skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building an Arduino Car Gear Shifter Indicator Display [video]
The few thousand of people (worldwide), who were into NLP (Natural Language Processing) and were the drive behind the ML "revolution" - they care, but for other reasons. In like 10 years from now, when you ask for a hotdog but get a sandwich - then you may care too. But hey - that's happening right now, with humans, anyway ! :D
Spinkube: Running WASM in Kubernetes
That's a great way to prevent the formation of new companies.

The result will be very few, very big companies owning the whole economy.

Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
It’s not that you’re wrong, but you miss the depth of the issue. Yes, we know that people are different and there’re many redundant pathways, and every poor bastard probably has his own mutation, etc.

But we need to actually identify the mechanisms, describe them in a lot of detail, and look for very specific biomarkers. That’s what “personalized medicine” is going to be.

It’s extremely difficult to put a study like this together. So many parts can go wrong. So it’s an achievement not just for scientists who published in a good journal, but for the whole humanity.
American apartments are horrible. However, that isn't a problem with dense housing itself so much as how our cities are built.
True, but with Flakes, as long as you didn’t upddate your lock file, you should always be able to rollback to your previous environment.

On NixOS, you can then configure background GC to clean up the Nix store periodically: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=23.11&from=0&size=5...
I'm not advocating taking all social media from kids. Just limits and at least corporate oversight. I grew up in the 80s, with limits on my BBS and AOL time, and I survived.

Now that the Internet is cheap free and everywhere it's reasonable to ask if unfettered access and megacorps need some guardrails.
Chess was a major topic of AI research for decades because playing a good game of chess was seen as a sign of intelligence. Until computers started playing better than people and we decided it didn't count for some reason. It reminds me of the (real) quote by I.I. Rabi that got used in Nolan's movie when Rabi was frustrated with how the committee was minimizing the accomplishments of Oppenheimer: "We have an A-bomb! What more do you want, mermaids?"
You can listen to music or a podcast while standing.

I just plugged in upper west side and midtown Manhattan into google maps... It said 18 minutes via transit. Maybe your commute had more complications, last mile and so on.
> 1. you don't want govt to act for children because "parents"

> 2. you don't want govt to act for adults because they are "rational".

Yes. This is absolutely correct from my perspective. Parents have agency over their children. They are there to guide or, if necessary, inact tyrannical laws.

Adults have agency. Nobody is a victim of TikTok involuntarily. Adults are making a choice to use it or allow their children to use it.

From what exactly is the government saving US citizens by banning TikTok from the app store, or more generally? And how can we be sure that this banning power won't expand over time?
Why Aren't There Any Hit Game Shows on Streaming?
This. A lot of younger folks confuse assertiveness with being confrontational. I made a tactful suggestion that maybe our agendas are too full because we start every meeting ten minutes late. That was too confrontational according to my boss. Lol. I just can’t be quiet when table stakes stuff like this is happening.
Well it is a new age of bipolar world in which it is not wise to use your enemy spyware. Dont forget we have our own.
Or China! China has definitely prohibited American companies from reasonably operating in the US. Reciprocity there makes sense but it does seem that this sort of reciprocity is going further than China had, no?
> My home theater TV is from 2007 (not ancient)

That 17 years old tv almost reaches adulthood!
Our User-Mode WireGuard Year (2022)
Publix Has Crushed Its Rivals in Florida
> On a train you can work, read, listen to a podcast, sometimes eat

I do all of those things in my car while driving too. Maybe not read but I’ve listened to audiobooks. I also sit in Teams meetings, read and respond to emails and IMs on my phone as well when I’m at a stop light. Maybe some people can’t do these things while driving but plenty of us do.
I ran 150,000 GPUs that were individually tuned for maximum performance.

Silicon lottery, where the chip was on the wafer (edges tend to be less reliable), manufacturing batches, component batches, heat, cooling, power supplies, etc... the list goes on and on...

It is understated how much all of this is a huge impactful thing on performance and stability.
The "old way" that nobody talks about is that part of the city would become a slum/shithole, drop in value, be gobbled up by redevelopers, and made into nicer/denser city.

But the other thing is that density is only the solution if you insist people live in certain areas - the US has experienced tremendous growth in many time in history, and not all of them were handled by densification.
python-oracledb is the Python driver for Oracle Database and version 2.1 has been released on Mon 3/11 on PyPl and GitHub

The main changes in 2.1 are:

Support for Oracle Database 23c feature
Support for asyncio is out of pre-release status
Support for internal use of JSON in SODA with Oracle Client 23
Support for fetching and inserting into columns that have the check constraint IS JSON FORMAT OSON enabled.
The most impressive part of this demo, to me, is the robot "seeing" and picking up objects with human-like appendages. I must have missed something, but I was under the impression that this was very hard. As I understand it inverse kinematics is pretty hard - did they solve it with NNs?
As an external observer, I believe you are arguing in bad faith on this subject. Just my 2c.
Ok, since that thread didn't have much frontpage time and has the better URL, I guess we'll merge the comments* thither and re-up that one. Thanks!

* except for the subthread that's specifically about the techdirt.com link
How Not to Predict the Future
Pretty solid approach, been a good read.

CSS performance is underrated as well.
Looks like it does – you can add a rule to set the enabled option to false for all devDependencies. It’s the third example in the docs for the enabled option:

https://docs.renovatebot.com/configuration-options/#enabled
I had a pair of these transceivers when I was in my teens, from a somewhat later period, thanks to my grandfather who refurbished them from his time as a telegrapher at Western Union. Synchronization at startup took ten seconds or so while each unit adjusted its timing and apparently sent a correction signal to the other, drums whirling all the time and gradually matching initial positions. It looked like the most primitive process possible, but worked every time.
It's a historical fact. I'm not saying you're a racist. Those zoning ordinances though definitely are.
Try poking it with a hockey stick (Boston Dynamic style)
Yes but this is true of nearly every illness, and it’s true of natural phenomena in general, and it’s true of most problems in statistical classification.

But we still like to classify things, because it often has predictive power and informs treatment.
Ok, it’s “obvious”. Now find good drug targets. Yeah, you can’t before you quantify all the “obvious” things. The actual patient data and derived insights are precious.
For what it’s worth, it’s a lot harder to get a job right now than it was even just a few years ago.
A LOT of people want to live in such places. However, most of the problems you mention are a result of car dependency and not dense housing itself. Kids have nowhere to play because cars make it unsafe for them to roam. You have no hobbies because you have no places to go to do them. You have no backyard because the roads prevent you from going to the park.

Instead we have to build our houses into huge compounds to do things that we would normally do at community centers, pubs and other public buildings.
The doctrine of not caring what the companies are doing with their time/technology is how we got IBM.
In your example, your side is outnumbered by the residents of a single apartment building.

This whole thread is kind of silly, in that high-density apartments aren't what's going to get built on SFZ blocks in cities and inner-ring suburbs; 3-flats are.
Do you have a non-twitter link?
> younger people [...] faced ageism their whole lives.

You didn't really read that part through before posting, did you?
I'm surprised we haven't seen wafer scale many-core CPUs for cloud data centers yet.
Nice. I get why “Russian” is an insult again, but “Irish”?
We all love, love to kvetch and say spare us our E2EE - stick to older methods of investigation. And I agree! But the old methods take time. More importantly, we want thoroughness. Simply cutting off the leader and throwing him in jail for 8 decades does little for the next kid that gets caught up with the followers.

So if we want one big bust at pretty well the same time to get everyone and avoid letting the hydra re-grow, that means quietly (very quietly) infiltrating the groups, building cases with federal-levels of inescapability, then moving.

It's not like they can even just arrest everyone on one server, either: TFA calls out how it contains both victims and monsters, and that hardly leads to an airtight case anyways

So the FBI trying to keep their investigation out of the news makes sense. It taking awhile to try to get everyone, even if they occasionally move faster for egregious acts, makes sense. Not getting much help from local forces makes sense - this pretty decidedly crosses state lines, and a county sherriff isn't likely to have anything they won't have or can't get ahold of.

Moving slowly is horrifying for the parents of the additional victims that needn't be victims. But being thorough could pay pretty rewarding dividends.
I think the Turing test is subjective, because the result depends on who was giving the test and for how long.
Giant redwoods: largest trees 'thriving in UK'
What does IBM contribute with in this collaboration? The development?
FoxNews and MSNCB are directed internally. An example of American propaganda directed externally would be Voice of America.
They even said "most", probably to avoid the exact question you asked.
I used vi once. In fact I still am, because I can't exit.
Is Anthropic moving faster than OpenAI? Or is OpenAI working on something so big, that they aren't worried by being outpaced. Regardless, I feel like I am watching history in real time.
It is safe to assume it works only for that specific demo, and nothing else.
Often has to do with family obligations, they are a lovable distraction.
There's also no "free speech at all costs" clause. I've always wondered why we allow Chinese companies almost unfettered access to our market when we don't get the same in return. It used to be part of the deal but China was a special case and we held out hope they'd moderate. They have not, so we no longer have to be the one playing by the rules.

That aside, we're not forcing Tiktok to shut down, just forcing them to find a new owner. We're not stopping anyone from posting online, nor are we stopping anyone from posting on tiktok. If anything, this will be good for speech on tiktok, surfacing topics that were banned or deboosted by a company that has to follow the CCP rules.
What exactly is the housing shortage being discussed?
Ongoing thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39693356
I'd guess a similar artist --> designer flow as one is more lucrative financially.

Follow the money as they say.
This assumes that AI will continue to improve at the same pace. GPT3 released November 2022 and yes, there have been staggering improvements since then.

My intuition is that we’re beginning to reach the bounds of what we can do with LLMs. All we’ve been doing is applying the technology to other mediums (images, video, code) and yeah we’ve been seeing some really awesome/terrifying results. It all looks like it’s 80% of the way there, from which the first thought is that in a couple of years it’ll be 100% of the way there and we’ll all be jobless.

This reminds me of the full self driving hype. The demos were so exciting and all that was left was getting these last couple edge cases worked out and then we’d all be in self-driving taxi pods….
In your first comment you said metric year, month, day. So it was unclear since a year and day are inherently solar concepts. It would have been clear if you just went straight to kiloseconds or similar.

You also did not include the Sun in your list which is a fairly big oversight if you meant to do away with the current solar day and year given the Sun is the dominant temporal determinant of our existing calendar system. You excluded the thing that gives the calendar its name. Getting rid of the (Sun and Moon) or (Sun, Earth, and Moon) would have been clearer than the ambiguous (Earth and Moon).
Often the easiest thing to do is increase luxury supply (because by definition the rich have the money to buy).

And unless you have literally infinite incoming new residents or people who want to squat on unrented property, increasing the top-end supply will also increase other ranges. It might still not allow someone on minimum wage to live there, but the total number of units increases - unless you replace cheaper units with more expensive same or less density units.
But what about local Bisbanians? They have lived their whole life with a certain timetable. And now suddenly you want to impose a new timetable on them? For what benefit?

So far, I used to think that people were joking when they advocated abolishing timezones. Now that it seems some are actually serious, then I have a serious question - how do you plan to convince the local population to adopt a completely new time?

For example, I am in SFBA and if there is a vote to shift our time by 8hrs to align with UTC (global timezone), I would vote no. I don't see any benefit in shifting my day by 8hrs and instead of sleeping from 10 to 6, start sleeping from 6 to 2. Oh wait, or would it be 2 to 10? Ah nevermind, too complicated. Let's just continue my current lifestyle because the cost of switch is too high for no obvious benefit to me.
Claude, compose an email response to shift the blame from my latest AI-induced screwup.
You have to spend quite a lot of time thinking about quality and values. It becomes impossible as the size of the “best slice” you’re seeking gets smaller (top half is much easier than top ten percent, etc)

If your values are “everyone should agree with my opinions” you’ll have a garbage biased data set. There are other values though. Bias free is also impossible because having a definition of a perfectly neutral bias is itself a very strong bias.
The government lists certified software, including free applications:

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/e-services/...
My experience with running GPUs is that overclocking tends to go with undervolting and it has zero impact on longevity of the chips themselves. Other components like power supplies, with consumable or hand made things, like hand soldered components, are what end up failing.

We had cards in the worst of the worst environments and they ran fine for years on end.
cd directory/with/Dockerfile
flyctl launch
Part of the problem I think was that each Doble car was basically a one-off. They were expensive, high performance prototypes, not production consumer products. In principle they could have been made more user friendly--in terms of performance specs they were really close to a win (15mpg, powerful, quiet, low water consumption, fast starting) but they were still finicky, high maintenance machines. Higher production numbers could have driven solutions, but the Otto cycle had the advantage there. I wonder if you ran the 1890-1930 experiment 10 times how differently it all might shake out each time.
I don’t understand. How do I transition from a FTE at a corporation to a contractor? How do I get the first contract?
Neither Poincare nor Lorentz are relevant to the genesis of General Relativity.
The only relevant priority dispute is whether Einstein or Hilbert wrote down the correct field equations first. This was after a long correspondence between the two, in which Einstein explained his ideas -- there is no dispute that Einstein "invented" General Relativity. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity_priority_di...
Good philosophy in theory, but it seems you would need the equivalent of United Nations to have some sort of globally enforced policies like that.

Maybe technology is getting to a point where that needs to happen.
It probably depends on the place, but I know academic institutions that want people to leave eventually because indeed not everyone should or can be a professor. It’s part of their mission to also train people for the industry.
EU is doing similar with anti-trust rules and rulings. It is their right to regulate commerce in their jurisdiction, even if that means fining Apple based on world revenue/profits rather than EU revenue/profits.
No, it should only be used about things that don’t exist.
I am this close to building my own CI pipeline. Building a new CI pipeline is a really bad idea, I would be the first to tell you, and it's what I've been telling myself for five plus years now, but it's becoming harder to ignore the disparity between off the shelf tools that solve parts of the CI/CD problem and the ones that are actually used in garbage like Bamboo.

I think the fact that there is no bidding process for agents is a mistake that we need to correct. It's a little used concept in distributed computing, but a powerful one when applicable, and I think the preconditions for a fast build, with all of the docker images and other bootstrapping pipelines is making that cost harder to ignore. We are de facto using heterogeneous networks of worker processes now, and it's starting to reach 8 Fallacies level.

You build a distributed queue for response time or throughput, and we are using the throughput model, more or less, while CI/CD is mostly about response time.
Remarkably cruel law, but this really isn't the forum for this discussion.
Thank you for taking the time. It really helps us define our value proposition and outline the next steps in product development. As you mentioned, the challenge isn't the inability to produce something in-house but rather other product-roadmap priorities. Our goal is to ensure that companies needing to produce many documents —where documents are necessary but not core to their business— can use our solution at a fair price and limiting the pain of creating such solution in house. OnPrem + fixed rate seems to be the best option for high volume. We'll explore this and see what future solutions we can offer to meet these needs!
>or even just clearly being defensive about ageism.

I mean, that makes sense? I would be just as defensive about racism or sexism if the vibe came off in an interview.

>They haven't been staying abreast of current changes, and by that I don't mean jumping on the latest fad but rather knowing that the fads exist.

I guess it depends on the domain. Sure, I can see web moving fast and the someone who focused on at best JQuery may not be needed for a company on Vue or React or whatever. Other domains don't change as radically though, or the tools are usually not as hard to transfer to as some think. People can underestimate the fundamentals at times as they try to expect 10 years of Swift experience out of a candidate.
An investment is an investment, regardless of whether it is expected to yield money, prestige, or knowledge. If a dollar spent on biological research produces more knowledge than a dollar spent on AI research, it makes more sense to spend that dollar on biological research.
In short:

Q: Why do lions exist and unicorns don't, even though it could have been otherwise?

A: Because of the physical laws and initial conditions of our universe.

Q: Why these particular physical laws and initial conditions and not something else?

A: Impersonal First Cause

Q: Could there be other universes with unicorns or anti-gravity?

A: Possible but unknown. This multiverse could still be based on an impersonal First Cause.

My takeaway remains the same: A personal God is a logically valid possibility, but not a logical necessity, contrary to what the book claims.
You can absolutely use native WireGuard, including from `flyctl` (it's an option you can set). When UDP doesn't work, it doesn't work at all, and it's hard to debug, so our default is for the thing that we know will work.

(I say this ruefully, having lost the argument about what our default should be.)
US spyware = OK
Chinese spyware = BAD

And of course the argument to strip citizens freedom to choose what they want to use is in the name of safety! Politicians need a new red herring or I’m going to start thinking they’re either lazy or stupid.

This might be great: Americans will see firsthand how corrupt and oppressive their government can be if it wants to.
I have issues trusting SSHFS. It's never been stable enough for me. Maybe it's because I have to go through at least one ssh proxy, in addition to a VPN. Maybe it's that the remote filesystem is slow enough, so trying to do anything remotely is very slow.

But really, it think it's that I'm already in a terminal connected to a remote system. I don't want to have to go to a different terminal to try and transfer data that I'm already looking at. And trying to use a Finder window (or explorer) to navigate a complex remote filesystem hierarchy isn't fun.

Occasionally I can do my work locally, but usually the data is large enough that I have to do my work on a remote server/cluster. When I generate figures describing my data, I want to see those locally. This particular use-case could be solved by using something like Xpdf, but it's easier to send the figure back to my local machine and view it with Preview.app. If I could view a PDF figure in my terminal -- I'd probably just do that.

I also sometimes do need to send datafiles back to my local computer. In these cases, I could use sshfs (but don't like the duelling terminals) or scp (but my file paths can be long and complicated, so typing out paths is a pain). I used to actually just handle this with Dropbox. I'd have a program that would send files to a specific Dropbox folder and that would then sync to my local computer. That worked well, but the delay between syncing was an issue. I've also tried using a remote tunnel back to an SSH server running on my laptop. That was equally cumbersome.

The two other limits I would like to avoid: 1) no ports, unix sockets only, and 2) no coordinating servers. I try to use only unix sockets so that I can use normal unix permissions to protect the socket. I'd rather not also include an authentication layer if I can avoid it. I'd also like to not need a third-party server to coordinate the connection between the server and my local computer. My remote servers are behind VPNs and while they can access the internet, it's heavily firewalled. If I already have an SSH connection to the remote server, I'd like to tunnel through this if at all possible.

Here's the code/project I wrote to manage this: https://github.com/mbreese/rtun
There’re redundant pathways, but it’s not a million. I guess different mutations can converge to a common phenotype. And in any case, what you present in a study is kind of like a model that you derive from the data. You can probably go deeper, but you’d need more patients/more resources.