skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was them. https://openai.com/research/openai-five

They've since abandoned all their reinforcement learning projects. (aside from RLHF for training ChatGPT)
GM’s latest investment could speed development of cheaper EV batteries
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https://clariteia.com/landing

https://www.loom.com/share/9930eb21351b49519c64c1a461a2e6b1?...
I hope so, but I can't really think of any myself, and the fact that such applications haven't been realized despite the massive tech investment in the last years makes me skeptical they exist. Do you maybe have some examples?
"Protection [not immunity] conferred by mRNA vaccines against moderate (emergency department or urgent care) and severe (hospital admission) covid-19 waned during the months after primary vaccination, increased substantially after the third dose, and waned again by four to five months." [1]

At first, CDC said vaccinated people didn't need to wear masks, then reversed course and said we still had to! [2]

Also at first, CDC did NOT recognize the idea of "natural immunity", which we've known about since the beginning of immunology. They bluffed, (due to the influence of big pharma institutional capture, I suspect), and only until 2022 did they admit that natural immunity DOES confer protection. [3, 4].

Overall, the omicron variant conferred better immunity than all of the vaccines.

[1]: https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-072141

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L03-my4E4gI

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hXESCSRyvY
[4]: https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/592457-the-cdc-is-fin...
I get where you're coming from (and it's great to be on guard for that!), but I think suggesting a specific diagnostic that can indicate a clear pathophysiology known to be associated with the symptoms they're experiencing is a little bit different.
> The Canadian government on the one hand is trying to position Canada as an international tech leader

No they're not, they're trying to keep the property bubble alive, artificially inflate gdp growth and drive down wages for the oligarchs who want to keep their fiefs. It has nothing to do with tech leadership.
Irrelevant to this post.
I managed to fork it here: https://github.com/dandinu/azurechatgpt
This is an old idea dating back to the earliest algorithmic information theory work in the '50s/60s like Ray Solomonoff on universal induction: given a powerful learning algorithm, create AI by encoding all possible data as a binary stream (with no further preprocessing or engineering), and simply predict each successive bit. This leads to AIXI, the compression-as-intelligence paradigm (and online learning / meta-learning), and most recently, the success of self-supervised learning & generative modeling.

See for example Burfoot https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.5466 or Schmidhuber https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.09249#schmidhuber + https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08864#schmidhuber (among many others) or (if I may shill my own work) https://gwern.net/aunn
capitalism sucks is just 19 year old redditor cliche for anything they don't understand. You can just ignore people who say that.
Maybe you do. Luckily, not everyone is quite so simple.
Ah, OK.

I don't consider that a risk at all, but I get that others might. This sort of thing is what makes acceptable risk evaluation such a personal thing.

To me, "risk" means that income I'm expecting doesn't happen. The risk you're talking about doesn't count as risk to me, because any money left on the table is money I wasn't expecting to get in the first place, so I haven't lost anything. I just failed to gain something that I could have.

I don't think my attitude is incorrect (it's saved me from a lot of actual loss over the decades), and I also don't think that yours is incorrect. It's more about what makes the most sense considering our personal situations, temperaments, etc.

I also acknowledge that I'm unusual in the HN crowd in that I am not primarily money-driven. When I'm considering a position, the compensation is the third or fourth most important consideration, not the first.
Poached? Are tech workers wild animals?

A better way to phrase it is "Canada has employed 10k American tech workers in 48 hours." But that doesn't sound nearly as nefarious.
If this guy has any actual evidence he should publish it in peer-reviewed journals. Others should be able to reproduce his work.
Everything else is just noise.
Well a metaverse or character.ai like product is an obvious application.
Not saying this is for everyone and it definitely isn't the way it SHOULD be, but I personally subscribe to the Sangamon Taylor/Neal Stephenson philosophy of cycling:

“If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a f&%@ - you've already blown it.”
― Neal Stephenson, Zodiac
Same thing! All of my professors were using Sun Ultra 10s in 2000. OSX was the logical next step vs futzing with Linux GUIs etc for many.
July has been pretty mild in California, while the rest of the US baked in misery. Geography interacts with the weather and interacts localities in different ways. The cooler temperatures and higher levels of rainfall (eg in Ireland) are also attributable to climate change, when you take things like mountain ranges and the gulf stream into account.
https://archive.is/FvSI9
there is a protien scaffold that provides the basic location "flags" that contribute to a cells differentiation fate.
At long last, a meaningful step to protect Americans' privacy
The Canadian economy is fueled by rising real estate prices, price gouging/profiteering by a select few families, and wage suppression.

I'm not surprised the government is enticing 10k (and potentially more) tech workers who are running out of time on their H1-B to come to Canada.

I only hope these jobs are for skilled workers who already have a decade+ of experience and are specialists, otherwise we're going to have a lot of natural-born Canadians graduating college that will have next to no chance at finding entry-level work.
Compliance does nothing against American police violence. You're merely reducing the chance that they pull out a gun and execute you on the spot.
Oh damn, didn't notice the conversion issue. Not sure which one is correct (9PB or 90PB). I'd expect it to be 90, but either one is a _lot_ of data.
Sounds like 'market rate' is about to get lowered even more...
Claims about digital ownership and creation in the age of generative AI
A quote of interest:
"When offering a generative AI product, you may need to tell customers whether and the extent to which the training data includes copyrighted or otherwise protected material."
> beyond "conservative family-oriented religious" really lies "proposing to make homosexual marriage illegal".

Right, it often does. But yet again, that means that people do get cancelled because of voicing and supporting socially conservative beliefs.

> it's just being conservative

Heteronormative is an important part of social conservatism in the US. If you think that's not the case, I'd be curious to know what do you think a person who is "just" socially conservative believes in.
Have you ever gone dress shopping with a woman? Because I've gone with my wife and I can tell you from observation that the size numbers are meaningless, the measurements don't tell you anything about how it fits, and nobody ever carries the right size in the right dress. Women who wear dresses can spend hours or days shopping around.

Three measurements are not enough to describe the shape of anyone's body and you should stop pretending that it is.
As someone who also lives in Central Oregon (and was born and raised here), I will say this: this article is profoundly misleading.

They state that the Upper Deschutes CFS goes from ~1200->~65, and state that is from irrigation. But they don't actually prove that. Much of that CFS decline could be observed out of irrigation season, because that section of the Deschutes dumps a ton of water into lava tubes/back into the ground. You'd have to measure the CFS at the end of that section prior to irrigation getting turned on, then after, and then the difference is what is going to irrigation. And CO Land Watch doesn't do that. Hell, they don't even state where their data is coming from.

You can get a better idea of this drop by instead looking at official US govt data where the Deschutes drops into Lake Billy Chinook: https://nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/uv/?cb_00060=on&for...

That is for the year 2021, when that article was written. You can see the drop in April, which is when irrigation starts. It's about 500CFS,or ~half the river at that point. That is NOT 95% of the river, as CO Land Watch would have you believe. (Side note: CO Land Watch has a bit of a reputation around here. This is a bit of an exaggeration, but it seems like they would gladly end all farming in Central Oregon to save a few salmon.)
Well, not exactly. HTMX, for example, is plain, simple, boring - everything but exciting. But people here love it. Why? Because they don't have to deal with overcomplicated crap for no reason.
Many laptops also have touch screens. I'm not saying it's the only way... I'll also note that over-crowding a UI also leads to poorer quality UX in the end. People find more than a handful of options on the screen or in a given area at a time difficult to manage, at least initially.

It will vary of course, some technically advanced users will often prefer a more dense ui/ux. Also, scaling a UX as you suggest takes a LOT of additional up front design consideration and effort (roughly 3x the effort every time you add a single target variance). My own experience on the developer side, is that you rarely have good design or UX guidelines as it stands in most projects, let alone appropriately defining and testing how you transition or show more than one UX.

For example, how many times have you seen a website that's different for phone or desktop, and one side or the other are missing functionality completely, meaning you often have to force-switch leading to a poorer experience overall.
Oh for sure. Expertise is exceptionally narrow. It's not a super low variance value, as there is spillover (physics/concepts/math/whatever share many similar principles), but most people __vastly__ underestimate the depth and complexity of any given topic, no matter how mundane and simple it may seem. I mean a good example is that you'll find books on o-rings, nails, screws, bolts, etc that are individually over a thousand pages. Hell, The Art of Electronics -- a book this community is probably more familiar with -- is a fucking godsend, but even being over 1k pages and generally a reference manual it is still lacking. Even if you get the second book (X Chapters) with an additional 500 pages!

This is also why experts can often sniff one another out on online forums like this. There's a subtly to the language that is used which conveys an understanding of many deeper nuances than were a novice or even someone with a undergraduate would use to discuss a topic. There's a common misnomer that you don't understand something unless you can explain it to a layman (probably invented by a layman to justify their lack of understanding), but accuracy and complexity are tightly coupled. A concept with x% accuracy has a minimum of y complexity. But also knowing this can help you sniff out experts in fields you aren't also an expert in, but of course your classification accuracy drops since you are introducing more noise. Still, a useful guide if you're trying to figure out who to listen to. Obviously much easier said than done.
I believe environmentalists could shift their focus from solely emphasizing climate change to broader environmental degradation that’s visible to everyone.

This way, we can frame the issue in a manner that garners widespread support.

It’s unfortunate that some discussions around climate change are politically charged, detracting from the core message of environmental preservation.
I'm not the GP but I'd say it's not "just" doing that render-blocking work on a single thread on a potentially under-powered mobile device, it's also introducing significant latency to fetch, parse and execute the code that will render to the DOM.
Just another way large companies arbitrage jurisdictions.
> I always bring up that whole news cycle in 2017 about a potential war with North Korea. How many people spent time and energy on that, and how do they feel about that now? Media is adversarial

And then there are tons of counter examples: "no way Russia will invade Ukraine", "Hitler will stop at Poland", etc. then the opposite happens. How do those people feel? Did they dismiss the stories warning of imminent conflict as adversarial media hysteria?

Expecting people to correctly follow a news story or not based on an unknown future outcome is impossible.

If you can consistently bat above .500 in predicting the news, there's a lot of money to be made in prediction markets.
You seem to be making a political point. I was simply pointing out that twitter just wants to show ads to as many people as possible. Thinking that it cares about free speech is a category error.
Yeah that was one of the worst hottakes.

Then getting called racist over having the opinion that the original authors sounded like amateurs.

Then seeing that briefly turn on a dime and the Beijing University preprint being instantly discredited in favor of "wait for western institutions to weigh in".
10 years of PHP evolution [video]
Yes, there's still a useless 1.85MB. One day we'll find out how to economically shove it all in Javascript/WebASM, and than the website will be perfect.
Books pulled from Mason City school libraries using artificial intelligence
> Why does climate change attract all these loonies?

They've been exposed to a decades-long propaganda campaign that is ongoing.
It could also be fixed by making the penalty for filing an invalid patent prohibitively high. If someone proves prior art, you have to pay them "a mountain of cash". That way, there's A) a real risk in making your patent any broader than it needs to be and B) an incentive for law firms specialize in killing patents for the reward payout.
With Nvidia this is (typically) setting the power limit[0]. Even with the default power limits of my RTX 4090s (480 watts)I don't think I've ever seen an ML workload get close to that and as the referenced article demonstrates you can more-or-less set your power limit to somewhere around 75% of max without losing much if any performance depending on workload.

It doesn't take much testing to come up with the ideal power limit for your given workload(s).

[0] - https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/nvidia-gpu-power-limit...
> A day ago, there were people

> ... I remember reading

Any references?
or this: https://github.com/dandinu/azurechatgpt
I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing. The smiley drones would work fine hitting pretty close to Earth, even an hour or two out. And the mass shouldn't matter much, just the surface albedo.

Oh. You're probably talking about deflection. Yeah, deflection requires massive lead time, way more ballistic forecasting ability than I suspect we're capable of (isn't a clump of rocks going to heat up and throw things off as it comes in closer to the sun?), massively efficient engines to match velocity, and a whole lot of wishful thinking.

The smiley face might still be useful in that implausible scenario, I guess, if it changes the reflectivity enough to let the sun slowly nudge it out of the way? It at least avoids the velocity matching problem; you're intentionally crash "landing" anyway. And spinning is probably ok, as long as Galileo was right and the sun isn't orbiting around the asteroid. It's not likely to head straight at the sun.

But as you say, intervention seems just as likely to make things worse as better.
This. Patents (excepting those describing otherwise unreproducible inventions) have no real downsides.
The only time I've ever come across a reference to hackernews outside of hackernews was in a single YouTube video, and it was only mentioned in passing.

I'd classify that as obscure.
https://bullshitjobs.info/
The solution is more data mining on customers so the companies can avoid marketing to high returners.

/s probably
I remember when people lost their minds because Apple dropped the floppy drive. And surprisingly, in this thread, people are still angry about it.
Intel, Tower terminate $5.4B deal over regulatory hurdles
Feel free to start your own development company, doing things how you suggest and get or provide the funding as you like. I wish you all the best in such and endeavor.
Thing is, hype boys are only looking for hypes, more clicks, more money, I remember seeing a barista suddenly became a scientist.
I think you're missing a crucial point in understanding the opposition. It's not about giving up comfort, it's about authorities asking for trust that has either not been earned, or has been destroyed. For example; the Covid lockdowns were a disaster and destroyed a lot of trust. There are a lot of people in that group that would go to war for Trump because they trust him, and war is not comfortable at all.
There was a better take on interstellar trade in the Traveller boxed set. And it relied on FTL travel to make any sense.
Yep, that’s right. I would include that in the same exception that I listed, where libraries can choose to reflect on the language version that they are compiled with and expose different behavior that can cause issues.

I should mention that the pedantic reason why I have experience with this is that it is usually okay to compile and link with distribution-provided binary packages (where you don’t control the language version) as long as you use the distribution-provided toolchain, and upgrading the language version that you use for your code won’t cause any issues unless one of your dependencies is doing this kind of reflection. Some Linux distros will provide separate versions of packages for each language version in order to solve the problem for libraries like abseil and boost.
How do you organize a backend for a htmx based frontend? Specifically getting templates that serve as reusable components, but also endpoints (there is some proliferation of endpoints which I remember from my days with ASP.NET MVC partials.
I think this is partly the fault of our utterly BS dysfunctional industry culture around interviewing.

Maybe the individuals who want to bad-faith or casual interviewing... could limit themselves to the companies that are bad-faith on their own end?
+1. I’m wondering how many people will become physicist due to this wave of exciting news :) we’re not getting superconductors today, but we might get less “oh my god the earth is doomed humans are horrible” and more “I’m optimistic about the future of the human race”
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Note that Intel machines had been shipping with USB ports for two years before the iMac came out, but there weren't any devices available to plug into them. (plus Microsoft didn't support it in their consumer OSes until Windows 98)
Nutanix reckons you can stuff AI into a box
I think the story might be more complicated than that, I remember reading that the "third party" was the one paying the bills for the experiment so pushing it out early and even publicly failing would've been preferable to getting it dragged out infinitely for an unlikely hope of it being successful.
There was an important step prior to alpha go. At the time the combinatorics were in favor of Go. But someone had the bright idea to do a probabalistic search of the space. The key idea was to play a ton of random games and rate each position based what percentage that spot was included in winning games. This blew away all other go ai at the time. Sadly this was about the time I stopped having time to follow the space, so I’m not sure how this idea was further incorporated in Go AI. But it was truly a revolutionary idea at the time
> Brain drain to the US is already a huge problem

But this sounds like an inflow of brains to Canada. Wouldn't this help build Canada's tech industry?
A global country could have workers in one company and customers in another. I don't think it matters much.
Did they make a public announcement to that effect? Or do you have insider knowledge?
Why does NASA still use twitter surely this is devaluing their brand?
Pretty sure type="submit" just means that clicking the button triggers form submit (as opposed to a button without type="submit" that woudn't submit the form). Submitting the form reloads the page, there is no way to repevent that without JS.
There's huge lobbies opposing environmentalist messaging so I don't think it's quite right to lay all the blame on them. The fossil fuel industry spends am obscene amount of money on online shit stirring.
Not really because you’re completely ignoring the externalities with that metric.

But if you did include the entire supply chain, how many many man hours went into securing oil supply with the invasion of Iraq? Not just the armed forces, but the man hours of production for the materiel.
False. When Texas was hit with an unusually cold weather event a couple years ago, causing the power grid to fail, plenty of reports highlighted this as an example of climate change. Don't be obtuse, it sticks out like a sore thumb and doesn't persuade anyone.
I think that you're conflating "not taking it into account when evaluating the offer" with "not caring about it at all".

What I do is the same as the commenters who say they discount the face value of stock when assessing the compensation. I just discount it more deeply than they do.
> Imagine a power-grid that no longer loses power to electrical resistence in the wires.

From what I can see the power loss is in the 8-15% range. It'd be awesome to save that, but it's not game changing, and you have to take into account the cost of replacing the wires.
My partner's grandmother spent her entire career researching a single bacteria species and its reaction to a single environmental toxin.
Well yes, that would be a great solution, but it's difficult legally. Those farmers have those water rights fair and square. It pretty much would have to be eminent domain the water rights to make things sane, and the farmers can afford great lawyers with all the money they haven't spent on water.
Two companies whose businesses are largely tied to remote work...no surprises.
House prices ticked up at the same time span
Just like our GDP per capita.
Do you think the company would start charging less than what consumers were willing to bear if the rate of returns suddenly dropped?
Posting a document from 2012, especially from during the Obama years? Are you kidding or just trolling?

US foreign policy has changed drastically. That document is 11 years old and isn't even on the DoD's site anymore.

Stick to evaluating tech companies, because geopolitics ain't your strong suit.
The article explicitly says that it's talking about number of spatial dimensions, it's not including time. It says the new theorem shows that black holes can form into up to 7 spatial dimensions (plus 1 for time). (This isn't to say they can't form beyond that, just this new theorem doesn't show that.)
That's a good point. Looks like there's more to the story in the announcement.
Enjoy your poverty. Basement apartment for 3k a month, cost of food and everything else more expensive, taxed at 45% and even double taxed, so your 60-100k becomes more like 35k-55k. You will live paycheck to paycheck if you're lucky to find a job. California, NY, TX, etc are full of Canadian Tech workers that were lucky to escape.

What a joke....
> the canadian white color middle class

Ooof. Quiet part out loud.
Floppies, not two floppies, headphone jacks. History repeats itself as far as what is "needed" to use technology. It's one thing after another that vanishes with few if any consequences. I always think of this old painting. I don't disagree with those folks to some extent, but man things change and rarely do they change back:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Believers#/media/File:Boya...