skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except zero interest rates stopped almost four years ago, but we're still seeing vcs ape into ai this last year.

So clearly the underlying cause of this squandering of resources must come from somewhere else.

I point the finger at the rising class of super rich who don't know what to do with their money. Why do they exist? Why is taxation seemingly not applying to them any longer?
Was asking seriously. Haven't had the opportunity to use k8s but I've used container hosting elsewhere so I'm curious why k8s specifically.
Germans have of course a standard for this

> a normative subset of Unicode Latin characters, sequences of base characters and diacritic signs, and special characters for use in names of persons, legal entities, products, addresses etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_91379
This is something the Xi Administration is fine with. His administration is largely traditionalists within the CCP, who are apathetic to market capitalism due to a couple very high profile corruption scandals in the 2000s and early 2010s.
Enron energy traders called power plants and asked them to shut down during high load times. They encouraged the plant personnel to fabricate the reason for shut down. This created an electricity shortage, which forced rolling blackouts. Energy prices shot up, making for massive profits for Enron. There were also headline stories about elderly people suffering without air conditioning. The Enron traders joked about this in their phone calls to one another.

Of course, we only know about this because their phone calls were recorded. If I recall correctly, none of the traders indicated that they were aware their calls were recorded.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-feb-04-fi-enron...

https://www.npr.org/2006/01/31/5180594/enron-trader-tapes-av...
I was never very impressed by assembly "theory" (what are its testable predictions?)... If we find a refrigerator floating in space I don't need an Assembly Theorist to tell me there's some intelligent/intentional process behind it.

Seriously, what is it other than a potent source of pop sci clickbait?
Are you talking into a mirror?
You can get exceptions for people with disabilities and full-time students in a few fields. There's very few exceptions where someone can make less than minimum wage actually.
This looks very nice. Had I not just moved all my 2FA to keepass, I would give it a go. My setup: mac desktop, linux desktops, android with syncthing to tie it all together.
Could you share more about what happened? How much were you lifting (was it close to your max) and do you feel like your form was correct?
This makes me wonder if finding a low-key, sane
culture is the key to sustainability in the industry,
and avoiding burn out.

They are exceedingly rare.

The only way these can really exist is within a small bootstrapped (self-funded) venture or perhaps within an open source project that has both autonomy and outside funding.

The paradoxical nature of commercial software development is that the entire fucking industry is a contradictory anti-pattern.

What most of us would consider "good engineering" (elegant, maintainable code that is correct, maintainable, and relatively resistant to bit rot) is explicitly at odds with nearly every commercial software development situation.

Management wants you to be visibly "working" at all times, cranking out tasks/stories/code/whatever. So you are explicitly discouraged from writing code that "just works" and doesn't need constant heroic fixing. If you get it right the first time, and kick back and relax, they'll think you're a lazy piece of crap.

Even if you work for a place that "gets it" from an engineering perspective, they are almost always going to look at your relatively high salary and want you to constantly produce new things. And once you have multiple levels of management, you can absolutely forget about them "getting it" -- a manager two levels above you can't be intimately involved enough in your code to understand when you are writing shit code and when you are writing true 10x code that will save countless hours of headaches in the future.
A bunch of us are going to Maine. We consider it a house party with actually seeing the eclipse as a bonus.
Because even though humanity has sapience, it never conquered the biological imperative to "keep growing", and our current planetary Petri dish is getting crowded and full of our own waste that we can't process. Obviously the only solution is to jump to a new one.

There's also a nostalgia and romanticism to the idea of the frontier, and now that we don't have "anywhere" left to go on the planet I think there's a hole in techbros' hearts that they are neurotic about filling, even with bad ideas.
The bill contains a long-standing provision that would limit aid to the Palestinian Authority, which governs the occupied West Bank, if "the Palestinians initiate an International Criminal Court (ICC) judicially authorized investigation, or actively supports such an investigation, that subjects Israeli nationals to an investigation for alleged crimes against Palestinians."

What.
* StarCraft! (1998)
Right, like the other commenter suggested, that's an infrastructure-level thing, not a model-level thing. Given that you're talking about ChatGPT, I assume you aren't accessing GPT-3.5 or GPT-4 directly through the API but using the app or the interface provided at chat.openai.com. The magic that makes the kinds of interactions you're describing possible amounts to a bit of clever prompting sprinkled on top of some rather impressive frontend design and engineering.

Correctly prompted, even Mistral-7B can write and run code in response to questions, and it's a model that can run on laptops from half a decade ago, with two or three orders of magnitude fewer parameters that GPT-4.
With Brave Shields turned on, this never loads ...

"https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-K6BVDSF3MT" is blocked and that causes the site to fail? If so, this is bad design.
We're in a transitory period. I'm actually kinda optimistic in the long term, as this disinformation may inoculate people against other types of online propaganda that's more subtle. I remember when I was a kid we were told not to believe things we saw on the internet. We need to go back.
> To combat the rising wave of imperceptible fake content and its social consequences, Hickerson said regulation and corporate accountability are key. As of last week, there are more than 50 bills across 30 states aimed to clamp down on deepfake risks. And since the beginning of 2024, Congress has introduced a flurry of bills to address deepfakes.

Does anyone know what these bills are trying to do to address deepfakes? Something tells me the bad actors are not going to abide by regulations and probably aren't even many times in the US.
Oh, for some reason I thought they promote it as archival container for situations with a lot of files.
The solution to the dated model exists, it's git/github. I'm trying to build a "git journal" (essentially a github org where projects/research gets published paired with a substack newsletter), details here [0]

Let me know if you have a project you'd like to get on there! Here's what it looks like, a paper on directed evolution [1]

[0] https://versioned.science/
[1] https://github.com/versioned-science/DNA_polymerase_directed...
I missed that leak. Any chance you have a link for me to fill in my gap?
4k Blu-rays are HEVC, which is one of the most efficient codecs available.

They do use a much higher bitrate than streaming services tend to use, but the streaming versions are sacrificing some quality to save bandwidth.
Cixin straight up borrowed this from The Killing Star. You should read that. It's also pretty fun but goes 0-100 in chapter 1.
Under GDPR people have the right to have their personal data to be accurate, there was a legal case exactly about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38009963
Our payload has no stabilization either, and in past launches we've had quite a bit of rotation and swinging. Here's a video of one of last launch, for reference: https://peertube.scd31.com/w/7CQCYB4BmJzngoZTiMociY

To point the camera we have a lot of clever software and hardware. I didn't have any part in it, so I'll try to explain it as best I can. There's a diagram here, which hopefully will help you to follow along: https://eclipseplus.ca/Project_Details/Payload_Design/

We have a fixed camera mounted above a mirror. The mirror is on a special gimbal, which can be maneuvered using two servos and a bit of math. For coarse aiming, we have an IMU on board which uses the magnetic field of the Earth to figure out its orientation. For fine aiming, we do a bit of image processing to try and center the sun in the field of view of the camera. It's not perfect, but since we're only capturing still images, it's okay if not all the images have the sun in view.

Also of note is the filter, which starts in-place (to protect the optics) and automatically moves out of the way during totality. It also moves back into place afterwards so that we can continue safely taking images after the eclipse.

The balloons on the landing page are accurate! Those pictures are from past launches, which used the same payload (with some changes between each launch)
>there's a hope that with a larger-sized model, it could become either zero or even negative (adding more experience improves general purpose reasoning).

The best single work of fiction ever created about LLMs' capabilities (and, perhaps, dangers) is Colossus by Jones. Although I think the film is even better than the book, only the latter mentions how, despite being created specifically for US national defense, Colossus is also fed unrelated data including Shakespeare's sonnets, because its creators do not know if it could be important.
Key word is reliably. I don't think we're quite at the stage where the average cpu can sustain 5ghz, especially for longer periods of time?
Do you prefer Mistral-Large or Claude-Opus?
Verdicts of the court are not findings of fact for a start.
What's all this business about ranking that you're talking about? I didn't mention it. And asking engineers to rank each other? Seems you've picked some bad companies to work at.

You should consider working somewhere where management is deeply technical. At everywhere I've worked, the entire eng-management chain (up to CEO) fully understood the domain (as you put it), the state of the art, the key system architectures, and so on. The idea that an eng manager's role should be limited to "developing human relationships and being attentive", would simply not fly.

Eng managers need to be able to go into code, and they must be able to gauge the complexity of the work under them, or they'll be unable to spot the difference between someone aggressively chasing a nasty heisenbug for weeks, versus someone struggling for weeks to put together a basic block of working code.
> On the other hand you're unhappy about macOS sending NFD.

Because MacOS always uses it, regardless of the user's intention, so it decomposes umlauts into diaereses (despite them having different meanings and pronunciations) and mangles cyrillic, and probably more problems I haven't yet run into.
https://github.com/tadfisher/pass-otp
large fonts and high contrast were available themes, your start menu wasn't that big in those days, file explorer search still doesn't work right, you didn't have so many apps that you needed taskbar thumbnails (You had maaaybe 32 megabytes of ram back then) , monitors weren't big enough to need snapping (seriously, remember trying to use a 14" CRT?). Yeah, technology has advanced significantly since the 90's and we've needed innovations to keep pace, but Windows' UI changes haven't all been good. In Windows 8 Microsoft went for a touch based UI and it just didn't work right.
Sci Phi Journal turns 10
Yes, programs that don't need to do anything can be very reliable.
It certainly is more democratic than any alternatives I'm aware of. If you don't want someone to accumulate more economic influence, do not pay them. The government will not jail you for doing so.

If business is controlled by a democratically elected government, and 49% of the country voted against those officials, there is no way for them to start their own alternative business to articulate those preferences in the market.
----https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1xmwN_XoJ4
super mario bros login
-------users can take a 360 video of their room and them in it while saying a phrase [informing them: a room which they are frequently in but no1 else has access to (like your apartment)]lol
Tree-sitter does run on the web. I got it working for my editor, but it did involve several days' worth of effort and getting into the weeds with emscripten. Details here - https://gushogg-blake.com/p/emscripten-web-modules/.
Sep 3, 2012
I Am Legend.
I'm curious how long it will be before they try to do this with Apple silicon and Nvidia.
The answer depends on what exactly you don't like in passwords.
It adds to the workload of everyone, including the Apple users. The latter ones are just in denial about it.
As Zizek would say, you have to be most wary when the ideological subjects start saying they are acting without ideology.
I don't think they disclosed their algorithms but both Cadence Spectre-X and Mentor AFS-XT have an "improved" RC matrix solver as they market it. I think Spectre-X was launched at DAC 2019, but I've been using it since 2018. AFS-XT is launched couple of years ago as a response. The main goal of RC reduction is post-layout simulation. With these simulators what you would see in the results is there is a primitive called RC, which doesn't exist in the netlist. You need to define an fmax of the circuit, and it will reduce RC routing parasitics to approximately create same delays within that frequency range with a much more reduced matrix. Netlisting take some time but simulation is like 10x faster due to this reduction. I'm mainly using FinFET processes, so each transistor comes with tens of parasitics annotated. For a moderately large design it's normal to have millions of R and C.

There are also tools doing this on the extracted netlist directly by the way. Cadence's tool is called Quantus Standalone Reduction (qreduce).
It doesn't really look any different from the terrible Photoshops that old people would like and share. AI has most lowered the bar of entry.

But the flip side is that as costs come down and diffusion models see greater use, we may actually have classifier models tagging likely fake AI images and Photoshops both.

Writers these days love to write stories about how terrible AI is, but often neglect to realize that it's a double edged sword and the infrastructural production deploys of the other edge of mass low barrier adoption takes more time but is certainly on its way.

Rather than a world where AI ushered in misinformation, we may actually get to an end result where we have greater skepticism and improved platform tooling to combat it because of both the underlying technology and the push to offset the wave of low effort spam.
I got a cheap one with hot and cold water hookups. I decided to try it with just the cold water before bothering to connect the hot. It's been years now, and I still haven't connected the hot water.
>And let it learn on its own.

The best single work of fiction ever created about LLMs' capabilities (and, perhaps, dangers) is Colossus by Jones. Although I think the film is even better than the book, only the latter mentions how, despite being created specifically for US national defense, Colossus is also fed unrelated data including Shakespeare's sonnets, because its creators do not know if it could be important.
Minecraft exploit is allowing attackers to get any Xbox/MS account banned
There’s a few problems when hunting for life:

Distances are immense:

1. Our view of the galaxy is very limited. We know almost nothing about our closest neighbouring solar system, let alone anything further afield

2. And because the distances are so far, we are effectively seeing those distant events hundreds or thousands of years in the past.

3. Where to look? We cannot search everywhere. We can only hope to get lucky that we are searching the right corner of the sky at the right time.

Alien life is completely alien:

4. We can only make assumptions of what to look for. Any sufficiently encrypted signal might genuinely appear like white noise to us.

They might be so advanced that we simply cannot detect them

5. Early communication systems on Earth were noisy in that they were broadcast 365 degrees. Later systems could be targeted, focused in a specific direction. As technology advances, noisy classical methods of broadcasting become less common. This in turn reduces the amount of noisy any extraterrestrial eavesdropper could spot.

And that’s assuming they’re not intentionally “cloaking” themselves. Putting aside Star Trek style fantasy for a moment, there is an advantage to remaining hidden. Whether you’re a predator like a burrowing spider or stealth bomber, or prey like bugs that camouflage themselves as plants; being hidden gives you a massive tactical advantage.
The peerjs connection ID is what is shared.

On first-connection, the keys are generated and exchanged over webrtc. it only does this on the first-time-connection.

On subsequent connections, the keys are used to validate identity else the connection is rejected.
> could it mean that the massive covid infection in the gut didn’t show up on a nasal swab?

Shouldn’t they have known that beforehand? Isn’t that a big red flag in this entire endeavor?
> Go reached maturity faster than Rust (despite its first release occurring later – one of the many benefits of simplicity)

Rust started as a research language by a PL guy working on his free time, he wasn't even suspecting his work would end up becoming mainstream. Rust only became somewhat serious several years after Go was released and used in production at Google. If you count Graydon's first Rust publication, you may as well count all of plan9 as part of Go's history! (Or how about using Go's repository first commit[0] if we're being facetious)

Also, implementing proper generics should have been straightforward from the start for Go, given that it was already mainstream in multiple programming languages back then (including the super mainstream Java and C#, with different approach). But Go was made by people who believe syntax highlighting is useless, of course they decided against generics…

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/commit/7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfae...
You can also have ugly manual ad hoc Kubernetes workflows where random devs hack YAML in prod directly. I’ve even seen people ssh into running containers and change things.

This isn’t any better than Joe sysadmin and could be worse since the complexity is higher and there’s a greater chance to do more damage with one change. Adding complexity makes bad process worse.
No, just a few false positives. I don't have issues with null in my projects in the first place though.
Totally. But most applications are not stateful.
This is government computer use. I assume their ERP software stacks don’t run on a cell phone.
I worked for a small contracting company that did work for several larger (but not FAANG) companies for >10 years. I quit 1.5 years ago after being burned out for quite a while, and I'm enjoying life for now. The thought of going back to work is a little stressful, and I'm holding out for as long as possible :)

Reasons for my burn out:

- Unreasonable expectations from stakeholders. "We need x, y, and z done by Friday" with no regard for developer input on what that actually entails. Not all projects are like this, but some are. It's fine when it is rare, but the more frequent it is, the more burnout it causes.

- Frequently changing requirements, or total shifts in what needed to be built from one week to the next.

- Working on projects with outdated dependencies and never given any time to refactor to support updates (i.e. working on an Angular 4 project when Angular 12 is out).

- As a contractor, it always feels like you need to perform, or the company you're working for will drop you.

- As a contractor, the clients' internal FT devs have seniority and will make decisions that are not always in the best interest of the project.

- Abruptly being moved (without much input) from one project to another takes a toll, especially when you care about what you do.

- Not enough vacation time. For most of my 20's, I got two weeks a year. For most of my 30's, it was three weeks a year. That's not really enough time off to enjoy life.
It might not be ludicrous to suggest that the English letter "a" and the Russian letter "а" should be a single entity, if you don't think about it very hard.

But the English letter "c" and the Russian letter "с" are completely different characters, even if at a glance they look the same - they make completely different sounds, and are different letters. It would be ludicrous to suggest that they should share a single symbol.
I remember IE5 was able to do this lol. It fell out of vogue for some reason, glad to see the concept is still alive.
You might as well say that, because of the telephone, we will no longer need sound.

I think you misunderstand how ChatGPT generates images. ChatGPT can only generate text: somebody at OpenAI wrote additional software to handle images, and connected it up to ChatGPT. (I believe ChatGPT is prompting an image model based on DALL-E, though who really knows what's going on in proprietary SaaSS?)

It's not a magic box that, left alone, will inevitably and inexorably transform into the solution to all the world's problems. If ChatGPT is ever capable of producing diagrams, it will be because of systems like this.
Related:

Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20774322 - August 2019 (209 comments)
yes, this sounds pretty messy and I am wondering how they deal with the different memory consistencies of the two architectures. IIRC apple CPUs have HW support for the stricter x86 model.
You can just do it yourself as you mention and the compiler does force you to check: https://gist.github.com/MawrBF2/0a60da26f66b82ee87b98b03336e...
That's great to hear (!) - any idea how common this is with other engineers?
Nvidia can't sell in China due to Department of Commerce sanctions, and Apple Silicon was always targeted at consumer applications.

This is basically targeting AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon product lines, both of which already can't be sold to the Chinese government due to existing DoD and DoC sanctions.

Basically, it's just PR.
1. Couldn't even get to try TES III Morrowind working properly on Win10, worked flawlessly on Linux + Proton.
Memory is weird. I was once on a street in maybe 2005 with my mother when a song from the 90s came on the radio. I was thinking that the last time I had heard the song we were at the same red light, but something like 10 years prior. My mom then said, "I think we were in the same spot like 10 years ago the last time I heard this song". It was a very bizarre moment as the song wasn't important to us or anything like that which should have made it memorable.
> I can do in Gnumeric, Libre Office, or even Numbers

It's funny you list these when millions of SMEs are running on Google Spreadsheet.

I don't know about Gnumeric but I think the following guesstimate is not far from the truth: 99.9% of all Excel users are using not even 1% of Excel. Most Excel users can be "switched" to Google Spreadsheet and won't even notice any difference.
I've found the entire peer review concept in academia to be extremely odd. I'm not entirely sure what problem it solves. It seems like you have one of two types of people reading these articles:

* People who are already specialists/familiar enough with concepts. They'll either call BS upfront or run experimentation themselves to validate results.

* People who aren't specialists and will need to corroborate evidence against other sources.

My entire life as a software engineer has been built blogs, forums, and discussion from "random" people doing exactly the above.