skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As @kevincox says there's a problem where if one browser does it, then users complain a site "works in this-generations-IE" forcing the other browsers to duplicate the behaviour.

But one other problem that happens isn't necessarily "browser 1 fixed this configuration" and browser 2 copied them. It can (and often was) "browser 1 has a bug that means this is broken configuration works", and now for compatibility browser 2 implements the same behaviour. Then browser 1 finds this bug, goes to fix it, and finds that there are sites that depend on it and it also works in other browsers so even if it started off as a bug they can no longer fix it.

That's why there's increasing amounts of work involved in trying to ensure new specifications are free of ambiguities and such now before they're actually turned on by default. Even now thought you still have places where the spec has ambiguity/gaps in the specification where people will go "whatever IE/Chrome does is correct" even if the specification has a gap/ambiguity that allows different behaviour (which these days is considered a specification bug), even if other browsers agree, it's super easy for a developer to say "the most common browser is definitionally the correct implementation".

Back when I worked on engines and in committees I probably spent cumulatively more than a year do nothing but going through specification gaps working out what behaviour was _required_ to ensure sufficiently compatible behavior between different browsers. I spent months on key events and key codes alone, trying to work out which events need to be sent, which key codes, how IM/IME (input method [editor] mechanism used for non-latin text) systems interact with it, etc. As part of this I added the ability to create IMEs in javascript to the webkit test infrastructure because otherwise it was super easy to break random IMEs because they all behave completely differently in response to single key presses.
You built this? Well done! I’ve used this several times while watching DGR videos!
They studied whether the average American can use Google to fact-check news articles and the answer seems to be no. And in particular, some people seem to be really bad at using a search engine:

> So what do the low-google-fu people do to generate bad results? Often, they just literally plug the questionable article headline or URL into Google. If your search terms are “SHOCK REVELATION: SHILLARY CAUGHT DRINKING BABIES’ BLOOD AT MARTHA’S VINEYARD ESTATE,” Google’s probably going to give you results that go along with its assumptions.

But it doesn’t mean you can’t learn how to fact-check news articles, or that it can’t be taught.

It might be interesting to repeat the study for other groups. College graduates? Graduate students?

Also, I wonder if it’s possible to build a better search engine with this task in mind?
> A design problem probably would have shown up in an older one.

Maybe, unless it required really specific conditions that have only occurred for this one or also required some maintenance snafu that also had nothing to do with Boeing assembly QA. We don’t have enough data to establish anything as the most probable explanation yet.
I agree with Boeing board members flying Boeing, and likely they already do, but have you ever floated beings above the aether in metal machines? Do we not live in the age of magic?
I'm less interested in how the incident du jour affects travel plans.

I'm more interested in the continuing drumbeat of engineering failures, quality control lapses, apparent corner cutting and evasion of regulation that affect various Max models.

If I have a choice, I'll choose an airline that doesn't have any Max planes in their fleet.
"[Claim presented as absolute fact], prove me wrong". That's not how logic/argument/discussion works. If that's how the conversation is structured, that person is arguing in bad faith. It's a simple rule that should be taught at a very young age.
That's one paper out of dozens, feel free to pick another.

“Many commentators have claimed that a recently-updated Cochrane Review shows that ‘masks don’t work’, which is an inaccurate and misleading interpretation,” Dr. Karla Soares-Weiser, the editor-in-chief of the Cochrane Library, said in a March 10 statement. https://www.factcheck.org/2023/03/scicheck-what-the-cochrane...

It's not particularly conclusive, whereas many other sources point to a small increase in protection. Which is important at scale.
Viruses rely heavily on cellular machinery for replication, and whatever machinery alien lifeforms have is likely to be too different for the virus to propagate.

Bacteria might be more likely to survive in an alien environment.
Armstrong is basically a charming narcissist. Giving him leeway for his destructive behavior isn't really warranted.

Here is a good recent interview with LeMond that delves into the Armstrong era:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xq5PQvBFvI

Remember that Trek dropped LeMond's bike line because he was speaking out about the cheating.

Another recent interview of Armstrong with a sympathetic Bill Maher:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlDKKez4q7o
Okay, actually I think I just misunderstood the argument in the paper. After taking a second look, I think their argument goes as follows:

A typical autoregressive transformer model operates on a fixed-size context that acts as both input and a queue to which the output of the model is appended. If a model operates on a context of length k with n possible symbols in its alphabet, then there are n^k possible contexts.

If you run such a model for n^k iterations, then

1) if the <eos> (end of sequence) symbol appears in the context, then the model halts.

2) if the <eos> symbol never appears in the context, then you know the model never halts because it must repeat a context string by the pigeon hole principal and must be in an infinite loop.

Therefore, the halting problem is decidable for transformer models with finite length contexts that are autoregressive in this way and that would imply a contradiction if we claim they are Turing complete (because the halting problem is known to be undecidable for Turing complete systems).

I'm not entirely sure this proves anything (it sounds believable I guess?), but at least I think it describes the argument they are making.

It is sort of interesting how it highlights the different between a system that can write to any position in memory vs. one that can only append to memory while being required to delete the first memory cell (where memory is a queue).

However, the overall paper is awful and pretty hard to take seriously.
Are you familiar with all the newer generation technologies that haven’t been phased out and are under development?
My TL;DR: Some really interesting conclusions here, though nothing particularly surprising to anyone familiar with SEO practices. In particular the use of SEO techniques to target "data voids" to help own particular terms or phrases that are then used when searching up more information.

> Low-quality publishers have been found to use search engine optimization techniques and encourage readers to use specific search queries when searching online by consistently using distinct phrases in their stories and in other media. These terms can guide users to data voids on search engines, where only one point of an unreliable view is represented. Low-quality news sources also often re-use stories from each other, polluting search engine results with other similar non-credible stories…

Again, nothing most people here don't already know about the overlap between SEO and misinformation, but it is interesting to see some numbers behind the effect.

> We found that, among those who first rated the false/misleading article correctly as false/misleading, 17.6% changed their evaluation to true after being prompted to search online (for comparison, among those who first incorrectly rated the article as true, only 5.8% changed their evaluation to false/misleading after being required to search online).

One of the most interesting techniques exposed here is the use of unique terms that can then be easily owned by the misinformation outlets and likely to be used by those searching for more information.

> Using the headline/lede as a search query probably produces unreliable results because they contain distinct phrases that only producers of unreliable information use.

> The term ‘engineered famine’ in the article is a unique term that is unlikely to be used by reliable sources. An analysis of respondents’ search results found that adding the word ‘engineered’ in front of ‘famine’ changes the search results returned. 0% of search terms that contained the word ‘famine’ without ‘engineered’ in front of it returned unreliable results, whereas 63% of search queries that added ‘engineered’ in front of the word ‘famine’ were exposed to at least one unreliable result. In fact, 83% of all search terms that returned an unreliable result contained the term ‘engineered famine.’
They'd have to be fucking stupid.

The government is even worse at providing IT services, so the data breaches and other assorted fuck ups would in turn get worse. :(
But all those communist airlines had no problems at all - exceptional build quality and operational efficiency! /S
It remains to be seen if the UAW's achievements will work out in the EV era. They need to unionize Tesla or they will lose hard. Looking at the teardown of GM & Fords EVs vs Tesla, there is no profit being made whatsoever by the old guys. Everyone either loves to idolize Musk or downright hate him with a passion. At the end of the day, the union companies need to still sell a compelling product at a good price. Couple that with how freakin fast Musk moves and the Union companies will eventually end up in bankruptcy court unless something drastically changes: Either the legacy OEMs turn their act around (unlikely see Boeing) or the Unions successfully unionize Tesla. Will be interesting to see the show nonetheless.
Marimo – a fresh take at reactive Python notebooks
> It should be technologically impossible for any person or entity to access the data without a warrant

I don’t understand why you’d impose restrictions on this system that do not exist elsewhere? What makes cockpit voice recordings sensitive enough to warrant more secure storage than people’s bank accounts?
All major economic systems of all major national economies over the last century have perverse incentives. It’s not a capitalist thing.

Other systems had incentives such as, get it running by such and such date or have yourself and relatives sent to inhospitable place. So people rushed flawed designs into production.

That said, upper management at Boeing needs a shake-up. People need to get fired. They need to do what Intel is trying and that is to get more engineers in charge, or at least grant them veto power on designs.
This is only supported with the previous generation NVidia 3090, it is apparently possible to combine two 3090s with 24 GB VRAM and 'fuse' them with NVLink to act as a single high-powered GPU with 48 GB VRAM combined.

NVidia no longer supports this for the 40-series, I think this is because they want anyone interested in using their GPUs for LLMs to buy the pricier models with more VRAM.
But are we right now or ever really happy specifically?

Happiness is always fleeting. Aren't our lives a bit dystopian already if we need to do work and for what reason? So that we can possibly feel like we are meaningful with hopes that we don't lose our ability to be useful.
This only works if you hire enough really good engineers and have them spend most of their time mentoring, and most companies aren't willing to accept the senior engineers individual contributions on paper dropping to zero.
It'd be excellent if Export/Import has a standard format.

Especially if we see adoption on the Storage Buckets standard, sites will be able to partition up their storage into different concerns. Maybe there's some users data (xdg config[1]), some cache (xdg cache[1]), some app state ([1]), and each can be saved into a different bucket. Then a standard export/import standard would let folks save and load data easily? Maybe in interesting cross-site ways, where we import/export data? https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-...

I was super scared this article was going to glorify an impractical disconnected imo useless "simple." Very glad to see import/export handled; simple, but very much in users power to let connectivity happen, to spread their data, as connected apps have so powerfully let us do.
It makes the most sense to me to match the org structure to the teams you have.

If I'm trying to build something with undertrained, demoralized, underpaid engineers... it's not optimal to use methods intended for self-motivated, high-performance teams.

And nothing says there must be company-wide mandates. Maybe this area gets a formal, independent QA team, but this other area doesn't.

My experience just doesn't bear out that collapsing the QA function into development always leads to better outcomes.

I've seen the opposite happen too often, and QA be the sole bulwark between idiocy and customers.
See an active thread on the same tool in reddit r/MachineLearning: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/191rdwq/p_...

PS: I am not in anyway related to the tool or its creators, just a happy user.
Are these basically speed-controlled skates? Or do they have a bunch of other features like the kinds of balance systems in Segways?
Yes, but the outcome is still a statistical improvement over a non-zero baseline. Some of the stricken Cirrus would have been landed with zero fatalities (likely including my flight instructor's case).

Calling them all "saves" is overstating the incremental benefit.
Depends on your frame of mind.
>The *RP stuff added an official shader graph which stopped artists from asking for half a dozen different shader stacks/plugins.

I guess that's one silver lining to the result of having 3-4 different graphics stacks to choose from . I understand it from an engineering perspective (Mobile is a completely different problem space. It can't "just switch to HDRP", and you really shouldn't do that that far into production), but it definitely feels like they underestimated how important migration would be for developers given how lauded Unity is for prototyping.

>My cynical take on DOTS is that because it consumed all the marketing driven feature requests and was such a mess they moved it out of LTS unity.

DOTS was tackling a very hard problem and got stuck between how they wanted to market it. And they were way too pre-emptive in promising what it could do. It should have never been advertised as ready for production but that's the vibe they gave.

It's a shame because the tech truly does feel magical for games with proper data structuring. Burst advertised 10x increases in (CPU) performance and I've heard of increases as high as 25x in the best cases. But 10x for "just flipping a switch" with Burst before interacting with the ECS and Jobs gave so much promise to what it could do to help with game performance.
Dell XPs 13 suffer massive battery bloating issue. It’s been a known manufacturing problem that Dell tried to silence ever since.
The office in Xiamen of dell is run by Nancy Chen who is Dell’s Asia fixer of legal issues. Dell produces their batteries out of the Xiamen office.
Huge problems they have suffered. Their batteries exploded on a few occasions but this got silenced.
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What's with their software being riddled with security issues? The only security issue I know about UI is one with that rogue employee leaking their secrets?
Aircraft are often sold between airlines, or reconfigured even with the same airline. If United ever wants to reconfigure their 737s to be higher density (which is pretty common), they might need to start using that door as a real emergency exit.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise nears $13B deal to buy Juniper Networks
Keep learning, it looks like you're on the right track. It says you're in Pakistan, so I don't know how difficult it will be to find work at your experience level, my guess is quite difficult. You may need to get another temporary job but that's OK.

If you keep leveling up, you'll be able to start doing some work somewhere to build up a portfolio and resume.

I agree with the other poster, find an existing, active, open source community that is interesting to you and start learning from it and eventually contributing.
You set up a straw man. An insincere response to an insincere question.
PS5 and XSX are significantly faster than this chip in GPU performance. Not even close. This 8000 series is using 780M which is a rebrand of 680M released a while ago.
Let's Write a Simple JPEG Library (2017)
I hope there is gonna be a lawsuit filed on this and Mike Dell comes to sense.
> That’ll costs gobs of processing power and thus time and battery

The exact same thing was said about the functionality we're describing yet there it is. Imagine describing that to someone in 2010 who's already complaining about iPhone battery life. The response would be carbon-copy to yours.

In five years from the iPhone 8 to the iPhone 14 TOPS on the neural engine went from 0.6 to 17[0]. The iPhone 15 more than doubled that and stands at 35 TOPS[1]. Battery life is better than ever and that's a 58x gain just in neural, not even GPU, CPU, performance cores, etc.

Over that same period of time Nvidia GPUs only increased about 9x[2] - they're pushing the fundamentals much harder as a law of large numbers-ish issue.

So yeah, I won't have to wait long for zoom out of a photo 50%, completely change the angle, or who knows what else to be done locally. In fact, for these use cases increasingly advanced optics, processing, outside visual range sensors, etc, etc makes my point even more - even more data going to the cloud when the device is best suited to be doing it anyway.

Look at it this way - Apple sold over 97 million iPhones in 2023. Assuming the lower averages that's 1,649,000,000 combined TOPS out there.

Cloud providers benefit from optimization and inherent oversubscription but by comparison Nvidia sold somewhere around 500,000,000 TFLOPS worth of H100s last year.

Mainframe and serial terminal to desktop to thin client and terminal server - around and around we go.

[0] - https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/09/26/how-iphone-speeds...

[1] - https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/iphone-15-usb-...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_proces...
Big If. But even still, the most important factor for large studios is support: especially tailored dedicated support for AAA production. And I don't know if Godot can ever compete in that regard without living long enough to become the villian.
When it comes to the networking theory, you can't go wrong with Andy Tanenbaum's book.
"Runaway stab trim". It is a memory item, every pilot should be able to perform it from memory.

Turn off the motor, and the trim is manual. There is a crank right there in the cockpit. If it is too hard to turn, change aircraft configuration to reduce the forces required to. Pilot know how to do this. This pilot stuff, they understand the forces on the flight controls and what impacts them.

Boeing made an engineering mistake. The pilots also made an operational mistake. Unfortunately, both mistakes at the same time were fatal.

I pray that pilot training has improved. And that Boeing has made systems level changes to the aircraft that will preclude it happening in the future.

And that is how aviation becomes safer every year; at a significant cost of customers lives.
Carta is exiting the startup stock sale business
There's only so much Maple syrup to harvest!
Thank you. That's a good grounding that helps orient toward what I feel is being conveyed.

I sense there's a lot of overlap with SCADA-enabled infrastructure: transportation, nuclear, industrial control, &c. And we should be hesitant to deploy AI in those environments. Am I getting that right?
Both can be true. Tech sector, especially start ups, is especially sensitive to interest rates. It's been a booming year for travel, retail, hospitality and more.
https://www.bigcartel.com/product/pricing
openSUSE is a gem.

I can't even fathom how many times I've made a mess from my impulses to tidy up my system and it just manages to "fix itself".

There are also a lot of neat things, like being able to use multiple versions of GCC side by side. Not every distro behaves well on that regard.
Where did you see that? My understanding is that it's an optional plug door that's used to assist with interior installation. Once the interior is done, it's bolted shut and interior paneling is installed over top. From the inside, you can't tell it's there.
Section 174?
With a massive growth of people.
so you took my original username
Re: fs: Yeah it's lacking. But I've never ever had any corruption issues whatsoever running it on (virtual) servers or my laptop for years.
The union can force an all-or-nothing decision, but some companies can and will easily choose "nothing" and keep only the overseas developers, not the local unionized ones.
Some said that Napster/KaZaA/etc. was the future of music. They got closed down.

Spotify eventually popped up, and "solved" a big problem in music streaming. But at a cost - the record labels have them by their balls.

You don't see any leading "pirate" Spotify clone dominating the market. Closest thing is YouTube, but monetization goes to the content owners.

So here's what you do, if you're a bunch of creative artists / content owners / etc.:

You find one company that's commercializing the tech, and sue them into oblivion. Force them into signing a deal that ensures they'll never be profitable.

Others will follow.

But, yes, obviously the models are out there. In the same way that people are pirating stuff like they've always done. You can't do much about individuals running models on their own rigs - but that's not the point.

The point is to make it as painful as possible for people that feel the urge to commercialize something at scale. The goal is "Fuck you, pay me" or get dragged through the courts.
> This is our workplace, so you would be recording every conversation, also any idle chat of which there is quite a lot in cruise flight.

My workplace is my laptop, and I’m fairly certain that it records more than the airplane does. I certainly have no expectation of privacy while using it. Any meeting is recorded regardless of what is being said.

I’m sure my casual conversations would be if anyone felt I said anything valuable while muttering at my screen.

Not saying that’s great. Just saying that airline staff may currently have more privacy than most.
Not my experience at all.

I've been part of successful offshoring at a few different companies. It wasn't "one and done", that is, we had to try different countries, different subcontractors, etc but it is totally possible to maintain quality AND lower engineering costs by 50-75% by offshoring.

For those interested, my best experience has been with workers in LATAM countries. Pry 75% were Brazilians. Great timezone and culture match also most of them have good written/spoken english.
Yep, Chernobyl being a prime example. Or Komarov's failed re-entry after complaining about the design faults of the vehicle long before launch. Then there was the more uhhm run of the mill backyard blast furnace campaign which contributed to misallocation of workforce which then led to mass starvation.
> Your genes reproduce, you don't.

It's more complicated than that. Your genes reproduce, but then that child is in your care, and you teach them your values. Then your values reproduce.

And then you're into nature vs. nurture. Your values can't reproduce if you have stupid genes that cause your offspring to die of cystic fibrosis, but your genes can't reproduce if you have stupid values that cause your offspring to be self-destructive and sterile.

"You" are the combination of your genes and your values, and whether there gets to be any more of that depends on whether you, as a whole, are any good at it.