skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> nor does it make the person doing it valuable

That is a very sad way to look at human life, and I hope these strikes now and into the future prove that not to be true.
Well, didn't have that on my bingo card for this year. What does this mean? For people that are into geo-politics. Trudeau isn't some random government official... but is India just going to deny it and Canada just say "oh, ok" ?

I mean, we've seen this play out with Russia but Russia/West was never on the best of terms to begin with.
Thank you - it's been awesome working with you guys! :)
I did not make the claim that it was. I was only responding to:

> The only time I see arguments against high CEO pay (speaking generally), it's from people that know absolutely nothing about what a CEO does or how exceptionally difficult it is to operate a very big company.

Which links ceo pay via complaints to "how exceptionally difficult" it is to do the job of a ceo. The implication is if people understood how hard the ceo job is that they would not complain about the pay. That implication does not make sense if there is no link between difficulty and pay.
Linux backdoor, from Windows backdoor Trochilus
Apologies, thank you.
There's a great Econtalk episode with the Author: https://www.econtalk.org/donald-shoup-on-the-economics-of-pa...
I don’t think they’d want to name and shame as that attracts litigation.
Unladen Swallow
Lyft’s routes are batshit crazy sometimes. I presume it’s Google’s fault.
Blame Tor for popularising the term "exit node" to mean "public proxy".

The terms "VPN gateway" or "VPN server" are still valid and less easily confused with Tor's use of "exit node".
Most national parks will allow you to "stroll"into them. And the US has quite a few national parks (as well as state parks" but she are more popular than others. It isn't like we can build another Grand Canyon.
> So… as we finally exit the current ice age ...

If by "Ice Age" you mean period of glaciation - the most recent one ended ~ 11,500 years ago after starting some 120,000 years ago.

We're not currently in an "Ice Age" .. although by general expectation of this cycle we should be slowly moving into one . . . save for this recent rapid rise in C02 and atmospheric insulation increase caused by the most recent century of accelerated human activity.

See the enlarged graphic from the Nature article this thread is about:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41219-4/figures/1

or the full original paper:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41219-4

> ... we should expect a green Sahara?

Well, as noted we've rather changed the system parameters a fair bit, it's difficult to know what to expect where anymore other than a general increase in the amount of trapped energy at the lowest sea | land layers globally.

It's enough energy to eventually tip the otherwise periodically stable climate cells into all manner of not seen before new redistributions of climate activity.
Does it work as advertised?
Putting this particular theory aside the generalization that evolution is a nested hierarchy of structures is pretty obvious on the macroscopic level. Traits like breathing oxygen, having symmetrical bodies, backbones, limbs. These are all examples of structures building on top of one another sequentially and conserved across species. Sure each of these subcomponents continues to specialize but the core functionality remains largely the same.

Going back to your analogy saying visual cortex of frog is wildly different from a human visual cortex. That's similar to saying a frog backbone is wildly different from a human backbone. Sure that's true but there's also a shared common core functionality largely conserved across time
Learn to separate the art and the artist.
> I totally agree with everything you’re saying and listed but let’s not pretend the biggest item is anything but “higher salary” for most. We all know that some of these major metros have companies that pay 5-10x what you’d get in a small midwestern town.

there's a lot of places in between "random midwestern town" and NYC that handily beat both on wages to COL ratio. even just looking at other major east coast cities like DC, atlanta, or boston, NYC is far more expensive and typical engineer pay is only a little higher.
I am so glad that Juan et al are leading Godot and not me because frankly I would be offended by all of this. It hasn’t been a week since the Unity fiasco and all I see is post after post from people complaining that Godot isn’t c# enough. This is like showing up for dinner and insulting cooking before you’ve even tasted the meal. There are definitely opportunities to improve Godot but there are more constructive ways to contribute than drawing a new floor plan for the house on the table cloth while the first course is being served.

Have you even made a small game with gdscript? If Godot doesn’t meet your needs then there are dozens of other game engines to choose from, some are native c#.
Worth mentioning that the jet was on autopilot:

> But here's the kicker: the DoD is saying the F-35B was put on autopilot prior to the ejection.
> the most valuable asset of a programmer is his mental model of your system.

Which is actually something a lot of management would prefer to not have. They often want people to deeply document a system, on the mistaken belief that this knowledge could be transferred out easily.

Unfortunately, it's not. Even a well documented system has inherent complexity that only working on the system would reveal. Otherwise, merely reading the source code would allow for a complete understanding and deskchecking of the whole system!
Spend your daylight free time hours outside gardening and playing with your kids and being a part of their day and get to know your neighbors. All of 'em. You'll be surprised how soon you'll have no time without friends all around you.

Source: me
Central planning: ideas so good they're mandatory.
The thing I like about Bard is that it is very low friction to use. You just go to the website and use it. There's no logging in, no 20 seconds of "checking your browser," etc. So I've actually been using it more than GPT for my simple throwaway questions. That being said, I'd still prefer GPT for any coding or math based questions, and even that is not completely reliable.
> NAT works well as an ultra simple firewall.

There's something that works even better as an ultra simple firewall: An ultra simple firewall!

> why give an IP to something you don’t want accessible by the outside world?

- You might change your mind about it needing to be accessible by the outside world, and if it already has a global address you don't need to renumber everything.

- Addressing and routing aren't the same thing; it can be useful to have globally unique addressing even without global reachability.
Why?

Is it also easy to say the stock market being over 100% of global GDP is too much? That’s only been true for the past few years too.

One is an absolute value thing and another is an annual thing.

There’s absolutely no logical reason for 100% of GDP to be compared to either thing.
Original Unreal Tournament is a pretty good one for this, I copied the install to a thumb drive on high school and played it on school computers all the time. Same with GZDoom
Let's go proactive.

In exchange for the legal conveniences that being a limited-liability/stock company offers, you must issue to the state a class of shares that are nontradeable/zero-dividend (and thus do not dilute valuation) but voting, representing 49% of the voting power.

A well-behaved company would see little difference there; the state-owned shares would typically abstain or vote with management. But if they get too brazen and abusive, the board is gonna have to figure out how to handle what is effectively the ultimate hostile investor: "line goes up" means nothing to them, but "the public's pissed they still can't afford their meds" does.
Nbcon Console Patches Updated for Eventually Unblocking Real-Time Linux Kernel
Is there a notebook that shows a reproducible evaluation procedure? You linked to some general eval, not your actual evaluation.
Something like that yeah. It'll try to complete sequences according to instruction (if you have any) or it'll just complete the sequences. it's basically not going to try chat with you unless you paste in a chat transcript.
We were discussing a bit in another thread; it should feel like a bigger deal, but most likely Canada will have to say "oh, ok", at least publicly, unless they want to escalate things further than some might argue it's worth.
CNLohr made a similar project three years before that: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aqqEYz38ens

I know this stuff is dystopic, but I personally find it really cool. That said, I also disable WiFi and prefer ethernet wherever possible...
Yes, doesn’t work great (sorry )

You replied exactly to my question. The idea behind exaequOS is not reinventing CSS at all but to support “Classic” apps (terminal, graphic toolkit, OpenGL) and html/css apps
Between saying and doing – with Robert Brandom
Network sharing from a device that has only a single IPv6 /128 address comes to mind.
Do you understand what I am saying?

Maybe you don't. No, not because you are not intelligent. I believe you are. Maybe even smarter than me (which isn't hard at all).

Maybe I haven't done a good job of explaining my position. I don't think that's the case, yet, it is perplexing to see someone post replies about things I did not say at all.

So, in the interest of constructive conversation, I'll offer you this:

Ask me questions on this subject and I'll answer them. Short simple questions, not entire paragraphs of questions. No, not "What's the meaning of life?" type questions. Questions that might help you understand my position. Understand what I am saying and what I am not saying.

I am happy to have a conversation with you on that basis. I assure you I am not a climate change denier. I am also not one of those people who thinks it was natural to get to over 400 ppm. Not the case. We did it. Absolutely. And I have said this much in this thread. This is why I am perplexed by your comments. It's like you are replying to a third person. You are finding things I did not say and replying to those things. I don't understand.

Ask away. Or don't. Your choice.
Carbon emissions found to cost world's economies 4 times more than 10 years ago
Tonga is running out of space for more than 30k abandoned cars
SQLite does not compress, as far as I know.

Engineering is all about tradeoffs: SQLite is optimized for quick incremental updates where you don't need to rewrite the whole file. Zip & xml aren't. (IE, if you decide to add a letter to a word at the beginning of a document, with zip & XML you have to rewrite the whole document. SQLite can make a minor change without the whole rewrite.)

In our case, file size was not a factor in choosing between SQLite and XML.

But, remember that file size is deceptive: Disks are block devices; the 30 byte and 1k file take up the same space if you block size is 2k. (I've shipped a filesystem driver.) HTTP servers gzip on download. It's more important to know your needs than to get hung up on a single metric like file size.

> I'm unclear on how SQLite (native format, no zip) is achieving sizes similar to XML + Zip. Are SQLite TEXT or BLOB fields compressed? Or are they assuming the caller is compressing BLOBs before writing?

Remember, XML writes each tag name 1 time if there's no content and twice if there is. Each attribute has it's name written every time. I doubt SQLite writes all the metadata in each row.
Is this an attempt to bring memory safety to C and similar unsafe languages? They really need an executive summary and overview.
That’s true, but FDB doesn’t use very much of SQLite, just a modified version of SQLite’s internal b-tree.
I don’t think that’s uncommon.
I like to roast, then filet. If you do it right, even the pinbones come out and you're left with a whole skeleton. The immense satisfaction of getting it out in one piece is why I'm so (self-mockingly) aggrieved.
You don't think that there is some agency like the NSA or such that can access your full Google search history and location in real time? There might even be some individuals with access that doesn't even require search warrants or anything.
I think it’s a global phenomenon. We are seeing a rise of fascism across the globe, the policy and leadership choices made by key parties in the largest western countries is not seem like they learned from the 1920s at all

Most nuclear armed nations are now ruled by old men with quasi autocratic power concentrated like at no time in the last 80 years. Even the US had a brush with an authoritarian coup attempt and languishes on whether to roll the dice on that again.
What is an Elo? Is 1800 average for a computer program or human? I read the wiki and apparently the famous grandmasters are like 2500+, but I dunno the distribution below that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
Related discussion 7 days ago:

WiFi can read through walls

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37469920 (171 comments)
This article was written in 2021 when masked language models have been successfully applied in nlp(Bert, word2vec, glove, etc). However at the time, it was unclear how the same technique could be applied to vision tasks because unlike language which has a limited vocab, you can't explicitly assign a probability to every possible image. Since then researchers have already made significant progress with techniques like contrastive learning(simclr), self distillation (BYOL, DINO), masked image models, etc. A cookbook of self-supervised learning is a good source to learn more about this topic.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12210
You need to have a citizenship. I’m willing to bet that living in another country with a strong passport for long enough to renounce your British one, just so you can move to a tax haven, while losing your right to live in the UK, is a bridge too far for most Brits
> Doesn’t Rust also provide buffer overrun protection, without needing a special OS or CPU instruction set?

No, because there’s still quite a lot of (inevitable) Unsafe Rust code floating around, and the compiler can’t protect these from memory-related errors. In fact there are some ongoing discussions and progress to support CHERI in Rust:

[0] https://faultlore.com/blah/fix-rust-pointers/

[1] https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/making_rust_a_better_fit_...

[2] https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/rust_a_rusty_...
I probably wouldn't know about daguerreotypes either if it wasn't for Life is Strange
If you think you can make deep friends when you're 40+ with 4 kids, you either don't have to work for a living and your wife does 90% of the work with children or you don't understand what deep friendship means.
Whispers: cars are the cages.
Next-Gen Chip Packaging from Intel Will Include Glass Substrate
I'm really, really happy with my current setup of Fedora immutable + toolbox [0]. This tool lets you create rootless containers that are fully integrated with the system, so you have acces to a regular mutable system, can install whatever without layering on the base system, run graphical apps, etc. while still having everything inside a container in your home directory. That means no Flatpak required. Highly recommended.

[0] https://containertoolbx.org
Don't forget Exif, its thumbnail and even reflections, in photos.
I call BS. Code and any process can be documented just fine.

> 3 different cooks will read his instructions and will end up with 3 different steaks

Either his instructions are shit, or the cooks are donkeys.

Sear steak at high heat, 1 minute, rotate steak 45 degrees, flip steak to sear back side for 1 minute, rotate steak 45 degrees. Move steak to indirect heat until internal temp probed at center of steak reaches 145F, remove steak and plate steak after resting for 4 minutes.

There. If you follow those instructions you can get a perfectly done steak every. single. time.

Shit is only subjective if you don’t have a repeatable way of measuring things.

You absolutely can learn steel working and foundry type of stuff from books, but you have to find ways of measuring what you are doing. E.G. heat to this temp, control cooling process by means of $X, $Y, $Z. Inspect crystal structure of coupon, X-ray for porosity.

It isn’t easy, but it can be done.
If you like or don't mind using Go, check out Ebiten as well. I think it's similar to Raylib in spirit, but it also supports Nintendo Switch, iOS and Xbox. IIRC it uses native graphics APIs (Metal for MacOS, DirectX for Windows) while Raylib just uses OpenGL.
One way I try to explain it: https://bendyimby.com/2022/05/11/cities-are-for-people/ - put people first, then the other things.

Happily, we eliminated parking minimums here in Bend, Oregon and civilization has not collapsed. Leaving things to the market is actually a pretty incrementalist reform. Plenty of developers continue to provide parking because they figure their customers want it. But not all of them... And that means we can gradually adapt to different needs over time.
They probably switched to a neural algorithm which can’t be explained and is often completely wrong.
I'm a little skeptical of the paper in question: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.00250.pdf

If you look at the training and test set info:

> We report results on two protocols: (1) Same layout: We train
on the training set in all 16 spatial layouts, and test on remaining
frames. Following [31], we randomly select 80% of the samples to
be our training set, and the rest to be our testing set. The training
and testing samples are different in the person’s location and pose,
but share the same person’s identities and background. This is a
reasonable assumption since the WiFi device is usually installed
in a fixed location. (2) Different layout: We train on 15 spatial
layouts and test on 1 unseen spatial layout. The unseen layout is in
the classroom scenarios.

Depending on how they selected various frames -- let's just say it was random -- the model could have learned something to effect of "this RF pattern is most similar to these two other readings I'm familiar with" (from the surrounding frames) and can therefore just interpolate between the resulting poses associated with those RF patterns (that the model has compressed/memorized into trained weights).

If you look at the meshes between the image ground truth and the paper's results, you'll see that they are strikingly similar. I find this also suspect because WiFi-band RF interacts a lot more with water than with clothes and so you would expect the outline/mesh to get the "meat-bag" parts of you correct but not be able to guess the contours of baggy clothes. That is... unless it has memorized them from the training set.
and yet the CEO would not find it ridiculous to spend money maintaining plant and equipment in the factory.

It's just a lack of understanding. They imagine they understand, because software doesn't get worn out, and doesnt degrade obviously!
There are approximately 40K McDonald’s in the world. That’s about USD 50,000 in profit per location.

If you think that’s egregious, then we aren’t going to agree on much.
So on the American model, you’d only pay taxes to India to top up taxes you hadn’t paid to Germany, if German taxes were lower
Yes, but your options are very limited.
The comment I am responding to implied a link between difficulty to pay. What I quoted does not make sense otherwise. If you take that implication to be true and the difficulty of being a ceo has not change in portion to the wage change, which is my claim, then there has to be some other mechanism at play.(this is similar to what I said in my other comment[1]).

The best response I can hope for to my comment is one that tries to explain the mechanism and whether or not it makes society more productive or not and maybe other associated costs if there are any.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37565350
No idea, but it looks like a routing issue, it doesn't even hit the search engine. They've probably disabled all dynamic (PHP) code.

Fortunately Google search still works well:

https://www.google.com/search?q=napoleon+site%3Ageorge-orwel...
Dark matter of intelligence. Do we think it’s going to prove that we live in a simulation? Ive always felt like the tech industry things too highly of ourselves and the naming of things hits at that. Artificial intelligence is a good example. Would using the word statistics in the name be more accurate with what’s going on?
Seems fair. What externalities?
Laser satellite weaponry is already here. It wouldn't matter if DARPA undertakes this project or someone else. I think it's still a good idea, if it can deliver energy cheaper than building, maintaining, and running a ground infrastructure. It could potentially lead to greater energy security. I just imagine satellites powering individual city blocks or segments, right along with remote villages. I wonder what the radiation effect is from energy delivered by laser...
That article says the average retained is about 3.8% nationally. It sounds like what the government is getting it from interest on unpaid support.
Actually, I think the best solution is men only gyms. I belong to one and its great. Of course, setting these types of things up takes time and money, but it can be as simple as a rented garage with some equipment.
This. I've worked in both greenfield and brownfield areas. The chief failuremode of greenfield is that it works, but it is unscalable and shoddily done. The chief failuremode of brownfield is some kind of feature cardinality explosion that becomes impossible to maintain after some critical juncture. Reading between the lines, they're sort of the same failure mode happening at different times, but both driven by results-driven-programming rather than architecture.
Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.0 release
You’ll be surprised how many people you can surveil with StateGPT

don’t laugh - it’s vastly more accurate than xKeyScore and other keyword reliant systems and it has the ability to catch meaning, even if you speak somewhat obfuscated. Not perfect by any means, but a vast improvement on the state of full time surveillance. Regulated industries are already racing adoption for compliance scanning, in combination with Whisper it’s a clear pivot point in surveillance capabilities for anyone who isn’t the NSA

One of the reasons it’s a mistake to withdraw on “the technology is flawed, it hallucinates” - A bit of inaccuracy, an occasional execution of a wrongly accused person isn’t a dealbreaker for countries. What matters is the improvement over the status quo
I keep mine refrigerated.
Looks great

1. Are you funded?

2. https://www.deploysentinel.com/ - Are you going to work on this further?
Does it to me going to JFK airport. Always tries to get me to exit at Jamaica then get back on the highway. Makes no sense
No doubt that work would have fed into the development of the WiFi 802.11bf standard.
The problem being?
As if a car isn't a cage.
It’s also worth noting that it wasn’t exactly uncommon to have messages like that on exit. Apogee games did it a lot I seem to remember. Lots of DOS/4GW stuff too.

So the memory is… primed, so to speak.
Thanks!! Missed that
Central planning is the government dictating exactly how many parking spots are mandatory for different kinds of uses.
(Shrug) War is hell. The only winning move is not to start one. The second-best move, if you still insist on starting one, is to do it by bombing somebody else's harbor.