skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not saying those figures aren't valid, but isn't it also possible that the increased affordability of man-made stone meant that these workers were doing more "stone" installations as opposed to tile or other options?
Why is there a 300m^2 footprint limit if the sub-models are dynamically loaded. Is this constrained by training, rasterizing, or both?
It hasn't been universally accepted that singularities mean infinite gravity. Nor has it been universally accepted that singularities are an error or limitation in the mathematical model. There's a lot of nuances missed when communicating complex concepts to laymen. Honestly, this should be considered stating the obvious as no one would reasonably complexity something that need not be. With the corollary, not all people are physicists that are well studied in quantum mechanics and general relativity (especially up to the graduate levels).

None of this is obvious to physicists, so if it is to you I'd suggest publishing.
This is the 1800s classical, pre-relativistic idea of a "black hole". But it is mostly a coincidence that if you plug an escape velocity equal to the speed of light to Newton's equations, you get a body with a mass and radius equal to the mass and event horizon radius of a black hole. But given the incredible predictive success of general relativity, there's little doubt that actual black holes are not just "dark stars" but fundamentally relativistic objects: regions of spacetime so warped that time becomes spacelike and space becomes timelike. Note that Kerr most definitely does not disagree; the entire point of the Kerr metric is that it's a solution (set of solutions) to the Einstein field equations.
meh, I agree, don't trust future Dropbox, but the way it's explained is this switch stops any team member from using the alpha OpenAI integration to search files you have in drop box And since that integration has to send OpenAI your data, this switch prevents it.

again, don't trust future drop box but the hidden switch here is willfully interacting with dropboxs' openAi integration.
One thing that modern computing has never been able to replicate is instant on. Literally press power button - thing is running. Nothing like having part of your memory address space mapped directly to ROM. No updates and no second chances!
syncthing. Open source, e2ee, and doesn't rely on some morally compromised "venture".
Earthquake Bells Again
The goal of cybersecurity should be to align cybersecurity with existing processes, but minimizing friction. What the author experienced seems to be a high friction security program, which is the result of a suboptimal cybersecurity program.

This is unfortunately the reality in many companies because cybersecurity is implemented as a subset of a high level information security framework without qualified people to connect the high and low level requirements.

In the past, security departments were the "firewall gatekepeers", choosing who to allow or deny access. They started to change over time from gatekeepers to support the business but this transition is not complete as we know from experience.

The CISO has also has the dillema of having to support the business but will also be held accountable for any hack, which increases the tension on reducing friction vs increasing friction (and increasing control).

This is not an easy problem to fix, but I particularly think it's very productive to see posts like this so we can bring this topic to light and find the right balance.

And for those interested in learning how to add security to their organizations with minimal friction (security by design, especifically), I'm creating some webinars (free on youtube) here: https://devops.security/webinars.html
Definitely not my field, but a colleague of mine in grad school who was doing GR stuff was convinced that black holes didn't have singularities.

As I recall (it was a long time ago), it was mostly an aesthetic preference, he felt it was far more likely that at very high curvatures or energies or both, the domain of validity of GR would be exceeded, and Something Else would happen that preserved the theory in the low-curvature regime.

It sounds like that's not even required, if I'm reading this right (did I mention it's not my field?), it sounds like even within GR, singularities are avoidable? Very cool.
See also: Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/dropb...
> IMHO: considering the declining quality standards (and individual psychology) of Western civilization, never.

What does that have to do with AI progress? AI, tech, etc. are all increasing continuously, getting better year after year.

What you're qualifying as AGI will require

> Human level general intelligence

> Human level embodiment of the intelligence

> A robot with human level dexterity

Which are all tech trends towards which billions of dollars are being poured and we are getting closer everyday. To think that general declining quality standards among stagnating areas in Western Civilization means "no AGI ever" is a misguided extrapolation.
The author never claimed to self-host the VPN/Ingress.
If your goal is financial success, there's a million and one easier paths to take than becoming an author of novels.

Moby Dick will probably still be read in a thousand years, and that's the kind of success most authors dream of. Even if cash-flow is king, it's not the primary motivation for most artists.

BTW I looked it up, and it seems like Melville was never very financially successful from writing during his lifetime. Moby Dick might have been the nail on the coffin - it didn't become popular until after his death - but it can't be entirely blamed for his financial troubles, and pooh-poohing the idea of writing weird and interesting novels because one author 150 years ago wasn't financial successful is a really dislikable form of gatekeeping.
Counting machines are different than voting machines.

Here in Washington we vote on paper but the results are counted by machine. The counting process is overseen by representatives of both parties. In a recount the paper votes could be manually counted to reconcile with the machine. I’m not worried about any of that.

What is scary about voting machines is that the output isn’t guaranteed to match the input. This is for any number of reasons. The best defense against this is to print the choices in a human-readable format… on a piece of paper. Which means you don’t really need the machine at all. If it’s on the network you can’t trust anything.
Why is gross profit margin relevant here? Are the other expenses at Costco not related to their business?

Their profit margin is 2.5% or less for 15+ years. Seems more accurate to use that number, which is also nearly equal their membership cost * number of memberships.
Hmm, this isn’t crazy.

IIRC in the nineties and earlier, porcelain tile countertops were very common. Granite and marble were exotic.

Porcelain is high in silicates, but not so high in silica. Glaze is (I think) amorphous, like glass. And your average tile installer cuts with a wet saw.

Marble is mostly calcium carbonate. Granite contains lots of quartz.
Oh shit it me. Thank you! Time for me to reflect on this for a bit…
yes, any reasonable person would bet on AI stocks in companies that have a real stake in AI trends that will reasonably lead to future productivity gains and aren't just using it for clout or PR
Reading these comments is starting to feel like an https://xkcd.com/2304/ situation.
the fact that it can be easily modified OTA is a red flag enough that Tesla is pushing software out without the same level of testing hardware does. shipping a MVP in the hopes it doesn't' cause an accident isn't exactly best practice.
I'd assume you'd alter it with an induced electrical current on the control lines far more easily than a magnetic field, given how quickly magnetic fields decay with distance.
They should have just banned with the same penalties in this new law all in situ manual cutting of engineered stone, and instituted strict regulations on automated factory cutting.
Do they sell space to put that stuff? When you're talking "relatively large family," I suspect that's actually the real bottleneck.
Apple Makes a Quiet AI Move
It has always struck me as kind of bizarre that we make assertions about what is beyond the event horizon of a black hole at all. Since no information can escape that place and reach us as evidence, all claims about it are unfalsifiable.

For all we know the universe decides to save memory and just not render anything there at all.
I get that they sell a lot of things, but buying your wife there? That strains the bounds of credulity.
Nope that does not increase FoV at all.

It can help with foveated rendering, making the part you're looking at sharper with limited hardware. But eye tracking can't increase your FoV.
Escaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years with Nearly Nothing Going Wrong (2017)
I definitely need to watch it now.
That's a crying shame. It's an incredible book. I guess I got one of those 3,700 hardcovers. It's on my shelf next to the Echopraxia hardcover.
The experience of having such a low-dimensional search is terrible. I feel like such an uninformed consumer stepping into stores, at the mercy of whatever happens to be on the shelf at whatever price happens to be on the items that day. In many ways its harder to assess online, but the range of goods I can look through is huge. And its easier to read reviews and what not.

I personally have changed a lot in 20-30 years. Growing up, it was extreme culture shock moving not really that far in America, from no-place in particular to a suburb of a decent sized city. I have struggled to comprehend how indoor shopping malls, filled with so many goods and so much staff, make a profit. Trying to guess at how much had to be bought & consumed to keep such an inefficient system going scared me. The mall still boggles my mind, and I'm still mildly afraid of it, but these days I also kind of fear for what happens next if we do lose in-person consumerdom. It would be shocking to me to see this institution fade, for the in-person shopping experience to thin out.
> just roll out fiber

I worked provisioning internet for the Telco that serves basically all of Northern Canada. 33% of Canada's landmass and only 0.3% of its population.

We're not talking about cities or even towns here, we're talking about very rural customers. Have you been to rural Alaska, or Montana or Wyoming?

I have, and you drive for hours with no cell service, let alone wires in the ground.

You are seriously underestimating the expense to run fibre to each of these customers. Some of our communities it was well over $1mil per customer.
TLDR I know I'm being super pedantic but the LLM has no "hallucination problem". Hallucination is not a bug, it is LLM's greatest feature. The LLM Assistant has a hallucination problem, and we should fix it.

Sounds like a cop out.
Sounds like you want a middleman to work/expose themselves to liability for free.
Guess it is due to them re-allowing new subscriptions to GPT+. Demand must be sky high.
Contractors with brooms are a huge pet peeve of mine at a construction site. Seriously, WTF? You take all the dust and re-suspend as much of it as possible into the air?

Every construction site should have a HEPA-filtered vacuum with a filter bag. (The bagless kind is to be reserved for special cases that need it, and people should wear respirators when emptying it, TYVM.). Brooms are for non-vacuumable debris only, and subcontractors should be reminded of this regularly.
At least back up your snark with an explanation of how that answers GP’s question.
Marc Newson's 021C Ford Concept Car Has Aged Well
I'm surprised you haven't been called a "communist" yet.
Like the dissenting opinion did?
Right and in this case you describe you'd be composing ideas to form new ideas right? And you'd do it within the parameters of the situation. So you would only select ideas that are in the bounds of "teleportation".

But then out of that set of ideas how do you choose which ideas to compose to formulate the new idea?

So you have idea A and idea B. And you randomly formulate a new compositional rule as an idea: A + B. Because A + B didn't exist as an idea before, it was randomly generated by you.

>I think you underestimate the variety of outputs that can arise from a lifetime of accumulated experiential cruft and a situational fitting function

Well it's actually possible to mathematically calculate the total amount of compositions If I know the total amount of experimental cruft you have accumulated in your lifetime. It's a combinatorics problem and the output of that is, you're right, extremely huge. We have fitting functions that reduce it, of course, but within this fitting function we're just iterating through all the remaining possibilities or aka "randomly generating" the new idea.
Thats like saying they shouldn’t talk to their grandfather because he is a war veteran? Grandfather knows what is appropriate to say to an 8 year old. ChatGPT is well trained not to spout out “bad stuff”. Try to get it to - if you can it requires an elaborate trick.
I'm curious how this impacts companies hiring internationally via an employer of record (such as remote.com or deel)

Those companies are paying a U.S. company for services, and the international company (which owns the legal entities in every country they operate in) hires the employee directly in the country they operate in and assigns them to the client.

Would that that fall under the 5-year amortization or the 15-year amortization schedule?
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Defense Against Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
That's what i'm saying. There is no direct from china price. It's all "first world pricing".
There’s a reason software uses a floppy disk as the icon for save. The fact that a recall doesn’t involve driving the car to a dealer to have the fix applied is completely irrelevant to what recall actually means.
No. There are no conservatives in Portland's government. There have not been for a long time. There has been no one right of the Oregon Democratic party and a good chunk, if not most, have been left of that in recent times. It's part of why I moved here. The issue was not my understanding, the issue is people who cannot fathom that there are problems here outside of conservatism.
Nice paper! Just curious, do you reckon you could generalise the finding to a broader class of state-space models, e.g. particle filters?
I have never owned a car but have connected my phone to car systems too many times.

My assumption is — when you do that via an Apple CarPlay enabled console you are guaranteed a level of privacy as well, isn’t it?

I know cars do not have Internet connection on their own but what stops them from making you install an app on your phone that would handle all these connections (BT profile work etc) and then upload whatever they want to their servers.
yeah, some of these posts take a weird tact on privacy. the switch prevents access to files via openai's API, but for that to be relevant you need to engage the Dropbox AI.

really, the trouble is Dropbox is outsourcing your private files to a third party and masking that via a optin (in the US) toggle.

I don't think users should have to worry that their service negotiated a invasive privacy process with a third party and they aren't being forthright about how it leaves the premise.
I didn’t realize that Jordan Peterson was on HN!
It depends what’s in scope and the control being evaluated. For example, if your SDLC/release and infrastructure processes the environment(s) that are built from them are in scope of your SOC2 audit, then a change to the code deployed to the in-scope environment must meet a defined policy for change control. Auditors aren’t eager to accept “there is no SDLC,” or “our change control policy is to deploy to production whenever.”

A lot of SOC2 is hand waived as paperwork, but the point is that an organization (and their independent auditor) can show evidence that they have established certain processes and controls, and that they can demonstrate compliance with their word. (This belies the tension that some use to discredit independent auditors: that the client pays the auditor for their report. What’s less well understood is that the auditor has a much greater vested interest in being honest, and that they’re going to get questioned if a matter ever goes to court. No one client is worth losing the entire firm. There are, of course, bad auditors just as there are bad developers, admins, accountants, etc.)

I spent time working in compliance and led the inaugural SOC2 Type 2 audit at a household name. These days I spend my time primarily on infrastructure.
>weren't gas pumps in the US also fill-then-pay until maybe 10-15 yr ago?

Yes, you just pumped however much gas you wanted and paid inside. This was before there was credit card readers on the pumps. Closer to 20 years ago.
Not so much about sizing, but fit. Support around the heels and arch, flexibility but without slippage. Depends on how much you care, and what you're used to as well
I'd love to hear why. What is the templating process and why is it not better?
Nothing which I think is the point for people that wanna run WASM on their servers and reap the benefits like it was Python/Ruby/Java.
Your third paragraph is no different from how it was when Moby Dick was published. And really, there's plenty of experimentation in modern literature. While it's a bit old now, House of Leaves was very different from anything else on the market, but it got published and sold very well.
Then where did the new idea come from? What algorithm allows for the generation of completely novel things without knowledge of the output encoded in the algorithm itself? It must be "randomly" generated by logic.

Again I like to emphasize that it's not "truly random" we can't even define randomness formally with a function so this doesn't exist. It's more of a combinatorics algorithm where we iterate through every possible and likely permutation.
Why this and not Meta's oomd?
> Another subtlety: the ecosystem.

See also: The Raspberry Pi.
Unfortunately for Freud, most of his best ideas/creations became so widely accepted people forgot he was the one who had them in the first place.

The unconscious mind, dream interpretation, importance of early childhood, psychosexual development, talk therapy as we know it today, transference, etc.

What do we remember him for? Oedipus complex. Poor guy. It's like if all we remembered about Newton was alchemy.
Should Windows have a default CLI editor?
it's not built in AI, it's outsourced AI. this is basically Dropbox authorization of a third party to scan your files.
In the absence of choice, making an assertion about one's preference is absurd.
Schwarzschild black holes are not known to actually exist though, are they? It is my understanding that most actual black holes are Kerr black holes.
> Paid some property taxes to test

Real test would be getting away not paying them
So basically a swift whack on the chalkboard with a pointing stick, followed by "Pay attention, class!"
> Why does it get randomly re-ordered repeatedly?

Netflix doesn't want you to choose what you want to watch, they want to pick what you watch for you. They constantly push certain shows over and over again across nearly every category they show you while hiding shows and entire categories of content from you that they don't want you to see.

Every new thing they release is "trending" and "top 10" and "most watched" and "featured" and it will show up over and over again in the other categories because they want the numbers to look good. They don't want their new stuff to compete with old stuff, but as we've seen, pretty much everybody is watching "friends" and "big bang theory" on an endless loop anyway.

Netflix has had some good shows, but the more annoying they get the closer I get to giving up on them. You can always find netflix originals elsewhere after all
Being able to sell yourself during a job interview is not necessarily a good indicator of your ability to communicate effectively at work. Instead it selects for people are shameless self-promoters.
Producing advertising metrials isn't free. So it's a negative for everybody.
What I find the most amazing is how good VRChat is compared to Meta Horizons. I mean, meta spends billions on it, VRChat what? A couple million?

Yet VRChat content looks better, is more engaging and much much less rubber tile / all ages than horizons. Meta seems to be putting child friendliness as the top design goal, leading to a really bland experience for adults. Because most of us like a bit of edginess (and in my personal case, a lot of edginess). This is why most adults don't enjoy playing hello kitty or watch cartoons. Unfortunately all of horizons is exactly that. One big boring playground for infants.

So they're spending 1000x more than their competitors to make an equivalent product that most of their customer base likes less.

this is why I think meta wastes money. Not because I think that "metaverse" doesn't have a future because I think it certainly does. I just think they go about it wrong and spend way too much on too little result, as well as the wrong result.
"Why is gross profit margin relevant here?"

I replied to a comment that said Costco has "barely any markup".

Markup and gross profit measure exactly the same thing. If you know one, you can calculate the other.

A gross profit margin of 12% means Costco's markup is over 10%. (Or 8% to 9% if you don't count membership fees.)

This is low, but it's not nothing.
This is unworkable. You can't penalize a company because their employees did not follow the safety guidelines they promised they would or are legally obliged to follow. Especially when a large number of workers are self employed. You can send them bankrupt with a penalty, but then have to support the disabled worker with social security and health care.
In truly rural or remote areas relative to any available alternative it is as close to a miracle product as one could imagine. If you haven’t had to use other satellite Internet services like BGAN, Iridium, viasat, etc… it’s hard to explain what a revolution Starlink is in every aspect.
I have been working on a universal calendar app, named, Clendar.

My goal is to learn SwiftUI and explore new technologies.

The app is now open source on GitHub as well, it's my way to give back to the community as I was learning it.

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[1] Download link: https://apps.apple.com/app/clendar-a-calendar-app/id15481020...

[2] Landing page: https://vinhnx.github.io/clendar-site

[3] GitHub: https://github.com/vinhnx/Clendar
There exist ID systems that prevent you from protecting your privacy, but that doesn’t mean it’s a core feature.
Really well explained, and I'm definitely eating my words about the history of systematic design thought. Makes a ton of sense.

Also I think you're spot on about the current state of design systems. I believe the solution is to create some kind of design toolchain that shepherds designers into the pit of success[1], where the "system" simply reveals itself over time as the design is created. That way it isn't thought of as some external artifact, but the byproduct of the process itself. But this requires a complete rethinking, from first principles, what a design tool even is. Figma, for all its impressive technology, is really a traditional design tool with some modern features bolted on (collaboration, variants, variables, etc).

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/falling-into-the-pit-of-succes...
New additions probably make sense.

Stock RSS feeds don’t work for future events, so they aren’t perfect for our usecase (warn users in advance of an upcoming date), so we offer ICS feeds instead.

RSS feed of just date changes might work, but ‘s hard to differentiate between a change that creates a feed notification vs one that doesn’t (new release, typo fix, date change by 2 days, and so on…)
Good point. Physics explains it, doesn't enable it