skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For one individual, maybe your analogy might be closer to what evolution tries, but I suspect in a large group of individual in a species over a long period, a more eloquent description could be emerged.
Maybe this is a fluke, but a few months ago an ABC reporter documented her Waymo ride and it had a couple goof ups. https://youtu.be/-Rxvl3INKSg

Ultimately, I don't think the driving screw ups were that big of a deal (just my opinion). The big deal though is the moronic lack of customer support. How hard is it really to have a customer support staff a phone call away that can reassure the customer and either debug the issue to get them sorted out or at least offer alternatives. It would do so much to improve the users perception.

So, typical Google... Phenomenal engineering, and horrible customer service.

Maybe it was a just hit piece though and they cut out some contextual video? No idea.
It’s probably still close to 25k now 8 years later because inflation jacked up all prices 30-40%
If it wasn't it wouldn't be Qualcomm. Come on, do you know one current Snapdragon phone with a totally upstreamed kernel ? Or even a not-so-recent phone (say less than 5 years old) ? Or even an ancient phone ?

Nope. So how do you think your "Snapdragon X Elite" laptop will work under Linux ? Well it won't.
Well, thanks for sharing I suppose.
I have a stupid question. I saw someone below ask about compatibility with A1111. Why can't I just use this like I use any of the 10s of 1.5 models I have downloaded? Does SDXL use a different inference tech or something? I have the same question with SDXL overall but I understand the refiner is important there.

I have stuck with 1.5 because SDXL wasn't that exciting to me and ultimately I haven't been clear what software needs to change (and how/why) to be "compatible"
My wife who is a painter is extremely excited to use this. Thank you!
Web components will outlive JavaScript frameworks
See also, pidfd, for similar reasons:
https://lwn.net/Articles/794707/
"but the physics of it is relatively straightforward."

Amusingly Einstein both identified gravitational waves in his then new general relativity and then changed his mind about whether they existed. Indeed he had found three different types of these waves, and two of them were simply coordinate artifacts (they could be made to travel at any speed, Eddington famously quiped that they could be made to move at the "speed of thought"). The third type however didn't have this problem (though again here Einstein would write a paper where he claimed these gravitation waves required singularities, but these turned out these were all coordinates singularities .... sort of like how late and long coordinates misbehave at the poles)

In some ways the physics of it is straightforward, in other ways....not so much.
Hey Will, thanks!

The paper is from quite a few years ago now and the reference is for a subset of gittuf's threat model, specifically the metadata manipulation / reference state attacks. The paper talks about MITM as one way to carry out a ref state attack, but if you're communicating with a compromised repository, you can be a victim of such an attack even if you're using authenticated transport and using signed commits / tags that you have a way of verifying.

We do have a threat model for gittuf that we've been meaning to add [0] to the design doc. I'll try and get that done today. It should probably be in there before we tag our alpha release. :)

[0] https://github.com/gittuf/gittuf/issues/95
How does that explain nonprofit salaries being trash though? I haven’t seen any that have kept up with inflation, hardly for-profit orgs have.
Reminds me of Dfinity without the crypto part. The killer app of Dfinity was never the crypto after all.
I probably use AP >80% of the time on the highway. From observing comments in the local Tesla groups, I'm sure there are plenty of people who behave similarly.

Millions of miles per month doesn't surprise me at all.
An Oil Giant Quietly Ditched the Biggest Carbon Capture Plant
State of the Art for Unikernels
Didn't see a way to add new ones...

RIP Snacky. Oh how I loved my weekly pilgrimage to you. The spice in the air, the steam rising off the Bibim Bop, and the warm glow of anime playing on the television behind the bar. You're fondly missed.
Sleeping for too long causes lots of problems, right? I thought that was part of why they paid people to do rest studies, to monitor muscle atrophy from lying down 12 hours a day or similar.
> driving extremely conservatively

one-third of all road vehicle deaths resulted from speeding [2].

> traverse, say, a left turn against traffic is absurd

Because that is how most people in SF pedestrians are killed: in an unobstructed left against traffic. More than 300 people are injured by left-turning drivers every year in San Francisco. In 2019, 40% of traffic deaths occurred when drivers making left turns hit pedestrians – mostly people using crosswalks who weren’t seen by drivers until it was too late [1]

> far below the level of most Human drives

While the median driver might not be that bad, the average driver sure kills a lot of people. The average person crashes their car 3-4 times over a lifetime

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90702355/40-of-san-franciscos-tr...

[2] https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/speed-campaign-speeding...

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> Waymo vehicles are objectively far better. They drive like Humans do. Still some issued with weather and construction, but they work well alongside busses, trucks, and private cars without slowing anyone down.

In that sense, I agree that we should aspire for better self-driving cars in general. Technology allows us to have some of our cake and eat it too.

I'd take this further. Given that self-driving cars not a fashion/emotional purchase, we should similarly tech-them-out to improve collision outcomes. Make the car collide with a pedestrian at their feet rather than the torso. Make it impossible for someone to go 'under' the car. promote outside-airbag design to minimize collision impact.

For starters, I support mandating driverless cars for all people with DUIs (at any phase in life), the elderly and those who have been in serious at-fault-accidents. Yes, self-driving cars are worse than the average human driver. But these people are clearly in the bottom 10 percentile.
I think there was a bias in the reporting. The mass media has a certain political tilt to it, and they simply took the talking points of the political party, and ran with it.
There are about 3150 Calvin and Hobbes strips.

For comparison, there are about 900 Star Trek episodes (including the animated ones).

I don't find it hard to believe someone can know all of them, because I am one of those people for Star Trek, and comic strips are so much shorter. I couldn't populate a spreadsheet from scratch, but name an episode and reference the plot somehow, I'm fairly sure I'll remember it and be able to fill in some details without looking it up.

> Never missed one or went on vacation and the paper got thrown out (assuming that was the predominant medium)?

Also they're all available at https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/ - I read through the whole thing a few years ago.
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2015 was almost a decade ago, and the word "feminism" doesn't even appear in those articles. Seems the salience was more about race/diversity.
Or like “where women are correctly shown to be subservient and secondary to men” or something? What a strange way to look at books.
Between a free service for gain and charity?
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This has worked for me for over 25 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneeling_chair
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And following the work on booting FreeBSD faster and making it firecracker-friendly has been very inspiring to follow.
Pip and pyproject.toml have no way of helping you to get scripts to your system.

Pip doesn't really know how to install programs. Pyproject.toml is completely irrelevant to the problem. What pip can do is install (generated) files from the scripts section of the Wheel it's installing into the directory for executables known to your Python environment. In most cases this directory will not be on system path, and even if it is, you are better of not using this functionality, instead you'd need to rely on tools from your system packaging to install files there, so that the system packaging tools can track them, deal with conflicts caused by upgrades / downgrades, remove them, audit them etc.

> virtualenv

Whoa, this fossil is still alive somewhere? I think, you probably meant venv. virtualenv is a throwback to the Python 2 era. Not that its bad because of that, but you should probably warn your readers about this detail.

> pip vs Bazel or Buck

Are you sure you understand what these tools are supposed to do? pip installs Python packages. Bazel and Buck build (mostly Java) packages. The analogue in Python world to Bazel and Buck would be SCons, maybe setuptools.

In other words, pip doesn't know how to build Python packages. Sometimes it wants to build them (which is bad, and you should never do that), but it never does it on its own -- it uses other tools to do that, and the tools could be anything, setuptools, CMake, MSVC, rustc... whatever the authors of that particular library chose to use to build it. In particular, pip could, in principle, call Bazel to build a package (would be a weird twist, but not impossible).

On the other hand, tools like Bazel or Buck would usually use something else to install packages, if those are needed during build, eg. Maven.
It's a recent thing.
I interned at a large-ish retail company in the US and we had an IBM mainframe that hosted the core DB2 server. I remember when I first learned of EBCDIC because of that IBM machine and I was blown away. Never had I worked with a character encoding that wasn't at least ASCII compatible.

ASCII's table layout had some real benefits to it, like being able to flip the fifth (?) bit to change case of characters. Did the EBCDIC layout have any serious benefits? I have to assume there are but my quick web search didn't come up with anything.
> I am pretty sure they represent a marginal fraction of the accidents/killing compared to distracted drivers.

In Germany, if seniors end up in traffic incidents, they are in a vast majority of cases ruled responsible for causing them [1]. They may not be the group that causes the most accidents, partially because they drive less than someone in their 40s commuting for hours every day, but the difference of at-fault cases is nonetheless significant.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/verkehrsunfaelle-senioren-1...
Why is it reasonable to you to demand that people write their own names differently?

Also, let's not forget the context here, we're talking about a bank not a restaurant
it’s ok to have a different opinion and not lecture other people how yours is better
The amount it costs to build a mechanical interface, compared with the absurdly cheap costs of capacitive sensors (which can be found in $0.50 microcontrollers run across a PCB for basically free), means that mechanical interfaces are pretty much dead IMO.

Mechanical interfaces are superior, yes. But touch-capacitive is so cheap that I don't think we'd ever go back.

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Honestly, the Blackberry, Palm Centro, LG Optimus Enlighten were all good items I've used personally. The speed at which I could type / move around on those systems is absurdly faster than the slow, inaccurate, capacitive screens of today.

But I know a thing or two about manufacturing costs. Capacitive is just too cheap to compete against.

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Resistive screens (Gameboy DS bottom touchscreen) have benefits for relatively simplicity and better accuracy in my experience. But you lose on pinch-to-zoom or other multi-digit tracking. There's just been more work on capacitive touch that its the cheapest way to implement things today in practice.
T Kingfisher/Ursula Vernon is very good, in a weird fantasy/horror/romance/reimagined fairy tale way. (Depending on the book. One of the romances features severed heads.)

I haven’t read this one, but I’ve read basically all her other stuff apart from the horror, which I’ve noped out from. I’m not sure if this one is more reimagined fairy tale or horror, which is how I made it past release week without reading it.
There's a finite and relatively small number of possible syllables in several Asian languages, including Japanese.
I don't get the hype about Everything Everywhere All at Once .. quite a letdown. Nowhere close to Rick and Morty it had been compared to.

Severance however was pretty good.

Children of time - amazing.
Yeah, because it is. I just looked at the comment history for that account and the guy who runs it even has a video called "ULTIMATE Guide to AUTOMATING Reddit Comment Responses for FREE Traffic"
Almost every time I see some of those minidevices I feel an urge to buy it. And I have no idea for what use. I guess maybe it feels like a tech toy, and it somehow appeals to my inner child.
This looks very cool. I expect you’ll still want the services you talk to to be idempotent, but Flawless still takes a big chunk out of the work - and it seems very flexible too!
Modestly*
There is a saying "The strongest horse gets whipped the hardest", the object of the phrase should give away how long people have known this.
Most Keyboards only have uppercase printed on them
Yeah so he helped create a system where contribution beats direct monetary benefit. Microsoft tried hard with hundreds of billions to prevent Linux success, the fact that it spends so much money on it nowadays proves that no amount of money could have stopped Linux success.
Yes, perfect training grounds for your future “solo-pilot coding agent”.

Let’s not kid ourselves, by now we know that data is gold and we hand it to these corporations without ever getting paid for it.

One of the main reasons they can “incur losses” on co-pilot is not only future monopolization by market share but also by being provided endless amounts of golden data through usage.

So yes, hosting “social git” with some fancy UI and CI and spinning up GPUs (they will constantly need to ramp up on anyways) is peanuts in comparison to the upside.

Yes, open source developers as well as co-pilot users should get paid for their labour. Directly and by MSFT.
seems pretty close for non-cutting edge stuff. It's really just about making a solid UI to tie the developer experience together because with tools like this and an OpenAPI spec you can generate a huge chunk of the frontend and backend code. Anything that isn't very niche business logic can be generated by AI

once you have the prototype you can then give the AI some of your observability data and spin up a sandbox environment and have it iterate on any code that is slow, have it create 10 new versions of the code and send some mirrored traffic to test it and then deploy the best version.
Stable Diffusion's strength (one of) is in the ability to be guided by sketches and references, which is much faster and more expressive/precise than anything achievable with a text prompt if you're good at it. If you want that, you want SD, it has vast amounts of related tooling around it. If text-to-image is enough for you, you need one of the commercial image generators with better prompt understanding.
Who says you need to be able to speak Thai? I'm saying you should let people store their names in your system the same way they were given them at birth.

I really don't see what's absurd about that. This website is so English language biased it's hilarious.

Btw we're talking about banks not Starbucks or mom and pop shops
The whole point of my talk here was to reassure people that you don't need to understand linear algebra in order to make use of embeddings.
If you only have to perform calculations once every 30 seconds that could double your simulation capabilities. I bet the game is a pig performance wise. Paradox games tend to be super unoptimized
What the body does during sleep is quite different. During sleep your muscles relax and the body fills them with blood and hormones that trigger tissue repair and growth. Sleep is part of the body's repair process. When you're just sitting none of that happens.
Please tell me your first paragraph was satirical, else please elaborate
This does appear to be the plan: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/56539#issuecomment-13325...

It would be up to the implementation whether the default result from MultipathTCP is on or off, and then programs could override that with SetMultipathTCP. In Go 1.21, we would default it off everywhere, and then in Go 1.22 or later, we would turn it on by default for systems that support it. Support might mean that it's an operating system that we have code for, or it might mean a more precise result, that we've sniffed the current kernel to see if it's available. That detail is up to the implementation and can change over time.
I'm sure many developers wished at some point such magic would exist
What Is Attribution Science?
I would expect that approach fuels it.
Desert Island Tourism
I am very pleased to hear that.
smells like java and the jvm
I used to do a fairly brisk walk on most nights and still felt like shit. But I recently got back into running. Thirty minutes a night, every night - no exceptions. Weight loss was the primary goal, alas it's still slow. I do however feel less stressed during the day and feel I'm less of an asshole towards colleagues.
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I think that's the context, though. Going back as far as a decade ago, the Hugo Awards were leaning "inclusive". There were some reactionary campaigns. Regardless, the trend has continued. Not everybody is happy about it, and not everybody sees a Hugo Award as a reliable indicator of quality these days.
Heavy metal band name waiting to happen.
Legends & Latte's is one of my favorite books of the past year. It falls into that Cozy Fantasy genre.

It's very different than the Monk & Robot series but makes me feel a very similar way to those books. Highly recommend. There's a sequel coming out in November called Bookshops & Bonedust. I think it's technically a prequel.

Travis Baldree did amazing with Cradle as well. Going to miss getting new books in that series.
Here is a large study, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28892811/

My guess is today's recommendations to move every 30m/45m or so were a compromise between ergonomists and employers given more frequent interruption was not practical in the workplace.

In our study 100% of participants reported no discomfort even compared to high end ergonomic chair. Aside from what our chair does it does show how impactful more frequent posture changes can be. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00036...
The cloud images have been more stable in size: https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/
My main takeaway from the article is how even Apple, who had recently attempted to push a similar CSAM scanning on their products before eventually canceling the project, also wants no part in this. It tells a lot about how bad that legislation is.
An absence of preaching X does not necessitate preaching Y. We can also do without any preaching at all.

Scifi is large. That other stuff is small.
It was 1) fun, and 2) humane
Twitch has stories now, because all social media has to be the same
The New York Times Debate over Its Gaza Hospital Bombing Coverage
Free, Net, and Open BSD are all relatively early forks of the same 386BSD project from the early 90s. Each project has different goals and code has diverged between them, though they frequently pull in changes from on another's codebases.

FreeBSD is the most general purpose of the 3 and the most popular. It is also the only BSD out of the big 3 that doesn't utilize a global kernel lock, allowing for modern symmetric multiprocessing similar to Linux.

NetBSD is aimed at being extremely portable. It's sort of like the "Can it run doom" of the OS world. Just take a look at their list of ports: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/

OpenBSD is aimed at being secure. Exactly how realized this goal is is somewhat controversial. But regardless of that, security is the stated highest priority of the development team.

There's also DragonflyBSD, which was forked by Matt Dillon from FreeBSD following some personal and technical disagreements. It's since diverged pretty heavily from the rest of the BSD family. Given its very low market share in this category of already niche operating systems, it seems more like a pet project of Matt Dillon's, though I'm sure it has serious users.
I've been running these models on my own laptop without the GPU. They're generally a lot less resource demanding than full LLMs (though thanks to llama.cpp I've been able to run those on the CPU as well).

More about the tooling I use to run embedding models locally here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Sep/4/llm-embeddings/
This seems obvious. If a person is asked to do something, and they do as requested, they will be asked to do more things.
Ya know, I guess someone has to say the obvious. Hopefully it reaches its target audience of "company men" who don't realize they're getting shafted in exchange for Bamboo kudos and Chipotle gift cards. If you want a depiction of this dynamic that's just uncanny enough that it might break the haze and is just those guys who are wasting their youth because "one day they'll make partner" watch What We Do in The Shadows.
What would fight it is honesty, not rushing to markets with sensationalism.
I think this is probably an underestimate, given the existence of a lot of the maturation, immune recruitment and immune cell genesis happens within specialized organs (the spleen, bone marrow, thymus, and lymph nodes). Of course, it depends what you consider a system.
This is going to be a major disaster. NextJs, the "framework" that underpins Vercel, is already a massive failure for anything beyond a simple basic static site with a few server-side functions.

Maybe it'll push us for the final collapse of the web though. This video is very relevant at this moment: https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko
Software labor is so funny. Here we are, with software engineering salaries some of the highest of any profession in the US. While at the same time much of the most critical and commonly used software was written completely for free. It’s an interesting juxtaposition.
Novik doesn't just copy the teen-angst-life-is-so-unfair vibe, but efficiently includes it in her world building. She justifies it. By the end of the series it's clear that the her universe is indeed impressively unfair ... which is core to her protagonists' motivation to do something about it and drives the plot.
> If a self-driving car hurts or kills someone, who is held accountable?

Whoever is paying for the insurance.
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Put the FOSS grants under the Marketing budget, call them "sponsorships" or "comarketing" or whatever. Corporations have a budgets for warm fuzzy stuff like that.
> Google... Phenomenal engineering, and horrible customer service

How can a company with THAT MUCH MONEY be THAT plagued with an issue that everyone has been shouting about for more than a decade ??

I wonder if there is a business model in contracting in Google's customer care. I'm sure someone could do a lot better with Google's customer budget. Google can start off with a few departments, and then have performance based expansion. If it goes too well, they can always get acquired in.
BTW it's possible to see the "Reflectance chart". It shows reflectance curves of the paints and the mix. Here is a demo video on YouTube: <https://youtu.be/jC1HAeegm2I?feature=shared&t=157>.