skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some of Altman’s backers, including OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla, publicly expressed derision specifically toward Toner and Tasha McCauley, another former OpenAI board member who voted to fire Altman and is connected to organizations that promote effective altruism.

> “Fancy titles like ‘Director of Strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology’ can lead to a false sense of understanding of the complex process of entrepreneurial innovation,” Khosla wrote in an essay in tech-news publication the Information, referring to Toner and her current position.

Strong words from the infamous beach villain and resident asshole, Vinod Khosla...

Every Generation Gets the Beach Villain It Deserves (NYT)
https://archive.is/6mss9
Only twice while I was living with them.

The first time I think he just did a giant PVC pipe from top to bottom, that's what he said. Seems like there was more to that installation that I should ask about. I was quite a young child when we lived at that house so hearing it had ethernet was surprising.

The second time he actually did all the ethernet runs while the house was unfinished and I remember it because he'd bring me along.
It looks like they use their own dataset and should be able to avoid that kind of information leakage.

From their paper:

"Our base diffusion model is a re-implementation of the Latent Diffusion Model [42] that has been trained on an internal dataset of image-text pairs with input resolution 512×512×3 "

They also use multi-view datasets during training, but presumably they haven't included those in the diffusion pretraining.

"Training Dataset To learn a generalizable diffusion prior for novel view synthesis, we train on a mixture of the synthetic Objaverse [10] dataset and three real-world datasets: CO3D [38], MVImgNet [64], and RealEstate10K"
Navigating Beliefs: A Learning Course for Rational Conversations
> Voicing a fairly widespread belief, Dickerson said he believes ride-share companies like Uber paid the city to remove parking spaces to free up room for pickups and dropoffs.

It's crazy how quickly people go to conspiracy theories.

Everyone knows what the solution is though: make the street one way, except for bikes (with a real concrete-protected barrier between cars and bikes), and everyone is happy. Everyone except those business owners who will probably be upset at any change.
Lyfgenia’s approval came with a black box warning about the possibility that patients who receive the therapy might later develop blood cancer and should be monitored for that risk. Two patients in trials of the drug died of blood cancers, and studies concluded that the cancers were caused by the chemotherapy conditioning regimen for the treatment, not Lyfgenia itself.
Just for fun some years ago, I wrote an Onion-style satire article about, "Whale language decoded; actually a cipher for Spanish".

The gist was a lot of the researchers with names like Jones and Smith were disappointed. And the one guy on the research team with a Spanish last name was getting a lot of weird comments about it which made him uncomfortable.

75% of the whale song was decoded to just mean, "Oy mira! Camaron!"

Dolphins were discovered to be speaking a cipher for English, but with a Chicano accent.

Some of my friends found it funny, others didn't get it.

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I'm really interested to hear what they're actually talking about!
I mean if you are on an iPhone. Replacing the battery every 2 years would have be enough for it to last 4 - 6 years before buying it for a new one.

My only problem is replacing an iPhone battery is now $99.
Here's real world ranges of various EV's in just about any weather: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V6ucyFGKWuSQzvI8lMzv...
Yeah. I personally agree, though maybe we're not the target audience. If I saw some examples of exactly how it does this I might change my mind, but with none right there on the page, I've lost interest before I can muster motivation to go look for them myself.

Apparentlt the author hangs out here, so I'd recommend the author stick in some links to examples there if they don't want to muddy up the introduction page, because I think plenty of people that like lisp (not all, but plenty) will see this as an anti-feature without proof to the contrary.
There's been recent talk of finding a new island of stability[1] though I don't think we imagine those super-heavy elements would have half-lives of more than thousands of years (so probably not very handy for alien engineers).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability#Possible_n...
How does this work with IBC/IFC building code requirements to have a fire-stop between floors? Even assuming the conduit itself is correctly rated, you need to seal the interior while somehow still allowing future wiring to be added without the need to remove a wall.

I guess my point is: You'll fail inspection unless you're extremely careful. It isn't obvious how to add generic future conduit without fire-stops being a huge PITA (since the same thing stopping smoke/fire also stops you running cable).

Keep in mind new construction is held to a higher standard (newer version of IBC/IFC) than grandfathering into existing building.
Have you tried deleting the app and reinstalling? Seems like an issue on the app side if CS says you are good to go from the backend billing.
Just open Wikipedia man. It has citations to primary sources.

"Although the 18th century was a period of increasing prosperity, the benefits were distributed unevenly across regions and social groups. Those whose income derived from agriculture, rents, interest and trade in goods from France's slave colonies benefited most, while the living standards of wage labourers and farmers on rented land fell."

Same for Arab spring, it's like second sentence on the wiki. It's also heavily about corruption, but guess what, those two go hand in hand. Open maps for corruption and Gini index and you will see strong correlation.

Of course there are more reasons. Society is complex.
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PowerShell is basically an interactive C# shell with language ergonomics targeting actual shell usage instead of "you can use it as a shell" the way Python, Ruby, etc. approach their interactive shells. However, the language and built-in utilities work best when you are passing around data as opposed to using PowerShell as if you were writing C#.

It's true, you are indeed passing around full-blown .NET runtime objects. In fact your whole shell is running inside an instance of the .NET runtime, including the ability to dynamically load .NET DLL's and even directly invoke native API's.

It feels a bit like JS in the sense that you're best off sticking to "the good parts", where you get the power of structured input/output but you don't end up trying to, for example, implement high performance async code, even though you technically could.
For pilots, there are many filters to ensure people that failed to learn can't take many responsibilities. They ensure the pilots study and train, but there isn't any theory making sure the pilots learn and get the best safety practices. (In fact, if you are comparing with CS teaching, pilot teaching will give you a heart attack.)

For engineers, the situation is very similar to software. There are many tools for enforcing quality, but there's no structure for teaching the engineers, and no, there isn't a widely accepted theory for how to teach design quality either.

The one place where people are consistently taught how to build quality is on manufacturing.
Part of their reasoning why the software needs to be locked down is that tractors are priced based on horsepower and they use software to limit the horsepower of different tractors (which use the same actual engine). Otherwise, one could pay for (numbers made up) a 100 horsepower tractor and then unlock it so that they now have 150 hp.

Unfortunately for farmers, everything is controlled by software, so every repair now needs a service call and JD has been cutting back on service techs so that during peak activity times (planting/harvest - where working 24 hrs isn't uncommon) it can be either (a) put your tractor on a flat bed and have it trucked hundreds of miles, or (b) wait a couple weeks.

It comes across as evil to me.
I'm not sure about that. Which engineering domain do you have in mind?

Maybe show-stopping bugs are somewhat unique to software engineering, but all somewhat-complex products are flawed to some extent imho.

It might be an unergonomic handle on a frying pan, furniture that visibly warps under the slightest load (looking at ikea shelfing) or the lettering coming off the frequently used buttons on a coffee machine.
Amazon already has a robot for the home. It’s not even compatible with round edges or black floors. This makes me think the technology has a long way to go.
Indeed.

The first time this happens the programmer will spend hours looking for the first few places that need to be changed. Then he will spend days debugging, and hopefully will find the last few places.

Then, even though he is now informed about the connections, he will NOT refactor this code because he (a) has no time to refactor as he already spent a week on what seemed like a one-line fix, and (b) is now terrified to touch this code any more than absolutely necessary.

Then the cycle will repeat.
No, we do not have. Sabotage is rare to nonexisting and cases in past were rare and of "teenager builds device to control switch on tram tracks, derails tram for fun" type.
I think it partially depends on what you are willing to forgive. For example, I am much more willing to forgive eagerness compared to carelessness or impatience.

One thing to consider is that moving to a culture of "permissiveness" won't stop carelessness. In fact, it helps to embed it. People learn that they can offload being careful onto the one giving permission.

Over time this leads to a worse situation since you end up having a lot of people who feel it is OK for them to be careless and you end up with one person (the one who can give permission) bearing the entire weight of carefulness for the entire org.
5–years old.

It’s interesting that the current LTS for MySQL is already 5-years old (2018).

I’m surprised there isn’t a more current LTS.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL

Especially when you see this quoted by MySQL team:

‘About every 2 years a new Long Term Support version will be released

https://dev.mysql.com/blog-archive/introducing-mysql-innovat...
Depends, I've seen cat6 stapled to the studs like all the other wiring. I'd probably at least ask for it to be placed in conduit if it were me, but I'd probably also just go in and do the wiring myself before they closed up the walls.
Pretty much any data cable you see in homes can be made to run Ethernet at a decent rate with just an adapter at each end. Coax can easily carry data at Gigabit speed.

Cat5e has been the standard for decades, and can run gigabit speeds as well.
This article was pretty surprising. Guess I had never dug into Chomsky that closely. He is known so much for the anti-war, didn't realize he was funded by military.

Also, didn't realize how far off his language models were now. That the language theories had moved so far beyond his original theories. Guess I hadn't dug into those language theories from the 60's.
Participants Needed: Study on dev process of programmers who use screenreader's
If you request summary dismissal of a lawsuit you end up losing, you should be required to pay double-damages.

This whole idea of each party delaying the case requesting summary dismissal just to drive costs up for the other side is stupid.
Oh they mean the doordash parking lane? that's for bikes?
Yes, it's got so bad that I have canceled my sub and subscribed to Wired instead. That bad.
Could be messy, but possible. After all, our modern apartments are built with reinforced concrete first and then wires are laid into the walls, floor, ceiling.
> But the goal is “better, always better, what can I do better?”

Is that not the case in software? The incentive to improve may not be quite as strong as in aviation (crashing software isn't quite the same as crashing airplanes), but it is still pretty strong. Life is very miserable in software when quality isn't present.
The process of building quality applications starts long before any code is written.

You need to understand the domain, you have to design something that solves an actual problem or delivers tangible value to someone, you need a holistic approach to user experience.
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You’re right. I worded it poorly in my original reply. I fixed it.
If you're interested in this, check out Bryan Johnson and Blueprint.
YAML is over-complicated.
I don't know about on paper, but I have seen (videos of) people writing (chinese) calligraphy on pavements with water and big brushes, which fades in a few minutes as it dries.
I doubt it’s bike lanes and not specific factors for each of these businesses. There are plenty of stores that are doing fine in that corridor with those lanes. Dandilion chocolate; Taishoken; Bernal cutlery to name a few. It seems like it’s easier to scapegoat a bike lane instead of other issues. Especially this center running bike lane means there still is parking on the sides of the street. How much money is lost losing 8 parking spots a block ?
Morse?
Lots of people out here not making the realization they need to be in the top ~20% of earners in their area if they want anything remotely nice in their life.

Edit: probably higher than that in certain locations where homeownership is impossible
We weren't always like that, the laws started changing in this direction maybe 10 years ago. Before that, everyone with a decent job was getting a company car, an now company cars are only given for people who actually travel a lot on the job, and everyone else prefers the extra cash instead of the company car.

BTW the laws weren't changed to level the playing field for small companies, it was just our equivalent of IRS fixing loopholes to bring in more tax money.
>Railroads

You mean that thing that happened when we gifted huge tracts of lands to a few private businesses so they could pay for the railroads? American railroads were NOT a private investment, but a public one!

>airports and airliners

Once again, public money during the war, creating the giant B-29 was more expensive than the Manhattan Project! America absolutely pumped cash into any building that claimed they could put out a few screws a week to support the insane amount of war material building we did. The airliner industry was further supported by Cold War warplane development, with bigger planes and bigger jet engines.

>microchips

Bell telephone had a legal monopoly for several generations. Literal government handout for free extra profit. Further improvements in computing were once again funded by military desires, simulators for planes, early computers were designed nearly entirely for computing ballistic tables for artillery, and selling a little bit of spare time on the side.

Modern America exists because in 1940, America actually invested in itself. None of those investments were private.

More examples: IBM owes a lot of it's early success to mechanizing the US census, once again public money. They even took some money from the Nazis FFS. How much did Henry Ford make building Shermans and other war material, often for the british or soviets to use? Starlink's Dishy terminal wouldn't exist without shitloads of public funds put into new phase array solid state scanned radars that were built out for the aegis system.

Or how about basically the entire country's infrastructure exists because the feds spent billions on paying poor people to dig ditches so they wouldn't starve to death. I'm sure walmart and amazon would do great with our old state roads right?

But sure, let's keep pretending these were "bets" by "private" companies.
Customers are the ones paying for ads. Users are just a resource.
> Vertex set the price of Casgevy at $2.2 million

> Patients must spend weeks, even months, in the hospital before and after the therapy is administered.

Yoiks. So how many actual people are going to be able to get this treatment?
Old electronics of that era could be drawn by a simple schematic and usually only performed one or 2 functions. That makes designing a drop in replacement very easy.
This is an excellent book to devote yourself to (600+ pages) if you've got some quiet time over the holidays. One of the most satisfying sci-fi books I've read in a while.
That'll be quite a loss. Spotify owes my membership to everynoise.
Outside incentives line up with that too. Most investors seem to want quick gains, not steady growth.
Hi guys, this is Carlos from VIVIS, we just launched VIVIS Homes a HomePage for your Home.

It has so much potential as an idea, we basically imported 2.7 million records in mexico city and created their VIVIS Home.. this allows users to claim their property.

Once a user has access to their HomePage they get a ton of features like a private inbox, can upload pictures, handle the entire public life of a property, take messages, receive praise throught the Home Wall.. record maintenance, share with future owners.. and it can even be preserved and have the story of multiple generations in one home.

This is VIVIS Homes.. The Home of your Home.
Yes, it is a frustrating article. Feels more like a Twitlonger than an actual news article. Mostly complaining and info-dumping vs offering up a solution or deeper information.

If the author had dug deeper and reached out to experts, the article could have been great.
We can only compare specific training procedures though.

With a 7b and a 70b trained the same way, the 70b should always be better
> A finger is around 1.5MΩ, but wet fingers are around 500kΩ. When the device boots, the drive will appear blank if the resistance between the electrode pair is higher than a threshold. It’s not the prettiest system, but I think it strikes a nice balance of ridiculousness and functionality. The germaphobes among us can run their fingers under the tap.

This may backfire for the hacker.

Authority: Give me the drive

Hacker: Ok. (hands drive)

Authority takes with dry hands and tries it. It doesn't work.

Authority gets upset and starts beating the person.

Authority works up a sweat during the beating

Authority tries drive again - it works

Authority concludes that Hacker's drive only works if Hacker is beaten.
Interesting. I'll go deeper next time. Often I give up if it's not on the first page like I expect.
My Canadian bank occasionally will block a bank transfer if done from my computer. I have called customer support, and they can't even tell why the transfer is being blocked. Possibly because there is some opaque ML algorithm at the backend.

Customer support has requested that I use the mobile app, and that usually allows the transfer.
I doubt this. If majority of population had severe incurable diseases then humanity wouldn't survive, and healthcare would collapse. I think (sorry, no statistics) that majority of population are healthy enough to do hard physical work.
Another unfortunate thing of their Open Source Program is that companies that make open-source (MIT, GPL) and have a commercial offering as well (eg: GitLab themselves) are not allowed to use their Open Source Program.
>Because superfluous type checker incantations are, aside from breaking up flow of thought when writing code, annoying visual noise when reading it.

I disagree. Implicit typing for the most part makes things harder read. The less I have guess about what type something is the better. I never use stuff like "var" or "auto", unless forced to for this very reason.
App Defaults (Collection of blogger-submitted default app lists)
Why anyone would be interested by a charlatan?
What Do You Think About Machines That Think? (2015)
I've been in a newly constructed home with Cat-6, and they stapled it. This was within the last year.

From builder's perspective it is "controversial" to run conduit because they're trying to tick boxes as cheaply/fast as possible and conduit is the exact opposite of that goal. If you want conduit, I'd assume you have to pay for it as a bespoke upgrade.
I'm more an aerospace guy, but I am fully aware of the time scale around production technology changes. Thing is so, 2030 is an estimate, not a commitment. And I didn't find anything about actual investments or announcememts from OEMs around that.

Also, 20% of castings still means a lot of welding before a car body is made.

One thing regarding Toyotas production system so: it is all about management and processes and not about the actual machinery. And it share a lot of principles ranging as far back as Venice's Arsenal in the 16/17th century and, especially, WW2 mass manifavturing of, e.g., planes.

Anothet major difference: TPS is a proven methodology for longer than Tesla, let alone any production tech coming out of Tesla, exists as a company.
Business dropped 80% because of a bike lane? Lol. I'm sure it did, chief.
Yeah I've read about him. It sounds at face value that a lot of what hes doing cant hurt, but its really not a solution to aging. And he still looks old. This is really not equivalent to gene editing for radical body change.
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Some more here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38571956
I'm not in the US, that's not common here, are these something like this? https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4b/ad/6b/4bad6bbff1a36e3dfbf7...

For the majority (I assume) of houses built without Ethernet runs, what's in there? Just the fibre/copper entry and modem if required? Or does it also house circuit breakers and meter etc. typically?
Minstral just released a 87GB torrent
I've ridden through here and it's quite nice. The anxiety from getting doored is moved to intersection anxiety. Overall, that seems fine to me since known interaction points mean that I have less mental normalization of deviance and signaled intersections mean that interactions are more explicit.

To be honest, SF neighborhoods erupt for literally everything. In general, the protests are best ignored. I wouldn't much store in it.

If P(erupt|x) = 1 for all x, then there's no information content in erupt.
I like to keep in mind a companion rule along with DRY (don't repeat yourself): Don't make the reader repeat themself, i.e. re-read your code multiple times after you've cleverly repackaged it.
That software made me fall in love with writing.

I’m a lifelong customer and it’s been one of the best purchases I’ve ever made.
Ohalo (the company Dave Friedberg is now CEO of) recently got approval for a potato edited by CRISPR:

> Ohalo had two RSRs under consideration this year for its potato, one which focuses on higher concentrations of beta carotene – enhancing the overall health and nutrition value of the potato – and another which results in reduced glucose and fructose content in the potato, which, according to Ohalo, will reduce the adverse side effects that lead to significant spoilage during cold storage of potatoes.

https://thespoon.tech/gene-edited-food-startup-ohalo-emerges...
And we can now translate their warnings about the incoming extinction level CME and save Atlantis. These are exciting times
This is false.
Its just that the costs of low quality code are much less obvious and harder to measure then the dev time.
But the ammount of bad code just piles on itself over and over and over and we end up in a world where hardwares becomes incrementally faster while software becomes slower and slower, and more bugier.
I mean, in the strict sense of the world an individual company will not pay those costs, but on a societal scale, how much time (and thus money) is wasted daily by all the people who are waiting 30secconds for windows explorer to load? If your app have millions of users, literally every additional second your app wastes multiplies to tangential numbers.

It's akin to pollution, really:
Individual company making 'dirty' things won't see the consequences.
But scale this mindset out and suddenly we wake up in a world when trillions of dollars are spend to counteract those effects.