skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps some madness in humans (and other animals with sufficiently complex brains) is part of how we grow our reasoning capabilities. Like a fighter jet that is designed to be a little unstable because that makes them more manoeuvrable with computer aided controls (a stable design will tend to resist changes in flight path more), going off-track is part of how we have ideas: random crap fires in our brains and something triages it, keeping just the useful stuff, or if the less useful stuff gets more attention it is recorded as “let's not do that sort of thing” for future reference. Sometimes those random things are intrusive thoughts (“I wonder what would happen if I snapped and pushed him down those stairs”) sometimes they are bright ideas (“hmm, what if the ground was attracted to the Apple as well?”): the distinction isn't how they are made it is whether the end result would be good or bad overall. Madness in people is sometimes when the control structures stop working to differentiate properly between the two sorts of thoughts, and a dullness in reasoning can be due to these controls being too stringent. Perhaps a future step forward in training AI models for better reasoning and/or more general reasoning is find a way to better emulate this sort of triaged randomness, and some AIs having problems is something we end up accepting as much as we accept natural intelligences sometimes having problems that look similar?
But we teach humans from outside sources as well as using local cyclical information passing. Things they aren't already familiar with (especially during the early years when practically everything is new), things from other cultures, new science results, etc.

Training AI on AI output is less like organised education systems and the less formal written & oral traditions that predate them, and more like dark reddit/chan/other communities eating each other's rhetoric, or some political¹ and religious groups in the wider world. These relatively insular (but sometimes large) groups often descend into a pit they have difficulty reasoning themselves out of.

Maybe the answer for AI is to work out what sort of external mixing helps to keep humans on track, and if it can be emulated in the training models used, so their reasoning continues to grow instead of falling into this pothole.

This might be a crap idea (too little sleep, caffeine has just made me tired and jittery) but perhaps the scale of the information we pile into the process and the fact the retraining at least partly on AI output seems inevitable, means we need to look at training an AI more like training a small population of humans rather than a single unit human.

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[1] mostly the far right, but that might in part be because they tend to be loud so noticed – far anything is a problem
Why single out FAANG? FAANG companies aren’t the only ones pushing RTO. The study analyzed 43 different industries.
Show HN: Img to GIF for win GUI app
This is my first Python project.
It converts image files to GIF files.
I created this project for the first time after two months of learning Python. Therefore, there may be many unclear parts.
I would appreciate various opinions.
Thank you for your understanding of my humble English.
Don't worry too much about 3D (though Godot will make it easy enough to switch from 2D to 3D and even combine both) but focus on fun instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg
First-person account of a professor's strategies for dealing with schizophrenia
> PDF's spec prioritizes long-term preservation (or whatever term they use), especially in PDF/A format. HTML does not.

Uh, okay.

HTML is a dead simple plain text format that has been around for 30+ years. PDF hasn't been a well-supported open standard for half that. And it's no less complex now than it was in 2008, so good luck implementing a PDF reader on your own. In contrast, a mediocre programmer can hack something together that would make the contents of a given file in archive-quality HTML accessible within an afternoon. (Hell, you don't even need a programming system for it—any monkey with some patience could do it by hand, using a text editor while working on a copy of the raw contents of the file.)
Doesn't mean the containers are compiled for arm
No PCI, but I do have VLB. Graphics card and IO card are in VLB slots. I have 20MB RAM. For storage I’ve gone through several old hard drives but they all ended up failing. So I went with a CF card to IDE adapter. Mouse is serial, because I don’t have PS/2. I use a nice mechanical keyboard with a USB to PS/2 and then PS/2 to 5 pin DIN keyboard connector adapter. I also have a gotek floppy emulator on it. I mostly use this computer to play around with Borland C++.
I work on-site, and #1 and #2 of your argument do not apply to me. You forgot to define preconditions. You are finger-pointing at those which work on-site and have a relatively high distance between home and work. I walk to my workplace, which is healthy and does not produce any CO2. And I am not loosing sleep, because I walk 10 minutes. Just because you dont like a thing doesn't mean you thought it through.
As a long-time Samsung customer, this was one of the things that made me jump ship to another brand yesterday. The Exynos CPUs have been fairly consistently worse than the Snapdragons, and I am done with that.
And candles!

> But while smoking materials continue to be the leading source of deadly home fires, incidents involving candles have steadily increased. Candle fires have quadrupled to 16 400 a year over the last decade

https://www.flameretardants-online.com/news/archive?showid=1...
Iran's Proxy Wars Could Boomerang Back and Harm Tehran's Middle East Interests
I’m not an expert in fire safety. I don’t have an opinion on how safe it is to ignore the flame retardant layer, but your argument is at least sane enough to pass the smell test. If the author had said that, I’d have been satisfied.

They didn’t even do that, though. They said “I don’t like my options for fire retardant, so here’s how I built a mattress without it”, with zero justification for why they thought it was acceptable, zero assurances that they put any thought into it.
Learn from Success Not from Failure
It should run with PyTorch but the performance might not be great. As a long-time Mac user myself I would love if someone would send a PR to port it to MLX :)
I got my dream job via Twitter (and was fired after 3 weeks)
DJGPP was where as a kid I learned C++, inline assembly with advanced optimizations and produced my first real-time 3D engine (perspective-correct Gouraud shaded textured polygons with Z-buffer and view frustum culling, no HW acceleration). In RHIDE as well. Thanks DJ!
The `any*` fat pointer in C3 is a version of this: https://c3-lang.org/anyinterfaces/ Once this is available the step to embedding some runtime type information isn't far.
Isn't there a pdfml format where you convert the pdf stack/tree, expose transforms and expand all non text stream into readable utf8 ?
This is my experience. My productivity on coding is a lot hire remote. On many leadership / management-style tasks, it's a lot lower.

Come to think of it, I'm wondering if that's where the split comes in. Upper management sees their productivity go down -- on what's fundamentally an interpersonal endeavour -- while individual contributors see theirs go up -- on what's primarily solitary ones. As a result, there is friction with top-down work-from-office mandates.
> In practice, if a car recall required retorquing every bolt, the manufacturer would probably just declare them totaled instead of doing the repairs.

Bear in mind that a 737 seats ~150 people and average car occupancy is somewhere around 1.5, so it's more like the value of 100 cars compared to the increased complexity of the checks.

There are also very significant levels of inspection required as standard (something like 10 000 hours per year minimum) on an airliner compared to a personal vehicle (not including normal pre-flight checks). Even divided by 100 using the same maths as above, a car does not undergo anything LIKE 100 hours of inspection per year. Depending on where you live, you might have your car at the mechanics for a day every year or two to do a roadworthiness inspection.

That said, I agree, it does seem like there are quite a lot of quality issues with these planes.
What was the difference in sales price between the two options?
> (Valentin Lacambre went on to be a co-founder of Gandi.net.)

Gandi.net which recently (last year) was purchased by some other corporate entity and subsequently raised all the prices + made previously free features paid. I only mention this as I discovered this week that my Gandi bill suddenly got a lot bigger.
You probably could have saved some cash and made a sort of "fruitarian" mattress by going out to any nearby park on a couple of weekends and collecting discarded pigeon feathers to stuff in a coconut fiber bag. Sometimes the hobo ways are the best ways.
Crying is the appropriate response to pain, much much better than drinking, getting numb or pretending that everything is ok.

The trick is to not feel ashamed or weak for doing this, just cry and appreciate the relief it gives.
Hospital Adverse Events and Patient Outcomes Associated with Private Equity
Any sane document will have numbered headers and sub-headers that you can refer to in an unambiguous way no matter how the document is formatted, or if you view it on a screen or on paper.
Clearly you're not using the stock, default camera app then.
This comment is so incredibly important.

We made a game within Minecraft, a story and a treasure map and a treasure.

Don’t overcomplicate it.

10years later my son showed me his multiplayer, 3d unity game he made for fun. I was blown away!
The same thing sort of happens with humans teaching humans though: you get things like linguistic drift where the structure of language and the meaning of words changes over time, and artistic styles and musicial fashions gradually shift as well. What's different here is that there's an ouside reality of what (for example) faces look like which human perception is grounded in but AI training doesn't have access to unless it's added to the training data. This means we also probably shouldn't worry about humans consuming AI generated stuff having the same effect, since there's no reason to think it should be any worse than humans consuming human-produced stuff.
Thanks a lot. :)

We are constantly working on these models and we push new versions every two months or so. It should get even better soon. :)
If you’re designing sophisticated Linux based systems you really should fully understand systemd and what it has to offer.

In some cases you’ll find that systemd can be the core of your architecture and free you from writing a lot of software and reduce overall complexity.

Let systemd do the work, that’s my motto.
I just fetched the PDF version of a book after being annoyed by the random reflow of the epub. Even though I appreciate epub logic and size...
It's also interesting to see that they firmly state wool is not vegan. This while linking to an article that very clearly state that is not as black and white. In fact, wool can be vegan.
Now, I understand that finding a layer of wool sourced from sheep kept as pets is probably next to impossible. But I feel like the author didn't even give it a go.

Side note, the article they link to about alternatives states

> The most common vegan alternative to wool is organic cotton. Now cotton is not perfect, as it requires a lot of water to produce, but I’ve found it to be the best functional alternative.

Which for clothes I guess is true. But it also is interesting to me how easily they brush past the water issue.

It is the sort of thing I personally often get stuck on as a consumer trying to do the right thing. There are so many things to weigh against each other that sometimes it seems like it is impossible to make the right choice.

I suppose making any choice is better than making no choices though. I just wish it was easier for me in these type of situations.
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People advocating for on site work are people without an inner voice. They need to constantly externalise thinking.

Anyway working from home does increase productivity for the individual, improves the economy due to more disposable income, benefits the mental health of those with an inner voice, and stimulates family life.
is there a way to show [flagged] and [delayed] ?
https://archive.is/3Q3I3
I hosted my first personal website and my Star Treck (sic!) fansite on Tripod. At some point in time they also had a data loss and one of both (along with a lot of other sites) was gone.

This is not mentioned here https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Tripod because I think the event precedes Archive Teams formation.
Modern Time Series Analysis (SciPy 2019) [video]
I am not sure, but I have always pursued this kind of work by default and aggressively. Of course there will always be ups and downs, but when it stops feeling interesting, meaningful, and challenging for a prolonged period of time, I generally move on (or switch teams/projects!). But while it remains overall interesting and meaningful, I stay and hold on to it for as long as I possibly can. This has meant that I haven't job-hopped very much to climb the salary ladder, but have been very engaged and interested in every position. It's been a worthwhile tradeoff.
So I'm just thinking here but I think leveraged buyouts can lead to moral decay. Like consider a business. It's making 9.5m profit per year. By engaging in various unethical practices that could be increased to 10.5m per year. But why bother? Why give up your morals when it barely makes a difference?

Now someone does a leveraged buyout. The business has to pay 10m a year to service the debt. Now it's suddenly losing 500k a year. If things continue they might have to shut down. Think of poor Joe, his wife just had a child. Could he find another good job in this economy? But... if we bend the rules just a tiny bit, we could turn that loss into a profit... It's for the greater good, isn't it?
Yup, we are using Whisper to transcribe automatically so we can train the model on just speech recordings, without human transcripts.

This works for any language that is well supported by the OpenAI Whisper model.
Outsourcing jobs and salaries exploded with COVID. 100k USD annual compensation is insane for many countries.

You can get best people overseas for a fraction of US costs, and with no obligation attached to you by labor laws.

I'm glad this happens so I can use geographic arbitrage: work for US client but live in nice place in Europe with reasonable costs of living.
Cute but useless. I am fine using my cellphone.
a citroen 2CV or a renault 4L !

just joking :) it's just that your comment on the snow made me think of several video where they make a joke of other car in the snow
> B. There might be an opportunity to reduce cost because we could recruit contractors in other countries instead of full-time US employees. (Which in turn is going to undermine labor's bargaining power in the US...)

The biggest drive for overseas recruitment will be ai. Extracting knowledge for western workers and transferring it to cheaper workers overseas will be the new manufacturing outsourcing. A workers without the high quality training the west provides will suddenly be able to compensate using tools trained against the knowledge produced by their western counterpart.
If you're uncertain about the environmental impact you could decide based on the many well-documented harms in all stages of the animal industry.
Just FYI: reading your replies in this comment section is exhausting. It's like you try to be unpleasant to interact with.
Sure, but it is easy to keep essentially simple things simple; accidental complexity is unforgivable in this case.

Systems that are inherently complex tend to naturally accrue accidental complexity. It's understandably hard to keep these systems lean.

My point is that modern boot systems in general fall into the second category, contrary to other comments that imply the first.
Big Tech Won't Let You Leave. Here's a Way Out
Apple to Sell Series 9 and Ultra 2 Watches Without Blood Oxygen Feature in U.S.
Success of Human Evolution Is Threatening Earth's Future, Study Warns
> The Switch and the next iteration will continue to offer a just works experience which is what most people want.

you say that like there weren't a ton of problems with the switch when it released. Reports of overheating, joycon random disconnects, joycon drift, and dock scratches were enough to make me skip over the system at launch and hold off for the next (hopefully XL) version. Now that it's been so long without an XL version, and the drift and overheating are still an issue (it's unclear how big a problem the scratches are now) I'm really considering just getting the steam deck instead. In terms of performance it looks like the steam deck has the switch beat.

> But it really is stark to play these two devices and see the Steam Deck handily run all but the most taxing modern games at 60 frames per second (or better), while the Switch can't reliably play Batman: Arkham Knight, a game designed for last-gen consoles that released in 2015. (https://mashable.com/article/nintendo-switch-oled-vs-steam-d...)

I agree that most people don't want to bother with downloading roms and playing with settings, but I don't think you can call the switch a "just works experience" either.
That entire era in Microsoft products, MSVC 6.0, Office 97 and bit later w2k was quite special: linear progress from earlier windows things, but not yet in that cycle of change for the sake of change, that is never really complete so you always get a wild mix (arguably w2k already contained first glimpses of that with its service control panels that felt a little alien to the rest)

(ps: change for the sake of change is not quite all that I meant, it's not just that "new UI language every five years", but also those great API revolutions that came independent of looks. Those are certainly far more well-founded than just "for the sake of change", but suffer from coexistence with their predecessors nonetheless. win32 as an evolution of win16 and optionally wrapped in MFC, that might have been error-prone and complicated to write for, but it does have a certain clarity that no successor can claim as long as compatibility remains the product)
I've been using Logseq for a while, which seems kind of in the same general category of tools as Trilium. I like it a lot, but mostly use it for disorganized note-jotting. In reality I know it is highly extensible and configurable for more advanced use cases.
Greenland's ice sheet melting faster than scientists previously estimated
or a playlist file (if the player supports them).
Yeah, the Mimic is a lot less resource intensive. We are working to improve WhisperSpeech in this regard but it's probably always going to require more compute (but in return you'll get higher quality).

That said if you have a modern NVidia GPU you should be able to run a voice-bot in real-time with WhisperSpeech.
> The doctors initially thought he would quickly die after being taken off the ventilator, but he has persisted for about a month now.

Doctors can think whatever but because most of them will prefer legality over morality anyway, they leave everyone to suffer and move on to the next patient. Then you're left to care and wait, oscillating in-between hoping that your loved one dies soon or that some miracle happens. In my case it was someone who had made very clear that they didn't want to remain in case of a catastrophic event like this.

Having a strong stance on euthanasia without having experienced first-hand what it actually means is – in my opinion – just a symptom of a clear lack of empathy, dismiss any politician who does.
DeepMind AI solves geometry problems at star-student level
Pdfml is a great name because everytime I work with pdfs, I think fml
Who said unpaid?
Nope, Vue is still in v3
Incredibly underrated post
The analogy is apt
GameMaker is how I started as a kid. I know it's drastically different from 15+ years ago but at the time I installed it on a PC at the day camp I volunteered at and all the kids there were making silly little games all the time with it.

I make game engines from scratch for fun now, if that makes a difference. It all started with GameMaker.

The second is Scratch, but IMO GameMaker is just as accessible and is closed to a Real game engine than scratch is.
If I'm reading the article correctly, the headline claim is about a bug that was discovered in the original Horizon system right as it was about to be replaced with a new system, Horizon Online, at which point the bug fix would be completely useless. Other things like bugs in audit reports that continued to matter and affected the prosecution of subpostmasters were officially priorities, they just did a terrible job of handling them.
Hmm, I recently thought it would be a great idea to answer a question on SO again, and did that by first posting a link. Then I realized how useless that would be if the link disappeared, so I clicked edit and pasted the actual info.

All this took like 20 seconds, but the hounds had already descended. Someone had posted a note on an answer that was literally 20 seconds old saying that it could be improved.

When I responded with an offended comment they deleted all their comments, and I lost the ability to report them.

That was the first, and also the last time in the past 4 years I thought to post anything there.

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Even now, just by observing the use of systems at the Post Office, you can tell it's still a bad system. You can see the staff constantly mashing a button on their non-standard keyboard.
> Saying that one isa is faster or more energy efficient is like saying that c++ syntax is faster than java syntax

Kind of.

ISAs don't exist in a vacuum - for a given transistor budget, they'll force chip design choices that will drive power consumption and performance. Decoding instructions is one thing, but reordering them quickly and efficiently is more impactful for both power (if it can be done with fewer transistors) and performance (if it can be done better/faster so that more instructions from more instruction flows can be retired at the same time).

I designed a beautiful ISA in college. It was a (mostly) stack machine with instructions designed to make a FORTH compiler extremely easy to implement. Unfortunately, it wouldn't be easy to evolve it past the point processors got faster than memory (I did not see that coming). It would, as originally designed, end up being unavoidably slow unless some fairly complicated caching were to be implemented.

Another interesting example is the Intel 432 and its bit-aligned instructions. A lot of silicon that could be better used elsewhere was dedicated to fetching instructions. It was also slower to implement.

On the x86 not being designed for efficiency, Intel has a whole line of CPUs designed for low-power environments. At some point, there was even a Motorola phone running Android on x86.
Yes, I guess it's more fair to say the genre was pretty much dead by the late 90s, and it was rekindled by those custom maps (as the wikipedia page alludes to)
Japan literary laureate unashamed about using ChatGPT