skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In healthcare, the workers are in high-stakes situations with personal liability for the care they provide. When you make a mistake, your license can be taken away. Licensing is important to prevent malpractice, but it does enable a form of worker exploitation.

When you’re on a severely understaffed ward, you have to get the work done whatever it takes. If the next shift fails to turn up, you can’t just go home. People’s lives are at risk. You’re responsible until you can hand the care over to someone else.

Like this, things can be stretched to unhealthy or even dangerous levels for a long time before there’s any accountability for the management. The front line staff have to get the work done, often at great personal expense.

Honestly, I don’t know how people do it.
> Nah. The paywalled stuff is just as full of lies, biases and bullshit as they free stuff. It's just more polished and better marketed as a sophisticated alternative. ...

> But they really expect me to believe that, say, the paywalled NY Times is a better purveyor of truth than many interesting free sources of info because it charges you?

I think that it's totally valid to acknowledge these are both true:

1) So-called trusted paywalled journalistic institutions like the NY Times can have significant issues with "lies, biases and bullshit,"

and

2) institutions like the NY Times have significantly more resources available for uncovering, gathering, and analyzing information than any "interesting free sources of info."

In my experience, most "interesting free sources of info" mostly provide commentary using the output of traditional news organizations, and sometimes also repackage their output.

Personally I think the right call is to subscribe to something like the NY Times, hope/agitate for it to deal with its issues better, and in the meantime learn its biases and correct for them.
> I really love the theory of NixOS... an entire OS that is declaritively (or dynamically) defined. But the nix language itself does not seem like the right approach. A lot of packages just break out into command line scripting because of its limitations.

What you're describing is the use of bash builders in Nixpkgs. This is conventional because lots of build systems expect bash anyway, and because it lets you easily incorporate the whole Nix build environment for a given package into a conventional interactive shell for debugging, where you can invoke functions that are available in the build environment and even copy/paste snippets from the build to inspect their behavior. I like it; I think it's a good approach!

It's worth noting though that Nix supports using builders in arbitrary languages, and there are some rare uses of non-bash builders throughout Nixpkgs as well.

Some other points:

- if you prefer a using the same language for your package recipes as the builders themselves, Guix has you covered.

- Nix has built-in support for reading and writing to many some of the formats you mention, like TOML and JSON. Some tools use those languages to provide an external configuration language for Nix, for the simple stuff, e.g., devenv, devbox, Flox, etc. One could certainly attempt this with NixOS as well.
I don't think ABB would sell you just the chip, you just know that's going to be a sealed module that costs POA dollars per unit!
You didn't read my linked sources, otherwise you would have recognized which part of the statement I'm referring to.
Yes. You want to be around smart people. Leaving the Bay Area makes me feel like I’m losing brain cells.
There are pay caps that do not correspond to reality, and you often don’t need such capable people for 40+ hours a week. When I consulted I explicitly told my clients that they do not need me full time, and I will have two clients add spend half of my time each week on each. I billed each client half my full time amount. Whether their accounting department knew all that is none of my business.
> There's a big catch because often someone skilled enough to answer these questions would be better served actually doing things, e.g. writing code, and the people who can fill out these questions but not skilled enough to do the actual things are a weird middle-ground of mediocre that is hard to find. Really big companies often solve this by just paying overskilled people to do this for a few years, which is expensive and soul-destroying for the skilled person.

This is a really insightful comment, how do companies get around this issue (apart from paying overskilled people until they burnout)?
Cool, not really looking to do this just yet, but it's definitely on my radar the next time I have a project.

Would love an option to look up all my open jobs. I imagine doing this in a ci/cd pipeline or GitHub action. But I don't want to have to store state.
So you record people without consent and pinky swear that your software will “unrecord” after the fact? I don’t know if you can just hand wave that away… ship has probably sailed on anyone enforcing these kinds of laws I guess, good luck
Every rumor points at Apple announcing OS integration of local LLM assistant stuff at WWDC in June, with specialized chips to go with it. I suspect they're going to Sherlock a lot of small "AI" companies simultaneously.
As opposed to having a favorite sportsball player? In neither case is the favor reciprocated.
And many smaller ferries.
I've previously worked on the Google Assistant from several angles, and this demo'd awesome, and I was very surprised. Then I saw it is listed as "soon" on the roadmap. Then I remembered the demo was very much a video, not a demo.

I might be jaded from years of bigco, and I'm rooting for you, hopefully you're already set enough financially you can ignore this, innovate, and already have teams of people demo'ing a solution internally:

As a company, you can't get trust back. Fudging a bit and projecting what you'll have when you ship is very tempting when the competition is this thick. Having this much competition also implies there will be choice, and given the use case, it's likely people will always opt for choices that appear more trustworthy.

On a completely separate note, I've seen many, many, teams of extremely bright people be funded for 2-4 years on things that you'd think "it can't be that hard..." and it turns out it's impossible. Not this specifically, but voice adjacent stuff.

Again, rooting for you, but a forthright version of me would have just said it'll never work as demo'd, and it's worth considering what impact it'll have long-term on your success if even just 20% of whats on the roadmap doesn't work out, you're already talking about it in present tense, and it's absolutely key to your user trust story. 20% is conservative in my experience.
>As an engineer, I’m sure he’s still top notch. That’s in large part what made him the richest man/human on Earth.

People need to be more critical of themselves when reading or writing statements like this, and stop and question if the statement actually has a logical reason to be true, or is it based on one's own biased priors about the world (which this statement is certainly is).

Firstly, when talking about people like Musk or Bezos or any other extremely wealthy individual with businesses behind them, their wealth isn't determined by the value that they bring, its determined by anyone who makes direct decisions to buy stock, which isn't 100% correlated to engineering value (i.e profiting of perceived movements of the price based on sentiment).

Musk main talent is same one Trump has to become president and still enjoy a shitload of support - both can sell stories extremely well. Thats not to say he does't have ANY technical talent, as his companies are successful with actual products, but most of the reason that they are is because he was able to bring the money to push through the hardships, because no matter how hard he personally works, he still needs a lot of people with various talents to do other roles, which requires salaries, which requires selling stories.
The FBI should become a virtual credit card issuer and allow anyone who thinks they are being scammed by a phishing/smishing/etc. scam to generate a fake card (with no balance attached to it) to give to the scammers. Seems like that would give them enough information to track down the bad guys, or at least to track down their enablers.
What's your proposed third choice?
Believe Me, It's Torture (2008)
Typically you would refute evidence with other evidence.
My nine year old is learning to code because of AI
Yeah, that seems like exactly the sort of shenanigans that would get certain kinds of judges extremely unhappy.
You can program algorithms into transformer networks, up to the limit of how many computations you get.

https://srush.github.io/raspy/

Are you going to do computer reductionism too and say computers can't do arithmetic, they just run electricity through silicon?
It's not at all unbelievable. Israel and the US have put a ton of work into stopping these relatively slow-moving attack. We've seen similar results in Ukraine.

And conversely, if large numbers of attacks were getting through, you'd be reading very different news stories about large numbers of civilian casualties in Israel. It's hard to deny a story like that.

This is entirely believable. It may or may not be true, but it's not as extraordinary as you're suggesting.
This looks incredible. Site looks fantastic. In a perfect world, I'd pre-order immediately.

I sure as hell am NOT subjecting friends and family to being recorded and having those recordings going to some cloud I don't control.

Just this morning I got an email from AT&T about how they regret that my data was leaked but it's not so bad, sign up for this monitoring service. I have no choice but to use certain services. I can choose not to engage with this beautiful product.
Noted, point taken.
When I think of IMDB, I think about using it to get granular information about a movie, not to discover new movies. I use it for finding out who were the cast and crew (and what else did they work on), how much was the box office, when was it released.

I assume that's not what you mean though. You wouldn't, for example, list the credits for each open source project, i.e. who were the engineers, who were the QA testers? Or maybe you would! But that seems like it'd be a ton of work, and supporting the changing roster over different versions seems like it'd be a scope nightmare.

(I have always wanted this website to exist, though. I just think it's impossible without a software industry equivalent of the screen actors guild, or MPAA, or whichever entity it is that mandates rules about who gets credit for a film)

Instead, do you mean more like a big searchable list of open source projects? If so, I'd still want to know what kind of information you plan on collecting about each project, to know whether I would use it or not.
> It is true, however, that Jobs was hot tempered, could easily start shouting at his employees and calling their work shit, and reduce them to tears. But he was not just cruel and brutal: he could also be a total charmer and make his colleagues feel like geniuses (this is how he hired most of them actually). While at NeXT, his employees dubbed this swift change of attitude "Steve's hero/shithead roller-coaster", a nice metaphor for the binary view with which Jobs described the world, and how he treated his fellow staff

https://allaboutstevejobs.com/persona/steve_at_work#:~:text=....

Doesn’t sound like everyone had fond recollections.
meticulously demonstrates that the famine was not only vast, but manmade; and not only manmade but political, born of totalitarianism. Mao Zedong had vowed to build a communist paradise in China through sheer revolutionary zeal, collectivising farmland and creating massive communes at astonishing speed.

So many atrocities of the 20th century committed by socialist ideologues like Mao, Stalin, Lennin, Pol Pot, ...
Neon seems really great to me, but I wish I could easily run it locally via Kubernetes. I know there are some projects out there[0] but they are all supported by 3rd parties and things like branching and other features don't appear to be supported.

I'd love to be able to just use a helm chart to have Neon in my homelab.

[0] https://github.com/itsbalamurali/neon-operator
I would love if we cracked down on data harvesting, and I don't particularly care if it's the NSA doing it for opsec reasons.
Photopolymer Resin based printing has been around for a while now. Not sure how much the light source matters / can improve the speed though.
There is a story that the first gulf war was picked up on by media due to after 5pm pizza deliveries.

For context if you want to go down the rabbit hole: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40030106
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I might even say that if you're giving code away, you don't owe users anything. But you might also have goals for your project that would benefit from trying to attract, on onboard, or otherwise please users.
Working hard to prevent an Iran-Israel war, which the latter will easily win anyway.
That's a good question, actually. Surely, they can. But if you look at countries which really embrace the metric system, like Japan, or Germany, and look at the products they design, you'll find that the dimensions are not given in centimeters. The centimeter is, empirically, not a very useful length.

Instead, what you find is that they measure things in millimeters--and curiously, the lengths in millimeters tend to be numbers like 48, or 120, i.e. numbers which have lots of factors of 2 and 3 in them.

Don't just take my word for it!! Go browse Amazon.com and see what typical lengths of objects designed in those countries are, and what units they are stated in.

Which is to say, if you are really going to use the metric system, you are going to be using lots of lengths divisible by 12 anyways. Which means they are not powers of 10, and probably not divisible by 10, which means you've largely lost the biggest advantage of the metric system--easy arithmetic for numbers which are powers of 10 and divisible by 10.

Cf with a ruler, which is divided into 12 inches, and each inch into tenths. There is a line on that ruler for 1/2 a foot, 1/4 of a foot, 1/5th of a foot---and 1/3rd and 1/6th of a foot. All of the smallest and most commonly used prime numbers are present and accounted for.

cf with a 10-centimeter ruler, each cm divided into 10 milimeters. You've got lines for powers of 1/2 and 1/5--that's it. If you want to divide it by any other factor, you are squinting your eyes and guesstimating between lines.
Original / official tweet: https://twitter.com/openaidevs/status/1779922566091522492?s=...

API Link: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/batch
> GPS satellites don't send down a location, they only send down time

The GPS almanac data they transmit is effectively location. It's not literally location, but the P code isn't literally time either.

> and they can (and have!) turned off GPS off certain regions at will when necessary

As I understand it, those capabilities are no longer present in newer (possibly all active?) GPS satellites.
You can't multi-license other people's GPL-ed code (without them explicitly re-licensing it to you allowing that, in any case).
Just as much as a map. I did something similar using a local LLM to summarize paragraphs. Using a public turbo model or even something local would be very doable.
I'd think the financial reports of these companies are a much more reliable source than statista.

* Xiaomi made $2.4B in profit last year (https://qz.com/xiaomi-profits-earnings-apple-iphone-sales-ch...)

* Transsion $760M (https://simplywall.st/stocks/cn/tech/shse-688036/shenzhen-tr...)

* ZTE $1.3B (https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/ztes-profit-rises-as-m...)

Plenty of others are private and don't publish financials but also don't operate in an environment where they can burn through hundreds of millions or billions of dollars without any expectation of profit.
Important to point out this was a couple of days ago (the night Iran launched its attack on Israel).
Sorry, but what? How do you do any of the AI training or inference without decrypting the data in the cloud? I seriously doubt it's all running locally on the pendant.
Spy satellites keep an eye on their parking lots for similar reasons.

The availability of fairly cheap private imagery now enables things like estimating Walmart's quarterly earnings. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/08/19/129298095/with...
Many modern stick shifts have "hill hold"[1] that keeps the car still until the clutch makes contact. Still, would need good throttle/clutch control not to stall after that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill-holder
Could def be useful for many use cases.
I love that kind of signal, the type you wouldn't think about at first but then it makes perfect sense once you hear about it.
For most of my writing (journal entries, notes), I have never needed the collapsible subheading and export functionality because I write primarily for myself. If I think a note is ready to be published on my blog, I will still rewrite, edit, and polish it in a separate file. Mostly also in Markdown, because the structure of such articles does not go very deep (I am not a fan of many levels of headings) and my static site generator handles the export to HTML in a fully automated way. No need to export anything manually.
Oh, absolutely! I was more speaking to the clean up. Lasers are a big step up.
Okay there, TA "89" 03... ;)
XZ Utils review notes
Yes - but it's very difficult to tell whether someone is a sociopath if they're good at it. I think it'd probably be safer to err on the side of therapy and let the therapist's recommendation or repeat offenses dictate whether jail time is justified.
It's the sounds and the noise together.

I wager that, given the details of the patent and any published literature, it's likely it would be possible to replicate the effects cheaply.
Hi, we agree that the response time on this is unacceptable. I've dug into it and we've now completed and replied with the form. Posting a comment on HN certainly shouldn't be the path to getting a response on an ask from us, whether for business or consumer support. On the business side of this, we're building a Customer Success team whose sole responsibility is making sure that our business customers have a dedicated and responsive point of contact to work with. The first job req for this team is currently live.
> You need a lot of energy to overcome the Coulomb barrier for boron - apparently at least 148 keV [1]. For a proton to have that much kinetic energy it needs to be going at 5340 km/s [2]. "The exhaust velocity of a [pulsed plasma thruster] is of the order of tens of km/s" [3]. So what gives? I'm guessing that exhaust velocity figure is for heavy ions, but are protons really that much faster?

This isn't necessarily a satisfying answer, but in their patent they mention "laser-assisted fusion":

> In addition, a plurality of pulsed lasers are utilized to focus on focal regions of the exhaust region to catalyze boron fusion events...The pulsed lasers are modulated to create a superposition and constructive interference region where fusion is likely to incur in the reaction region. The plurality of pulsed lasers assists fusion ignition and/or further energizes the protons frame to assist fusion reaction. It is an insight of this invention that acceleration of particles using multiple small lasers would be helpful as only small hot regions of plasma are necessary for measurable fusion results.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20240018950A1/en
> everything is verifiably local

It's not. If you use the meeting summarization or querying features, the text transcripts are sent to OpenAI for LLM processing.
There is a great demo of this in Sensecape. https://youtu.be/MIfhunAwZew?t=165
The interception rate is what allows Biden to tell Israel not to reply with force.

This is retaliation for Israel's embassy bombing a week ago. More retaliation would provoke even more retaliation.

So a high interception rate is about the best we could hope for here. Iran gets to claim they struck back. Israel gets to put the matter to rest. We all get to live one more day.

Maybe not two more days, because they will continue to provoke each other. But for the moment, it's not escalating.
That's compared to propeller shafts I think (and powered by what? Diesel, Gas turbine?).

Voith Schneider systems are generally used on tugs and smaller ferries due to the manueverbility control they provide, it's not clear how energy efficient Voith Schneider systems are to shaftline systems.
I work because it's a nice way to live. I made enough to retire on a long time ago. I know a (eg) fancy car isn't going to meaningfully affect my happiness.

I've been in jobs with nothing to do. It sucks.

Work is an important component of a happy life. If I ever get tired of software maybe I'll go garden or something.
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Suggests to me that they have a LOT of compute that they can't, or have decided not to, scale down. Interesting way for them to keep the infra up and cover costs.
if removing door handles can bring about that much efficiency gain (I doubt unless you show data) then imagine removing side mirrors and replacing them by small camera bumps would bring, that i'd support. door handles thing is just Musk BS. same thing with many inside controls, thats just cost optimization. I'd go to the lengths of saying even the falcon wing doors are a poorly thought out design decision.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1127842.Most_Secret_War
You're wording in this comment (and the twitter/comment video) gives off the same vibes as the google april 1st videos for things like gmail motion (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAD8wFTLnQKeDsINWn8Wj...). I honestly thought this was full sarcasm at first.
I assume the same as the models that they're fine tuned off of.
Porting a bunch of GPL-ed emulators to iOS and then claiming exclusive distribution rights in the App Store (but not actually distributing it there!) seems at least dubious, in my view.
Unfortunately not by Emerson. https://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2019/08/27/on-fake-emerso...
Presumably that would be a

curl --request GET --url https://api.openai.com/v1/batches

but that doesn't seem to exist yet: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/batch
Does the Pentagon not have an in-house, 24-hour canteen? You'd have thought they'd learned their lesson from the whole Gulf War pizza thing.
Yes, it’s a full Postgres database.
That sounds really difficult to use to me. I'd need to figure out how to connect to a custom messaging protocol, and how to keep that connection online (maybe routing through firewalls etc), and handle retries and connection failures and suchlike.

An HTTP polling API may be less efficient but I know how to use that from all of the programming languages I work with already.
Message queues are difficult to maintain.

Webhooks is the best solution IMO.