skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm all for folks expounding on the ways in which "current AI" sucks, but I have little patience for people who think that what it is now is all it will ever be.

Sure, it could be 6 months or 6 years before we see real improvements, but no one knows. No one knew that transformers were coming in the months before they arrived.

One thing that I think is encouraging is how fast computing power is increasing, along with languages, frameworks and models which allow you to make use of that power. I think that alone, even without AI, will result in world-changing advancements across many fields. The power to simulate large systems is growing rapidly and will enable prediction and discovery to achieve great societal benefits.
https://archive.ph/yytuR
I looked up the history of the rangefinder and the work of Watt in the 1770s is kind of obscure. For one, he called it a “micrometer” [0] even though he also created something like what is called a micrometer today, only he called it an “end measuring machine.” Additional confusion comes from “telemeter” as an early term for a rangefinder. Only Watt was also there at the beginning of what we now call telemetry: “additions to his steam engines for monitoring from a (near) distance such as the mercury pressure gauge and the fly-ball governor.” [2]

Watt's micrometer, designed between 1770 and 1771, was what we would now call a 'rangefinder'. It was used for measuring distances, and was essential for his canal surveying work.

Adapted from a telescope, with adjustable cross-hairs in the eye-piece, it was particularly useful for measuring distances between hills or across water.

0. https://digital.nls.uk/scientists/biographies/james-watt/dis...

1. https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co59281...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetry
If you're curious, might I suggest directing these questions toward the email address referenced multiple times in the link you posted? In case you've forgotten, it's privacy@shimmer.care. I'm sure they'll be able to answer your questions better than the comments section.

Keep in mind that not everyone considers their ADHD their "deepest darkest secret." Some of us are open and unashamed of being neurodivergent. Obviously, unscrupulous employers are a thing, but many of us would be "found out" from our social media presence long before employers managed to find out we're receiving coaching services from Shimmer. As for having your calls leaked on tiktok due to lack of security, I regret to inform you that there are lots of ways to record "secure" calls (like taking a video of the screen). Recording someone without their consent in some states, so it's always possible that you could be putting yourself at risk when you divulge anything sensitive to anyone via video or phone. Think about it, though. What would happen to Shimmer if they leaked a user's private call on tiktok? Their business would lose legitimacy and crumble. If you're truly concerned that Shimmer would risk destroying their entire business by leaking your "shortcomings" on tiktok, in-person coaching may be a better fit for you.
FWIW, Linux itself has plenty of support for TCP offload engines. I don't think Firecracker uses that at the moment, but there's no reason why it has to be that way if that's a true bottleneck in the system.
The strength of my faith in GPT-4 has been getting stronger every year since 2016.
Thanks much for reading!
It is a completely gapless assembly from the beginning of the start of each chromosome all the way to it's end ("telomere to telomere"). I haven't read in enough detail but I would imagine there are still some slightly fuzzy regions that are sort of a best-guess, although those would be quite small.
The next mission is supposed to be sample return.

I agree that mars has been over explored to the detriment of all other planets, especially the outer ones.
I always preferred LILO, since it always seemed to work, whereas GRUB aleays took an extra step back when I was using Gentoo in 2003
Isn’t an artist’s works being removed from the training set _the goal_? That’s not “trivial to get around”. That’s the whole point.

I totally believe that the folks who don’t care about artist wishes will find a way around this, but it’s a game we’ll have to let play out.
Naomi said to the interviewer it was in regards to her previously publicising the Sogou software security vulnerabilities in 2019:

"Five days after Tencent (Shenzhen) admits to the IME vulnerability, the Chinese person (in Shenzhen) who originally publicized it suddenly gets dragged in by the cops and forced offline."

"NONE of them could read English to see my account does not even make China look bad, it was all Baidu fucking translate and demands why I was talking about Signal and the keyboard"
> The big exceptions are video game consoles and alarm systems.

This part is the most interesting to me. Alarm systems I understand, though this looks like security by obscurity, but video game consoles? Are legislators willing to go that far to protect Sony's DRM?
e/acc isn't a serious idealogy but is kind of just a bit with some philosophical backing. Its definitely a lot of fun.

Its a bit unrelated, but I don't think your statement about capitalism being a result of human choices is correct. Capitalism is the emergent property of a multi agent resource collection game where one's resources compound in proportion to their quantity. Its the outcome when agents don't co-operate.

The best quality of life features of modern society, such as human rights and safety standards, only emerged due to coordination working against the forces of capitalism.
Totally depends on your market. I have plenty of buyers and sellers where I work. Spoke to a designated broker this morning in the largest urban market in my state who said overall his office is down significantly, but his top producers are all doing fine still. Holding on to that low rate is stopping some sellers, but sooner or later life events catch up with everyone.
I remember stumbling upon the “64k demo” phenomenon on YouTube where people created animations that were astronomically small (in code) compared with their rendered video representation.

At some point that led me to iq and his work is just incredible- not to mention he’s a great educator and freely shares his work and techniques with others.

Similar to his many under tutorials, this is a really great resource for generative artists and game developers.
I don't buy apple products so I don't quite understand the implication here; how is a physical property you cannot really perceive relevant to you?
If each transistor got 2 micropennies more expensive, that would more than double the price of a midrange CPU.
Most of my job involves reading bad code to understand what it's trying to do before I wedge some nugget of decency in there. The ability to understand the intentions of someone who has no idea how to express what they're trying to do is critical for maintaining other people's software
Requiring regular users to compute PoW is a terrible idea. Actually it has the exact opposite effect. It will keep the attackers in, and the regular users out.

The problem is that we don't know how much is a cheap computation without first relying on a marketplace of computation and discovering the price. That marketplace of computation does exist, and it's called blockchain.
My HP mobile workstation 2010 is still superb. Although, the screen is going darker. The ruber frame around the screen is becoming more and more porous porous, the rubber mouse keys are also porous. But, it runs, it runs, it runs . Need to vacuum the fans.. haven't done that in years:)
Addressing a dead reply which criticises my Chechen numbers as being excessively low: that error would only amplify the point I'm making here.

I'd similarly chosen the largest credible number I could find for Iraq War deaths. Both would be examples of steelmanning my argument, which is in contrast to the comments I'd been responding to.
The prioritized ones seem to.
Raises are bullshit. 3% inflation raise for everyone! Maybe?
I sync my obsidian notes in a git repo!
I once had a single drop of water, condensation on the outside of a glass - think the drop of sweat scene in Mission Impossible with Tom Cruise, fall into the gap between the trackpad and the palm rest on a MacBook Pro. Instantly fried the trackpad, which never worked again until I had it replaced.
You should put more before/after on homepage or some gallery
Building housing where people want to live is a good thing

Low density development isn't sustainable because it greatly increases transportation costs, long term maintenance costs aren't sustainable
With anyone unfamiliar with hardware trends, they've been biding their time.

The latest generation of hardware is now designed and optimized for repair and they're at the point where they've been preparing for a long, long time.

The next few launches of Apple hardware will be light-years ahead of competition in design and engineering to make the repair experience delightful.

If you want to see hints at it, the latest Apple Watch Ultra has four screws -- a sign of things to come.

Further, their industrial design has moved to a flat, extruded shape with mid frame designs, perfect for accessing batteries and screen components.
Monopoly is a stretch. Half of the models I try come direct from GitHub (and almost 100% of all model code comes from GH too).

Hosting binaries isn't really a stable business model.
> By the time Guthlac received his name in 673, it is likely that most English people would have borne names formed in this way – by combining two words taken from Old English.

Well, this is super interesting to me. My last name is made up of two old English words. It never occurred to me that this was a common pattern.
https://youtube.com/@hiper_tops
Shameless plug for my educational focused Paxos implementation: https://github.com/danrl/skinny

Easy to follow talk teaching Paxos: https://youtu.be/nyNCSM4vGF4
Are you able to provide a bit more detail on what they're doing, or is it still all hush-hush?
Good question. Practically they call their complete sequence a 'reference sequence' which can be thought of as a baseline for comparison to the complete spectrum of human Y chromosome genetic variation, so at least people have something to use as a standard for comparison. The line in the abstract "mapped available population variation, clinical variants" is about the only mention of the issue.

Ideally we'd have hundreds if not thousands of complete genomes which in total would reveal the population diversity of the human species as it currently exists, but this is a big ask. "Clincal variants" are of particular interest as those are regions of the genome associated with certain inherited diseases, although the promises of individual genomic knowledge leading to a medical revolution have turned out to be wildly overblown.

Since the paper is paywalled, there's not much else to say than that they have a (fairly arbitrary in origin, i.e. it could have been from any one individual or possibly even a chimera of several individuals) reference sequence to which other specific human Y chromosomes can be compared, eventually leading to a larger dataset from many individuals which will reveal the highly conserved and highly variable regions of the chromosome, population-wise.
Building a camera that can see WiFi [video]
Lincoln Stein is great, and perl was certainly critical to many processes, but it was and remains fairly niche in genomics, which used much more C++, Java, and later Python.

IMHO the person who "saved the genome project" was WJ Kent, who developed the assembler, BLAT, that the public project needed. I strive to point out that he wasn't a sole hero, nor was Lincoln. What I really like about BLAT is that while Celera was using Big Iron UNIX (massive 64-bit 64GB machines with 10s of terabytes of central high performance storage), BLAT ran on a cluster of linux machines, right around the time that people were waking up to the fact that linux was becoming a useful tool for scientific data processing. BLAT's design allowed it to work on a cluster of cheaper/smaller machines, while celera's algorithm really needed a massive shared memory single machine. it was sort of a microcosm of the larger battle being fought between Big iron UNIX and little intel linux at the time.
And BEVs are well over a hundred years old. You are so fucking dishonest, it's seriously painful talking to you. You didn't even register the part where I said hydrogen boats already exist. You aren't even trying to have a conversation about green shipping. It's all just about more BEV marketing from you. Everything you say can be a lie to further this goal.

Seriously, who do you work for? I can't imagine you not having an agenda here.
Seems like a pretty good idea for a simple project, but when wrapped in yet another fly by night SaaS venture I think I'll pass.
The accelerated intelligence wouldn't exist without competitive business models.
I feel like a lot of people in the thread don’t realize ADHD Coaching is an established thing that’s more like a specialization of life or organizational coaching than like therapy. It’s a certified practice, but not like being a doctor.

Pretty sure I was paying around $100/hr when I did it years ago, so those prices aren’t insane. The dude coaching was someone with obvious ADHD who (like a lot of us) probably had an easier time communicating what should be done than doing it himself. He definitely was no therapist.

But it added accountability and validation (or challenge, if needed), and he was trained in various organizational techniques. And since he was also ADHD he could speak from experience. My understanding from him was it was pretty common for the coaches to be ADHD people who’d gotten training and certification as a side gig.

I know nothing at all of Shimmer, but it sounds like a remote version of that than anything meant to be therapeutic per se. This is more like the training you should get after the meds start to work but you still don’t have good habits.
Perhaps, but a really cool thing to know, and you're much less likely to hurt yourself. I enjoyed the read :)
What you should support is stricter laws and penalties on fraud. I have no issue with (and sometimes prefer) used or "non-genuine" third party parts as long as it's an informed decision.

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
also CSS
This was a class of tool I didn't even know existed until recently. After Windows 11 came out I switched to Linux Mint, discovered Warpinator, and now I have one less problem in my life.
As a JS dev currently looking for a job, can you elaborate on this comment?
I think if you're writing code from scratch, this doesn't really apply -- I'm talking about prototyping language implementations without any libraries at all, sorta like you would do with OCaml from a textbook (e.g. TAPL by Pierce)

(I'm aware of all the terrible experiences people have with TypeScript in the NPM ecosystem. But TypeScript is a big, mature tool and you can use it in more than 1 way.)

I just noticed the 'deno check' command I'm using turns strict mode on by default, so that's good.

https://deno.land/manual@v1.4.1/getting_started/typescript

All widely used gradual type systems are unsound because they have to interoperate with untyped code, and the dynamic checks to make it sound are too expensive.

But code written from scratch doesn't have that issue. I'd be interested in a counterexample -- is there a code snippet that passes the strict mode of the compiler, and doesn't interoperate with untyped code, but produces an unexpected runtime error?

I guess by "unexpected" I mean that, at runtime, an operation is performed on a value which is not allowed, and the program fails

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I googled and found this -- https://effectivetypescript.com/2021/05/06/unsoundness/ -- not sure I agree with some points, e.g. array out of bounds isn't unsoundness! The OPERATION is legal, but the data isn't, which isn't something that any type system will tell you.

Similar to divide by zero -- a runtime error does not imply unsoundness.

Also, casts can produce unexpected runtime errors by definition -- that's why they are casts, and you have to opt in! Bad article.

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I think these are better examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15659657

I believe Java has some of those too. Covariance / contravariance is a common source of unsoundness, but definitely not a dealbreaker for me
> None of these suggestions replace what Twitter offers as a whole

So? I think it’s clear that the accent here was not on twitter replacement as a whole, but on the decentralized options. And it’s fine to give up some functionality of a service when choosing an alternative. Especially when the reason for the switch is the unbearable user experience.

Sometimes there might not be any alternative, and that’s also fine. I stopped using social networks and youtube years ago and I feel much better than before. It felt like I was missing out something, but this feeling didn’t last long.

> considering who the person is.

What do you mean?
> The whole concept of a counterculture is gone. The closest thing we have to a counterculture in the US today is the MAGA/militia/Q-Anon movement.

You're probably just getting old
Glass and stainless steel straws are really good. Only had one glass straw break in 3 years and that's because I dropped it. Especially the glass ones actually look better in your drink than any plastic or paper straw. Most importantly they don't melt if I drink slowly and don't leak anything in my drinks.
You can't get promoted unless you put yourself out of a job.
Wish this topic got more traction. Might be a case of tech workers keeping their heads in the sand to get their paycheck.
Your only input is your super cheap electricity and water. Your own logic dictates that hydrogen must be cheap. Scaling up is the only thing that has to happen.

You should stop doing logical backflips and making nonsensical comparisons.
Reminds me of Buddy Pond https://buddypond.com/
He didn’t say it was rugged, he said “business”.

That said, MacBooks are not milspec, nor do they claim to be. Dell/HP/Lenovo make devices that support thermal variance and shock (Lenovo T series for example), and several companies make ruggedized devices for outdoor use.

The differences aren’t what you think. Police use cases primarily need shock resistance, wide environment operating range, screens readable in sunlight, and the ability to turn off all lights.

If you don’t need that, that isn’t always a good thing. For example, you can operate a Samsung rugged phone from 0-120 F —- much wider range than an iPhone. But… that battery will be toast if it runs hot or cold a lot.
There is just no convenient torrent-based model hub yet.

But if HF's server code is open source it should be trivial to make one.
The only thing that takes anyone's job is demand shortfalls. Productivity increases certainly don't do it. It's like saying getting a raise makes you poorer.
I think you're both ignoring one key factor here: intent.

If this was simple service for moving/spending money privately. Sure, probably nothing wrong then. But the indictment specifically states that they knew the service was being using by sanctioned entities and didn't try to prevent it. That's makes a big difference.
Try glass for home use.
Nope...

You have choice.

You can go to "authorized repair shop" and pay 50% of the cost of a device for a repair or go to your nearest repair shop and pay a fifty bucks to repair the broken charging port.
You get what you pay for.

The only problem would be "authorized shops" up charging premium rates for cheap parts"
Humans have an insane number of sensors all working with each other. The eyes are not just 2 sensors and a blind person can still function fairly well though with limitations.
Apple is leveling the playing field and this moves makes perfect sense for Apple and everyone else. Apple management (probably like the rest of the industry) under the assumption that the company that's selling repair friendly products will inevitably lose revenue and market share, is less competitive than the rest. So it's a game of "first one who moves, dies first".

If a company wanted to change the market, the only viable option is to go through legislation, because the internal company goals that might actually be repair friendly is then forced on all the competition as well. Leveling the playing field.
Yep. Used on windows a lot.
I'll cut this thread short and Google it for you:

> Archaea (/ɑːrˈkiːə/ (listen) ar-KEE-ə; SG: archaeon /ɑːrˈkiːən/ ar-KEE-ən) is a domain of single-celled organisms. These microorganisms lack cell nuclei and are therefore prokaryotes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea
We need to do something more productive and synergistic than that...

But you are right with every shift in biodiversity there are consequences for food chains, etc. No such thing as a "distant event" - it's not just about (magnificent!) penguins, it's about the intricate, interdependent web of life we rely on (lots of unsung heroes in biodiversity).

Compartmentalization and thinking that all of this is remote to our human experience / survival is a complete illusion.

If we are the stewards of this planet, we're called to ack and act with urgency.
bzip2 is marginally better, and then genome-specific compressors were developed, and then finally, people started storing individual genomes as diffs from a single reference, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRAM_(file_format)

Since genome files contain more data than just ATGC (typically a comment line, then a DNA line, then a quality score line), and each of those draws from a different distribution, DEFLATE on a FASTA file doesn't reach the full potential of the compressor because the huffman table ends up having to hold all three distributions, and the dictionary backlookups aren't as efficient either.
It turns out you can split the file into multiple streams, one per line type, and then compress those independently, with slightly better compression ratios, but it's still not great.
Expose REST APIs from a Rust Program
AFAIK CSS isn't a programming language per se
It still seems like useful feedback that this is something some people might find concerning.
Thanks and agree on protecting our members and their private conversations. Right now, we use Google Meet videos for the video sessions with a coach and so they are encrypted end-to-end and not recorded. We also don’t store any information from the google meet session in our platform. We can definitely include this in our privacy policy and will look into how to make this more transparent with regards to our data policies. We will be building out video functionality in the near future and our privacy policies including opt-out etc will be included.
Just for context LAOIN's largest dataset is 5.8 Billion images

And you'd be spending that compute time for what will be a tiny, tiny,portion of that
SDXL and DeepFloyd can spell. It's more or less just a matter of having a good enough text encoder.

I tried Ideogram yesterday and it felt too much like existing generators (base SD and Midjourney). DALLE2 actually has some interestingly different outputs, the problem is they never update it or fix the bad image quality.
I expect that if you're wearing polarising lenses such as sunglasses, you can't see your phone if it's held in portrait or landscape.