skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI has created a new standard from which “average” is defined. Rather than a real life analog to a mathematic mean, it’s simply understood to be the level at which AI performs.
> Has a plane ever gone down from “electronic warfare?” I

What do you mean?

Obviously Iran used electronic warfare to capture a drone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...

Has a non targeted civilian plane crashed from the result of electronic warfare in the area? Not that I known of.

Close calls - https://asrs.arc.nasa.gov/docs/cb/cb_473.pdf but I guess as you claim checks and balances kept them alive.

The title is "Not Ready" so it's a call to action as this stuff ramps up.

It's not just crashes. If you have a scare you are not prepared for then airlines avoid air space that's a big deal.
An opinion backed by mainstream economic consensus but, yes an opinion. I do not need to utilize heterodox models to justify why a hyper deflationary monetary system is a bad idea. I can base this opinion off economic fundamentals and data points showing the negative impacts such a system would have. But you probably understand this, and have justifications for why the positives outweigh the negatives. I don’t reach that opinion and we likely won’t see eye to eye on that point. You probably made this account specifically to push back on the mainstream opinions of cryptocurrencies.
Thanks. I'm going to watch that MS video and see if I'm still as pissy about the ribbon afterward.

Ribbon aside, there are still lots of regressions in Word. The handling of styles, for example, which used to be excellent. Now Microsoft has stuffed the style list with dozens of asinine canned styles (most of which consist of different-colored underlines) that you can't get rid of. So instead of being able to format your document efficiently by selecting styles, you must now wade through a giant list of shit, looking for your own styles every goddamned time you want to apply one.
I appreciate that the sound only turns on if you click.
I only linked it because launchd is the source of the "Big Idea", predating systemd by ~5 years.

Perhaps I misunderstood your comment in interpreting it to say socket activation's an original systemd concept.
More likely, so-called "tech" companies will be the ones most interested in tracking every move/transaction, a practice already familiar to them, as they can put that information to commercial use, selling online ad services. Unlike the government, they have invested in the infrastructure to gather personal information about citizens and use that information _for profit_. Nor are they bound by the same restrictions on use of collected data from citizens and laws that can potentially protect citizens against government spying. If a government wants the data from "track every move" it's guaranteed they will, to the extent they feel the need, try to have Big Tech provide them with the information they seek. History has shown they have already been quite successful at getting the information they want with Big Tech's assistance. It's only going to get continually easier as more and more information becomes centralised in a few Big Tech companies.
It would probably be a good idea for Starlink in-flight WiFi to provide position information, so pilots could use a phone/laptop as an emergency backup.

Starlink is harder to jam than GPS, because the signals are strong and directional.

There is precedent for using consumer tech in an emergency. After the Qantas 32 explosion, the pilots used cell phones to contact the airline because most of the plane's radios were dead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS9rYWfdC9w&t=1577s
The problem there was that some re-masters were really good, while others were even worse, with massive compression and clipping.
Because it puts the power into the hands of a ruling class which takes everything? Yeah, it’s like real communism not like the theories…
Unless the person has spent their entire career working with React, I see no contradiction here. Or do you think that any experience outside of React doesn’t count?
They have done that before. But they have also laid off 12,000 employees without doing that as well. Do we know which today's announcement resembles?
My opinion of the average America just increased.
I feel fairly confident at detecting LLM output in the course of my work, but that doesn't mean that I should unilaterally make decisions based on my own opinion without asking other experts who are right there beside me at work. Is there something wrong with asking for a second opinion, when management has provided to us Slack channels to do exactly this?
The inverters attached to solar or batteries can provide frequency support and even reactive power. They just need to have the smarts to do it at the right frequency, and standards for that have come about in recent years. In the early days, there wasn't much need so by KISS standards it would have been the wrong choice to start with grid-forming inverter design.

People who complain about the lack of spinning mass do not have much knowledge about AC power, even if they understand the prior forms of our grid very well. Classic mistake of is vs. ought.
We at Microsft used this to build apps.microsoft.com. We're quite happy with the results. Shoelace is customizable, accessible, extensible, easy to use.
I got fired with severance, and took the opportunity to do this. It feels so rewarding to work on your own project, waking up and just deciding what you want to do next with it. There were also periods where anxiety got to me, because it's not giving me enough money to live from it (it barely supports its own costs). But all in all I'm enjoying it and learning a lot in the process. If anything, it makes me want to keep trying to find financial independence and new ideas.
I don't see that these components use part/exportparts feature to do that. Am I looking at it the wrong way? Or do you mean that customization happens via CSS?
Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager I and II, and New Horizons are all on solar escape trajectories. If you just want to get out of the solar system, existing tech plus a Jupiter gravity assist gets you there easily.
I found CICO very helpful in losing weight (from 120kg to 90kg).

It was a relatively easy metric to track, and using it alone meant that I could still eat all the things I wanted, though I needed to balance what I wanted to eat with portion size.

CICO also meant I started out slow, making small cuts. So it wasn't bad in the beginning. Over time I had to find ways to adapt so I wouldn't go feeling hungry (mostly increase protein and fiber ratio significantly), but I never needed big changes.

On the flip side CICO also meant that if I messed up one day it wasn't so bad. It just moved the goal post one day or two further away. So it prevented me from feeling like there was no point and giving up, instead getting back into it the next day.

By following CICO I had a very linear weight loss, which didn't feel like a restriction or such. I estimated my CO and aimed for roughly 0.5kg per week and that's almost exactly what I managed.

Not being "prevented" from certain foods due to diet X was a big factor in making this bearable.
While we're sharing random toys, https://gashlin.net/tests/graft/

More of a game but also https://gashlin.net/tests/feat/
> The sooner we build a tool to filter out chatgpt generated garbage the better.

The sooner we build a tool to filter out garbage the better.

FTFY
This could be said about any new tool.

"photoshop has created a dichotomy --- those who are below-average in their skills will see it as an improvement, while those who are above average will see it as regression."

"the automobile...

"the camera...

"the printing press...

signed: someone who really does not like these LLM's. Not for what they can do, but for the doubt they bring to the table. This is probably the same feeling as when digital image manipulation got good and you could no longer trust photos.(not that you ever really could. photos, even unaltered ones are notoriously easy to show only what you want them to.)
Looks more like last years Jan layoffs. Laptops restarting & people getting locked out.
At the end of the day I wonder what openai's endgame is here. They're starting to expand their business in a way that geometrically grows the size of the team, overlapping products that microsoft is offering, making the whole non-profit/capped-profit thing a head scratcher.

I guess you can argue this is just a marginal add-on to their existing ChatGPT product but I can imagine seeing them go full Salesforce/Oracle/enterprise behemoth here.

I would say I'm very pro AI development and pro Sam reinstating but I've been starting to shake my head a bit. Their mission and their ambition are wildly different.
https://archive.ph/78KuE
Nice, that sounds like a good product! I will have a look. Thanks.
This is ChatGPT, not OpenAI's API with the gpt4 models. This is allowing your team to use chat.openai.com together, rather than having to build or deploy your own with the API.
I'm a little surprised there's been no mention of Project Daedalus[1] in either the thread or the discussion.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus
Wait, there's sound?
They got a grant, just as the article title says.
18th Century Wig Designer
Aren’t their margins a product of producing better products?

Market power implies it’s because nvidia is using methods other than better products to keep its prices high.
Yeah, even browser don't allow music unless a click event happens first.
It's not super obvious, but even with Plus you can opt-out of training.

Aside: If you can see other colleagues' interactions with the custom/private GPTs, it could be quite an efficient way to share knowledge, especially for people in disparate time zones.
Perhaps write it up as an open letter/blog article and link it here??
Can anyone tell me who the big consumers of used recyclable plastic materials are? Are any of these uses repeatable? If not, then we should stop pretending that recycling plastic is good for the environment and convince people that they should avoid buying plastic products that they might throw away.
“No training on your business data or conversations”

Does this mean they will still use your data for other non-training purposes?
Maybe the first step would be to have GPT generate reasons why the artists suggestions wouldn’t work?

Have a nice little adversarial set up.
Real question: Why doesn't HBO suffer from the same?
The whole forum is basically drama bait. Top questions are "how do I deal with employee who slept with my wife?", "Criticized for doing my job too well" etc. None of these questions are looking for answers but instead for validation or just a good ol' watercooler chat.
It’s pretty obvious that once they realized how much money was on the table, the “non-profit” aspirations and goals went out the window. The Altman saga from a few months ago painted this clearly.
I use this for contributing between multiple OSS projects. For Google projects I use a specific e-mail and sign all commits with it.
In those two case, sure extra weight seems like a positive. But have back problems? Or leg issues? And that extra weight will make you even less mobile. Can't move? That'll get you bed sores and perhaps eventually an infection.

The body didn't evolve to carry so much extra weight. You're on the wrong side of history.
Gambling boom detrimental to New Jersey economy, report says
An impressive technical feat, but obviously there's no way a battery (i.e. storage technology) can actually replace a coal plant (i.e. generation technology) without additional generation. Sounds pedantic, but there are many headlines phrased this way, and many technically dumb people reading these headlines.
This is sick. Who knows if it will go anywhere, but glad the government still finds ways to spend money on expensive experiments. It pushes collective science forward.
This is so awesome! I noticed the favicon too changes to the current emoji (nice little detail)
Easier to build in places like Texas, I suspect.
hey, thanks for pointing this out! we work on english only applications so missed this. will add a note to the blog
> It would be pretty weird to ignore the existence of smartphones

Not really. It's pretty difficult to do LLM development work on a smartphone.
Nah, it's been shared at least a couple times over the last 2 years, some people spinning up versions on glitch etc, even tho it's no longer maintained
Strange because I think brother did exactly what’s described in the article to me, and their toner is expensive as hell. I wouldn’t have bought it if there wasn’t a cheap generic available or if I knew they would suddenly claim all generic cartridges as empty. I think they may still have some printers that use the old kind of cartridges without chips.
The degree to which it is enforced, managers being required to enforce the policy, and to which compliance is used as a measure in performance reviews have all increased and, as you mention, some teams have gone to 4 days with pressure to exceed the minimum three days. At least one person I've spoken with indicated that their promotion was delayed until they could get their RTO compliance numbers up.
this is cool, I really appreciate how easy it is to add to your site
The difference is negligible in real syntax:

auto my_closure = [](int x, int y) { return x + y; };

let my_closure = |x: int, y: int| { x + y }

and frankly, the option of an explicit capture-list with aliases and mixing moves and copies is a benefit:

int sum = 0, diff = 0;

auto adder = [&sum](int num) {
sum += num;

// compilation error, author didn't
// mean to capture diff.
diff -= num;
};
Why would they make it more expensive than individual plans?
I'm not looking forward to having to argue with a coworker that thinks MongoDB is web scale because ChatGPT told them so. It will be a hell of a lot more annoying than[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs&t=3s
For comparison, the F-16 had about 4,600 built over 50 years, while the F-15 has had maybe 2,000 built over 50 years. 1,000 for a relatively young fighter is a lot.
I would assume the endgame is like Microsoft: to become an OS for your org. Knowledge management, human augmentation (code, emails, copilot all the things), data analytics, workflow automations, etc.

The mission changed when research ran into product market fit.
Wow... What is going on it tech? We are just 10 days in the new year and every day there has been surprise layoffs!

Unity

Twitch

Several startups

And now.. Google!

This is at the same time when stocks are almost all time high :).
On Petition for Review of Order of the DOE EERE-2021-BT-STD-0002 87 Reg. 2673 [pdf]
Typical VC filler, this is a sad day for Open AI (space emphasis)
Cantor's set always messes with my mind.

Say you start with the standard construction: take closed interval [0, 1], then remove open middle third, then remove two open middle thirds from two remaining segments, then remove 4 open middle thirds from 4 remaining segments, etc countably many times (more formally, intersect all of the sets you obtain in each of the step).

Intuitively, what remains should be the end points of the removed intervals, but this is not true: since at every step you removed finitely many intervals, and there were countably many steps, you removed finitecountable <= countablecountable = countably many intervals, so there are only countably many many ends of removed intervals, but the Cantor's set is uncountable. So where do the remaining points come from?
Mostly the viability studies in the French reactor program.

It heaviy depends on how you set up the comparison. If you look at most current energy markets and say "how can I make money with these rules" the answer is almost always build a small amount of renewables. If you say, how should a government invest to retire coal power and achieve a low and stable energy cost, then nuclear can be viable (in some places).
>The specter of chickens killing us through disease is what first led me into the annals of the industry, and eventually to Peterson. What hope is left, I wanted to know, for those of us who enjoy eating meat?

That's a funny sentence given that non-meat eaters will presumably suffer from the next avian flu as much as meat eaters.

Edit: though to be generous, maybe the author means it in a more broad sense - what hope is there for meat eating given its various drawbacks. Still, strange sentence imo
I have both Nest Mini's and Alexas strewn throughout my house hooked up to my home automation etc.. Over time I've found that Alexa works better and that the google assistant progressively gets worse. This will probably not help things. Makes me wonder if they are slowly stepping away from Google assistant.
From what I saw in the UK, the Jan 2023 layoffs (the 12k) had a lot of people redeployed. Of the 3 people I knew personally impacted by it, 2 were redeployed elsewhere in the business (1 eng, 1 HR). I know it happened extensively in at least one other country too.
It's a good thing the problem we're talking about doesn't exist there
Being an adult is exactly why I'm going to involve the person who gets paid to deal with situations like these instead of following some idiotic notion of "tattling" like I'm in grade school or the mafia.
"Stealth mode" for what's effectively just "offline mode"? Who comes up with this crap, a name like that makes it seem like you're getting away with something sneaky ffs. When in reality it's the mode you're probably assuming as the default for such a tool.
not bad! reminds me of mario paint.
oh, that would be horrible, I canceled "max" after the discovery takeover, I'd hate to cancel paramount+ as well, they have a good catalog that discovery would eviscerate.
This is literally what managers are for though. He has an issue with another department and doesn't know how to handle it himself.
I prefer just getting those bugs addressed. A lot of times writing these blogs and open letters just brings some attention to the blog/article and the real issue never gets addressed. Plus at least 2 of these would involve me sharing internal details which I prefer doing only through the official bug reporting channels.
Something I would point out is that this is more of a conceptual proposal than something real NASA is planning on doing. This mission as described here will never happen. With that said it’s still a useful exercise because we will do space probes to Alpha Centauri at some point and doing a pretend proposal for one and solving all the problems that come up when you try to do so will help make it feasible to actually do that type of mission in the future eg. The Europa Clipper or a lot of the other space probes we’ve done.
Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs
Leads across Google are sending coordinated emails within their orgs announcing layoffs. They've all gone out in the last 2 hours or so.

They've fragmented the layoffs on purpose to make them seem more localized, but it's affecting the whole company.

Orgs that I've heard/I'm part of that have been impacted so far include Ads, Search, Assistant, Maps Android & Core.

I'm sure there are more, but I can't confirm.

I can't find WARN notices yet, so I assume they haven't been filed yet in any state.
Employees are a companies most valuable assets. All that a company has to do is to lay off a bunch of them and it realizes that value with a higher stock price :). Edit: in case anybody missed the nuance, this comment is meant as satire.
That is me with mubi! I keep paying but I rarely watch any films. I find that I need to be in the right headspace to watch any serious stuff but when I do, I do watch a couple of them and I don't really mind paying. I like to joke that I'm their ideal customer haha.

Unlike netflix where I downgraded my plan to the lowest tier, there's literally nothing on it and they also keep on cancelling good tv shows. I think they should focus on serious stuff and work with more indie directors. But then again I can't blame them because they're just following the trend.
I had a barn cat, Merlin, who would display mice for me. He had a little room up a ramp in the back of my 'barn'. Not satisfied with showing me the whole mouse, he took to presenting anatomical displays of the organs. And once, showed off his chef skills by presenting the organs over a bed of grass.

Thankfully, we don't have a cat door into the house, so no surprises. I'd go out and visit him on a schedule, until he moved into the house on a part time basis. Then he'd come around and ask to be in, and then ask to be out as needed.
You reckon it's a charity to boost bitcoin holders' wealth? The purpose of this ETF is to extract profit, the rest is unintended.
Really cool how it randomizes after all the colours are blue - did you build in any other hidden features?
I'm hearing they laid off thousands today actually but it could be my friend has the number wrong.
How do I relearn mathematics for machine learning?
Be me. Graduated with bachelor degree on computer engineering. Studied Linear Algebra, Calculus 1-2-3, Probability and Statistic. Lecturers always have horrible teaching style and give students no intuition whatsoever. Got bad habits of trying to memorize and cramming information before exam. Got decent self taught ability, horrible discipline and horrible note taking skill. Decide to relearn all those mathematics to get into machine learning. How do I start and progress? Currently learn to use Obsidian for note taking and learn mathematics from Youtube channel (I choose Professor Leonard for Calculus, Dr. Trefor Bazett for Linear Algebra, no option for now for probability and statistic). Thank you all in advance.
I used some kind of white ceramic grease in a stick I would describe as 75-80% condition; it has been about 10 years with little deterioration since. I've read Lithium grease is better.

I've also read somewhere, though I could never find conclusive information, that Nintendo actually intended for these sticks to have some sort of grease included but was unable to for some reason that wasn't as trivial to explain as "Greedy company wants players to keep buying gamepads"..
Elixir (and erlang) already has a type system, it’s just dynamic.

Python and typescript both added stricter typing to their respective languages
I guess it's like a game of Russian roulette, but with a 100-chamber gun (or more, a lot more?) and 1 bullet. Every time you go into a crowded room and survive without a sniffle, you think, "well, that went well, why all this concern about getting sick/dying from this virus?".

And the number of chambers depends on your personal risk from exposure to the virus, obviously. For some it's deadly, for others it's a weekend in bed..
Off the top of my head:

- They're a founder

- They're a spouse of a founder

- They're a friend of the founder

- The worker is unskilled and needs to work crazy hours to break even

- They believe in the company and have equity

- The vertical is more politically compatible than alternatives

- The vertical punishes newbies before the career starts paying off (lawyers, doctors, academia)

- The work is interesting/fun on its own (in these cases, the type of work would never be paid well -- teaching, charity work, homemaking, niche tech, etc.)

- The worker is being compensated in other, non-monetary ways (aside from equity)

- The job is poorly paid locally but well-compensated elsewhere, and moving/remote work is not possible

Are such people idiots? Maybe.

That said, people who place money above all other factors trend closer to the "idiot" line, in my book. YMMV.

If you require the literal best pay possible, you'll be job-searching forever. Some people do not have that luxury.
> because AI can do it cheaper

I'm interested to see how this works out in the mid-longer term to see where it tracks on the graph with "Cheaper" on one axis and "Better" on the other (where '0' is in the centre of the "Better" axis, not at the bottom/left).