you are just reading garbage sources. News I read, are somehow magically able to predict future 4 years ahead. Predicting future has a huge value.
You present voting in federal/local elections as one or the other — why not seek to participate in both as an informed citizen? I’m confused why one seems to preclude the other in your statement.
I certainly hope you're right. Keep in mind: TSMC is entrenched in a lot of markets characterized by short lead times (say, < 1 month), and a 10% drop is a lot more than anyone -- including the company -- was expecting. Sometime ago I recall seeing charts showing that changes in TSMC's annual revenues are highly correlated with measures of global economic activity such as changes in Apple's global revenues and changes in global GDP.
By the virtue of being the most convenient alternative, not because its actually good.
Unfortunately as someone who worked there in a management role for over 9 years, it’s heard of and talked about - but rarely directly.

I’m shocked OP was told the truth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-funded_crowdfu...
I think it's a last resort for someone who isn't listening to a specific feedback well, it requires the manager (IME) to be crystal clear on what's not working well, and how they can improve it. And to follow up on in some cadence (every 3 days) with notes, laser focused. Giving an amount of time for the person to show they can and want to change.

In one of the cases the person who got pip'd got promoted to Staff Eng from Senior within a year, it was mostly about his attitude, not about his technical skills, and he changed completely. I think that person was just not self aware how people didn't enjoy working with him, even if the manager gave feedback, he thought it was funny or something like that.

It was a real "Am I the bad one" moment when the PIP process started. Another one was about how they always went too deep into rabbit holes and never delivered any value, to change the way they approach problems, etc.

I feel feedback from managers is extra challenging in remote environments OR in places where a person has been for too long and is too used to the status quo, and PIPs can help there.

I count myself luck that I haven't worked in companies where PIPs were used as a tool to layoff or fire people, but I also take some of those reports with a grain of salt.
I only learned about what is a Performamce Improvement Plan (PIP) from managerial training at my BigCorp.

Assuming it works pretty consistently across the industry, a PIP basically means you are slated to be fired.

Circumstances may change, and by all means pay attention to and try to improve the metrics they ask you to improve, but don't hold any illusions. You are almost certainly leaving that job in the next year one way or another.

You should try to leave on your own terms, i.e. find another job and submit your resignation.
Agree. Stop being productive until the lay you off. Then take the severance and once you've used that milk unemployment insurance for as long as you can. Start a new job fresh and relaxed.
Agreed, this is a must-read, very well-written paper. Even though it turned out the world didn't really need cryptocurrencies.
The first several paragraphs of that page imply that targeting didn't actually occur, at least not in the way the Tea Party claimed. Both liberal and conservative groups were selected for scrutiny by the IRS. James Comey - a Republican and FBI Director at the time - found no evidence of wrongdoing.
Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System

Is the paper that has influenced me the most.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/35037.35059
Maybe your device sends a signed attestation to the OS vendor and they generate a more generic attestation (basically "this is a legit Chrome browser running on Android but I won't tell you anything else").
[Junicode](https://junicode.sourceforge.io/) is a great font as well.
«Can you see the number I’m calling from? Just to make sure, could you read it aloud to me. Slowly, please. … Thanks, yes it’s correct.»
You could!

https://orbworks.com/pcpalm/
> if the worker was subject to a bona-fife employment contract (quite rare)

It's funny -- I've never heard that these were rare except in comments on HN, and with every job I've had in the industry, I've had a real employment contract (along with all of the devs I personally know well enough to know that about them.)

Is this "employment contracts are rare" thing a SV norm, perhaps?
The truth is between these two. You can use a model’s output to train another model, but it has drawbacks, including model collapse.
I'm making it up, but want to say it had a serial port. Also, fun fact - they emulated instead of redesigned literally for aesthetic reasons.
You think search engines are immoral? You think we should pay to view the snippets under the results we don't click?
I'm still running a Slackware box.

While not my first distro, that would be the copy of Red Hat Linux 5.2 I got with the Unleashed book, it is the distro I'm most comfortable with.
Just jailbreak it any be done.

Yes, it's potentially less secure. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Nah we realise. But there's nothing that you can do about it.

Reminds me of Dutch Jews in WW2 who tried to live a normal life until the police came to collect them.
Yes exactly, we need typescript style solution to get best 80% of ocaml/haskell available to joes kind of thing.
Haven’t experienced it myself, but Google has been doing it with YouTube for years so I wouldn’t put it beneath them
Yeah, the points you mention are what I remember what photographers really dig about JXL. Also higher bit depth is a big deal for some pro photographers.
Everyone being afraid is WAY better than people being convinced climate change is a non-issue.
> It can equally be argued that those swampland owners bought the land in the first place because they had a vision that it could one day host a unique commercial enterprise.

Heh. On swampland? The amount of money you need to do anything with it is just huge. They bought the land for exactly what others were willing to sell it for. Nothing more, nothing less. If they thought it was worth more, they would have held out for more.
Reconstructive Memory in UX
Why do people always try to equate climate-neutrality with poverty? Or that escaping poverty has to be co2 intensive? Those aren't related at all.
We aren't doomed as a species, but billions of people will die.
This is a 10% decline from the large increase over the baseline trend that we saw post-covid when people had tons of disposable income. It's just a return to baseline and no big deal.
I wouldn't go that far but I have to agree it's trying to be too clever for its own good, and ends up just being an annoying way to read text.
Probably would've been better as a video clip.
"Brain over body"-A study on the willful regulation of autonomic function during cold exposure
But aren't two letter TLD's reserved for country codes?