skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite surprised to see something of this genre discussed here without any mention of the obvious benefits in industrial process.

By normalizing the spatial representation of the captured image, it is possible to perform quantitative analysis without any additional processing overhead or associated temporal delay.

Presumably sharp focus and a lack of distortion would grant similar benefits when training machine learning for visual applications.

Source: Own multiple books on the early era of photography when tilt-shift was a normal feature ("view cameras") and have designed a fair number of autonomous optical systems. The best book I have, for the benefit of others, is View Camera Technique (7th Edition).
I would not lose sleep over storing data on GCS, but have heard from several Google Cloud folks that their concept of zones is a mirage at best.
I think it's worth making a distinction between values and methods in many contexts, including here. Alignment enabling collaboration across value systems or sometimes even priorities can be much harder to achieve, and some would say undesirable depending on the context

For example, I've met a whole spectrum of viewpoints framed in reaction to the severe and growing housing crisis (esp. in the SF bay area) on this very website, some of which I could see acting as a strong filter on whether I would want to collaborate with someone
If you think NYT has a right wing editorial department then you really are left wing as they come. I can only imagine how left wing FT's editorial department is.
Without any intention to sound cute: look inside it, remove o-ring. It really is that simple.
Exactly right imo. It's frustrating to see people treat these few surviving cultures as if they are the only ones worth preserving, as if all the others are a waste of time. I think this results in a lot of resentment.
I mean, that's a fine argument for changing the law. By all means go ahead and try to gather support for your cause, nothing wrong with that. It just doesn't follow that the rest of society not being willing to customize its culture 100% to every individual's personal liking is a human rights violation.
We're trying to emulate a human response here? Most people would assume that "what is about to happen" implies that the scene isn't static and unchanging. The answer to every "what's happening in this photo" is actually "nothing it's a snapshot in time, there is no change", but that's definitely not what we're after. It's perhaps a petulant tweenager/young-teen response? 'Ha, gotcha, nothing is happening in a photo, were you thinking of video!?'?
LLMs are trained to sound confident.

But they can also only do negation through exhaustion, known unknowns, future unknowns, etc...

That is the pain of the Entscheidungsproblem.

Even in Presburger arithmetic, Natural numbers will addition and equality, which is decidable, still has a double factorial time complexity to prove. That is worse than factorial time for those who've not dealt with it.

Add in multiplication then you are undecidable.

Even if you decided to use the dag like structure of transformers, causality is very very hard.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3076

LLMs only have cheap access to their model probables which aren't ground truth.

So while asking for a pizza recipe could be called out as a potential joke if add a topping that wasn't in its training set, through exhaustion, It can't know when it is wrong in the general case.

That was an intentional choice with statistical learning and why it was called PAC (probably approximately correct) learning.

That was actually a cause of a great rift with the Symbolic camp in the past.

PAC learning is practically computable in far more cases and even the people who work in automated theorem proving don't try to prove no-instances in the general case.

There are lots of useful things we can do in BPP (bounded probabilistically polynomial time) and with random walks.

But unless there are major advancements in math and logic, transformers will have limits.
Sadly boss says I have to be signed in and interrupted constantly.

I'd switch work if this wasn't just the status quo.
I use LinkDing and use the "injector" extension to come back to results later, hence read-it-on-relevance (so far it worked a couple of times, but 90% or more is read-it-never with some eventual read-it-later when commuting by train for example)
I don’t know enough about the door plug, but TFA also implicates the MCAS scenario. In that case, not only were there design flaws, but had the engineers followed their own internal design processes, the flaws could have been mitigated better.
Good on you for putting it out there. Feedback helps you grow, even if it is sometimes painful. Don't be discouraged!
Many Used Computers Are Dirt Cheap Again
This is how @Meta AI works as well. the conversation can continue as it generates it's response, you can see the chat bubble visible growing. No need to press stop.
A major reason people form isolated communities is because they are rejected by the wider community in the first place. Phobia of people different than oneself needs to be actively addressed, and positive cross cultural interactions need to be actively encouraged.
Old news. It’s been an employers market for a while now.
i agree he sucks, but my point is let's criticize him for being a racist transphobe asshole and not make up shit that also disparages teams at Tesla that do incredible work and are awesome people
The WSJ opinion side is uniformly conservative and pro-GOP / anti-Dem/liberal.

The NYT is very different: They cover the spectrum, from Ross Douthat who is pretty far right, (edit: to David French, rational religious right) to Brett Stephens (former WSJ opinion page editor) to David Brooks (more center-right), and more. The notable exception is no pro-Trump writers, but they are not bound to publish lies and nonsense.

Progressives think the NYT is a corporate tool. I wonder what the far right thinks of the WSJ.
I’m a long-time FT reader. It’s certainly a finance paper at heart, which means a certain cold calculus in its outlook of the world. But unlike, say, Bloomberg, it also writes about culture and food and pop music, interviews artists, takes books seriously, even has a lively fashion section.

So for Americans, maybe it’s like Bloomberg via the New Yorker set in London (making regular trips to the continent).

I have to say, the FT has a bizarre blind spot that it shares with almost all other UK media: trans rights. They write about trans people with tones and assumptions that remind of how gays were treated in media in the 1970s. Recently the FT interviewed Judith Butler, and wasted a lot of time (hers and the readers’) on nonsense like “aren’t trans women rapists”.

But at least they made the effort to interview someone like Judith Butler, who is outside of the comfort zone of their readership. The WSJ wouldn’t do that.
If you consider Texas more liberal than California purely on the basis of home affordability it is clear you're not interested in making a serious point.
Tesla's primary R&D and manufacturing operations are in the San Francisco Bay Area. How does that impact land values in Southern California?
I never said it was either-or.

Some people are super competent and have a great attitude while others can be below average and make everyone around them miserable. I’ve seen every combination.
https://archive.is/7zRlB
Edit: assuming the parent wasn't changed, I misread it and I'm correcting this comment. Sorry.

Re: the NYT's editorial department:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39661650
Mostly.

People tend to dismiss Palestinians deaths 'cause Hamas.

Making Palestinians "worth" only 1/14 of the superior nation citizens, Israeli, hopefully highlights what we are doing -- some lives seem to be less worthy than others.
Perhaps I'm jaded but I can't help seeing a subtext in reports like these which goes something like, "Large, institutional national policing agency in an era of historically positive trends in most significant crime metrics funds report forecasting alarming trends which will require increasing both funding and political influence of large national policing agency."
I'm not Nick but I feel I have watched his channel long enough to answer these questions.

> did they send you the test unit for free? do you get to keep it? or did you go out to buy it so you are sure you did not get a selected unit?

Most of the review units for the dozens of different Linux laptops he reviews are temporary units he has to send back. Sometimes they are pre-production runs, sometimes regular consumer runs, etc. I believe he did buy a Tuxedo Slimbook a few years ago out of pocket separate from the products of theirs he has reviewed on the channel.

Nick is legit though. If there is a problem with a laptop he mentions it. If the laptop is nice but pretty high priced he mentions it. If it has failures because the people making it didn't actually "try to use it" he mentions that.

> Because if you can only afford these tests if the unit is provided to you, the channel would not exactly be fine without their support

There are a lot of ways it could be done. By no means do we need companies to send review units to YouTubers. They are doing this because THEY are competing to get their product seen. If they are stupid enough to stop interacting with the communities that build the worlds around their products we will (a) continue to look at products by companies that aren't that stupid and (b) crowdsource the products and information ourselves. I would be willing to get say a 30% discount on a laptop if Nick wants to get it shipped to him first for review.
Yeah I think if the prices are predictable it would be less of an issue, but if it’s based on oscillations in demand, then you can’t know in advance if you’re going to pay normal or extra pricing.
I've tried quickly on my phone, but it's too hard to use:

- I normally prefer to click on the piece and then on the target square. It doesn't work here, I think only drag & drop is supported.

- But drag & drop is broken, as it's scrolling the page at the same time as the piece.

I like the concept, I'll try again later on laptop.
"Our job market"? Is hacker news only intended for a US audience?
Yes we should totally get rid of any oversight of large companies, because they will totally continue to put the safety of their customers ahead of making profit number bigger.

They totally won't screw you over and/or kill people due to poor design choices if it means they can save a buck.
I'd be careful about over-regulation and liabilities (especially criminal liability). Such has completely crushed the general aviation business. This is why Cessnas flying today are all from the 1960s. Their engines require leaded gas, which is a big problem, but regulation and liability has made it impractical to develop a modern engine.

I.e. not only is innovation crushed by regulation, liability also prevents any new designs, because new designs always carry an element of risk.

Criminal liabilities mean people will do their best to deny it and cover it up, rather than fix it. The incredible safety of aviation today is not the result of punishing people who make mistakes.
> I'm sure there's a Milton Keynes.

I‘ve watched the series, and had no idea there‘s a city of that name!

How… why does it look like a given name and family name?
Google Cloud Storage supports create-if-not-exist and compare-and-swap on generation counter. S3 is much harder to use as a building block without tying your code into a second system like DynamoDB etc.

https://pkg.go.dev/cloud.google.com/go/storage#Conditions
Depending on how you want to do it, the hypotheses that get probabilities can be represented as computer programs that predict the input the agent receives. If done correctly (perfectly if you want it to be absolute) the probability-weighted sum of the calibration metrics won't ever go down.
AKA "bend dexter", in the sense of heraldry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend_(heraldry)

(Credit for this observation goes to Ryvar in the Metafilter discussion of this article.)
> In the end we are all particles

citation needed
Be an adult and say "hey man, I know you're excited about Bitcoin but I'm tired of hearing about it. Please stop bringing it up."

Then it's up to them to either respect that or not, and you to remain friends or not.
> That's a rather bold claim, unless you're a mind-reader.

It seems like you have me confused with someone else in the thread who used the phrase "wild accusation" and are responding rudely. I think your original comment was needlessly exaggerated and inflammatory and defending it, instead of clarifying it, is a bad look. Clearly you have an axe to grind with Apple, and my advice to you is you should put a little more effort into hiding it if you want others to take you seriously.
That's pretty funny given the traditional knock on big paper journalism was how left-wing they were. (They were/are very mainstream whatever that means.)
The true, dramatic story of Robert Downey Jr.'s 'Oppenheimer' villain
> build intermediate build files e.g. *.o (created by make)

In all these years I've yet to see another person (other than me) to use ramdrive for temporary files. Is everyone okay with slow compilation and SSD rape or am I missing something?
> This opens the door to cheap remote land. Lot of cottage land in northern Ontario goes for pennies and has acres.

Where do you look for this? Those don't typically show up on MLS/realtor.ca I'm guessing.

> you can just acorn and get way ahead.

autocorrect/typo?
I'm not so sure that a right to give me a cold is a good idea... Especially when there are options like outdoor air ventilation that reduce the spread of airborne viruses.

Maybe there should be some sort of liability for preventable spread of disease.
There are related compounds that people regularly expose themselves to in much higher concentrations: behentrimonium chloride, cetrimonium chloride, and the same cations paired with other anions. They’re used in hair products, apparently in concentrations above 5%.

For those who, as the article describes, think they’re maybe harmless unless inhaled, you can buy hair detangling sprays. Maybe you’re supposed to only use them outdoors while hearing a very well-fitting mask?
At least one, obviously, and a rather large one at that.

The point of the comment you replied to is that conventional CV software can recognize the patterns in tests like Ravens Progressive Matrices just fine, and a simple logic tree can then solve them, while the LLM approach is still struggling to get the same result.

This a commonplace shortcoming of the current generation of LLMs: ironically, they often fail at tasks which computers can do perfectly using conventional software.
> You can handle conditionals much better

Because you can have a core set up for each branch and just pass to that vs. “context-switching” your core to execute the branch that ends up being taken?
This is hard to read. Is this a bad AI generation or a bad machine translation of an original article?
> The Arctic ocean is going to belong to the US and the sooner our local elite understands, the better they can negotiate and get their cut.

I don't know about that, the Russians are way ahead of everybody in developing their Arctic and ability to protect their interests there. As a Canadian, I, personally, would like us to join the Belt & Road. Going forward, my belief is that our interests are more aligned with Russia and China and the growing Global South. Let us get rid of our colonial shackles once and for all, eh?!
Does anyone know of an earlier example of the trope of having a magic box choose your class in a novel?
I think this is an underrated point in these discussions. There are three components to every job: how much value other people get out of you doing it, how much value you get out of doing it, and how many other people want to do it. Whether it's game development or adjunct prof'ing, employers know when the job their offering has benefits beyond pure salary, and they adjust that salary accordingly. The humanities grad students I knew weren't stupid. They could see the statistics in front of them. But staying the university world for a bit longer, and seeing other people do the same, tempted them down that path, and continues to tempt a surprising number of them.
My favorite Asimov. What particularly resonates with me is the idea that creators create. They create because something inside makes them do it, it's not about pay, or relationships, or people.

It comes out in all kinds of ways. In mundane tasks like cooking, or music, or art. Or, in a few cases, programming.

Over a long career I've come to agree with Asimovs premise. You cannot simply tell someone to create. They either have it or they don't. Equally you cannot tell a creator not to create. They will, whether you like it or not.

And yes, it's a very rare attribute. Most people can be trained to do a task really well. Very few can create.

Lucky indeed is the creator who gets paid to create. Having a job with the freedom to create is the ultimate success.
MLC Chat is already on the App Store and allowed to be used. I haven't used Yi with it, but a quantized Mistral or Llama runs quite well on an iPhone 15. See https://llm.mlc.ai. "Apple GPT" is also rumored to be coming too.

It is processor and therefore battery intensive but it already won't kill your battery inside of 30 minutes. Obviously it will be worse for resource usage than an app if it's always kept running by some OS level process and set as the processing layer for every trivial thing but it seems like cheaper input handling could decide to promote some input up to being evaluated by an LLM or not.
> Boeing’s board needs to be fired and some executives probably need jail time.

You're advocating for punishing specific people before any evidence has pointed to their guilt, which feels like the opposite extreme of treating everyone as blameless (which is also not what blameless fact finding is about, as other replies correctly pointed out).
Having some visibility into the WSJ... it's conservative but not MAGA.
That’s not to say that it’s not an accepted name. If your heritage/lineage/culture includes a name not on this list you can rather easily get an exception from these rules. Although, if not, you’re pretty much stuck with this list.

Never been a fan of the naming commitee. Sure, their reasoning may be to uphold Icelandic heritage, but honestly I always feel like that reasoning is a slippery slope into nationalism. But I do support having a naming committee to prevent asshole parents from naming their kid Kúkur or something.
iOS already has app with LLM running locally on iPhone:
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mlc-chat/id6448482937

I've also tried a few Android LLM apps, all running more than 30min.

Current LLM models are not running constantly on the phones to drain your battery. They just run when responding to a prompt. It by no means consumes more battery than a heavy game.
That would cost a pretty penny in Socal!

As long as the Hyde Amendment is in play, this is not a civil right imo.
It peetty much looks like that; Boeing admitted there is no documentation to come by, it was not the only time the mistake happened and we have rather credible whistelblower. Add to that a DoJ investigation, and the above looks like a realistic scenario.

We will know once the FAA and NTSB did their investigation and audits, and published their reports.

Just to repeat: When you work in aerospace, you do not work on an aircraft without documenting your work and any deviations or non-conformities. Period. And even if you are forced and pressured by higher ups to do so, you do it properly. The fact that we have a whistleblower tells me rank and file are less than happy with the status quo so. Doesn't change the fact that someone made a serious mistake working on an aircraft. That alone is serious, even if it wouldn't have resulted in an incident.
I wonder: is there a version of the show available without the audience laughter in the background?
As much as I love California doomerism, the "suicide pact" is fraying and we should appreciate that. Split roll for commercial property tax assessments only lost by 2% on the ballot in 2020 which is a winnable margin. There are many statewide bills passed and proposed for loosening regulation. The legislature is working on reforming outdated insurance regulations that have precipitated the current crisis, etc.

The state has problems but they are not as structural and intractable as most people want to be believe.
Yeah, I just talked with a Rivian engineer (who owns a Tesla) and he said that all these vehicles have mechanical pulls, but the problem is that they are hidden and people don't know where they are. It's kind of odd the article didn't mention this fact and enlighten the readers as to how to avoid the same fate!

Here's how to do it in a Model 3. [1] Apparently it differs by vehicle.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu-tJc-BgaI
I'm so jaded and bitter about the industry, this article triggered me a bit, but the advice is generally in the right direction.

> During the final five minutes, when candidates can ask questions, Chen posed as many as he could fit in (I let the interview run over).

I'm probably making a big deal out of a few words here, but how much enthusiasm am I really suppose to have towards a company and culture where I'm generously allowed (/s) to ask questions during the final 5 minutes?

> In training new bar-raisers at Amazon

I don't know who this "bar-raiser" term applies to, hopefully everyone? Everyone wants to be a bar-raiser, but I bet most of them are trying to raise the bar in ways that are important to them but not valued by the company. How much enthusiasm am I suppose to have for a company that doesn't value the things I do? Yet when I accept that my bar-raising efforts are not appreciated by the company and instead try to just work for a paycheck and nothing more, then I have the attitude problems the article warns against.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Chen was a new developer? I was enthusiastic like Chen once, but 20 years in the industry ruined me, and it will ruin Chen too I bet.

</rant>

A true piece of advice here is that the most important thing you can do in an interview is make the interviewers like you. Chen lacked the required skilled, everyone "agreed that he missed the technical bar across the board", but they offered him the job. Why? Because they liked him. Making the interviewers like you is the most important thing you can do.

Being naively enthusiastic and subservient to power is a way to do this. Consider faking it if you really need the job.

I also suggest thinking out loud through any technical discussions or problems you work on. Imagine a good Twitch streamer playing a video game you've played before, you know how to solve the problems, and it's quite enjoyable watching someone else work though the same problem again, especially if they are vocal about it in an engaging way. The interviewers know the problems, and they enjoy watching other people work though the problems that they already know how to solve. It's more fun for the person doing the interview too; lower the tension, get a conversation flowing, show that you can collaborate on problems well, that's more important that stoically solving the problem in silence.
I dont know how to answer this rant. Other than that you missed a chance to convince me.
The SEC's mandate is to enforce the accuracy of financial disclosures. It's not their mandate to ensure that a business model is appropriate. Only that it is transparent to investors.

From their perspective, it would be management, investors, and the FAA who had the responsibility to ensure Boeing was behaving appropriately.