skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn’t code executing in a computer. It is about prevailing societal attitudes (which are themselves self-referential and self-reinforcing) so it is necessarily kind of imprecise and circular.
How is telling people to live off donations not just an end run around your wage rules? They don't apply if you're self employed?
You are correct, though you then end up in a cat/mouse game. It's kinda like the old days of sql-injection, where a lot of quick fixes haven't stood up to the test of time.

You might enjoy this game, which is about prompt injection and increasingly sophisticated countermeasures:
https://gandalf.lakera.ai/
Actually, your "pixel overlap" method can be developed into a technique that is pretty efficient, provided we have (a) a quick way to partition any polygon into 2 roughly equal-size polygons and (b) a quick way to come up with a "covering disk" for any polygon (that is, a circle that contains the polygon, and doesn't extend too much further):

isColliding(poly P, poly Q):
if dist(P.circle.centre, Q.circle.centre) > P.circle.radius + Q.circle.radius:
return false
if P.circle.radius > THRESH:
(P1, P2) = subdivide(P)
return isColliding(P1, Q) || isColliding(P2, Q)
if Q.circle.radius > THRESH:
(Q1, Q2) = subdivide(Q)
return isColliding(P, Q1) || isColliding(P, Q2)
// Both P and Q are "small"
return detectOverlapByRasterising(P, Q)
What nonsense. The divide is not in highly paid vs low paid jobs. It’s between jobs that can be done from home (which happen to be highly paid) and jobs which need specialized equiment/location (which do not).

If I were working a highly paid job where I had to manage a server farm I’d also need to be on location simply due to the requirement of constant physical access.
> In cities like Delhi, good electricians, plumbers, welders can make $1k+ a month - most of it tax free since they usually work in cash.

Are you sure about that? That would work out to be nearly 10 LPA, which is a good 2-4 lakhs more than what a good electrician would earn in Mumbai, which is a city that is far more expensive to live in than Delhi
I would hazard a guess that low-skilled workers are much more likely to come to work cooked than someone like pilots who have a lot on the line.
A nice article. It would be cool to go a little bit deeper to finding the collision points and depths, though. These are very useful for the next phase, which is typically reacting to detected collisions, e.g. by applying some impulse to the objects involved.
Ditching GitHub
Angry Astronaut: NASA Ordered Astrobotic to Crash Peregrine Lander say insiders
Weren't there changes in the last few years that mean benefits in kind are now treated as taxable income?

I know I recently began paying tax on employer provided health insurance for example.
> Presumably a lossless one.

Why?

For example, there are many songs on YouTube listed as "Provided to YouTube by CDBaby". (Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxHpQ668gzA )

CDBaby only provides one format, which is mp3. They'll accept uploads in any of four formats, of which one is also mp3.

So you'd need to answer two questions:

1. Is the file that CDBaby distributes to YouTube the same file they distribute to everyone else, or is it the same file they receive from the artist? (Note: if the answer is #1, that is likely to save CDBaby a bundle on storage!)

2. What did the artist upload to CDBaby?

And then you'd also need to answer analogous questions for the other major providers of official music on YouTube; there are tons and tons of them. CDBaby appears to be unusual in that, in addition to providing your music officially to YouTube, it will also sell it to consumers. Most of these services don't appear to offer anything but official distribution to major websites.
I think you completely missed his point.
What Happens When You Put the Blackest Material Inside a Lens
I wonder if it might be possible to make moulds out of other materials for hobby-scale things?

For example, a mould which is made of plaster/concrete with an inner layer of silicone?

That would be pretty easy/cheap to manufacture. You'd use a 3d plastic printer ($150), dip the print in casting silicone, then float the result in concrete, with the concrete surface being the parting line.

Then use a scalpel to cut the silicone along the parting line and add more concrete to make the other half of your mould.
Finland has generalist with special degrees doing Elementary school. After that the teachers have degree in subject or adjacent subject. Plus pedagogy. On other hand education is state paid so there isn't huge loans to pay off.

It did not do badly in past. But less resources and more non-natives have taken a toll on results.
Wow, what a great add-on! It made me realise how visually noisy that CO2 information was. The linking to Seatguru is genius too

(Would love a Firefox version!)
Huh, I have the opposite reaction. Whenever I’m on a work call and my colleagues apologize for their children shouting in the background I’m mostly fine with it.

If anything it makes them seem more human when they’re otherwise just some disembodied voices.
My experience in software in the UK has consistently been that Indian workers also have this mentality. It seems to be a cultural approach to engineering. Things become a botch job constantly, backed my false promise. It appears more important to look competent than to be so.

I'm not saying this is universal and of course everyone gets the bias free opportunity to execute on their own merit, but this has been my observation.
Thanks for that.

I agree with what you say and I've definitely considered and thought about what you've said in the past, but it never quite works like that in practice. But that's also to say that I'm being unreasonable.

In the case of music for example, I had the realisation that part of the reason why I struggled is because I simply had no idea what I was listening to. This lead me to spend around 4 months familiarising myself with every single EDM genre and the kinds of sounds they use, and although I now find this knowledge invaluable, I'm not sure how I would have done this whilst also maintaining practice. In my mind, it was a necessary evil that I just had to knock out of the way, to the detriment of actual practice.

I guess my issue is my all or nothing attitude, which I really struggle to avoid and somehow even if I do start balanced and focused on practice, it somehow ends up becoming "all in" on a single way of learning.

But a question if you're available:

- How do you maintain that interest/curiosity without going "all in"? You say the feeling is irrelevant, but what is the drive? How do you maintain consistent curiosity?

I often think that the mania is a coping mechanism for a lack of curiosity/interest, and perhaps as well to mask the anxiety/boredom that art can bring.
I think not. Even as someone who lives in a country that is arguably becoming less democratic by the day, most of Friedman's ideas still prove themselves to me everyday.
They do leave the market. Where did you get that idea from? My parents have extreme difficulty travelling now because they have a dog, but their local dog kennels have been closing down. When the last one went my mother talked to the owner. He said the rise in minimum wage was killing the business. People were willing to work there for lower than the new minimum because they love dogs basically, but customers weren't able to pay the new higher prices. So he had to fold and was quite bitter about it because the government had basically killed his business that he'd spent years building, in the name of "fairness". So all the workers lost their jobs and of course there's a knock on effect on the wider economy because that particular service made it easier to do leisure spending.

But socialists never think about this stuff. They just pretend there are no downsides to central control of prices.
Care to explain how preventing an organization from attacking civilian ships is bullying?
Generation is 44% of an electric utility's operating costs:

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/annual/html/epa_08_03.html

You're confusing the line item called "transmission" with the concept that the electric utility's entire operations expense is in service of operating the power grid and all of that gets included in the price per kWh whenever you buy power through the grid.

A property owner who is installing their own solar and consuming the output themselves can avoid the other 56% of those costs. Which is well worth a one-time labor cost.
Imagine Spotify being able to continue streaming you music that they no longer have access to, because you "the user" still have individual rights to the music.

Thwn, you can stream your own music and Spotify's music side by side.

And, it's a double win, since they're not paying an royalty fees for a single user streaming music they already own.
Based on likely social setting difference due to salary difference plus the fact that truck drivers go through seedy places and do many long stretches alone, compared to pilots frequenting airports and hotels, and always working with a crew, I'm sure truck drivers use more drugs than airplane pilots. If you are not sure of this, I think your mind is "too open".
It's the second tier of German justice (first one had sided with the guy, btw), still subject to appeal. Hopefully sanity can prevail.
In case that gives the wrong impression, UK marginal tax rates are a ridiculous mess, and come down below 60% again when you earn £125K+.

https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/09/24/70percent/
I watched this, and the commentary from the 2nd tour guide seems non-serious. I did think the "valley girl" accent is what threw me off, but I stopped watching at "super cool sled". I just don't understand who their audience is with this type of commentary.
There are dilettantes, but most have seen their work blow up in their face enough times to check their ego at the door.
She was present. She knew you’d want to remember.
Wave was supposed to be "equal parts conversation and document" (their description). It seems like they separated out the conversation part to Google Talk and made the document part Docs. Wave was kind of the precursor to the state of affairs we have now with Slack and Discord.
All I'm doing is saying the strategy of milking an obsolete platform was a poor strategy. Disagree all you want but don't make a strawman to debate against and pretend that it is me.
well, just from reading the title, i assumed it would be trying to make a point, so I took the test without even reading the questions and got 5/5.

PS: 'sizeof with parentheses' looks so weird to me.
It's a legacy setup and it's working. I did some tests last year with Wireguard and among the problems I encountered were the lack of reconnection upon IP address change. I tested it with a couple of VPS and devices in the LAN, and for some reason it failed to work reliably, like for weeks and surviving reboots of random machines.

My setup bridges two home networks into one with two different subnets.

Long term I definitely want to use Wireguard, but for I'll continue using what works reliably.

Regarding Tailscale, I don't want to use 3rd party services for this.
I suggest reading the original idea with charity. You might very well still disagree, but it would be informed disagreement.
We vs I makes all the difference.

We (2 adults, 2 seniors, 2 small kids) blow thru 350-400 kWh on hot water alone. Another 500-600 kwh on car. Remaining 300-400kwh is cooking, lighting, tech, etc. Same average 1200kwh per month.

Take the car away and it's same 175kwh per month per person (summer here so no heating needed).
It sounds like she's trying to talk over something to me. I think there was some loud AC running they edited out.

The video is also a little too color graded?
> Microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) is a significantly sustainable bio-electrochemical system for biological hydrogen production. MEC is also regarded as an environmentally friendly method for producing clean biohydrogen from a variety of waste organic matters and for its low greenhouse gas emissions. This technology involves the oxidation of organic matter at the anode and the reduction of proton at the cathode under the nominal external voltage supply. However, bio-hydrogen production efficiency and operating costs of MEC still need further optimization to implement in large-scale applications.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13858...
Surely, occam's razor applies here.

Low level workers have the highest chance of getting injured while operating heavy machinery -> highest chance of being drug tested by the police in such cases -> the management would rather spend money on drug testing than on the lawyers later on.

High-paid workers have a pretty small risk of injury -> very small risk of the government testing them -> management is not incentivized to spend money on drug testing (and possible hiring costs later on).
The lack of importance given to human life is one of the most jarring things to me having been born in the US. My wife is from a similar area and tells me childhood stories that make -me- feel traumatized, as if it's just another day. The last one I remember was about a 'careless boy' who was in the road too much on the way to school being run over and killed by a bus, like it's his fault. And they just threw his body out of the road and went to school like it's a normal Tuesday!

I have no idea to reconcile that as a whole, and generally understand how lucky I am. But it just feels like things will never get better when the most basic (to me) of values is missing.
The intention is good, from an AI-opponent's perspective. I don't think will work practically, though. The drawbacks for actual users of the image galleries, plus the level of complexity involved in poisoning the samples makes this unfeasible to implement at the scale required.
There is no job that is ok to pay nothing or as good as nothing. It doesn't matter what "career".

If a job needs doing by a human at all, then that human does indeed deserve a reasonable baseline which allows them to exist and even do so with reasonable dignity.

As time goes on and jobs are done by machines, and there are fewer and fewer jobs that require a human, then the output and ownership of those machines simply should one way or another be distributed enough to have the same effect.

All they have to do to earn that is not be being a criminal right at that moment.

And this extends to people who can't do anything obviously productive too. Even a sick old grandma doing nothing but telling stories to kids for one hour a week is productive, and we have no excuse not to provide for even the ones who can't even do that.

Because even if "the Earth is a life boat", we don't exist in an environment of hardship with fixed and insufficient resources where there just isn't enough food and building material and energy to go around.

There simply is no excuse for the way we treat some people. They didn't do anything wrong enough to deserve it, and it is not forced by physical limits.

Talking about what value someone provides to earn their existence is just a way to rationalize taking advantage of others. None of this equates to "I will be forced to spend 20 years learning medicine to give my time away for free to bums!" But even if it did, why is that a bad thing exactly? Because it's what, like slavery? You mean, slavery is bad after all?
Why cutting 70%+ marginal tax rates should be a UK Government priority
Should I change my work domain?
Its been a year and half as an technical consultant in a small company which as low resource and the management is not at all good. And also i had not intended to become a technical consultant when i was joining this company. Now i do have some understanding like where and which domain to work on but my only problem is i do not have the experience which that new domain is asking for, so is it a good choice to shift to a new domain or continuing this profession?
Any professionals who have done this kind of changes in there life is it worth it?
Please do comment, thanks in advance for your comments.
Interesting work! This is really an engineering achievement and I wish there was usable code. Real-time checkpointing seems like obviously the future to me, but it's going to be an easy-to-use, high-performance implementation that make that reality.

One of the things I would like to have seen in the paper is a better analysis of simply checkpointing more often. It's briefly touched on:

> It is infeasible to arbitrarily increase the checkpoint frequency because checkpoint frequency is bottlenecked by the bandwidth of the remote persistent storage [28]. For example, it takes 42 minutes to checkpoint the model states of MT-NLG [68] to the remote persistent storage when the bandwidth is 20Gbps.

and

> Both baselines, Strawman and HighFreq, have the same checkpoint time and it stays almost the same as the number of machines increases from 4 to 16 because the aggregated bandwidth of the remote persistent storage is fixed

But that smells a bit off to me. That's a 530B model (unrealistically large given current trends IMO) where each model replica has 280 A100s and then there is data parallelism on top. Where exactly are you storing your (sharded?) checkpoint where the read/write bandwidth isn't also scaling horizontally beyond 20Gbps?
"Tell me about a bad mistake..." and "What is the worst mistake..." are very different questions. The latter only has one "correct" answer unless you have internalized manipulation and misdirection as normal.
Deez Nutz
Does property tax count in your scheme?

Do you understand that for many people in the world, the car you or at least people in your peer group might drive would be the equivalent of a giant pickup truck to them? Who decides what a reasonable method of transportation is? For example, the bus system is terrible where I live. Am I allowed to have a giant pickup truck under your scheme or should that be taxed the same as if I had a better mass transit system near me? How would you monitor use of my giant pickup truck to be sure I was using it practically in a way that meets your requirements for proper pickup truck usage?
No less of a disgrace than if it happened to an entry level employee.
I have 3 South Asians in my team and completely agree with you about class work or talent. It's taken the best part of 5 years to curate the best from offshore to eventually offering onshore jobs.

We now all complain about the same issues; lack of care, pride of work or worksmanship.

They now manage offshore and treat them with alot more humanity. Sometimes will resort to 'ill speech' because they say 'it's how things work there as a boss otherwise they climb ontop of your head' which always makes me laugh when they say it.
A friend from Yugoslavia told me about his job there. Their lunch room looked like a grand cafe with every possible kind of liquor and a variety of beer on the tap. Around 11 am some of his coworkers had a few beers, in the sun, in front of the building. Around 1 they had some whiskey or vodka etc. At the end of the work day some went home, others stuck around. They had a few more drinks, some went home, others went out to eat together, some went home after dinner, some went back to the office. He regularly got very drunk. Sometimes he would make a row of chairs and sleep there. 7 am his boss would be the first to arrive. He was always happy to see someone was already there and made coffee. They sat around and chatted some more and he would start his shift an hour early (not paid ofc)

It wasn't that everyone got drunk at work every day, some more often than others, some rarely which made it kind of a special occasion if they stuck around.

He had the same assignments as his coworkers but completed them in half the time. Sometimes, at 11 am, he would just continue drinking beer while sitting in the sun and go home an hour early.

The funniest part was that they mostly talked about work. It was one lengthy extended meeting till 1 am, if they had some kind of deadline they would just work in their spare time while drinking (without pay)

No culture is strange until compared. I drink 2 liters of coffee, smoke a lot and consume lots of sugar. This is perfectly normal here.

edit: it was a desk job
If you get these confused and hurt Robert Smith you should be fired. Stop normalising incompetence!

Robert Michael Smith - 12/10/1954

Gerard George Smith - 12/10/1954
Why would I blame a bank when it's easy to impersonate me?

There are root-cause issues here when identifying a US citizen, and US law enforcement.
Digital afterlife – how to deal with social media accounts when someone dies
> But it's not fair to pay nothing,

When you listen to the radio you pay for nothing. I don't really see where is the injustice here.
There are drivers that don't check for pedestrians. Then there are pedestrians who jaywalk blithely like Mary Poppins, sometimes in the dark, sometimes in black wear. In both cases, the driver is generally at fault.

IMO, pedestrians are obligated to have some sense of self-preservation, even though in theory drivers should fully accommodate all pedestrian antics. Is it really too much to ask for pedestrians to look left before crossing?
You took my half baked opinion and proved that it's false but even better. I got overwhelming nays on this but you sir/madam have taken it to a peer reviewed (1 peer) level and I thank you for that. Even in the study my half baked opinion is mentioned then negated perfectly! That is HN.
I studied at university and chose a programmer path quite indirectly and rather much because the thought of being physically and temporally bound to external and impersonal locations and tools and interactions, for labor, made me nauseous. I worked "remote" also at the office, reclusively, seen somewhat as an alien by colleagues (not unjustly) for whom meeting room bookings were actually critical. I'm not complaining, but it's not all glamour either. You get what you stake out.
I totally understand the reaction. Then again, people with kids have it hard enough, let alone those that with low paying jobs. When that happens to me, I get annoyed, but then, I remind myself that I get to exit the call while the other person has to stay in that environment, trying to hustle for money, and I try to show them as much kindness and grace as is possible for me in that moment.
Augmenting the Markdown Language for Great Python Graphical Interfaces
Yep, makes sense as a marketing guide by using the free product as the top of funnel for your sales pipeline
In China, the attitude is known as “Chabuduo” or “close enough.”

It’s wild I went this long thinking there was something inherent to Chinese culture that gave rise to this. I don’t think it’s Indian, Chinese or Asian culture. I think this is what happens when people aren’t paid enough to care.
Google is (was?) just extremely risk averse when it came to AI. Hence why all their great researchers who wanted to put things into the world left.
NATO was formed because of the Soviet Union. Russia is a different country.
Your videos are absolutely fantastic, thanks for making them!
I would imagine a simulation would factor in the higher acceleration
> childhood where we need to learn things

or maybe, unlearn/ forget/ obfuscate those built-in things.. like feeling others close without witnessing them, or surviving wide temperature ranges and smells and whatnot.. as these do not match the expected top-layer of cultural suit of "schooling".. And you know, school comes more closer from "school" of fish, not from "learn"..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School