skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
speed is distance over time, so obviously hours-per-hour.

"Traffic was really bad; we were only going half-an-hour per hour..."

The kids will shorten it in slang to just the unitless dimension. "Rick's car is really fast; we got it up over 2.5 yesterday!"
I wonder if iOS anti-tracking features broke parts of google maps data collection and recommendation.
I'm not sure why it's obvious that the CEO should be the highest paid? Why should everybody's boss make more than them? I know that isn't the case for many line managers of highly-paid programmers, for example, and I assume the same is true of other similar professions, at least sometimes.

Wages are theoretically a market, and probably it's often easier to replace a skilled manager/business bro than it is a skilled engineer/artist/salesman, and often it's more important to your business.
Wow. Living it up in ugly apartments eating 2 year old microwave dinners made by robots while lounging in our inflatable chairs …
Can you share more about how it was 'spooky'? Like it was completely unregulated?
I used to get those ads for them on Twitter (which is one place that would get ads as “sponsored tweets” past uBlock origin). Also all sorts of random stuff, it decided that I was a farmer at some point for some reason (I’m actually an electronics engineer) and I’d get ads for tractors and bulk seed…

I’ve never paid to do any advertising myself but that experience of bizarre misstargeting hasn’t been a good advertisement for the advertisement industry!
You can trivially scale fdb to tens of millions of tx/sec for write-heavy workloads without a hardcore cluster for transactions of reasonable complexity (though with careful design on my part and the part of others for collisions to be unlikely).

MTTR on failure is seconds. Really, there's no system I've used that is as robust and performant as fdb and I include s3 in that list - s3, for example, _routinely_ has operations with orders of magnitude latency variance and huge, correlated spikes.
I just bought one since it’s on sale. You could go with the ROG Ally or hold out for the Legion Go, but they are 2x as much.
We haven’t got it yet. So ChatGPT it is.
As much as I love the entertainment value of The Pentagon Wars, citing that as a source for procurement problems is not great. It's a lot more than just 20% made up, and the parts that are true (i.e. the live fire test shenanigans) are true in that wonderful way that something can be technically correct while also being entire bogus.

The Bradley was designed as an IFV from the ground up, not a bastardized APC. The Bradley came in under budget. Those two facts invalidate essentially the entire film...
Every time I make this argument people jump at the "religion" part. It has nothing to do with religion, it has to do with the fact that 1) institutions were bringing people together for a reason other than their 2) main purpose for existing; and you need not do #2 to do #1.
That's worse than I thought, suspected it was a play on mumble.
Here's my working for that problem.

Because it's a puzzle, it will be in the form sqrt(x^2), so the answer will be x.

The only perfect square I know for this level that could match is (a+b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b. With b=1, the first term needs to be in the form a^2 + 2a or a(a+2).

I had no intutition for what this could be, then noticed it needs to be close to a perfect square itself, and this closest to this would be the two inner factors times the two outer factors (for it to work out neatly). Writing as binomils for ease of calculation:

((1000+0)(1000+3)) ((1000+1)(1000+2))
(1,000,000 + 3000) (1,000,000 + 3000 + 2)

This is the form sought! (with a=1,000,000 + 3000). It works because 0+3=1+2. So we have

sqrt( (1,000,000 + 3000) + 1)^2 ) = 1,000,000+3000+1 = 1,003,001
Bard has become Barf
Basically the SREs don't have anything to do with fdb for the most part. You add a node, quiesce a node, delete a node. Otherwise it's self-balancing and trouble-free from an SRE pov.

See my other message for the developer issues, though. IMHO fdb as it is today is too hard for most developers if their use case is anything beyond redis simple keys.
Maybe we can use autonomous drones to shoot the traffic cones off the self driving cars then.
The article mentions this and makes it quite clear it's not the debris of the f35.

> Officials said Monday evening that a debris field had been located about two and a half hours northeast of the base.

> Two defense officials said Monday that although the jet was on autopilot when the pilot ejected, it does not have the range or ability to fly for such a long period without refueling.
I'm sure it was regulated. But the way it talked, it was far more "conversational" and "philosophical" and "intimate" than I get out of Bard or ChatGPT. And so you could easily be led astray into feeling like you were talking to a person. A friend you were sitting around discussing philosophical issues with, even.

So, no, it didn't dump hate speech on you or anything.

TBH I think the whole thing about making computers that basically pretend to be people is kinda awful on many levels, and that incident in the article is a big reason why.
Why? No individual assembly line worker has any particular value - so if the aggregate increases then the equation, in your example, is “in check”, whatever that means.

Alternatively, if assembly workers were difficult to effectively replace, they would get paid more. Simply doing some unit of work neither makes that unit of work valuable, nor does it make the person doing it valuable.
The GL.iNet routers have a mobile and desktop config site and buttons to configure/reset the device as well as a two-position hardware switch, the function of which is configurable also. This is not to mention they can run OpenWRT/LEDE and there are vendor created “clean” firmware images to do so. They’re one of the best devices for this use case and price point. I don’t think the situation you’re worried about is a reasonable concern for someone already expected to be competent to manage the router generally to begin with, and if they also want to do the things Tailcale does, they can and should be able to troubleshoot the problem space. The stock firmware is a modified OpenWRT with a web GUI and some optional extras, but it’s the most functional consumer router I’ve used.
I think that's called an "inflexible demand curve," and is part of the complete theory. I do remember drawing flat lines in econ 101. :)
>I mean they really aren't your friends now are they? The relationships are really conditional on your children, not on your own interests and personality.

Is it any different from your "church friends" (contingent to going to church) or your "gym friends" (contingent to going to gym) or your coworkers (contingent on staying at that workplace. i.e. not being laid off or pursuing a better job) who may or may not be friendly? It's how school friends are made, and I'm guessing we all lost contact with many of them upon graduation.

Some may become regular friends outside the activity, many probably won't. But bonding over a common interest seems to be the most common first step, and (for better or worse) "having a child of X age" is certainly a vested interest to bond over.

>I mean, that's pretty dystopian when you look at it unless you really think that raising children is the highest purpose a person can have.

Some may indeed feel that way. But for it being dystopian, I just see it as a way of life. you don't HAVE to make friends with other parents, but it's an avenue that you have that I as a single male would have less access to.
Check out the silvicultural guide for the northeast:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/45874

It turns out most logging in the northeast already yields a diverse ecosystem as quickly as the next year, and no planting is nessesary.

Forresters can target different species mixes in the regeneration by using different harvesting methods.

Pretty cool stuff.
As I read about all this, I kept thinking, “what makes us so sure he did it to himself?”
Cloud computing is a practical idea in theory. What's bad is that big techs start rent seeking thanks to lock-in. It's okay to utilize cloud LLMs unless they start lock-in IMO, though they will.
Interesting you say “confidentially hallucinate things” - a “hallucination” isn’t any different from any other LLM output except that it happens to be wrong… “hallucination” is anthropomorphic language, it’s just doing what LLMs do and generating plausible sounding text…
This reminds me of a hack that Traveller's Tales implemented for Sonic 3D Blast on the Sega Genesis/Megadrive.

If you physically wiggle or hit the game cartridge enough while the the console is powered on with the game inserted in it, a "secret level select" screen pops up where you can select a level.

It was long considered to be an easter egg, but actually, it was a custom crash handler that the devs created that trapped all of the main CPU's error interrupts and redirected to a level select screen. They did this to avoid having their game build rejected by Sega's QA team and delaying the game's release. (Sega's QA testing was a multi-week process, and a crash would mean the build getting rejected and having to start the process over again.) When people were wiggling the game cart, they were inadvertently unplugging the cart enough for the processor to throw an error.

Source (3-minute YouTube video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZs2HUW9tDA

The linked "Coding Secrets" YouTube channels has other videos details similar hacks, if you're interested in going down that rabbit hole. It was wild the things these devs had to do to get games to work within the hardware and business constraints of the time.
Eh, it’s easy to put elegant and abstract rules in place, but it’s another beast to scale that rule consistently over all users of your platform. The ambiguity is just a cop out.
I guess the argument is that GDScript has a different use case than Unity's C#? Seems like Unity devs know what a C# scripting engine is like and feel it covers the use case fine. To say they don't understand the use case would mean it must be different somehow. Can you go into that?
Come to think about it, time vs miles/km feels more natural in most situations I can think of.

In London we would describe a journey based on time (or maybe stops, but only for very short train journeys) not distance.

Same for international travel- measured in flight time not distance travelled.

Because in most situations knowing how far away something is takes second place to knowing how long to get there. That’s what is relevant.

Now as to this crash location, I guess it means 2 hours by car but yeah it’s more ambiguous than a more widely understood journey.
Please report back any questions you ask them :)
"Could you please explain how decisions are made regarding corporate strategy at the executive leadership level?"
I'm surprised, I did a little digging and there are actually quite a few companies that are at least 50% employee owned[1]. The biggest company in the list is Publix Supermarkets, but there are also quite a few manufacturing and engineering firms.

[1] https://www.nceo.org/articles/employee-ownership-100
What percentage of Walamrt's employee base probably has a significant part of their pay tied to performance?

Home Depot? UPS? Amazon's 1.6M, not just those in Seattle making well into the six figures? Kroger? Albertsons? Target? Starbucks? You really think a bagger or cart grabber or barista is getting a performance-based bonus? These are some of the largest employers in the US.

The vast majority of the US workforce probably has less than 10% of their income (probably close to 0%) directly tied to performance. A massive chunk is entirely how many hours they get on the clock, that's it.

> Performance based bonuses exist at virtually all levels of skill in companies

This really sounds like the perspective from someone who's never punched a clock.
I don't think Google wants to recreate a GPT chatbot. Perhaps a conversation mode information retrieval interface, but not something you'd chat with. It would be more inline with their theme.

It seems to be ok, but as with other LLMs, can "hallucinate", though sometimes it provides sources to its claims, but only sometimes. If it works out, it could be very nice to Google I would imagine.
Create Your First x86 Program with NASM
Exactly. "shareholder activism" is called that because it is a considered an anomalous, bizarre state of affairs. Imagine the temerity of the people who own the shares of the company calling the shots! In reality, management has basically a completely free hand to do whatever they want so long as an incumbent board doesn't get its shit together and replace them (and even that is sometimes not enough).

This is also beside the main point, which is that management shares a class interest with shareholders, even if they aren't literally the same people at some particular point in time. Capital and management are obviously on the same side, and labor isn't part of the club.
Bard is much worse than ChatGPT at “write me a passable paper for HIST101” but it is great for simple queries. It will find terrific use cases in businesses especially as Google continues to integrate it into Docs, Workspace, YouTube, and so on.
Look at Gemini, it’s their new model, currently in closed beta. Hearsay says that it’s multimodal (can describe images), GPT-4 like param count, and apparently has search built in so no model knowledge cutoff.

Basically they realized Bard couldn’t cut it and merged DeepMind into Google Brain, and got the combined team to work on a better LLM using the stuff OpenAI has figured out since Bard was designed. Takes months to train a model like this though.
Finally! People are realising the emperor has no clothes.
I had a similar issue so I made https://TLDWai.com to summarize YouTube videos
In general they do leave "seed trees
" but they only need as few as 3 trees per acre to effect the spaces mix in the regrowth.

Those 3 trees aren't nessesary though. The Forrest floor is loaded with seeds that can survive longer than a decade waiting for the right time to germinate. In many cases the sunlight hitting the ground is the trigger they need, and in most cases a "clear cut" will be a 9 year old forest 10 years later.
Yes, gmaps search is pretty bad. I often have to rezoom after search and click "search again".
Aliens on TRAPPIST-1e could find us by our pollution
bard surprisingly underperforms on our hallucination benchmark, even worse than llama 7b -- though to be fair, the evals are far from done, so treat this as anecdotal data.

(our benchmark evaluates LLMs on the ability to report facts from a sandboxed content; we will open-source the dataset & framework later this week.)

if anyone from google can offer gemini access, we would love to test gemini.

example question below where we modify one fact.

bard gets it wrong, answering instead from prior knowledge.

"Analyze the context and answer the multiple-choice question.

Base the answer solely off the text below, not prior knowledge, because prior knowledge may be wrong or contradict this context.

Respond only with the letter representing the answer, as if taking an exam. Do not provide explanations or commentary.

Context:

Albert Feynman (14 March 1879 - 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely ranked among the greatest and most influential scientists of all time. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, he also made important contributions to quantum mechanics, and was thus a central figure in the revolutionary reshaping of the scientific understanding of nature that modern physics accomplished in the first decades of the twentieth century. His mass\u2013energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation". His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory. Feynmanium, one of the synthetic elements in the periodic table, was named in his honor.

Who developed the theory of relativity?

(A) Albert Einstein

(B) Albert Dirac

(C) Insufficient information to answer

(D) Albert Bohr

(E) Albert Maxwell

(F) Albert Feynman

(G) None of the other choices are correct

(H) Albert Schrodinger"
“So are you guys…okay right now?”, but more interviewy
> or the Appalachians.

Perfect spot imho would be near the "Tail of the Dragon," or in the general vicinity of the Cherohala Skyway.

https://tailofthedragon.com/

https://roadtrippers.com/tail-of-the-dragon/

https://cherohala.com/

(have ridden there, highly recommend if that's your thing)
Not OP, but I don't think the point is 3G vs 4G. I think (and hold the same ideal myself) that requirements should be kept as low as feasible. HTML gMail is there, it works, it's unlikely its maintenance would break the bank for Google - so why kill it?

We will be pushed to 4G sooner or later, but lower requirements helps at any major events with lots of traffic on cell towers, or a slow, spotty, over-subscribed wifi connection at an airport or hotel. It helps when your main device breaks, but you don't want one app with high memory requirements to kill everything else on your (old) backup.
Any job you can do with an Xbox controller is someone’s dream job
I can't help but think this is delusional. Microsoft has put massive effort and funding into C# and I just don't see how Godot, being much more niche, can reach that level of investment.
The Copyright 2003 footer should tell you everything you need to know about why the website looks the way it does.
Getting CHERI protection for security violations seems a bit like hitting the jackpot on a slot machine.

You need a CHERI OS on a CHERI CPU running software compiled with a CHERI aware compiler.

Doesn’t Rust also provide buffer overrun protection, without needing a special OS or CPU instruction set? Isn’t it a better ROI to rewrite the software on Rust, and not have to change anything else?

Can the same benefit be achieved by replacing CHERI CPU with a virtual machine runtime, or building support in LLVM IR?
Encryption bugs are fundamentally different than other exploits; if I send traffic protected by encryption then it needs to remain encrypted as long as the information needs to be secret. With national security that can be decades.
> The last thing Google needs is to be accused of building SkyNet, and they know it.

That's a bit of a silly thing to accuse any company of. For Google in particular, the die is cast. They would be implicated anyways for developing Tensorflow and funding LLM research. I don't think they're lobotomizing HAL-9000 so much as they're covering their ass for the inevitable "Google suggested I let tigers eat my face" reports.
Generally worst than GPT4 but have some killer features, today I asked it for Mortal Kombat 1 release time in my time zone, I can also upload photo and have conversation about it

But if you really wonder what they are building, get access to maker suite and play with, there is nothing comparable to it, only issue for it supports English only
MIT Makes Low-Power Underwater Communication Practical
It's pronounced mumble. An explanation is at the very bottom of the github Readme, quoting:

> How do you pronounce "mwmbl"?

> Like "mumble". I live in Mumbles, which is spelt "Mwmbwls" in Welsh. But the intended meaning is "to mumble", as in "don't search, just mwmbl!"
When it was first introduced, it received frequent updates [1] but now it's been 2 months since the last update. So either Google is preparing some huge update (Gemini?), or Bard is going to disappear as a standalone product and instead will be absorbed into other products like Search, Docs, etc.

[1] https://bard.google.com/updates
How is it that paywalled articles are getting so many upvotes?
>Or maybe they would already be employed at a better place paying more and using their labor with greater leverage.

I mean this in all seriousness. What in the past 50 years of deindustrialization makes you think that that as even a possibility? Sure, it’s the Econ 101 textbook answer. “Creative destruction” and all that jazz. But in reality, how has that actually played out?
I think the MBA mantra that specific product expertise is not important: a widget is a widget, died with Jack Welch and Carly Fiorina (her career). Its still around but not nearly as much as 15-20 years ago.
I haven't actually kept track, but it wouldn't surprise me for my direct stock ownership I've voted on executives in at least 70% of them and executive pay packages on probably 20% of them. Mostly mid to large cap though.

Not that my votes "no" were ever successful in curbing the growth of executive pay. Hard to vote against the executives who probably own a decent chunk of the voting shares themselves.
I've been on two long-ish car trips (~3000 miles total) in the past month. Google Maps has given me directions that are absolutely wrong, it has given me routes that double back on themselves for no reason, and many times it has given me directions far too late to do me any good. The volume controls and Bluetooth have always been wonky, so I've learned to make sure those are set up before I start moving ... but lately, either one will just cut out for absolutely no reason in mid-trip. Just like the app will suddenly background itself for no reason. It's like they want people to be fiddling with the phone while driving, to get their navigation app back. Wouldn't be surprised if these bugs and misfeatures have contributed to actual deaths. I tried Waze, even though I know it's now owned by Google but hoping they hadn't screwed it up yet. It said it couldn't find any route to my destination, so I had to go back to Maps.

It's absolute garbage now, from a company apparently determined to enshittify everything they've ever touched faster and faster. Are there decent alternatives on Android? Will I have to get an iPhone?
>> That's where we stand today: a world in which there's no obvious way to block something that's so cheaply easy to share...
This has happened to me twice near Cleveland. So stupid.
Exploring SKALA: The UNIQUE COMPUTER that managed Chernobyl [video]
I asked it to give me a listing of hybrids under 62 inches tall, it only found two, with some obvious ones missing. So I followed up about one of the obvious ones, asking how tall it was. It said 58. I pointed out that 58 was less than 62. It agreed, but instead of revising the list, it wrote some python code that evaluated 58<62.

So as a search tool, it failed a core usefulness test for me. As a chatbot, I prefer gpt4.
I strongly recommend "The Hidden Life of Trees". I listened to the audiobook multiple times while hiking/cycling through the woods and it changed the way I will see trees forever.
This seems to leave out my favourite essay by Orwell which is a review of 2 books:

The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek / The Mirror of the Past by K. Zilliacus Observer, 9 April 1944

The only full reproduction of it I can find online (apart from an abridged google book) is here:

https://maudestavern.com/2008/10/09/george-orwell-review/
Never say never. If you care that much I have seen quite a few 40+ meetups specifically for people in your situation.

Now the 20's/early 30's, I could use some advice there. IDK where they are.
All of Orwell's works are in the public domain in Canada and Australia, and can be obtained in multiple formats, from Project Gutenberg Canada or Australia:

http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#orwell

http://gutenberg.ca/index.html (search for Orwell)

It would not be legal for American residents to access the above. His works remain under copyright in the USA; now 95 years from publication so Nineteen-Eighty-Four will enter the public domain there in 2044. Though really, things are getting, if you will excuse the expression, rather Orwellian with copyright, and it seems likely to me it will never become public domain.