skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a saying, “All models are wrong. Some models are useful.”

No matter how granular you get with specific ethnic groups, it’s not possible to capture the long tail of all the types of people who exist, and all of their appearances.

If you ask Midjourney to draw a man, should he be wearing clothes? A man might be naked. Should he have two arms and two legs? Some men don’t. What about two eyes? What color skin should he have?

The fact that Midjourney will never draw a third degree burn victim when simply asked to draw “a man” isn’t a flaw in the model. The model is biased, yes, but it is biased towards utility.
I would say that some one modern GPU has adopted PCIe 5.0, the NVIDIA H100 - if you want more (FP32) 'compute' (and no HBM...) in one GPU your sourceable choice is the L40 which didn't get PCIe 5.0. This feels like another market/product segmentation (that and L40 didn't get nvlink).
I believe that phrase was supposed to use the word: tomes.

Translation and speech to text software both can throw that error.

Not catching the misuse in editing could be due to non-native English speaker.
Given California's booming economy anything aside from Shenzhen-tier growth is an "exodus".
Thank you. That was super interesting. The etymology is quite funny.
Regardless of the numbers referenced in the article, the bottom line is people are continuously leaving CA and NY for other states. Florida's real estate is by no means less expensive than CA or NY. It seems rather obvious the continued outflow from CA and NY is CA's and NY's suffocating regulatory and tax environment.
Pixi – powerful development environments on Windows, macOS and Linux
Launtel are great, and I've never had any issue getting line speed on Steam from them. Give them a call, the staff are lovely and I'm confident will be happy to help resolve.
It is a reference to the closing lines of Middlemarch:

"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
This is a very interesting topic, but I'm having trouble understanding this paper.

Would someone be kind enough to offer a summary for dummies?
With cloud gaming there is no information leaked as the client is rendering video sent from a server and sending back inputs. You can still run an aimbot using computer vision techniques but the surface area for the client to be untrustworthy is much lower.

I also think there is a compelling design space where cheating doesn’t really matter or make sense where trusting the client is fine.
I agree with this. Incidentally, some of my most productive periods were when the team was given a real deadline. Often times either the deadline is made up entirely or there’s a generally understood sense that it can easily be pushed back. I find that if I can trust that the constraint is a real one it really helps us to scope things out of necessity.
My theory is a lot of the never ending development cycles is because engineers don’t actually believe the constraints are hard, which leads to scope creep or at least the development getting stretched out.
Pittsburgh Has Become a Hot Tech Center. Sort Of
I don't see how the copy issue is worse. It relies on an explicit user action: selecting text in a browser window, and then copy/pasting that into a terminal. This requires three intentional steps.

Pages stealing your current middle-mouse-paste selection, however, only requires selecting text in another place, and it seems like the only way to defend against this is by not selecting text. Which, at least for me, is not really feasible.
> Without an outright scholarship or wealthy background, how would you pay? I never bothered because I was an upper quartile student, not an outstanding one (I was distracted by the usual things). I needed in-state benefits and grants to afford college. This leads me to suspect there is no “academic middle class” at Harvard.

Your suspicions are evidence of your suspicion? I'm not sure what you meant by "academic middle class": If you mean, in terms of academic skill, well of course - why would Harvard accept any but the best (and wealthiest and most powerful)?

> the quality distribution of accepted candidates is roughly similar to most other universities too

Recent experience with Ivy League undergraduates leads me to a believe that it's a pretty effing talented cohort. That statement may match the snobbery that many are (rightfully) suspicious of, but it's not that; they were just very impressive.
New Policies Navigate Role of AI Assistants in CS Courses
A Practical Guide to Hiring, Managing, & Paying African Tech Talent
Something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGCWlI4A5z4
code-report does nice source code animations https://www.youtube.com/@code_report
Yeah, this part is getting lost and there's a lot of apologists here. One of the oldest tricks in the book is to create a vision, make a promise, and then say "I did my job, now engineering just has to do theirs"

I'm reminded of a manager that would add features as I was finalizing a release, sometimes hours before without telling me. He would even add features to releases that already happened. In his mind, he seemed to think that he could just attach the features to a release, and bam. it's done!
What about radix e*pi*i, or just e?

That doesn't do integers well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37860238
Makes sense since Texas is akin to California with regards to restrictions where you can carry a firearm. Namely gun free zone signs carrying the force of a felony preventing carry pretty much anywhere slightly urbanized. In for a penny, in for a pound as they say. FL and AZ are far less punitive in this regard.
Pompous and not very original IMHO, but I did love this passage:

"An alternative-history plot for a much better Die Hard 2 could thus perhaps include a scene in which the rescuing squad of John McClane-led police officers does not even know what building they are in, a suitably bewildering encapsulation of this method of moving undetected through the city."
Alternatively: Kinesis RGB Gaming Freestyle with the incredible "macro" button!

Macro, F1, Hello World, Macro => F1, F1, ad-infinitum

You it has a 10-slot non-keyboard zone which you can use without fear, or map fn-1,2,3, ctrl-shift-1,2,3, etc.
Wait. Please elaborate on how you do that
Conversely, the selection buffer and middle click paste are features I consider so essential to my workflow that I cannot stand any system that lacks them.
That interview was exhausting, I couldn't finish it. I have no idea why the interviewer treated this like a systems design interview at a FAANG, with constant interruptions and unnecesarily rephrasing what the interviewee had already explained. The GDC talk linked in another reply, while only tangetially related, was much more enjoyable.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231021184749/https://fortune.c...
There's a bit of a difference between an on-device chip for some AI tasks (like all modern smartphones and some computers have), and high end server-class graphics cards/GPUs/accelerators than take hundreds of watts to run for generative AI.

State of the art for low end generative AI is still running on some sort of desktop class GPU with optimised models and getting not-so-great results. A phone can't do that.

Lots of ML happens on device, more is moving to the device. Generative AI is not ready for that yet from what I can tell (based on external experience, not Google specific).
It's not cherry picking as there are several long time members who are net beneficiaries. Even if it was cherry picking, how is it irrational to pick counter examples? How does one make rational arguments then?

You don't like the EU because you don't like "open borders". You'll find any reason to hate the EU without reasoning because you don't like "open borders". Doesn't matter what good the EU has done. It can never outweigh "open borders". The EU "steals" from its members and redistributes. Taxes are theft. Nevermind that modern economies rely on public services and infrastructure funded by taxes.
Burglary is breaking and entering. Theft is the main issue affecting businesses in San Francisco, for which it has the second highest rate in the country. People come in, take whatever they want, and leave. If it's under $950, it's a misdemeanor. And that's if the perp is caught and charged.

The law only works as a deterrence for crime when there is a reasonably high chance of being caught, and the consequences work as a significant deterrent. To their credit the San Francisco Police Department have a pretty nice page on this exact issue here. [1] Not so much to their credit, the clearance rate (cases solved) for theft is at 3.4%. Then those get sent over to the DA who may or may not even choose to prosecute it. There's also things like community courts [2] that can help ensure you get the most gentle slap on the wrist if caught.

Pair these systems alongside the surplus of high value targets, and it just seems like you're creating an extremely enticing area for thieves. I also imagine this all has to be extremely demoralizing for police, which one could expect would lead to something of a downward spiral. It's just generally not a great situation.

[1] - https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/clea...

[2] - https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/restorative-justic...
> meat can reasonably be some percentage of our diet.

Is this actually true? Or is it true to you because:

> I prefer a few meals a month that include meat.

There’s tons of things some people like that the majority of people choose not to do because we’re “civilized.” But then there’s tons of stuff that we convince ourselves is logical and reasonable because it fits with the worldview and lifestyle that we personally like.
I think you haven't worked with or on real production systems, or with real paying clients
The author did lots of research. Here's a comparison of some common other ways to do this: https://docs.epsio.io/faq/
Yes. When I was a kid, my family couldn’t afford electronics and internet access. Used to stay in the school library every day until 7 pm to read. I’m much more well off now but there are probably still multitudes of families where libraries are the only source of free learning materials.
Parent was talking about its codebase
It does. But like every other middleware that supports consoles, you need to be under NDA to get the code.
Sure, if he'd pled guilty. If he hadn't offered such a bullshit defense he'd be long over it by now; instead he spun it out in the justice system for 7 years, wasting everyone's time, so he can think about that for 7 months. I am fine with him doing some time, I think we're too soft on fraud and that's why we have so much of it.

I don't find unnecessarily imprisoning people particularly amusing, personally.

Oh, now it's serious business? Too bad.
TIL that middle-click pasting is a controversial feature. I guess people really can argue over anything.
I'm not. I just saw first hand how you call the cops and no one comes, can't be bothered. Don't leave anything in your car, don't ride your bike or get mugged. Drugged out zombies. I'm good. We were there in and out over a 5y span and I've had enough. How anyone convinces themselves that this is normal.. has Stockholm syndrome.

Since we arrived as foreigners, the locals all have been telling a well rehearsed line of "that's normal for any major urban area". These folks don't know what normal cities are supposed to be like. Clearly they think this as a coping mechanism or because they don't know what they're talking about.

Great things and ideas come from California, but this stuff is the tax paid for that greatness. The social experimental tendencies don't come for free or without consequences.
Oh sorry, didn’t realize.
While interesting, their study has a weird relation to the headline claim. It’s not unrelated, but it’s not a demonstration of the claim (I don’t see that they measured the time teams spent discussing each statement), nor does it really a seem like a consequence of the claim.

So while I appreciate some of the reminders about decision-making it’s an oddly structured article.
It does. Try grep -i
As an outsider, for me the interesting part is if those who move out will be able to replicate SV.

People like to claim that Europe missed on tech because of regulations but there’s no EU regulations in TX or FL or AZ or anywhere outside of Europe and yet no successful replications so far. Many places are actively trying to replicate it, Silicon Valley of this Silicon Valley of that and no one ever came close.

It would be very interesting if AZ, for example, becomes the next SV so we can study it.

On the other hand, China and India seem to have their moments in hardware or niches or Scandinavian countries in EU are seeing some success too.

Anyway, it’s curious to see the effect of people moving around.
I have higher website standards for any project related to graphics rendering. Ogre's homepage with its white text over the yellow to green gradient background image is a bit of a disappointment. My vision is not bad, but I needed to select to read the text.
It's not mentioned in that blog post except for Video Boost.
> Not unless you think everybody is involved with hooking up every single instance of an AI.

That’s not what I meant - let me try to clarify. I think you are going to see a very widespread adoption of AI, and the security boundaries are going to look like IoT, which is to say a dumpster fire. The thing that makes me worried is that we will get broad market penetration followed by gradual frog-boiling upgrades to scary capabilities. I don’t think your model of “some bad people will set up dangerous AI and we can simply stop them” is going to be realistic. Rather, I think that the default extrapolation of existing trends is that ~everybody is going to by default use services that effectively hook up LLMs (or their successors) to all the digital and physical actuators in their lives.

I’m not that worried about you personally hooking up an AI on your laptop to a chainsaw drone, and then pulling the cord when it behaves badly. Some scenarios that worry me more are things like: what if your Alexa++ gets prompt-hacked? Assume Alexa gained long-running agent abilities. That will be running in some data center along with all the other instances of Alexa. If your instance starts making malicious actions somewhere else on the internet or directing your robot butlers to rampage somewhere, how would you even track down which agent needs to get its process terminated?

Even in your terms though, I’m reminded of the episode of “love death and robots” where the humans are trying to get through to tech support while their roombas try to kill them.

How would you “turn it off” if your smart-car disables all the UIs and tries to drive you off a cliff? You seem to be imagining a very narrow deployment of this technology, limited to a brain in a box with a big red “off” button on the side. I think cloud SaaS and IoT are the better model, and plenty of physical systems will have their own battery and software switches (ie inputs they can ignore).

> that's an argument for not letting stupid humans play around with dangerous toys.

I want to be clear again that it’s not some subset of users that are “stupid” for wiring up a dangerous configuration. The default path (assuming AI progress continues) for all software services in the next 5-10 years is for AI agents to get wired into basically every software interface. It gets deployed to everybody.

> Which would mean that open sourcing AI code is tantamount to spewing toxic waste randomly out into the world

I will probably bite that bullet within a few generations. I don’t think the current models are in themselves dangerous. Unless we solve alignment, I’d be extremely worried about publishing weights for a human-level or above AGI. I’m still undecided on the question of whether the technological proliferation effects of open-weighting current-gen models is bad enough that it must be prohibited. I suspect not yet because most of the danger is actually from closed-source models like ChatGPT. (Also how do you even enforce such a ban? It only makes sense if global.)
I'll have to look into Clickhouse, thanks.

What are the main alternatives to Clickhouse, and how do they fare?
Selling when you learn reddit is abandoning it is expected. Not many people would want to keep holding after.
Insisting your users give you their phone numbers gives you some basic anti-spam protection, gives you strong tracking info for ad purposes, and makes account recovery the telco’s problem.
Retro! Love it.
I wish it was easier to program a GPU...

I've already refrained myself to learn vulkan because it scares me, but similarly, opengl and cuda are a bit mysterious to me, and I don't really know how I could take advantage of it, since most computing tasks cannot be made parallel.

I've read there are data structures that are somehow able to take advantage of a GPU as an alternative to the CPU (for example a database running on a GPU), but it seems a very new domain, and I don't have the skill to explore it.
How much of that is actually burned in the atmosphere?

The rocket gets past 10 km (troposphere) in about a minute, 50km (height of stratosphere) in a little over two minutes and is over the Karman line by the three minute mark. The total burn time may be 9-10 minutes (or maybe a bit more, if there is a circularization burn).

So it's not like that entire fuel load is getting burned at sea level. Majority of the CO2 is going into the vacuum of space - which is a pretty good place for fossil fuel CO2 to go to.
Compilers, when handling some expression B, should not make decisions based on the blind assumption that some other previously seen expression A is well-defined.

Or, not by default, even with optimizations on.

This is an unsafe behavior that should be opt-in, at a fine granularity, so that its benefit can be obtained when it matters.

That's all there is to it.
MNPI?

https://www.penningtonslaw.com/news-publications/latest-news...
> Rust opted to do as much syntactic sugar as possible.

Of all the criticisms of Rust, this is really the weirdest. What syntactic sugar do you find objectionable in Rust? It has almost none.

Are you talking about macros?
26 foot truck Uhaul on Nov 13:

From Palo Alto to Austin: $4,837

From Austin to Palo Alto: $2,459

Try it yourself:
https://www.uhaul.com/Truck-Rentals/
That is scale I can't comprehend.
Oops! I like to use the back button too. While implementing the distributable link feature, I overlooked that this is breaking the back button behaviour.

Thanks for pointing this out! I have pushed a fix for it just now. Please hard-refresh the page (ctrl+F5, cmd+shift+r, etc.) and let me know if you still see issues.
On the Jabber.ru MitM Attack
Florida's real estate is definitely cheaper than CA or NY. Median price is 1/2 of CA and 3/4 of NY. Plus much lower taxes.
But it does exist, and it won’t end for as long as corn is farmed and farm states have senators. Given this reality, the other option is doing absolutely nothing and being angry that the world is emergently the way it is. While it doesn’t have to be this way it is this way, and the engineering solution is actually achievable while the political solution is intractable.
That's the point of most criminal and tort laws: Penalizing anti-social expected behavior in order to disincentivize it.
see also: most Kubernetes tooling.

Kubernetes is great, but working with a tool that installs an in-cluster REST API that calls another in-cluster REST API that renders objects to be consumed by another in-cluster REST API that will also render objects to be consumed by multiple in-cluster REST APIs that will, eventually, produce containers that are externally accessible through a glorified NGINX config (with L4 filtering done by iptables, if you're lucky) can get extremely tiring.

(To be clear, this is still better than scripts that would call scripts that would write values to files/databases all over the place that are mutated by other scripts since Kubernetes does a really good job of enforcing interfaces between boundaries)
A colleague of mine once destroyed a customer's system with a middle mouse button fat finger.

He was copying a listing all of the executables in various locations on the machine he'd created using ls -l, into a text document (logged in as root). Unfortunately, he accidentally middle-clicked while moving the mouse to the text editor, and it pasted everything into the shell.

Since it was mostly symlinks in the standard /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin etc, the shell dutifully redirected garbage into each destination binary, rendering the OS unusable.
Are you saying that the host wants the contestant to lose? This does not seem to be how game show hosts behave in reality.
Someone once said that "A hundred fools do not make one wise man."
Related (I think they use Microwatt): https://libre-soc.org/
I worked for Ticketmaster as an Engineering Director for a few years. Reading through the comments, most of them are wrong. Here are the real reasons, imho.

(1) The ticketing system you want as a consumer is not the ticketing system that artists/venues/promoters want. As a consumer, you hate those Ticketmaster fees. The others? They love those fees. That's how they get paid. There are almost no standard fees for Ticketmaster. Every fee is contract specific and split between the parties. From the convenience fee to the print-at-home-free -- cuts of those got to everyone.

You could build the consumer-friendly platform, but it's not going to be used anyone, and certainly not by top artists. Top artists expect to get get 95% to 105% of the ticket price (yes, more than 100%). That leaves everyone else (including the promoter & venues reliant on other revenue streams like fees.

(2) The business requirements make it a technical beast to solve. Nevermind your LAMP-based ecomm site. Tickets aren't fungible. That creates a lot of problems. Thing selling airline tickets, not widgets on Amazon. Venues can be configured in countless ways. Pricing strategies are complex, often unique per show & dynamic. Most shows don't sell out. The promoter is the one who took the financial risk and needs to figure out how to maximize the revenue per show. Once the show is over, those unsold tickets are worthless.

(3) Scaling is hard. Massive spikes during onsale, but very low QPS at other times. The hardware cost profile is challenging than most non-FAANG services.

(4) Creating a ticket system for a small theatre with fixed seating, or purely GA events isn't that hard. What's hard is a top tier artist going on tour across the country. (And that's where most of the profit is.)

(5) Ticketing isn't that profitable. You'd have to invest a lot of resource for not much gain. The last serious attempt was LiveNation. They dumped hundreds of millions trying to build their own platform. Then gave up & bought Ticketmaster.
It's the single greatest feature of any Unix desktop. Click and drag to select a section, or double click to select a word, or triple click to select a line, then middle click to paste. All without leaving the mouse or the touchpad. I buy laptops with physical mouse keys by the touchpad to middle click easily.
I've had a similar thought about magic in fantasy games. In our world, a person throwing a fireball or teleporting across a chasm would be--at the very just--startling. But in the world of a fantasy game, these things are de rigueur. In extrapolation "what would be a startling display of power", I end up imagining the sorts of exploits that like https://youtu.be/H9nMezJvr-k?si=hWL_JrB0v94RO_91
How to protect my authenticator app?
With another authenticator app?