skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this essentially what Kagi and other search engines that let you create "lenses" and block/allow sites are?

I think this version of the internet exists today, it just isn't built in to Google anymore.
Google has never had that feature. There have been browser extensions that could do it though
Same experience here, but my problem with the email version is that the footnotes aren’t back-linked, which drives me nuts! Oversight or monetization model, who knows?
In ancient times, in Babylon, Egypt, Greece, the Islamic caliphate, Florence, or Venice, patrons dedicated their financial resources to promoting the most talented artists and scientists.

Today, we promote those who generate the most clicks (with clicks)
You're comparing absolute numbers. What about as a % of population?
Same. I'm very cynical and suspicious about most of the YTers, he seems like he's a decent dude just trying to run a business making entertaining videos. His LinkedIn posts are interesting, he seems like he's enjoying hacking the YT algorithms to make the most money.

He steps into 'problematic' occasionally with the 'make people do things for money' but generally it's all pretty inoffensive fun.
Yes, I made a claim and specifically addressed it — and it's consequences

Since your counter claim was un-cited studies showing "mixed" results or no benefit, there was little to discuss about your point, other than the consequences, so I did.

Making the assumption that neither of us have decisive data, I granted for the sake of discussions that your counter-claim was correct. And went on to address the consequence, which is still that the GP is deeply wrong by asserting that leadership diversity accelerates the decline of civilization in general and aircraft building in particular.

In short: the worst case you can come up with is that it is more fair and does no harm. The best case is that it is more fair and causes improvement both locally and to society at large.

If you were trying to support GPs racist assertions, you failed. If you were trying to assert something else, it's not become clear in two posts. I'll be happy to respond if you could elaborate on what is exactly your point in referring to un-cited studies about null results?

EDIT: add "In short"..."
Sadly, yes. Several years ago, started a new job at a "serverless" company. There was a ton of lambdas with massive code duplication everywhere. Nothing could be run locally. I'd see people actually editing code through the AWS console. On top of that, the performance was terrible.

The whole thing could've run on a single low end VM and used RDS for the database. Using a more standard framework, it would've been cheaper, faster, and easier to maintain.

Serverless can be done right, but it's rare...
Do not do things that make you uncomfortable without good reason.

If you feel that interview process is not going as you expect it to go, you may just say:

"
I understand that you have an established interview process that works for you, but it is not exactly as I imagined it.

Extensive interview process is a big time and energy investment. Before going this path I would like talk to the CEO to see if there is a match between what I could bring to the company and what company is looking for.

If it is not possible to have such a conversation, this is fine with me, I definitely do not want to push or convince you to do something you are not comfortable with.

But going throght the whole inteview process and realizing that there is no match only at the end is not really my flow.
"

The drawback of this approach is that if they will reject your proposal for the meeting you will need to walk your walk.
How long should a manufacturer being required to provide parts support? Building tons of parts and then warehousing them for decades has a very real cost.
I noticed the same thing, FWIW (and I believe it's a valid concern), but section II.B. says "One control group (20 patients) received LS (Laetiporus sulphureus) (400 mg/d; two capsules) for 2 months."

I think they were concerned that various tree bark needed to grow the fungus could itself influence the outcome and wanted to "control" for any effects of the bark. Part IV says "LS grown on the same barks as TV or GL was chosen as a control since no anti-HPV property has yet been reported with this mycelium and because the influence of barks should be excluded."

Perhaps there are more studies out there with different "controls" that would add to this research to help rule out any influence from unknown properties of Laetiporus sulphureus.
In grad school I was using stereo video cameras to measure fish. I wonder if a model like this could do it accurately from frame grabs from a single feed now. And of course an AI to identify fish, even if was just which sections of video had/did not have fish, not even doing the species level ID, would have saved a ton of time.

We had a whole workshop on various monitoring technologies and the take home from the various video tools is that having highly trained grad students and/or techs watch and analyze the video is extremely slow and expensive.

I haven't worked with video in a while now, but I wonder if any labs are doing more automated identification these days. It feels like the kind of problem that is probably completely solvable if the right tech gets applied.
> Most European citizens do not know the name of the EU president.

Probably a bit controversial but to some degree, that is a good thing. It prevents personality cult and allows to pursue agendas that think in longer terms.

In Switzerland, quite a big part of the population could probably not name the current seven members of the federal council - they can actually get work done, without having to appease the public at every corner.
> However I can see you are not engaging in this conversation in good faith so I don't think there is anything else to discus with you.

From my perspective, it seems pretty clear that you are the one arguing in bad faith. People are allowed to disagree with you. This person presented a thoughtful critique of your argument. It made plenty of sense to me.
I would say that in Polish “robota” has a similar connotation. And “robol” describes a kind of low-level grunt. It’s definitely pejorative. “Praca” is the typical way to talk about work.
I think it depends on your colleagues and workplace. Most of my coworkers that go into the office are too shy and quiet for it to help much. My company also doesn’t really lend itself to collaboration so much as delegation or being delegated.

So when I go into the office, even though I’m pretty extroverted for an engineer and would love to collaborate on stuff, it’s just as lonely as WFH.
They explain in the paper that they used 1.5 million images with known depth maps (labels) to train a teacher model, and then used the teacher model to create pseudolabels (inferred depth maps) for the full dataset. Then they trained a student model to recover those pseudolabels from distorted versions of the original images.
Stop regulating the market. You are killing them, not helping.
World population is also up from ~1.8 to 7 billion which seems relevant for your comparison.
> If the answer is "not at all", then why pirate it, since the ability to use the product didn't matter in the first place?

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. The non-pirated version frequently doesn't work for various groups of people. This whole thread is an example of that; the "legitimate" version of some game now refuses to run on Linux (they may fix this game, but others are permanently intentionally broken, and e.g. VOD streamers do similar things with their 4k streams, so it's the general principle that's interesting). Typically, this is an artificial limitation, and pirated versions work just fine or better. Regardless of the existence of the version that does work, you're not going to buy something that doesn't. Then, having already decided that, you have a separate question of whether to receive a thing that does work as a gift from someone else.

> nobody is entitled to a developer's game, an actor's movie, a writer's book

Sure, but if someone is willing to share it with you, then I'm still not seeing a reason why you wouldn't be "entitled" to accept it. I'm not seeing where the moral necessity for the author's approval comes in; they obviously didn't want anything to do with you, so they're not in the picture.

What entitles the author to be upset when someone they didn't want as a customer anyway gets a copy of their work? Where does the author get the right to say that no one else can give it to them? Fundamentally, I don't see a natural right to claim "I came up with that; everyone else needs to ask my permission to use it". We can create artificial rights to design economic incentives, but if someone doesn't even want your money, then why care about the artificial right?

> as I pointed out originally there are more games (not to mention other forms of entertainment) out there than there is time to play them

Sure, but art isn't fungible, and there are social aspects. Maybe someone isn't interested in Call of Duty 15, or any video game really, but all of their friends are talking about Monster Hunter Rise, so they want to be part of that. They can't buy it since the publisher decided to exclude them as a customer. I still see no reason in such a case why it would be immoral for someone to give them a copy that's been modified to work.

They could go do something else, but why is it the case that they ought to do something else if it makes no difference to anybody but them? Doesn't that seem controlling?
It's so obviously hilarious that I'm surprised they don't call it out, or if they don't want to draw attention to it, moved it into multiple sentences.

"0.5% of our tinfoil hat purchasers wear it, according to our wearing-telemetry."
LOL it was probably an n% experiment that OP got into!
It's interesting to think about how computers might be different had SRAM generally developed and become prolific instead of DRAM.
> That was 20+yrs ago. I do wonder how that would work now -- I go into the office and i'm on Zoom calls for 6hrs of the 8 or 9hrs. The Zoom calls are with overseas team members.

> Even the folks in the office on the same call are on Zoom, each of us in separate rooms to prevent microphone reverb. It feels nothing like the magic of 20yrs ago when we were all elbow-to-elbow in war rooms.

That sounds like my life at GE. I worked there 2002 - 2010.
Your perf will get killed by overhead.
at least out west they build near power generation already (usually next to hydro dams). At least that is what I remember them doing, I could be a few years out of date.
The story of how they actually first measured the distance to the Sun is quite fascinating. They timed the transit Venus and used Kepler's laws to figure out the rest.

https://phys.org/news/2015-01-distance-sun.html
I think people benefit from doing things they don't like in moderation. Lots of people don't enjoy grinding away at the gym, but they enjoy the results they get. But those results would be devalued if it wasn't for the grind it took to get them.

It's like cheating in a video game, there might be one part that's really hard and you really just want to get past it, if you grind away and eventually succeed, it's far more rewarding than if you use cheats to skip it.
Infra should be usage based pricing
Of course, for anything except string keys, that isn't even an option.
Chrome on Windows supports different Widevine levels than Chrome on Linux does.
There are standards for sizes of screws, washers, motors, cables, plugs, sockets, ...

Just create a bunch more of those standards, e.g. for batteries, legislate their use, done. As a side effect, products become cheaper because parts will then be available off-the-shelf at economy-of-scale prices, and supply problems also become less likely because there will be numerous vendors for each part.

However, there will be two problems: some things, like cases and special moldings are hard to standardize. So I would suggest legislating that 3D-printing instructions (STL, material, finishing steps) be made available as soon as the part itself is unavailable or too expensive. And very innovative parts should be exempt for the first few years, provided they are measurably and provably better than the standardized equivalents and that a new standard is being created from them.
The risk will be around brand safety.

Youtube isn't a social network. Which means there isn't the possibility of someone popular e.g. Musk taking exception with a video, retweeting it with an inciteful comment and turning their followers against Mr Beast.

Which would be a problem given his whole strategy is to be apolitical and mass-market.
>amiunique.org fingerprint is always unique.

Do we really have reason to believe this matters? Just because amiunique.org identifies users based on all possible metrics available from a website doesn't necessarily mean much:

- We don't know whether other websites actually use this same technique to attempt to identify unique users. In other words, there's no indication that normal commercial websites are taking every possible measure of the browser, assigning a UUID to that configuration, and then attempting to build a fingerprint based on that, rather than just using cookies, and perhaps other, more basic fingerprinting.

- A browser might give different metrics in private browsing mode, due to some plugins operating differently.

- A normal website (eg: google.com) observes a much, much wider list of potential browser configurations than amiunique.org. There's no reason to think that you'd be just as unique when compared to a much wider selection of possible configurations.

- Corporate solutions, such as fingerprint.com _can_ be tricked.
I have found some legit use cases for generative AI at least.
AF447 was clearly human error, not mechanical nor Airbus' fault. It was not because of bolts that were not tightened enough.
To some the browser is the platform, more than the operating system.

You may dislike the move. For me it has made the linux desktop more feasible.

I can order photos through a print shop online, without having to install a windows-only program (just as an example).
I thought it was fairly clear from Apple’s comments that it is essentially single function hardware that does all of the processing for AR/VR. I mean, they say that it is all done inside 12ms. There’s no way that it is just a GPGPU. Modern GPGPUs, particularly the NVIDIA stack, have a bunch of single function units internally which do things like optical flow on the image buffers etc. but similarity sort of stops there

You can do a lot with not much if it is all specialised hardware. Some of the wider features of the chip are due to the huge data bandwidth. But general purpose processing is a little slow for this task, certainly at this power envelope
Is this because of actual energy needs? Or because Sam is trying to drive investments into the fusion energy company he's backing?
Part of his routine is doing outrageously-pricey good deeds, at over a million dollars, such as paying for cataract surgery for 1,000 people. How the heck can a YouTuber afford this? Easy: with the ad revenue of same videos. It turns out people enjoy watching good-deed videos, and these huge giveaways wind up paying for themselves.

It's really quite a clever cycle.
Well, if the AI is good enough then ask it to design one.

Joking aside: the options are to turn it off or to charge what it should cost and given that no matter what it costs and no matter what the source if it uses too much energy the better solution would be to make it use less energy rather than to look for a breakthrough energy source because that also reduces the climate impact.
> the size of your backlog is inversely proportional to how often you talk to customers

This doesn't track, at all.

The more you talk to customers, the more useless tickets for non-issues are created.
The problem really isn’t SIM swapping, it’s that we’ve become used to treating phone numbers as reliable personal identifiers, and SMS OTP as proof of identity (for authentication) and/or humanity (for spam/sockpuppet account protection).

Mandating 2FA methods other than SMS OTP would be amazing, but I don’t see that happening at the federal level, largely due to the complete lack of other digital authentication methods. What else should companies use?
I hadn't thought about it in quite that way, but I think you're right. Posts like this (where we end up with discussions of what maintainers of open source projects are "obligated" to do or provide) seem to come up often enough on HN that I've definitely seen a shift over the past decade or more. People seem a lot more entitled than they used to about open source.

From my perspective users are owed nothing. Everything on top of that is a bonus. If the maintainer doesn't have a bug tracker or a way to provide feedback, or doesn't even want to have a public VCS, but just posts tarballs to a website every time there's a release, that's their prerogative. People are certainly free not to use it if they don't like the development process, but the developer doesn't owe anyone anything.

I do wonder what's responsible for this shift. A shitty part of me wants to blame Millennial/Zoomer shifts in attitude based on how they were raised to expect to be handled the world on a platter, but that feels like lazy, prejudicial thinking. But I'm at a loss for what the real cause might be.

Edit: Thinking about this a bit more while writing a different comment, I wonder if it's a result of influencer / social media culture. People in those spheres want likes/engagement, want to promote their brand and get recognition, etc. So your average person might think that any open source maintainer would want that too, and think that providing all these extra niceties and polish should be table stakes. I don't agree with any of that, but I kinda see how people could get there.
Some parts of the market need to be killed, and quickly. Wasteful economy is killing the planet, and we need to dial down the produce-buy-throwaway-buy cycle.
Kind of a tangent to your point, but this sounds like the sort of thing I fix with Sugru, not a printed part. That stuff has saved me a lot of money over the years.
Author here. Appreciate your perspective. I find large backlogs get stale quickly, and what was important three months ago is often not the case as context has changed. If I have a good ear to the ground I've discovered that there's usually something more valuable that can be delivered, and the way I've discovered is through talking to people.

Your point about "directly informed and refined by customer feedback" is well-taken, but in my experience a large backlog is rarely that, but more a dumping ground that seems daunting. Of course it depends on who is managing it and how, but more often than not I've seen PMs succumb to big backlogs rather than make it a well-vetted list maintained proactively like you have stated.
Not. Noise would kill it. Your answers would essentially be nonsense.
A CEO that sweetened the deal would set about turning brave into chrome and google search. You cannot both castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
You can run an X window manager on a Wayland compositor, as you said the problem is when programs stop running on X at all.
Conversely, I grew quickly over the pandemic because using a lot of written communication played to my strengths. I never learned much from my seniors. Being remote made it so I could create a working environment more conducive to concentration and fully develop self-sufficiency when it came to learning skills and solving problems.

With RTO I’ve found that people are communicating a lot less over chats/docs, but not communicating well in person either because half of the people are remote or in other offices. Personally I believe we need to all be remote or all on-site for things to work properly.
Yep, I'm sure that was it. I read it many years ago, but the story description, the reference to matchlocks, and the conclusion all match my memory.
certainly ad revenue, due to ADL driven boycott, but not as clear to me that traffic has declined.
That's usually negligence of the infrastructure operator. At least in Europe
Record time compared to the crypto space, "all we need is infinite data storage with instant recall. Then we can store everything on the chain, and verify its authenticity!"
There is the Programmable Search Engine feature that you could set up to do this kind of filtering.

Here's a quick example that excludes *.gov domains - https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=55d5f36c6916f4526

The visual style of the results is much more reminiscent of an older style search engine results page which I kind of like
>> I think the answer was that most office workers would have struggled to work.

I worked at a large asset management company during Hurricane Sandy's arrival in NYC. Ocean water was dumped into lower manhattan and many buildings' elevators shorted out from the salt-water. Also, so many buildings had the same issue at the same time that we had a 3-mo queue for replacement parts. We didnt go to the office for 4 months.

No work was done. At the time, most of the staff didnt have VPN. Virtual jump boxes were tried but the latency was too low. Ultimately almost all staff except accounting/etc were "off"
This is the approach I've been taking. Outside of a handful of websites, the situation has become so intolerable that it's not really worth trying to find a way to safely use the wider web anymore.
Yeah, but if I remember correctly the paper, LoRA followed the logic that only the last layers on a llm changed drastically during finetuning, and the layers above remained almost unchanged, so it made sense to alterate only the last ones, breaking this by adding a LoRA at each linear layer doesn't seem to follow the logic of why LoRA was created and why it works.
I will say that the Atari ST version of Rogue was one of my favorite games for the ST back when I had it in 1986, published by Epyx as mentioned in the article. Nice tile graphics on that one.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/6710836583/
But Harding in the US is different, his name is headline news every single day.
In addition to the audit controls, some kind of permission controls or model.

Not just the ACLs you've established internally for which personnel can do what, but ensuring that you have express permission of that particular customer to be looking at that particular data of theirs, on that occasion.
True. I worked for a startup where they got most of the way through their series A before they realized they built something no one wanted to buy. Guess what the only role they'd never filled was?
Well actually: "In a twist, Microsoft is experimenting with generative artificial intelligence to see if AI could help streamline the [nuclear power] approval process, according to Microsoft executives." [0]

[0] https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-targets-nuclear-to-pow...
Add Whisper to Your iOS Action Button
Maybe agriculture didn’t become important to people until large mammals were hunted into extinction and having to rely on smaller game opened an opportunity for agriculture and animal domestication and husbandry.
I've seen Brave's fingerprinting strict mode on a users' computer, and they say they've had very few problems with it in 1-2 years of use.
I prevent unwanted users from signing up to my B2B SaaS
Ok, then to the extent it's a media problem, which is to me a proxy for a problem of interpretation and disseminating interpretation as facts.

Click Bait will be effective as long as the human brain is wired to process the environment for threat. "You won't believe what X tried to report on Y was doing".

A slower news cycle could be useful, but it makes me wonder if that's not how it was already.. in the past, and also centralized the news.

Learning from news itself may be part of the issue. I remain surprised by what a large percent of the population doesn't know the difference between journalism and opinion/editoral writing. Maybe something like www.mediabiaschart.com can help.