skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah! Yeah - this happened at my college. They sold the [huge] parking lot adjacent to the main union area to the company that owns all the lots in the city since it was so torn up and [assuming] didn't want to pay to fix it.

Before it was sold, you just bought a little placard that hung from your rear-view mirror to park in the lot.

Well - the company it was sold do has been doing the QR thing for years at this point so they just implemented it after a quick repaving and that was that.

It's been a few people at this point who simply make a clone of the parking website and slap their own QR code stickers on a bunch of the spots. If you saw a ticket on the windshield upon returning to the car, most people assume they made a mistake so they are double paying for the spot. Once to a phisher and once to the actual company in the form of a ticket.

Company has sent out a ton of emails about it but because the lot is so high-volume [it's next to a new stadium so it's no longer just business hours college parking] the ability to make a quick buck so easily is just...there. No changes being made by the company - you'll see a thread pop up on the city subreddit about it every now and then where others share their own experiences - and that's as far as it goes.
>But finding the bloke who knows the answer and asking them is engineering to me - it’s still getting to the right answer, isn’t it?

That's called management, not engineering.
Same, I used to work for a large aerospace company and I wasn't allowed to install anything that wasn't approved and it had to be work related in an obvious way. I was surprised it even had a browser.
You realize that you're just claiming an imaginary “right for business to keep data forever” and ascribe it a higher moral value than the “right to be forgotten” you judge unnatural?

Of course Google lobbyists are paid to argue that such a right exist and is higher up in the hierarchy than anything else, but there's no reason to listen to this arguments. I have no love for legislative bodies inventing artificial rights (like intellectual property rights), but corporations inventing artificial right is legitimately even worse.

This time fortunately the legislators took the side of the people and created a “right to be forgotten” instead of a “right to hoard private data”.
I think this makes sense. If your brain has been relying on your sense of hearing for certain information your whole life, any new damage to that ability will leave your brain without that information. If you've never been able to hear, your brain has no dependence on sound for information.

I wonder if the cognitive dropoff for Deaf people who get cataracts is more or less severe than for hearing people who get them, since presumably they're even more reliant on their sight for information than hearing people are.
I don't think I'm a good writer. But this is actually something that can be easily improved over time, I guess.

Thanks for the tip. I might give this a shot. This is something that fits my needs, you can do it in your own pace, remotely, gig work. would be perfect if I was a good writer (and native English speaker haha)
> Imagine the US decides to start a war with China over, say, Taiwan.

This is such a weird phrasing. The only people threatening to start a war is the leadership of China.
> If we're given more than we need, but are threatened to lose some or all of it if we don't use it, we'll find ways to use it

Not really.. without stupid legislation we'd let it rot which in the case of water would be exactly what we'd want.
Yeah, the power of Randlow's law cannot be understated.
> Western society learned the lesson from those awful events; they’re therefore not going to happen again.

"But it couldn't happen here" is so widely understood as a fallacy in thinking about how fascist movements operate and spread that it's become a meme at this point. There is no reason to believe that America would be incapable of mass-discrimination against a minority group.

But for the 4th time now, my more relevant response to your dismissal of the holocaust is:

> Society has improved slowly, via heavy investment from anonymous activists and advocates who put themselves in harms way to improve it. Every single one of those activist movements relied on privacy. Quite frankly, there really aren't many examples of social movements that have improved society that haven't heavily used privacy and anonymity to aid them. Certainly at the very least this displays a startling lack of knowledge about the history of race and gender in America.

> If that's not enough, consider that there might be a reason why we literally have laws preventing the requirement of disclosure of sex/race in hiring today? Consider the countless studies about how anonymity benefits the ability of oppressed groups (particularly women) to participate in public spaces online, consider that the Supreme Court has very directly said that anonymity and privacy are an essential component of 1st Amendment rights. You also still really haven't grappled with the fact that multiple states today are pushing to get access to medical records and social media messages both to prosecute people and label minority groups. These are not issues that are affecting only one or two people.
Don't be a moron.

Keeping power to quartz crystal and keeping power to a CPU core executing code are two completely different things.

And besides, the phone can get the current time from the cell network when in boots, so your point is moot anyway.
It took some 20 years for this to become an accepted truth.

I remember learning about a physician who helped his sister with child birth and she died. He was aware of the washing hands but ignored it. I believe he ended up committing suicide as he wasn’t able to cope with basically killing his sister due to his ignorance.
Just based on politics alone, many people feel morally obligated to hate him now because he's decided to hang his hat on one particular side of the toxic US political system. And as addicted as he is to attention and pop culture relevance, he can't stop attracting ire by doubling down on every hot take he has.
Or they offer provably inferior abstinence only education
I'm pretty skeptical of these so-called "book ban" laws, but it's not obvious to me that these books are definitively "age appropriate" for K-6 (which seems to be your implication).
The downside is that you lose seigniorage (basically the "tax" the government gains from printing coin), so now the country gives that to the US and can only take money from debt and taxes

This is, of course, a different way to name the "lack of control" you mention
(b) “Online” means appearing on any public-facing Internet Web site, Web application, or digital application, including a social network or publication.

SMS could be a considered a "digital application", so it might apply. Agree that it could use clarification.
He suffered a TBI in an airplane accident in 1981 or so. Though IIRC, most of the design of the original Mac's framebuffer design (likewise done with in-house engineering and not with a off the shelf VLSI controller as was seen in other contemporary platforms) was his work.
As a hiring manager for AI/ML, if you can get in the weeds and talk the talk with data structures and pipelines, as well as advanced SQL then you're in with a good chance of making the final list. If you're a humanities major who's just done a few Coursera courses in AI at the weekends, then sorry no.

Software engineers by and large, can make great AI/ML practitioners - the specialization is a smaller leap than say from business analysts or any folks who're less likely to be able to install their own OS or automate task with scripting.
> and a very limited one that only talks about the subject it wants to is pretty interesting

This is one of the serious main use-cases I've heard discussed. The idea is typically to add a customer support chat bot to an existing website/app that is knowledgable about the brand. Because you wouldn't want your customer support rep. suggesting alternative brands (or worse), you instruct it to only discuss certain subjects.
Hi. I live alone in downtown Montreal. I pay 999 CAD a month for a 1-bedroom apartment, sublet. This includes furniture, electricity, heat, Internet.

I have friends who are renting a shared flat, works out to ~650 CAD / person, in a nice area (Plateau Mont Royal).

I'm not claiming two data points are representative of the whole distribution, and things are not great at all in terms of inflation / the housing market is tough, but there's no need to resort to gross exaggerations.
I talk to a bunch of engineers with this question at an SF AI meetup, and I'm really curious to hear what the community consensus is but from my perspective, it's tough and getting tougher.

The issue isn't that it can't be done -- in fact, the greatest need right now is for engineers who can come in and build rock solid real world applications on top of commodified neural network architectures and weights, not PhD scientists. Your business might not even use its own ML model! You might just be calling an API.

The challenge is that for a few reasons, it's a very crowded market right now. A lot of people want to make a move into AI, yet for all the hype, the space of viable commercial applications that will survive without indefinite VC funding remains kinda small. Look how AVs are doing after billions and billions in funding chasing one of the most lucrative commercial possibilities imaginable. There's really cool stuff happening industry-wide, and commercial potential is growing, but nowhere near as fast as the cultural hype that has infected certain parts of tech space these past 12 months or so. Plus, many experienced ML engineers and scientists have been dumped back into the job market due to layoffs. So from the hiring side right now, for every AI posting there are tons of applications that have the cool portfolio, and then also a relevant degree and/or prior experience.

That's what you're competing against, so if you're going on portfolio alone it's got to be really outstanding. Way beyond doing the homework for a free course. Learning how to build an ML service that solves an actual problem in the real world reliably enough that you can actually use it should be the goal.

If you happen to be employed at a company where there is a need for an ML engineer in some capacity but no availability (hiring is expensive!), you can try stepping up to help out. Hiring challenges aside, it is absolutely possible to learn on the job the engineering skills needed to, say, build ML infra or work as part of an MLOps team. I recognize that's sort of just up to circumstance though. If you look for a new job, be a little wary of any that want to hire you for a more mundane task (like data entry/cleaning/labeling) with a promise of getting to do the ML engineering stuff, too, "eventually". Such roles do exist but it's also a bait-and-switch tactic.

Anyway, that's what I've got as someone who has been thinking about how to help people looking to do what you're doing, but i hope this thread turns up more ideas too.
Perhaps you misunderstood?

To clarify, I was referring to "An optimistic outlook" in terms of actual assertions/claims/etc. that are written down on-the-record in public.

Of course HN users can have the general abstract sentiment of optimism at anytime in their mind. I don't think there are any norms around internal sentiments.
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PR stands for public relations. Like, it literally is about controlling what the public does with releases. It's not total absolute control, but PR firms can work wonders. The university press office can take a paper and exaggerate the claims to try to make the university look better, or at least, not highlight that testing was done in mice,
for example.
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He seems to think that what we need (and want) is <b><i>something to hand off to</i></b>. We're tired. We don't want to do it any more -- for any value of "it". Actually we can't do it any more; we've reduced everything to performance, so it doesn't matter who carries the torch. AI may as well carry it; even if it drops it, it may do so amusingly, and what more could we ask?
I love how quickly replication happened. This is science.

Medicine/psychology/sociology and their inability to do replication is not science.
I always thought Serviio was a much better option than Plex, and has the benefit of working much better with any DLNA client.
They do get taxed. It is called property tax. Land with water rights is worth a lot more than land without water rights in the same area. In my area water righted land is worth ~10x what land without water rights is worth for the same acreage.

It is the farmer's version of beachfront property.
That was the secret expansion port that some third-parties made accessories for anyway. I recall it was gone by the Rev-B model.
By the time the security bullies are done "fixing" my CPU, I will be able to open my start menu faster using an abacus.
> I really don't understand this meme. If you want people who deserve hate, the history books are full of them.

100%.

I see more people saying they hate Musk and Zuckerberg than I see people who say they hate Hitler or even modern authoritarian rulers and mass murderers.

I think social media has made us all more sensitive, cranky, and judgmental. It's a recent phenomenon.

We used to hate bin Laden. Now we hate CEOs, celebs, and social media personalities.
Spring DAL is geared towards operational data stores where typically you are not joining four different tables. Its been a while but pretty sure you can just write the native SQL and map the results to a collection, bypassing mapping to objects.
The best strategy I've found is to make the domain objects one-to-one with the tables so their is no joining or inheritance. Do any combining within the repository or application layers. This makes the DAL super simple.
I heard in a Podcast that they are inspired by game development workflow (e.g. Unity) where multiple teams can work together in a unified way. This reduces "niche" power like CLI commands that only some of sysadmins can wield.

Personally, as an infrastructure engineer, I still prefer CLI and everything as (text) code. But I'm open to change if this "second wave" could take off.
If you ban too much stuff, people will just carry a second device. (The strava thing could have or maybe did happen that way).

Regardless, as an employee, putting social media on your subpoena-able and hopefully defeatured work device is a bad idea.
> Are there people who support age inappropriate books, or books with descriptions or visual depictions of a sex act in classrooms and school libraries?

yeah sex scenes are fine, unless we are talking erotica kind of writing (which isn't in school programs), so you're getting people to grow into normal, healthy adults and not late-blooming porn-binging incel mass shooters
On a related note, Ben Eater recently made a video going through Wozniak's system monitor code for the Apple I.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpG8rgI7Hec

There are some pretty insane optimizations for code size, and the result is a remarkably capable program in just 256 bytes. You don't get this stuff from a replacement-level engineer.
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Seems reasonable for grade school children but a wild overreach for high schoolers. If you can be exposed to genitals in the school shower you can exposed to sex in a book.
Curious are you paid less with comparable cost of living of american peers I.e. are you comparing with NY or Bay Area salaries or median American for same skills?

If my CoL is higher living in the Bay Area I would then expect to be compensated for that , and that seems fair .

Even when paid higher the quality of life and net savings people living in high CoL areas have are considerably less than in low CoL so am not sure it is better to have the higher compensation
This is a bad counter-argument. What do you think is the overwhelming product of ranting and raving of anime-picture "scientists" on Twitter: scientific muddying of waters that confuse laypeople and promulgate disinformation, or actual theorem-solving?
If that database server is a VM (cloud host or on-prem), the host will likely decide to have mitigations on.

If the database server gives shell to DBAs or such who don't get root, perhaps yes.

If the owners wish to restrict the attack surface of most of the non-database software running on a current day fat linux distro, perhaps yes. No mitigations means buffer overflow in any network-exposed code (DHCP client, DNS resolver, SSH server, Prometheus metrics exporter, ...) could lead to a ransomware attack on the database etc.
What is ^^^^^^^ supposed to mean?
Which is just another form of: “because it harms one person ever, we can’t accept it.” An argument we’ve already established as absurd.

You keep repeating the same logical mistakes, so you shouldn’t be surprised when I repeat the same refutations

And to be clear, the only person dismissing the holocaust here is you, by equating it to something completely different.
These bans are usually in junior high and high school libraries. Even in public libraries, these books are not shelved in the childrens' section. This is not about six year olds being confronted with pornography, but rather critically acclaimed novels that reflect the actual lives of sixteen year olds. These bans do nothing to protect children. They only remove literature from school libraries.
I had a co-worker who moved into an apartment in the area and bought all of his furniture and appliances at Costco. A year or two later, he took a job in another state and instead of moving all of his stuff across the country or hawking it on facebook, he just returned it all to Costco.

It's certainly not what I would have done but he said they took it all back, no questions asked.
Without changing career path, no I don't think so.
I'm mostly in web development. I can't think of any skill that would significantly up my salary.

Now learning stuff like AI, or Cyber Security could, but that's a very long process, and basically a change of careers. (I'm not against that, but wouldn't call that "easy")
A better solution to secure bootstrapping of time would be NTP+NTS (RFC 8915) using self-signed certificates with unlimited time validity, which can be preloaded with the OS and updated via normal OS updates if the server key is compromised. They would probably need to run their own servers. There are some public NTS servers (e.g. Cloudflare and Netnod), but I have not seen any using long-term certificates specifically for this use case.
I buy mostly second hand but that is just because I hate waste. I still take a look at price as new and make a lower offer, giving the link of the cheaper as new item if that is the case.

Prices can vary so much in 6 months/1 yesr that they truly think they offer a low enough price.
Hey I recognize that guy!

More information can be found at http://www.rotatinghome.com/build.html https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/5-3m-rotating-la-mesa... and https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4903-Mount-Helix-Dr-La-Me... but it seems someone has made the $5.3m offer ...
Dose-response is a big deal. But it could easily be p-hacking or something.
If the cancer is in the brain, it is less likely caused by rosin and more likely caused by radiations emitted near their head (if any).

I would more naturally link rosin to respiratory system cancers, for example.
Lotta kids only find out what they’ve experienced is sex abuse by reading a description of it in a book.

What’s appropriate is cultural and personal, should be decided by some matrix of parents, child themselves, and educators who know them personally.

Trying to universalize mushy concepts like “age appropriate” will end with the removal of potentially anything. Which is exactly the point. I’m sure the architects of this are very grateful for your assistance in normalizing it.
Haven't seen NIPS in a while! Think they changed the name a few years ago to make searching for the conference from work a bit less likely to send you to a NSFW site. For anyone reading and wondering, it's NeurIPS.
Sure would be nice for the US to have a comprehensive data privacy law instead of the emerging patchwork state by state solution or whac-a-mole bans like this.
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"Among the authors that have not pointed this out are Ohlin and Samuelson."

This is a thing of beauty.

"In fact, I will assume that investors, human or otherwise, are able to make perfect forecasts of prices over indefinite periods."

I'm crying here.

Figure II is indeed puzzling.
If you want a speedrun explanation for how we get to "2": In the limit of model scaling, context size doesn't matter (yes, forget about the quadratic attention), most of the compute is in the linear layers, which boil down to matrix multiplies. Consider a single matrix of size [T,d] multiplied by weight of size [d,d], the compute needed for a matrix multiplication is approximately 2Td^2 (2 coming from multiply + add). Swap T out with D for your whole dataset in tokens, d^2 is the number of parameters in a single linear layer so scale up your model to P, and you've got 2PD.

Even shorter: The 2 comes from the multiply-add
This is one of the things that always got me. People always seem to act like Woz is just too nice to be outraged on his own behalf or something, and we need to do it for him.

Woz is a smart guy and a definite people person. He likely knew what kind of guy Steve Jobs was and probably just made peace with it. We compromise on people we know doing far shittier things to us than Jobs did to Woz, and yet we can't fathom how someone like Woz can accept that Jobs is Jobs and deal with it.
What, pray tell, would?
Nobody in K-6 is reading The Handmaid's Tale anyway. These book bans are about High School libraries, at least according to the linked law in the article[1]. The law claims it applies to all "publicly funded schools".

[1]https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGE/90/SF496.pd...
Yeah, good point--I wasn't thinking about interface types.
I did not mean it was not reasonable, but it was still childish. The more important point is that many anecdotes exist (with the low trust that we should have all in anecdotes) pointing to him never growing out of that.
I doubt they get more info than Facebook. The last time I logged in to Facebook, it was to lock down the teacking settings. I found out that GM had sold our onstar info to them without my knowledge or consent.

Facebook definitely builds shadow profiles, so they have such info on you regardless of whether you have an account.
> Honestly, I just didn't realize people in 2023 were still spending time just to get the basic built-in functionality of a consumer computer to work.

On every single OS, from every single vendor, both prebuilt and custom. And this will be true forever.

> I thought that was all finished with at least a decade ago, and I'm shocked.

This is a level of naivety that I am unused to for a person posting on a startup and tech oriented forum.
public trust in science is ever so slightly damaged

This is just another example of the media’s negative effect on society. Similarly, the media endlessly poring over every detail of the Ukraine war has likely made their job much more difficult because it damages the element of surprise.

The media originally began as something quite negative with what we called “yellow journalism.” Then for a century or so we saw a kind of golden age of journalism where newspapers had strong reputations to uphold but were fairly rewarded for it through ads and classifieds.

Now the media is back to yellow journalism (clickbait) and eroding the institutions of society.
In ML Ops and Infrastructure? Very much so.

Actually coming up with a new model? I am not sure, maybe not.