skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very nice, bookmarked.
It doesn't matter either way. There are multiple problems with PFAS - one of which is how toxic it is to the body, and how long it stays in the body.

"We can destroy it with electron beams" doesn't mean shit when kids are getting a huge dose of PFAS from their happy meal french fries.
They ask for an ID whenever you use an account number. I have to FedEx stuff to my home address for work. The guy at the counter is always perplexed when I tell him the destination address is the same one as the one on my ID.
Some SSDs brick themselves in an abrupt shutdown.
I must have forgotten about the lines of people on every block looking for work as a stable hand
Shout out to my car insurance, Amica. They called me because they needed some account information updated/clarified. Before we started doing anything I told them "Hey, not to be rude but could I call you with the number on your website? I'm paranoid about scamming and that's safer" They said "Absolutely, that actually makes a lot of sense". So, I called back and we got everything done.

The issue, I think, is the larger the company is the more incentivized it is to hide away access to it's internal employees. If you can call a department directly you can start phishing between multiple employees pretty quickly. Locking that down and putting a horrible automated system in place makes that harder to do.
The point of making something a habit is that you do it every time whether "it needs it or not" because you never know when that documentation will be useful and if you document everything you are more likely to document the things you really need.

If your interview processes aren't interested in me at my most habitual then you are also directly sending me a signal that your culture doesn't care about i18n/a11y/documentation/tests/…. You are only as good as your sloppiest code and you are interviewing for sloppy code.
Tough call.

Break the law, save your marriage?... your marriage to a person who used you and ruined your career for his own financial gain.

Inform your company, attempt to save your career, send your spouse to prison?... lose your marriage... and what happened to those wedding vows?

The moment the guy broke her trust and did insider trading was the moment she was put in a lose/lose scenario.

He claimed he was doing it so that she wouldn't have to work so much and they'd have more time together. They're both loaded: it wasn't exactly stealing bread to survive another night.

She chose to not break the law, not risk prison and possibly save her career. I'd have done the same.
Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium on Github: https://github.com/ssbc

ssb/ssbc is a fun and cool project built on solid code by smart people.
In Germany (and not just Germany probably) the use of cannabis, and other drugs apart from alcohol and nicotine, is significantly less widespread and normalized than in the US. It's definitely far from being as normalized as alcohol. (Although cannabis obviously became more pervasive in the past few decades. Perhaps not least due to exported US American TV shows normalizing it.)

Legalizing cannabis in such an environment seems to me like legalizing alcohol in a country where alcohol use isn't already normalized -- like in Iran. A very questionable idea. One would need strong arguments on why the expected benefits are larger than the expected harms.

> And this is all before considering the clear upsides to cannabis. The medicinal applications are real, and have enabled people to live better lives without the downsides of the other widely prescribed pharmaceutical options.

Yes, but using cannabis (THC, presumably) as a specialized medication is very different from legalizing it altogether. It would be no different from other drugs that need approval from a government agency with regards to efficacy and safety, before being available only with a prescription.

(Being available with prescription only makes sense if there is a significant chance of abuse. Which is the case if the substance is addictive. Which suggests non-addictive substances like, perhaps, LSD and psilocybin, could be freely available. Though I'm not an expert on these drugs.)

> Altering our mental states by consuming substances seems like a deeply human thing (in addition to be observed in other species), and is deeply embedded in us. I think there are very good reasons to ban some substances for the sake of public health. But I don't think a default stance against mind alteration is a good one either.

I would argue that a lot of the harm comes from a substance a) being addictive, and b) being significantly unhealthy. To the point where the net harm probably outweighs the net benefit. Caffeine is pretty much the only substance I know that is addictive while being quite harmless. But actually banning things has to consider the real chance of being successful with such a ban. The more people are already addicted or otherwise accustomed to a drug (e.g. to cigarettes or alcohol) the less realistic is a ban being successful and enforceable.
>Are there any reasons other than purely historic ones

you can't throw reasons away by labelling them historic, the same historic reasons still apply today, call them Chesterton's reasons. They need to be balanced against other reasons, and your reasons and my reasons might be different, but that's what our govts do for us, and when enough people are unhappy we change govts.
Xoogler here: pointing out such things internally is incompatible with continued employment at Google (see eg Damore’s “echo chamber” essay, the echo chamber got even more airtight since then). So the end result is quite predictable. Moreover, this will continue, and i don’t see how they get out of this hole without firing a bunch of internal “activists” who spend their entire days stirring the pot on Memegen rather than actually working.
> Using a partition is just begging for an update (Windows or Linux) to kill your boot.

Everyone says that, but I really haven't found that to be true in the last 12 years or so. I dual-booted Windows and Arch Linux for multiple years (2014-2017), doing plenty of system updates. I never really had any boot issues caused by an update. The only time I ever had any boot issues is when I was mucking with Grub configs and I didn't really know what I was doing.

Maybe I've just been lucky, but I've had a ton of computers, many of which I've dual-booted with partitions, and it feels like a pretty streamlined process that doesn't seem to break.
Another option is using zrok - https://zrok.io/. Its open source so you could build it directly into Bluesky and either host the backend yourself or use the zrok free SaaS. zrok also has SDKs so you could embed the capability directly into your binaries without having a separate agent.
We have widely deployed the workstation devices and have had no maintenance issues. we installed ~10 9PX models and have had 2 fail suddenly and completely just out of warranty and one with a failed battery charger, also just out of warranty, and a gigabit management card that works for a week or so then goes offline and requires local reboot from console but we have about 10 deployed with no issues too, so buy extended support because their support team is good but useless if you don't pay the protection money. We also had a rack PDU just die right out side it's warranty phase and we only bought 6. Not great quality it seems but it does the job. We had one install of a full rack UPS and it's been running for more than 7 years, but you have to keep the maintenance up and schedule battery swaps. They do make a really nice 1U lithium-ION ups also which is neat. The IPM software is a little janky but also works well.
Personally I have to keep a Windows VM around for the odd bit of software. Oftentimes it's software made by someone for a very specific workflow in a niche interest, and so it's less compatible either because they hardcode things, or they're just interested in getting the very specific workflow they need working, and not in any "best practices".
so Dall-e is really bad at it, but you can give it a picture of your family and ask it to (try and) do stuff with it.
Ivanhoe is my favourite novel. I regularly re-read it and every time it transports me to another world. If that's the book she got rid of, what a shame! At least I hope disposal meant distribution to other libraries, not being pulped...
So using nvidia's physics simulation for transfer learning and lining up amazon as a potential customer.
Maybe if you do it in person, but they must have direct shipping flows where nobody checks.
My bet is it's just brute force.

I don't understand how they did 10M though, this isn't in the brute-force-with-nice-optimizations-on-systems-side-may-do-it ballpark, but they aren't going to release this to the public anyways so who knows, maybe they don't and it actually takes a day to finish a 10M prompt.
Because it's further evidence for the "unreasonable effectiveness of transformers", i.e. that transformers are a fully-general approach for all kinds of learning tasks, not just next-token prediction. Obviously there is a strong and a weak version of that hypothesis and the strong version is probably not true, but to the extent that we appear to be honing in Nature's "one true way" to learn how to accomplish a task, that seems like important news.
Show HN: Exploited Stack Overflow question with 4 views and 45 upvotes
Even already today, a lot of knowledge work jobs have a lot of overlap with the bullshit working with excel sort of office jobs especially when you consider what you are actually doing day to day and week to week.
No because whether he owns a bitcoin at $30 or at $30k a bitcoin is a bitcoin and at this point every wallet is indexed, tracked and any wallet with significant value (regardless of cost basis) is being mined for potential vulnerabilities.
In my region (an inner suburb of the Northeast Megalopolis) an attempt like this to use vague "place" boundaries would lead to a blur of overlapping boundaries that stretches for ~500 miles.
I really just want a nicer `borg-backup` that doesn't involve an SSH server. And to finally dust off my home server. And... and...
I'd love to see someone who has the resources train a model bigger than 2.8b and show the scaling law still holds.
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I'm not too sure about that. When profit is the main goal, guaranteed savings(not doing the necessary spending to actually clean up) in the short term often take priority over possible long term avoidance of fines and lawsuits.

In the short term, actually cleaning up and only appearing to clean up probably give the same return in terms of PR and so on, but the former is cheaper.

Not to say I condone them misleading the public, not at all.
I believe that's less of an issue in Proton now, although for a lot of those cases, the develop has to recompile some stuff. Seems more or less painless, but they do need to make the effort to go and do it.
Seems like a bunch of hogwash nothing words that politicians use to trick people into doing whatever it is they want done at the moment. The simple fact is that more people require more resources, and we're already bleeding the planet for all it's got.
I held on to them for so long because my old laptop’s motherboard died and I had the wallet there. I forgot about them till around 2014, when I looked for them and surprisingly managed to extract them from the hard disk as everything was dead in that laptop not just the motherboard. Then I secured them and forgot about them again until Covid time, when they skyrocketed in value. So I don’t deserve all the credit for holding them, but rather my poor laptop and memory.
Using int16 and an H100 the speedup is actually 108x over the M2 air
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I’ve always been profoundly jealous of countries with right to roam laws and dream of a day when we might have some thing similar in the US. Here in the west we have so much public land that is effectively closed to access due to wealthy landowners litigating over stupidities like corner crossings so they can monopolize the use of parcels they don’t own.
Apparently also used by Russian prison guards today. Somehow it seems very fitting that they have bear-like dogs.
Most people don't want to be cult leaders. Unless they are an attention hungry person (which we can safely rule out at this point) they have nothing to gain from making their identity known. And I assume the tax authorities might be somewhat interested in their bitcoin stash...
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Great point! In addition, race and ethnicity are different dimensions, so with 6% of developers as Hispanic/Latino, if you're interested in the white non-Hispanic population, that's probably around 52% given about half of Hispanics identify as white.
Rethink the name. Seriously.
Sadly, you can't seem to offer up any preventative safety advice to people anymore, without being accused of victim blaming. We tell kids to wear helmets on their bikes and to look both ways before crossing the street, and that's not victim blaming.

We need to normalize accepting responsibility for one's own safety (and the safety of others) in a world full of hazards.
Done... Tell me if it works for you!
I'm not sure I'd agree that macOS presents a good desktop environment. Truly good desktop environments died eith Windows 7 I'd say.
I use OneDrive on Mac and I find it a great tool. The bottom line is as a user I want two things:

* Enough storage at a reasonable price such that I "don't have to think about it"

* Some kind of online-aware virtual file system such that I can see my "online only" files right next to my "offline" files, and only download the online ones if I explictly download or try to access them.

I find many "hardcore" techy backup solutions recommended on HN and elsehwere miss this second bit. I don't particularly want to manage uploading a perfect byte-for-byte replica of my filesystem every month or whatever. I just want it to be magic. Perhaps occasionally I'll put things on my own external SSD. I guess if Microsoft data centers get nuked or whatever I'm SOL on the last 3 months of data updates. I don't really care. I just want the cloud to function as an extension of my local hard drive in the most seamless way possible.
I think it may be possible to have negative feedback, so I'd do less than or equal to 0 (or at least some threshold like > 5)
> if the file is deleted locally, it will eventually be deleted from OneDrive (after a period of time).

Yes, all backups have retention periods. That doesn't make them not backups.

> True backups cannot be modified, and exist as a point-in-time reference snapshot.

OneDrive does keep point-in-time version history and allow you to access and restore, but not to modify, those point-in-time reference snapshots.
Right. Also alcohol is not good. Tobacco is not good. Sugar is not good. But there are safe amounts.
> The aides work directly for the senator and thus the state, not for a private organization.

Isn't it common for regulatory capture to happen with a "revolving door" where people move between industry and government, setting up future benefits for themselves on every cycle? e.g. Say Microsoft is really good, make a law that de facto requires their software, later happen to get hired there.

At least it worked once. I just don't think there is any special structure that can prevent corruption without human effort.
If Cisco then why not Nortel?

The Company that Broke Canada - BobbyBroccoli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6xwMIUPHss
Not necessarily:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1amb3xu/d_...
I’m not obsessed, far from it, but I’m seriously concerned about the merit/performance/excellence aspects.

I can understand, that someone like him could easily obsess over these things, and he’s not alone from what I see.
Granny, Iggy and Miles are all discontinued as stand-alone products. We're still providing support to existing customers but not selling any new licenses.
Looks more like you're reading your own negative opinion of cryptocurrencies into their answer. The discussion that satoshi had on the mailing lists concerned how consensus would work with people asking questions about that. It wasn't about anything you just listed.
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> The CDC doesn't seem to mind all of the migrants lacking vaccine paperwork.

The HHS explicitly requires immigrants to vaccinate [0]

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/laws-regs/vaccina...
That was not a gimmick, that was their core feature at the time. You have to remember that Twitter launched before mobile internet (cell or wifi) was common place, and the fact that you could link your number turned every dumb flip phone into a twitter capable device. Sure by 2010, smartphones had taken over, but for 3-4 years that was one of the main ways people interacted with Twitter.
I almost exclusively use spatial memory for programming. It's basically a flowchart I can zoom in or out of. A whole application or problem will be a forest I can walk through or fly above. Everything in a single context to avoid context switches.
It's almost as if they're giant companies employing thousands of people, and quality varies across geography …
Show HN: VQASynth – pipelines to synthesize VQA datasets
Inspired by the recent work in SpatialVLM, we reproduce similar data synthesis pipelines using openly available models.

We compare our results to alternative annotation pipelines like RAM-Grounded-SAM.

Our repo uses a simple pipeline in docker compose to produce datasets suitable for fine-tuning multimodal models like LLaVA.
Now in all fairness, open source tends to mean cheaper because it does reduce how much has to be invented in-house, and also (sometimes) because it lets you crowd source free labor. In software, that can lead to stuff getting completely built for free (or close) because the base costs are low and mostly consist of labor that some people might be willing to do for free. In hardware, it's likely that open source still reduces the costs, but... you can make a thousand copies of a library for free; making a thousand copies of a part is never going to be free.
I really, really agree. I learned programming on leetcode and took the short feedback loops and automated tests for granted. Then working on legacy software on legacy hardware without automated tests and lots of interactions with other programs and databases, that was a shocking reality check.
Awesome idea. Will check back in when Portland, OR is added as a city also.
I once moved into a duplex and Spectrum's precursor told me I already had service. After 8 hours on the phone I talked to someone in customer service who told me "I know the problem you have, I know how to fix it. I can 100% fix it. You are welcome to stay on the phone, but it will take more than 6 hours for me to create an account for you". So in the end it took days to open a new account.

When I moved they someone opened a second account in my name and kept billing me for the original account.
If you ditch all "support" libraries, your webview Android application can be smaller than 100KB. And it will build much faster too.
There is one trained on 600B tokens from SlimPajama [1], but that's fairly tiny compared to other recent releases (ex. stablelm-3b [2] trained on 4T tokens).

> low quality data (the Pile only)

The Pile is pretty good quality wise. It's mostly the size (300B tokens) that's limiting.

[1]: https://huggingface.co/state-spaces/mamba-2.8b-slimpj
[2]: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablelm-3b-4e1t
Well, for one, public rights of way do exist on, and adjacent to, every public road. But that's kind of besides the point.

I think there's probably many reasons, but here's a few I can think of:

1. The trails and such that warrant these rights never existed in the first place.
2. The rights come from long-established customs, which again, never got the chance to get going in the United States.
3. The legal/juridical establishment in the United States tended to care more about protecting the rights of property owners than protecting the freedom to travel (in this limited respect).
Sassaman was actually known to use British English. He lived in Europe.
What billion dollar industry did it create?
Need to do like Meta with a company-wide building and space management system integrated with ERP and hotdesking.

Also, old Github-style WfM collab and workflow is how to retain good people without herding them into offices with ass-in-seat concentration camp mentality.

The ignorance and stupidity of pointy hair management driving away top talent with worse conditions, disrespect, and inconvenience is completely counterproductive and ultimately a self-imposed foot machine gun.
Mostly a Git issue. In general Git won't remove old data pushed to remotes. Maybe if they run a garbage collection.

However GitHub does exacerbate it a little by providing APIs that list commits that are no longer in the history. However there are other ways to get this info such as brute-forcing short prefixes of commits.

But really this is another case of the general problem that once you publish information you can't unpublish it. If you push a secret to a repo you can't 100% reliably clean it up. You should assume that everyone with the repo took a copy.
The usual reasons people hate git are directly resulting from that them not taking time to learn it. If you do know how to use it, you will find it difficult to lose any commits. I suppose the way "reset" has multiple and very different uses is a thorny issue for noobs. But if you just read up when you don't remember, you'll be very safe.
They had so many chances over the years and missed it repeatably. What do you call this in psychology?
Earlier this winter, I got a bunch of those letters completely out of the blue. I was also receiving emails from Schwab throughout the several weeks they were sending me a pile of letters saying they couldn't deliver emails to my address. Then the letters stopped.
You are not allowed to have access to an open container while in the driver's seat in the Netherlands.
I wouldn’t say that they cared. I say that they begrudgingly were being dragged towards supporting PWA functionality, and now they have a strong case to stop being dragged in that direction.
I do, because people online tend to flex about things that seem like really tall tales. Someone who held on this long is exceptionally rare in the first place, and I like when someone makes a claim, they back it up with evidence.
Many people have, if I remember correctly. The most recent one is at https://blog.lopp.net/hal-finney-was-not-satoshi-nakamoto/
I have two koolies (an Australian herding breed that is very closely related to Australian shepherds, border collies, and kelpies). I got my older dog during the lockdowns when I had a lot of free time to train him, and I got my younger dog a couple years later, when I had much less time to train her.

The younger one has taught herself almost everything the older one knows, mostly by observing him, but sometimes by him actively trying to teach her. When she doesn't know something, he shows obvious signs of frustration and urging: I give a command, he does the thing I'm asking for, she doesn't react because she doesn't know the command, and then he starts growling and harumphing (and sometimes even air snaps near her face to get her attention) until she follows his lead.
Credit reports are a racket. I've barely had any luck obtaining one of my reports from the site in the past few years. I'm at the point where I think I will freeze my credit.
I think it's easy.
Tech people like to think they're very smart, and yet most of them have missed bitcoin, being arrogant (though many of them heard about it and could have it since the beginning)

So it's more of an act of self-defense.
Have you seen syncthing?
https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2097.htm#article3