skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the choice between sponsoring the costs of $100*1000 beds plus chartering planes and logistics personnel to bring them from wherever they may be warehoused, or calling up packaging manufacturers and truckers close to the disaster site to churn out and ship pallets of beds in hours, it's a no-brainer.

Have you ever worked in logistics? Products don't magically materialize when you click "Order now" on a website. They either have to be stored somewhere (somehow always inconvenient vs where you want them to be) or manufactured to order.

The reason the military is so good at this is because they learned in WWII that winning wars is largely a matter of logistics and attrition. Their movements are planned weeks or months in advance and they're constantly shipping things around to accommodate those plans. (Ironically this made them vulnerable to guerrilla warfare and its emphasis on stochastic sabotage tactics, which is why they lost in Vietnam and the Middle East, but that's besides the point.) Commercial logistics systems don't have this kind of central planning because of the fetishism around market forces so you are at the whim of whoever has the stuff you want (or the means of production) when you want it.
Punishment is an intermediate solution.

Holding executives responsible for their misdeeds is the bare minimum in the meantime.
Now, yes, but it wouldn't have so much corporate backing now without all the hobbyist contributors before. And even now there are so many OSS projects, so many core libraries that entire industries and businesses are reliant on which are kept alive by a handful of people or even just a single person with no corporate backing at all.
Corporate backing is the exception, not the rule.
Okay to be fair she was on Ubuntu.

She doesn’t seem to have issues with macOS at all though, aside from the one time I had her using a VPN and it expired which is totally on me and disabling it was nonobvious.
Wow. If that’s all true then that’s really disconcerting but hardly surprising in this corrupt-to-bone world. Every single choice we have to make boils down to taking the lesser evil.
Are you saying you have to issue a "god" level API access token to access a single docker (private) image in the Digital Ocean container registry?
Generally, where the candidate is required to have a working local environment, companies will tell the candidate that in the prep material.

It’s surprising how often this is ignored.
Musk the pro-Russian, anti worker rights strikes again. Authoritarian and anti-social regimes are clearly a part of his personal agenda at this point. I never say that but fuck that guy, he did some great things but still manages to be a net negative for the world.

I uninstalled Twitter from all my platforms and will not use any of his products in the future. If you want to « gotcha » me with some product I don’t realize is his, please tell me so that I stop using it asap.
Could you give a few examples of _tech support problems_ she had with macOS that was escalated to you?
Yeah I was unaware of this, and will no longer consider DO for anything beyond basic VPS hosting, if even that.
It seems like an extension of memory and map-making to me. And so many animals behave according to some map: squirrels and dogs digging up stored food; birds migrating; any animal that hunts or fights; any animal that brings food back to kids in a nest. All these actions require comparison of current sensory data against an ideal or memory of some benefit. The comparison requires some kind of model-forming/holding.

Now I write it out like this, it almost seems that the more interesting questions lie not in “can they do it” and more in “why do people have variations of ability; why does it stay active during sleep?
You don't have to pay to rent the bike. The homeless person attaches the devices and then peddles on it stationary in the dock.
I use Firefox as my main browser and it is fine. People complain because it is not Chrome, that is all. It is a shame, because the last remnants of the open web will soon be gone, and with them any sort of user control over their computing environments, namely the ability to block intrusive ads and the various other mechanisms of surveillance capitalism. But I guess it will all be worth it because something was off by 1px on Firefox or it lacked "polish" or whatever...
Just like most us cities too. I love Montreal but it's not more pedestrian than say, NYC. Shutting down 2-3 streets in the summer is basically the biggest difference.
This field is in a serious need of disruption. The one thing they might vring in - customer service - is always absolutely abysmal.

I once had a travel agency "negotiate for me" a case where I had booked the wrong date, immediately noticed it and contacted back. The agency failed, so I called the hotel directly and they agreed immediately.

These services are usable as search engines perhaps but that's it. Never book through them.
"Can we please have a Firefox that leans into being the browser for power users? Bundle ... BitTorrent support."

"There are plugins that get it talking to Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, RocketChat, Signal, Mattermost, you name it. Adopt it, update it, add it to Chat Core."

This is terrible advice. They've spent years paring back and compartmentalising to get Firefox into the lean, secure browser it is today. Make a fork if you want but don't turn it into an slow, ugly everything app.
Absolutely honest question, please consider me novice in the area. If you have $7K and want to run LLM locally, does getting Mac with M2 ultra and 192 Gb make most sense?
I know, sigh. Which is exactly why we need more structural defense against this behavior. I think it’s about time for a modern day constitutional convention.
Maybe in Helsinki. Try any of the thousand other little towns around here, or even the other major cities (Jyväskylä is very underrated imo) and it's a totally different story.

I don't disagree with your claim that last generation's housing policies have caused serious problems, but the scale of what I've seen so far in Finland is nothing like what it is in the United States.

The fact that when you inherit property from a deceased relative, you're also hit with a 15% inheritance tax that year, to be paid in cash, helps. Suddenly holding onto that $700,000 Helsinki condo for the kiddos starts to look like it might do more harm than good.

https://www.suomi.fi/guides/death-of-a-close-family-member/p...

Ultimately I hold out hope that Finland will continue down its path of very common remote work, allowing even mid-career professionals to live wherever they want in this beautiful country. We're all in this together.
The fact that you think it should be the customers’ responsibility to make sure that DO doesn’t accidentally give your private data away to unknown third parties is an absolutely minblowing take on this matter.

I’ve been a DO customer for the better part of a decade, but there is no way that I can continue to be a customer with a company that has such a blasé stance toward security and protecting customer data.

If anyone can suggest any alternatives that are not Hetzner, I would be interested.
>Also, why on earth would we be manufacturing new beds for each new occupant in every case?

I can think of multiple scenarios: disaster relief is often staged in temporary regions where the most important thing - once the humans have rested - is to evacuate the region, and - also important, leave the beds behind, i.e. pandemic situations, mass casualty events, etc.

In addition, it should not be overlooked that the beds can be used as an energy source, so if you air-drop 100 of them to a camp site with 10 victims and 15 responders, they also have something to feed into the kettles while they triage/evacuate.

>Tube and canvas camp beds are durable and reusable.

In certain response scenarios, this is a liability - i.e. have to be portaged in and out. These cardboard beds could probably survive rather a longer fall from the back of a helicopter or out the back of a speeding emergency response vehicle.

>Humanitarian work should be praised, but not if it’s counterproductive self-congratulation.

I'm not sure the depth of your critique of this device matches the breadth of its potential application - the extension of which is, after all, the purpose of these kinds of "puff piece"'s .. but I would like to point out that insulting comments are a dime a dozen - whereas a creative conjecture might actually prove a bit more fruitful - especially in the humanitarian context.
> I myself was only paid £18k/pa as a junior programmer at a big studio, programming in C++ with two CS degrees

How long ago was that though? I started professionally in games in 2004 getting paid £16k/pa living in Dundee making J2ME games then moved over to another company making a UE3 title after six months going up to 19k/pa. I also had an offer for 21k/pa working for EA Chertsey but didn't fancy moving there!

I hope base salary has gone up by quite a bit in the UK since then!
Did you just jump into a sub comment and it read prior comment? Lol credit card points. Then deposit and pay off what you spent.
Using a hand crank for 30 minutes? Nah... pedaling will definitely be easier.
I didn't expect you'd actually reply to everything! :)

But yes, if by cloning you're referring to just the broad set of technologies involved like artificial wombs, rather than specifically the technology to grow an exact copy of an existing human, I agree that the ethical problems are a lot more solvable and the tech a lot more justifiable as it would be compensating for medical issues.

As for developing it with animals first, of course we would do that, but at some point it has to be tested on humans, which still involves the same risks since developmentally we are fairly different from most animals, especially when it comes to the brain.
I can see Mullvad taking over the "privacy browser" niche in the future thanks to Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser which they contribute to.
It is just a definition of "broad" that is needed. Today for the EU is "every country must agree". If we set up a definition o f"broad" based on population or contribution (or contribution per population) then it could work.

I understand that this is not ideal for smaller countries (or the ones that do not participate enough) but it is difficult to admit that whole countries are taken hostage by others, independently of their participation.

This veto-based system simply does not work at scale
> two wrongs don't make a right

but three rights make a left!
> note taking ... spreadsheet ... slack replacement

Sounds like Teams, but without anyone complaining about having to use it.
Are USB money managers fiduciaries?
My system has twitter blocked by hostname, it couldn't load a twitter resource if I tried. The page loaded fast for me, so those "quotes", if that's what they are, are just text on the page and not embeds

Edit: huh you're not alone though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37724652 And checking a traffic capture, indeed it shows platform.twitter.com being loaded and blocked. Wtf is it trying to load (to the point of crashing browsers) if not the twitter posts?!
normal slow doctor stuff... fine...
This review addresses your concerns. https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/1/23895069/walter-isaacson-... The book is more revealing about Isaacson than it is about Musk once one digs into the known facts of the events.
I would love to buy a nice bike, but I can’t fork out any more than $200 for something that I know will be stolen almost surely with probability 1 as time goes on.

The solution for rampant petty crime should be to increase its penalty.

Make stealing a bike equivalent penalty to stealing a car.
The James Webb Space Telescope imaged ancient galaxies that shouldn't exist
Or 2x 3090s to make it even more cost effective.

If you're using these for purely inference (which is what the 5000 seems like it's tuned for) the vram's the real bottleneck so you get a similar bang for your buck using last gen's cards vs. the bleeding edge.

I've also found the crypto crash has dumped a bunch of these well-worn cards on the market you can pick up a bit cheaper.
I never give a definite answer before I'm at least somewhat familiar with the problem at hand and their deadlines - I'm not able to tell from this article alone if the author did that.

Anyway this approach is profitable but comes with two downsides:

-You risk getting stuck with a project that was much larger than you anticipated.

-Eventually you find that your business is not what you originally envisioned.

I used to work for a company that wanted to get into the Big Data space back when that was a fashionable buzzword.

I went to an interview there a couple of years after parting ways only to discover that while they still heavily advertised big data, deep learning and whatnot, their main money maker was some pretty standard DevOps.
Why do we treat people like Madoff or SBF who steal millions in one manner, and people like this who steal millions in a different manner?

Seems to me there shouldn't just be civil penalties. These people are large scale thieves.
Sure. If you just have doubts, I get it. But if your partner doesn’t want it at all, then you need to really not push the issue (and if you really want kids, consider changing partners). The trick is understanding you and your partner well enough to distinguish between doubts and no.
Someone likely saw it as a good chance to "take over" more of the tech team headcount.
Actually just deleted it from my phone this morning. It's beyond garbage. I cringe every time I need to open it. But I realized I never really need to open it. So it's gone. Awful app.
Uber student driver! Cheap! Would I? Hmm.
Go was very much intended as a systems programming language. It's literally in the initial announcement[1]: "Go is a great language for systems programming with support for multi-processing, a fresh and lightweight take on object-oriented design, plus some cool features like true closures and reflection."

The whole cloud bonanza came later. A lot of Go programmers I know also don't really like it (myself included).

[1]: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2009/11/hey-ho-lets-go.htm...
> a peripheral commonly issued along side laptops without one

Wait, _is_ it? In this future year of 2023? I haven’t seen this as common practice for at least a decade.

(The sort of higher-security-stance companies who disable USB drive support will also generally disable support for external optical drives, because why take the risk?)
Raspberry Pi 400 perhaps?

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/

Kind of reminds me of my old Acorn Electron.
> Its really impossible to go back in history, at all.

That sounds quite defeatist.

I expect that linguistic, archaeological, logistical, genetic, and probably a few other vectors, can lead us to at least a sequence (causation) view of history we can have some confidence in, and then perhaps we can debate the precise dates.

> Its pretty much impossible to agree about what is going on in the present.

That sounds like a mantra posited by people trying to claim truth is subjective, and/or that a particular narrative (unsupported by evidence) is 'going on'.

I prefer to believe that an objective assessment of reality (as it stands) is not beyond our capabilities.
They are not physical alterations. The software doesn't change the physical structure of the FPGA or CPU it's running on. It is not creating new gates or transistors or how they're physically connected, only utilizing the existing physical connections differently
Wouldn't that mean that you should just define ERROR as the first enumeration constant, with value 0, rather than break out of the enum type?

It's really common though to use enums as array indices, which start at 0.
They can't find big public + retail to dump? so sad. Maybe they should try creating a real value? That's never the aim, isn't it
Here’s the thing about deniability: even if you successfully remove all cryptographic proof of provenance, actually denying it is still asserting a frame job. That’s useless if the party you’re trying to mislead either is or trusts the data source, like, say, in the case of police surveillance, hackers, nation-state attackers…

I think the real solution to future breaches is ephemerality, which is why it’s critical for any secure messaging service to not only implement all-participant auto-delete, but to also make it easy to opt in to only for specific messages, since that brings the cost:benefit down to a point that it’s actually used.
There's Nothing Wrong with MVPs
Yeah, it's a civil case, not criminal. Only criminal trials should have standards as high as criminal trials do because only criminal trials punish you by taking away your personal autonomy and freedom. Civil trials cost you money, so obviously the standard is lower.
How do you handle moderating your church that grew fairly rapidly to over a billion parishioners?
tl;dr: more (and different) observational data needed as distances are too uncertain
Apple has what it needs to launch its own Google replacement
Right? I remember messing around with config files as a starting point. I know it still exists but that it doesn't have the same accessibility it used to. I found this stuff on my own - now id probably have to lead my children to it after ressearch. Different dynamic thats all.
I think this is missing the trust that the delegated sender adds. If you have an email with a DKIM signature from Gmail, then either:

a. The email is authentic.

b. Gmail has risked its reputation to "forge" the signature of an email it never sent.

That's strong evidence that the email is authentic! On the other hand, if Gmail were to publish their old DKIM keys, anyone with technical skills could have forged that signature.

As for why repudiation is desirable for emails, think protesters. They want to verify that the emails they receive are really from each other, but minimize their exposure in case the emails leak.

It's a common property for secure messaging systems, and I don't see why emails shouldn't have it too.
While I understand why folks would miss the loss of XUL/XPCOM, stating that it was to ape Chrome feels disingenuous. Removal of those technologies enabled multiprocess Firefox and bolstered stability. If anything, based on comments I see here and elsewhere, it was one of the things that brought people back to the browser. Adopting/starting WebExtensions made sense, too (IMO), as Chrome already had way too much mindshare introduce anything totally novel.
Wow, this just confirms my belief.

There is precisely zero circumstance where it is ok to give private customer data to another customer.

The fact that you think it had anything to do with an API or how it is used is all anyone needs to know about it.

The idea that warning your customers of your vulnerabilities is "irresponsible" is only true if you care more about revenues than your customers' security.
Well first, I've not worked for DigitalOcean in a long time, I left in 2015. I don't really wanna re-hash something from 2013, but again: when you deleted a VM you could click the scrub button or pass the scrub flag in the API when you issued a delete call. It was very well documented and the scrub button wasn't hidden anywhere in the interface. The fog platform wasn't using the scrub flag in their app for whatever reason. As I recall, we did change it to scrub by default shortly after. From what I remember, the reason it wasn't originally default was the zero'ing process tried up a lot of resource on the box and it was hard on the drives and we were very much in startup mode at that time with limited capacity, so it was better to only zero if the customer requests it.
https://archive.ph/13Glc
> I find fake stories like this that act to dirty histories less entertaining and more just irritating when I realize “Oh, I am being lied to, thanks.” The worst is that years from now I will likely be left with vague recollections of this story and my brain won’t have adequately marked the memories as fiction.

You articulated something I’ve been aware of but hadn’t put into words.

It’s the primary reason I stopped reading/watching all news.
I wish it was all online. I have long hosted scans of Grothendieck’s mathematics at https://wstein.org/sga/
ah wonderful, let’s all defraud the big mean corporations. it’s not dishonest because of lots of contextual reasons not worth discussing. better to just get yours.

this is one of the many reasons why we cannot have nice things.
Hmm good ideas in here. I have a pi at home - never considered it for that kind of option.
> Note that while Boomerang is optimized for low-latency performance, models like GTR-XXL, which weighs in at 4.8 billion parameters, are very challenging to productionize.

So what is the size of your model than,
or did i miss something?
See the breadcrumbs at the top or the "go back to <parent category>" at the bottom. It's sorted under fiction...
These are people with a life and feelings and needs just as much as you. If you were in a rough situation and needed some help, how would it feel to have people dehumanise you with comments like this as if you’re some sort of pest and just want you to go away somewhere else instead of helping?
Exodus of life scientists from academia reaches historic levels, new data show
It's never fine to read English docs and send PR for Japanese engineers. You're probably familiar with Japanese audiences on the Web with a strong, how should I call it, a very unnatural grammatical "accent" almost as heavy as a stereotypical Indian accent but in literal form.

That "accent" is due to our standard English teaching method that builds up an on-the-fly bidirectional translation layer on top of pure Japanese internal monologue. We're trained all the way from middle schools to college/University to do this complex rule-based word transposition and word-for-word substitution technique and that is unnatural as anything and slow as, like real QEMU. This is also why many dumb-faced Japanese people with some English skills are rather quick to issue and respond to fewer-words commands with highly technical expressions("don't lubricate [that] receptacle") but are far slower at returning verbal responses with higher word counts("I'm already 5 minutes into the future from the point I was to be there"), because they're doing it and it's not just a complex multi-parallel but also kind of an exponential time process.

I'm done with that method for better or worse, and I suspect my "tone" in literal English should not even be convincingly Japanese. But it's still way harder to do English, and for the vast majority of us who aren't demonstrably English speaking, it's just their precise translation skills coming with massive overhead.
Did you read the article? It's not about toxic positivity, it's about how to craft "no" and "yes" such that they're not absolute and can still make both sides happy. Has nothing to do with feelings.
Great production value
That’s a very uncharitable interpretation of what I wrote. Here is more information on what I actually meant: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/style/article/protest-design-future-...
I read that as the literal letters for like 10 seconds before realising it was French for 'at home'. Made me laugh.
Detecting connecting troubles is challeging.
Panels need to be changed every 20 years? 20 years is their minimum. What over time causes a panel to fail?

I think counting a nuclear plant specifically without also counting the uranium mine required to support it is not completely honest. And also the storage facility for the waste should be counted as well. Uranium is typically huge open pit mines.
Absolutely. One of my favorite nutrition papers is titled something like "an insulin index of 1000 kJ portions of common foods" -- should be easy to Google, and worth a read.
Thats really interesting and it takes some of the config overhead out of the equation for younger kids but still keeps some of the technical.
And a proposed solution: https://oxtweekend.com/
Is it now only Dalle 3? I remember it was a mix Dalle 2 and 3 like two days ago.