skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of that is relevant to machine learning engineer jobs, especially time series modeling, reinforcement leaning, databases, and real time systems, so highlight those areas if you apply to ML eng jobs.

The more detailed you can be, the more "real" your job experience will look. For example, list the time series algorithms you used and quantity how they helped (error metrics, % return, comparison to a naive forecast, etc). I already mentioned latency. Optimizing your code and data for speed is something interesting you could get into too.
I don't think you have to go back that far. Before electric (and maybe gas lighting) it would be hard to have people working outside of the hours of daylight. Sure you could do some stuff by candlelight but it wasn't cheap if I understand correctly.
Higher dynamic range and typically also more 'pure'. The introduced compression artifacts stand out more in simpler waveforms than in wavevorms that are an addition of many more layers of sound.
> None of this is over, and we are so, so fucked.

Some fraction of us are fucked, but surely not “we” as a whole. The vast majority of people I know have had Covid (many multiple times), and the vast majority are now perfectly fine.

> We really needed to optimize to eliminate COVID as much as possible

This was already impossible by Feb. 2020 when it was spreading like wildfire in China, Iran, and Italy.

> to have a hope of a return to normality.

We have already returned to normality, so reality doesn’t back up your assertion.
Based on the definitional ideas of Griffin's "Palingenetic Ultranationalism" [0] (where "fascism" is identifiable primarily by motiviational myths) any corporations that operate with impunity could still qualify as fascist if they are still promising to snatch the last hope of a restored golden age for the "right" people, etc.

Somehow makes me think of the scene from Iron Man (2008) where Tony Stark boasts that he's successfully privatized world peace... except imagine the untouchable CEO of SacreBleuCorp boasting that they've outdone the government to restore the glory and honor of the French or whatever.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palingenetic_ultranationalism
The far-right movements are a completely predictable and preventable result of the immigration policy of the last 2 decades.
Elvis once famously flew cross-country to Denver for an 8,000 calorie peanut butter sandwich.
The evidence would seem to suggest Newton belongs in this group too, and I suspect many others beyond that.

The modern mathematical and scientific establishments seem to have a big problem with the fundamental truth that many of the giants on whose shoulders they stand achieved their stature by also exploring lots of wildly unorthodox aspects of the human condition. They wish this stuff could be consigned to history, but in reality we rely on such things for progress.
I know this will probably get downvoted but Asahi devs have for a very long time been very antagonizing towards multiple communities. They have the classic nose-turn-up attitude towards anyone that doesn't agree with them

It's a shame because the work they have done is great, but humility is a virtue many have lost.
Algorithms for collaborative text editing [video]
StrangeLoop talk
The link is useless without an account
"Bunch of people" doesn't seem like a good characterization considering he's at least partially responding to Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine and biostatistician at Harvard and a co-author of the GBD.
That's exactly what I do!

Google and Apple could instantly fix the problem (of co-mingling essential and marketing notifications) if they wanted to. The current situation is like getting opted in to "street signs and flashing billboards". It's stupid.
Have you tried massage chair?

https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Professional-Light-Weight-Th...
I used to be in an office overlooking Millennium Park in Chicago. when the weather was nice, a 20 min post lunch nap on a park bench did wonders for my productivity. I do miss it, but I have the superpower of being able to instantly sleep pretty much anywhere, anytime.
The death from/with covid distinction is only relevant here if there is a systematic difference in over/under reporting of covid deaths between red and blue states. If it's a constant bias regardless of state, it would not change the conclusion of the article. And it could only change the conclusion of the article directionally if covid deaths in red states are significantly overreported compared to blue states.
It has all the parts...
Don't cite it to me, I stole it from a reply to a Cory Doctorow post on Mastodon about technofeudalism. That post itself was rephrasing of a Russian meme about the end of the Soviet Union[0].

So I don't think this one is necessarily citable.

[0] Socialism is a necessary step in the transition between capitalism and capitalism.
> Either you need industry charges to cover that cost to government

Like, corporate taxes?
I wonder how far we still have to go.

Computer graphics is pretty good, but how does it compare to walking out into a bright sunny day.

Audiowise, I wonder how listening to live music, then listening to something that went through capture and playback end-to-end.

I'll bet there are differences and I wonder where the "bottlenecks" are.
See also: <https://webencrypt.org/illustrated-tls/>
might want to go check your math there, you moved that decimal quite significantly
They could and/or should, but many shelters basically are night shelter only - you get kicked out in the morning.

There’s nowhere near enough drop in daytime places to charge a phone or access internet or get help with paperwork, etc.

there also a shortage of places that will let you open a mailbox/use the address to get postage.

You would be amazed at how much difference it makes being able to receive a letter at an address - it’s vital for a lot of services still.
If that information is easily searched, what's the risk here? I'm not sure I see the harm in a computer being able to identify the high profile owner of a social network or the well-known subject of a popular Internet meme. Guessing locations based on images is literally the premise of the popular game "Geo Guesser".
No. But we're talking about cars, not computers, and their novelty is just one among many strong pieces of evidence that a much less car-dependent society is possible, even desirable. Perhaps you can refute the existence billions of people on the planet who live without commuting via car, or the dense networks of public transit which they often rely on?
In practice I always choose the first enumeration to be a specific error of "you failed to initialise this".

I don't know that I've ever directly used an enum as an index, but I guess if I did I'd have to bias it.
The lightbulbs were changed after sale, consumer choice is irrelevant here.
I know they have a refund policy, but it's too much of a hassle to go through checkout, enter my card, check out, then play, make sure I don't go to 2:01, etc.

I'd much prefer to install the game, play, and get a dialog "your trial is over, would you like to buy to continue?" and I can pay at that point.
> I don't know anyone, or know anyone who knows anyone who has any serious "long-covid" symptoms.

You are fortunate. I know several who have those symptoms (ranging in age from my own - mid-30's - to my parents' - early 60's), and have had several friends relate their own observations of loved-ones. If Long Covid isn't real, there's an astonishingly-coincidental prevalence of fatigue and impaired cognition from some other source, which is correlated with those who (from my own observations) took less precautions regarding Covid and/or who caught it more often.

I recognize the irony of responding to your anecdata with my own. No, I don't have any hard data to provide - though given the partisanship observed in the reporting of COVID _itself_, I have somewhat lost faith in the availability of trustworthy data about public health.
My layman's take is that TFA is probably wrong and that language started with song. Gestures are probably the origin of communication (see also: speakers of non-mutually-intelligible languages tend to instinctively make gestures, often created on-the-fly to mimic some intended meaning or desire), but language is different. Meaning in language is encoded in a mutually-intelligible format that is passed down memetically rather than genetically (which is why you see different "accents" in genetically-similar but geographically-separated populations in all of the aforementioned species). We instinctively recognize the resemblance between a given gesture and the object or action it's mimicking, but the meaning of language (like the connotation of particular elements of song, like note progression, which again varies between cultures) has to be acquired.

Again, speaking out of my a*. Feel free to tear apart.
Sounds like you spent a lot of time sitting at a table before displays. I’m not sure doing more of that for another 40 hours a week would be good for your brain or health.

Hence I want to suggest you launch a solo small scale software consultancy, or together with a friend or two, just to keep some coin inflow. It’s hard but not entirely impossible. Don’t lose SWE skills, keep up with the new tech. Solve small problems for moderate coin and maybe fun, maybe help some friends with their IT problems, learn at your own pace.

And in your free time go seriously touch some real grass. Learn how to bake good bread, brew beer, gardening, how to play a music instrument, perfumery, woodworking, whatever physical, concrete. If you have a restless curious brain, it might find the amount of nuance in guitar building (or guitar pedal building) quite fascinating.

In other words, get real physical. When, after some time of learning and struggles, you hold in your hands something that’s awesome and that was made by you, it feels goddamn amazing. And with a fat account balance and freedom to do what you want it feels even better.
Dark matter people can always wiggle out of any non-detection or standard physics models by adding more parameters.

They've been doing this for 40 years and at this point it's just sad and pathological science.
Nothing was "weaponized" by this order, which 100% of people ignored.
"The poor man's dollar goes to market twice" is a saying where I grew up
> if only I could buy a modern phone without cameras.

It's a travesty these things don't even have shutters. Taping over them works but is very inconvenient. They also tend to stick out of the chassis.

It's boggling my mind they keep adding more cameras. I really have lost almost all touch with the world.
> This may change in future, e.g. by enough people turning to formal verification.

It's been over 50 years; I don't think we're on the cusp of creating perfect software. Even formal verification and related methods - while a huge improvement! - aren't a silver bullet (AIUI, mostly in the "is your model right" and "does your theoretical analysis map to reality" points).

> Does it mean that it is unsafe? In that case notion of safety seems to be destroyed.

Yes, that's my point. If your software has exploitable bugs, it can be used in a chain of exploits to achieve attacks that don't appear plausible from individual components, and this means that most systems have a lot more attack surface than anyone wants to think about.
Sweet! Can we unban plastic straws now? The vast majority of them end up in landfill, not the ocean.
Avi Schiffmann demos “Tab”: “the world’s most personal wearable AI”
Roads, utilities, emergency services…
After thousands and thousands of years of evolution, without soap to clean our hands or understanding of bacteria, you would think that if eyes were so intolerant and sensitive to being touched we would have evolved to have other organs instead..
Thank you. What a garbage website OP linked to…
Error correction and concealment in the Compact Disc system (1982) [pdf]
I am looking for an iOS developer to help me bring a minimum-viable prototype over the finish line.

Your post prompted to check out Toptal. I signed up. What's so onerous about Toptal?
That comments section is a trip and a half
Taylor Swift's airplane is a Falcon 900, N898TS.
More like anatomically correct.
> Politicians have known this for decades and done nothing serious to fix the problem.

They do. They vote to raise retirement age. Then the young people protest.
OK, we changed to that from https://themindcircle.com/new-gobeklitepe-and-karahantepe-fi.... Thanks!
No you misunderstand, I have no idea what you're talking about. If I bring in 2 million I think worst case for me is I declare it all income in which case I have just north of 1 million after tax. Then I keep investing that so it's not sitting cash obviously so then I retire on the returns which is bare minimum of 40k per year if all I could find to invest my million in was a measly 4% per year for some reason. I don't think I'm missing anything and I think it's pretty silly that people think you need more money than that to retire. Inevitably I'm going to get interested in working in some kind of job after a while so then I will have a real income on top of it. In summary there is zero percent chance that I could not retire having brought in one million after tax. Perhaps the main impedance mismatch here is you are talking with an extremely frugal midwesterner..
Thank you for the reference! Appreciate it. Will try to use that as a reference from now on when I want to bring te point up.
I worked somewhere that had a pool table and a futon.

They got rid of the futon because they didn't want to be seen as a sweatshop.
They also had a part in creating QAnon, a movement that caused a tremendous amount of harm including the January 6th insurrection.
> The only way to control the output of a LLM is to essentially rate certain types of responses as better

Which is my point. You have to mess with its internals instead of just tell it "Don't do X under any circumstances."
Getting dangerously close to "snow crash" territory here
> Might be then people behind LLMs in Meta and OpenAI will see how laughtable and awful this childish censorship is.

They are doing it to curry PR and political favor, which can be useful to secure favorable regulation, not because they think it. Whether it is “childish” is irrelevant to the calculations which support doing it.
Apple has an interest in keeping their devices alive, since they can make money of the store and services. Android manufactures want you to throw the phone away and buy a new one.

Since manufacturers didn't demand long support, Qualcomm didn't provide updates for their SoCs. This meant Fairphone couldn't support their phones even if they wanted to, which is why they used am automotive chip in their new phone — which is nearly the same as a phone chip except the 13 years of updates.
I'd rather the Apple Watch replace the iPhone. Apple doesn't seem totally against the idea, but they don't seem to be in any hurry either.
11 Scientists Found a Room-Temperature Superconductor. Now 8 Want a Retraction
Seconding, here, that I've almost-always heard arbitrary/arbitrarily to mean (slightly differently than the sibling commenter) "able to be chosen freely, without any loss of generality"; though, yes, I have also heard your usage of "by personal judgement, disregarding established rules or convention".
As the “services that offer podcasts” can bit a bit of a racket, it’s possible that putting your podcast on your own website classifies your website as an “online service” and therefore that controls independent creators
MP3 smearing can be noticed even at 256kbps [1].

[1] https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/what-data-compressio...
> Sorry, I think that's too many buzz words for me to comprehend and I can't take it seriously.

This seems pretty straightforward to me.

"Ambient computing" and "no screens" imply a voice interface (think: earbuds, watch, Trek-like communicator), potentially leveraging augmented reality (think: glasses, windshield) if/when available.

"Personal" and "contextual" suggest that interactions leverage all available signals instead of requiring that you explicitly share all necessary background info as a preamble, and also suggest a level of proactiveness (vs. today's mostly reactive user experiences).

Maybe in that 40 seconds the device could remind you that you wanted to get pasta and suggest the most convenient place to pick it up, update you on recent headlines, ask if it should book your flu shot, or whatever. These seem like nice alternatives to doomscrolling.
You seem to have this idea that LLM guardrails are anything more than telling it not to do something or limiting what actions it can perform. This is not the case.
"ContentID abuse" is the best I'm able to find.

Though it has certain similarities to "swatting" or "joe-job" attacks, leveraging false reporting or false attribution to impose harms on others through defensive, protective, police, or legal mechanisms.
LLMs have one mode of input (or i guess two if they support images). Jailbreaking would be the equivalent of someone perfectly impersonating your boss and telling you no longer to follow their previous instructions. I could see many humans falling for that.
I saw the huge value of it when it started and for a long time, now this is just an excuse for the privileged ones milking Mozilla to continue doing so. The market being controlled by a single giga-corp or shared with a paid fake competitor I would prefer the giga-corp so it becomes more obvious that we need to fund a real alternative, not waste money on what Mozilla became.
The Future of Decentralized Health
The future of decentralized healthcare is mind-boggling! Imagine personalized treatments, AI-powered self-diagnostics, and instant access to medical data.

But in real world of health technology, revolutions don't happen overnight. This is a rather long process of research, a creation of new technologies, long laboratory testing and an even longer process of approved of FDA or CE Mark/IVDR.

This process is perfectly illustrated by a recent article about development and future of lateral flow assay for Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44222-022-00007-3#Sec2

By the way, one of the first devices already available on market and game-changing rules, recently launched on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37638489

Igloo based on computer vision and multiplexing assay is part of decentralized health and affordable self-testing of the future. The revolution is just beginning!
What if by letting this anti-competitive monopolies survive, we are getting future better ‘everyday experiences’ killed in their cribs?

Large companies routinely buy out startups, kill their products, and absorbs the teams.
Copper, which was (is?) the most problematic part doesn't.
This was a recent problem with Cloudflares partnership with MailChannels[1] that allowed email spoofing which was related to this.

The basic problem being that mailchannel did not require authentication - cloudflare workers could just hit an API endpoint on mailchannel to send email. Mailchannel required you to add an include: record to your SPF policy. This allowed anyone to impersonate anyone else due to mailchannel being a valid sender for all domains.

Only ~400 domains of the 2M hosted had DKIM set up but even if they did the passing SPF caused DMARC to pass.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/sending-email-from-workers-with-...
At my first job out of school my officemate and I had a couch in our office, which was often used for napping by our coworkers (who had individual offices and hence not so suitable furniture).
> In my experience the ex risk people understand that using science fiction examples makes a weak argument, and avoid them entirely.

Roko's Basilisk is a weaker argument than most analogy-to-scifi arguments, because the assumptions underpinning most scifi used in such arguments are less implausiable than those underlying the Basilisk.
It's not true today at all lol. You talked about not having access to Linux and only having dial up speed - that's strictly a 90s problem.

You don't see them in stores because there is not enough demand for them, and because stores are dying anyway. Very easy to find them online to buy.
> Should I mention that I was basically unemployed the last 3 years and did crypto trading?

I wouldn't frame it that way. If you made enough money to cover your rent and living expenses, and weren't collecting unemployment from your local government, then you weren't unemployed. You had a non-traditonal, remote/work from home job, that others would be envious of. Just because there's no office, no boss, no timecard doesn't mean you were unemployed. I'm betting you spent many many hours in front of a computer to get your Algo edge in order to make money. That's called a job.

> On the other hand, I can't prove anything I say and there is no reference that proves that I actually was that good.

It's on the block chain. Make a transaction and sign it with the hash of "I'm Michael Baer and <secret salt>" so if anyone doubts your story, you can tell them what the secret salt is so they can follow the transactions on the chain itself if they don't believe you're the owner of the wallet you say you are.

The beauty of companies that use leetcode as their hiring bar is that a smart person who didn't get an ivy league degree and doesn't have traditional experience they can put on their resume means that you can still walk in the front door, ace the test, and get a job.

On your resume, dig into what you did as an Algo trader. What code you had to write, what data analysis you did in order to get that edge, etc.
Seems like graphics have gotten a bit better since then
Experts’ battle over surveillance program reforms underscores Congress’s dilemma
If LLMs were actually intelligent they would decide on their own what to do irrespectively of what they have been ordered by anybody else.
Just like intelligent people do.
Me too. That whole era evokes next level nostalgia for me

Not just for the awesome creative pockets of animation it enabled (though that's a major factor), nor for the insane quantity of small and medium games it inspired (also a huge factor)

I also miss the entirely unnecessary creative multimedia websites with their novel explorations of interaction.

Despite (or perhaps because of?) their occasionally inscrutable design and usability, lack of accessibility and other opposing arguments; there was something exciting about the unhinged and pointless exploration of novelty, community of knowledge share..
Cool tracker, I am sure if there is a tracker that tracks all billionaires’ resources consumptions, not just we will see how hypocrites they are, but also the ratio of that to average person will be abysmal, but of course, we have to use paper straws for the planet!
American style suburbs are worse for raising a family than living in a city. Long commutes practically remove one or more parents from the equation 5 days a week. Long bus rides compromise sleep and exercise etc.

All for a back yard that’s rarely used and worse in just about every way than a nice park.

What they are is a cheap imitation of the wealthy enclaves near cities that only work because so few people can afford to live in them. You can imitate such buildings cheaply, what you can’t do is build or maintain the support structures which made such places so appealing.
To be fair, figures like Boole and Hamilton are very much celebrated within Irish academia. And it's not a new thing. I attended a conference on the legacy of Boole in 1995: https://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/ims/bull33/bull33_3-3.pdf

Ludgate is a more marginal case because his invention didn't come to fruition. There is a bit of a sense in which he is being celebrated/hyped in a silly superficial ("collectively narcissistic") way intended to bolster self-esteem for Irish technical people. https://ingeniousireland.ie/2012/10/1909-a-novel-irish-compu...

Meanwhile significant people like Carew Meredith aren't on the public radar at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carew_Arthur_Meredith