skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I was shocked to see that. They don't even bother using CUDA cores to encode (less of an issue if you have unified memory like in Jetsons). Anyway it seems you can get four 1080p streams at 30fps encoded to h264 in CPU if you set it up right: https://www.ridgerun.com/post/jetson-orin-nano-how-to-achiev...
Current AI is already capable of designing toxic molecules.

Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00465-9.epdf

Interview with the lead author here:
"AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours / ‘For me, the concern was just how easy it was to do’"

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22983197/ai-new-possible-...
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> If someone was an expert for covid-related topics, why would you even watch this person's videos analyzing the Ukraine war? That makes zero sense.

it does make sense, you can understand multiple things. especially after researching it.
It's true that immediate problems with AI are different, but we hope to be able to solve those problems and to have time for that. The risks addressed in the article could leave us less time and ability to properly solve when they grow to the obvious size, so that requires thinking ahead.
> no more than $71k

Don't worry, I'm sure they'll get together and vote to distribute everybody's 401(k) balances equally among all retirees so that they people who did save will also end up with nothing.
> I seem to remember research stating that an individual neuron has very complex behaviour that requires several ML “neurons” / nodes to simulate.

This is probably what you're remembering: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662732...
Side issue:
What software is used to make those diagrams?
I imagine some engineering exams would be very-hard to do without them, if you want to keep realistic the values and the complexity. You don't want people to waste the time on crunching large decimal numbers and solving trigonometry, it would take away from the exam itself.
I'm sure I'll get downvoted here, but I think Peterson is brilliant. His books have absolutely given me insightful ideas that have improved my life and relationships.
As others have stated, Cloudflare is the best solution here. Other services like AWS WAF will charge you just for validating requests, which means even if the DDOS is mitigated, you're still paying for it to inspect each request and then block it, which now turns it to a denial of wallet attack.
And choosing not to regulate prevents that… how exactly?
Does anyone know where there are pictures of the interiors of these homes? I'm very curious about the concrete bath fixtures, but can't seem to find anything online that definitively shows the inside of an Edison concrete home. It's also interesting to see this in light of all the news recently about 3D printed concrete and how there are many of the same challenges now that Edison must have had to deal with then. Plumbing, electrical, insulation, and so forth all have to be incorporated into the design or tacked on afterward.
NJP, on the other hand, is irritable, imprudent, aggressive, abrasive, impulsive, rude.

Drugs tend to do that to people. Peterson and Musk are in their fully matured junkie persona phases.
There's some crazy stat, that 98% of kids put on puberty blockers continue to cross-sex hormones. Which clearly tell you, whatever the puberty blockers are for, its not temporary and its not 'time to think'...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4...
> means they care less about saving for retirement

They shouldn't be "caring" so much about the high cost of living I guess?
Honestly I've been wondering for years why this is not already happening routinely. Not that I hope it, but I would say that even right now move a small bomb on a drone and letting it explode close to a random target should be quite easy for lightly organized movements, let alone modern armies. Why is so hard for the US to launch a horde of exploding drones towards Putin at the next time he sets foot outside of a building? Or for Russia to do the same for Biden?

Again, I don't hope that's our future, I just cannot understand why it's not our present already.
Yes, unless you're a visually oriented person like myself who is trying to do the programming visually.

I use:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor

to try to design woodworking projects:

https://forum.makerforums.info/t/openscad-and-python-looking...

and I'd like to think that I'm managing to keep the visual appearance sufficiently expressive that it is easier to work with than a traditional textual code representation --- jury is still out on that, we'll see when I start re-purposing what I'm working on for odd/even sides, and then then doing the horizontal version of the joinery.
Deploying Rails on a single server with Kamal
Check out the windscribe app. You can import your own wireguard config and get the features that come with the app by doing so. Maybe that's more what you are looking for. Split tunneling, dns features, etc. A bit more polished and feature rich.
"The last responsible moment (LRM) is the strategy of delaying a decision until the moment when the cost of not making the decision is greater than the cost of making it."

Quoted from: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/software-architects-han...
Eight centuries of interest rates, R-G, and the 'suprasecular' decline
How does providing research grants to small independent researchers satisfying incumbents?
What is passive computing infrastructure?

Doesn't this definitely include things like 'send email if subscribed'? Seems overly broad.
I'm not a New York Times employee, but I do work at another large American media organization as a software developer, and was elected to our bargaining committee to represent software developers. We are part of the same union[1].

I have met many bargaining committee members at the NYT and they are all extremely sharp. The tech guild is well organized and I think the NYT management has much more to lose than the workforce in these negotiations.

Per the article, there are two main issues behind this strike: remote work and open bargaining.

We have a tentative contract agreement that we're voting on this week; it would guarantee remote work for devs for three years, and put caps on days in office for some workers who have on site job duties. The NYT is trying to avoid bargaining over remote work full stop by making unilateral changes before they bargaining a full contact (their legal obligation).

The other issue is open bargaining, which simply means that that union members can observe the bargaining sessions that will produce the agreement they will vote on. Without open bargaining, it's very difficult for members to be involved in improving proposals. Every single one of our bargaining sessions was open, and I can't imagine doing it any other way.

The NYT would prefer closed door meetings because it gives them opportunities them to drive a wedge between the workers who do the bargaining and their peers. Unfortunately, many unions have been cowed into accepting this employer demand, such that the NYT can present closed door bargaining as "typical".

[1]: http://code-cwa.org
You caught something I didn't. The first paragraph states "12 years of school and training". The second paragraph has the same phrase, but without "school". I was focused on the second paragraph without realizing it was likely referencing the first one.
Rule of cool
This is a strange argument. There is a vast difference between a world where you can buy semi-automatic weapons off a store shelf and one where you have to 3d-print one yourself or get a CNC mill to produce it. The point of regulation is to mitigate damage that comes from unfettered access, no regulation can ever prevent it completely. Of course, the comparison between computer programs and physical weapons is not strong in the first place.
Network level or application level DoS? Those are two vastly different beasts.
The boards are the same price, i. OrangePI 5 8GB costs same as Raspberry 5 8GB. At least in EU.
Chemical weapons are already a solved problem. By the mid 1920s there was already enough chemical agents to kill most of the population of Europe. By the 1970s there were enough in global stockpiles to kill every human on the planet several times over.

Yes, this presents additional risk from non-state actors, but there's no fundamentally new risk here.
Why wouldn't it make sense? If a chinese user e.g. specifies that they speak chinese and, say, french, all characters in those two language would show up as unicode and everything else as punycode. A malicious domain using e.g. cyrillic characters to create a domain that looks just like another french (or just plain-ASCII) one would show up as punycode. Sounds like a net improvement over what we have now.
Infrastructure from Macros -- in Rust
Plenty of fish was the only good one. It sucked and did no matching at all. That meant there was an expectation that you basically exchange 2 messages and then meet in person. All the rest is bs: people are not the same in person as online, so the main job of a dating app is to get people in chairs in person asap
I don't think it makes economic sense to crawl everything with headless browsers, given it's several orders of magnitude more expensive, and in most cases doesn't actually give you different results. (Many websites that seem like they'd not be crawlable with a dumb crawler, e.g. Medium, actually crawl just fine as long as you don't masquerade the U-A to look like Chrome)

Makes a lot more sense to sample, identify and specifically crawl the sites where a classic retrieval doesn't work with headless browser, and do classic crawling elsewhere.
Access control doesn't guarantee the prevention of acquisition, but it's a method of regulation. In combination with other methods, it's an effective way of reshaping norms. This is true both on a level of populations but also of on international behaviors.
I can't think of a single service that would have held off against censorship anywhere near as long as CF did, that also doesn't suck.
Insulating concrete form (ICF) is popular in some quarters:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulating_concrete_form

Instead of setting up formwork [0] with rebar, pouring and curing concrete, and then spending time (=money) tearing things down, the formwork is an insulating foam that is left in place. One consideration is that you then have to put some paneling in front of it (on either/both interior and exterior faces).

Depending on the aesthetic you wish to have, you can have smooth concrete exposed or have textures, e.g., board-formed:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1JLy8ZSH2Q

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=688MeG_RKRM

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formwork
The downvote button is not a "disagree" button, you know... I often vote opposite to how I align with opinions in comments, in spirit of promoting valuable discource over echo chambers.
I had plans to do such project for exactly same reasons since, like, 2011..

Wanted to have pulseaudio/alsa dmix handling multiple streams/mixing them out with a help of dedicated hardware BT/DAC-ADC-BT path, with a goal to have smart handling of voice calls over music on the go, fake 5.1 in the room, and a voice enhancer / fast rewind for call streams..

Then, Volumio took enough of the raspberry-based hifi market (despite having no bluetooth support, lol) that I've declared these plans no-go as investing in this solely for fun wasn't that enticing, compared to just getting a spare set of equipment to separate work/home audio.
> Team realizes their table wont scale, but their data is provided via API. They plan and execute the migration next sprint.

... followed by howls of anguish from the rest of the business when it turns out they were relying on reports generated from a data warehouse which incorporated a copy of that MySQL database and was being populated by an undocumented, not-in-version-control cron script running on a PC under a long-departed team member's desk.

(I'm not saying this is good, but it's not an unlikely scenario.)
I liked this well balanced approach. What I think is necessary is more capability to have hard modularisation within a monolith, so decoupling is not a reason to introduce microservices. Performance should be the main/only reason to do it. It's a shame few languages support this.
Even so, the suggestion is a good one. Modern proxies have gotten much better at handling auth and processing the traffic as the GP describes. Service meshes have these features built in now when a few years ago we had to roll our own solutions with haproxy or nginx.
It's easy to tell if companies are actually growing. For public companies just read their quarterly financials. For private companies look through LinkedIn to check the pace of hiring and promotions.

Of course there are no guarantees. If your current employer stops growing then it's time to look for other opportunities.

I don't understand your point about the stock markets. All other investors have access to the same growth data about public companies. The growth rates are already priced in.
To state the obvious, civilians can get dragged into something and manage not to commit atrocities. The conscripts of the IJA weren't trained specifically to commit atrocities. They weren't drugged, lobotomized, or transformed into robots either. What they did came from within themselves.
Thermonuclear weapons are great for excavating large amounts of landmass in quick order. However I would propose that we nonetheless do not make them available to everyone.
Yes. Fundamentally product manager is a generalist role that spans across disciplines. These roles are always hard to fill because they don't have a standard template. Moreover, at the point when an organization attempts to formalize such a role, the culture has likely reached a point where people don't even know what they ought to be looking for in the first place.

We frequently assume that if someone has no specialty then they must be a generalist. There is the freshly minted MBAs who did a two year consulting stint out of school who is familiar with many topics though they are clearly not an expert. There is the person with a degree in the humanities who claims that they are a generalist just because they can't do math and never tried to learn javascript. There is the engineer who is not very talented and tries to push their way into management since they are great at scheduling meetings when everyone else was too busy doing the actual work.

This is not to say that an MBA or an MFA are not great degrees. It is simply to say that they are not enough on their own. One needs to actually do things - a lot of things. Real generalists developed their skill set through their own hard work over a long period of time.
Looks like Excalidraw
ESP32CAM might be good enough.
Trucks are always getting bigger, so every so often they have to introduce the new 'smallest' one. Also obligatory mention of the chicken tax and the Hilux.
It is increasingly common for people to cut out topics their tribe doesn't like.

Conversations (on the surface level) have become narrow.

It's the pursuit to reveal a very specific meaning, and the connections around it. It won't go anywhere.. people will want freedom from it.
What's intellectually dishonest about it?
I look into all these old programs that work great after decades with lots of appreciation.

At the same time, I look into this plethora of web-and-AI-stuff that needs rewrite almost every year... just a massive facepalm situation.

We as a tech community really should go back to the basics when designing stuff, but it seems people just want to make on the highlights of the week for their startup to get some money to burn, and leave rubbish behind.
The Billionaire Hotel Heir–and Progressive Hero?
People like you are our last line of defense on the ground. Sadly, I don't think there's enough of such people to hold the line against PEs doing targeted divide-and-conquer on specific market segments, one by one.
Feels a little like getting a license from Parliament to run a printing press to catch people printing scandalous pamphlets, no?
It is really what you want out of a hacker-stuck-in-corporate story.

There was a tale maybe 10+ years ago about someone who automated their job with a script or Excel sheet or macro and didn't tell anyone about it. Having a hard time tracking it down again, anyone remember what that was?
This reminds me of some of Dan Luu's stories, https://danluu.com/nothing-works/

Likewise with chip software tooling; despite it being standard to outsource tooling to large EDA vendors, we got a lot of mileage out using our own custom tools, generally created or maintained by one person, e.g., while I was there, most simulator cycles were run on a custom simulator that was maintained by one person, which saved millions a year in simulator costs (standard pricing for a simulator at the time was a few thousand dollars per license per year and we had a farm of about a thousand simulation machines). You might think that, if a single person can create or maintain a tool that's worth millions of dollars a year to the company, our competitors would do the same thing, just like you might think that if you can ship faster and at a lower cost by hiring a person who knows how to crack a wafer open, our competitors would do that, but they mostly didn't.
Well, for starters, we can look at the median net worth of Americans, which in 2019 was between $250k and $310k for the age groups we’re talking about here. Is that enough? Still probably not, but it’s a heck of a lot more than just $71k.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scf/dataviz/scf/chart...
The official cholo remake link seems to be https://www.ovine.net/ -> http://www.eyecon64.com/download/Cholo.zip (at least, it seems to be the same guys, 'Andy' and 'Stu').
Can you give us a bit more with regards to the most successfull or helpful bits in your experience?
The Ukrainians were effective destroying Russian tanks using Javelins and NLaws and civilian drones for spotting.

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/an-unerring-sense-of-locality-ukra...
>the Russian tank crews fell victim to roving bands of hidden Ukrainian light infantry armed with Javelin and NLAW ATGMs, as well as armed drones. Like the destruction waged by Egyptian and Syrian Sagger teams, these ambushes resulted in the widespread destruction of Russian tanks and contributed to Russia’s operational abandonment of its northern axis of advance. As a result, between February 2022 and March 2023, Russia lost 1,917 of what the International Institute for Strategic Estimate estimated to be a prewar total of 3,417 tanks in active service
> and most did not or could not contribute to 401ks in any meaningful fashion)

burying the lede here, killer.

to be clear, the 2% mgmt fee in a lot of 401k plans is terrible and is absolutely scamming the average folks.

but you can't retire on something you didn't contribute to, either because you didn't or couldn't.
yes but typically cpu is bad for video encoding, at least the power consumption will be much worse than hw encoder.
I was pointing out that lobbying is the standard in absolutely all fields where capitalist have interests.
I saved Amazon $10MM as an intern back in 2012. If only I could have seen 1% of that.
Is somebody living under the bed? Economics was, is
and will ever be weaponized.
I think the objection that many people would indeed weight the asbestos factory as a more severe nuisance than the apartments. Equal weighting seems like odd affectation here.
By ensuring there is competition and alternatives that don't cost a million before you can even start training.
According to the article the proto-script emerged more during middle of the seventh century.
Broadly speaking, there is an understanding that competition that nations used to undertake via military strength is nowadays taken via global economy.

If you want something your neighbor has, it doesn't make sense to march your army over there and seize it because modern infrastructure is heavily disrupted by military action... You can't just steal your neighbor's successful automotive export business by bombing their factories. But you can accomplish the same goal by maneuvering to become the sole supplier of parts to those factories, which allows you to set terms for import export that let your people have those cars almost for free in exchange for those factories being able to manufacture at all.

(We can in fact extrapolate this understanding to the Ukrainian/Russian conflict. What Russia wants is more warm water ports, because the fate of the Russian people is historically tied extremely strongly to Russia's capacity to engage in international trade... Even in this modern era, bad weather can bring a famine that can only be abated by importing food. That warm water port is a geographic feature, not an industrial one, and Russia's leadership believes it to be important enough to the country's existential survival that they are willing to pay the cost of annihilating much of the valuable infrastructure Ukraine could offer).
We're not talking about what people "in finance" know or care about. We're talking about regular people's retirement funds.
> Uber is worth 50%+ its IPO valuations.

Is it?

I just looked at the chart and saw it went public at $45 and it currently trading at $45.

Did it split at some point or issue a 50% div?
Every developer is a bozo for their first few months in a new job, simply because it takes time to absorb all of the information needed to understand how the existing systems work.
Raspberry Pis and other “small things” like Project Coral are ridiculously overpriced. It’s ironic because whenever I see someone post on Reddit about their tiny rack of Raspberry Pis in their closet, people always ask in the comments what they’re using the cluster for, and the OP always says something along the lines of “just fucking around.”

If I’m on a budget, my first choice is probably going to be an older, used Nvidia GPU. Maybe a 1050 or one of the older Quadros. The Quadros will get you the most VRAM per dollar, but the GPU will be rather weak, in the realm of a 1050 perhaps, while the 1050 will have better/longer driver support and be physically smaller, quieter, and use less energy.

If those aren’t an option, I would take a closer look at ROCm and HIP. It seems like AMD is prioritizing support for newer GPUs like the Radeon VII, so a $50 RX480 is probably not a good investment, despite the low price.
--Static or declining companies
Including companies recently purchased by PE.
Really, you can't think of a better conceivable leader than Joe Rogan or Elon Musk, even in a fantasy scenario you've invented?
PB = personal best

BQ = something qualify?

ultra = ultramarathons, races longer than 42.195 km / 26 mi
> there are a lot of benefits to

One disadvantage: much harder to do changes / remodelling down the road.

Cinder block may be better for later flexibility than poured concrete:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_block
Is it restricted to cannibalism, or brains in general?
If under heavy DDOS, it's very likely that your available upstream/downstream bandwidth is already starved, so dropping requests at your public IP level is too late.
The entire business model is in not cutting you off, but cutting off the requests. E.g. by forwarding them to the cloudflare captcha first.

This does mean occasional false positives.
People care about multiple things on different time horizons. There’s nothing contradictory in saying, “I would prefer a world not owned entirely by one PE firm” and “I will generally seek the lowest acceptable prices.”
This is not a tautology but a (not-so-good) measurement of inequality.
Google reveals two things, followed by a bunch of shitty blogspam:

- Last year, there was a post on Reddit, with an HN discussion as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29994776

- In 2017, there was a question about whether someone should tell their employer that they've automated their job: https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/93696/is-it-un...