skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have 3 kids in daycare right now so you'll really just have to forgive me for also finding it essentially useless. It's less than 1/36th of our annual childcare expenses

The credit is $2k per kid, plus a $6k cap for the CADC credit. If you're spending $144k on care[1] this credit isn't for you. That's just ridiculous. Don't ask the federal government to pay you a 4x urban minimum wage just to have kids, that's not a good use of my tax dollars (and I say that as a fellow parent).

But a few thousand dollars to help out folks on the margin can absolutely keep people in the workforce and out of poverty. Just don't expect your boutique day care in Sunnyvale or whatever to be a free ride.

[1] You clearly aren't. You're just confused about the generosity of this benefit, or more likely make too much and are on the phase-out schedule for high income taxpayers.
Bristle your house/apartment with directional microphones and signs saying "Notice: Your public conversation is being streamed to the Internet"

Maybe people will change their habits!
> you still can train them on a single GPU with 24GB video memory

It depends, on what target. For pure science (or for enjoy), I could train GPT-4 class model on C64, but this method will not fit on concurrent market, where need fast check hypotheses and fast deliver tuned models.

- Concurrent market is very sensitive for speed - for example, if MS present something on December 10, Google after New Year should present not equal, but significantly better, to just appear equal for customers.

So, horizontal scale is a must, not just my wish, even when speed increase is far from linear.

> I honestly expect the scaling per GPU get better than 0.75 in next 5 years

Could you give explanation, or even speculations, how this is possible, when we already hit Silicone limits (about 5GHz core, 1nm, etc)?
Warning, a kind of fucked up story:

I remember Sci-Fi conventions in the late 70's and there was this one character who was always around that gave off a hint of illegal activity. For example, he had plenty of 35mm trailers to sell at the convention that someone along the supply chain must have pinched from a local movie theater.

But I remember he claimed to have a script of, as I recall, the not-yet-released sequel to Star Wars. I think he wanted $25 or so for a copy of it. I read the first page but now don't remember what it conveyed. It was a typed thing and xeroxed like the linked document. It occurred to me pretty quickly though that the guy could just be passing along fan fiction (which I admit wasn't really a thing as far as I knew back then) and trying make cash off it. I mean even after the film came out he could claim the script must have been rejected....

A year or so later I read in the newspaper about him having been stabbed to death by a Star Wars fan who had befriended him — someone he had lead along with a whole string of lies like claiming he knew George Lucas and how he could pass along the kid's story ideas to him — things like that. The kid finally figured out he was being had and snapped.

The thing kind of freaked me out at the time but I had forgotten it until this xeroxed script just appeared on HN.
This reminded me of this article from last year: https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/windows-feature-tha... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37151220)
> the return on investment takes a long time for a house

I completely covered my home's front rooftop with solar panels and they paid for themselves in about three years time. They're so effective that we have politicians campaigning against government incentives for renewable energy. Too many rich people and corporations are benefiting it seems, can't have that.

This is despite the fact that they don't actually pay us for the energy we generate. They give us "kWh credits" which expire if unused after one year. Were it not for that, I'd have even more solar panels in service.
Wow, the Windows version has a lot of files... 18,450.

(https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/releases...).
You might enjoy this creepypasta of yore...

https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Radio_Silence
> That said, Remarkable the company has been fairly shitty. They removed the links to the dev tools, and don't really respond to requests for source that they are obligated to release under the GPL in any reasonable time.

Which project did they not release GPL'd code for? They do have the kernel source available: https://github.com/reMarkable/linux/tree/zero-sugar

The top level github page also lists their trees for other projects.
But KTH and Chalmers are officially universities despite their names. Jönköping was not until recently.
I think we will need to make it more productive, we don’t have the people who will do it (eventually we run out of saints and immigrants). Some ideas: intelligent automated surveillance (to help a provider take care of more kids at a time), diaper changing robots (you know this is coming in the next 20 years), child labor (kids aide in taking care of younger kids, like it was in the 1950s). Creativity is needed to achieve safety and avoid excessive screen time (we already know screens can pretty much take care of most kids over 2, but the opportunity cost is huge).
>last week I had an application with a "personality" test that asked whether I tend to vote for left-leaning candidates or right-leaning candidates.

That should be all kinds of illegal already.

And "personality tests" in general should be made illegal too.
that line of thinking gives you WW1, WW2, and at the moment, whatever Putin is doing in Ukraine.
I have noticed this! But I dont get it. Construction labour in the US is generally much cheaper than in australia. In fact almost everything is cheaper in the US. Why is solar so much more expensive? whats in those "soft costs"?
> You can try to pay everyone according to the highest possible local salary you might compete against, but now you're arbitrarily paying more than you need to everywhere else.

This is the difference. I don't see it as arbitrarily paying more than I need to. I see it as paying people the same for doing the same work. My goal is not to pay as little as possible, or even to pay a high rate relative to their local market.

I can't look at someone in Romania doing the same job as someone in Chicago and tell them I'm paying them less because they're in Romania.

I completely understand that this is not economically optimal, and I love capitalism. I just have no interest in saving money this way.

> So you could try to set a median pay that's higher than the LCOL targets but lower than Bay Area salaries. Now you're attractive to some talent, but other people won't consider your company because it pays less than their alternatives.

Salary is only one part of comp. Comp is only one part of what makes a company attractive.
> Stubhub is a small family business bootstrapped by hard working folks just like you or I. My bad for saying they are value negative.

The impliciation that only small outfits can be value positive requires rejecting economies of scale.

Which is a fundamental misunderstanding of economics compounded by its limited scope: the entertainment complex to which scalpers attach is massive. The shows which scalpers are attracted to are massive. Small shows don't get scalped.
> Will Artificial Intelligence Lead to War?

No. The only thing leading to war is greed.
Does there exist any hardware knob that you can put between display and displayport cable to adjust brightness? I hate the fiddly menus in monitors and in linux no ddc utils work for me (some "leds" that should include monitor brightness only has keyboard leds)
continuity means 'not walking blindly into a new world war 30 years later', this time with nuclear weapons too.
I had wondered about that... I am actually contemplating installing my own solar from a kit, which costs about half as much.
Yes, because otherwise it doesn’t seem like an outlandish enough scenario to justify literally saying you don’t believe him. Hurricane Sandy was the first thing that sprang to my mind, but there have been plenty of major travel disruptions over the years, and I wouldn’t expect to hear every time some smaller city was unreachable from California.
In our case, our kids (now aged 15 and 12) were getting B’s and high C’a, but were both scoring single digits on standardized tests for math, English and science.

Can you expound upon "scoring single digits on standards tests" a little more? I can't figure out how these are related as I have some context for where "B's and C's" fall on the grading scale, I don't have context for where "single digits on standardized tests" fall on a scale.
You could instead work on a robot performing surgery ... Just one example.
Yeah I was shocked by this as well moving from Australia to Germany, it's a euro thing.

Some will even put "single" or "married" on their cv, though I'm told that's dying out
Salary is one part of comp, which is one part of what makes a company attractive.

There are plenty of levers to pull that are not salary, and not based on geography.
My kind of crazy mf.
> which you're assuming it would make rational sense to build

Yes I mean why not. If you are an expansionist advanced civ, travel is impractical and you have enought time and resources then what else is there to do?

Obviously there are explanations "why not" (as I said), but insterstellar travel unavailability is not one of them.
Related. Others?

Usborne computer and coding books from the 1980s - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32202822 - July 2022 (98 comments)

Classic Usborne Computer Science Books/Comics as PDFs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19679081 - April 2019 (21 comments)

Free Usborne Computer Programming books from the early 80s - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13537871 - Feb 2017 (1 comment)

Usborne 1980s computer programming books for kids become free downloads - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11051095 - Feb 2016 (37 comments)

Usborne 1980s Computer Books for Free - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11044480 - Feb 2016 (1 comment)
> you create a two-tier music industry, where Apple Music subscribers can get to concerts first, or you allow anyone to book

You release based on listening history and e.g. merch purchases. If you limit early release to accounts tied to a personal credit card, you'll limit the scalpers' scale.
The expression involving Math.sin is acting as a PRNG. The vehicles have randomised sizes and speeds.
> Putin has designs on EU states, particularly Poland, as a next step

source ?

why would it ever make sense for Putin to invade Poland ?

I know it is popular nowadays to portray Putin in the states as a senseless lunatic, but he's far from. Of course he is a merciless power thirsty autocrat, but there's one thing he's not. Stupid.

He only invaded Ukraine because the US left him with no other option.
Why would a group that holds power ever relinquish that power?

It's also a misunderstanding in the US that police service the public. Police serve the government and exist to protect the governments interests.
3 out of the 4 films you mentioned have 4K Blu-ray releases
CSS Color Contrast Experiment
This is more fun than a lot of gigabyte-oozing brainless ego-shooters, and a fantastic engineering accomplishment on top of that!

Thanks for sharing!
It is, to the generation that 'read' that NFT's were a great idea.
How do you normally do DPO? Is that built in to PyTorch or something?

Theoretically the hard part is collecting the examples with rejections etc.
Boeing has to redesign how they design planes (for example without outsourcing not just the manufacturing but also the design of various pieces as they are currently doing), then design a new plane that's safer and cheaper. They don't have the money to do that. A government bailout may be the only solution, because otherwise we'll be looking at an Airbus monopoly.
I kind of doubt it. Right now Microsoft is paying money to distribute it to people (Github). Code signing is not really any stamp of approval from an "app store" type agency, it's more of a self-certification thing. It's similar to TLS on the Web; Let's Encrypt issuing a certificate says "Let's Encrypt checked that the website was able to receive traffic for the named domain on the issuance date", not "Let's Encrypt wishes that it made this website itself!"
Guess and check :)
Yeah, on my end reviewing resume or when we did take-homes things like names and photos were always erased to prevent 'bias'

We did interview and hire a lot more women and PoC than other firms I've worked with so I guess it works to some degree
So mix and integrate, instead of demanding to maintain a lifestyle from elsewhere. Gitlab will even help by giving you a locally reasonable income.
Whoops, forgot to message you to ask if you knew before posting.
I have explored just about every way to build and fund a company, including the VC route. The 100% user-supported path is by far the most fun (to me).
I definitely missed that these were login passwords!
why? what's the difference where the video plays from? why are you gung ho about promoting YT and all of the baggage that comes from its platform?
If you believe tickets are not correctly priced to begin with then they simply make the market more efficient and capture this delta between supply and demand.
Just not broadcasting powerfully enough to be detected by our current technology… which can only detect very powerful broadcasts very close to us.
>> Is it too lazy for me to write that article and not bother to install a VM with Mojo

Yes.

Would you talk about a book you didn't read? Or a movie you didn't see? Not on any meaningful level.
Yup, it resonates with when you hear someone claim 'well I'm more of a visual thinker'.
I hope it's clear that I'm not blaming the average person caught up in the housing market for the broader climate in which they live. It is fucked and I don't see a way out. If we build enough housing the price of their retirement asset drops and they are fucked and if we don't then we continue seeing mass homelessness and dropping birth rates.

I don't have a solution, I'm commenting that the typical things that are blamed for the housing shortage are symptoms not causes.
Satellites mostly. Possibly missile guidance and then more general applications of controls.
Deleting and destroying finished movies
The DCFSA is tax free contribute, so you are only saving taxes, not the entire amount of the benefit. But I see you are talking about other things?

The CADC goes down based on income, and I think it is superseded by the DCFSA at higher incomes, although that magic always alludes me in TurboTax.
There has been dozens of times I heard about some classic and wanted to watch it. When I look it up on <streaming service> it is not available. If it's an old movie it can be hard to find a good torrent for it. Having an extensive local library of movies of general interest sounds nice, especially going forward when content will disappear and become more fractured between paid services.
While I understand the reaction, it’s not exactly constructive and a bit below the standard here. The font/tooling is fully open source, so feel free to remove the ligature table and recompile it yourself.

I personally find the TODO and NOTE ligatures to be a great idea, however I know you’re talking about the common programming ligatures instead.
Robotics is a broad field and is a confluence of many specialties: mechanical engineering, hardware engineering, software engineering, control, machine learning, computer vision, anything in between is a good entrance.

Coming from software, if you are interested, I would suggest either:

- Backend platform development (Python, C++ as main programming languages with a strong focus on ROS[1]).

- Frontend development (nothing too different from what's out there).

As small projects I would suggest playing with ROS to learn it and getting a running simulation with a simple robot that you can teleoperate, most of the stack already exists, it's just connecting everything together [2].

Another venue is open source contribution [1] to get known within the community and potentially attract interest from companies. ROS has multiple packages, from cloud infrastructure to drivers and simulation, if you see anything there you could contribute to, they will gladly take contributions.

In general robotics greatly benefits of good technologies from other areas, if there is a tool we use you believe could be better or a lack of good tooling in a specific area, it will get noticed.

So this would be my suggested path: learn C++/Python if you're not familiar with, learn ROS and watch which specialties appear more often in robot related jos posts [3]. If you are really invested, maybe go to a robotics conference as ROSCon to meet other enthusiasts, which companies are engaged with the community, etc.

Good luck!

Note: not everything robot related is done in ROS, but it's almost a standard within the field save for a few exceptions.

[1]: https://www.ros.org/
[2]: http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials
[3]: https://discourse.ros.org/c/jobs/15
Oh, yeah, because zero of the roughly 5 quintillion aliens which the Milky Way could comfortably support have hobbies (very primitive) and none would ever use a cheap and effective terraforming unit or dyson sphere even once in 80 thousand years when they could use a more expensive one which mimics pure blackbody radiation

even in war (or are they pacifist communists), they would never emit a signal for any reason on any of the multiple trillions of planets during this 80,000 year period. not even from a bomb.

yes, yes; this all makes sense -- I have done the math.

maybe all 5 quintillion aliens are being hunted by equally non-emitting terminators and they don't want to give themselves away and also they want to save energy

directional communication makes sense when you have only two planets. if you have an entire solar system (or the entire galaxy) it's a dumb idea to eschew simple omnidirectional devices
Using it without the need of recharging continuously.
WebJars – Web Libraries in Jars
So from what I can see, I am limited to sending notifications to one person at a time or everyone, correct?

If so, this is not quite ready for "enterprise" use.

Let's assume I have 20000 people scattered over 200 locations. Each location has multiple groups/teams.

I would like to send a notification to team X at location Y. How do I do this?

Also, it looks like I have to keep track of every device and it's type (iPhone, Android etc.).

Shouldn't you be doing this? Your software for receiving notifications surely has this info. it looks like you're burdening your users with maintaining data they may not need or otherwise care about --- just to use your service.
Yes, you can get on-premise hardware.

If you have a limited budget, you will probably opt to use quantised models.

The 7B and 14B quantised models can run on most gaming GPUs and Apple hardware, or even CPU at descent speeds.

For bigger models like the 70B, the most cost effective solution right now seems to be a Mac with a lot of ram. If you want faster inference, and still relatively cheap, people say a couple of RTX 3090 with NVlink works well too (the 4090 doesn’t have nvlink of course).

If budget isn’t a problem, you local reseller of Nvidia datacentre hardware can probably send you a quote.
If the problem is such slumlords and builder profiteers they wouldn't have made it damn near impossible to be an unregulated owner builder for your families own homestead, but instead imposed those regulations only on the profiteers who wouldn't be living there.

No, this is intentional. It was damn near impossible to find a place where a man can still build his own home near civilization without oversight.
This sounds like the story of the "Three Envelopes":

https://kevinkruse.com/the-ceo-and-the-three-envelopes/
Not wanting to handwave, I was suggesting that I don't know what this technology might be.

Sure we can have ideas and possible approaches but just as many scifi authors thought that we would be flying around instead of driving by now, it doesn't have to be the right idea.

My favourite idea is to consider the planet our spaceship and ensuring our existence into the future the technology that we need. It does seem to be the hardest problem to solve currently.
The more problems that can be attributed to air pollution, the stronger the argument against cars/industry.

The green movement is therefore putting lots of effort into researching this topic.
I'm sure it's just that easy.
I can assure you that me being a pain to manage wasn't the problem, nor was it ever brought up. In fact, the only negative/improve-upon-this-thing kind of feedback I got once or twice was to adjust my communication style to be less blunt/harsh, something I agreed with and did end up improving upon.

I can also guarantee you that the work I did very much did good work instead of "cause problems". Feel free to ask anybody that worked at GitLab during the same time (or is still there) and see for yourself :)
Ironically, we are preaching to the choir :-) It all won't be read by the nonreaders we sought to persuade.
Thank you for trying thank you for taking the time to write-up.

One of the greatest potentials of open source is that by working in public we can't all learn & share lessons. These seem like very long hard lessons from serious experience you've earned, and it's great that you shared these lessons. Hopefully we can continue to improve & iterate on text input in the future!
> What happened to not judging from 30 minutes ago? Now you're saying it requires therapy.

because it's not the same person, and the person i replied to sounded much more comedic by using an air quotes term, so i followed suit.

> if the discs are cheap,

but you're not collecting discs. you're collecting files. if you were collecting discs, it would be even more of a hoarding situation.

also, I can have the opinion that something needs therapy without judgement.
> how the US Marine Corps thinks about leadership.

Can you give specifics? Does it primarily apply to people in heavily authoritarian-type management cultures? I don't expect that persuasion and gradually building consensus are big themes.

> how they help people from wildly different backgrounds work together.

Specifics please?

> Do You Talk Funny?, by Nihill. The thesis is that good standup comedians are the best public speakers, and that we can learn their techniques.

Nihill is a bad standup comedian who sort-of pivoted/reinvented himself as some corporate speaker. So, he would say something like that; doesn't make it authoritative. (I almost dragged my friends to one of his gigs once until I checked out his videos.)
And it depends on what type of "public speaker" he means; John F Kennedy would probably have been terrible at corporate comedy gigs.
Because of fun probability stuff. The fact what your guessing changes doesn’t matter. It’s still a day to get a correct guess.

https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/articles/totp-bruting
I use this technique all the time to help people who are stuck with problems using software - often cause by bugs. Divide-and-conquer quickly isolates the issue. I try to share the technique when I use it, or just offer it as a suggestion.

Part of why it's so useful is you hardly have understand anything about the system internally. Just reduce the complexity of what you're doing until it works to find the lower bound if you don't already have a working case.

That random guessing is like gambling - you hope for a big quick payout but when your hypothesis fails, you end up worse off than before. Wasted time and no closer to the solution.
I bet it has like 50 cameras streaming to the cloud in realtime.
This is cool, but the data collection is the hard part, right?
No idea, I suspect that will very much depend on the manufacturer. I've never looked into it.
One issue with bootstrapped startups is that after five years, private equity buys the company and ruins it anyways.

Don’t sell out to MBAs, they exist to enshittify businesses.
…unless, of course, the port is upside down/sideways ;)