skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Daniel Langlois, founder of Softimage, found dead in Dominica
Thank you for taking the time, very appreciated. We are actually aiming to build everything! crazy right? :) we have a working infrastructure that provides Virtual Machines and Kubernetes clusters, we are also targetting managed services as well (we are a quite small team, that's why we try to be a bit pragmatic deciding on solutions that we work on)

We are also planning to provide a cloud for systems like gitea, fossil, in a non-aggressive way to these respective projects.

Actually there's also another untold story, which is called a 3bot that's completely decentralized standalone working as your digital assistant, but we didn't get there yet :)

I fully agree that crypto world is making it harder for projects with good intentions specially those who delivered! (We are planning to be not linked with crypto at all soonish and allow more of fiat adoption)

Again, Thank you for taking the time!
Self-calibrating over time.
Fantastic. I can't wait to see a whole forest of crowdsourced algorithmic plants. Is this connected to any scientific projects? A cool feature would be an AI botanist that tells you how likely your plant would survive, what's the closest taxonomic reference, a nice recipe to go along with boiled rice,...
Nationality irrelevant. Any human can be bribed.
Social Security and Medicare comes to mind (age tested of course, Medicaid if you are in some measure of poverty) in the US. Retirees receive a monthly check as long as they're alive (worst case, they spend through it too quick and go without between monthly pay dates), and they receive healthcare regardless of their ability to manage their finances.

I see a wide swath of the population strata in my travels, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that some benefits must remain universal and UBI alone (only the fiat, no other support) is insufficient, due to combinations of lack of education, unsophistication, and mental health challenges. We don't rely on people coughing up for police and fire protection on the spot, for example.

I think that's the real conversation: what must be universal (healthcare for sure, non market housing potentially [1]), and what do we fill in with direct fiat transfers on a monthly cadence (which provides for autonomy and choice in matters where discretionary spend is involved). Non market/"socialized" housing ensures a relief valve so these aggregate support mechanisms aren't simply soaked up by rent seekers (with the potential for a "benefit rent" price spiral). You cannot hold hostage what you cannot buy and extract returns from. Think in systems.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38117223

(i provide material support to and advocate for some folks very much on the margin as well as some elderly folks, so these ideas and optimal potential configurations are top of mind, strong opinions on the topic)
You are too optimistic. It has been a very long time since MS has done anything coherent with Windows.
I feel like visualizations like this are what is missing from univeristy curricula. Now imagine a professor going trough each animation describing exactly what is happening, I am pretty sure students would get a much more in-depth understanding!
Kagi does this (it is one of the main ranking signals).
Aww, sadly nothing for my own websites!

This is such a great idea, often when I find a small blog or site I want more of it! This is the perfect tool to discover that. It’s a clear and straightforward idea in retrospect, as all really great ideas tend to be!
A putative fix:

> Turn off cookies on ChatGTP tab. Problem solved. I had the same issue on multiple browsers and it stopped once I turned off "third party cookies" on the left side of the address (URL) bar.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/189qpsz/if_your_cp...
Nostalgia in politics: how (and why) parties appeal to the past
I’ve had to deal with this a few times now. After asking around the greybeards I really respect this is my current run book.

First: Talk to them about it. This is the hardest part. The aim of this conversation is to let them know you’ve noticed a change in performance and you want to know what you can do to help. It’s an open conversation but there are two possible outcomes.

1. They’re bored of their work. This is more common than you think. Give them a big problem. Maybe a bug no one can figure out. Maybe move them to a different project for a while. Check in with them every day/2 days. They don’t have to solve/finish it instantly but they do have to demonstrate engagement.

2. They’re burnt out. This is coming for all of us one day so be kind. The solution to burnout is give them micro tasks. If there are no micro tasks take an existing task and break it down into micro tasks. Something that would take you an hour to do. You want to get them into the habit of moving tickets across the board again. There’s no time pressure here but you do want to start tracking their productivity.

If you suspect they are slacking off/have problems at home/have a full time second job solution 2 also applies.

Think of this period as like hiring an intern/junior developer. Your job is to support them & build them up. If they were once productive you’re trying to get that guy back. This takes time and don’t rush it.

Keep a close eye on their velocity. Expect them to be slowly building up. If you use ticket points track their points.

If after the first 2 weeks you get the feeling they are not engaging now is the time to notify your manager/ HR (depending on your country firing someone may be a long process)

The aim is to get them back to being productive again. Whatever caused this issue. don’t expect to get them back for 2-3 months. This is okay remember how much it costs in time and money to get in a replacement.

What we want to see over that time is a gradual improvement in velocity. Slowly start giving larger tasks. Check in with them at standup every day and have a half hour call with them once/twice a week.

Over these 2/3 months if you see no improvement bring in HR and initiate a formal PIP or whatever process you have for firing someone. If they’re taking the piss they’ve been found out. If they’re burnt out and are not engaging with this process maybe their time as a software developer has come to an end. At the very least their time at your company has.

Every single person is different. One person I took though the process fully embraced it and has since been promoted. Turns out he just needed more responsibility.
Is alternative to pure materialism "reality is mind"? Even from that perspective I currently cannot see how that simplifies the distinction between living or dead. When is there a moment where electron does not have a subjective experience but I do?
The title isn’t explained, and I don’t see how it fits.

Basically, this is no different than a private health insurance company denying approval for a treatment. There is always going to be a gatekeeper, unless you are independently wealthy, and sometimes the gatekeeper’s decisions will be suspect.
For 99% of us that's just an implementation detail anyway. Although I remember reading that Firefox can compile wasm faster than normal network transfer rates so maybe AOT makes more sense there.
Submitter editorialized the headline as well, Actual title is "Life is Too Short for Jenkins"
I've been to multiple buildings on my block and haven't seen a single McDonald's, I'm convinced they don't exist.
Check out Assembly Theory, which is a neat way of defining life from the perspective of physics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9EUGVsKqdU
Space colonies are the worst idea possible until they’re not. And that on a very large timescale, having that humans survive that long. For now it’s absolutely pointless to think we could pull it off. It’s still a good subject to explore in the Scifi genre
OpenAI is neither a for-profit nor an LLC. It’s a non-profit that (confusingly) owns a for-profit arm which very specifically disclaims any obligation to produce a profit.
i wish i could, but that's part of the problem. possibly -the- problem.

i've worked on vxworks, integrity, and qnx. if you are a licensee (which is ridiculously expensive), you typically see most or all of the code for this type of embedded os. and it's uniformly atrocious.

but, since it's proprietary, you can't review it or critique it publicly. all you can see is glossy press releases and whitepapers. i assure you, pull the curtain back, and what you find is beyond bad.

it's the exact same issue with internet-of-crap devices, which is more widely known. just slapping a "safety critical" label on a product or paying millions for certification doesn't fundamentally change anything: they will put out the cheapest thing they can get away with. things like DO-178, MISRA, etc. even formal-methods. are supposed to help, but they don't, especially with low-level code like an embedded os. the effort spent certifying means even less time and money available ensuring things like that their drivers flush/invalidate caches correctly and that they use memory barriers right. certification doesn't prove that at all.

we need to make ALL safety critical and security software open-source or at minimum source-available, even if it retains a proprietary license.
AIUI, if it's not something everyone gets (universal) and it's not the same amount for everyone (basic), it's not UBI.
Trying to see from specs and such if the mesh supports ethernet backhaul vs wifi radio like the google wifi does.
There’s a scale here. People may mess up details but they are unlikely to draw the kind of mutant deformities you get in otherwise seemingly reasonable images. I regularly see stuff like a 7 fingers or a single fingers on a hand or a finger several times the size of others that curves bizarrely.
We live in a 3 floor 1800 sq.ft. house, with have a garage that is 300 ft away. My single UAP-AC-LR manages to cover this quite nicely, only the far corner of the garage has poor connection, out in the garden it's excellent.

Unless all the walls in your house are heavily reinforced concrete, I don't see how you need that many APs.
So, to be fair, the thing about his displeasure with Android was in response to somebody asking if he would be involved in helping maintain a fork that’s being set up. He said no and gave his Android reasons. Which to me sounds like he’s literally getting out of Android development.

Now, I didn’t read all the way to the bottom of that thread and GitHub, but no one really seem to ask him why he didn’t give notice of to anybody. The comments were either like, no, don’t do it, or we’ve gotta fork this. They weren’t really about how he has handled the issue.
Inflation and labor demand
Well the U stands for universal. It is likely that taxes will fund it, so your taxes when working would probably offset it. That's my understanding.
I’m at a FAANG-type company and have interviewed over 1k engineers at all levels, but mostly senior+. The coding questions I ask aren’t literally FizzBuzz, but do involve counting, looping, conditionals, etc. Good solutions are possible in 30m and take 30 lines of code or less. And I’m not looking for beauty or perfect efficiency, I’m looking for code that works and which the candidate can explain.

Example: given the x/y coordinates of a rectangle, can you write a function that tells me which points in array are inside or outside?

Other companies may get a different pool of candidates, so such a low-pass filter may not be necessary. But these people have resumes which describe them as capable engineers. What I usually find is they are no longer coding much, but are doing design reviews, code reviews, and attending meetings.
Free-paywall link?
Getting better feedback on your work
I don’t think Musk and Bezos would run any show having the chaos ensuing in such a situation. Their wealth will melt too.
Solid points, but there’s a little bit of history (the details are fuzzy for me so apologies to anything I get wrong): When 1Gbps internet connections were starting to be widely available Unifi put out some “1Gbps” products that could only route 1Gbps with nothing turned on. It quickly dropped to 300Mbps if someone wanted to use any of the Unifi features and people called them out.

If they are making it a point to address that in this current product I feel like they want to make sure that type of call out doesn’t happen again.
The 90s were the last actual advance in UI design anyway. Design has drifted in a terrible direction, in the past decade or two especially. Some of this is justified (by some) by optimizing for mobile, but that’s precisely the kind of thing I wouldn’t want creeping into my CI tooling anyway. I don’t do that on a phone.
Experiencing tinnitus after years of working around saws, aircraft, and being in a band has been one of the reasons the past 4 years especially have been miserable. The proliferation of face masks suddenly made communicating with people extremely difficult where it was only a slight annoyance before.

this article was fascinating and I hope they find a cure for this in my lifetime.
I'm excited for the Capacitor SDK that's on the roadmap. Any rough ballpark estimate of when that might be available?

I haven't used Capacitor but I will soon. Is it possible to use the web SDK in a mobile Capacitor app or is there something about the webview browser environment that breaks the normal functioning of Powersync on the web?
Yep, this 2 minute segment is worth watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6WDq0V5oBg&t=1088s (link to 18 minutes in)
Claude 2.1:
A kilogram of feathers would weigh the same as a kilogram of feathers.

This is a trick question based on the fact that a kilogram (kg) is a unit of weight or mass. One kilogram would always equal another kilogram. It would not matter whether we are talking about a kilogram of feathers, a kilogram of steel, or a kilogram of anything. Since they are the same unit of measure, a kilogram of feathers and a kilogram of feathers weigh exactly the same.
Is IQ not but a subjective list of attributes to test for that are culturally dependent?

If Native Americans had an IQ test it might encompass being able to navigate and understand geography, weather, and animal and plant behavior without being aided by tools. In that case, most of us would qualify as handicapable and be sorted out by primitive career matching into nothing more than offerings to nature and the cycle of life.

I think by definition the more stable and ingrained globalized culture becomes… the more likely we will select and refine for the attributes it requires to succeed. And by this virtue, we’ve made a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I don't think we disagree, and I do think what I argue is sufficient for image generation models to fail to render hands well. What you add---that they are very complex---is true, I believe, but I avoided using it to argue as I'm not sure it's sufficient or necessary.

Generative models, arguable, have little trouble with complexity given enough training data. Faces are a perfect example. We both agree that image models, at least, lack that data for hands.

But there are many complex things that image models render with sparse training data which don't set off our perception as strongly. Hands fall into the uncanny valley: we are deeply familiar with them.

This is why I mention lighting and focus. They are subtle and complex. Additionally, image models have tons of training examples of each. That's still not enough for generative image models to consistently represent photography in a way that a person who has spent the time to build an accurate model of how camera images look would be fooled. But it fools most people.

The complexity of handling good lighting and focus involve both the generation of the entire scene that the photograph is taking place within and an accurate model of both the design of the camera and how it's been configured for the shot. Both of these are large spaces full of hidden variables that popular image models are not presently trained on.

Many people know you can look at the background of a generated image to identify irregularities. Checking that the lighting has a consistent angle (or multiple angles indicative of a cogent set of scene lights) is another good check. Additionally, if you have an eye for bokeh then when it appears in an image you can often detect whether it's faked. Finally, even smooth blurs often do not reflect either a physically plausible background being blurred or a consistent focal plane cutting through the 3d scene. All additional complexities that image generating models often don't have mastery over (for now). But also many judges of their outputs don't either, so it's easy to miss these "mistakes".
Lessons from an Ex-Uber Staff Engineer
> It would be nice if someone went through and rewrote these using current idiomatic Swift

It's always nice when someone else does what we can see is required, but mostly we have to be the ones to do that work.
Yes. I don’t like Elon but I get tired of the way discussions devolve into tech bros are bad.

Maybe life has always been like this but I find it harder and harder to have meaningful discourse. If you disagree with someone then all of a sudden you get put into a generalized bucket.

Edit: I don’t like how Elon always handles himself in public and I don’t always agree with everything Altman does but we as humans are very different and that’s ok. The moment Tesla comes up all the Elon hate comes out of their holes.

In this case if the article was about some kind of misconduct or worse towards another person ok great let’s talk about his sister.
I wouldn't call the permanent fund a UBI. It's proceeds from the sale of oil, whereas every other UBI requires some taxation, wealth transfer, or cuts in spending elsewhere.
"For the time being" is an understatement. The company has been around for 20+ years, and while I haven't used TeamCity, if it is anything like their other products, you can be certain it is built with a high level of attention to detail and that that won't change anytime soon. It is one of the few companies left I license stuff from.
But your justification is that the U.S. Constitution has global reach. ergo, U.S. law has global reach.
Interesting, will have a look into it! My phrasing came from a story about the discovery of a "Sentiment Neuron" in an earlier test in 2017 at OpenAI. Makes sense to have clusters of neurons for more complex concepts.
You can deploy instances of their config software at will. There are docker containers out there for you.

This device runs UniFi Network so it can host the configuration.

There is the cloudkey that can host the config

There are routers that host the config in their product line.

I don’t think it’s ever been the case that you “need” the app.
It could be a combination of stress and lack of sleep, which of course in turn, could be caused by technological factors for example.

Then sometimes I have to wonder though, do we have realistic expectations on memory? There's just so many systems (at work) and so much stuff, maybe we're overloading ourselves past realistic expectations?
The article can also be seen as a proto-structuralist argument. If you take this argument a bit further,you could say that trees do not exist. Could you point me out the defining characteristic of a tree? A structuralist would ask. Is it because it is big? But what of bonzais? Or banana trees? Can't we just name trees bushes? Etc.
It's an interesting way of looking at things but it will not teach you a lot. It just shows you that definitions are relative, not absolute.
In my multithreaded ringbuffer and barrier I lowered latency from 10,000s-100,000 of nanoseconds to under 100 by alignment to 128 bytes to stop false sharing and pinning threads to an EVEN numbered core. I think hyperthreading interferes with things.

There is a core to core visualiser here.

https://github.com/andportnoy/core-to-core-latency
You are down with atrocities and genocide if you support Israel. They just killed over 20k civilians and displaced many thousands more. They killed their own people on the 7th. They killed their own hostages by bombing them without care. That’s the acts of a monstrous regime.

Also it’s amusing that you say we can’t pressure Israel by pulling support, and then make other posts about how the west needs to keep pressure on Russia until they give up.

So of course arguments don’t sway you, you have nothing to sway. You blindly support without a real thought in your head. Well, other than a hatred of Arabs and Russians.
Kinda like our situation here on Earth with all of our corrupt politicians and their tall tales of democracy, our most sacred institution.
American healthcare is unusually expensive. We spend more public money as a percentage of GDP than most other developed countries on it. Clearly something else is going on beyond money spent.
Nope landlords will just raise rents back to approximately the same level of poverty.
https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/shareholder...

There are a lot of misconceptions about maximizing shareholder value, even among economists. But talk to a legal scholar or a corporate lawyer: a CEO or board is not legally obliged to maximize shareholder value. They need to maximize the value of the corporation and act in its best interest. Only when there is a change in legal control, such as a merger or imminent hostile takeover, do they have to maximize shareholder value.

Just to be very clear: modern corporate law does not require profits at the expense of everything else, and maximizing profits or shareholder value is not the same thing as serving shareholders’ best interest.

The company is supposed to serve the best interests of the shareholders, but that does not require an unwavering commitment to profit. What it does require is defined in the company's investment prospectus. The CEO and board must act as good fiduciaries but they are given broad discretion to decide what that entails.

If you disagree with what the officers think is the best way to carry out these duties, the courts say your option is not to sue them, it is to invest in a different company.
And having children
I don't know about US setups, but in my country there is usually 1 transformer for the whole neighborhood, with each house having a split off from the underground lines which are already at household voltage. So the distance to the neighbour is not that far.

I myself had the same problem to a house 3 doors down, despite the tech promising a fuse box should be a barrier.
Why would the source of revenue make it not UBI?
> We've known for a while now that the best approach

Another settled science, and it for the progressive outlook. What an amazing coincidence.
Yes. They are like sliding rules on steroids.
The kubernetes plug-in for Jenkins works well for us, and as the checkout/clone happens in the pod you don’t have the workspace bind mount problem. We are using docker-in-docker at the moment but looking at buildah. We do parallel windows container builds as well.

Jenkins is a bit like Perl IMO: there are ways to use it that avoid the majority of its sharp edges (eg putting logic in bash and just call bash, avoid groovy) if you know the perils that lurk.
The U in UBI stands for Universal. Everyone gets the exact flat amount, unconditional. That means there is much less administrative cost (don't need to verify that people belong to certain income brackets for example). Overall, the theory is that it would reduce government wasteful administrative process, while being more effective at lifting people out of poverty. The experiments so far are positive.
I will probably not keep an engineer that performs at 1.3x of a mediocre programmer for long (unless they’re junior and I see potential, I.e. I’m investing in the future). It’s also not about “smarts” but about being a good fit for the job (which includes stuff like being motivated and interested in the work).

That is - an “ok” developer that performs “adequately” is not actually sufficient and it’s have to be specific circumstances for me to compromise on keeping them (e.g. I can’t find anyone better, but historically this hasn’t been the case).