skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes 40 mins to go 3 miles using a car too at most peak times. It’s obviously not fair to compare a perfect autonomous transportation method with the current imperfect state of public transit.

As the population grows the driving times will get worse much faster than in transit because again, spatially, it just doesn’t scale well.

If you take 20-30% of everyone on a BART train and put em in autonomous cars with human drivers in the mix (like in the marginal $200K case tomorrow), what you have is abject chaos on the streets.

Every negative you mention about public transit is a political problem (ex: other first world countries can deliver public transit project in a matter of a 1-2 years and at a fraction of the cost).
I will really stop posting at 1000.
Thanks for your vote of confidence & support Max!
that makes a lot of sense! if not, you would be hard pressed to find someone who didn't walk a total of 22 minutes in an entire day I guess
Yes, the annoying things Cruise do are intended to prevent Unsafe things. But remember the context here: the DMV just yanked the permit because they don't believe these cars are safe. In their eyes, the new dangers introduced outweigh the things cruise might do better.

And as we agree; there are clearly better technologies ( waymo) out there that let us have it both ways.
Why is the BBC only one reporting this.
And to crudely compare mass to resource allocation, the article claims more than 1.2kg of immune mass for the 73kg model individual, or 1.6% of total mass. The US military budget is about 3% of GDP.

The resource devotion of most all nation states seems to settle in this 1-3% range, excluding those with more active security tensions. Ukraine for example running an absolute fever at 34% and Israel chronically stressed at 4.5%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

The middle east in general seems to over allocate on their immune system. This would actually align with what I've been reading recently that modern Islamic culture is much more of a physical might makes right system. And that overspend on aggression and displays of power is part of what hampers their economic vitality while the more peace loving west gets to devote more resources to non destructive pursuits. Turning the other cheek and meeting in the middle is seen as weakness in the Middle East, but it counter intuitively is the reason that the west is the stronger system.

Similarly, those who get their vaccines spend less time sick with their immune system inflamed, and so get to be more productive at work or athletic pursuits and compete better than those that abstain.
but the oil is to get the wheel's performance back in order. Oil isn't a reward in this metaphor.
The whole piece is just a confused mess with only the most tenuous grasp on a thesis. It skips from treasury yield rates to meme stocks to national debt as an explanation for why passive investing is over.

The author also seems to be living in a reality where high inflation has persisted - they talk about interest rates rising into the double digits to suppress inflation, despite inflation being firmly back to normal and no evidence of any major rate hikes (if any!) on the horizon?

I'm mostly with you on the conspiracy theorist thing here - I think there's a motivated group of people who seem desperate to instill a narrative of economic doom-and-gloom, despite the facts on the ground not at all warranting such an outlook at the moment.

Also it's not clear that the author themselves understands the notion of the "set it and forget it" passive investment? The entire point of something like a 401k is that you consistently put money into over a long period of time. This cost averaging accounts for periods of poorer returns. That is in fact the entire point of such an investment strategy.
I mean this is no different than life now. You have some MVP code patched up by startup hacker or "CTO", etc, then as team grows it's hard to work with.
I wonder if you can build a classifier to detect those attacks by nightshade. Either way it's clear that these supply chain attacks need to be taken more seriously. I wonder how come humans aren't that prone to this adversarial nosie compared to models
The culture of DevOps with Nic from HashiCorp [video]
Do you really think that's ALL they do? My manager (who is the director of engineering of the company) does what you are describing and it may seem like a no-work job. However, he also:

-manages multiple, large, multi-year projects across multiple time zones
-is a filter for the shit that rains down from upper-management (the most important role of a manager)
-if any of these projects fail, he gets blamed (and most likely fired)
IMO the issue is that a 7 inch keyboard is too small to comfortably touch-type on, but too large to comfortably thumb-type on. It's in a weird middle area.
Paper> https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.13828
This is a good comment. In my years I’ve easily had the worst experience with startup founders (as compared to managers at BigCo).

I think with BigCo managers they are more focused on getting performance — they have somewhat limited control over budget.

But founders tend to give the energy that they want to make sure they don’t give away too much. They act much more like it’s theirs personally to lose.
Thanks for the quick reply.

It’s funny, I can’t reproduce it now. Works fine! The problem was on the front page. I wanted a closer look at the illustration under “Realistic Color Palette”.
On British airways (and I believe other ticket systems that use Amadeus), I often get LastnameTitleFirstnameSecondname all as one word (in caps). It certainly looks funny on the boarding pass, but I've never had any issue getting through security.
only took 7 years of collecting pay checks for you to become conscious

nothing will change until people stop enabling meta with their labor
I was always late for stuff. CEO sat me down and said “I know you take this seriously but only I know that. Everyone else thinks you don’t give a shit because you’re never on time”
> Do people who say that sort if thing work for a company that they believe is totally worthless? Work can still be valuable (to one's community even) if someone else is making money from it.

Sure, the value is just distributed the opposite of the way most people would like it to be. The vast majority of the benefits accrue to a practically random individual, some goes to the worker, and a tiny bit trickles to the community.

I would wager most people are far more interested in situations where the worker and community benefit greatly, and a tiny bit trickles to whoever owns the business.

Besides that, if you wanted to benefit your community there are much better and easier than ways than grinding away at work and being proud of the income tax you pay, I guess?
Seems like Elon is naming his kids after the AI thinking machines from Frank Herbert's Duniverse. In a generation or two after they've been grafted with AI implants, we'll be fighting the descendents of Elon in the Butlierian Jihad.
Where is the evidence it was removed by a moderator? I know that's the first thought, but HN doesn't have many moderators, and usually the moderators leave a comment on a submission after taking a moderator action.

I regularly come across a submission on the front page that looks interesting, read the article, then come back and notice it's been pushed to the 2nd or 3rd page. My assumption is that it was downvoted by a bunch of people, but it's still annoying. I wonder if there are any sites that track these movements?
How Expression Pedals Work
Digital Research CPM Source Code
Yes we would need to immediately start running a balanced budget. It would probably be a long time before we could borrow again. If we ever did borrow money again, we would be paying a higher interest since we've shown lenders that we can default.

It would also mean $33T in assets disappearing from the economy. That's a massive amount that would bankrupt tons of individuals/companies that lent the money. $2.8T of that amount is the social security trust fund which means we need to also instantly cut social security too. $7T of the debt is held by other countries who wouldn't be happy with us either.
Markets and Zoning
It was supposed to be for covid I think, but worked after for a while too. The commuter card just verifies that the charge is billed as something under "transportation" (and probably that it's not airfare). It's the Lyft/Uber app that appears to stop you from using the commuter card for non-shared rides.

Honestly (and since this is a hacking forum) I have a theory that if you could hook the Lyft/Uber app with Frida or a modified kernel you could push through payment using a commuter card on regular Lyft/Uber rides.
The classic Information Retrieval, though out of date in many ways, does a great job covering the "old school" NLP approaches for IR and has an excellent section on Latent Semantic Indexing which you might find enjoyable: https://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/html/htmledition/latent-sem...
It's hard for me to forget just from how much bullying and grief people were given for why they hadn't switched to Python 3 yet. Some of the steps that people took were wildly uncharitable and behavior that turned me off to the Python community entirely.

So much so that I had a visceral reaction to reading the GP's question about why this hadn't been done. My default reaction was to read it as accusatory rather than a genuine question.

Still running some containerized 2.6 and 2.7 workloads and there are no engineering dollars to justify doing anything about it. Dead code can still be running code and can hang around for _decades_.
"Don't be a taker: be a Preneur ;)"

Edit: its always been sorta interesting to me that "entrepreneur" seems to literally translate at "between-taker" even if its only coincidental or a false-friend thingy
Poison pixels to fight AI image bots
I think you'd want to add the police.

Edit: one of the core functions of the immune system is identifying and eliminating pre-cancerous cells from your own body, if you downvote this out of reflexive politics you are a clown.
It's very easy to get 4 points on a circle. In 2d space just the four corners of a unit square would do it.
I can tell you what worked well for me - find a few other like minded devs/designers and one VERY GOOD biz dev person and you can have a lot of success as a co-op studio. We did this and we were immediately quite profitable from day one. Our model was pretty simple:

* Every full-time person (over 30 hours) is an owner in the company that is awarded an equal amount of company shares EVERY QUARTER.

* 10% of your earnings go to the company (of which you are now part owner)

* 10% of your earnings to the biz dev rainmaker that set up your contract

* Everything is decided democratically

This worked extremely well for us, but if you're at a small size (<6 owners) then you will have a heightened risk of single-point-of-failure because you can probably only afford to pay a single full-time biz dev person.
Yet our cultures seem resistant to usage like "1.8 teracells". Is it too nerdy? Would it be more palatable to normies if each prefix had a cardinality suffix ("teraion" is not great...)
Indeed: "This cost averaging accounts for periods of poorer returns. That is in fact the entire point of such an investment strategy."

The goal of the "motivated group" would be: retention or acquisition of power/influence? Usually that is highly correlated with having wealth. So is it a push to make people buy what they're selling (which is)?

Or is this a bitcoin (i.e. this moment's GOLD) push behind the scenes? (e.g. BlackRock's BTC ETF).
The first couple google results suggest that there are about 38 trillion human cells in the average male adult, plus about as many bacterial cells. Estimates vary a bit, but at least the human cell count should be accurate to within 10 trillion.

So estimating at 80 trillion cells per human, that puts our "defense spending" at around 2.2%, quite similar to nation state budgets.
Do you have a more recent example than Vioxx in mind where your approach might have made enough of a difference to be worth the longer review process?
Is that for the Desktop release or Server release?

edit: seems like desktop
Almost as if there are no magic beans on the drive. Reminds me of Schrodinger startup valuations, its worth $xB right until you release actual product and market verifies you down to zero.
Learning to live with the threat? Understanding Europe's cyber defense approach
Society pays a huge cost from premature death.
> Consider the large companies with hiring processes intended to try to acquire each employee at the minimum compensation each individual will accept.

Not always the case. When interviewing for my first FAANG job (coming from defense) I requested what I thought was a reasonable salary, but turned out to be a low-ball offer. The recruiter came back and told me that I wasn't asking for enough and that they wouldn't pay someone so below the average for their level.
There was an attempt at poisoning training data with such invisible cloaking before and it turned out that this didn't really affect training quality (Glaze was the project name)

Iirc there was also some license violation with the cloaking code ironically, it was like a pillow fight
Hopefully he declares OOP as unholy.
WorldCon is not representative of all readership. Its website even notes: "The Hugo voters are good at finding and nominating good works, and do talk among themselves, so word spreads." [1] They seem to do an awful lot of talking among themselves, I'll give them that.

Besides, it doesn't take a whole lot of nominations to get something onto the ballot. An energetic and motivated clique can capture the whole thing.

And surely it's apparent that they reward a certain type of work, and disregard others. For e.g., Analog Magazine -- which specializes in hard science fiction -- didn't pick up a single short story or novella nomination.

[1] - https://www.thehugoawards.org/submitting-your-work/
Hundreds of Gorgeous Vintage Watercolors of Mushrooms
An API for realtime lip-sync
Clearghost: Using the laws of nature to limit digital surveillance
Best Dramatic Presentation categories are borderline meaningless. Hugos are literary awards, not TV or film awards. Voters don't take those categories seriously.

2023 voting details aren't available yet, but for 2022 it only took 26 nominations out of 1368 nominating ballots to make it onto the final ballot for that category.
My first job out of college was at a telco making $72k / year.

I worked my tail off. Worked late. Never missed deadlines. Signed on after hours. Learned a lot. Followed process. Took lots of pride in my work.

And I got a lot better at what I do.

When 2 members of my 3 person team departed and all of the work fell to me, I asked for a raise to $90k. Seemed reasonable to me taking on the work of 3 people given my track record.

I was told that wasn’t possible. So I interviewed elsewhere with my updated resume and turned in my notice. Within a day of turning in my notice I got a counter offer.

Apparently, one of the corporate policies at this telco was to only offer significant raises for retention purposes if the employee had another offer. Which was nuts but apparently the only way to find out if you were valued was to interview elsewhere.

At that point, I was so annoyed that I decided to leave anyway…to another job where I worked long hours and was on call. But I learned a lot.

The hard work paid off and I haven’t actually had to interview for a job in about 15 years.

This is what I think about when I hear people talk about not putting in the extra time. If I’d done that, done only the job exactly according to minimum expectations I would have collected a paycheck…and probably been stuck in the same place.
https://hnrankings.info/38001924/ has it on the front page only for one sample and it dropped off to rank 36 five minutes later.
There becomes a point for individuals where even walking becomes difficult, if you can imagine a sudden death is often a result of cardiac arrest and heart disease, then no it has nothing to do with walking but the issue of obesity. For most individuals in this category walking is considered strenuous exercise. Meaning that even doing 30 minutes of it can be considered the equivalent to a high intensity workout. It's a sad thought to think about about approximately 1 in 4 Americans are already on track for this by 2030.

Exercise is essential yet in our modern lives it does not exist in a mandatory form. The entire workplace structure of our society needs to be redone.
Have a messy desk, and use objects on the desk.
It usually translates into some more reward, but it's a bad math problem.

If you crunch 60 hour weeks for two months to get a release out and you get rewarded with a pizza party and a starbucks gift card, you are being exploited. Your salary is being devalued by the extra time you are putting in and your reward is insultingly cheap. That's also the norm.

Anecdote time: My wife was once talking with an old boss, who was trying to find out what kinds of things people wanted as rewards for good work. He was thinking about things like "you won employee of the month so you get a trophy and your photo on the wall"

Now, I wasn't in the room, but she insists that he was stunned when she just said she wanted more money or more time off. Like he couldn't understand why someone would prefer $50 in cash over a $50 desk trophy or plaque or something.

Keep in mind he's probably making $250k a year and she was making $60k. It's entirely possible he had never once in his whole career made "as little" as 60k per year (adjusted for inflation)
Okorafor hates the Harry Potter comparison, but I'll say it: The Akata series is like if HP had 10x wilder magic, was 100x better written, and was set in Nigeria.
The point is that we need something to do, to feel useful. Sitting on a beach all day every day would get pretty dull, even if it is a common dream life.

I don't think this is particularly cultural. Most people who survived history did so through work so their children lived, or through raising children to be survivors. That's worth considering, instead of just blaming culture.
What makes you think we aren't as prone to this as the models are? There is a good reason folks rarely notice the many animals that are surrounding them on a walk in the woods.

Even worse, we are prone to being influenced by the decor or surroundings in ways that we know, but still partake in. Mood lighting would be an easy example. And we are very influenced by our other senses at the same time as purely visual. (Though, I'm always amused by how much the VR experience of racing a car hits, all without too much haptic feedback from the steering wheel.)
https://www.eff.org/pages/cover-your-tracks

Useful tool to assess the “fingerprint” of one’s browser
We hear a lot about the dlt & AWS Lambda. We have currently one user working on the use case (see our Slack https://dlthub-community.slack.com/archives/C04DQA7JJN6/p169...)
There's too much money at stake for the big players for this not to be labeled illegal any time now.
> My guess is social media

Let's not scapegoat the real problems at play: climate disaster, the rise of authoritative leaders in democracies that use fear as their biggest selling point, crippling debt to merely exist in a healthy manner (in the US), disinformation turning friends and family into anti-vaxx Q-following idiots, capitalism squeezing blood out of every penny... The list goes on.
for now :) Thanks for pointing it out - and it looks like we should add an aws lambda guide too :)

If you want to deploy to lambda, try asking in the slack community, some folks there do it.

Or if you wanna try yourself, here is a similar guide that highlights some concerns from deploying on gcp cloud functions https://dlthub.com/docs/walkthroughs/deploy-a-pipeline/deplo...
> it's likely that they assume the dash

There is a very mild version of that in the US -- lower likelihood of blind assumption, but still present: when a set of two given names starts with "Mary" or ends with "Ann/Anne". Examples include "Mary Jane", "Mary Kate", "Jo Ann", and of course "Mary Ann". Some have simply merged into single names like "Maryanne" and "Joanne" more recently. There are probably others.
"basically answering emails" is usually also done within a context of subject matter expertise and long term career experience. This is akin to saying "programmers just bang on a keyboard and clock out at the end of the day, easy!"
There are benefits to keeping code less far to the right on the line for easy reading. I review a fair bit of code these days, and I’ve never once wished someone used more characters for their variable names. Long variable names have a tendency to make the code they are part of wrap a lot and become hard to read.
I think a lot of people think that a verbose variable name is always better, so they end up lazy and don’t try to figure out what makes the variable interesting in context.
Founding of Rome
But both of these are both.
Then the Stable Diffusion model should hold the copyright. And using generative models doesn't make you any more of an artist that commissioning a human does.
Not trying to be devil's advocate, but to solve public transportation you need regulations and organisations that would consolidate and refactor the existing system(s). Driverless cars can kinda evolve independently, with much less regulations introduced.

At this point you can sit back and wait for driverless cars to improve without doing anything extra (public and private companies will continue doing all the work). You cannot sit back and expect public transport to fix itself - investments are needed, political push is required, risks need to be taken.

Another big thing is demand for properly functioning public transportation - is it really there for US? No demand usually means no political effort or even attention invested into changing things.
It's not silly. Drawing from photos isn't super bad and you can still learn a lot of useful skills, but you'll get:

- wrong colors, because of the lower dynamic range of a camera compared to the human eye

- lens distortions
The de-facto inability to draw boundaries, especially towards people that one perceives to be dependent on, is one of the common symptoms of the large majority of mental health disorders. People have massive difficulties to defend themselves against this kind of workplace abuse, their ability to say “No” is impeded to a point where any reasonable person with understanding of the situation would deem it deeply unjust.

Meanwhile, it is known that people with dark triad personality traits - so people which fall more into the direction of very severe personality disorders such as ASPD or NPD, which have huge internalizing and externalizing costs and damage to society - are due to perverse incentives more often promoted into leading positions, from where they can further cause harm to the sick people below them. But they also get themselves further damaged as their promotions and monetary rewards don’t incentivize them to seek treatment, aggravating their pathology for decades, robbing them of meaningful and healthy lives. Any person with understanding of pathologies of mental health knows that their ability to simply stop abusing others is massively impeded to a point where objectively it appears like a perverse and cruel game to everybody involved.

Both sick-abuser and the sick-abused are the victims in these dynamics and suffer massively.

I hope that we as society will eventually reach a point, where the exploitation of sick people is not normalized anymore. There can be alternatives once we collectively incentivize compassion and empathy, but I dream - even Jesus tried to tell people this and look where we are today.