skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general for training ML models, more data is more important than high quality data.

They will totally train on every image they can get their hands on, and then finetune on a curated set of the best images.
The beauty contest winner doesn’t have an impossibly thin body. Already looks like an interesting place…
We in Ukraine have really large number of people with this problem, but mostly from coal industry.

Actually, it is possible to transplant lung, but sure, this is not solution of real problem, people for some reason cannot fulfill safety considerations.

In reality, what I seen myself, in such cases, all adequate people work with respirator or gas mask, they are now extremely affordable.

And yes, I many times hear, they feel discomfort, it is usually really hot in coal mine, so people frequently take off mask, and for short moment of slight comfort, sacrifice their health.

Unfortunately, after covid I understand them. Yes, psychology don't like wear mask, even when it is not really limiting breath.

I few times have to just sit in mask for 2-4 hours, this was extremely hard.
My only problem with this is using Social Security Numbers which were explicitly designed not to be good for identification. Why not tie it to well designed ID numbers like Passport or State ID (Real ID compliant) numbers.
^H^Hby going public without a business model.
Governance alone doesn't help, if there isn't a way to pay the bills.

It was cool to be a UNIX/FOSS zealot during the late 90's while still getting monetary support.

Writing M$ on the email signature and such.

Eventually I had to find a way to pay my bills.
Total production would increase (AI will allow us to make more with less) and I'm expecting the capital / labor share to remain stable.

An analogy:

Imagine that half of the labor force makes cars, the other half creates software. The average person buys 1 car and 1 software per year. There's a breakthrough, AI can now be used to create software almost for free. It can even make 2x more software per year. The programmers switch to making cars. So now the economy is producing 2 cars and 2 softwares per worker per year! Salaries have now doubled thanks to technological progress.

You could argue that this will increase inequality and all of the productivity gains will go to the top 1%. I don't think so.
Supreme Court considers limits on White House contacts with social media
I see where you're coming from, but the "normal people" leave because of these incidents. If you want everyday people riding the train, you gotta make sure that the poorest people in society aren't so miserable that they're unpleasant to be around.
They are both types of fibrotic pneumoconiosis (inhalational lung diseases) which also includes other entities such as asbestosis, berylliosis and talcosis.

Not the same disease per se as there are slight differences but coal workers pneumoconiosis and silicosis are very similar given that they have a very similar inhalational dust profile.
There is definitely an abundance of low-skill jobs... so far.

So the choice is between different shops, not about homelesness.
Likely because the app can't deal with the size of the data it's getting back when it tries to get its entries.
also tie tax bracket to rent above a reasonable AMT like 10 percent at 1k, 20 percent at 2k, 35 percent at 3k, 60 percent at 4k, I mean different size rentals will have a different formula, just for examples sake.
> It doesn't have to be this way!

Is there any extra work OpenAI’s product might be doing contributing to this latency that yours isn’t? Considering the scale they operate at and any reputational risks to their brand?
Hiring to produce more demos, to hire more to produce even more demos...
> Every implementation I've seen so far has been multiple thousands of lines…
Libraries will come for every major language in time, we'll see how easy it becomes to implement. I'm hopeful.

This becomes a liability for security when everyone becomes a user and very few people are contributing. OpenSSL has been an example of this in the past.
People don't want to hear this but: it depends how smart you are. A smart 36 yo with a reasonably quantitative background (training or career) can become a competent software engineer quite quickly. Most people cannot.
Fantastic suggestion. Please make this happen.
Completely agree, latency is key for unlocking great voice experiences. Here's a quick demo I'm working on for voice ordering https://youtu.be/WfvLIEHwiyo

Total end-to-end latency is a few hundred milliseconds: starting from speech to text, to the LLM, then to a POS to validate the SKU (no hallucinations are possible!), and finally back to generated speech. The latency is starting to feel really natural. Building out a general system to achieve this low-latency will I think end up being a big unlock for enabling diverse applications.
The biggest security benefit of passkeys is that they raise the floor of security posture for the least security conscious users. E.g. You can't use "bob1989!" as your password on every single site, write it on a post-it stuck to your monitor, and enter it into every phishing site that sends you an email claiming to be from "M1cro3oft Supp0rt".

For users who already have a very good security posture the security benefits of passkeys are pretty marginal. For example, I already use a long, unique password for each site via my password manager. If a site gets breached it will only affect that specific site, and even then only if they store passwords in plaintext. My passwords have enough entropy that even an MD5 hash is unlikely to be cracked in an offline attack. For me the biggest potential benefit of passkeys is better UX when signing in to websites.
This is incredibly superficial, but I wish Bitwarden used the system font stack for its apps instead of forcing Open Sans on everyone. I found that it helped make Bitwarden slightly nicer to use for me and some others I provided a one-time fork of the Mac app to try.

If I could figure out how to sign and ship Mac and iOS apps, I'd ship a fork that continually pulled from upstream, with just the two `variables.scss` files patched.
Amazon to sink $4B into AI dev Anthropic, become its cloud provider
He did say "unreasonably"
The 1Password extension in Chrome does this so I assume there is some API
Internet penetration is only estimated at 65% today (5.3 billion people), so I can quite confidently say that billions of people will still not have Internet access in 2033.

There are still places without running water and sewage, never mind electricity and Internet access. I'm going to guess that everyone you know has a smartphone, if not a laptop, kindle, and a tablet, plus home Internet access. But not everyone is so lucky, and even in the US, there are poor areas. Huge swaths still don't have cell phone service, never mind 5G. $500 for a Starlink disk, with a monthly service charge, ain't happening.

Some of these places are intentionally devoid of Internet - there are places in Napa, outside of San Francisco, where none of the landowners will allow cell-phone towers in the hilly region, because they don't want it, so there's still no cell access. 10 years won't change that.

Whether that's enough to sustain Redbox, specifically, is a different question, and sure, more people will have Internet access in 10 years than today, but "dying business" is just a perception. Just because you don't have a use case for it doesn't mean that others won't. OG tech company Yahoo! could be called a "dying business", but they did $280 million in revenue for Q2, 2023.
Probably the second. The first would be a very sketchy calculation (although the Bank of England claims to calculate inflation back to the 12-13th century).
Agreed. I was a professional actor 20 years ago when digital and streaming were first coming into play, and the seeds sown in the agreements from that time were painfully lacking for working actors. The precedents set have continued to this day.

I'm torn on the AI/copyright issue. On the one hand, for actors, having your image and likeness digitally reproduced in perpetuity without compensation goes against the very profession of acting.

On the other hand, the act of writing is a more interesting gray area to me. There's a different between physical property and intellectual property. If a machine can learn better than a human and put out compelling content, I'm conflicted as to how restricting that helps us progress as a society (just like I'm conflicted as to how allowing it helps us progress as a society).

So many gray areas. I'm just glad a tentative agreement has been struck, and hopefully it's equitable and forward-looking for all sides.
All those type of business tend to shave money out of the deal, it's true in affiliation, licencing, sub contracting, and so on.

More obfuscation will mean more shaving.
Are you suggesting that in baseball pitchers actually aim to hit the "home plate umpire"?
that's a reasonable trade-off, to make a game that is so extensibly mod-able.
I think you're right. Edited for clarity.
Use online for training, real life for testing/grading. That way cheating at home will only hurt yourself.
The interruption is an important point yeah. It's so annoying when Siri misunderstands again and starts rattling off a whole host of options. And keeps getting stuck in a loop if you don't respond.

In fact I'm really surprised these assistants are still as crap as they are. Totally scripted, zero AI. It seems low hanging fruit to implement an LLM but none of the big three have done so. Not even sure about the fringe ones like Cortana and Bixby
I think we need to separate load from event driven architecture: what if you want to reload data on a client's view, even if that data only gets refreshed once a month? The load is very low (1 message/month), but still requires an event to be pushed to the client to refresh their data.
Sure, if you want to call a desire for a viable planetary ecology histrionics.

What are we doing here if we can't critique the technologies we deploy or question the trajectories they set us on?
Space-Track.org
Good points, maybe 1Password will pull a Unity post-IPO and demand 1 cent per login. Right now, 1Password is really good, but who knows if it'll stay the same.
"the evidence is in my bank account" is an all time quote :)
There's not as much difference as you say. The NJ page says

> New Jersey law (N.J.S.A. 34:5-182) requires that employers
provide workers with full-face air-purifying respirators when
engineering controls cannot be used. Use of respirators should
be part of a complete respiratory protection program.

While the CA page says

Respirators should only be used:
• As a last resort for
protection when local
exhaust ventilation or
water controls are not
feasible or do not
adequately control
employee airborne
exposures.
• Where exposures
exceed the permissible
exposure limit (50 μg/m3,
8-hour TWA) while installing or implementing feasible
engineering and work practice controls.
• When the employee is in a regulated area.

I.e., both say that other measures must be applied first.
> Renewables and energy efficiency do just fine with industry-sponsored R&D. Fusion would not.

If Commonwealth Fusion's approach is viable, we may finally be at the stage where industry sponsored R&D can work. Though in fairness the concept had significant development at MIT, which I assume gets a decent amount of public funding. And there is more expensive work to be done after their first demo reactor SPARC.

Those not familiar with CFS: They are building a tokamak with new high field strength superconducting magnets, allowing them to build a system with similar physics to ITER on a MUCH smaller scale. According to them, stronger magnetic field allows for a proportionally smaller machine, and indeed their new magnet design allows for the strongest field for a tokamak ever.

There are other fusion startups, but I can't keep track of them all. As a layperson, I feel like tokamaks are well understood, JET has confirmed good physics for ITER and SPARC and while the engineering challenges in construction are significant, their smaller design allows for a much faster and cheaper design cycle.

However I agree that fusion will not solve the impending climate crisis, because it will still, even if we had the first working power plant in 10-15 years, take way too long to build out all the plants we need. And the first fusion power plants will not be remotely cost competitive with renewables. It is still a very big and complex machine compared to the relatively commodified solar and storage solution. Remember that in 15 years, batteries will be much cheaper.

What may work well, if we get fusion working, is to build out all the renewables we can now, and then in 30 years when those systems need replacement, build out a mixture of fusion and renewables (which will continue to be very useful and cost competitive).

I would love to see more government investment both in renewables build out and in shoring up fusion research. While we MAY be able to get by with industry funding, that is very much not guaranteed. And the build out itself will need support if we ever get it working.
Oh, I’ve seen much worse than this. I truly believe system design interviews and Confluent marketing/sales have made Kafka a midwit trap:

1. You cannot just use Kafka for free. It will take dev time to set up itself, dev time to code sources and sinks, dev time to handle commonly glossed over but utterly important details like idempotency, retries, duplicate messages, consumed-but-not-committed (or whatever the term is in Kafka world) network interruptions or restarts of consumers.

2. You cannot just continue to use Kafka for free. Running it has an operational cost; this is mitigated using it as a PAAS but not fully solved as you’ll still need to twiddle configurations and scramble to deal with things like “We had no idea we’d need to handle idempotency or use deadletter queues, fixed it, but now need to deal with old data before our fix”.

3. There are many ways you can implement async producer:consumer patterns that are less complex and less costly than Kafka. For example, you can write data to S3. Or you can store records in a regular RDBMS. Kafka isn’t worth it unless you really need “real-time” ingestion but can’t/won’t/shouldn’t implement an actually-real time (synchronous) system instead, like if you get large spikes and are ok with ingestion going from O(seconds) to O(minutes) when that happens.

4. There’s a good chance you don’t need an async queue at all. If consumers can horizontally scale quickly (like with Lambda) why not synchronously invoke them over HTTP/RPC and only use async queues (or a file, etc) for messages that fail multiple retries? Since external users usually aren’t directly writing to your Kafka topic, and thus you have a degree control over your ingestion and consumption, why not just combine the two services (since you can experience data loss from external world to ingestion service anyway, and in fact this is a pretty likely source of failures, your queue may not even be solving the problem you think it is). If you don’t need ordering or partition and are using queues for eg config update propagation, why not just synchronously update consumers or implement basic polling in your consumers?

5. A lot of Kafka/Confluent “features” like retries or logging you can get with so many other tools and services but for some reason these can be the actual selling point more so than the fact it’s an async queue (that also has these features).

Yes, in a FAANG design interview where it only costs you 5seconds to say “and we’ll use an async queue like Kafka between these components to handle variable load and partially consumed data” it’s a great tool that saves you a lot of time. And when you pretend integration and maintenance costs don’t exist, and don’t even know what idempotency means, and are sitting across from some slick Confluent salesperson telling you Kafka can be THE database of everything your company does with all these nice features, it sounds great to midwit managers and hasbeen architecture astronauts. In reality? The dumb unsexy alternatives probably solve your actual problem more simply
If you really wanted to not go there, you shouldn't have characterized my argument in a false way. And when your mistake was pointed out, you should have acknowledged the point.

Go ahead. Avoid the tedium of responding. It will avoid me the unpleasantness of further dishonest evasion on your part.

Meanwhile the facts remain these. From 1990 through 2011, Microsoft was continually being sued by or under consent decree in the USA for antitrust violations. From 1993 through 2013, the same was true in the EU. This is in addition to a long list of lawsuits from companies that their behavior harmed.

All evidence from external behavior and internal emails in court says that their attitude did not change until 2008.

This is not a counterfactual argument. And it provides good reason to believe that the 1998 publicity of having Bill Gates in court did not deter Microsoft from further antitrust actions.
> Are you advocating that we automate PPE use in the workforce?

No, I'm saying fine the company out of business for not enforcing the wearing of PPE and then actually do it.
it's not illegal, if it were dorms would be illegal, it's just not many want to go this route and it's probably not profitable for developers, there's a number of intentional communities that do this sort of thing or everyone has tiny homes without a kitchen and they maybe share one big kitchen in an out building or something....
Reddit is going to let you turn gold into money
Disney wanted to build a 7-minute maglev ride from Orlando Airport to Disney properties, with no other stops.[1] "“Obviously, it makes no sense to operate a train at 350 miles an hour and have it make a stop every four miles.” - Disney rep.

It would have been a huge competitive win for Disney. People who took that route would not rent cars. Car rental, once you're on Disney property, is deliberately inconvenient, involving bus travel off the property.

[1] https://archive.ph/He0tR
Decoupling from China, while boosting Indian growth seems is such a big deal.

India and the USA might not be geopolitical allies but the people sure as shit are - there's so many Desis here, that country loves us, and is a democracy. We absolutely should be pouring money there, into the country that's actively planning for a war against us.
One of the common comments in this thread is "can't we just make standard interfaces in std?" "well, no, sync+send is hard"

I can't help but wonder if there are two sets of interfaces necessary? a set of standard single-threaded traits and a set of multi-threaded traits? would that be sufficient?

As an aside, what workloads require true multithreaded reactors as opposed to a runtime which uses multiple singlethreaded reactors?
Disclaimer: not legal advice. Check with a lawyer before doing anything.

What's the legal structure like? If you have a corporation already and Cofounder1 owns shares - it's trickier to do something about it. If not, just start a company with Cofounder2.
Shia Labeouf did something similar called IAMSORRY, although I'm not sure how similar. Suspect there was no loaded gun provided.

Apparently a woman sexually assaulted him and was removed by gallery staff.
Predator Spyware Delivered to iOS, Android Devices via Zero-Days, MitM Attacks
If you can provide a script that takes in an HTML file and provides an image ready for rendering, that would be amazing. Then I can automatically take any website and have a cron job that dumps the result into a shared dropbox link where it can be used by the screen.
While I would certainly not trust Microsoft with this, the article does _not_ confirm the statement of the heading that "Microsoft will check everything you do on your Windows computer" (which I interpret at things stored or created/modified locally).

Instead, towards the end it states "[Microsoft] sifts through all the user data stored in its cloud in an automated way". This is certainly bad enough, but a different thing.

Looking at the rest of the articles posted there, this seem to be a site spreading right-wing propaganda and lies. Flagged.
The general public is just generally out of the loop and many don't even understand the difference between Google and ChatGPT. Of those who will be amazed by Heygen's capabilities, just as many will assume that kind of thing has been around for years.

Fake videos aren't a game-changer in manipulation. Skeptics will stay alert and catch on fast, while those prone to manipulation don't even need sophisticated tactics.
I think the fact that student loans can't be discharged in bankruptcy is a nod to the fact that everyone involved knows that the people taking them are largely uneducated about what they are.
OK, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.
Yes there are and it's infuriating. Colleague of mine had problems with integrating some code into an app that was built on a newer version of a framework because "there aren't a lot of examples yet". One web search and I found the frameworks own migration guide detailing the exact differences that would need to be accounted for.
I'm skeptical of "full market value" for unique items for which there is no public market.
Those places already growing at a steady clip. They aren't very desirable though.

In high school, I lived in South Snohomish county (it was still just Bothell even though it wasn't in King Co). Within striking distance of Seattle, so it grew quickly. I had friends from Marysville and Darington however, they didn't like living in those places very much.
Passkey is really just a type of webauthn. It doesn't necessarily have to remove any other factors. I think the primary goal is to replace single-factor passwords with it.
Japanese websites are the same way. Ordering from some of them takes 10 steps when it could be 1 because they're so afraid you might not have meant to do something.
The question is simple: Do you believe younger teens are easier to manipulate and mislead than older ones? If not, if you think the full wisdom of maturity is available to us at 16, then lowering the voting age further [1] won't cause problems.

The article addresses this with "Knowledge and experience are not criteria for voting eligibility" - true. But if we have any faith in democracy, we must presume that less knowledgeable and experienced votes will lead to worse politicians, and a worse society. Otherwise we may as well do away with voting altogether and pick leaders by lottery.

I must say I find it bizarre how the article implies that, because they cannot vote, under-18s concerns are not represented. Pre-teens also cannot vote, yet politicians promising [2] to make life harder for them don't tend to get elected.

[1] It used to be 21, but that made it awkward to conscript 18-year-olds to die in Vietnam. Instead of raising conscription to 21, they lowered voting age to 18.

[2] Promising as in using it on the campaign to improve their election odds. That some politicians make life harder for children nevertheless is not remotely proof this is because kids can't vote. After all, they routinely pass laws to make life harder for plenty of demographics that can vote.
Coordination as an API, sure. We have ways to make that extensible though, why do they not work here? "External wake or check later" seems entirely feasible and not at all "intimately connected".
It's not required to have either. If we had a universal, freely provided Federal ID card it would be ideal, but we have a random mess of state, tribal, military, and other IDs with those same entities controlling who has access to them and how easily they have access.
Not sure what you are using because my bitwarden does not have a secondary key.
Just by looking at the first 5-6 comments 'highlighted' I can tell that they're representative of a type of post that many readers of this website value. It's usually some mix of firsthand experience "untold stories" and ultra-specific domain expertise. In other words, information relevant to the topic that's hard or impossible to find elsewhere.