skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would that be a requirement? There's no need to understand, or state, the contents of a bill in order to pass it.

But there do have to be contents, and whatever you put in there is subject to media coverage.
>> And especially tons of modern-life induced stress

Actually there was an article on HN a few days ago which differentiated work-related distress between stress (induced by too much work) and anxiety (induced by too little work).

It's become a nuisance in the background now after many years but each new task usually brings both these 'joys':

1) When I first get "Do/change/add X into the giant ball of mud of application that noone completely understands", I first get anxiety. Literally I have no idea not just how am I going to implement that but if it's at all possible. The definition of "anxiety caused by too little work" still goes, because I'm not "working" (not anything palpable like lines of code that can be measured and PRs be made). I'm just 'thinking', but that isn't much considered in business. Can't charge the customers for 'thinking', you need to produce.

2) Once I get familiar with the complexity involved and have some idea on how things can be solved, it's already too late in the sprint phase, it should have been done already. Now follows stress of delivering on time the 'commitment'. Not to mention that I usually implement half the task before stumbling into new evidence that changes the equation enough to require a different approach or further 'thinking' all while time is running out and commitments are not met.

Task solved, another one pops up, rinse and repeat #1-#2.
There is no good dodging the question and saying "I don't know." She could have just stonewalled "we used publicly available and licensed data" and that would have been far better.

Edit: Mind you, she did say that they used publicly available and licensed data. So if you're saying she has no motivation to say this, she already said it.
Bro, someone found an old hunk of metal in a river, and you're losing your shit here.

Maybe the person who found it doesn't care that they didn't get a reward and is just happy to have an amazing story and to have helped all of humanity learn a little more about the collective past that somehow all of man managed to forget about after it happened.

There are much more important things in this world besides fortune, and not everything is a conspiracy by the shadow government to oppress you.
Because that's where work is?

It's always the same answer.
Data provenance is a term used in medicine[1] and seems like a rather straightforward way to handle this. However, I would consider that they paid for this data and the source has a non disclosure in place.

[1] https://www.nnlm.gov/guides/data-glossary/data-provenance
Yeah but with a sequoia that release is 3000 years in the future.
> I mean -- isn't that all the good stuff?

Logging and observability are valuable. But running a full multiuser OS with kernel and userland for your one process, adding extra context switches and what have you to everything you do, just for the rare occasions where you log in and run a few commands, seems crazy to me. As long as it can output logs/traces/etc. to a collector (which is what I'd want to do anyway, no-one wants to have to SSH to each separate instance to look at log files on the local filesystem) and there's a way to attach a debugger (e.g. the Java style where your debugger connects to it on a given port), I don't see any advantage from having e.g. a filesystem per se. Likewise being able to run it locally the same way as production is important, but that doesn't have to mean running it as a Linux process - people are happy running Docker images for local dev, running a unikernel in a VM isn't a lot different from that.
When I was a kid in the 80s - I convinced my dad he needed a 286 for his construction company - so he could do his books. And he'd need a modem - its the new fax.

(This was so I could play populous, BBS to San Jose and get Grounded for a month for running the phone bill up to 926 for long distance calling into PCLink...

My dad yelled at me for playing video games "WHAT THAT EVER GUNNA DO"

--

years later I left my shift at Intel running the game lab.. to meet my dad for dinner.

He apologized to me for telling me that games and computers would never do anything.

I was touched he remembered.

---

These dumb olympiads will never amount to much, id bet.
That would probably be a lie though. That seems worse.
Rust + WebAssembly unikernel, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37982137
Are we still doing "Elon musk is a hypocrite"? Is that still news to anyone?
Calling it "lot of bad press" seems like an overstatement (maybe looking through hn tinted glasses). Overall, I do not get the impression that people care super much relativ to the overall public interest in everything OpenAI.
> But I can't help but think of one "technology" that could make a scheme like this MUCH more effective.

I think this is one of those things that drive home the point that there are fundamental differences between physics and engineering.

The article states that the thermal silos are heated with excess energy from the power grid. This alone tells you right from the start that efficiency is not the primary requirement.

Sand is inert, doesn't decompose or degrade, is readily available, is easy to work with, and has no moving parts. You can make it work in a silo, or digging a well to fill it with sand. In fact, geothermal heat pumps are already used extensively in residential buildings to regulate temperature. You just have to drill a hole in the ground that's deep enough, run a water pipe through it to heat/cool the water, and run that water through your building to heat/cool the environment. The nifty trick of Polar Night Energy is that they introduce the extra step of actively heating the thermal source with cheap energy supplied by the electrical power grid.

This sort of argument is like complaining that a Formula 1 car is far more efficient than a Volkswagen Golf. Yes it is,but that's a mute point.
Behind the draw – How Canva's drawing tool works
Audio functionality is not currently on the roadmap. Our primary focus is ensuring the sustainability and user-friendliness of Trangram.
They've moved to ma(th)stodon after the twitter clusterfuck: https://mathstodon.xyz/@nbourbaki
> Imagine all the time, mental energy and money spent on navigating through the legacy of today's society?

I can see the business perspective for sure. But I really don’t think humanity have the luxury to consume even more energy to run billions of GPUs to do what a programmer team could do and in the meantime having an excuse to not fix its legacy.

That sounds like either totally cyberpunk or very late stage capitalism.

We need to reduce global energy consumption and fix the society as much as we can, not going full throttle in the current direction.
And this specific plane is only 6 years old.
>There's a reason SV is hiring out of academia: because they can't hire the same minds out of a 4-year program, and certainly not off the stree

I half agree. The degree holds some value (and for some schools they can even influence the curriculum to their needs), but value proposition comes more from a supply of people who 1) have sole semblance of fundamentals 2) an ability to see a long term study through (which is why every job, even many that don't need a degree, put up a Bachelors as a requirement when supply > demand) and most importantly, 3) aren't a training cost for the company itself.

I'm sure well chosen apprentice could be trained by a company for a single year and would be comparably productive to any new grad, but no one really wants to train talent directly. With academia right there there is no need to, at best you have a set, 3 month internship to Gauge value. It's the economically best decision (arguably. If everyone wants to make offers of 200k to a top student instead of pay 80k for an apprenticeship, is it truly worth it?), but not necessarily the best from a company quality standpoint. But we know which of those 2 win out 9/10 times.
How is this a "counterpoint"?
The thing is humans build more and more. Any destruction or burning is replaced with more building. So in that sense construction with wood has aligned incentives and is more economical than just burying carbon with is purely a cost. But construction seems unlikely to be sufficient alone. Tho most of the world prefers concrete which is also releases carbon iirc so them switching to wood may help.
To focus on one issue, the neural machine that is chosen by optimization is one that "best" fits the photos of the sky. But those multiple optima do not preclude a neural machine whose parameter values are computationally equivalent to, say, a 3D representation of the sky projected onto a 2D perspective -- a kind of partial world theory or world model, that was picked randomly out of many optima. First, it's not impossible, just highly difficult to find at present technology. Second, the papers describing emergent structures or emergent information inside of actually-existing neural nets point to an empirical possibility that these machines are more than their statistical parts. Both these reasons incline me to stay on the fence on whether neural nets are purely stochastic parrots.
I'm not telling the author what to do; I'm asking for the rest of us if there's any evidence one way or the other.
If there's one thing I DON'T want a new version of, it's Wikipedia.
Thanks, nice link. I recall hearing or reading somewhere that Einstein leaned heavily on Caratheodory for the more difficult math, and I had a strong hunch that something like general relativity would have emerged within the next decade from when Einstein published his theory, if Einstein hadn't gotten there first. However, I didn't realize it was so close, so contentious, and so well documented.
Thank you and enjoy your animating.
So your theory is that employees are covertly scraping and infringing on petabytes of copyrighted data (or more) without the knowledge and approval of their management who would have to answer for it?

They 100% use full-length, copyrighted movies at OpenAI. Try using Whisper and see how often you get an obvious hint like "Subtitles by <RandomInternetUser1234>"
Counter example: there are companies in the S&P that are not disasters and have good careers.
https://archive.ph/8cJNp
OP has apparently never heard of Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

Quality metrics are easy to fudge. Too few defects? Find some or make some. Too many? Cover them up. If you need honesty, don't link it to executive pay.
Glad you found it intuitive! Keep creating!
Surprisingly pertinent given all the news about AI and cognitive automation.
Well saying that isn't saying we didn't use non public data so it's not exactly a lie
Yes. Exactly. If you become popular and your content/service goes nuclear then nobody is stopping you hiring an IT team and building out a server farm in your basement. All the equipment is available for purchase at a price way under what it was during this imaginary golden age of internet. But you need to be educated to use it and have time to build it and money to keep the lights on. Yes all these things you can do. However this is not a human right to have and why should anybody provide it to you for free and maintain it for you for free? That is the "cloud" you are complaining about. If you want to do it solo and have the time and money and knowledge to handle the tech stack then you can. Go for it.
There is (among many other) one thing that I truly like about Blender: with its gigantic add-on ecosystem it is on the path to becoming the standard platform for everything 3D.

Or rather: the one place where everything you can do with 3D can come together under the same roof: CAD, CAM, Architecture, Interior Design, 3D reconstruction, Scientific Visualization, Animation, 2.5D drawing, Artistic Modeling, Prototyping, Industrial Design, Simulation, Rendering, Special Effects (of course), etc ... I'm certainly forgetting 80% of the list.

Take any of the other 3D packages out there in all the domains I listed: none of them has anywhere near the breadth and versatility of Blender, and pretty much none of them are capable of importing 3D work from other packages the way Blender can.

I hope various industries involved in 3D will finally recognize this fact and the economic value it brings about. The SFX industry has already recognized it. Fingers crossed, the other will follow.
Gabe Newell touches on this exact subject: https://youtu.be/MGpFEv1-mAo

That being said, I've noticed that realism in games has a function beyond gameplay: it makes the game cooler.

For example in Rainworld, the enemies keep doing their own thing even when you aren't around. This has some gameplay value (makes the game less predictable), but I think the main value is that people talk about it and think it's interesting. So it changes people's perception of the game world in a positive way.
https://archive.ph/c6rb2
Tokyo has roads, but household car ownership is 41% prefecture wide; that's well under 1car:1person. In inner city, it is probably close or above 90%. That inner city traffic is pretty much taxis and commercial vehicles. The same is true of any place which is properly built-up with options to get around. Manhattan is another good example: 20% car ownership. In a 2 person household, that's your 90% number!

Building subways is impossible for no good reason nowadays. But it's quite easy to put light rail, bike lanes, and BRT in. People find a way to get around.

You don't need to take cars by force; you just need to let market forces do it. That starts with getting rid of parking, setbacks, and exclusionary zoning requirements for new development in areas of town that are underdeveloped (it's not hard to find these areas in even medium sized American cities). If people really do want cars in those built-up areas, they will rent a monthly space. It's a funny thing though, people seem to re-evaluate how valuable a car is once they have to pay $400/mo for a parking space.

If what you say is true, and everyone truly must have a car, rents will fall in those areas to compensate (developers, not having to deal with onerous parking and setback requirements, still turn a profit). In practice, this does not happen, because places without cars are nice places to live. They appreciate and attract investment, which puts money in the city coffer to improve transit options.

It does not take much land to do this. An area the size of 10,000 single family homes -- often a single neighborhood. In San Diego that's Midway, in SF it's Berkeley and the Sunset, in NYC it's Staten Island. These places all have developers who will break ground in months on collectively hundreds of thousands of new housing units if they are allowed to do it and earn a profit.

It is not fundamentally hard to do this, at all, if you can picture in your mind a human being not owning a car.
> What do you consider a budget phone needs to cost?

Spending $300 on a phone is not something anyone anywhere in the world does if they are on a budget. In some corners of the world, $300 is close to a monthly wage. How out of touch can someone be to claim this price tag is something someone spends when they are on a budget?

The reason why Chinese manufacturers like Huawei are gobbling the smartphone market in particular and the telecommunication sector in general is that they understand what "budget" means. Their product line targets budget-minded consumers, with plenty of models that cost less than $150. You can get low-end models for around $50. What could possibly suggest anyone that "budget" implies a price tag that's 6 times greater than that?
The first rule of goofy-bug-found on demo is you dont talk about goofy-bug-found on demo
The Oppenheimer score
Oh, this is a creative one, I don't even know how I did that. Thank you for letting me know.
can you elaborate on the difference(s)?

Looking at https://www.jetbrains.com/products/compare/?product=idea&pro... the only listed difference is that Datagrip says "MongoJS support" in the tooltip for the weird outlined checkbox next to the "JavaScript, TypeScript" line.
So our options are

1. She doesn't know and appears incompetent.
2. She does know and is lying (as you see, this is the main belief).
3. She does know in part and that part could include an honest use of this claim. (She doesn't know all, but what she does know is legal)
4. She does know in part and knows that some was illegally obtained

Truth be told, unless it is in writing somewhere that she knows of illegal data being used, she could post hoc claim 3. But if she does know illegal, then option 1 still gets her in trouble for the same reasons 3 would. The only difference is she appears incompetent by saying I don't know. Remember, post hoc she can say "At the time I was not aware of any illegally obtained works being used to train SORA". Claiming she doesn't know now would be WORSE if that is the situation and it came to light because it is a more explicit form of deciept.

Edit: Mind you, she basically took 1 and 3. She did say it used publicly available and licensed data.
There is no situation where a genuine attempt to answer both X and Y is unhelpful and wrong.

Even if it's wrong, it'll still be helpful to see an attempt at answering both the question and your interpretation of a solution to the problem.

Only an incorrect and wrong attempt to answer an imagined problem (ie. Y) is actually useless.
Hi, Im' developer of Veryl.
So I'll try to write the answer to "why new HDL?".

I use SystemVerilog from 10+ years ago, and developed many large ASICs.
But development environment of SystemVerilog was poor than software development.
So I wrote some SystemVerilog tools to improve the environment like below:
https://github.com/dalance/svlint

After writing it, I felt that more improvement is difficult because the specification of SystemVerilog is too complicated.
(For example, even commercial EDA tool vendors can't cover all specification...)

Therefore I decided to develop a new language replacing SystemVerilog.
I focus that the new language can be used by production ASIC development.
I'm plan to develop a part of a new project in my company by using Veryl.
>(…)the need for functional and security certification, and the lack of identifying passkey provider attestation (which would allow RPs to block you, and something that I have previously rallied against but rethinking as of late because of these situations).

What a nice guy… Basically saying do what we say or we will make the treacherous part of your device do it against your will.
As another poster pointed out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691875

Giant Redwood is not good for construction apparently

Coast Redwood on the other hand is very good.

I wanted to point out to anyone interested that European Redwood is unrelated totally. It is available in building supplies as a joinery timber, but is not a kind of tree. Redwood is from pine. Whitewood (construction timber) is from spruce .
Metacrafter – semantic data types detection Python lib
Open source library and tool that helps to identify semantic types of the columns the datasets or database tables. Useful to find PII data or to automatically document existing undocumented databases or data files.
Reads like the standard reddit regurgitation of a complex issue based on getting all their facts from headlines. Doubt they even work at Boeing.
I don’t understand why you are being downvoted.

Can folks who downvote please explain why?

Because survivorship is a real thing and becoming a billionaire isn’t just down to hard work or resilience.
Verses on Five People Being Killed by a Falling Package of Foreign Aid
Businesses exist to make money. Stock buybacks and dividends are the only reason the company was ever funded.
But thats OK!

THis is exactly what I want.

I dont want to describe some enterprise architure with DR and blah.

No - I want the little utils that I just want to appear like little magic fairy dust...

Little apps. This is how a new eco system grows.
> I get that sand is inexpensive

It depends where you are. Sand thieves are a thing in many places around the world.

Here's a story from 2015 about how residents in one area have lost 25 hectares of land to sand thieves.

https://tuoitrenews.vn/news/features/20150524/residents-losi...

Or a police captain whose legs were severed while trying to apprehend sand thieves.

https://www.vietnam.vn/en/dien-bien-moi-vu-dai-uy-cong-an-bi...

And here's a longer from article on the phenomenon:

https://www.mekongeye.com/2023/05/01/mekong-delta-sand-minin...

tl;dr sand is used in construction
Thank you! Delighted to hear that you find Trangram intuitive. Looking forward to having you explore it further in the future!
This is not medicine, this is copyright law. Copyright law is already well established.
Resolume seems to be the standard for professional VJing. Any free alternatives, for Mac?
There was a time you pulled a sword out of a lake or a rock and you got to become a king. The UK just ain’t what it used to be.
GPT-7 Hyper turbo with extra howevers
Very stupid question:

How do I package my own applications.

Say I have a binary “helloctl” that I want to package, where do I read about how to do this?

Took a look at the docs and it is neat with details about nanos but no info about how to use my own binaries, except install ops and run the sample nodejs app.

I could of course install ops and try to look around for other pkg commands but a basic “get started” should show me how to package my own stuff. Or may be I am just too lazy :)
I think a part of what OpenAI used to poach scientists was that they had less such checks and rules than Google. When I worked at Google they started to add a ton of extra such checks on all the data and the data scientists were really unhappy about that, they wanted to train on whatever they want without any concern over legal issues, I can see OpenAI successfully poaching a lot of people just by saying there they can do legally questionable things.
I'm surprised OpenAI's own legal team or PR hasn't come up with a boilerplate response to these type of questions yet. Seems like something they should expect to be asked and be prepared for by now?
Option 5, she'll have to tell when she gets subpoenaed. Just a matter of time
A federated version of Wikipedia wouldn't displace the centralized Wikipedia (for the same reason that Wikipedia didn't exactly replace traditional encyclopedias), but it has a potential to supplement everything else, and I believe it's worthwhile enough.
Wouldn't low performers hurt production output and piss off upper management? What's the "ideal" employee who succeeds in that environment look like in their day to day work?
Ah. My bad.

Still, if you got this kind of temperature gradients, and I happen to have lived in such a place, you also got at least 100mm mineral wool insulation or eqivalent. Which is poor by the way, and people do invest into 200 or sometimes 300mm. Which makes CO2 and moisture control more of a problem than heating. You basically either heat the outside via ventilation anyway, or invest into heat exchangers. Since complex HVAC systems come with maintenance burden, people just put up 50-100KW-ish heaters, be it natgas or wood and declare the problem fixed.