skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Community building won't be achieved by putting a bunch of highly paid, extremely bright people holed up inside office space in downtown SF from dusk to dawn. Working in person in such conditions creates dormitory suburbs, traffic jams, and makes the tech community even more insular.

If the goal is to go back to building communities, then I would be delighted to agree whenever OpenAI leases a building in downtown Tulsa.
> Higher cost jurisdictions experience a hollowing out of their economies over time.

That doesn't seem to be true of Norway. But Norway retains control of much of its primary resources. Australia could do the same; it's a political problem not a directly economic one.
Cool here's a documentary with an English speaking hostage negotiator in Nigeria with family in the other side of the business (talks start around 4:30).

I'm afraid, YOU are wrong. My opinion wasn't idle thought but derived from research on Nigeria rather than some weird borderline racist baseless rhetoric that Nigerians don't have this level of organization.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nG09Bo3uvAw
You don't recall anything you said more than 5 minutes ago? Even from prepared statements in court, or in rehearsed public speaking situations, or in one-off conversations with celebrity podcast hosts? I would suggest you see a doctor because that's not normal at all.
funny to me that this image has reached the level of mimetic saturation that you can infer exactly what the image is going to be without opening it. many such cases but i always think it's interesting.
How is it akin? What are the similarities?
"The tech industry's mistake was all collectively setting up shop in a small handful of trendy, dense, expensive cities and not investing in housing, transit, or otherwise doing anything to improve the collective quality of life of those cities."

Hat tip to you, Legitster. Louder for the expensive seats upfront.
Lens and matrix size is everything when you cannot control the environment, when you can change the lighting and design the scene, then you can make up for the smaller sensor.
I have no doubt he understands the process better than me. Absolutely.

The outcomes speak for themselves though. Companies projecting $50B in liabilities for decades of injury to thousands of people funneling them into a shell company, "pledging" to fully fund that company, throwing maybe $100-300M into them, and then shuttering the company without fulfilling that pledge. That's the common outcome to each Texas Two Step story.

But Matt and these companies and the firms (I mean firm, there's essentially one firm whose livelihood is this process) all patronizingly try to convince us that that outcome is somehow "better for plaintiffs and consumers", when the only one that seems to actually win is the corporation that successfully shed the boat anchor it put around its own neck.
Who's going to put their trust in the Yuan and CCP when they actively cap their best performing companies and jail their proprietors?

The investment mood has changed on China, a lot more risk is now assumed.

Notably, India recently declined to buy Russian oil in Yuan, sticking to Rupies
A Blackmagic Pocket Cinema starter bundle comes close, would be under 1500 but over 1000 USD. Gives you BRAW or ProRes, both log. Infinite more control over the captures, huge ecosystem of (professional) tooling and equipment that is compatible with it.
Hey I've got no qualms about stealing from youtube. I'm just willing to admit that that's what I'm doing.
This is the implication, I guess:

> All these super commuters, as researchers have dubbed them — those who average at least three hours traveling to and from the office each day — are reshaping the geography of American work. The winners will be the big cities that best accommodate the needs of jet-setters when they're at the office, and the quieter locales that cater to their lifestyles when they're at home. The losers will be mid-tier cities like Cleveland and Syracuse that have long served as regional hubs for large employers.
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> "If employers and their top sales and managerial staff want to be where you can have the most amount of interaction, it's going to be in the big cities like New York," says Mitchell Moss, a professor of urban policy and planning at New York University. "The regional headquarters as a concept is gone."

Okay, so they got one expert to weigh in. But the article and that expert go in some weird fanciful directions.

> A super commute may sound like a grind, but consider the math. Let's say your commute back when you went into the office every day was an hour each way, for a total travel time of 10 hours a week. And let's say that today, you're expected to come into the office for what is rapidly becoming the standard schedule for hybrid jobs: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. By commuting two fewer days every week, you can now live 40 minutes farther from the office than you used to, while keeping your weekly commuting time constant. That extra radius gives you a lot more options. If you work in downtown San Francisco, say, it's the difference between living in the bland suburbs of Novato and living next to a vineyard in Napa.
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> That's the kind of choice that appeals to super commuters. Why live in sleepy old San Jose, they figure, if you can hop a plane from Sun Valley? "The young tech people," Moss says, "their quality of life is defined by 'I want to go snowshoeing or go hiking' or 'I want to ski.' They're much more inclined to pick places which are compatible with their lifestyle and values."

During the pandemic I knew SV people who moved up to Tahoe. Odd to super commuting is empowering that and not just full remote work.

Article feels like a way to try to equate full remote with outlier super commuter hybrid work. Their other example is a VP at an Italian startup who lives in Lisbon.

> For Istochka, super commuting offers the best of both worlds: the flexibility to choose where to live, and the chance to build close relationships with her coworkers. "I love going to the office," she says. "I don't think we would be able to make sound and quick decisions and collaborate so effectively if we didn't have time face to face."

You can have it all, it just takes a five hour commute!
I looked at the datasheet of a random modern Ethernet chip (ENC28J60) and it's simpler than I expected, doing much less than the old Intel chip, although it includes the low level "PHY" circuitry, which was a separate Intel chip in the olden days. I expect that the newer chip has things like 10-bit counters, but they would be implemented with standard cell logic (i.e. computer-generated layout of gates) rather than the hand-optimized circuitry of the Intel chip.

On the other hand, you can get a chip like the W5300 which includes the whole TCP/IP stack along with ARP and ICMP, presumably running on an internal microcontroller.

https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/aemDocuments/documents/O...

https://www.wiznet.io/wp-content/uploads/wiznethome/Chip/W53...
"Thermal mass" and thick concrete isn't what keeps that house at a comfortable temperature from summer to winter.

It's comfortable for the same reason as any other house: because it has thick insulation both outside and inside the concrete. See @4:30 in your linked video.[0]

If you like, sit down and do the math for how thick concrete you'd need in order to store heat for 6+ months and average out the summer/winter temperature change. It's not 1 foot thick, it's more like 30 feet thick!!

In general, the effect of thermal mass tends to be strongly overrated by people who aren't experts in building science.[1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RuTizbnH4s&t=270

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130509032945/http://www.greenb...
i use peazip on windows and Linux. supports all these and more.
A few weeks ago, https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi was showcased here.
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Don't know, sorry.

Maybe the main factor is that the SO2 stays up there for 1-2 years, which gives a lot of cooling "bang" for the acid rain "buck".
Since IQ falls on a very good approximation to a bell curve, it's "close enough for government work".

Besides, it is a paraphrase of a well-known George Carlin quote.
Even this nakedly biased article cannot totally hide the main issue:

> At the same time, hundreds of thousands of protesters rally at demonstrations that are billed as expressions of support of Palestinian civilians, but that many, both Jewish and non-Jewish, perceive as shows of Jew-hatred and solidarity with Hamas despite its recent displays of extreme barbarism against Israelis.

There are a lot of people who label any support for Palestinians as support for Hamas, and I don't think most of that is being done in good faith. Thus, some of the "Pro-Hamas sentiment" in the headline is a real problem, but, from what I can tell, most of what is being labeled as such, however, is simply people recognizing that Palestinians also have moral worth, which is a position a lot of people currently feel emboldened to deny or condemn as anti-semitic.

It's absurd and depressing how many people are willing to accept the perverse logic of "because there was a terrible terrorist attack against Israel and Israeli civilians were killed, anything it visits upon Palestinian civilians in Gaza in recompense and retribution is justified, and anyone who wants to criticize the Israeli response is a bigot and a terrorist sympathizer".

A double standard as to which innocents matter is on full display, and people who consider themselves cosmopolitan, liberal, who would pooh-pooh such jingoism if it was expressed on the part of the United States, for example, are partaking and indulging fully of that kind of attitude w/r/t this conflict.
I noticed that as well, it’s gas flaring from O&G production. You can see similar patches south of San Antonio (the Eagle Ford shale) and in West Texas (the Permian Basin) and probably a few other spots too.
"How could anyone believe this?"

Because like he said, the average person is not so smart, I guess including themselves haha.
Don't see an issue with that here, she was present in the courtroom so the personal narrative is warranted, and I don't see that got in the way at all. Adds a human element. With that being said, you can copy and paste the article in ChatGPT and have it render the way you want. What a time to be alive!
So firefox was ahead of the pack on the add-ons/extensions game, but then didn't push it or support it after a while. Now after years of chrome having a few integrations or add-ons that make my life easier, i have a hard time switching back to firefox even though chrome is such a giant memory hog. These aggregator moats are real that stratechery talks about.

Maybe I'll give firefox another shot.
I have been trying firefox for last 1-2 months it was running great but last week or so it suddenly freezes my whole computer. This happens both on windows and a different linux pc.
How do the external controllers interface with the third party camera app? How.much do these controllers cost?
>We need to get back to building communities, making eye contact, seeing people, engaging in random conversations, getting to know your neighbors. And this includes working in person (albeit not necessarily every day).

Spare me the absurdly saccharine sentimentality.

To take the generally good idea of interaction and building your community, and extend it to cover being herded by the self-serving desires of megacorps seeking in-person office drones is grotesque.

I'd happily support people interacting more and forming new relationships, but in a personal, voluntary sense that doesn't involve being crammed into a giant box with others that you didn't pick, hectored by HR scum, and made to work with people who aren't your natural friends on productivity theater or simply things you could have also just done from home, where you choose who you spend time with.
Oh damn, that's Lyttle Lytton material right there. So bad it comes back around and becomes good.
> even though your internal monologue might still be going "hmm should I pick A or B?", the decision, where your internal monologue eventually will end up, has already been made.

There is an older better experiment by Benjamin Libet of this. The participant is directed to choose whether to press a single button, and watching a fast clock display to report the instant the decision is taken. The measurement and comparison of the brain activity clearly shows deciding to press, many milliseconds before the participant experiences deciding. Therefore, the participant does not have free will, is it not so? Since the decision is done before it is known to be done by the subject.

The retort is simple. The leap to "no free will" ignores that consciousness itself is a processing: the brain component that reconciles the internal input and renders it for externality takes time to do its work. The decision is still made by the participant. The subjective experience is behind the objective activation simply just as the signal for a television screen must pass through the wire before it is translated for pixels.
> I actually think this dual use-case is something we can really improve upon. In some fever-dream what I think I want is some combination of Kafka (append-only event stream) and Postgres (durable/reliable snapshot of current state).

Debezium will capture SQL changes to Kafka for you.
Hopefully!

If SBF doesn't go down & spend time behind bars, its going to open the gates to a lot more fraud.

SBF did things that would make even the worst Wall St actors from the GFC blush. No arcane accounting/valuation rules, risk models, capital requirement arb, regulatory capture, misaligned incentives, loose prop trading rules.. letter of law vs spirit of law stuff, etc.

SBF committed the most open, direct, simple to understand version of all the fraud people imagined behind the GFC. Primarily he moved a substantial portion of customer deposits into prop trading accounts and then lost the money by trading poorly.

He literally lied about things like having insurance, seemingly didn't keep any true books & records (and asked for 7 variations of a balance sheet to find one that looked least bad).

You have emails where his dad that he hired as legal is approving transfers of customers money for uses like buying his parents a condo, lol.
Beautiful. Nice work Maxime.
> If the most egregious thing you can be accused of is "publicly dumping cases of Bud Light", I don't think you are at the same level as the inventors and executioners of the cultural revolution for example.

The people doing that (and moreso, spreading the idea of it) largely are the intelligentsia (and largely not the proletarian intelligentsia), and while that’s one particular demonstrative act, its not by far the worst the faction doing it can be accused of.

So I’m not so sure that works as an example on multiple levels.
very cool that you used supabase for this yoko - thank you.

it could be worthwile adding an an index to the migration script[0]. if you decide to do this, it will need to be HNSW since ivfflat indexes should be created _after_ the table has some data[1]. HNSW is faster as well, so it's a sensible default.

also it's worth mentioning that the gte-small[2] embedding model isn't great with non-english embeddings. I don't know if many developers will get tripped up on that, but hopefully it's clear that they can swap that for any huggingface model

[0] https://github.com/ykhli/local-ai-stack/blob/main/supabase/m...

[1] https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector#ivfflat

[2] https://github.com/ykhli/local-ai-stack/blob/1a23061442ce1d9...
Thanks for sharing.

> My linked code works with involving the MVCC snapshot's xip_list as well, to avoid this gotcha.

I will definitely take a look. It would be great to fix this problem. This problem really concerns me, although in most cases it is not critical.
I agree with what you're saying except for the Escape From Tarkov bit. They are in a real pickle. They have a live service game they sold at a fixed price without any of the typical live service game monetization methods.

Battlestate games has no incentive to actually ban RMT and cheaters when they are first detected because a ban too quickly will break the economic model of the RMT cheaters. Who, once banned, will buy another copy of Escape From Tarkov. I know a few people who write game cheats for a living and they have multiple clients who regularly buy over 100 copies of Escape from Tarkov nearly monthly.
1 having to work harder works when 1 will actually work harder...

The problem is that is a failing paradigm these days and it's not uncommon to walk to up locations that say "closed, no staff".

If the 'no immigration' voices get there way expect to see a rapidly declining population here in the US and these businesses that are used to abusing labor start to freak out.
Don't buy insurance that costs more than the risk does. Don't take cures that are worse than the disease. There's lots of non-zero risks that we just roll with, because the risk is less than the cost of the remediation. So your "prove the risk is zero" is the wrong standard.

> Is the chance that someone will attach it to a nuclear launch or a bioweapon system zero?

No. Was the chance that someone would attach an expert system to a nuclear launch zero? How about just ordinary buggy software? How about perfectly-implemented software that implements insane command-and-control doctrine? You seem to be demanding standards for AI that we haven't applied to anything else.

> Not to even mention your or anyone else's ability to prove it today that it has no potential to become self-aware.

That's going to be hard without an agreed-on definition for "self-aware". How do you suggest that we prove that it can't do something that we can't even define?

And now I'm going to talk out of the other side of my mouth.

It's a good thing that I think that the risk of it becoming self-aware are very close to zero, because I also think that if it can become self-aware, it's already too late to stop, at least if GPT is close (say, only one major breakthrough away).

I mean, let's say the US and the EU decide to stop all research. Is any company going to secretly keep going in their own labs? (For that matter, will the Pentagon?) Even if they stop, will China? India? Brazil?

Even if you are absolutely convinced that totally stopping is the correct answer, can you get buy-in from the entire rest of the world? No, you can't. So whatever the potential for harm is, we're going to see it.

If you really think that it has a significant possibility of massive harm, then your best bet is to think about mitigations rather than prevention.
Facebook et al generally structure their systems to tolerate node failures through redundancy at higher levels. In short: they can not care, or work around, design problems most others can't - or use it for a specific purpose, such as logging, etc.

Btrfs was terrible in the early days, took ages to "git gud", and given a filesystem is supposed to be among the most stable code in the OS, that burned a lot of bridges. It wasn't until fairly recently that btrfs could tolerate being completely filled.

I have no idea how valid the claims are, but bcache's developer claims that btrfs suffers from a lot of terrible early design decisions that can't be undone.

The show-stopper for me is that bcachefs lacks a scrub:

> We're still missing scrub support. Scrub's job will be to walk all data in the filesystem and verify checksums, recovery bad data from a good copy if it exists or notifying the user if data is unrecoverable.

The only argument I see for btrfs is that it supports throwing random drives into a pool and btrfs magically handles redundancy across them.

...but it doesn't support tiered storage like bcachefs does. We're well past "I want to have a redundant filesystem I can randomly add a drive to and magically my shit is mirrored." These days people want to have a large pile of spinning rust with some SSD in front of it, and doing that in all but ZFS is kind of a pain.
> Is there actually a compelling reason to use an iPhone for this type of work over the various alternatives?

For major studios? Of course not.

For tiny-budget indie films, student films, YouTube comedy webseries, and the like? Hugely.
The compelling reason for Apple is to show off their phone. Other than that, I can't imagine the workflow on set is more effective. However, maybe the team enjoyed the process simply from the novelty and challenge of it.
To be honest most of the issues I have with Linux are with the userspace subsystems that build on it; the kernel itself never seems to have many issues (aside from strange audio delays after waking from suspend, but I suspect Pipewire / the Bluetooth stack to be at fault due to it being generally annoying).

Immutable computing sounds frickin amazing!!! Being able to check your entire system configuration into Git, and effectively re-build your OS setup at any time, is really something I want to explore this year.
If he simply doesn't want to talk about something, isn't he entitled to take the 5th and just refuse to answer? Saying he doesn't recall is a gambit because it's an obvious lie but I think he's hoping it's one we're so used to hearing that it sounds less incriminating than refusing to answer.
Pretty sure FTX was a sophisticated criminal organisation themselves. Probably didn't want a turf war.
Business models which depend on tracking should be illegal.
> Collecting data while holding ourselves to the highest standards of privacy can be challenging.

Yes, explaining away a blatant self-contradiction can be challenging.

You're not holding yourselves to the highest standards of privacy, you've explicitly prioritized data collection over privacy.
According to the judge which was news to Amazon. Otherwise they wouldn't have tried to dismiss.
It's fascinating to see how both sides have their fanatics. It's like a religion.
Look at pretty much any one of the pictures in the article for your answer.

No professional camera, iPhone or not, isn't in a rig/harness/on a trolley etc. That's for pan/tilt/push in/pull out. For controlling camera settings/zoom/focus, the article says they are using Blackmagic Camera.
NASA plans to change moon landings with Blue Origin's help – Washington Post
Folks should add Taiwan to their maps then offer to do a swap.

Israel does a lot of war crimes, but China, home to Foxconn suicide nets and concentration camps in Xinjiang... is not the country to be doing vexillological
activism.
A friend fooled me in the ~late 2000s by pretending to have a program installed that could recognize hand gestures to control the screen's UI. So if you moved your hand in the air in front of the webcam, the mouse would follow it around (clunkily), and you could squeeze your hand into a fist to click.

It was slow, but mindblowing given the capabilities of the time. I couldn't quite believe it was real, but also couldn't figure out how it was working.

As it turned out, their cell phone had a feature where they could use the control pad to control the mouse on a computer. They were holding it under the table and using it to mirror the hand's movements. They kept 3 or 4 of us going for about 15 minutes before they finally showed us the secret!
oh we get spam, all right. wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too much of it.
Don't forget the remote employee benefits from not having commute expense and time costs, and work clothing costs.