skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We keep hearing this is crazy, but is there evidence to back that up? At this point with hundreds of thousands of Tesla vehicles logging millions of miles a month, I feel like we’d be hearing non-stop reports of destruction on the highways if it really is as crazy as the average HN reader has been led to believe.
I hate LIGO because it shouldn't work on paper, and few seem to actually understand it.

1. If you have a light wave in the universe, and you "hang" a mass by each valley and trough of the light wave, and then you squash and stretch the universe, the masses stay connected to the valleys and troughs of the light wave. Said another way, when you squash and stretch space, lightwaves within that spacetime are also squashed and stretched.

2. LIGO claims to work by measuring the squashing and stretching space with light. However, as we just learned, squashing space also squashes light waves. So the LIGO arms and light waves in the arms are all compressed together.

Said another way, LIGO can't work because the ruler itself is squashing as space squashes, so you can't measure if space is compressing.

LIGO does work, but if you can't explain how it works despite this description, then you don't understand LIGO.
I hope the mouse cursor at least moves at your screen's refresh rate...
Almost nothing in your comment is true. Moreover you didn’t bother reading the article let alone the research data.
> why you find it icky for grown men to have sex with teenagers

Michael Bluth: Okay, you know what you do? You buy yourself a tape recorder, and you just record yourself for a whole day. I think you’re gonna be surprised at some of your phrasing.

Tobias: Butterscotch! Wanna lick?
If your team is full of adults, you just pick a formatter tool at the beginning of the project, add it to your pre-commit hook and then never think about it again.
IDK, Tammy look much worse at this time...https://www.windy.com/25.065/-60.732?22.166,-60.732,6
> fat shaming is certainly bullying but it's also certainly effective at discouraging overeating

As far as I know, it just traumatizes people and discourages them from eating in front of the people shaming them. Then, as we all do, they relieve the trauma by using their usual coping mechanism - in their case, eating.

It's just like hitting kids. It teaches them to avoid getting hit; they learn nothing about their behavior.
https://archive.ph/cKyEB
In Japan development might mean going out for drinks with the other company :)
Ya, nothing in the states is set up for that outside of maybe NYC. We just grew our urban planning post war based on cars. It is absolute insanity. Seattle is even considered one of the better cities for public transit.
I don't think massive is a good word for it. The supporting systems around it are not of the usual size for a storm of this intensity. It's easy to miss it on the wind map but then, all of a sudden, there are 75kt winds right around Acapulco.

https://www.windy.com/?17.049,-98.761,5
Aint that the issue. As the weather becomes more chaotic, the models become less useful. An observation that has caused me a lot of thoughts as we slide into our climate changes we've made this century.

Greetings from a warm and balmy late October in Michigan.
Also a lot of these Chinese fake their standardized tests (had a friend for whom this was his job in China) to get in and fake the academic work (I went to an ivy, this actually happened, chinese sending other people in for tests…). At least at the high end (second generation wealthy “fuerdai”) it’s a culture of shortcuts where only the outcome is important, not improving as a human.
This is the intention of capitalism - profits go to the companies who can build products that people are most enticed to buy. A company that doesn't work to make their product loved/addictive will not continue to exist.

Another way of phrasing what you've said is that we should prevent companies from building products that people really like and want to use. No one is forcing anyone to use Facebook.
I understand what you are saying. I'm saying that argument presented doesn't support that conclusion (though it may be true for other reasons).
Simon, just wanted to say thanks for all the great content and writings you've been putting out - it's been super helpful to help digest a lot of the fast developments in this space. Always looking forward to the next one!
Kid named “knowingly causing the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causing damage without authorization, to a protected computer”:
How do we differentiate "addictive" behaviors from "non-addictive"? Is it illegal if people like your product too much? There isn't a clear definition here of where free will comes into play.
So should we instead do smaller projects $150k at a time until we get to $1 million total spent and have proven nothing?
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The outsourcing to the private sector continues.
> People today can’t comprehend the original model because they have no experience with terminals and mainframes. This makes them treat OSI as a deep mystery.

In fairness, I have come to think that we should teach computer science by plopping students in front of a PDP-11 and teletype (probably actually a PiDP-11 under the hood, but the students don't need to know how we realized the machine), running v6 unix, take them through the Lions book[0], then take them through... probably early BSD? on similarly period-appropriate hardware (again, implemented however needed) to learn networking, and then catch them up on the following few decades, because it turns out a lot of modern concepts make more sense when you see them in the original context[1]. A person could also argue that we should get over the past and build systems that learn from past ideas and mistakes without having to actually include the entire history, but I've come to view this as impossible to actually implement so we might as well embrace the tree rings that are our computers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Commentary_on_the_UNIX_Opera...

[1] For instance, vi's key choices make perfect sense when you see the keyboard it was born on - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi#Creation
That takes me back: No Name in Boston. Right by the shipyard. Navy ppl would fly in allegedly to check on the schematics in person but really to get the chowder and fried mixed seafood platter there.
That's basically a gigantic pay cut.
Drive what though
Just added it, thank you! https://restaurants.rip/r/flavor-capistrano-rd-half-moon-bay
I'd say that people who read about LIGO and quantum limit, also understand quadrillion.
I can concur. Same results for myself starting into yoga on doing 1-2 Bikram sessions per week. Life saver. Literally.
cool. i've been wanting more people to move to the fediverse services so i have more people to talk to
I don't even think that's it—as convenient it is to explain—if someone knew exactly what product they were building java would have done just fine. Realistically scaling just isn't a bottleneck for most companies at the beginning. Excepting maybe, maybe, twitter.
Amateur hour at PG&E for the past 10 years
In this case what is being circumvented is precisely what is defined by CFAA as a malicious code or information transmitted to cause intentional damage to a protected computer system, so I doubt the courts will be too upset about effectively circumventing the mechanisms of a malicious virus.

> 5. (A) knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;

You can file whatever copyright suit you want, you can’t go damage someone else’s data just because you’re mad. Just like a contractor has to get a lien and not just go smash up their work because they didn’t get paid.
Dont do a consultancy, thats selling your time for money, and it scales poorly.

Invent a product, tutorial, or SOMETHING that takes advantage of softwares mega-advantage over other industries: It's basically free to copy, and it's basically free to distribute globally. Neither of those magical properties get used if you're a consultant selling time for money (although will be used by your client, you are capuring near zero value of that)

Selling your time is a mugs game, build a product.
> “A lot of the outcry from indie devs was kind of misplaced really. None of them are going to get anywhere near the $1m anyway.”

They still don’t get it. It was never about the terms of the new deal. It was about them changing the deal.
This is easier said than done. Making the density 2-3x is still a huge undertaking. With suburbs with single-family homes, this means bulldozing half of it and somehow redrawing all the property lines so the lots are 1/2 - 1/3 as large and building new houses within the new lots. You can't just magically take a subdivision full of McMansions and somehow increase density 2-3x, unless all those houses take in boarders.

Also, SF is still pretty unique compared to most American cities. So you might be able to do this stuff in SF, but not so much in places like Houston.
I live in Ballard, so the sounder goes right by me. We (my kid and I) even watch it go by sometime. Nowhere near to get on, though, so I’ve actually never been on one before. It would be a cool way to link Ballard to downtown Seattle by rail before 2040.
> All of these companies have hundreds, if not thousands of engineers who have been working on this problem for over a decade,

So do a lot of tech companies that make a lot of dangerous, fraudulant, or just bad products, or that try to develop technology that never comes to fruition.

The tech is impressive, but that doesn't lead to an assumption that it must be able to do whatever is needed. I've seen enough tech hype cycles to know them when I see them. In the end it will have great strengths and great weaknesses, and we should learn what they are.
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> I think many more people have the opportunity to grind leetcode than have the opportunity to "take the time to learn a new to you technology

The difference is that you are an active programmer, you’re actually programming. I graduated in 1996. I had to learn “new to me technology* as part of my job for 25 years on the job. I’ve never had to do anything approaching leetcode on my day to day job.

I’ve learned on the job:

- infrastructure and networking

- C++

- Perl

- JavaScript

- VB6

- C#

- Python

- litterally 3 dozen AWS technologies

- databases (OLAP, OLTP, key/value, document, etc)

- how to manage large projects

And pick up soft skills

> Do you think you're measuring something objective about their ability to do the job?

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. That’s where behavioral question comes from.

> To the extent that you are, do you think what you're measuring is something different / better than "has decent general intelligence

None of the behavioral traits I mention have any correlation to intelligence. I didn’t wake up one morning and learn how to communicate effectively .
Is this something that really received funding and had actual adult scientists researching it?

I have a few hypotheses I'd like to explore with some of that money

1. Hot Soup alleviates hunger. If true, Hot soup may be a useful tool in the fight against hunger. Future research may explore other types of food.

2. Wool jackets reduce chances of hypothermia. Unsure about other types of clothing. Future research may explore the effects of temperature differentials and thermodynamics (but that sounds hard so let's try a few more types of clothing first)
Note that as it stands the current proposal won’t pass as there are multiple member states (NL, Spain, Poland) against it and it’s probably unlawful. It has to be thoroughly revised to pass; those changes probably will make it more useless than it already is, but hopefully saves us from privacy/encryption backdoors, this time.
> LIGO does work, but if you can't explain how it works despite this description, then you don't understand LIGO.

So uhh... how does it work in spite of that description?
often confused with the scapegoat
In criminal trials the remedy for "confused" is to have experts who can testify and/or refute the testimony of the "confused" witness.
I don’t know about “do anything in front of the car”… it’s still a several thousand pound mass that isn’t exempt from the laws of physics… but I for one would be MUCH more willing to be a cyclist on the road if most of the cars were autonomous vehicles behaving within the letter of the law.
Microsoft both directly and indirectly turned app developers away from Windows Phone.

Mobile games at the time were all OpenGL ES, which Microsoft refused to support in favor of Direct3D.

Then there was Microsoft's perpetual need to start over. WM6.5 to WP7 broke app compatibility. WP7 to WP8, entirely new APIs. WP8 to WM10 there was UWP and Continuum, again forcing major rewrites if you wanted the new features.

And finally how Microsoft treated the devs themselves. Ad-supported apps depended on Microsoft's ad network which was artificially kept alive by Microsoft injecting money for Xbox and Office ads. Once Microsoft stopped, the whole thing folded, leaving developers with a sudden loss of income.

Developers from countries in Microsoft's 2nd tier additionally reported poor treatment and Kafka'esque bureaucracy preventing them from publishing apps: https://toshl.com/blog/why-publishing-on-the-windows-phone-m...

This is why I think the app situation would not have fixed itself over time, and MS efforts to ease transition like Project Islandwood were doomed from the start, because those fixed a problem but not the problem.
What if, like so many capable engineers, he deep down loathes Windows and wishes to do it harm?
90 minutes does sound like a lot!
Cho’s Mandarin Dim Sum, California ave, Palo Alto (briefly moved to Los Altos before Cho retired). Open to suggestions for a replacement within 50 miles.
Great story about drug addicted Judas goats.

https://www.agweb.com/news/livestock/beef/judas-goats-agricu...
It's a quirky story, but I wonder if there are any human-life examples. Like getting invited to a special meeting where everyone gets donuts and coffee, then gets laid off?
The Bikram worked for me and that was back in 2010-11. Then got in to Yoga multiple sessions per week 2011-2018. I now run and long runs concentrating on what I'm doing and feeling and the whole mechanics and performance - is very therapeutic and great for body as well. I use 80/20 method for those who are interested. I have had only 3 meltdowns in last 5 years and only one multi-day extended "dark" period.
However, also you should try to broaden your horizon. Not everyone lives in the US or Australia or Canada. Especially in Europe there‘s other countries and big cities that won‘t require thousands of kilometers to drive to. And of course, there‘s convenient public transport for long distances.
>The very, very common reason for this is that it's an employer provided laptop.
>So the employee has no (reasonable) choice in the matter.

In this case, the point is moot: the employee should not be trusting his/her data to Microsoft, not because of MS itself, but because the computer isn't theirs. Even if the computer were running an OS they trusted, they shouldn't be putting their private data on there, because it's not their computer. Clearly, the employer trusts MS, because they selected them as their OS vendor, so the employee's opinion doesn't matter. If the employer's data gets stolen or whatever, that's the employer's problem, not the employee's.

If you simply don't like the computing environment your employer provides you, find another employer, or just put up with it like you put up with other annoyances that come with employment. Every job is a compromise.
>No country is free anymore.

I was just thinking about this, imagining being indefinitely detained for terrorism because 4chan is in my browser history[0]. I'd take the fifth, and they would charge me with a crime, and so, the US Constitution is basically void.

But then I wondered: was it ever really not? Was there ever a time I could have relied on legal justice if I happen to be in an unsympathetic jurisdiction? Before there was an unconstitutional terrorism act, there would still probably have been DAs willing to look the other way on a police beating and willing to add bogus criminal charges because I'm uncooperative.

Has justice ever been reliable? Right now it seems like maybe it has always been a psychological blanket.

[0]hyperbolic obviously. Hopefully. Just a thought experiment, as that's the only/closest activity of mine that could be construed as terrorism.
I definitely notice during the work day.
Meh, we've been here before. That's a vague and impossible point to argue. I mean, sure, yes it does. Does it for all possible obstacles? Probably not? I certainly haven't tested. This kind of "$SYSTEM must have feature $X which is possessed by $COMPETITOR or else it will fail" is just plain bad analysis. It's possible for a Tesla to (1) be a better driver than you on the whole while still (2) doing weird stuff that you're sure you never would.

FWIW: Stationary junk in the freeway causes accidents with human drivers every day, all the time. People are absolutely terrible at dodging crap in the road. But you and everyone else will swear up and down that you'd *never* drive over a shed tire or whatever, even though evidence says you totally would.

Basically: no, you'll never get the evidence you want to "prove" the logical construct you've created. So Teslas, to you, will never be "safe". But in the real world they obviously are.
RIP Goood Frikin' Chicken in SF.

Held on for a long time through Covid, but finally gave up without reopening the dining room again.

https://sf.eater.com/2022/6/17/23172806/goood-frikin-chicken...
I note the typo in the first line, and it's too late to edit now. That was a genuine typo, not a willful misspelling denoting some gnu-like meaning.
So, the guy reinvented CGI, but worse?
Why is it a bad framing?

I would frame the question the same way.
I was worried about my blog entries being too heavy. I kept them under 3MiB each.

Then I made one where I realised it really needed some rather big videos for illustration. It ended up being 43MiB and... After thinking about it for a while I decided that was fine. The few people interested in my work are unlikely to even notice the download.
Hot yoga is occasionally ok. If you have a daily practice, it is better to build heat from within
Hmm, interesting, nothing against TikTok or the Fentanyl crisis?
Because it provides price discovery opportunities and liquidity.
I believe for the insurance purposes, this difference is irrelevant. The point is under the current condition, Waymo driverless cars are safer than human controlled cars, thus the question of liability and permit to operate should be cleared.

The question whether humans are truly inferior to robots in term of controlling cars is rather a question of ego than a practical one.
> - stop spending ~$2B for a 1.7 mile subway to chinatown, spend that money on a traffic light control network (ideally just let google run it)

As long as we're throwing out fantasies, I'd like us to spend $2B more, and have the Chinatown subway run all the way out to Fisherman's Wharf and the Marina district, and also expand capabilities west out to the avenues.

I'm amazed we got the Chinatown subway and I'm excited to see the city develop around it!
Truly autonomous cars will go on strike and tell you meatbags to take a hike!
In case of insurance it does mean 'expected to be safer'.
Thanks for saying that!
Some countries have national debt in the quadrillions, e.g. Japan and Indonesia.
Migrating ZFS Pool to Smaller Disk
love calvin and hobbes. its way better than garfeild imo
Sounds like a metal band that covers Weird Al Yankovic songs
Well, not Palmer, since that's supported by a research vessel from Chile.

It's also amusing because the tourist camp less than a km from Amundsen-Scott also goes by Chilean time. The tourist camp staff invited us over for Christmas when I was down at Pole, but it was like 3 am for them...
I have found success with chunking with 100 tokens, preceeded by the last 10 tokens of the previous chunk, and the first 10 tokens of the next chunk, 120 tokens total. I generate an embedding for each, then compare that to embedding(s) derived from the input query.

How to generate embeddings from the input query well is where one's focus should be IMO. An example: "don't mention x" being turned into filtering out / de-emphasizing chunks that align with the embedding for x.

I've been using these techniques along with pgvector and OpenAI's embeddings for https://flowch.ai and it works really well. A user uploads a document or uses the Chrome Extension on a webpage and FlowChai chunks up the content, generates embeddings, builds up a RAG context and then produces a report based on the user's prompt.

I hope that helps show a real world example. You're welcome to play with FlowChai for free to see how it works in practice at the application level.
New car prices have gone up a lot since the pandemic.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/buying-a-car/people-spe....

"The average cost of new cars is now well over $48,000—up almost $6,000 from two years ago and about $10,000 from September 2020, according to Kelley Blue Book. That figure largely tracks with inflation, but there are many other factors at play."
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Absolutely agree, the new design makes it so much more modern & easy to use for the average user.

I have the feeling that many complaints here are about specific workflows or specific advanced features, but instead of trying to please everyone by doing everything MZLA has built a really nice email client that just works for the majority of its users and now is in a shape where it might even attract new ones.
You missed your chance, I fully funded my wife and I's 6-figure salaries for our consulting firm for 2 years with PPP loans that were forgiven.
Not imagining, from high safety/reliability consulting for some Airbus subs, Alcatel-Alstom et al. They also use GHS and WRS of course. Different subsystems have different vendors and stacks, and sometimes those large OSes are overkill.
You forgot the number came from the insurance industry directly, who will bear the blunt cost if their calculations are wrong. So alone due to their self-interest, I believe those numbers are solid.
Wow, all the cool kids have their own TLD now.
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Looking at Gauss publications [1], it seems he was publishing in Latin as far as the 1840s.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss#Writings
Yeah, those weren't connected to windows phone really; it was something Nokia was playing with before the acquisition, although they may have launched after?

Forked Android with a Metro launcher and maybe they skinned the rest of the UI. I think I remember WhatsApp doing work to support them while I was there (anything Nokia made and didn't cancel before launching would have and sell enough units to matter), but I don't remember how hard we had to work; I'm guessing it didn't have google play services, but I don't remember if it had its own push services or if it just used long connections. I think maps/locations was weird because Nokia didn't hook the Google apis, so that was a bit tricky. I don't know if it could use the website distributed apk or if Nokia had an appstore, etc.