skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discussion at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25136422
The fact that you can now warehouse with robots lowers the barrier of entry for warehousing, which creates new companies that will host competition against Amazon, offer contract labor for Amazon, and in both ways create jobs that are superior to the previously needed entry level pick and packer. The same laborer can now be promoted at a new company to a higher pay job that requires no greater skill set, simply because there are now more of those better jobs at more companies. We can't all be managers at Amazon. But we can all be managers at 100000 different warehouses that previously didn't exist. That's where they are supposed to go.
Did you hear, it's going so bad for russia, that they have to pull out chips from challengers, abrams and leopard tanks to build washing machines! :)
Not being dismissive, but if 1 kid in 30 doesn’t smoke, but 29 do, that doesn’t make smoking any less dangerous.
WeChat and WeMeet are actually available on Linux, so this is only partially true. Edit: I've noticed that officially, it's only available on Kylin for some reason. I guess this is where the confusion arises, but I don't see why people can't just make unofficial packages for other distributions and they probably do already. I just didn't bother checking.
From my PoV, much of the Ukraine war was the result of the powers in the US exercising their control over the world, and it sure didn't take long to dispatch two carrier battlegroups to the aid of Israel.
Rockr – A loopstation for the webbrowser – Devlog Episode 3
Summary: Relying on government ID isn't decentralized.

I'm having a hard time thinking of one such system though.
Same for technology used. You won’t get much credit for keeping costs down and keeping things simple. The real money is in developing super complex systems. That will give you respect.
> We know letting a dominant player abuse their position to corner the market has long-term downsides to user choice. Windows, IE, and now Chrome.

The solution to that is to stop the abuse, not remove user choice.
The 2d to 3d transition is particularly nice
Nuclear is the best source of energy if the capex is in the past
"Wall, chilern, whar dar is so much racket dar must be somethin' out o' kilter."

(Thank you for the book - will be reading)
One might just as easily wonder why they needed to be told to have a sense of wonder.
My app does not support DICOM files as input. Just Uint8 256x256x256 raw files that are scaled 1x1x1. Maybe if I had the chance to work on it full-time I'd have the time to add those features, but it's just a side project for now.

Have you looked into Slicer3D[0] which is a multi-platform desktop app or Open Health Image Foundations dicom viewer[1] which is web-based? Perhaps one of these will help.

[0] https://www.slicer.org/

[1] https://github.com/OHIF/Viewers
A genuinely engaging read. Thank you for posting it here.
The average hourly wage in the United States is $30, so 15 hours a week is $450 pre-tax. Live on that with a family.
From the article, "A few months ago, I started a magazine assignment to answer some questions about SARS-CoV-2 and the immune system. I encountered paragraphs like this"... and the author links to this this [1] New Yorker article about COVID that was published November 2020. So from context clues, was probably published in late 2020.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/how-the-corona...
Short of a complete reboot of both federal and state governments it is unclear how anything meaningful can be accomplished in this space. Understand this is politicians doing their job by promoting legislation their constituents support. The issue here being corporate and special interest groups pay for politicians to run for office, making them the constituency that is served.
HeadSpin Founder Sentenced to 18 Months Prison After Raising over $100M
I don't think I can manage much more than 4 hours of actual productive code writing. Not counting time spent testing or stepping away and thinking.
It's not a mystery, but it also sort of pretends that humans are robots. That is, the human body has developed homeostatic mechanisms over billions of years, and a big part of that is that if your body thinks it's starving, it will try its hardest to (a) make you hungry so that you will do whatever you can to eat more, and (b) slow your metabolic rate so you don't die.
By some estimates, the US is home to 50% of world's globally reaching corporations. Software written at those companies has giant business implications (thanks to those companies' scale), and thus the devs can be better compensated for their work.
Versatile Systolic Array for Sparse and Dense Matrix Multiplications
related: JavaScript Naked Day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40104842

i browse the web with firefox + ublockOrigin with 3rd-party {scripts,frames} blocked by default.
it is a shame how many websites will show their main asset (text) not until i allow some (or all, if in a hurry/impatient) foreign site java script.

The post touts for an 'escalator' pattern, which is a good pattern to follow (for many things unrelated to web as well).
I still can not believe that when I right click on a file, the option to rename the file is no longer in the right click menu. The menu that appears contains a couple dozen different options, none of which are to rename the file. Somehow they decided that renaming is so unimportant of an operation that they shoved it into a sub menu, under "More Options", which, when selected, causes a whole new set of actions to appear, one of which is rename. So it's now a multi-step process to get to the option to rename a file.

How on EARTH did people sign off on that? It's such an unbelievable usability issue.
> It’s not debatable; we have over 200 years of technological development to look back on and the trend is clear: the total number of jobs has increased at least as fast as human population growth over that time.

200 years ago the town [severely mentally disabled person] could chop wood and carry water. What's he doing today?

There are ~9 million people on SSDI (disability) and ~5 million on SSI (considered completely unfit for work, the US version of basic income), and ~50 million retired. Retirement conceptually slowly became a thing around the late late 1800s. Many of these people are in one of these three categories because there is no job that would be a good fit for them, especially SSI, which most Americans don't even know about.
I enter, as an European who only know NY for tourism: in most large cities we see a significant mean-income decrease simply because remote working have convinced many high income people going outside the large city, followed by not too old retired to do the same, swapping their vacation home with their old main residence. Due to it's size I imaging NY have experienced this phenomenon apparently less (due to the size) but substantially more.

Even if most "big & powerful" have done and do their best to fight remote work, their success is limited, even gifts like short workweeks and various benefits do not keep many in the office. There is no advertisement, people seems even to fear stating "I'm for WFH 100%", but most who works in jobs doable from remote actually want to do them from home. Meanwhile poor people keep going to the city seeking possible opportunities, collective transport since they can't own a car, social housing since they can't own/rent a home and so on.

This is actually a bit exaggerated for today, but it's the trend, covid have pushed many, many are back, simply because they are forced to be back and their secondary homes are not really usable to live the entire year, they have not enough services around and so on, but things slowly change, and the trend is the big city as a giant labor camp of poor, not owning nothing and being bound to services they need and no way to escape.
well, in the video there was talk about making it work on fedora 36. not sure what he had to do or if it was him who created psdoom-ng...

but that configurability is cool. fsdoom sounds like a great idea. but here too i'd like monster size be based on filesize, rooms based on folders...
To an extent, sure.

If you've got the CEO, and you've got front-line workers doing the actual value-producing business, you can have two layers in between, sure. Maybe three layers.

But once you get to four or five layers? I hope your culture and productivity and ways of working were exactly where they need to be, because they're now impossible for anyone to consciously change.
I wouldn't expect this to be a very good test as I'd think the camera could easily tell the difference between taking a picture of a screen and taking a picture of a jacket.
How much money has this dude actually made from his fraudulent billion dollar company? 18 months of prison is going to suck, but there are a lot of people who would happily volunteer for it in exchange for, say, $50M ($49M after fines).
In comparison, Ontario Canada has a 3c off-peak / 29c peak plan.
The most productive way to lose weight is to cut out the soda, juice, cookies, ice cream, donuts, Captain Crunch, pie, cake, candy bars, pastries, etc.

Not the easiest thing to do, I know.
If government is installing and maintaining infrastructure then private industry becomes unnecessary overhead. This is, in effect, requesting government subsidies be directed to the corporate officers and shareholders of major telecoms firms to no obvious benefit to the larger public.
There’s more fun stuff like that: because Microsoft wrote the spec for the Language Server Protocol, the offsets in it are in UTF-16 code units even though the transport format is UTF-8. (This is less awful than it sounds, because a code point takes two UTF-16 code units iff it takes the maximum allowed four UTF-8 ones, i.e. if its UTF-8 starts with ≥ 0xF0. But it’s still pretty awful.) And of course UCS-2 had also been baked into Java and Java/ECMAScript at about the same time (circa 1990) and only afterwards was it half-brokenly extended to UTF-16.

In defense of all those usages (except the LSP one, which is indefensible), the original pitches for Unicode[1] literally said that it was intended to be fixed-width, an international ASCII of sorts; that was to be achieved by restricting it to “commercially-relevant” text (and Han unification). Then it turned out there are plenty of very rare Han characters people really, really want to see encoded (for place and personal names, etc.). Of course, in hindsight an encoding with nontrivial string equivalences (e.g. combining diacritics) was never going to be as simple to handle as ASCII.

[1] https://unicode.org/history/unicode88.pdf
I oppose municipal internet because then the municipality has to hire a staff of network administrators and a staff of people to actually install the service to households and customer service people to manage subscriptions and front-line tech support questions (or pay contractors to do all that). Lots of graft and favoritism will go in on that. Friends will get hired although they are not competent to do those jobs. County government salaries typically aren't market leading so even when those jobs aren't given to friends, they aren't going to get the best people. I have to pay for all of that, so my taxes go up, even if I don't use their service or if I don't have internet service at all.
I'm not convinced that animal husbandry is less skilled than working in cars. Different skill, and as I've never done it I can't be certain, but horses are wet and messy biology with brains that are terrified of anything they've never seen before. Production line work I did do as a summer holiday job during my A-levels aged 17 or 18, it wasn't skilled work but also that was HVAC production line not cars.
This 'treasure' rewrote California history. It was an elaborate hoax. (2021)
Valve is also fairly bad at maintaining focus on smaller projects. High-profile green-field projects like Steam Deck are fine, but lower priority tasks, particularly maintenance work, suffer. (For example, most of Valve's first-party games - including major titles like Half-Life and Portal - have been unplayable on macOS for nearly five years because there's no 64-bit build.)
My wife always says that her sister must have some type of "condition" that explains her obesity. PCOS, undiagnosed diabetes, etc. And I keep telling her that it's calories in vs calories out. Recently her sister got drunk with us and admitted candidly that she basically binge eats trash food, regularly eats McDonald's for dinner, and if she ever gets stomach cramps and bloating from overeating, the best "cure" is a litre of ice cream because it "helps settle her stomach". So yeah, no magic physics is happening here.

On the other hand me and the wife weigh out things like potatoes, rice, pasta and bread, eat all the fruit and veg we want and don't own a car. So we do minimum 25k steps per day, because we walk the dogs and then walk almost everywhere else we need to go, including buying groceries (which involves back-packing food about half a mile). I also run 3 to 4 times a week. Essentially, this is the same lifestyle I had when I was 18. And guess what? At 47 I'm wearing the same jeans size I wore at 18. It really is that simple.

What's hard? Trying to convince an obese lady who drives to the office, sits on her ass for 8 hours, eats chocolate bars and McDonald's for lunch and is too tired to use the gym, that her weight is 100% down to her life choices, and not magic.
I install these on everything and play them to procrastinate all the time. The only issue is that they break entirely with 200% DPI
> I should have loved biology but I found it to be a lifeless recitation of names: the Golgi apparatus and the Krebs cycle; mitosis, meiosis; DNA, RNA, mRNA, tRNA.

You just had bad teachers. The subject is all at once beautiful, bizarre, fascinating, daunting, mysterious, majestic, labyrinthine, and awe-inspiring.

We are solutions along a physical, biogeochemical optimization gradient. We're fit to the world around us like a glove.

We're also distributed systems. Every sub-component of every single one of our cells is a computational system in flux, dynamically adjusting to trillions of inputs every single second.

Even the packing of "junk DNA" is a calculated encoding of spatiotemporal expression dynamics and far downstream behavior.

We are the universe encoding behavior unto itself. Exchanging gasses, assembling polymers, replicating, carefully kept in balance. Battling against other systems attempting to utilize the same energy gradients.

> I think we also need inspiration. There is a romance in biology, as in any other science, that a movie like Good Will Hunting could bring out. We need heroes. Whoever delivers us from this pandemic in the form of a slam dunk vaccine, or a cheap quick reliable test, should become a household name, not for their own glory but for our kids—a Feynman for them to dream about someday becoming.

Biology doesn't have the rockets or the fancy computers, but it stands to one day unlock some of the best things for humanity: a world free of diseases, long lives, and perhaps one day, even immortality.

The only reason it's not sexier is that it's still in the punch card phases. We're just starting to scratch the surface of the computers that make up ourselves.
K, so let's give it a try anyway and see what kind of behavior it incentivizes.
> Meta released Llama-3 only three days ago, and it already feels like the inflection point when open source models finally closed the gap with proprietary models. The benchmarks show that Llama-3 70B matches GPT-4 and Claude Opus in most tasks, and the even more powerful Llama-3 400B+ model is still training.

I'm all for open models, but where do the benchmarks show that?

The official page https://llama.meta.com/llama3/ does not show any comparisons with GPT-4 or Claude Opus

Looking at https://arena.lmsys.org/, Llama-3-70b-Instruct is ranked #5 while current GPT-4 models and Claude Opus are still tied at #1. Meanwhile, Llama-3-8b-Instruct is ranked #14

Would love to be corrected, but either way an article should include sources for these types of claims.
I have to vehemently disagree with you here - the Android version is the main reason why I needed to set a "no phone in the bedroom" rule for myself.
Maybe, but at some point vague strategic moves like that will need to actually justify themselves at the earnings call. Throwing endless millions of dollars down the drain to what, depreciate the value of another companies product, which doesn't even directly compete with Metas main breadwinners? What do they actually get out of this?

I suppose if there's any consolation for the open-source AI community it's that Meta has demonstrated a willingness to burn a lot of money for unclear benefit, they're still single-handedly keeping the VR industry on life support at the expense of about $4 billion per quarter. A decade on from acquiring Oculus and no closer to making it profitable, if Metas AI efforts get the same treatment then the free models will probably keep coming for a while.
This touches on something I’d like to see in more mainstream languages, but it doesn’t quite get there.

> For example, Koka has a “diverging” effect, which means that an expression may diverge (that is to say, it may not finish evaluating). An expression containing a diverging expression is also diverging. So you can distinguish in the type system between a function that is guaranteed to finish and a function that may not finish (this is imperfect, of course, because of the undecidability of the halting problem; some functions that do not diverge will be marked diverging).

As I think about it (and I’m not a programming language theorist, nor have I done much serious work in any language with any sort of effect system), there are two vague categories of effect: control-flow effects like exceptions, yields, async waits (Pending, sleep, or however you feel like modeling it) and non-control-flow effects (divergence, various forms of unsafety, nondeterminism, impurity, reads or writes of global state, syscalls in models that don’t treat IO in and of itself as an effect), etc.

I would like to be able to run and write code that is definitely free of certain kinds of effects. Xz should not be unsafe or do IO, for example. Leftpad is an entirely pure, non-diverging function. And I should be able to ask my language to enforce that, ideally with trivial code. Maybe even by default.

But mainstream languages seem to mostly limit their use of effect-like systems on the control flow part, like this:

> Overall, coroutines strike me as the most promising way to handle many kinds of effectful functions because they seem to be in the design sweet spot: They are statically typed, lexically scoped, and unlayered.
What Is humans language, when did it evolve, and why should we care?
So you are using gpt to perform an audit on text + code?
Okay. I'm glad this happened. I depend on municipal broadband where I am...
Unless Meta’s bet is that, going forward, models themselves won’t be the competitive differentiator, that it will be about integration. They can give away Llama3,4,5 for free, because no one else can put them Whatsapp or whatever.

idk
very, very well said.

just from one language learner to another, so i hope you can appreciate this small grammatical correction:

> and neither is not easy to come by in Guatemala.

...the infamous 'double negative' que es correcto en español y otros, ¡pero es incorrecto en inglés!

it would seem to be true, and i would certainly defer to you, that altruistic minded and not toothless regulators, plus a whole lot of money are both necessary—and *neither is easy to come by in Guatemala.

again, great explanation of what might be difficult to comprehend from the perspective of others in this modern, interconnected world.
> Given the type of government service they’re going to get—one run by New Yorkers, not Swedes or Japanese—are they wrong?

You won’t hear me argue the NY state legislature is not deficient and/or corrupt. pushing back against monopolies writing their own legislation to kill competition is definitely a part of how we begin to fix it.
That interpretation of the constitutional grant of foreign affairs and defense to the executive forbididng requiring a warrant is not obvious to me.

Do you have any case law to cite for this, or it's just your favored argument that you'd hope a court would agree with? You are talking about it like it's settled law. Cites?

Also, note that the cases you are talking about to which the law applies have someone in the USA involved in the wiretapped conversation as well. It wouldn't shock me if the courts -- although probably not the current supreme court, but you never know -- simply said it required a warrant constitutionally at some point in the future. It's certainly not obvious that you can wiretap an American without a warrant as long as they are talking to someone overseas.
Sci-Fi, but what's the second?
The common file actions like rename and copy are now shown as icons at the top or bottom of the context menu.
German version (in English): https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?c=DE&l...
Open source is probably one of the most accessible forums of direct democratic action. If you have the majority and leadership will not cede to your will, you fork the project and break away.

If you lack the majority, you have fewer options, most of which devolve to coups and forcing an ouster.

I don’t know how to read this letter in any other light.

I think it may also be symptomatic of the peculiarly leftist failure of assuming the inevitability and reasonableness of their positions as universal and that to disagree makes one a priori a bad actor.
I had a Pixel 6A and 7A in the last couple of years, mostly as an experiment. The computational photography side of it was a complete mess, mutilating many photos from crazy levels of over-sharpening through to turning things into weird oil paintings. Absolutely hated both of them. I do have photos of myself with a North Face hat taken on them though and they came out fine!

Crawled back to an iPhone and paid through the nose in the end.

Edit: crop from the 6a: https://imgur.com/a/RO0UYev
Maybe check your own reading comprehension levels. I was criticizing you.
In response to both comments: I turned on "Allow antivirus clients to quarantine individual incoming messages" and then added an exception for the folder where Thunderbird is keeping my mail, and it's now noticeably snappier—not instant, but opening my archives folder (~35,000 messages) was previously anywhere from a couple seconds to a couple dozen of seconds, and is now probably a little under a second.
The Cybertruck's failure is now complete
> It's an interesting observation, but I couldn't replicate this by taking a photo of a Google Images search for "north face logo"

Low-level artifacts for screen photos are different, so whatever neural net messes things up here, acts differently.
I sympathize with the author even if my gripe is different. I’m surrounded by people who read pop science and regurgitate things they have no clue nor conception of. It’s very difficult to have an honest discussion and to ask “what if?” and say “interesting, I don’t know” with people who read books and think they have it figured out because so—and-so said so.

I should have loved curiosity, but what I’ve found are people looking to justify existing thinking.
But how do you know what that future looks like? For example, What if we use AGI and make ourselves smarter and more capable as Kurzweil has argued ?

You can’t imagine what that will look like so why worry about jobs ?
> Or two large milkshakes, or about 7 doughnuts or chocolate bars

Plenty of fat contributing to the calorie count in all of those.

I did mention sugar is probably the easiest carb to consume large quantities of, but 2000 calories of even something carb heavy like frosted cake would be challenging for many people. You have to get back into heavy fat “cakes” like cheesecake before the quantity becomes less of an issue.