skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> wth does "first cousin once removed" even mean?

It is using a very well established (i.e., has been used for a long time) terminology to describe familial relationships.

The "first" refers to how many horizontal genealogy lines are crossed (self -> sibling -> first cousin -> second cousin -> etc.) the "once" refers to the vertical, so the "first cousin once removed" refers to either your cousin's parent or child, and as we refer to our cousin's parents as aunt or uncle, we usually conclude that your "first cousin once remove" is your aunt/uncle's grandchild, ergo your [first] cousin's child.
I want kids but its not a dealbreaker
This is absolutely routine and not news. Companies are required to abide by the legal system in countries they operate in.

Like other companies, Meta routinely comply with subpoenas for user identity, post history etc in the US too. In fact they give their requirements here[1] so law enforcement know what sort of order to bring and how to serve it on them. This has even been abused by bad actors forging court orders etc to obtain user data[2]

[1] https://about.meta.com/actions/safety/audiences/law/guidelin...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/04/us-law-en...
Sure, but the City Museum was created by an artist, who would have hated the idea of warning signs. He died in an accident building a companion outdoors art installation/amusement area, probably by not being safe while working with heavy equipment.
But the US is still performing better on all metrics:

1. more innovation
2. high economic growth
3. better salaries

Whatever you are doing works.
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That's funny, I thought the name means 呪術, but the person in that audio clip is (probably) pronouncing 柔術. I prefer my interpretation though (git with magic).

Ambiguous romanization is weird, I wish romanization rules would just follow IME rules (except in the case of consecutive n's, that'd look weird).
One approach to dealing with that is to then suggest that if things are so easy then surely the consultancy would be willing to do the project on a fixed price basis?
It's not an issue with either, they are both working "as intended". Both examples are storing data in git's object database. Git and GitHub clone the object databases as fully as they can. To keep the objects "live" in the database both examples use non-standard git refs. Git's raw object DB format was designed to be extensible so it supports non-standard refs that don't reflect (aren't reflected in) high-level git concepts (such as branches and commits). Because these examples use such non-standard refs there's not a standard UI for them in GitHub.

It's probably not a great idea to use or rely on non-standard refs in general because it may conflict with other tools or future git capabilities, even if there were a "standard UI for unknown refs".
My Middle Eastern family members always say the word around their nations of origin is, move to the US if you want to work hard and succeed, move to Germany or France if you want to chill and get free money.
What nobody is talking about here is that there is no more power available in the US. All the FAANGS have scooped up the space and power contracts.

You can buy all the GPUs you can possibly find. If you want to deploy 10MW+, it just doesn't exist.

These things need redundant power/cooling, real data centers, and can't just be put into chicken farms. Anything less than 10MW isn't enough compute now either for large scale training and you can't spread it across data centers because all the data needs to be in one place.

So yea... good luck.
Ask HN: Is GPT 4's quality lately worst than GPT 3.5?
Has anyone else encountered this phenomenon lately? I've found myself prompting GPT 3.5 with simple questions that GPT 4 provided an incorrect answer for, and lo and behold I get a much better answer.

For ex this is GPT 4: https://chat.openai.com/share/e24501ad-8f1c-4b5a-a6d0-d933f5d1d209

And this is GPT 3.5: https://chat.openai.com/share/b9372bdc-ffff-4655-bee4-2b3f3c3b8285

In the latter case I didn't even need to ask for the order by clause as it anticipates it and provides an answer for it. GPT 4's first answer was wrong.

In the past two days I've seen at least 2 other cases where GPT 4's answer was plain wrong and GPT 3.5's was not only correct but of very high quality, reminding me of what I first felt when using GPT 4 for the first time.
Its integration with public and private data along with layers of automation allowing its use way beyond chat bots. From individual tool to something that can power large parts of a business.

https://flowch.ai - Currently free to use.
Not if you are on your fifth coffee and super exited about your work.
Their Fleet IDE is exactly that. It’s in development right now, but a public beta is available: https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/

Edit: I just realized you meant the opposite, where the IDE is just a language server. Fleet is an IDE that uses language servers
Because to identify discrimination, you need to measure it.

Without taking these stats, the Jim Crow South suddenly looks like an even-handed application of voting tests.

e: I will say, the number of comments I get from European commentators favoring the “putting your hands in front of your eyes” approach when it comes to racism in Europe does make it completely unsurprising how non-diverse their C-suite is as well as why they have difficulty attracting high-skilled immigrant talent.
How are they “amazing”? Amazon is full of counterfeit or cheap products. Granted amazon’s delivery is amazing their marketplace is a cesspit. Google’s search is horrible. Cant find anything in my inbox or google drive even if i double quote the search terms. Not to mention search result spamming with sites that have been seo’d to death.

The alternatives have always been there and still are but struggling to compete due to amazon and google sheer budgets where they simply sell services and products at a dumping price.
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You can roll losses forward for 3 years I think. So they could not pay any taxes for the next 3 years depending on how much they make in profit. It is why Amazon wasn’t paying any taxes for a few years after they decided to start taking profits.
> We spend around $900 a month on Uber

So...like 6 rides a month? I only joke a little. The last time I checked, the average cost for an uber ride from Oakland to San Jose was like $70. SFO to San Jose was usually about $150.
It's still better than a taxi. Any trip to the airport, while traveling, when planning to drink, etc. is an Uber.
HyperCard, visual basic, and Python have saved me from ever needing to understand OS innards.
I had a feeling this is what was going on. None of the videos were very convincing.
They drove out their own, better product that existed 5-10 years ago.

Now they are extracting their monopoly rents.
There is no way that miles of sheathed superconducting material would be more toxic than burning leaded fuel for decades.
If you want to do webdev, it will be very hard to avoid JavaScript/TypeScript. These aren't going anywhere as long as web browsers are a thing. It is possible to get a backend only job, but you'll be really limiting your prospects if you can't code for the frontend.

Otherwise you really need to cater to your region and your goals. You can get a job where you write R or Typescript or C, and those would be very different jobs, at very different organizations, maybe in different physical locations.

Luckily, the ABCs of learning to code are pretty much the same in most modern languages, so picking any popular choice will give you the ability to pivot when needed.
Haha, yeah. In ffmpeg's sort-of defense, the libav* APIs are supposed to be semi-private, which is how they try to get away with them being terrible & unstable. But in practice they're public, and everyone uses them, because the only alternative is gstreamer and oh boy do you ever not want to dive into that mess.

FWIW if you just want to en/decode AV1 and don't care about anything else like container formats, you can just use the codec directly. Dav1d is the current gold standard, I believe. Even some container APIs aren't too hard to deal with, if you do need that.
"it's a big club and you ain't in it"

https://www.azquotes.com/quote/543644
You probably have the same number of coal miners dying every year in accidents than died in the entire history of nuclear power. That's without counting all those who die from breathing arsenic, nickel, cadmium and other toxic by-products of coal combustion.
Really depends on the site. Our marketplace sees 50% Safari usage since 60% of the traffic is mobile and Safari has such high usage on mobile for our customers.
> They may feel like a red herring to you, but they are a big part of what a lot of people are talking about, and coming into a discussion that is clearly talking about whether an AI is conscious or how we could decide if it was and saying "that's all pointless, you shouldn't even be having this discussion" is kind of rude.

Don't silence people, answer them. Say why it's actually important. Don't say that by saying "when you say it's not important, you're disrespecting the people who say it's important." That kind of thinking will take us back to the middle ages.

> I am deeply skeptical that it is possible to have anything we could reasonably deem an "AGI" without it demonstrating at least what appears to be consciousness.

The meaning of the word "AGI" is not an interesting thing to talk about. Call it what you want. If there's a conventional meaning to the word AGI that you're using, explain it and explain why an algorithm that isn't constantly running fails that. If you do this using the word "consciousness," you're passing the buck. You might as well be talking about souls for all the precision that the word "consciousness" has.

> seems impossible without an AGI that can self-analyze and self-improve

Thought experiment. What if you yourself aren't an AGI that can self-analyze and improve? What if you are two not-AGIs (by your definition):

1) a learner that improves the other based on new information, and

2) a controller that produces output,

And that they switch roles between 1 and 30 times per second, based on the intensity of the input. Would that mean you weren't conscious?
Allows them to whitelist clients. Kills off adversarial interoperability. Now you can't make you own compatible technology stack anymore, you have to use their approved ones which only ever do their bidding at your expense.
There is more work than there are licensed captains available. A good captain can work 365 days per year.
Bigger yes but valuable knowledge for anyone. The good thing is once you understand it only takes little effort to repeat it.
It says that efforts to collect discrimination data in France are viewed as unconstitutional, verbatim in the article. Clearly, at minimum, collecting this data is not easy in many european countries.

> I lived in 2 EU countries and government had ethnical data on citizens.

Could you provide that data for France? I never said it was true of all EU countries.

e: Actually, reading your comment I am left a little confused - aren’t your latter paragraphs the exact point I am making?
* teeming

I had to reread it 3 times to work out what you meant.

teem, verb
(gerund or present participle: teeming)
be full of or swarming with.
"every garden is teeming with wildlife"

team, verb
(gerund or present participle: teaming)
come together as a team to achieve a common goal.
"he teamed up with the band to produce the disc"
That's not any better.
Cloud providers proxying?

Via ssh? With an SSH key? Over port 22?
Because they have driven some competition out of the market so alternatives can be hard to find, compared to pre-Uber days. So a person might say “See? If it’s easier to use Uber then they are providing more value.” Except the alternatives may have been better pre-Uber, therefore Uber only provides relative value now because they have downgraded the overall quality.

This will vary quite a bit by location though. In areas where it had been difficult or highly inconvenient to get a cab pre-Uber then Uber may still provide actual value over prior status quo. I’ve experienced both situations.
Agreed. Although my ego might not be able to take it if it turns out I can be outplayed by my IKEA smart lamp.
If you're from the right background then sure. Asian or Mid Eastern (so like the entire largest continent) isn't going to help you, though.
Are you even reading my responses? Or are you just picking and choosing what suits your narrative?
You still don't get it, do you? I'm not saying labor costs are the only factor, but it's undeniable that many companies choose to underpay workers while raking in massive profits for themselves. It's called greed, plain and simple.
Sure, business owners take risks, and they should be rewarded for it. But it's not an excuse to exploit workers and keep them in poverty. Finding a balance means not being a greedy Scrooge and sharing the success with those who help build it.
You keep twisting my words. I never said anything about randomly paying people more. It's about recognizing the value of the workers and paying them fairly for their hard work. If they demand more, it's probably because they're being undervalued, which you conveniently ignore.
Labor laws vary in different places. But that doesn't mean we should turn a blind eye to exploitation. Just because some workers have it better doesn't make it acceptable to mistreat others. It's about decency and fairness.
You want to talk about poverty? Then address the issue at hand, the fact that many workers are struggling to make ends meet while business owners swim in pools of cash. It's not about giving away $100 bills on the street, it's about paying workers what they deserve.

> No. You also have people working for you. Everyone, save those who have gone completely off grid (which you clearly have not), does. That is how an economy functions. The question stands: How often do you pay your workers more than they have asked of you?

You seem to be fixated on deflecting the conversation away from the real issue at hand. Let's be clear: the topic of this discussion is not about me or whether I have people working for me as a customer. It's about addressing the widespread problem of companies underpaying their workers and prioritizing excessive profits over fair compensation.

While it is true that in everyday transactions, as a customer, I interact with employees at various businesses, that is not the crux of this debate. The main concern is the mistreatment and underpayment of workers within companies, especially those that are highly profitable.

As for the question of how often I pay workers more than they ask for, it is irrelevant to this conversation (but actually often I pay more, I tip people etc but I don't want it to be discussion about me). The focus should be on corporate practices and the need for businesses to recognize the value of their employees and provide fair wages.

So, let's get back on track and concentrate on the real issue – advocating for fair treatment, fair wages, and better working conditions for workers within companies.

Honestly, you're so focused on nitpicking and avoiding the real problem that it's frustrating to even continue this discussion. Stop defending the indefensible and open your eyes to the reality of the situation. Workers deserve better, and it's time for businesses to stop being so damn greedy.
Note that in this case, the "untrusted" party is the cloud provider, not the user. It's meant to attest servers. Fortunately newer intel consumer-class processors don't support SGX anymore.
This wouldn't have any effect on MRI scanners generating such magnetic fields.. they would be too dangerous to use in a non-prepared environment. They'd be small and use less power but still require a prepared environment wouldn't they?

Use it on a battle field and it'd be like Magneto was throwing shrapnel around I'd think.
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ESP32-SBC-FabGL How to work with the expander module GPIOs from FabGL library a
- Make them good at science, i.e., Maths and Physics.

- Get them into a decent high school, e.g., Henri 4 or Louis Le Grand in Paris.

- Hope they have good grades and manage to get into a good preparatory class [1], e.g., Henri 4, Louis Le Grand in Paris, or Hoche and Sainte-Geneniève in Versailles.

- Make sure they don't slack off, and hope they get into a good engineer school, e.g., Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole des Mines, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussés, CentraleSupelec.

(Lists are not exhaustive)

If they manage to get into one of these schools, they will most likely end up not have any difficulty to find a somewhat well-paid job in France.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classe_pr%C3%A9paratoire_aux_g...
Yes, that is how companies like mine are addressing the shortage. That does not change the fact that there is a shortage now and that licenses require training, tests, and seatime.
> that galaxies are moving away

moving away from what? The reason inflation works is that it doesn't require a privileged frame of reference.
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> No country produces the majority of its electricity from wind and solar.

Yet, but infrastructure lasts far longer than the recent dip in prices which favors renewable energy. As to battery costs that article specifically mentions expectations of near term drop in prices, these are long term trends not specific annual guarantees. Solar prices have occasionally increased due to supply shortages even in the middle of vast longer term price drops.

Also, countries electric grids aren’t independent outside of a few islands.

Globally Hydropower is ~16% of global electricity generation and quite flexible. A country with 100% hydropower generation can easily add wind and solar panels and then export flexible and cheap hydroelectric energy. In fact if you look at countries running over 50% of hydroelectric power they tend to export quite a bit.
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Over 250k engineers (including engineers from 2/3 Fortune 100 companies) build with Roboflow. We now host the largest collection of open source computer vision datasets and pre-trained models[2]. We are pushing forward the CV ecosystem with open source projects like Autodistill[3] and Supervision[4]. And we've built one of the most comprehensive resources for software engineers to learn to use computer vision with our popular blog[5] and YouTube channel[6].

We have several openings available, but are primarily looking for strong technical generalists who want to help us democratize computer vision and like to wear many hats and have an outsized impact. Our engineering culture is built on a foundation of autonomy & we don't consider an engineer fully ramped until they can "choose their own loss function". At Roboflow, engineers aren't just responsible for building things but also for helping figure out what we should build next. We're builders & problem solvers; not just coders. (For this reason we also especially love hiring past and future founders.)

We're currently hiring full-stack engineers for our ML and web platform teams, a web developer to bridge our product and marketing teams, several technical roles on the sales & field engineering teams, and our first applied machine learning researcher to help push forward the state of the art in computer vision.

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I wish people would stop with the bizarre AI-latry that has gripped them en masse and realize that if its a "moment" at all, its a human moment.

The impressive feat is the ability of researchers to manipulate a generic statistical model paradigm to fit large amounts data and be reused for something apparently useful.

Whether that path has a future depends not on AI bootstraping itself but on said researchers to keep building on this paradigm.

The black box and inscrutable nature of these algorithms works against them. I.e. reaching the next level in some purposeful manner requires more understanding. Human understanding.
FSR is vastly inferior to dlss, not sure what you're talking about, even xless from Intel is better.

As for driver: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/adrenalin-23-7-2-marks-ret...
Location: Poznań, Poland
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Willing to relocate: not right now (finishing studies here, need one more year)
Technologies: Elixir, Phoenix, Postgres and misc. (Linux, git, etc.)
Résumé/CV: https://shorturl.at/iEFTZ
Email: nehhaket(at)gmail.com

Seasoned developer with about 5 years of experience (see Résumé for details), a constant learning mindset and eagerness to do great things with a team, big or small. I’m mostly interested in Elixir but I’ll consider any software development position (I have some experience with front-end here and there).
Well, it is unmaintainable, because maintaining this set of dependencies is absurd for what this firmware is and it is unreadable, because I tried to read it and lost interest in a few minutes later, because of all the bullsh*t.
You could put nuclear reactors in the middle of the desert today (ignoring cooling for now). The reasons we don't typically do it has nothing to do with resistance.
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A 3 star review for when they do their job. 5 if its above and beyond such as if there were complications of difficult delivery.
The Ivy's all have multi-billion dollar endowments. They should go without a single donor dollar for a generation and be fine And even expand.