skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you will see is the fingerprint of trolling conservative bots, talking about “leftist” this, “woke” that. Same as Twitter. With nothing to back anything up because they’re just shills.
Insanity in the Air: The crash of Pakistan International Airlines flight 8303
> Be conscious of what is going on with sell to cover on RSUs if you go that route, especially shortly after you joined a company or vesting a new grant these will also be sold at short term gains (if the stock went up), also going towards you taxable income. This is an easy way to end up with a surprise monster tax bill.

I don’t think this is true? My understanding, from my company which mandates sell to cover on vest, is that the cost basis is the price on the day of vest. The shares that are sold to cover are sold at the same price so there are no gains or losses and the amount that is sold is (in theory, if you’ve set it up this way) equal to your marginal tax rate so you end up paying around the correct amount to not have a huge tax bill.

If you set your sell to cover % very low, then yes you will have a large tax bill because the vest value is treated as ordinary income and taxed at that rate. I do know some people at my company that intentionally set it to the lowest possible % and invest the difference while paying quarterly estimated tax payments, but it’s too much of a hassle for me personally.
> Such “destination” facilities can offer […] electric vehicle charging

This seems like the most likely reason to me. It's a way to hold on to land in a way that normalizes gas-station-like traffic patterns without the "gas station" stigma. They can be easily converted in the future once electric cars are a large enough percentage of cars that everyone will come to accept fueling as a 30-minute activity instead of a 30-second activity. If they tried to just buy land and keep it empty they would have a hell of a time convincing NIMBY types to tolerate the introduction of charger traffic patterns where none existed in the meantime.
All the differences in the world don't make that little amount of animal hair worth $9k. It's the value adding... mostly via brand development. I mean it says right there in the article that it's worth $280.

BTW why are you talking about cashmere when this is about Vicuna hair?
> But let us not allow the current hysteria about “overwork” to distract us, as a society, from the bigger problem of the number of people dropping out of the labour force. Enough people are lying flat already without more encouragement from management gurus. And let us not use it, particularly in Europe, as another excuse for creating yet more legislation about how much we can work. The last thing that growth-starved economies need is another excuse for taking a nap.

This is hilarious.
Well, considering FPV drones in Ukraine are destroying aircraft, tanks, IFVs etc, that could be an issue. Langley houses F-22s that are basically priceless.
You should look at the immigration number from the other regions to the Tokyo metropolitan region instead. Tokyo is still growing.
I guess we should all stop fixing bugs and creating new feature and enhancements.

My God - if we touch the code, something might break!

Sorry for the sarcasm, but this attitude of fear is so pervasive and unnecessary.

Seriously, isn’t this our job?
I’m a fan of LetterBoxed, too.

The NYT’s solutions are always two words, which I rarely get on my own. But once, a couple of years ago, I discovered a one-word solution to one day’s puzzle: LEXICOGRAPHY. Very elegant, I thought to myself smugly.

I happened to remember that solution a couple of months ago, and I decided to see if I could find others. I am not a programmer, but by asking ChatGPT 4 for help I was able to create a Python program and run it in Google Colab using a large list of English words that I had compiled from various online word lists.

Here is the beginning of the resulting list of one-word solutions to LetterBoxed:

acetylcholinesterase [a c e] [h i l] [n o r] [s t y]

acetylcholinesterases [a c e] [h i l] [n o r] [s t y]

achondroplastic [a c d] [h i l] [n o p] [r s t]

acknowledgement [a c d] [e g k] [l m n] [o t w]

acknowledgment [a c d] [e g k] [l m n] [o t w]

The code that ChatGPT 4 wrote for me and the full list of solutions are here:

https://gally.net/temp/20240318onewordsolutionstoletterboxed...
Ray sounded like me when I get a phone call at 3 am.
Yes, and then someone needs to check that proof. It’s not particularly clear if that decompilation proof would be any more helpful than just doing the lifting by hand.
That is why I'm saying the goal post moved.

Only couple years ago, people would argue vehemently that dogs are not conscious. Now it seems as a given that they are, lot of people agree on dogs.

But are cats?

Pigs are 'smarter' than dogs, but nobody cares really about eating them. Are they not conscious. How are we determining dogs are, but pigs aren't?

There were long stretches of time when 'intelligence' was a benchmark for 'consciousness'.

That was ok as long as humans were way far ahead of every other animal.

Suddenly, with AI showing a lot of 'intelligence', now that isn't the measurement we want to use anymore.

But if intelligence isn't the measure of consciousness, and dogs are conscious, then why are we ok with eating animals?
There’s search radars, which is the ones you see in movies that spin in a circle or arc and continuously scan the whole area with updates for all returns every second or so. These are also what all ATC towers have.

Then there’s tracking radars which point at one thing and track it continuously.

This is a simplification, and some radars can switch between track and scan.

In other words, a scan radar can and does track many objects at once, but at lower update frequencies.

The other thing to keep in mind is that every plane on that air force base has its own radar, in addition to multiple ground units and most can be interlinked for a more complete picture.
New York state government website seems to disagree https://www.tax.ny.gov/forms/current-forms/it/it201i.htm#nys...
More like $13b.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/since-elon-musks...
True, but this article is complaining about the opposite - the housing market can't sustain today's prices because of high interest rates.

What you're talking about is what the fed is already try to do - bring inflation down with high interest rates.
People who are into shoes (e.g., sneakerheads) do clean their soles.
Modern radar systems (note, not all of the radar systems currently being used even by the US military would be considered 'the most modern') should be able to handle a wide variety of targets at a variety of sizes, altitudes, ranges and speeds all at the same time. That being said, radars still fundamentally work by spewing radiation into specific regions of the sky - the more things that a radar needs to track, the more it needs to spread its power around.

Aside from the hard hardware limitations of the radar, what is more likely to be overwhelmed is either the attention and focus of human operators, or whatever software is being used to support the human operator.
> for those too young to remember or not part of the phreaking crowd

Always important to remember that the telecom revolution was underway in 1890, let alone 1990. I still think the telephone system trumps the Internet in terms of revolutionary impact on society.
Body Problem: Game of Thrones creators on why they swapped dragons for aliens
Imagine if the Fed also pretended it had the duty to keep eggs expensive because egg producers might want refinance their loans.
Seems like an odd revive since International Scouts are relatively unknown outside enthusiast groups.
P-Cores and E-Cores make engineering sense, that's why they do it. Having every core with the same feature set and maximum clock wastes energy and heat for no measurable gain in the majority of real-world workloads.
I recall Elon saying something like this in an interview so I think it’s less of a deceptive take then perhaps your comment suggest.

I think he said something like proprietary AI tech is going to be one year to 18 months ahead of where open source tech is which will follow on like one year to 18 months later.

Suggesting that he’s aware of this dynamic and he’s not trying to conceal or misrepresent that.

In other words, perhaps this was SOTA one year to two years ago?
The irony is that car washes are the result of regulation in the first place because if you eliminated parking requirements, ridiculously low insurance minimums etc there'd be a lot fewer cars that needed washing.

It's kind of odd to frame intervention in anything car related as an intrusion on the free market when it's one of the most artificially and politically constructed sectors to begin with.
MoE has the same “loading” RAM requirements as any other model with the same total parameters (not just for the fixed portion plus whatever experts are activated at any one time) because it has to load all the parameters. The additional needed because of context may be lower (not sure), but the big difference is that it has much better inference speed (and, as a result, can be tolerable with layers split between VRAM and system RAM where a similarly-sized non-MoE model would not.)

> So if this was quantized using ~4 bits per parameter you’d need ~40GB of vram.

No, Mixtral 8x7B (which is a total of 45 billion parameters, because there is a shared portion of the 7B, so its not 56 billion) at 4-bit quantization takes ~29GB [0]. A 314B model is ~7 times as large; with a similar architecture its not going to take only another 1/3 as much RAM.

[0] https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1-GGUF
That's quite a jump, and it's very telling.

The planet would actually be much better off without humans living on it. Why blow it up? Leave it to squirrels and manatees and so on.
https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=247046 explains the situation (posted below).

See also:

https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/new-york-st...

“However, New York also has a provision called tax-benefit recapture, which essentially turns its progressive tax into a flat tax for high earners, says Eric Bronnenkant, head of tax at Betterment and a certified public accountant.”
Then that’s basically saying there is a O(n^2) algorithm which I dealt with in my first sentence.
This felt more true a decade ago but there’s been a lot of improvement in both languages (e.g. Rust) and libraries - I routinely see most of the cores on my Macs fully loaded for things like working with media files which used to be single-threaded.
> It's a safe bet that a lot of companies which employ software engineers are currently tripping over themselves to get on the Devin waitlist

Why is that safe to say? You just said this was announced yesterday. I don't think Devin is standing out to anyone right now.
I believe Intel E-cores are all about maximizing performance. Each E-core has 40-50% of the performance of a P-core, but it only takes ~1/4 of the space. You need a few fast cores for tasks that don't parallelize well, but beyond that, you really want to maximize performance per die area and/or power efficiency.

It's a bit inconvenient that all cores are not identical, especially in real-time applications such as video games. Some schedulers may also not be able to use them well automatically. But if you care mostly about throughput, E-cores are superior to P-cores.
Because Americans don’t want a healthcare system that tells grandma they’re too old for expensive surgery.
In my observation, Americans are especially bad at managing their finances.
I think the Fed's biggest problem is that setting interest rates has never shown to be a broadly effective way to control inflation, but it's the only tool they currently have. The most provably "effective" way that they can work is to raise rates to the point where it crushes the economy and there is a huge recession (which usually also brings down inflation), but up until that point they really don't seem to work very well. And obviously pushing everyone into recession, while in a way effective at bringing down inflation (because it makes it so most people can't afford to buy anything anyway), it's not a good way of doing it either. So it's altogether just bad policy to try and control the economy that way.

We've been running this experiment for a few decades now, and I think people really have to start pointing out that it's entirely failed.
Ideal decompilers do not exist. In some sense they can never exist as compilers are lossy, but even taking a liberal view of “high level understanding of the resulting code” this is essentially the AGI for computer security. Nobody has come close to it!
I don't know why there are suddenly so many, but I do know that a large majority of them are a complete waste of time and money. Only use a car wash if they have filtered water -or- you have salt on your vehicle (i.e. driving on salted winter roads). Paying for anything else is a large waste of money, as your car will still look dirty when it dries. Yes, that under spray is the most important part of the wash if you are driving on salted roads. Don't skip it.
Unlike those extremely rich horse carriages of days yonder.
I feel the same way, but I actually take some comfort from it.

Not to get too woo woo on you, but personal experience suggests to me that it is possible to be conscious without having an ego or sense of self and that a state of mind where that is largely absent is characterised by a lack of distinction between the vestigal self and everything else.

I'm not dismissive of the idea that consciousness doesn't necessarily exist 'in the brain' but is in fact a fundamental part of the universe.
No, we forget about that time when we ran up house prices so fast they doubled in like 10 years before crashing, catching people who had been allowed to borrow massively on the worth of houses, debt marked AAA.
UK and Australia has universal healthcare and doesn’t tax entry level people that highly.
If torn jeans can be a fashion statement, then so too can an unwashed car. Let them have this, why don't you?
Prices will go further up when interest rates go down. Interest rates haven't been raised enough to reign in inflation.
I actually wrote some thoughts about this a few months ago [0]. tmux actually does a really good job in this regard, the config language is fairly simple, and if you want to do more complicated things you just shell out and then use the CLI which is great because it exposes all the things you can do in a config file.

[0]: https://willhbr.net/2024/01/18/the-code-config-continuum/
I think the frame here is just off. There are two things happening:

1) It is so cheap to communicate there is no point going through the media. Wikileaks maintained their own website to get information out, the interaction with journalists seemed to be a little bit of a nod to a world that is rapidly disappearing. In Australia, we've had some very hard-hitting investigative work done by some random YouTuber called friendlyjordies who poked a bear that the media would never touch and got himself firebombed, twice. We don't seem to need the media to be bold to get big stories out there now; people with big stories can just tell them directly to the world.

2) I think it is highly suspect that the media have ever really been bold storytellers. It is much more likely that they've been playing defence for the rich and powerful pretty much forever. Since the internet has become a serious force we've discovered that the corporate media are not only remarkably homogeneous, but also dumber and more willing to suppress stories than might reasonably anticipated in the 90s and also highly entrenched with the existing political elite. Their death at the hands of the swarm of podcasters and influences is much deserved and will hopefully play out.
Foreboding of GPT-4.5 release?
Currently cannot. At end of the day interceptors and CIWS are still constrained by magazine depth.

Ghetto 10-50k propellor drones with 2000km+ theatre range are (basically stand off capabilities) now are just (very) poverty mans subsonic TLAMs, which themselves are weaponeered in strike packages to account for interception, ecm, duds etc. But they're still sent in numbers designed to overwhelm finite local defense.

Ground reality right now is most US bases can get away with CIWS and interceptors because current garbage cheap propellor drones (Iran) are limited to dumb bulk drone attacks. But once you add some autonomous intelligence and coordinated swarm ability, a swarm of cheap propellor drone that can do basic evasion can make counter drone warfare unsustainably inefficient. A CIWS with 1500 rounds has 25-30 burst, a remotely reactive propellor drone that bleeds 3 bursts instead of 1, or a longer burst because it's no longer on a predictable trajectory and all of sudden base defense scaled to engage 200 targets goes dry engaging 50. Maybe INS and software enables limitted onboard compute to hug terrain lower, navigate in low covered approachces etc. Now an adversary who can't coordinate a 300 drone attack, can manage to pierce defense with 100. Optmize even more when software improves onboard target recognition and that tiny payload goes strait for vunerable assets. Or if base defense destroyed, it could loiter (because propeller) and lock down base for hours while defenders hide in hardened shelters. Or just glide itself into structures and sit around as unexploded ordnance that goes boom if cheap webcam recognizes motion / battery runs out. IMO there's a lot of capabilities that can be milked from a cheap platform.

The next thing you know the entire economics of said base defense stops being viable. The potential danger with intelligent autonomous swarms is it's feasible that eventually they'll make the cannon fodder to successful attack exchange unfavourable / unsustainable to defenders.
All else aside I love the color palette
Copyright just asserts who gets to set the terms.

GPL is just a particular set of terms.

GPL never meant no copyright or no terms. In fact it sets very strict terms, just not very many, not very complicated, and not the usual ones.

You never knew the basic premis or theory of how the gpl works?
IDK, I used to drive all over the Phoenix valley pre-covid in my cab and most of new business construction I would see was either a car wash or coffee shop. I was messing around on google maps one day and there was something crazy like seven starbucks within reasonable walking distance of my apartment including two in the same shopping center.

I always thought the car wash construction boom had something to do with water conservation, Phoenix being in the desert, but apparently not.
"Quick lube" stations are everywhere too though. $20 and out in 10 minutes. This was more like "quick lube plus car wash," not "oil change, free 97 point inspection, and upsell on six things that aren't even wrong with your car."
> housing market crashed the economy and took down a bunch of banks

or, "a bunch of banks crashed the economy and took down the housing market"
It is interesting, isn't it? Statistics show that everything is rosy, and yet people's lived experience doesn't seem to match: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/05/biden-headaches-sta...

You dismiss Reddit so readily. You must believe 90% of Russians support Putin. After all, that is also an official number published by a government authority.
Exactly this.

You can get in Trouble for buying a commercial pr industrial property and living in it (though if you’re slick and quiet about it nobody may ever know).
“Balls = Unemployment”

A small price to pay. :)
The article is kind of all over the place. Let's see ..

- It says one of the reasons is that people (Trump) threatened to "open up libel laws". Which, didn't happen, but even if it did .. they "lost their nerve" because someone threatened that they'll actually be liable if they lie? Maybe if they didn't constantly lie they wouldn't have to worry about consequences for lying?

- It makes vague claims about how the news fears to say bad things about people/companies because they'll pull their support .. as if that wasn't always a thing? How about if they just do fair, impartial journalism, rather than biased political hit pieces? Then people wouldn't get so outraged and pull out of your platform?

- I like how it swaps around cause and effect. It argues that lawyers suing media organizations have become more common, and so they've "lost their nerve" as an effect. No ... it's the other way around .. media organizations becoming absolute trash, biased, profit seeking, propaganda peddlers have resulted in them being sued more often.
My most recent reference was $35 in Indianapolis in 2017. It doesn't surprise me that it'd be up, but it surprises me that it doesn't exist in New England. $60 wouldn't seem out of line to me, given that a quick lube station will change my oil for $20 and an automated car wash is another $17.
What about my post suggests I'm laughing anything off? I'm agreeing with you.
Or even "here's the Linux Kernel makefiles, no sources included, enjoy".
It's interesting to me that the examples mentioned as milestones against free journalism are also cases in which I sided with those doing the accusations. If the fall of Gawker and the judgements against Fox News is what it takes to take down journalism, and/or if our hopes for salvation rest on the shoulders of Axel Springer, then maybe journalism has been doomed for a while?

I'm optimistic there are other, better examples for the points the author is making. I just found it odd that they would choose those specific ones.
The difficulty of SQL stems from relational algebra
> I can’t be the only one excited to see Optimus on the runway.

I'm sure Starscream would take issue with that.

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Man, I need a life...
> The safety crap makes the tools unusable

For you that may be the case.

But the widespread popularity of ChatGPT and similar models shows that it isn't a serious impediment to adoption. And erring on the side of safety comes with significant benefits e.g. less negative media coverage, investigations by regulators etc.
The western world's workers fought bloody and deadly battles to get decent hours. Also, every single Chinese Dynasty has always ended in a peasant revolt. Just be glad they are laying down.
A battlefield front line in Eastern Europe is a far cry from a USAF base surrounded by 3 letter agencies.

I would bet that the people who invented drone warfare have some awareness of the risks.
And this “backfiring” is it in the room with us now? Keeping low priority tasks from blocking other work that needs the performance is a great feature.
I don't get it? When I wash my cars I like to go all out and clay them and wax them. And then the next morning there's a nice layer of dust. And the morning after that the morning dew has cemented that dust on.

Even a 3 year old car that has been washed twice a week at an automatic wash is going to look a lot worse than a 5 year old car that occasionally gets a good hand wash. The constantly auto washed car is going to be full of swirls and maybe even a screwed up antenna or spoiler or rear wiper blade because car washes like eating those.

Plus even the most aggressive automatic car wash isn't going to actually CLEAN a car. Even the laziest 20 minute rinse/soap/rinse/dry is going to clean a car better than an automatic car wash does. And if you use good microfiber towels ($13 for a pack of 36 at costco) and pretty much any microfiber sponge ($5 at walmart or whatever), and something like meguairs gold class wash and wax ($15 for a big bottle at walmart) you're set for at least 2-3 years.

Err anyway... "doesn't take care of their stuff" - I reserve that for people who never clean the inside of their car, people who ram into curbs and mess up their bumper getting out, and people who slam their doors into other peoples' cars.