skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you not realize how long is 15 years? Or how long is 25-30?

The windows in our house, Hudson Valley(NY), are at least 30 years(all mechanical parts are labelled as "pre-1994") - they are not showing much wear... considering that we get -20C to +30C swings every year.
Most roadside debris is on the shoulder as it gets knocked there pretty quickly out of traffic lanes - and it can still affect the cars if you have to cross them.

Every time I've had a flat caused by a road item it has been on or very near the shoulder.
The document says they will open source “when applicable”. If open sourcing wouldn’t benefit the public, then they aren’t obligated to do it.

That gives a lot of leeway for honest or dishonest intent.
California Approves Waymo Expansion to Los Angeles and SF Peninsula [pdf]
It really was! I interviewed with them (didn't get the job), but ate a delicious pizza during their interview process. Their dream was to have the pizza cook on the way (like in Snow Crash). The only automated part was the pizza was made on a conveyor belt and towards the end of the line, humans were placing toppings. So it was automated to a point... at least it was when I was there in summer of 2018.
The money was not stolen; it never existed in the first place.

The fraud at Wirecard started before Marsalek seems to have been recruited as a Russian asset; the GRU probably didn’t even know it was happening until fairly late in the game. As frauds tend to do, it snowballed, until you’re setting up a Potemkin bank branch in the Philippines to get your auditor off your back about the couple billion Euros in cash you claim to have.

Still, I can think of a few reasons why an intelligence service might want to be connected to the wealthy COO of a company that processes payments for porn websites and offshore casinos…
A lot of this is dependent on where you live. I live in a less dense area than most.

My local shops generally have loaners available, and if not, their courtesy cars will drive you anywhere within a reasonable distance if you need to get home or to work. Ford dealer has driven me the 40 minutes home and then come back to pick me up when the car was ready. They also have "drive through" service for oil changes and simple stuff like that if you don't want to be bothered making an appointment.
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Sure, but the OpenAI situation feels a bit more like "when I started this charity all I wanted to do was save the world. Then I decided the best thing to do was use the donor funds to strengthen my friend Satya's products, earn 100x returns for investors and spin off profit making ventures to bill the world"

It's not like they've gone closed source as a company or threatened to run off to Microsoft as individuals or talked up the need for $7 trillion investment in semiconductors because they've evolved the understanding that the technology is too dangerous to turn into a mass market product they just happen to monopolise, is it?
Within the context of land management and the BLM, "wilderness" is a technical designation.

Here is a map[1] for land designated wilderness.

[1]: https://gbp-blm-egis.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/BLM-EGIS::blm-n...
Same as it ever was imho. Better in some ways compared to previous eras when companies faced far, far fewer regulations.
There are higher levels. In the Rust world, there's "Wgpu", which provides a unified Vulkan-like interface over Linux (Vulkan), Windows (Vulkan or DX12), Apple's Metal, Android, and Web (WGPU). The desktop systems all work pretty much the same, but the Android and Web models run into the limited threading model of those platforms and need some special cases. This level is well supported.

At the WGPU level, you're still managing buffers in the application. The next level up is Rend3. This hides the underlying layers. The application creates meshes and 2D textures, and feeds them to Rend3, which puts them in the GPU and takes care of GPU memory allocation and safety. The application also creates materials, which collect up all the parameters and textures needed for an object, and Objects, which take a material, a mesh, and a transform and put the object on screen. At this level you're in safe Rust and can ignore what platform you are on. It's like old-school OpenGL, but all retained mode. This level needs more people working on it.

If that's not enough abstraction, there are game engines.
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Your comment is the justification for keeping these things closed, but honest to god who cares? You can already use gpt4 for spam and stuff while an open source llm is too stupid to be genuinely dangerous but far less annoying.
Its easy to show this, since the the corporation itself is doing this.

The separate entity is the one going for revenue.
The bitter irony of Georgia attorney general filing RICO charges against forest defenders for the act of “mutual aid”. This is what mutual aid is - a community actively working together to address the neglect of the state.
QR codes provide built-in error correction so will stand up to serious wear-and-tear, partially obscured images, etc. - and it won't confuse O with 0 and i with l
They could re-use the Llama license but with a lower threshold (say 50000 instead of 500M) and call it a day, but they decided not to.
>This makes nuclear weapons a poor analogy for AI, because all you need to develop an LLM is a big pile of commodity GPUs, the publicly available training data, some decent software engineers, and time.

Except the GPUs are on export control, and keeping up with the arms race requires a bunch of data you don't have access to (NVidia's IP) - or direct access to the source.

Just like building a nuclear weapon requires access to either already refined fissile material. Or the IP and skills to build your own refining facilities (IP most countries don't have). Literally everyone has access to Uranium - being able to do something useful with it is another story.

Kind of like... AI.
> While suggestion correctness is important, the driving factor for these improvements appears to be not correctness as such, but whether the suggestions are useful as a starting point for further development.

I admit I didn't read the whole article, but that bullet I thought was key. I totally agree. When folks yell "BuT HalliciNations!!!", I get it, but that doesn't mean that LLMs can still be a huge boon if you know how to use them and don't just trust their output blindly and yolo it into production.
Parallel Lightweight Secure Hash Algorithm on CPU and GPU Environments
The android app (and android web client) seem to have issues login in from time to time - I had a situation where you couldnt log in on two different phones
So far this has been the key use case for me. Have it do the work I do rarely and it is not worth it for me to really learn in depth.
This feature that technically doesn’t exist sucks
Fair, and I love to discourse - it sucks when people are thinking they are being attacked...

tone is the one thing AI has yet to solve.

(plus intoning and atoning... AI has yet on these little Jungians)
that is something that can be reversed if the public doesn’t want it enough.
No private party has governance over a nonprofit except the board members.
Paul glanced at Halleck, took in the defensive positions of his guards, looked at the banker until the man lowered the water flagon. He said: "Once, on Caladan, I saw the body of a drowned fisherman recovered. He --"

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No. It would require listing not just every place the standard states undefined behavior is the result, but also every corner case not covered by the spec, or that is under-specified. It’s possible to document known instances, but never to document all possible sources of undefined or unspecified behavior.
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If that was surprising to you, have you seen full moon long exposure images? It looks just like the day time. I have long exposures during a full moon, where at first glance it just looks like a random daytime shot, but when you look more closely, you can clearly make out the stars/milky way/etc. The water also has that telltale smoothing. I actually enjoy this style of photography, but it is so constrained by the short availability window. Essentially, it's a golden hour type thing. Once the moon gets too high, it's just overpowering. So just before/after moon rise is best.
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I love Copilot, I find it essential these days, but if it's going to significantly impact my productivity it's got to be 2x faster. The autocompete is scary good at predicting what was in my head, sometimes before I figure it out, but often it trails behind my own speed.

But anyway, the future is exciting.
The outcome they are measuring is "perceived productivity", which seems pretty weak sauce to me.

Here, we investigate whether usage measurements of developer interactions with GitHub Copilot can predict perceived productivity as reported by developers.

And they use the "actual activity" to predict this perceived productivity.
American love of baseball is absolutely a trope in WWII films. It was part of a recent "Masters Of The Air" episode where a German interrogator tried to establish rapport with a captured American flier by discussing the most recent World Series. It's like baseball was the only American sport during the 1930s and '40s.
It’s not just a question in what you say the money is for it’s also a question of what the charity says the money is for.

A self defined cancer charity spending large sums on public information during the early days of the COVID outbreak likely has wiggle room. That same charity spending most of it’s money on scholarships for music students doesn’t. The second case suggests they raised money under false pretenses and would therefore face serious legal issues.

In practice large organizations that generally do what they say probably aren’t a risk. But the claim is essentially OpenAI abandoned its mission without returning the funds or what they used them for, which is a problem.

To be clear charities can pivot over time. If they active their primary mission or collect new funds under a different mission that’s generally fine. But a wildlife sanctuary can’t just use it’s land to build a collage.
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Meta says it's deleting all Oculus accounts at the end of the month
You should probably know your HR team is insta-rejecting applications for reasons such as "having moved into management too quickly" with 6 years IC 8 years management.

No hard feelings, I wasn't even that invested in it, I just found the immediate rejection an interesting choice.
How were maps generic before generics, I am not sure I understand. Didn’t you still have to declare them as map[type1]type2?
Minnesota has turned very anti-mining in the past several years and the Federal Gov't approving depends heavily on which admin is in power.

I'd be curious to see estimates on when they think they can gain approval to begin extraction at scale.
more funding for science is good
How exactly had it improved your thinking? By your description it did it for you, you just sat back.

Doing nothing does not drive self improvement, I can't get stronger sitting on the couch watching videos on YouTube about weight lifting, even if I did type in the search term.
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I find go distasteful, but are there really many other languages with an m:n threading model? Only other popular one I can think of is Erlang/Elixir.
> The encoded value can change any time you re-compile your program, so you can't actually use it for anything where the value of the enum leaves the process that instantiated it

This is not true, iota is stable in its ordering. https://go.dev/ref/spec#Iota
I'm already an experienced developer, but writing code in new domains is sooo much nicer now. I can learn and get things done way faster than ever before. Copilot has pretty much replaced Google and Stack Overflow for me. I use it all day everyday. The chat feature is great at well to discuss code, questions, ideas, etc.. I still use ChatGPT 4 for bigger questions, more complex things, writing entire files, etc..
Copilot has been more impactful for 'unproductive' stuff for me. Not as good at handling the code related to my job, as it's a math heavy beast in an extremely niche field. But great for my hobby, writing little bots to toy around with various things. Lets me skip remembering or looking up a lot of basic implementation details of talking to the service APIs, drastically speeding up the time to get a functional prototype.

As others have mentioned, it's great for speeding up all the little boilerplate and other things too simple or otherwise too unrelated to the main goal.

Sometimes it almost works like rubberduck-development, by seeing what Copilot spits out, I have sometimes realized earlier than otherwise, that I missed certain components/checks that I should probably plan ahead for (eg remembering to add a convenient way to handle user profiles for a bot).
America's ten-year-old fentanyl epidemic is still getting worse
OpenAI LP is the designation.
Home insulation doesn’t work by making walls close to vacuum. You insulate walls by stuffing more (but not too much) of stuff into them, not by pumping out air or anything silly like that.

Vacuum is a great insulator, because it blocks two fastest ways of heat transfer, conduction and convection, leaving only radiation. House insulation tries to do the same thing: filling up the wall with fluff blocks air from moving around, which impedes convection. Fluff itself is made from materials of low thermal conductivity, like cotton or mineral wool. At the end of the day, though, filling walls with fluff makes them less like vacuum, not more.
Who is the audience for a driver option for an NVIDIA GPU that isn’t the officially supported one from NVIDIA?
The article content is significantly less outrageous than the title suggests. I think this is one of the most ridiculous misleading headlines I've seen in a long while.

What he said is that "customers aren't willing to pay for the added cost of cleaner fossil fuels". He's not wrong. And this matters because as he also correctly states that "we’ve got to find a way to get the cost down".
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Precisely. I'm all in favour of AI/LLM/GAN/Whatevers being used as _an_ input to the process of human creativity or judgement. They only become troublesome when their output is blindly trusted.
> EDIT: Put some contact info in your profile.

That’s a particularly strange demand to make as someone who doesn’t expose your own contact info.
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Water management is more important than rot resistance. Wood will easily last for 100 years if let it dry. (you'll never be able to keep any part of your house 100% dry).
It is not inherently unsustainable but practically so. You can cut down one thousand year old tree per year for every thousand trees of similar size. I have not done the calculation but maybe a few trees per square mile per year.
They banned my prepaid account, I had few bucks on left on it to test and evaluate some selfhosting services. I didn't try to ask for my money back as I saw it like a pointless time waste trying to contact them.
> If the tech really is dangerous then being more closed arguably is in the public's best interest, and this is certainly the reason OpenAI have previously given.

I contend that a threat must be understood before it can be neutralized. It will either take a herculean feat of reverse-engineering, or an act of benevolence on OpenAI's behalf. Or a lawsuit, I guess.
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This is the kind of societal harm that does warrant (apparently) harsh punishment, because if it gets out of control there is just no way to resolve it.

It doesn't have to be prison-prison; but something like that does call for maybe a Nordic-style prison that isolates society from the low-level but consistent harm.

It's all very tragedy of the commons.
NASA is conducting tests on what might be the greatest challenge of a Mars mission: the trauma of isolation. But how many of these simulated missions do we really need to do?
1k atomic qubits and rising – A new record for atom-based quantum computers
and fraudulent
I recently spoke to one of your operators/strategy people and your product looks quite awesome! We currently use Vendr (which I'm not very happy about) but looking to switch for locally-hosted solution instead due to legal restrictions.

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Or you know, go to the agenda before you leave your hotel and convert it to a PDF….
Why wouldn't they just amend the existing feature so it's accessible?
I don't know much in this space, but if I'm the US Gov I'm happy that all of the attention is on Pegasus and not other (presumably) tens (hundreds) of similar programs out there.
> If Navalny became Russian president

I have lots of respect to the guy, but realistically the only scenario where he would become Russian president would be if the vote for the Russian presidency was conducted in the West. He would win a landslide victory. In Russia though, if you go outside Moscow and St.Petersburg, it's not that people are against him — they simply never heard of him.

In the USSR in the 80s there was a lot of talk of one Angela Davis. She was presented as "the only opposition leader" or something. There's no doubt that if the election for POTUS was conducted in the USSR, she'd win over Reagan by a huge margin. In the USA though not many people knew who she was. So Navalny is the Angela Davis in reverse — the media across the border makes him look like punching in the weight category he does not really belong to.

Regarding Russian political landscape, you can look in any corner, from Gorbachev to Solzhenytsin and anything in between. There are not many points that these people could all agree on. But not a single Russian politician was comfortable with the thought of Ukraine joining NATO. And this includes Navalny too.
If you haven't read the complaint, why comment? It's right there!
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For me, Figure 6 is the most interesting observation: programmers are interacting with Copilot in a statistically different way nights and weekends vs working hours.

I'm guessing (without hard evidence) that this implies day job code-reviewed commits and weekend hobby project/side hustle/startup coding are held to different standards by the developers involved.
If you have to replace your siding wholesale every 20 years to prevent water intrusion - you're not building for "a very long time".
I thought the same way back in 90s. I also thought that a western-aligned Russia would have helped counter act some of China's ambitions. (I was quite puzzled by my college economics professor when he kept saying that increasing trade with China will make China more like the West)
Instead of that, the West more or less nudged Russia in China's arms....It did not have to be this way....
Perhaps, but I'm not sure I live swimming through an invisible ocean of fire retardant chemicals that are in all home furnishings and most clothing and so forth. I'm not exactly a California Prop 65 fan, but I do wonder if those are anything any sane person wants near them.
FreeBSD, specifically, has had jails and Capsicum longer than systemd has existed, and rctl (aka Resource Limits) for about a decade now.

Like I said, systemd is a great init system but it really did not bring anything to the table as far as service management. Apple's abdication of the problem makes sense since they're tightly focused on workstation ever since killing the Xserve line in 2011.