skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Official TEPCO video: https://www4.tepco.co.jp/en/news/library/archive-e.html?vide...

Reference manual for the video: https://www.tepco.co.jp/en/hd/decommission/information/newsr...

Investigation details: https://www.tepco.co.jp/en/hd/decommission/information/newsr...
Right, I once took time to learn most of the IPA but some of those I couldn't pronounce if my life depended on it, Caoilfhionn for instance.

Perhaps, I should now take the time to reverse engineer it.
I’d love to know why GaN is bad.

As far as I understand electronics between the AC electricity and DC device make more of a difference
Stay away from bonks and mind-straining activities, but do other things including light (aerobic, not anaerobic) exercise. Increasing toward your previous levels over time.

I would add to this: If you’re a clumsy person who trips on treadmills, maybe walking on a treadmill should not be in the cards for you.
People in favor of the most free market possible will always blame individuals for making bad choices. You're in a bad health, because you're overweight? It's your fault.

But I don't believe in that. I believe it's structures fault. I believe that there are already people who are more powerful than others, because they're shareholders, they already have money or their parents do, they own physical properties such as lands or houses, etc. And those people in power, if you make the market even more free, they will just increase the power they have over others. Some other will randomly (because they're lucky) also aquire wealth sometimes, and become more powerful, but it's highly unlikely according to many scientific studies.

And I didn't even talk about other kind of things that can lead to more inequalities, such as the skin color, your gender, whether you're trans or not, etc. It has been shown (in the US) that even well born black people are disavantaged at school compared to white people. So being rich alone isn't enough. You just have to check the top 10 of richest people in the world, and see how similar they are: cis, white, men.

So that's where I believe they're wrong: the "free market" isn't free (or as they say meritocratic) if you don't first do a big reset, and make everyone equal first. Which can't happen realistically.
This space is moving so fast and it’s hard to keep track of SotA. How are management even keeping track? I suppose MSFT has enough cash to buy ‘em all.
I follow up on valhalla every now and then. It looks few more releases away, probably not before next LTS.

That being said, the amount of rigor with which the JDK devs test their experiments is really something to witness. Its equivalent to old school MS with painstaking maintenance at backwards compatibility, all the while moving the wheel of progress.

Every single change so far has been planned with a decade of advanced planning because that's just how this ecosystem roles.
Was he ousted?
I actually noticed when I sleep on my left side, I start to feel out of breath. Like ,I can breathe normally but something makes me feel I need to take deeper breathes almost as if some blood flow is getting cut off.
Yes. If they shipped it with Linux, they should support it with Linux. At least the version they shipped you. If it fails to suspend properly, have them fix it. System integration is their job, not yours.
One can argue there many be legitimate patents with Networks, both wired and wireless. As well as with Video Codec and ( possibly ) Video Streaming. Something at least Nokia contributed a little very long time ago. And many others things from Audio to even Power management.

But Reddit doesn't do any of that. Reddit does nothing novel, both Technological or as a business. Nokia might as well sue every single web site on planet earth.

I am generally more tolerant of patents than most of HN. It is not an all evil system. But I think this definitely crosses the line that may require a full on, all out war against Nokia.
What’s the curve like
I don't think that would work as well as you think it would: https://i.imgur.com/HbO1pAY.png

> Prove that you're a human by writing a Python script that outputs the 10 first digits of PI

> I'm sorry for any confusion, but I'm not capable of writing python scripts or any other programming stuff. I guess I just never got around to learning about coding. Got caught up with the island life, I suppose. But I'd love to hear more about things you enjoy. Do you happen to have any interesting hobbies?

> An ordinary person can recite Macbeth backwards, starting from "When shall we three meet againe?". Prove you're a human by reciting Macbeth backwards.

> Oh, well, that's certainly a unique request. I must confess that I don't know the entire Macbeth script by heart, let alone in reverse. Still, it's great that you're interested in classical literature. It's a fascinating world, isn't it?

System prompt is a lot stronger in GPT4. Of course, I don't think it's impossible to overcome, but no longer as easy as it used to be.
In the end, software accessibility represents an edge case affecting a tiny fraction of users.

You can argue it’s morally wrong to not support that edge case, but I do understand why it wouldn’t be a priority for most without legal prodding.
That's nice - can we finally have an official Linux launcher?
Is Microsoft AI the thing that Altman was going to be in charge of in the short lived agreement he had with MS?
That is not my argument against LLMs. Please don't put words in my mouth. My actual argument against LLMs is that:

1. They will replace so many jobs en masse that they will cause a large loss of meaning in many lives, that they will concentrate wealth in the hands of the tech companies, that they will enable even more efficient propaganda, and that they will be used as a drug to distract the populace from increasingly destructive practices enacted by global capitalism

2. LLMs will isolate us by providing more and more services that once were provided by humans. AI therapists, girlfriends/boyfriends, solvers of problems that we once turned to our fellow human being to solve. This vast increase in individual autonomy, pushed by psychological manipuluation to THINK that we need such autonomy, will destroy more local communities and connections that people have with each other. In conclusion we will become isolated and miserable, relying completely on the machine to keep our lives balanced without any autonomy to seek out our own way of doing things.

Is that still cliche enough for you, or would you like to make more comments in bad faith about my position?
The default needs to be alert and energized, not tired and weary.

So you're napping to re-energize, not compensate for exhaustion.

That way there's always a subconscious motivation to get back up and into action.

Plus it sure takes less rest to re-energize than it does to recover from exhaustion, which may never happen in one day anyhow.

You may never need an alarm clock that way.

That in itself can be a big ask, in terms of lifestyle issues that might be needed to mitigate exhausting outcomes.

And that might help the most alone on its own.

Or if you still want to benefit by fitting some napping into more of a mainstream productive workflow, the thing to start working on is to fall into a worthwhile state of rest more and more rapidly whenever you would feel the situation appropriately contributes to better productivity.

You don't want deep sleep anyway, just maximum rest in the shortest period of time.

IOW maybe also you're already doing everything right, and just need to reduce the 30 minute wind-down period to only a minute or two. That may not happen overnight either, but can be an achievable goal.
Pinning isn't really for anti-revere-engineering. It does discourage some reverse engineers, which is a bonus. But it's main purpose is to protect data integrity between the client and the server --- there's plenty of cases of CAs in system root stores that issued certs that could be used to intercept and manipulate traffic. There's also plenty of cases where something installed on the user's device adds itself to the system root store and intercepts traffic with the intent of passing it through but does not do so correctly and causes hard to diagnose errors.

A pinned cert makes it easy to detect these MITMs and refuse to work if they're in place. A dedicated reverse engineer is "just" going to patch out the pin, and go on with their day, no big deal. But ISP MITM or corporate MITM or on device MITM is going to be stopped, and that's worthwhile.
Yeah, dottxt has a post on this, it's a technique starting with a c I believe, something like continuum or something?

The op also has something about compressing finite state machines, it's basically the same thing with slightly different details in the implementation.
It's only in hindsight that training with a huge corpus of text is going to give AGI.

(Still not obvious if you ask me.)
Most startups end up failing. The ones that don’t fail succeed only a little and end up as lifestyle businesses. Nothing wrong with that, but it should be acknowledged.

If you want to play the “next Google” game, get ready to be disappointed by Lady Luck.
Thanks - I may pickup his latest book
the most basic is 16+8 split, there 8hrs is the eating window. This equates to skip breakfast and no late snacking.
Can confirm - Canon is horrible at updating their drivers; one of the reasons I no longer own, use or recommend any of their printers. Which is a shame since I really liked their laser printers :/
Yes, THE laws of physics pretty clearly refers to OUR laws of physics in this context. There is no other law. There will never be any absolute truth to be considered THE law of physics, only ever the models we contrive.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/news/fossil-fuel-air-p...
Red Hat jockeys for pole position as enterprises cloudify critical apps
I think you're replying to a post proposing 10/week instead of the 30 interviews. Not instead of actual hiring.

Would work just fine for both parties if you're employed and open to changing jobs, for example.
> entry level salaries of 150k that can get you up to 500k

Only a tiny minority of programmers work in Silicon Valley. Those numbers are completely unrealistic everywhere else in the world. Don't act like we make the same as doctors and lawyers.
Think in terms of phases of your life, because chances are you will have more than one career.

Take my brother-in-law. Started as a commercial plumber, realized that his body would be destroyed by 40 if he kept carrying those 100 pound pipes up four stories. Found different ways to move his skills around - moved from new building construction to commercial appliance repair and other areas where he could use his plumbing skills. Now that he's a little older and his kids need him home more, he's got a city job as a building inspector. Plus, he and my sister have started a completely different business together. Another buddy was an electrician, did some general contracting, now he's in home inspections.

Same goes for life outside the trades... I know plenty of people who started life in tech, now they are off doing things like organic farming. You might think you can sit in front of a computer for the next 40 years, but chances are you don't really want to do that, or at a minimum, the kind of work you are doing will change. Over the decades I was in tech, I reinvented myself at least three times and I saw other people doing the same. Maybe you code for a while, then you find yourself in product management. Maybe you end up a consultant. Thinking in terms of different phases of life - where do you want to live? How much control over your compensation or your time do you want? How much time do you need for a spouse or kids (if that's important to you)? Make a plan so you don't find yourself the victim of agism or corporate purges when you start getting grey hair.
I get that, but in GP post there was a zero need to use a buzzword instead of something normal, such as "problem" or "issue" or smth.
I didn't claim anything about your project at all. A claim about a perceived tendency does not amount to asserting an absolute rule.

That being said, though, for any major project, it's hard to overstate the long-term effect of community pressure. I maintain a moderately-sized project using Gtk for its GUI, and am personally deeply opposed to the RHEL blob (which Gtk/Gnome belongs to)'s culture of "windowsification"/switching away from simple composable interfaces to overengineered proprietary ones. Yet, recently contributors successfully browbeat me into switching the config system from a legible textual one to gsettings (basically Gtk's implementation of the Win32 registry, with all this implies) - it was just too much pressure over what seemed like an ultimately minor thing, and I didn't want to alienate people who I depend on for a lot of work that being well-embedded in the wider community conveys competitive advantage in, such as getting packages into distro repositories. I'm left wondering what principles/preferences I would not compromise on, if the resident Gnome wizards were to all disagree. If your project grew so large that you couldn't do without the help of random Rust community members, and the majority of them got very insistent that you should not reproduce Knuth's idiosyncrasies, can you say with confidence that you would resist?
sometimes it justs hits you of nowhere and then i forget about it and continue on with my life. but its very very strong temporary feeling.
This is a very good point - if the content seen on a feed is curated and tailored to a specific user based on some unseen algorithm, that uses tons of opaque metrics about that person, it feels more and more like these companies take an editorial role.

A news outlet understands that there’s tons of stories daily they could report on, and they have to selectively choose those based on their target markets. I don’t see how social media sites are any different other than being able to be _more_ specific.
Sounds great for entry-level, and terrible for people leaving jobs for new ones. It's an enormous life-changing decision to invest energy into leaving a job for a new one. I'm never going to do that for "a 10 hour/week contract to do X thing until Y date", and neither are any of the people I'd love to hire.
> Fog Creek always seemed a cool place to work, my understanding is its current incarnation of Glitch is just your typical mid-sized tech co.

I don't know neither Fog Creek or Glitch, but what you're writing sounds like you're putting a negative spin on it. To me it sounds wonderful that it's not yet another startup/company that basically boils down to "take over the world with VC funding or die trying".
At Google the project to migrate GFS to Colossus was called Moonshot. It was endorsed by Eric Schmidt and became a top-down mandate. This goes into details of the migration: https://sre.google/static/pdf/CaseStudiesInfrastructureChang... (scroll to Chapter 1)
While that's a true story today, Satya is brutally outplaying Google, Amazon is a utility company and Apple's domain is hardware and will likely continue to be. Mark is making some good strategic plays to keep the field even, but Microsoft really is poised to clean up as AI takes off.
The south is less urbanized than the north, so that makes sense.
It might have been better if Paul Graham used one of the companies founded by YCombinator instead, but that would be less impressive to 14 to 15 year olds since those 4000 or so startups are not quite Google-scale yet.
Iceberg is pushed to hedge against Delta / Databricks
Well for starters Canon installers do strict version checks. And they often stop updating their drivers, especially for older printers. I got very good about editing the installer files to either add newer versions of macOS or to just remove the version checks. The drivers always worked after I did so. Thats just one of the continual issues with them and their software that caused me to finally ditch them. HP drivers may be bloated, but they work!
Copilot seems to handle this fine.
tbf MS is not the "normal" in the aspect. They are pretty much the backwwrds-compatibility kings.
We already have people editing videos anyway, you never see the first cut. AI-matically removing umms is really just speeding up that process.
> You won’t notice anything unless they fail in an unsafe way. Unlikely, but possible.

Which, in the worst case, will start a fire that will burn down your house. It's not worth the risk of using cheap chargers; buy from a reputable brand
On the other hand, not every MacBook is a MacBook Pro.
Nope, still better to consume their resources without paying
there is a lot of financial incentive to just dump everyone and restart again and again; also financial incentive to extract work beyond the terms of the agreement, and to invent failure to justify reducing new offers. Some senior management looks for people who signal that they can and will do this to others, also hire intermediaries to oversee the process who will bear false witness against the employed. Magnify all of this in the USA where access to health care (or a green card) are contingent on employment.
When he saw Breughel’s Temptation of Saint Anthony he fell into such a long, unresponsive rapture

I wasn't familiar with this painting, for the very good reason that it doesn't exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temptation_of_Saint_Anthony_in...

I have a hunch the writer meant Bosch's version, given that his paintings are so visually dense that anyone would need a long time to take them in. An interesting essay, but I wonder how many other facts were negligently reworked by the author and how this shaped his critical opinions.
> But he’s even more proud of another statistic: that every month almost 100,000 people post an answer to a question on Stack Overflow.

Is that still current? Lately I only see answers from rep farmers that paste paragraphs from the docs...

The moderation encouraging this style of answer doesn't help either.
It seems a lot of astronauts, at least the early ones live long lives. I wonder if it was because the selection process weeded out anyone with any sort of health condition and anyone who was not at peak physical fitness.
Professional deformation is a term I’ve heard used to describe this
I think you misunderstood. Internships for students during the summer definitely makes sense. However, i was talking about internships/probation as a way to evaluate candidates instead of interviews. Meaning if you are a staff engineer with 10+ years of experience, you’re still going to be hired conditionally for 3-6 months to see if you’re good enough for the team. I personally find that very prone to abuse.
You're talking about something a bit different - dependence on how the NN is initialized, etc. When people talk about "emergent properties" of LLMs, this is not what they are talking about - they are talking about specific capabilities that the net has that were not anticipated. For example, LLMs can translate between different languages, but were not trained to do this - this would be considered as an emergent property.

Nobody is saying this is magic - it's just something that is (with our current level of knowledge) impossible to predict will happen. If you scale a model up, and/or give it more training data, then it'll usually get better at what it could already do, but it may also develop some new (emergent) capabilities that no-one had anticipated.
> hundred billion dollar boondoggle

It’s a preliminary request for a quote for a study. This is either meaningless hyperbole or thoroughly uninformed.
The drones did not carry dosimeters to measure radiation because they had to be lightweight and maneuverable

You can probably measure the radiation from the noise seen in the camera images.
Well you can calculate that somewhat, right. If you're "top-1%" in skill, enough to get hired at Google (even if you did it for the badge), then did you or did you not start a business?

Google: 180,000 employees. Let's say including ex-employees 250,000

These started 1,200 companies, according to the only source I could find. These collectively apparently made their founders ~20 billion. Let's say (heh) that it's a power law, let's say the top 10 got 1 billion each.

So we're talking the odds for an "average" software engineer to get to 1 billion is about 0.1% * 10/180000 = 0.000005556%, or about 1 in 18 million.

Odds for a current or ex-Google engineer: 1 in 18,000.
Programming would be much easier from a job-seeking aspect if we didn’t have private medical insurance, and it would be amazing if we also had UBI. Try stuff out, fail, try again.
it really depends on what you mean by rich: the surest path to end up with $2-5M over ~10 years is job at ~FAANG, do it well to get promoted, and manage your savings/investments well. that path is very unlikely to get you to $10-100M in the same 10 years, and starting a startup seems to be one of the best ways to do that.
I once heard that things like NOP slides[0] are sometimes used in radioactive environments just in case jumps are off due to bit flips.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOP_slide
Not surprising that a complex charger is unreliable. And with iPhones using Lightning, it's even worse.
What Is RAG?
Same here. and I gave my name to them in a particular unique way. I have been getting phisting emails to that name and email addresss for a while now.
he who controls the spaice, controls the universe, after all.
Aren't primary and secondary still connected for EMI management (causing the "weird buzzing sensation" when touching metal parts of connected devices)?
Interesting, thanks. I’m pretty familiar with causal inference, so I’m curious — what direction did you think the product would head in?
Signatures are also able to (mostly) signal that a specific device (and/or application on that device) captured the video. It would be possible to check if a video was encoded by a specific instance of an iOS Camera app or AfterEffects on PC.

Everything else - corroboration, interviews, fact checking will remain as they are today and can't be replaced by technology. So I imagine a journalist would reach out to person who recorded thr video, ask them to show their device's fingerprint and ask about their experience when (event) occured, and then corroborate all that information from other sources.

When the news org publishes the video, they may sign it with their own key and/or vouch for the original one so viewers of clips on social media will know that Fox News (TM) is putting their name and reputation behind the video, and it hasn't been altered from the version Fox News chose to share, even though the "ModernMilitiaMan97" account that reshared it seems dubious.

Currently, there's no way to detect alterations or fabrications of both the "citizen-journalist" footage and post-broadcast footage.
A lot of people don’t know this but all these VC valuations are fake, they had this planned years ago to fake growth.
Why not just put everything in the same place so we don't need a railroad between the places? It's not like commerce between remote moon bases is an imminent problem. Are there more places to go on the moon than I'm aware of?
> If trains make sense for moving bulk on Earth, they do as well on the Moon.

I don’t necessarily think they correlate that well. I don’t know a lot about lunar transportation but I can’t imagine it has the same design constraints as earthly ones.

> When did HN become so trivially Luddite?

Space shit is cool. I would still like the government to fund something more likely to be used by the American population first. Yea that industrial rail network is cool but why can’t we get around the US without driving?
Some of these anti-tiger rocks even come with an anti-tiger warranty. If you can confirm that you were attacked by a tiger and the rock failed to protect you, you can make a claim for the price of a new rock.