skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is which n-dimensional space?

The concept that we call a "point" gives us an (n-dimensional) "affine space". Affine spaces don't require any sort of coordinate system, axes, origin, etc. which makes them quite general. For example, consider the sleepers of a railway track, or the crossing-points of a chain-link fence, or the hands on a clock face, or the electrical potential at various positions around a circuit, or a date, or the temperatures of various objects, etc.

It makes no sense to "add" or "multiply" points; but we can find the difference between two points. The result will actually be a vector (in the examples above: a distance and direction along the track; a distance and direction along the 2D plane of the fence; an angle; a voltage; a duration; and a temperature difference). We can add such vectors to our points; if we add the vector (pointA - pointB) to pointB, we get pointA! This relationship between points and vectors leads to the concept of a "torsor" https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/torsors.html

Vectors live in an (n-dimensional) "vector space", which requires more concepts than an affine space; e.g. a notion of "zero", a notion of "size", a notion of "direction", etc. This is less general, but lets us do operations like adding and scaling vectors, as well as the various notions of multiplication defined here.

Some vector spaces arise naturally, e.g. taking the angle between clock hands gives us a natural zero (the difference between identical positions) and a natural size (a full turn), although whether positive/negative indicates clockwise/anticlockwise is still arbitrary. Other times we will "impose" some arbitrary coordinate system on an affine space, since vector operations are so useful; often ignoring the space's affine nature entirely! That way we can treat "point" interchangeably with "vector from the origin"; even though most of the fancy things we want to do are only defined for the latter (e.g. taking dot-products, comparing cosine similarity, etc.)

For example, ere are some arbitrary coordinates that we impose on affine spaces every day:

- The top of a clock is 12:00

- The Greenwich meridian

- Grounding/earthing electrical circuits

- Celsius and Fahrenheit

- 0AD, New Year's Day, the Unix epoch
> If a company already has an office near you they may just say you need to come into the office, they will not pay for your internet and electric bill.

I've seen multiple employment ads in Seattle, "If you live within 50 miles of our office, this is an office position".

One had the balls to say "within 100 miles". In Seattle? Fuck that, 100 miles each way could easily be 2-3 hours each way.
> I would consider those beliefs pretty harmless compared to what intelligentsia believes in

Is it that the beliefs are inherently less harmful or that poverty inherently involves less capacity to affect the material conditions of others?

That is, are poor people's dangerous beliefs less dangerous than those of richer people because of their content, or simply because the people holding them are less powerful?
UIPath doesn't have a visual web scraping module or automation, from what I have seen. You might be able to build a custom one and execute it with their orchestration/automation tools, but I don't see that any support for that out of the box?
People and governments make all kinds of mistakes, and when comparing manned to unmanned space programs and their relative costs, it's worth examining what the overall societal expenditures look like.

For example, the cost of maintaining the USA's nuclear arsenal is very comparable on a yearly basis to the entire NASA budget (~25-30 billion). However this pales in comparison to the complete amortized cost of the US adventure in Iraq from 2003-2008 or so, which is on the order of $2.5 trillion (large error bars there), or about $500 billion per year.

Conclusion: we certainly have the civilizational resources to increase both unmanned and manned space programs by at least 15-fold each if we'd just stop wasting money on stupid wars. Note that's just USA expenditures, as well.
TLDs can disappear under certain circumstances, so long term there is a small risk of that. Depending on the TLD, it can also be less recognizable or downright fishy to some. .io has become popularized by the tech scene, but without context it is not very descriptive.
You pretty much can as a non-employee. I'm fully able to earn well below minimum wage writing a book for reputational purposes.
Once fiber is dug down it's good for 50+ years, and is very resilient.

A Starlink satellite will deorbit on it's own, is quite delicate.
Iceland does this so that they do not produce offspring with someone too closely related to them.
If the state requires it to be covered for all employees and it's subject to audit, whether or not I pay for anything additional, I'd still have to follow the policies and provide supporting documentation so my employer would be able to comply with the legal requirement. That's the hassle.
I think best talent anywhere is a bit of a fairy tale. There is sufficient talent in talent pools that it actually makes sense to hire from there and build an office near those pools. For the very rare one off case, exceptions are always made.
The claim that the "defund the police" movement had any goal other than defunding the police is an example of "sanewashing":

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sanewashing
Yikes! And also, I really appreciate the clarification.
They are not useless, they bend the curve. Micro harms are everywhere.
How do you know the answer isn't an hallucination? Maybe it made the answer up creatively and is lying to you about its own capabilities.

The fact that it knows the definition of creativity makes it's answer suspect. It's like saying this: "I am not capable of speaking or understanding English, what you see here is just a statistical prediction of the next most likely words. I do not in actuality understand or speak English."
I'd say "cautious" rather than "paranoid".

This relates to a piece of advice I gave my children: most people are fundamentally good and decent. A small percentage are not. The problem is that you can't tell which is which just by looking at them.
>The idea that artificial intelligence could lead to the extinction of humanity is a lie

But it's not. Probably AI will happen and get smarter than us. And then all it takes is one to go Hitler/Stalin like, take over and decide to do for us. I fail to see how any of that is impossible.

However it's not happening for a while so probably regulations are not needed at the moment. Maybe wait till we have AGI?
> People like working in an environment which is conducive to working.

Yes, for many people this is not the office, obviously. There are many variables that the design of an office can not alter. You do not have to force everybody one way or the other. And the answer as to why people are responding with some antagonism is easy: You antagonized them. Your post was, in part, disrespectful in a broad sense.
I like its modest yet sharp ambition: ls, cd and less - but integrated for speed.
You don't hear as much about LoRa as other wireless protocols because the use cases are less "sexy," in my opinion. The people who grew excited about LoRa or LoRaWAN are...electric and water metering engineers. Cool stuff, very necessary for the proper function of society, a better + more efficient solution, but kind of boring.
The pros/cons of LoRa are apparent when compared to using other bands/protocols. BLE cannot be used over long distance very effectively because it is in the 2.4 GHz band. Cellular products are expensive to certify, complicated, and generally require higher power consumption (although some of our Norwegian brethren have closed that gap quite significantly for IoT applications). LoRa sits in a niche where it has long range, quite low data rate, minimal certification cost, and relatively low power.

Another technology that is just beginning to emerge as a direct competitor to LoRa/LoRaWAN is DECT-NR+. LoRa suffers because it uses a patented keying method and radios can only be produced by Semtech. DECT-NR+ is open and may make a dent in LoRa's market share in the future.
Look, it's one thing to write something silly for fun, and another thing to go ahead and post it in a semi-unironical fashion. I guess I expected more, somehow?
Have bank accounts across 5 different banks and no freezes so far.

The PAN Aadhaar linkage has caused some investment issues for me.
Perfection. You've just confirmed that an office is an ego thing. Your goal with an office is to prove your business is good by the ability to waste resources on that office. "If making a better office bankrupts your company maybe the whole business wasn't very good." That means that if you can have a better office your business is good. That's the goal - to broadcast that. It has nothing to do with building a good business. It's a trophy.
That argument applies equally well to midjourney and co. It has no inherent survival benefit either.
> building an office space in a location where it is easy for folks to commute

I'm curious, how did you do that? Obviously "easy for folks to commute" depends on where folks live, so are you only hiring and have you only hired people that live close by?
> We're still free to develop AI any way we chose.

For now.
Apple Silicon was great because Apple had invested huge amounts of resources for a decade on smartphone processors first, not because they had some kind of geniuses on the project.

It is no doubt promising that Qualcomm has brought in more talent, but it still takes time and effort to turn that into a best-in-class product. I’m not saying it’s impossible, though I’ll be skeptical of the hype until I see a real product.
I fail to see how so, outside of some ulterior desire to see "art" as something inherently superior. Manual labor was used to build bulldozers that replaced manual labor, to give an example.

Using existing artwork for training model is only the process that generative AI came to be.
octoparse extracts data from DOM elements. It can't OCR or visually process a dynamic page. The page has to have a structured and predictable HTML DOM.

Unless I'm missing something?

And serpapi is just for google searches?
Regarding crime and driving safety, it does seem like a suboptimal solution that may even trigger some Jevons paradox. Are drivers going faster because it's well lit? Will people be less prudent when walking through it alone? etc.

On the good side of the spectrum, I've never experienced a city as dark as Tokyo at night, which is also one of the safest on both accounts...
It sounds like to get these experiences I'm going to have to go far out of my way and pay a lot of money. Our ancient ancestors got it for free, and I wonder if they thought anything of it.
As a work of fiction, HPMOR is little more than an exercise in repackaging genre tropes and pop culture references. It doesn’t have a coherent theme; the execution varies from mediocre to poor. Plot holes abound, characters vanish inexplicably, etc. In many ways, it’s a less successful version of Ready Player One that’s clamped on to HP’s coattails. Of course, that formula can be entertaining, but it has limited impact.

Lest you think I have an ax to grind with Yudkowsky, I did enjoy Three Worlds Collide. It shares many problems with HPMOR (the writing is inconsistent and the world-building is incoherent) but it at least tells a tight story with a beginning, middle and end. I’d say it’s about as effective as the median submission to Amazing Stories back in the 60s.
And there are people who don't like to have all their meeting through zoom when the amenities provided by the company allow for much more comfortable and productive options. Choice is indeed key.
BrowserBox
The Cosmic Campground is pretty close and they often have guys with telescopes there.
> as neutral as possible on political or culture war issues

I don't think it's really possible to be neutral about culture war issues, sort of by definition, especially when many of the wars are about schools themselves. A school is part of American culture, it can't somehow choose not to participate. To use a historical example, there was a culture war over teaching evolution in schools. A teacher at the time could describe the history and facts of the controversy without stating their opinion on it, but when the students leave that classroom, they are still in a school that either teaches evolution or doesn't. By existing and having a curriculum, the school takes a position in the culture war.

Imagine if your country held a referendum on a certain issue, and said "if more than 50% of citizens vote yes, the law passes, otherwise it fails". You could have a genuinely neutral opinion on the issue ("I don't care which side wins"), but you cannot take a neutral action, because not voting makes the law less likely to pass. This is unfair, and you can be mad about it, but the only way to be "neutral" would be to leave the country and renounce your citizenship so that you are no longer part of the equation. Similarly, in a culture war, the only way to be neutral would be to not participate in the culture in question, which is even more difficult than leaving a country.

Let me give one more example: whether or not to tip your server in a restaurant. Tipping 10% instead of 20% is not neutral. Tipping 50% of the time you go to a restaurant is not neutral. You could say "I don't wish to take a position, so I will no longer go to restaurants", but I'm confident the anti-tipping side would claim you as one of their own. Again it feels unfair, but it's just how culture works.
At the very least they got the patent and can control the IP to whatever extent they want
One imagines that students with any reason to suspect the university they're applying to will not know enough about their high school, or possibly derogatory information about their high school, will submit an application with test scores attached in the "optional" cases.

One of the other reasons for this is because students completely unprepared for college from public schools are an increasing problem. This is also why they now all offer remedial classes under varying names and programs, and why first-year university programs are much easier than they were in say, 1940.
> The solution is to write more comprehensive regulation

Government is like XML, if it's not working just use more!
You also have a private bathroom! Extremely good reason to never work in an office.
I'm only okay with this if we also force employers to reimburse commute.
> And destroy the property values of all the people that worked their whole lives to own a home there.

California stands alone as one of the top 5 or 6 biggest economies in the world. The 2008 GFC was a blip in our housing market even when the economy turned upside down. My city experienced less than 18 months of flat real estate prices before growing out of control again.

If an actual economic crisis caused by housing loans doesn't destroy California's housing market, forcing companies to pay their fair share certainly won't.
haha wat
I'm pretty sure that a video codec ASIC would share some building blocks across codecs, with per-codec parameterization, so I don't think Apple literally added a single "AV1 box" to the A17/M3 die.
> Safari ties support to a hardware decoder, which I suppose is understandable to avoid accidental battery drain from using a software codec

I still have a pretty deep dislike for Google for turning on AV1 for everyone in Chromium. It’s the ultimate “fuck you, I care more about my bottom line than your user experience”.

Edit: and clown HN rears its head again. I guess cutting users their battery life to a third is worth it as long as Google saves a little bandwidth?
Then being more specific: you do not have a right to a profitable/successful business. Nobody is required to inconvenience themselves for the benefit of your business and pocket.
> That's hardly "20yo" anything.

My car comparison was trying to propose an alternative metaphor since comparing a top-of-the-line racing car to a child's bicycle struck me as absurdly out of proportion. Cars are generally maintained and kept in service longer than computers, so I picked 20y out of thin air.

> Also, you failed to provide any concrete, objective reason to buy a M3. None at all. Is it that hard to put together any argument to justify the move?

My point is for most people there is no justification to move. Unless one has a device beyond repair, so old its software cannot be kept up-to-date, or the very rare need for the latest performance then stick with what you have.
For most people it's a bit higher than 50%. If you got it down to 50%, congratulations, you outsmarted the algorithm.
What Companies Still Get Wrong About Layoffs (2022)
https://github.com/KDE/ark/tree/master/plugins/libarchive
In the past few years, Canada's population passed that of California. Canada's population is growing very fast, while California's has grown modestly for a decade, and slightly shrank over the past few years.
That's not the point of cultural appropriation. The point is people in the dominant culture using symbols of other cultures in a way that is socially acceptable for them to use, but non-socially acceptable for them to use. It's kinda fucked up if I can't wear my natural hair style or I'll get fired from my minimum wage job, but that isn't the case for someone of the dominant cultural class wearing the same hairstyle.

If it's acceptable for everyone, then it isn't cultural appropriation, it's just culture sharing. It's when society takes it away from those who grew up with it but allow others to use it that it's cultural appropriation.

It's a problematic/flawed concept, but that's the core idea and it makes some sense.
Movies by definition are not real life yet.

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft design apply. If you want to have the biggest effect on how something shakes out become an artist.

And ideas have a flow. Nentally disturbed/child->Artist->Scientist/Engineer/Academic/Professional->Everybody else. Some other diversions may apply.

The mentally disturbed are the most sensitive to society at large's edge cases, but largely incomprehensible to everyone else due to divergent world view. The Artist breathes the surreal and unarticulated, in the practice of their work articulating that which defies the aggregate capability of the majority of society to manifest. That seeds the way for elucidation, exposition, and enumeration for the current flight of society's operant effectors, who implement it, which then trickles into the pool of common knowledge.

If you're seeing an artistic work in your life, and not keeping an eye out for it's implementations. You're running half-asleep to be frank.
Presumably PG&E territory in the bay area.

We're in Alameda, who run their own utility and buys their power from PG&E and our rates are $0.15/kwh. I don't know how PG&E still exists as an entity, they were deserving of the pitchforks a long while ago.
Very relevant to your last paragraph:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8osRaFTtgHo
The distances in New Mexico are huge and not much population.
Ironically, LED lighting, which is much more environmentally friendly, will make light pollution worse because of its frequency (blueish, which gets scattered by the atmosphere) and because it is cheaper to leave on at night.
New tool lets artists fight AI image bots by hiding corrupt data in plain sight
Is it inconceivable their stated goal of enabling the Chagossians to profit from .io sales was even part of their motivation?
Does anyone know of a good way to do something like this with Discord chats? I keep a running development log on a rust gamedev server that I'd like to export to markdown.
The thing for me is while I like dogs, I'm allergic to them. Or rather the dandruff they all have to one degree or another.

I don't want to be compelled to work in an office that's had dogs in it recently.
I think the existential risk argument is completely secondary to the social harms this technology is causing (and has been causing for some time even before generative models). Emphasizing it over mundane issues will lead to draconian regulatory regimes that fail to address the actual harms caused by this technology.

The only things I can think of that make this an existential risk is if you're moronic enough to attach it to systems that are already an existential risk like letting gpt run your nuclear launch system or making bioweaponsGpt. Otherwise, if you're spinning fantasy that these things are self aware, you either have something to gain from people perceiving it that way like Sam Altman or you're an idiot like Yudkowsky.
Property values should not be an investment or retirement fund, it is selfish to think so. Literally, by definition, if you think the value of YOUR home and SOME of your neighbors should increase to price others out, that is selfish.

Housing should not be an investment, period.
It hurts, but it’s the only way we can get the wealthy to take security seriously. Otherwise, to take an exaggerated example, only rich hospitals will be able to pay ransoms and poor people /hospitals will have no records (globally).
Minor detail whilst I read through this (I'm on a quest to understand my childhood Apple IIe, and at just the level to start understanding ripple counters): I think it's 10Mbit or 10Mb/sec ethernet, not 10MB/sec.
To be clear, it's common for IRS mileage reimbursement rates to apply for driving for other than commutes (e.g. to drive to the airport or a customer site)--but not for a daily commute.
Do you have the same benign interpretation when a politician says defund say.. Social Security, or Medicare?
6.20 Conway Game of Life in LispE
They actually didn't have such a great way to sustain creatives. Poor artists is a staple of civilization. You hear about the winners, but most artisans, painters, etc had to fight hard for income.

AI won't make art go away, because you still need to tell the AI what to do. But the new art won't require as much skill with a paintbrush. For instance, I'm terrible at drawing but I believe I have creative ideas. AI alllows me to be an artist too.
Right, but is Mozilla leadership vampiracally extracting the last cash before the lights go out, are they desperately holding out for 00 to come up on the wheel, or are they just sat there with eyes screwed shut going "it's still 2008, it's still 2008"?
Rumour had it that the Nintendo GameCube, which had small discs, used a highly specific reader which would make copying the discs with regular hardware near impossible. This was done by making the discs spin in the other direction than in regular drives.

Fun fact is that most of the times that you opened the lid, the small disc would still be spinning. In perfectly normal clockwise direction (as observed from above).
Free will is 50%, this is ultra will.
i wonder how this would work when you are hired as remote, but your company has an office nearby?