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Sam Bankman-Fried will not face a second trial, prosecutors say
If your comment is generic, off topic, or contributes nothing to the discussion there is manual downweighting that might get applied.
Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards
They did read their works to each other in a pub.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inklings
The workers in Europe can be fired with equal ease, even in countries like Germany. If the HR and management want one out, one is out. The labour code will only be followed if one is quick enough to hire a lawyer. Is is worth the massive paycut the Europeans are accepting?
True zen is having less karma, not more.
Visualize Brooks's Law: When More People Makes a Late Software Project Later
Scratch the surface of a lot of companies and you’ll find that tech is a surprisingly small part of what goes on.
I’d just prefer that companies serve an array of purposes such that it is no longer exclusively about making shareholders as rich as possible. There has to be a better way. If all the actors in an economy act sociopathically, that economy itself is sociopathic. It’s generally seen that totalitarianism is an undesirable state for a government, so why do we accept it from companies?
> To free the bottom of the obelisk, the ancient Egyptians had to dig caverns

They were carved laying down I think, so the "bottom of the obelisk" at this stage was one of the sides. Confusingly worded.
Not really. But it is trendy to assume so. In the real world ai is mostly used by inexperienced people that after a while realise it doesnt work as advertised and pester colleagues with annoying questions on how to fix its broken code.
I could see paying that once I have a number of habits going and I’m all in on the app but it’s too much for an impulse purchase for me if there’s a good chance I won’t use it after a week. So it depends for me.
What is the justification for this claim beyond simply relying on "common sense"?
I got two wrong: guessed Spanish when it was Catalan and Russian when it was Ukrainian.
No, there should be a job guarantee for anyone unable to find work in the private sector.

Asking for profit companies to ensure full employment is a dumb idea.

Asking for profit companies to keep people on for any other reason than profitability is a dumb idea.

Subsiding companies to keep the jobs is a dumb idea.

The only good idea is for the federal government to eliminate involuntary unemployment. The private sector can sort itself out.
Although the article focused primarily on AlphaFold, many other ML approaches are making impactful contributions in the general scientific field. One example is the diffusion model and its use of stochastic differential equations (SDEs).

Microsoft has an initiative called AI4Sciencie (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/microsoft-resea...) which published a fair amount of SDE/diffusion-based method to solve scientific problems
Amazing that you see that as a feature and not a horrible bug that causes societal destabilization.
I haven't published anything. If you're interested I could clean it up and send it to you. Let me know. My email is in my profile.
You end up with a graph. Entities are the nodes, and the entity-relationships are the edges.

An email is always a message, nothing more. Tasks, events etc. can be derived from it, but the email itself is not a task or event. This isn't arbitrary, these boundaries are clean as heck (again of course, with the 'IMO' caveat. I don't care to convert anyone here).
The biggest companies here (e.g. SAP, Zalando, etc.) offer around 50-70 % of equivalent US salaries including stock options, from my experience, at least for the top people. Given that you have way more time off (usually at least 30 days plus 10-12 public holidays), very regulated work hours, great social security and healthcare and very affordable public services like Kindergartens, schools etc. I have to say it seems less and less attractive to move to the US, at last if you have family. As a 20-something year old single it's probably still a great opportunity though.
Public goods should be provided by the public sector.
Have you tried privacy.com? Works independently of your bank. Use the Unix principle :)
Ordinary humans count from 1.
What European companies offer $200k+ salaries (which is about 60%-70% of a senior eng salary)?

PS - US developers get all of those benefits too, so you're just taking a pay cut for no reason. Not so attractive to me.
Show HN: GitHub Action to Block Merge Out of Hours
Something that people keep asking me for so thought i would share here. Simple github action to block merges on holidays and out of hours. Simple time check status using python.
Drinking a XXXX right now

It certainly doesn’t deserve all those views even if they were real
Firefox has telemetry by default and includes Google as the default search engine. Farcical theatre.
There are consequences for workers in such a setup as well - namely that companies are more hesitant to hire people if they're too hard to get rid of again.
give Panic’s Nova a look. “What if VSCode was a native app,” basically. I love it.
> No, there should be a job guarantee for anyone unable to find work in the private sector.

> The only good idea is for the federal government to eliminate involuntary unemployment. The private sector can sort itself out.

You are talking about mandatory work camps right?
To be fair to the system the OP describes, a doctor who's prescription was forged and the pharmacist who filled it could both he considered harmed when someone fills a bogus script. Both are licensed professionals that have a lot to lose if there is reason to believe they may be involved in writing or selling bad prescriptions.

Given that we've already empowered law enforcement agencies to enforce the law, its reasonable for them to step in here to catch those forging prescriptions and risking direct harm to others' rights. What is unreasonable and the main discussion above is the process of dodging the 4th amendment to investigate these people without a warrant.
There's the evidence of the character Simplicio, who employed stock arguments in support of geocentricity, and was depicted in the book as being an intellectually inept fool.

The arguments made "by an idiot" were clear swipes at both Lodovico delle Colombe and Cesare Cremonini.

And other passages in other works of Galileo, but that alone is sufficiento sink "Evidence-free claim".

This has been batted back and forth since (at least) The Sleepwalkers (1959) by Arthur Koestler so you can argue against the assertaion but it's foolish to pretend there isn't reams of references on this going back decades.
I don't get why this is framed as "nowadays". Bad stuff happened all around millennials too. I can has cheeseburger and related sites were huge almost as soon as they launched in 2007. Then the same thing happened with much older generations as well - my parents and a lot of people from that generation repeated lines from old political comedy shows - basically memes before the internet. Kilroy was a WW2 meme.

It's more "the same thing that always happened happens now, just increased by the presence of the internet".
Do you specifically need a CTE, or wouldn't a nested SELECT also work?
The US, like all other NATO members, shipped a ton of hardware to Ukraine. None of that hardware is operated by NATO personel, under NATO flag so. Hence, NATO is not an active participant in the war in Ukraine, despite being arms, ammunition and intelligence suppliers as well as close allies of Ukraine.

And yes, those details matter in geopolitics, a lot.
> What European companies offer $200k+ salaries

erm... none? the "sky high" threshold in major EU cities is 100k EUR. Zalando and SAP mentioned by OP might pay above 100k but only in Munich or Frankfurt am Main.
My word choice of "predictable performance" was deliberate.
I actually love that R uses '<-' for assignment. Assignment is an inherently asymmetric operation: it takes the RHS and assigns it to the LHS, and the arrow visually indicates this. It feels more correct to have a visually asymmetric operator for it.
See above, the biggest tech companies are competing for talent globally so they match offers with a discounting factor of 40-30 %, if you're a good candidate. Sure if the US is your thing I guess it makes sense to live there, for me quality of life in western Europe seems just way better, probably just because I'm used to the way things are here (walkable, safe cities, great public transportation, dozens of beautiful destinations within 4-8 hour driving or 2-3 hour flight duration, great food quality, ...). Also family ties and friends, seems not great to permanently move halfway across the world without good reason. I've spent significant time in the US and I enjoy it, just wouldn't want to live there permanently even if earning twice as much. Money isn't everything, at least for me. Everyone's different.
I have to say that it's been bizarre watching people say how much of a "game changer" LLMs are. There is clearly an advance there, no doubt, but it hasn't really been able to solve any actual problems that I have.
Ah, so the house part comes from warehouse. Not obvious to say the least.
They dropped the ball because no major part of their current business model involves creating a better operating system for the sake of attracting new users

They seem to aim at minimising users leaving and maximising the extraction of data obtained per user
The Absurd by Thomas Nagel (1971) [pdf]
I just found Europe developers to be very good. So likely it's not a skills issue. But I could be wrong.

And for a job like software engineering, skills and regulation should be the only factor for salary of a team as outsourcing is done by everyone.
Midihum: An ML-Based MIDI Humanizing Tool
It didn't work for me, but viewing it in the WayBack Machine [0] did.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20231230110629/https://www.thelo...
Are you suggesting the 10MB of references were garbage? I don't understand what you mean.
This sounds very bitter. Also, having worked in multiple places where Clojure is the main language, I don't agree at all. Most places make their own coding rules / standards, enforce them with linters and custom formatter rules. Also the biggest difference by far isn't the terser syntax, it's that Clojure is a immutable, functional language, and Java is the exact opposite.
Do you have any thoughts on Superset? Did you consider it as a candidate?

For anyone who doesn't know: https://superset.apache.org/

(There's at least one service that offers managed Superset hosting if that's what you're looking for; it's easy to find so I won't link it here.)
Because there is no such thing as a totalitarian company, apart from those owned and operated by the state.
> unnecessary surgeries

I hope the doctors involved got a decent reprimand for that too...
Shock ventilation is a habit of Swiss housewives which is diametrically opposed to the new "Minergie" standard for green homes, which provides for air exchange via a super expensive heat exchanger system which extracts heat from stale air before sending it out.

Of course everyone who lives in Minergie homes opens the windows each morning while hanging out the duvets, and/or complains that the enormous windows are too big to open, or don't open at all.

It's like all the Minergie engineers were so busy at work they didn't notice what their wives were doing at home. (I assume the original engineering for these hear exchangers was in the 70's when that gendered statement was not controversial!)
R's indexing is not only 1-based, it's inclusive on both ends. So indexing from 3 to 5 actually gets you elements 3, 4, and 5. I've programmed a bunch with both R and 0-based languages and I greatly prefer R's way of doing indexing.
> In the code snippet, they define a "yield", and somehow this magically works

With `with` you explicitely set the effect handler, no magic involved.

> Also, the `fun yield( x : a ) : ()` syntax is highly unintuitive. It _takes_ an int and returns empty? So it's just a continuation?

A function that does not return anything is (the poster child of) an impure function, that does nothing else but an (side) effect. That's why you need to call it as an effect and not a "normal" (pure) function.

> And magically it transfers control flow to the correct place? How does it know where that is?

It doesn't have to. The hidden `run` function (or whatever you want to call it) of the effect systém that actually calls the right effect handler has to know about that.

The run function does something like (simplified)

- see, that a effect handler with ID 'yield' is called
- call the (currently registered) handler for 'yield' with the given arguments
- call the continuation with the result of the handler
Death by Thomas Nagel (1970) [pdf]
Your country has made a trillion euro from oil and gas because of the international market.
Curious, have you tried speeding things up with e.g. cube.js? We used it in a fully custom project and it was a Performance life saver. It works quite well with Superset actually.
https://imgflip.com/i/8atqoy
Capitalism works in dark ways sometimes. I believe these layoffs are almost entirely driven by the stock market.

In COVID times everybody had a hiring boom because it looked good to be hiring. So CEOs accelerated hiring, regardless of whether more manpower was actually needed. Now, it looks good to be laying people off in the name of "efficiency", so CEOs initiate layoffs to please the shareholders.

There is no actual logic here, whatever pumps the share price is the action taken because CEOs want a fat bonus. Most CEOs are parasites that do very little work other than warp the truth, lean into hypes, and make false promises. All while collecting a salary 100x the average worker's.
I'm not a professional graphics programmer, but I dabble in it occasionally and hang out in GP communities. It's fascinating to see the wealth of voxel engines being written. Minecraft really had a massive cultural impact on the tech scene. Or maybe it's just that voxels are a particularly good target for various optimization techniques. Interesting either way!

For the author: Any particular reason you don't seem to be using DSA in your OpenGL code? ie glNamedBufferData() and friends. I found it the single thing that transforms OpenGL into something very user-friendly.
I would highly contest that. It's certainly not "The" reason, unless this is an advertisement. Jio is not even the cheapest option anymore in many places. I think your assessment is outdated. Indian people are at par with their Inrernet usage as the most of the world, it's just that there are a LOT of us in the world. That's "the" reason - Population.
Layoffs.fyi offers a more complete estimation, currently 1179 tech companies w/ layoffs, totaling 261847 employees laid off in 2023.
This perspective on regulation was interesting: https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/12/28/how-to-regulate-...

"Congress should declare that big-data AI models do not infringe copyright, but are inherently in the public domain.

Congress should declare that use of AI tools will be an aggravating rather than mitigating factor in determinations of civil and criminal liability."
We are where we are because the 1970s kicked a can down the road rather than take action on C02 when it was clear there was a problem.

In another 50 years we will have a pile of toxic waste as a direct result of scaling solar and wind up from the sliver it is now to enough to replace fossil fuels in world electricty production and replace fossil fuels in transport and build out enough batteries to ride out at least 10 hours of global demand.

> Cleaner mining and responsible recycling and reuse of the infra we build can be worked on over time.

How's that going so far - I can point to a few examples of mine reclaimation .. these are dwarfed by the majority that are left as problems for later on.

It's simple really, high consumers should consume less and as resources are used there should be focus on remediation and harm reduction from the outset.

Typically the worst offenders greenwash the nasty away and tut-tut about waste piling up in third world | southernn economies.
You are sued for infringement if you are the rightsholder. You need an agreement with the guitarist about rights. The default agreement for session musicians is that you pay them in return for their rights.

It’s like a software engineering contractor. The contractor gets paid, the IP of their work is owned by the company.
One of the oldest newspapers is using AI to reinvent journalism
In any online discussion of company sizes, someone must mention the furthest outlier in the history of business.
Once you reach a certain size it's quite complicated to let people go, if you need to fire a large amount of people you need to e.g. work out a social plan, you can't fire performance-based unless people grossly neglect their job responsibilities. For smaller companies with less than a few hundred employees it's easier of course, but once you're in unionized territory firing becomes a process that the management needs to work out with the employee board.
Ah and a side note: Superset allows to template SQL queries via jinja. Works very well.
Haha yes her branding about seitan/satan is great
One would think so, and yet, the US does exactly that in North-Eastern Syria.

Also, see the US President asking the Saudis for some extra pumping of oil last summer (summer of 2022, that is), supposedly that was meant to help with the gasoline prices in the US and hence with said President’s greater chances of electoral success.
That was my impression, but apparently they're also sold with a Toyota badge on them, which somewhat changes my feelings on the matter.
So while each line is only 525kV relative to the environment, it's 1.05MV between the two lines. A megavolt seems to have been practical HVDC tech for a while now, I was just idly wondering if they had taken things up a notch in this latest project.
It's often cheaper to just give welfare than to make up work for people. Furthermore, an Amazon engineer isn't going to be any less stressed about his mortgage if you give him a street cleaning job.

If you really want to help people, we need to drastically bring down the cost of living in cities through building more housing, then provide some unemployment or ubi to keep you afloat with your savings while you look for something worthwhile to do.
Get deeper into fundamentals of ML. Train my own models. Get deeper into electronics, learn how to design PCB boards and build little AI toys.
(Asking Dall-E about the bot image in the article)

Me: Who owns the rights to this bot?

Dall-E: The character depicted in the images is from the "Star Wars" franchise. The rights to characters and elements from "Star Wars" are owned by Lucasfilm Ltd., which is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.

Perhaps it is able to tell, if you ask it?
But it's not like that. Examples of clearly infringing prompts in TFA were as vague as "animated plumber".

Asking your session musician for something "melancholy" and having them pass off Stairway to Heaven as original would be unreasonable.
You, because you released the song and took the royalties? I don’t think every type of art can be compared against each other though, as there have been numerous precedents specifically for music, some for paintings, and some for photography with their own nuances.

I still think people who are concerned that art related copyright will stifle generative AI should fight copyright laws directly. But that’s a harder pill to swallow since it will cause multi-industry wide havoc.
Good in-depth insights into each format. This complements nicely with a site I created called tech-diff (https://tech-diff.com/file/) where it provides a summary of the file formats.
Quantum Computing 2023-Reflections and 2024-Predictions
on Quantum Field.
Laissez fair capitalism never works.

I don’t understand this mindset. Looking at numbers in a vacuum.

The labor market is literal wage slavery, with slaves being rented instead of owned.

This attitude of everyone for themselves is literally what’s wrong with this modern, disgusting “individualist” pull yourself up by the bootstraps society.

I know the rules here are to be civil, but I really don’t understand this “f you I got mine” mentality.
I really find this hard to believe. 2000 is already at the higher threshold of where people report bad air quality and drowsiness. In practical terms it doesn't matter much because if you are ventilating properly, your CO2 levels don't stay elevated for long and you really do not need to measure or observe.
I take it for granted but living in a continent without brown outs is nice indeed.
They do pay above 100k€ in Berlin for talents.
> you can also usually tell when the air quality drops through your senses

Only when you're paying attention. If I'm not paying attention, I end up in a sufficiently depressed state that I can't notice, which is extremely self-perpetuating.
Geolocating photos is easy, an none of this should come as a surprise. Anyone following the war in Ukraine will know that even photos taken inside have been successfully geolocated. Everyone should assume that photos give your location.

(The example in the article of a 35 mile miss us actually surprisingly inaccurate, given that it included a horizon of mountains.)
> My guess is that none of this can easily be fixed. Systems like DALL-E and ChatGPT are essentially black boxes. GenAI systems don’t give attribution to source materials because at least as constituted now, they can’t.

Is it necessary to fix in the model itself? It seems a gate in the post processing pipeline that checks for copyright infringement could work, provided they can create another model that identifies copyrighted work (solving the problems of AI with more AI :/)
Since forced-air heating is uncommon in Europe the impact is not that high. The radiators or under floor heating stays warm and will re-heat the air very quickly.
The other day I challenged Bard to do this, and it failed. I gave it hints and it got so confused it told me the flag of Switzerland was black, white, blue and yellow.

Don't quit your day job, Bard.
No there are no practical uses other than speed and energy efficiency as analog computers can be fully simulated by digital computers today. There's no clock speed in analog computation. You feed in raw voltage into the inputs and you get the resulting voltage from the outputs. So it's literally the fastest possible result achievable with our current electrical technology.

Analog computation is essentially functional programming.

You have inputs and outputs and for your results have to think in terms of piping analog data through different compositions of functional primitives to achieve your desired output.

There's no concept of "calling a function either" thus recursion is replaced with what we term as "feedback loops".

Additionally all forms of computational state (aka memory) other then initial values will essentially be replaced by feedback loops. There's no discrete step to access a computational result in an analog computer thus in order to access a previous computational result the only way is to literally feed output back into the input. At least in typical functional programming you have a stack where you can store and access previous state. With analog computing the "purity" goes to the next level.

Likely from this description you will see the obvious solution to this problem is some sort of hybrid machine that executes procedures but also stores and produces analog results. It doesn't exist yet but I feel it will look like an fpga. Maybe be call it an fpoa. Field programmable op amps.