skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fair enough, makes sense for a multi-car household. in my town plenty of people get around in electric golf cars if they don't have to get on a highway
Believe it or not HN comments dehumanizing homeless people come up so often that I started saving links to them about a year ago, and now I have a few dozens. This is probably the most literal example though. It's foul.
Will anybody catch up to SpaceX? As an outsider it seems they are impossibly far ahead of the competition.

Blue Origin still has only achieved sub-orbital flight, a far cry away from reusable super heavy orbital flight. Meanwhile SpaceX is launching satellite constellations and Starship is looking increasingly real.

What is the path to victory for other space companies?
Perhaps the general sentiment was to just get the damn shot, but it was not the case that people didn't have choice. People absolutely had the choice. Comparing those two are not really the same. Cons want to outlaw abortion. Vaccines were never outright required, people still had autonomy.

The convoy drastically overstated the mandates. In practice the vaccine mandate they wanted removed was the one requiring vaccines upon entering Canada so they could go to the US. However, the US had the same requirement so it was a moot point. Furthermore, any sovereign state can determine who can and can't cross their borders. Vaccines is absolutely one of the requirements that are used by some countries. Anyone who's seriously traveled would know that.

We can agree that politicians are idiots. They are sewing division in ways I haven't seen in our country. Many of the issues being brought the forefront won't improve anyone's lives. We need housing addressed, we need the wage productivity gap addressed, we need education and healthcare addressed. These things will have generational impact.
If you care (which it sounds like, quite reasonably to me, you don't really), use pliers to bend over just the very end of the handle or put 180 twist in the handle. Very obvious and maybe unappealing to the sticky-fingered, without too much degradation to the immediate function of the object. And for teaspoons bought by the score, which i assume are stamped metal, the handle is probably thin enough to make it easy.

Though at attrition rates of under 10 per year, it could also be partly careless disposal leading to spoons in the bin rather than only deliberate pocketings of 30p teaspoons!
In my experience in west and northeast coast states, the plans are the same assuming they are ACA compliant. The employer even shows the same gold/silver metal level labels when you select a plan, and I’ve always had BCBS plans, which has the same networks via employer or via healthcare.gov

They only things that I expect to change are total premium, deductible, out of pocket expense, copays, and network. Otherwise, the coverage itself is dictated by the same law.

I can see right now that the BCBS gold HSA premium from my employer (total, including employer portion) is the same as the BCBS gold HSA available on healthcare.gov.
A friend that previously sold payload delivery for SpaceX and now does so for a competitor recently shared perspective on the Starlink venture. SpaceX sells payload delivery to telecom companies. Starlink is a current competitor to some of these companies and potentially increasingly so (whether through Starlink or other SpaceX ventures) in the future. The most effective way to sell payload delivery against SpaceX is to invoke the fear of further vertical integration and competition from them; SpaceX is otherwise the obvious choice on cost, options, and track record. Not dissimilar from retailers deciding whether to embrace Amazon as a distribution channel or not.
> it shouldn’t be possible to derive the formulas for chemical or nuclear weapons

Nonsense, this information is widely available and always has been. Modern chemical weapons like VX nerve agent have detailed information about synthesis on Wikipedia[0]. Any trained chemist worth a damn can replicate this. Despite this, chemical weapon attacks by non-government entities are extremely rare with only a few examples, the most notable probably being the Tokyo nerve agent attack[1].

As with nuclear weapons, the difficulty has always been in the technical execution, not the theory and know-how. And few people with the inclination to make the effort.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_(nerve_agent)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack
I like that it couldn't decide if it was a ghost eating a hamburger or a hamburger that eats ghosts from that ambiguous prompt.
People are creatures of habit and gravitate towards path of least resistance.
Yep, came here to say this. The big thing about the results here that might not be obvious to someone not in AI is that the models being trained in this paper are very many orders of magnitude smaller than the LLMs we've all heard so much about recently, and they're also being trained on specific tasks instead of general language modeling.

So I'm not expecting this will find its way into a LLaMA near me any time soon, but maybe this is an interesting result for people working in the specific domains represented in the evaluations.
Q4 2019: 362
Q1 2020: 367
Q1 2024: 365
Damn, I realize I was there too, I was living in Sydney at that time, but since I was renting I wasn't worried about damage to my own property. I remember my best friend telling me his dad's Saab had microdents and insurance got them a new Saab.
> Every Ace Band unlocks a themed Bit Valley mini store that levels up the eejie’s house. Get wacky decor for the room and cool outfits for their eejie. There are new themes to collect with each band.

Scummy ass shit. Incredibly direct tell about their true nature here.

I rather like the general notion, alas. The $120/yr annual plan seems not great but $60/yr offer for connectivity seems decent. Albeit it seems quite expensive compared to the expensive data-consumption a watch is going to have. I wonder if it works with other plans?
Then off to penisland to recuperate

Edit: I guess youngins don't remember pen island penisland.com
I clicked through to the original source and here is the text of the note about increased costs.

>Potential non-reimbursable annual costs (local funds, General Fund) in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to counties for increased incarceration costs relating to the expansion of felony perjury in this bill.

And the first Google result[1] says it costs $132,860 to house a prisoner in California.

So the analysis is effectively saying that California might incarcerate 0-7 people annually based off this new law. Is that supposed to be ridiculous?

This just seems like a weird aspect of this issue to highlight and it ends up making the overall argument against this bill look weaker because of course incarceration costs will go up if you incarcerate more people.

[1] - https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/calmatte...
...infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii makes wolves 46 times more likely to become a pack leader.

And wolves are social creatures, so this may have substantial impact on ecosystems in ways they are just beginning to make guesses about.
Apple has already announced they are killing parts pairing as it is currently implemented. They will, however, block the use of parts which came from a parent device marked as stolen.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/11/apple-to-allow-used-par...
Unboxing experience in an app is super cool.
Why does it seem off? It's hard to measure calories when running, but with cycling we have power meters which are incredibly precise, and you will burn around 700 calories an hour (as a beginner). Trained athletes can burn maybe double of that.
yeah. there could be confounding factors.
Brighter, and not by a small amount. It's not entirely visible light, but insolation is roughly 1000 W per square meter at noon. I'm not sure I have 1000 W of bulbs in my entire house.
Nobody thinks multiple successive years of positive growth real GDP is a recession, it's just not reality, NBER or not.
How many creators have BCL and BLC? ( http://tromp.github.io/cl/cl.html )

Are we lucky Haskell was not named "Convenanda" by analogy?
7/8's majority requirement??

These kind of supermajority threshold requirements should not be allowed, they're simply outrageous and blatantly obstructionist. Might was well write "this is immutable ha ha suck it"
Convince me that an AI Agent won't piss off the customer.
The sad part of all of this is that he both lost money and was more stressed than if he stayed at Google. He did gain many things too, including getting freed from a job he didn't like, learning a lot and gaining an audience. But it's not a success story yet as far as money and well being go.
Atherton catching burglars with bait houses, drones, & license plate readers
It's a lot funnier that way though.
There's a good reason why we don't use you as our economic arbiter and instead have the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is tracked, consistently, over decades.
Start putting ever harsher rate limits on their IP ranges in place until AWS has an actual human reaches out bypassing their so-called "support" channels by making their problem?
Don't forget that people who aren't involved at all lose as well because the delivery drivers park in the middle of the street with their blinkers on and block traffic/bike lanes.

As with most things the solution is to have better designed communities where people can walk/bike to restaurants/grocery stores and deliveries can be done by bike if needed.
I think footguns are something thats 100% unexpected. I would argue that a user of a database that sees any kind of reasonable size ought to be very aware of how things work, because to be blunt (to use same language as GP), if you are caught off by this, chances are that you are not qualified to tackle the thing you're doing. It is scary how many in high positions have no clue about indexes, and either are unaware, or have gross misconceptions about how things work
So, just the AI developed, used and hosted only in California, US are covered, or they are trying to legislate over all over the world? They will ban the use of non-compliant models inside the California state borders, while they will could be used freely elsewhere?

Using geography-limited legislation over things that are used countrywide or worldwide. for this or other laws from there or elsewhere is a bit overreaching. In the end, if the senate elected democratically for a territory, in representation of their citizens, decide something, is ok, as long as it only affects the people of that territory. Things gets very wrong when your elected governments impose their opinion over other territories/countries, there should a name for that.
On the other hand, ChatGPT is becoming almost unusable now with all the weaseling around a lot of topics. Especially the way it inherited American prudishness which doesn't apply in most of Europe.

I do think uncensored models are necessary. At the minimum because it allows you to build your own censoring, you have to start with a clean slate.

Also I think it's the public that have to be taught to stop viewing LLMs as oracles that are always right. That would solve most of the issues around hallucinations.
> washed out when filming in log

That's only because it's not viewed in the right color space? (I'm using color space in the ICC sense to also include the transfer function).

For some reason video folks seem really intent on creating their own terms for everything that photographers already standardized with ICC. And to make things worse they decided to make the EOTF and OETF not be inverses of each other.

Of course things will look off if you display a log-encoded image on a display that uses a power-gamma. You have to linearize the input (invert the log-encoding) then delinearize (inverse power) before sending it to the display. With ICC-aware tools (that most photographer uses) this conversion is done automatically for you (e.g. colorsync on mac).

But for some reason video workflows are not icc color managed. As I understand the oetf is basically unused entirely: since edits are made under bt1886 conditions, effectively baking in this bt1886 assumption on the viewer side as well. This seems to be the exact opposite of how ICC workflows work, where regardless of the monitor color profile the editor uses, all edits are transferred to the underlying source color profile of the image.

The only page I've ever seen which actually acknowledges that "log encoding" is just an alternative to gamma encoding is https://imatest.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KB/pages/114161421..., as I discussed in an earlier rant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37877599
It's harder than sitting on your ass and having someone else do it for you.
Fast Cold-starts for Serverless GPU Inference is becoming a reality
One of our customers partnered with us to use Serverless GPUs for production workloads.

They saw benefits like:

1. Dynamic Scaling
2. Reduced Cold start Times consistently at scale
3. Were able to go live in less than one day
4. Maintain separate environments for production, non-production, and development at no additional cost.
Correct, it's higher than 2019. Do you think Q1 2020 was a time of mass affluence? You remember the food lines and 15% unemployment, right? It's composition effects.
There is a qualified and formally verified compiler called ferrocene [1].

[1]: https://ferrocene.dev/en/
Average salary for a full professor in the US is $129K, which would put it closer to $800.

That being said, the average professor salary in Germany is around 84,000 Euro, so it's closer to $560 a month.

You also ignore that after the high deductible is paid in the US you're still paying co-insurance and co-pays. (I love how US health insurers describe these as "your contribution" to your healthcare costs, as if you weren't already paying premiums and deductibles, but the magical insurance fairy is...).
No need to remove the tunnel if you prefer not to. Rigid foam to a depth that meets the R value for your zone and AHJ requirements (“local code”). Check if any inspection is required before drywalling over the rigid foam.
Yeah, was going to comment the same. Pretty clear evidence of a lot of wage compression the past few years
https://www.nber.org/papers/w31010
https://www.ft.com/content/f32d4927-a182-4d7c-bf2d-dd915ef84...
Spending $300 already on a watch is already expensive (in addition to a $500-$100 phone), and it is a relatively small market, especially for watch OS watches. $230 on a kid's watch -- potentially more than one if you have more than one kid -- is definitely for parents who have money to spare.
The South Park episode Not Suitable for Children touches on this a lot too. Companies are foaming at the mouths to get advertising in front of kids and tracking them to understand what their habits are is really gross.
I mean chatgpt is not a company and it does not raise funds.
TIL Epicaricacy, from ancient Greek ( it was unlikely that the Ancient Greeks didn't have a word for something such a human flaw.
Unironically yes, and it's mostly a media reaction to higher rates. I recall "Forecast for US Recession Within Year Hits 100% in Blow to Biden" [0]. Turns out massive investment in America spurs growth even with rates as high as they were during the Dot Com boom!

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-17/forecast-...
They also used to feed some noise even when no sound was received. Softphones still do this today, it's called comfort noise :) if you have none most callers start wondering if the connection is still active.
This is a really naive take. I tried literally what you’re advocating. And what happened was some busybody lady in my neighborhood kept calling CPS when my daughter would walk to play at a friend’s houses down the block. When I was her age (6) I ranged an entire town on my bike. But this lady just kept calling on us. She’d bring my daughter home whenever she saw her out. It was infuriating. Once we got the Apple Watch the calls and helicopter stuff stopped. Also, the GPS tracking on the cellular Apple Watch isn’t even super accurate, but I can call her to let her know it’s time to come home.

The other kids seemed to have followed suit, their parents relented (mostly, the Muslim families on our block seem to keep a very tight leash on their kids) and run around the neighborhood freely. But before our kid started going out nobody was going out.
I get this, I have an uncanny memory of my youth and have clear memories of the fear that ran through me when I realized I didn't know where Mom was.

However, I think this belief that humans evolved to be so sensitive to childhood trauma is incredibly over sensationalized. I'm no worse off in life despite getting lost a few times. Your kid will be fine.
I don't care if you get a puppy with every Edge based Bing search, I'm not using the browser that you're shoving down my throat and up my hind end so hard they're meeting in the middle.

If M$ didn't make it so that exchange email exports only worked in Edge, I would never use it at all.
Symptoms of toxoplasmosis are only present in the immuno-compromised.

The behavioral changes are a different story.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis
Left-handed throwing second basemen, shortstops and third basemen (2009)
I admit I'm not crazy deep in this space but I'm _pretty_ into this space and I've never heard of Carbon.

Parquet is kind of winning the OSS columnar format race right now.
Your data set sounds interesting though I hesitate to suggest publishing it for various reasons. I upvoted you for having data. I imagine your comment won't fare well though.
I’ve had the same experience.

I’ve started buying high mileage cars that are roughly 2 years old. Essentially off lease vehicles, but more likely some sort of corporate vehicle.

Rust is by far my biggest enemy. I’ve never had an engine or transmission go. Really haven’t even had any major components go either.

But rust, rust just kills everything under the car.
I’ve been spending the last few months reimplementing Java backend code in Python. I’m sure I’m not the only one. It actually wasn’t originally my idea - I fought the decision and was initially upset about it, but now I’ve been living with it I’m actually glad they forced it on me :)

Yes it is true that Python can have limitations with high scale. But there are solutions to that (multi-process Python app servers for example). And the Python core performance story is improving (GIL removal is finally happening, JIT is moving into the core.) Plus there are a massive number of Java/Spring/etc business apps/microservices which aren’t actually high scale (I’ve written some myself) and could just as easily be done in Django/Flask/etc

The thing with saying that most Python is for data analysis, is what starts out as some ad hoc data analysis or data science prototype sooner or later morphs into a production service. And maintaining the same language from prototype to production makes life a lot easier-especially when the data science team decides they have to fundamentally change algorithms to improve performance leading them to rewrite half of it in the middle of the project. It is much easier to teach a backend developer Python (many of whom already know it anyway) than try to get a data scientist to learn Java.

Python is the de facto standard language of AI, and AI initiatives are driving a lot of Python adoption. But once you are using it for AI, why not consider it for non-AI use cases too? There isn’t a hard boundary between the two anyway - a lot of the Python code I’ve been writing recently has been related to getting OAuth tokens to talk to various pre-existing microservices (mostly Java with some node.js) and although I wrote that code for AI use cases it is obviously very applicable to non-AI use cases too.
Dumb phone?
I was at one point head of security and infratructure at Pebble and the only person standing in the way of personally identifiable biometric data being directly accessible on employee workstations. I know such practices end with data leaked or sold.

I believed Pebble users could enjoy rich data-driven features without fear as long as someone like me had their back. That sense of mission was part of why I stayed on to the end.

Once Pebble and I were integrated into Fitbit I got to see up close that they are not a wearables company, but a surveillance capitalism firm that will profit from all available data, even not-technically-hipaa protected medical data in any way legally possible. No one there had any mission but share-price-go-up.

I quit 3 months before my golden handcuffs came off, because I realized I no longer wanted to be part of an organization so deeply negligent with security and unethical with data usage.

I then got to watch from a distance as Pebble user trust and user data was then gobbled up again, this time by Google.

Now firms like Google have fully saturated the adult market and seek to parasitically cause behavior changes in children while extracting highly profitable biometric data from them too.

A ratified-and-strengthened American Privacy Rights Act cannot come soon enough.

We have to convince our legislators to stop these predators.
I have a law I figured out a few years ago.

Almost all programming jobs will be on too complex systems. If a system is well designed and not too complex, then they wont need to hire you!
The secret is to paint it and apply rubber coating, when it is new. It is DIY territory.

Paint alone will chip due to gravel and start rusting away.
Ultimately it's about where we draw the line for hacking other people's brains.

It's a spectrum: Some level is an unavoidable part of communication ("I like dogs" forces you to think of dogs) some more is considered normal and traditional manipulation ("My food smells nice, that makes you hungry, wanna buy?") and then it goes on into grey-areas, scams, and eventually to potential extremes like "this image induces nausea" or "this sound knocks you out".
Will there be a lunar lake model this fall? I’ll be shopping for sure then
Nit: the hummer EV is 4.5 tons. The average SUV only has 2 tons of mass.
I guess you have to pick your poison, then.
Its weird the types of sacrifices we expect kids to make with regards to survival. Like when a school shooting happens we wouldnt event consider banning assault rifles. Those kids dont survive. But if having a tracker on your kid marginally increases their chance for survival in the rarest of circumstances it’s totally out of the question to not have it.
$800 is steep.

I have a 2018 Subaru Outback. I got in a fender bender that caused the right front headlight unit to snap near the top bolt where it attached to the car. I found out when my car failed inspection.

I called the dealership and they quoted me $500 just for the headlamp. I went on rock auto and bought one for $250 and installed it. I had to take the front bumper off the car to install the headlamp. Passed inspection after I installed it though so it was all good. Just can’t believe they were marking up parts like that.
We’ve used AirTags on trips with our kids and they work well. Our dogs have them on their collars too.

I don’t trust Google with our kids’ data (or our dogs, I guess) and they’ll probably discontinue this in a year.