skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is way, way too based to be posted to HN but kudos to disgruntled phd for doing so.

I’ll also point out that the recent “sub stack has a nazi problem” tirade is coming from people like the authors example of the $50k/year school IYI. They aren’t old enough to have seen actual nazis.

Furthermore, with a growing economic inequality there will be more of these so-called “nazis.” It’s a symptom of a problem, and not the problem in itself.

It’s posturing and signalling by pampered babies who need to be slapped around a bit with a large trout.
Pretty much the only "AI" in that demo is edge detection (against a uniform background) and pattern recognition (by direct comparison with a handful of simple geometric shapes). Other than that, the robot seems to be following a hand-coded set of instructions to assemble the provided parts.

The current state of research, as described in the article, is a neural network which recognizes which hardware it's currently controlling and uses it to autonomously perform tasks assigned using natural language. So it seems to me that there has been some progress.
Cause asking is immediately verifiable?

I give those prompts when I want to confirm or verify the input prompt is what I expect so, that's kind of the point.

I've never gotten back a result that was different than my recall and then I can verify it with a previous conversation stored.

Are you worried that the system will gaslight you into believing you gave a prompt that you didn't?
I think it’s super normal to have fluctuations in your interests and curiosities. Life would be pretty boring if we did the same thing for its entirety. I also think that focusing on yourself is something that always pays off - and will likely give you more mental and emotional capacity long term. Whenever I have periods like that I find my curiosity and drive comes back naturally if I’m patient and don’t try to force it.
There's a couple of options; the most obvious one is radiothermal heating from radioactive elements in the core, or even just remnant heat from the core slowly working its way up. And if there are pairs of these, then their orbits might be keeping their cores moving and warm due to tides.
Macheneries of Empire is another one I feel would only work as anime, not just animated. A lot of things in that, like the description of Kujen's (literal) shadow as like a canvas of fluttering moths' wings (and a lot of other fashion-related descriptions), remind me a lot of Gankutsuou's visual effects.
I’m inquisitive so I keep my eye on the regular stream of hype and trends to find what’s actually good. My focus is math and computer science. Most of my mind is in the theoretical and pops up occasionally to do brief soul searching and give people advice. I don’t care about careers.
That's now dated January 12, 2024 and was edited to include this latest news and a link to the new article.
I'm working on nothing. I'm making great progress, I have a whole lot of nothing !
The problem is that the rocks exhumed in mining are chemicals, which then release all that 100% natural heavy metal and arsenic.

The surface of the earth has the benefit of being weathered, with most of the nasty stuff leached away or covered up, but it can be surprising much stuff the water running through debris or mine holes can pick up. Especially since we tend to choose to make mines in areas where there’s especially a lot of nasty stuff.

I can’t speak to the actual danger presented, but this is a pretty reasonable thing to throw up a fuss about.
How does it compare to Superhuman? (I use that now)
South Korea Needs a Lot More Low-Skill Migrants
> > it is common knowledge that layoffs are usually conducted as one massive group meeting with all parties at once

> This is common knowledge? I've literally never heard of a layoff conducted like this, only the reverse. The major tech layoffs this week (Google, Twitch, Unity, Discord) were conducted in the reverse fashion.

Everyone I know who has been laid off has been let go in a group meeting. This is also my firsthand experience, having been laid off almost exactly a year ago, and again last week. I’ve never heard of it being handled in any other way. Now I’m curious about the stats.

> Edit: TL;DR: Either it's a complex, multi-level conspiracy that's somewhat dysfunctional but not in a way that would lead to the conspiracy falling apart... or someone has a poor manager.

I admit I’m probably biased: I admire CloudFlare’s engineering acumen, so it’s easier to suspect malice than incompetence, especially when they outsource firing to HR. It very well may be that she had an extraordinarily bad manager, and that there are other rotten apples higher up the org chart and in HR that would approve of not having the manager there.
Thanks for the reference. I think this only reinforces my point. They’re going to claim something that does economically valuable work on the computer is AGI, but when I hear “most economically valuable work” I think “build buildings, operate factories, grow food”.

We’ve just never seen a universal multimodal learner (all modalities) or a system with its own goals and motivations that can learn on its own without massive datasets (meaning things without datasets are hard for it to learn, so how does it for example learn how to do PCB design or CAD modeling), so they’re talking about such a leap it’s hard to fathom. I mean hell take PCB design for example. That’s actually on the computer but there’s no big dataset in existence that actually explains PCB design in a way a system would understand, so approaches that rely on a dataset for training simply can’t begin to solve that task.

And if you can’t even do that economically valuable task on the computer then I don’t believe you have AGI.

I am quite sure that they’re cooking up some fascinating stuff but I doubt they are going to have a system that can do machine design or PCB design just to name a few important and extremely economically valuable tasks.
That assumes person A has figured out if person A is ready, and assuming that is not a good idea in the real world.

It also assumes they're directly answering the question instead of indirectly answering it.
You're dismissing rich and wonderful art to clutch artificial pearls. That wasn't the point of the film at all, and if you truly feel that way, then I feel sorry for you.
You see, that particular scene of Mapes job interview is very important one in the book and I happened to remember it very well when whatching the movie. The book has a lot of Jessica's inner monologue, and then she makes a wild guess that happened to provoke a very strong reaction from Mapes.

The movie translated this scene verbatim, word for word, but omitting all the inner monologue. The chain of thought we were presented in the book is just dropped. No amount of attention to the narrative by the audience will help because the narrative is absent.

That's why I called the direction unimaginative: when you are adapting book material to movie form you are supposed to find ways to convey such literature elements like internal monologue using cinema language. Even voiceover is sometimes better than nothing.
Consensus review is on the way out. I don't know what replaces it, perhaps a Github-like system? Whatever it is, hopefully it includes a focus on replication.
“The Computer as Master Mind” PDF: https://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/teaching/cs3530/resources/k...

It minimizes the worst-case, not the expected number of moves. I think Knuth’s algorithm can be beaten in that respect.
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Impulse Labs' Sam D'Amico Explains How He Built a Battery Induction Stove
I think he was making a joke by wildly misinterpreting the original Blade Runner in the same way.
Skimming the article I couldn’t find which phone models they tested with. Any ideas?
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> did you mean off from the title, or the surveyor's work

The data from GeoNB was way off from what the surveyor properly located.

> wondering if that event you were planning for was music related

There may be a band, but I just happened to have an old mic stand handy for that temporary test :D
> the car in front of you screeches to a halt to avoid hitting a squirrel, you could prove this is unreasonable braking

Uh, what? I agree with the rest of your comment, but avoiding killing a squirrel is a legitimate reason to brake hard.

I've rarely seen squirrels on controlled access roads where going 70 is the norm though (proper landscaping plus road noise keeps them away), so I'd say we're really talking about 30~50mph situations.
There are two kinds of peer review in academic science - at the point of publication, and the point of funding. While quantities of ink have been spilled on the former, the latter gets far less attention - though as you might guess, this is a much more contentious issue because millions of dollars of funding may be on the line. A good discussion is here:

"Is there hard evidence that the grant peer review system performs significantly better than random?"

https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/128343

In short, 'freedom of research direction', aka 'blue skies research'[1] is steadily becoming a thing of the past, as grant managers and politicians and academic administration teams increasingly take the view that they're the ones who should be directing what kinds of research are done, rather than the academic researchers themselves. This is enforced by a grant system that narrowly defines how the funds can be spent, meaning that your average academic researcher has been transformed into a corporate drone following orders from the executive floor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_skies_research

This transformation of academic research began around the same time Bayh-Dole legislation granted exclusive licensing of university patents developed with taxpayer funds to private interests (1980).
At the Hague, Israel Mounted a Defense Based in an Alternate Reality
Thanks for the context. Mine was a mixed school, part magnet and part blue collar/immigrant.
Single Sign-On at Stanford
I had a license at 16, but did not renew it for 24 years, so I managed to get my license again at age 39. It's not too hard, takes a while to get used to rush hour traffic situations, driving on a highway is more relaxed and easier. Maybe the first couple of months I suggest driving extra carefully at intersections/left turns until more familiar with possible dangerous situations.
> Linux is not even close to matching Windows in gaming performance.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-scores-dead-last-in...

"Not even close" is inaccurate.
People literally can't agree on anything. Meanwhile, roughly 100% of companies are cutting back on remote work. It's not a cult or some conspiracy, it just has real problems and companies are responding to that. Does it work for some people, yes. Will it work better in the future, probably. Does it cause massive problems for large parts of the workforce today: definitely.
The silly idea is the thing they're trying to replicate (likely out of suspicion that it's a false silly idea).
Female saboteurs who poisoned 46 Russian soldiers in Crimea are on the run
This article directly contradicts an article written by Netflix engineers Xavier Amatriain and Justin Basilico, who were in charge of putting the BellKor algorithm in production: https://netflixtechblog.com/netflix-recommendations-beyond-t...

> But once we overcame those challenges, we put the two algorithms into production, where they are still used as part of our recommendation engine.
Speaking of networking issues, one big problem I ran into was running out of memory for network devices when using a nested setup (requiring a system restart to fix). Would have been a great lxc alternative otherwise.
Wasn't the automakers and some banks de facto nationalized for a brief period in the 2008 financial crisis? Not a good analogy, but the US has competent and inventive administrators. Or at least had 15 years ago.
Hard disagree.

I struggled terribly with the newfound need for multifocals for near vision. At the end of the day, after trying several pairs of bifocals, progressives and technology multifocals over a few years, I found that every single pair did not provide an adequate viewing window to display large amounts of clear text on my screen. Quickly scan a config file? Catch the right piece of code? Skim an email? Nope. You're stuck seeing a few sentences, moving your head around to read other parts of the screen. Some people don't mind. I found it really impeded my flow. Just awful, and most of these were very high-end lenses with fresh prescriptions.

What worked in the end? One very aggravating thing, then later, one surprisingly good thing.

I had single-vision prescription screen glasses made - the same thing as the "intermediate" window in technology progressives, but covering the entire lens. This allowed me to clearly see everything on my screens at all times. The downside? The need to switch glasses entirely when getting up and needing distance vision, or vice versa. Still, I was willing to accept this tradeoff at the time to be able to get the productivity I gain by clearly seeing a full screen of text, in an IDE or a terminal or just in email.

The surprisingly good thing? I got a cataract and needed a lens replacement, and got a PanOptix trifocal lens implant. Results vary - some people hate the PanOptix as much as I hated multifocal glasses - but I ended up with 20/20 vision near and far, can transition effortlessly between distance, intermediate and far in my full range of vision, and no longer need to wear glasses. No impact on my productivity, and I feel 20 years younger.
I don't know if this has been announced before: "Operators in our network have access to reciprocal global access that allows their users to access the service when they travel to one of our partner countries." [1]

It sounds like once SpaceX has partnered with at least one carrier in most countries then you'll be able to travel to almost any point on the surface of the Earth and still have baseline emergency cell texting coverage, the only requirement being a decent view of the sky. This is going to save lives. I hope they are also allowed to make it work in places without carriers, like international waters and Antarctica.

[1] https://api.starlink.com/public-files/DIRECT_TO_CELL_FIRST_T...
> I do not see a way to fix such widespread corruption

Maybe check out e.g. years 1688, 1775, 1779, 1848, 1917, 1947, 1953 and 1989 for some ideas?
I had a period like this, I even stopped playing some games because it just was there anymore. My wife and I took a long road trip in 2021 and it gave me time to be peaceful (national parks helped a lot with this). I started grad school in 2022, it has really helped me with perspective and forces me to engage in my interests when other things are often easier. There’s drawbacks, but overall I’m happy to have motivation. In short: try something new!
Archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20240113080723/https://theinterce...
It's a pinhole camera, a tiny hole creates a faint projection of the scene on the inside of the "camera". You can make one yourself with a suitable cardboard box, a bit of foil, a needle and a sheet of photographic film. Exposure time ranges from a few seconds to a minute or two.

In this case the artist used a layer of paint instead of a more traditional photosensitive material. The projected light will cause the paint to fade and change over time causing an image to appear over the course of centuries instead of minutes.
So it’s perhaps more like there’s a local minimum before you reach the global maximum.
i love it when product sets requirements and milestones and then leadership says "what if we try this thing" in the middle of the work but then doesn't give additional time for experimentation. then when the deadline comes around it's engineering's fault.
tl;dr stretch well and don't push yourself too hard.
> I am working on something, but that something is myself.

Great way to spend your time. It takes a lot of time and energy so it's not really surprising that there is little bandwidth left to spend on other things. I totally recognize that.

Sometimes boring and steady is good if you need that energy to work on other things, but if you think the "boring" is part of the problem, it might be time to change things up.

If you have the means/access, therapy might be helpful to figure out where these feelings come from and what to do with them.

> Everyone seems so busy building or learning the next big thing

I think this is also not per se a realistic view of what's going on. There are plenty of people who do their job and that's it, but you won't see them post about it.

Things are only a problem if you find them problematic. If you are happy doing nothing that's great, if not then you might need to take some action.

I've had times where I did absolutely nothing, now I am building a company haha, things change, lots is possible.
Thanks for the examples. It’s very interesting that it happens to someone that others and I haven’t had that happen to me, but I believe you. It would be really interesting to know, once the issue is fixed, in some future release, what triggered it for some people and not others.
I found in my mid thirties that my perspective on what was important and desirable shifted significantly. Which led me to become disengaged from my desire to build side projects and learn new programming languages. It was a time were ecclesiastes from the Bible resonated a lot. After a while I just found out that I wasn’t interested in nothing but I had to rediscover what was important to me and what I valued spending my time on.

While my current lifestyle doesn’t lineup well with the tech grind and won’t get me attention online I’m much happier living a lifestyle that serves me and family rather than some external validation. Hope that helps and good luck on your journey.
That steel pole definitely looks like it will last 1000 years. /s

As another posted stated, they should have started small: 1 yr, 10yrs, then maybe a 1000. Iterating each time with a better design.

Also, dump the steel. You need something more inert.
ARIA Authoring Practices Guide
Your support or not support isn't a factor with regarding who started what war over what reason though.
> That's why every critical thing in an airplane is redundant

I'm not sure how to understand that claim. Do the emergency doors/door plugs have two bolts? Three bolts? Ten bolts?

If the manufacturer and/or the operator is not capable of making sure that all the bolts are always appropriately tightened, what is that claim actually worth?

> One crash happened because a maintenance worker taped over the redundant sensors so the airplane could be cleaned, and forgot to remove the tape. The inspection to ensure the tape was removed also failed

So from that we learn that failures can stack, just like like redundancies?
I was working on too many projects at the same time. Including a startup, a book, a blog, and pitching for a movie.

Along the way, I got married and slowed down a bit. Then i got twins. I couldn't work on my own stuff even if I wanted to. When covid hit I published a short story that I had been working on for 7 years just to say I did something.

Now I occasionally blog, and edit a paragraph or two of my book every week. I don't feel bad about it. The most important thing I want to reflect upon when I'm old, is my family.
My wife hates when media codes feminine as weak, as in pointedly avoiding ever displaying a strong female character being upset. Her perception is that a lot of media (and usually pieces trying to be extra-feminist) communicate “women can be strong… if they get more masculine” rather than “feminine can be strong”.

That may be the kind of thing you’re seeing: not everyone may see “she privately struggles with difficult emotional experiences, and doesn’t bottle that up, but perseveres and kicks ass anyway” as weakness.
I feel like exchange rate doesn't tell you the whole story. If relative income is lower in Japan then items might be priced lower to accommodate the market.
Let me guess, you’re about under 30 and/or without kids, right?

You’re just burnt out. It happens. You’ll be able to recognize it when you go through it a couple times lol

It’s not a big deal but you need to get sleep and exercise and get out of house and away from devices at least once a day for ~3 months.

And then reassess. But you shouldn’t make any decision if you’re depressed and burnt out.
That social network for music lovers that Apple launched in 2010 and then retired in 2011 is back?
Based on personal experience, I have a very different opinion than Daniel.

I do not think peer review adds much value over self-publishing. Consumers still need to read and verify the work themselves. Bad stuff gets published in peer review so often you still need to verify the integrity of everything yourself. For a simple hypothetical, say peer review is "good quality" 80% of the time, and self-published is good quality 50% of the time. These are made up numbers, but I am saying "80% is too low for the pain of peer review to provide much value". As a consumer I find 0 value in peer review (I can use google and read what I want, being published in peer review is an annoying paywall if anything).

I believe the majority of comments in peer review are not based on technical accuracy (what an outsider may think peer review is about, verifying if something is right or wrong), but tend to be more clearly opinions. So from a writer standpoint for people who say "peer review improves my work", that does not jive with my experience.

There are so many other negatives with peer review in academia (people bean counting pubs, paywalled, the club issue Daniel mentions), I just don't think it adds much of any value. If everyone decided tomorrow "I am just going to publish stuff on ArXiv" (or whatever preprint server), the world would not be worse off. I think we would be better off actually.
Then a link to the website which is a much better medium for demonstrating software than README files would be a simple fix.
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If we're leaning on an excuse like glory days, why do anything to Boeing either?

After all, no one yet outshines their glory days of building classic planes and building the SaturnV?
“There is a distinct difference between the two policies, as the former clearly outlines that weapons development, and military and warfare is disallowed, while the latter emphasizes flexibility and compliance with the law. Developing weapons, and carrying out activities related to military and warfare is lawful to various extents. The potential implications for AI safety are significant. Given the well-known instances of bias and hallucination present within Large Language Models (LLMs), and their overall lack of accuracy, their use within military warfare can only lead to imprecise and biased operations that are likely to exacerbate harm and civilian casualties.”
It still is shunned. The only reason to use it is for compatability with existing code. Any new code written in C++ is already deprecated and will be an attack vector.
Because heat death of universe, no morals. Got it.
> The safety of the flying public, not speed, will determine the timeline for returning the Boeing 737-9 Max to service.

One reading-between-the-lines: "We believe we now have the upper hand, the public attention, to shake enough budget out of Congress that in future we can have a reasonable fraction of safety inspectors reporting to us rather than Boeing. At least until public interest moves on to its next big question, such as speculating on Taylor Swift's sexual orientation."
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It Took a TV Show to Bring Justice in UK Post Office Scandal
This is the reason why there used to be barriers of trade and capital controls.