skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came here to look for this comment. Sad, but predictable.
Anecdotally, I once worked with a guy who told me his wife was so hooked on seaweed is healthy she ate too much of it over time and the iodine destroyed her thyroid.

All things in moderation.
It counts if you were on the sub list as of the end of their reporting period. You won't be counted in the next quarter.
In Geneva, Switzerland there are various buildings named after John Knox, the early Scot Protestant who lived for a while in Geneva after being exiled. When Knox is mentioned in America his name is normally pronounced "Nox" like Fort Knox is. But in Switzerland the K isn't silent, as I learned when visiting. It's weird when you think about it why English decided that K's at the start of words should be silent.
Sparse Matrix Algorithms (Stanford, June 2013, Tim Davis) [video]
But lower dividend yields mean lower yielding retirement funds, with quality of life effects downstream from that.

Now, there's plenty to be said about the funding side of the equation to improve wealth inequality and/or increase budgets, but that's orthogonal to the spending-side necessary tradeoffs to harden against extremely rare disasters.

In other words, supposing you had the political pull to get more money entirely from the richest 0.01%, 1%, or 5% (and putting aside that not everyone agrees that would be good), that extra money would probably still be better spent on more infrastructure and social programs, not on hardening against extremely rare events.
Maybe I'm dumb, but why does hamster mean slut?

I'm trying to google it and look in slang dictionaries and I'm not finding a thing.

(Elderberry wine makes sense.)
Incidentally, the name comes from a region in Japan. A university named after the same region changed its English name to "Kindai University" to avoid this issue:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/may/21/kinki-univ...
It's real rare for me to see people just casually drop the black sun in conversation, though I've heard it previously called the Sonnenrad
Almost all Wi-Fi chipsets released in the last couple of years support this.

Many Windows and Android devices have been able to share a Wi-Fi network with other devices over another SSID, for example.

The only thing that's complicated is if a device needs to be a 802.11 station on one frequency/channel, and a host or P2P device on another, but that's almost always avoidable.

Everything else can be done purely in firmware or software.
Funny how there was no T2 diabetes ~150 years ago even in population who ate a lot of meat.

Modern nutritional science is total garbage.
Oh yeah good call. Cidr was the internal tool I used at Google when I was an employee there. Github Codespaces is what my current company uses
By definition unions have local monopolies and can't be attacked. In a well-run truly free economy, corporations don't have that.

my view of the power distributions and their results

* company town, one company enslaving all workers <=== bad

* town with many companies, competing for workers. incentivizes all to good behavior <=== good

* town with many companies, each with a union that locks down behavior and can't be attacked <=== somewhat bad, blocks change, can be taken over by corrupt unions, but can also give benefits. as in your comment, though, people become extremely dogmatic about this and it becomes rational to be "union forever right or wrong" rather than actually thinking about the best way to organize things. i.e. police unions being insanely defensive and stubborn, and not enforcing any quality controls on cops.

* one/zero companies, one national union - i.e. CCP. When put into place, doesn't work, and when not well-controlled devolves to basically worker enslavement. Most of the history of modern China, and lots of historical USSR were like this. At other times they simulated stage 2 where there was competition on both worker and employer sides, and they had good results (80s-90s)

To your point about house ownership being protected by law, but job ownership not being, I think it's a matter of contracts. Selling someone and helping them own it forever is fairly trivial since it's independent (the house can decay and nobody has to pay for it, water may run out etc). But providing a job forever is another story since it clearly requires continued input of a certain quality from the worker, as well as an assumption about stability of the company, part of the economy. So it's quite easy to enforce property ownership since there are basically no guarantees (air quality, noise, availability of food, etc etc may all die out but the person still owns the land). But for a job there's no way that anyone can ensure that it will always be profitable or useful to pay a person (who ages) to do a thing.
I followed his advice during the pandemic and switched to wired ethernet and a wired mic and headphones.

When I speak on Zoom calls, people often comment on Zoom calls how good the audio quality is.

The only thing I miss is the ability to walk around taking calls.
How good is the model? I would have expected some kind of hint from the user to help it know what the background is. Something like a selection of where the subject is or what the subject is, at least as an optional fallback.
"Quod erat demonstrandum"
Time Zone Error Causes 3:19am Test of LA Earthquake Notification
The intention was for a 10:19am test, however the test was set using UTC instead of PDT time zones.
Um every big company RTO hard announcement was followed by mass layoffs. Their hope was to get a chunk out before the announcement to lower the severance numbers.

In any case, I personally like being at the office with lots of WFH flexibility.
According to The Economist Democracy Index, 8% of the world's population lived in full democracies in 2022, vs 36.9% in autocracies and the rest somewhere in between [1]. You can pick other democracy indices and measures of freedom, but you will always find that those at liberty to even just publicly contemplate a change of government are a tiny minority.

If today's world were to somehow end up having a single government, what would it be most like, those of the WEIRD [2] minority or those of the vast majority?

And even if a miracle happened and the whole world embraced freedom, how long would that last - and where would you seek refuge after the inevitable rise of the next charismatic demagogue?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#WEIRD_bias
I guess this is when they're giving everyone access? I've had this available for a couple weeks now.
You can get DVDs for free at a library. Netflix's store brand TV shows being unavailable on DVD due to platform lock-in is unsurprising.
I skimmed your post and I wonder if mojo is focusing on such small 512x512 matrices? What is your thinking on generalizing your results for larger matrices?
Yes. He comes all the time. I haven’t been in this apartment for very long but he’s had this route for at least a year. I first met him on New Years Eve when ordering a board game to play that night. I came back from picking up last minute groceries and he was delivering packages. In the spring we talked NBA playoffs (he was very proud that he predicted the Nuggets to sweep the Lakers). During the summer when we talked about the Cubs. It’s coincidence we bump into each other but I see him driving the truck around.
Have been exploring this and it is a pretty fun way to learn some of the intrinsics of some products we use daily!

I have also had positive interactions with Sarp so hoping this product takes off!
Weird that you conflate a union with an oligopoly; historically they've been the polar opposite answer to each other.
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Strange. I’ve had this for maybe a month now.

Edit: it looks to be available in the iOS app now too - which previously was not.
varies by country, but in the US, YouTube Premium looks to cost $14/mo, or $11.66 if paying for the year at once.

edit: that's for the individual plan; 5-member family plan is $23 in the US and I'm not sure whether you can pay for a year in advance.
It isn't a tutorial/course but a guided step-by-step project with server-side tests for every step.
I have an old house that had ungrounded outlets. My MBP made me take on costly electrical repairs cuz I got so sick of the shocks and tingling sensation whenever id touch it while charging. I should've put a multimeter on it to see what voltage and current it carried, didn't "hurt" but it was certainly a noticeable tingling.
And for Go, there's https://github.com/chihaya/chihaya & https://github.com/cenkalti/rain.
With my WACOM tablet and stylus I cannot "lift" the pen off of the page.

Once I start marking with the pen, it continues to draw continuously from point-to-point even when lifting the pen.

It acts as if I never lift the pen, once I have made contact and start drawing.
Private Equity Needs a New Talent Strategy
> where the term becomes meaningless

Sure, you're welcome to just stop examining thoughts at the surface level and not dig deeper. Other people here seem content with that. I'm not.
Is anyone still using/making money with MS Access in 2023?
Interesting that none of the new features (DALLE-3, Advanced Data Analysis, Browse with Bing) are usable without enabling history (and therefore, using your data for training).
Yeah christiania is great and all but incidentally I've been going to christiania for almost as long as we've been able to file our taxes online with a button. (20 years)
At first glance it seems like it can't modify uploaded pictures?

That would be a very nice feature to have.
Pfizer hikes price of Covid antiviral Paxlovid from $530 to nearly $1,400
Of "Frequently update dependencies to latest" or "don't have to modify code which depends on others", you only get to pick one.

If you're frequently updating to latest, you're on the bleeding edge; sometimes things will bleed more than others.

If you're stable, you might not have the latest and greatest all the time.

The attitude of expecting to always have the latest and greatest, but never have anything break, all while not paying for the effort, seems absurd to me.
In the words of AI Trump: Skill Issue.
Surely he only wanted WinAmp to listen to mp3s recorded by his school band.
In 'mixup,' Californians get MyShake earthquake test alert at 3 a.m
Odd then that the USA has a much lower labor force participation rate than Germany.
That spec seems in line with my experience, but you don't run the thing full bore continuously. I generally run around 1/2-3/4 power and burst when I need more power to get something unstuck. It's nonlinear, so the battery lasts much longer this way.

I'd say the main sticking point is this culture of defaulting to leaf blowers to the exclusion of other tools. I've seen professional landscapers collect an entire parcel's worth of leaves into one big pile by blowing. But they're more appropriate for getting stuff out of beds and initial coalescing, and then going after each of those piles with the next collection step (I've yet to see a landscaper blow the leaves all the way to the dump).

FWIW the real price of Dewalt 6Ah batteries is more like $70-80. Rotating through 3-4 on a job is straightforward. The point is that lower externality options are most certainly available and practical, regardless of costing a little more to purchase.
> A better solution for a case like this would be to import the function from the Python standard library into the Flask namespace, so old code would still work.

Forever?
This is us now if you squint.

Survival risk, maybe not, but we are certain to see massive die-off and a decades-long cold start given a perturbation maybe an order larger than the COVID pandemic, when the system is already undergoing unprecedented stress from climate change, as appears likely in the coming century...
Are people at Google even manually reviewing any of this? They have so many people there you would imagine it's not an impossible thought.
Depends on your processes. Digital ones should handle them fine. In person you could use those good old business cards (each card now with its own number!). Over a phone call... well, the other side should already have that number on the phone and can save it.
fuse is a thing and it suffers from the exact same problem.

You could use FUSE to mount an FTP server as a filesystem but doing a listing on that "directory" may absolutely destroy your performance.

And yet, it's still a very useful thing to do.

The point being, the abstraction isn't going to be perfect, but it doesn't need to be perfect to be useful.

Hell, the extistence of terraform should make that loud and clear.
The FCC declared that it didn't have authority to regulate net neutrality. When they did, California declared that if it's not in-scope for the FCC, then there's no federal-state conflict in California regulating it themselves.
This is nothing compared to the range of price points offered for server CPUs. I remember one Intel launch must've included like 50 different SKUs. It's clear that companies do not just buy the most expensive one.
Scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don't have free will
If we're on the topic of Star Trek, observe how the crew of Enterprise-D talked with the ship's computer. LLMs are the quality jump in technology that, for the first time, make it possible to create this kind of DWIM interaction, where the computer can actually understand what you mean when you talk to it like to a person, in natural language, instead of a restricted language.

Ironically, later shows dialed down on the smartness of Starfleet computers - from what I heard, TNG level voice interface seemed too advanced to be believable. But it turns out, the unbelievable became reality sooner than anyone expected.
I don't think this happened
Even before reading this, I also preferred wired connections for many reasons, including the ones listed here as well as that a wired connection can be connected to a specific port (although it is still a problem with USB; I think that USB has many problems too even though it is wired).
> AND the attacker can correctly guess the memory layout

AMD has several unpatched vulnerabilities that leak the memory layout/page table mappings, effectively nullifying KASLR as well.

they can be mitigated by KPTI, but AMD ships that in a disabled state by default because of the performance implications (with ryzen's reliance on giant caches, flushing caches every time they make a syscall would be even more disastrous for them than for Intel, so they cheat and ship insecure-by-default).

The rest of that sentence is just an overwrought description of running a javascript segment in a web browser, there's nothing load-bearing there to prevent an attack.
It pains me to see people inventing opcodes for operations with unbounded execution times. WebAssembly is a sandboxed runtime first and foremost, and part of a sandbox's security is the ability to limit resource usage. I don't want untrusted user code to DoS my WASM engine, and such opcodes are the perfect vector for this kind of attack. Lua made this mistake with "string.find" [1], and I wish the WASM committee would not repeat it with GC and stringref.

[1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg01595.html
POSIX was outdated at its inception. But it turns out that's fine. Lots of people have gotten plenty of good use out of POSIX. It does basic things in a straightforward way and it's easy to implement.

Cloud-based systems are basically the new UNIX, in that they are all completely different and non-standard and it's impossible to write something portable for more than one cloud provider. It would be great to have a "new POSIX" designed for the Cloud era.
Mainly around bounding variables, especially when coupled with overly ambitious scope/number of tests. The short version is that its really easy to wind up with say a 80 experiment test where half or more of the combinations are invalid or perform poorly to the degree they don't adequately lend confidence to the prediction in the region of the global maximum. Leads to wasted work and the poor predictive ability doesn't lead well into focused future work. There are also the usual statistical foot guns of p-hacking and such.

For a concrete example, consider a bread baking optimization, considering time, temperature, and baking soda %. This gives a cubic design space, for which the naively (ignoring expected covariance of temperature*time) optimal design for 9 experiments is the cube's corners + the center point. If, for instance, your predetermined t_max always results in a briquette instead of a loaf, ~half of your experimental data is going to be worthless.

With more nuance, and temp_max is genuinely the highest reasonable temperature there are still two problems:

a. covariance is likely to drive combinations into 'invalid' territory (e.g. temp_max + time_max is likely to be invalid, or 2/9ths of your experimental. temp_min / time_min is also likely invalid for another 2/9ths).

b. predictive power / linearity of response over the ranges specified. Even if the combinations aren't invalid, if they are all the min/max combinations are poorly performing (due to overly wide, but valid, boundaries) you can wind up with poor predictive performance.

Covariance can be accounted for, design space trimmed (e.g. to a cube with a corner or two cut off), and bounds set conservatively but that is all tricky manual intervention that relies on knowledge of the problem domain and scaling factors of the underlying physics. When the problem isn't well understood it is easy to make errors in assumptions, those errors have a high cost, and if the problem was well understood a DOE probably wouldn't be necessary.

edit: for a less trivial example of a suitable problem for a d-optimal DOE, but with tricky bounding / underlying physics, consider: a 4 part formulation of fumed silica, cyanoacrylate, isopropanol, and water to make a gap-filling/quick-setting adhesive.
I caught that. Yes, that's a good thing.
Convoy is closing its core business and laying off a majority of its workforce
>The mere presence of water or carbon challenges no theories, surprises no one, disproves no one in the scientific community.

Its actually doing the opposite of this. See https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/negative-results-null-...
Forget about money - do you know a lot of talented people who are happy working with people who don't share the same motivations?
> trivial reasons

This is a bit like a No True Scotsman argument. It says that there are reasons for what happened but they didn't have a Good Reason. Why are their reasons so particularly trivial?

> try to learn Flask in a world like the one you describe

This seems moot if the Flask maintainers are using semantic versioning correctly. I'd probably look into it and think that Flask-Login maintainers should have limited their Flask version if they were going to step away from maintenance. If someone else wants to pick it up they can fork it or try to get in touch with the old maintainers to get access to the central repo.
With the relative success of the SteamDeck it wouldn't be surprising if kids have heard of Linux. Also Linus Tech Tips, one the largest tech channels on YouTube, talk about it every so often.
Or The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster, which I think has held up pretty well for something published 114 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
'Wearable kidney' could help those on dialysis
"Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have said they are getting closer to creating a "wearable kidney", which could make life easier for dialysis patients."
I went to Europe years ago for work. And the adapter for my macbook work gave me wasn't grounded. Whenever I plugged my computer in I could feel a buzz when i touched the aluminum body. Others thought I was crazy. But it freaked me out and only charged when I wasn't touching it.

You make me feel like I wasn't making it all up. haha!
What's interesting to me is how AI-generated images (not just DALLE but also Midjourney and others) have a specific look and feel. It's typically characterized by high contrast and high saturation. Anyone know why that style is more likely to be the output?
I code my front-ends in TypeScript and I like JS/TS but I’d rather code my backends in just about anything else than the wild west that is JS/TS in the server. It’s 2023 and there is no equivalent of Rails, Django or .Net in the JS world. Even setting up a thin Express server to run with TypeScript can take a lot of fiddling with tooling. Bun is trying to solve this but it’s just come out… I've never used FastAPI but I’m pretty sure I could make it work in an hour. I’d rather take the context switching to about any language in the server than having to deal with JS tooling there… Besides, “your scripts/ML models/high-performance code” runs in a non-TypeScript language, why not run that everywhere?
Rome ... Virginia, USA.
Workstation motherboards are different things to server boards. Threadripper pro blurs the lines a bit but there's a decent chance it still comes with conveniences like audio and a load of USB ports that the server boards won't bother with. The chassis will look more like (and maybe sound more like) a desktop too.

I'm using a single socket epyc milan as my daily driver and it's great. 64 cores and 512gb of memory is is good times. But that only works for me because it's headless and the thin clients talking to it can do things like make noises and connect to bluetooth keyboards.
Funny if the benefit was that negligible when it seems like they fought for it so hard originally.
This seems to be the news:

> "This is the biggest carbon-rich asteroid sample ever returned to Earth," NASA administrator Bill Nelson said

Maybe the presence of carbon and water is well-established through theory and remote observation, but it seems a lot more conclusive when you can find it, go out and grab it, and bring it back to Earth. Or maybe it's already well-established through asteroids that fall naturally to Earth?

And isn't there a huge related question that is not conclusively settled whatsoever (if my armchair scientist readings are correct): whether life started here or elsewhere?
You'll have to wait for the reviews to confirm, but I believe it's highly unlikely that the ECC will be non-functional. These require RDIMM's, and it's hard to even buy RDIMM's without ECC. So if everybody who is testing it has ECC in their test machine, many of them will explicitly test ECC and it will be noticed. Also, ECC works fine on the EPYC chips these are variants of.
I haven't messed with it much yet, does anyone know if there is a way to get it to use an exact prompt instead of generated variations?
For context, this is a quote from Musk during an interview.
You can literally disable that here without it impacting your history or the use of those features:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrnC-_A7JFs4LbIuze...
I feel like you took an extremely uncharitable reading of the article and missed the point. It's not a manifesto against technological progress, it's a reminder to consider the downsides of these technologies as well as the benefits.

The main thrust of the article is that there will be both positive and negative consequences. There will be a big push by many players to extol the positives while suppressing information on the negatives to profit as much as they can. Then they can stop suppressing the negative consequences as they make their exit and leave everyone else to deal with them. This is such a standard playbook for business at this point it should not be a revelation to anyone.

Remember, you don't have to wait until Google develops a customer service AI that arbitrarily locks you out of your digital platforms because of a hallucination. You can in fact push back and request baseline levels of accountability!