skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still think engineering for slow internet is really important, and massively under appreciated by most software developers, but ... LEO systems (like Starlink, especially StarLink) essentially solve the core problems now. I did an Arctic transit (Alaska to Norway) in September and October of 2023, and we could make FaceTime video calls from the ship, way above the Arctic Circle, despite cloud cover, being quite far from land, and ice. This was at the same time OP was in Antartica. Whatever that constraint was, it's just contracting for the service and getting terminals to the sites. The polar coverage is relatively sparse, but still plenty, due to the extraordinarily low population.

https://satellitemap.space/
They don't seem to understand the problem. If they link you to a website that tells you to eat a rock, whatever. If they put their brand on that with an AI Overview, that's a problem.
Needs a (2014) in the title.
You seem to be the pedantic one. Emotional can appropriately describe McKellan’s reaction and like you say can “lend itself to various interpretations” of what emotional means - anger, frustration, whatever else the viewer observes and feels.
To remember the seven dwarves: "two 's's, two 'd's, three emotions":

Sleepy, Sneezy

Dopey, Doc

Happy, Bashful, Grumpy
What does the pandemic have to do with it?

Working so much that you can't spend the money was absolutely a thing before the pandemic too.
I had a similar thought, maybe they should have compared it to MBP, but at the end user is looking at how they can spend their money in the best way possible. For $999 you can choose between MBA 8-Core/8GB/256Gb or Surface 10-Cores/16GB/256GB. It seems like Microsoft does have a better deal here. It is similar weight to MBA, similar size, better battery life, and seems like more performant.

But there are numerous issues, that might be discovered later:

1. Similarly to the MBP because Surface will be more powerful than MBA, after you install all the default apps you need, and various Electron apps (like Slack) and updater like Microsoft Office, Google Chrome, will keep running in the background, you will never see 20 hours on the battery. This is the reason why I like MBA comparing to my MBP M2 Max, just because this chip cannot drain battery that fast.

2. Microsoft did a smart thing, announcing those laptops a few weeks before WWDC, but planning to ship them only after WWDC. So apple cannot play back and release M4 MBA on WWDC and show how much faster it can be comparing to Surface. Just because there is nothing to compare.

3. The quality of the Surface devices seems like it was always questionable.

Anyway, I am really excited about ARM powered Windows laptops, for multiple reasons. At the end I hope to see Bootcamp again, maybe games will be optimized for ARMs, and we will be able to play games on MBP with Bootcamp :D
Tools you might not know: DuckDB (plus: the magic of WASM)
Gnimm / Neuromime
Both Steve and Elon made stubborn decisions, some of which benefited and some of which hindered their companies' products.
I agree with this.

It may just be that I've shifted social circles as I've aged, or hell even that I've become cranky, but I've noticed a huge decrease in debating ability over the past 20 years or so.

I can't quite put my finger on it but I guess it feels as if labels, black and white thinking, and absurd levels of tolerance have proliferated as mind killing tools.
It says a lot about how ridiculously fat that industry is. It’s where young mostly white guys go to retire.
I’m working through it currently with my doctor, but unfortunately I have really crappy insurance. ASD is kind of a catch all for a group of symptoms that likely have a broad range of causes, like IBS, but in my case we suspect elevated blood serotonin levels are causing sensory processing issues by way of depressing the filtering action of the thalamus, due to mitochondria dysfunction, causing the CNS to be overwhelmed with information which reduces processing capacity. Since you appear to be high functioning, I would suggest getting your blood serotonin levels checked and working with a doctor familiar with ASD.

To address your original inquiry, I have found that the thing I value most is just time spent with family and loved ones. I bounced around through several careers and in the end, whatever pays the bills and allows me to provide for a lifestyle outside of work and spend the most time with loved ones is what I value the most.
Exactly. This is one of those cases of someone using an extremely crappy implementation of a new technology, and then claiming that all implementations must therefore suck.

My last car (a low-end Mazda, now about 10 years old) had excellent auto-wipers; I never had a complaint about them. The controls were simple, the sensitivity could be easily adjusted, they were great. I never wanted to switch back to manual wipers.
It seems like the compiler used in project's front-end framework doesn't support OpenBSD.

There is nothing we can do about it at the moment. Maybe in the future we will change the tech stack to reduce the complexity of the front-end.
When I picked up my new Model 3, about 5 years ago, I headed home and it started raining. I had no idea how to turn the windshield wipers on and was barely able to find a place to stop on the side of the road as I tried to figure it out. I do love the car overall but this certainly wasn't thought through and the auto mode is pretty bad. It's one of those quirks you get used to...
You can, just start rewriting all the broken shopify plugins that the switch to GraphQL killed.
I agree how-ever you cannot be a individual within a collective how-ever a individualistic society allows people to voluntarily choose to balkanize along ethnic or cultural tribes. Which is your inherit statutory right as a individual.
This makes 0 sense to me. I get tons of real world value and productivity benefits from AI, most specifically ChatGPT and cursor.sh.

I don't disagree that there is a ton of hype, a lot of it unwarranted, and I cringe when I see tons of companies trying to "throw AI against the wall and see if it sticks" (I personally nominate LinkedIn's AI blurbs on their feed as "most useless and annoying use of AI"). But still, I'm blown away with how much value I get from AI. It makes me a bit sad that so many of us have become so jaded that they see it as "one big LARP".
in the time its taken you to look into this and procrastinate, you could have done it by hand

greener pastures
You don't need the internet, it's been done for centuries. It is a derivative of mimesis which is biologically encoded colloquially as 'monkey see, monkey do'. You don't even need espionage to influence group think dynamics and mass hysteria. Want to start a stampede? Start running fast away from a group of people.

Trump is the poster boy for transmitting disinformation. The solution is to teach and promote critical thinking but that has been weaponized into 'do your own research' which conveniently neglects to do the critical thinking component that research requires.
You might be able to manually transcribe some of the notes and then fine tune an existing handwriting recognition model using them.
Its an interesting problem but the "work for us for free" aspect of it is offputting.
Show HN: Extract and decompose URLs in texts with robust patterns
Fully solve it - impossible. But we can still detect sarcasm and BS a lot of the time. The models are just not trained to do that typically so they never stood the chance. https://paperswithcode.com/task/sarcasm-detection
In general, I don't think it is that simple... but horrible people do tend to be more memorable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTUrdJ6atRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgXlN0x--u8

Have a great day =3
I really reread this all earnestly, and I guess all I see is tactics and no strategy discussion. I understand that to ... Change the color of an image you have to adjust that color, or that if there is a cast or shadow of an unwanted color that ... One thing a video tool does is adjust color.
But why or what next? Who knows. You gave it to a colorist.
I've tried to repeatedly point out you keep shitting on LUTs as if that isn't what anyone can say as a secret word to bitch about to get into the secret pro chat room. I get it. But if you don't know of any theory materials or why any of this all is done then I don't know why you continue to comment. Photoshop is a very old tool, but I don't know why doing basic image adjustments should impress me, unless that's your point here, that it all might as well just be applying a simple curve and calling it day but you seem to also be upset with people that reduce the work to that so it is indeed very confusing. If you don't know how to teach a craft you claim to know then do you really know it?
The stalkless cars have a button on the steering wheel to select the wipers, and the scroll wheel adjusts the speed. No need to use the touch screen to control them.
There is, by pressing a button on the left stalk. But that only wipes once and is also not intuitive when you first drive a Tesla.
> We’ve also seen nonsensical new searches, seemingly aimed at producing erroneous results.

Is this the first time they release something? Of course people are going to try to break it.
I think the article was pretty clear that the woman caught was a front for the other woman.
That's good idea I wish they would have such a "safety-switch".

However I assume that any malware doesn't want to be detected so I would have hard time knowing whether I should flip the switch or not, in a typical scenario.
I disagree, I think most modern OSes would be fine, assuming they are up to date and nobody is using secret 0days on you.
Sentencing guidelines are a Federal thing. New York doesn't have any except those laid out in the legal code (the 4/20 maximum I mentioned earlier).

I doubt he'll do any actual prison time, but those are the maximums in NY.
No. The vehicle speed is determined by a single sensor, the Vehicle Speed Sensor. It measures the rpm of the driveshaft (or one of them), the shaft that is the output from the transmission. You don't need the gear ratio.

But yes, it does assume that the tires are a certain size, so if you put the wrong size tires on, it will be wrong. Also, it's not super-accurate: tires sizes differ slightly by brand/model, plus they change their outer diameter as they wear down. That error accumulates.
Cartographers Play Video Games – A Review of the Map in the Legend of Zelda TOTK
If you’re not running AC you can certainly smell rain also
The OP is not very precise in just what is meant by "optimization".

Trying to evaluate the claims anyway, maybe a lot are correct but some are wrong.

The meaning of optimization there seems to be essentially, in some respects make better.

But there are some fields in pure and applied math and computer science where: To be short, simple, and explicit, we are at the central sort of FedEx and want to schedule the fleet at least cost, i.e., know for the next flights out, for each airplane, which cities should it go to and in what order to move the loads and make the total operating cost as small as possible.

Uh, maybe the OP would object, say that the FedEx fleet scheduling problem really WOULD have unpredictability. Okay: The planes are at the central sort, parked, and empty. The central sort is done, and from that we have data, for each city, the load to be delivered to that city. And in the evening, we get data from the cities, for each city, the load to be carried to the central sort.

We have a file that lists all the possible flights from the sort, to some cities, and back to the sort. For each of these, we plug in the loads and check the flight for feasibility and add the cost (we can be accurate on fuel and flight time because we know all the loads). Then near midnight we do the 0-1 linear programming optimization and determine all the flights. That is, we respond to the unpredictable nature of the loads of each day (airplanes out of service due to maintenance, weather, etc.) by doing some of the calculations once for each flight of the fleet using the latest and quite accurate load data, that is, have a deterministic problem.

But, there can be problems where there is unpredictability, say, over time. In that case, there is some successful research, and broadly one approach is stochastic dynamic programming. So, when a problem is not deterministic, maybe we can still do well.

Or, we are feeding 100,000 chickens. The feed might include ingredients corn, soy beans, fish meal, ..., and for each ingredient we have a "nutritional label" and cost, say, per pound. We also know what nutrition we want for each chicken. So, we run a linear program and find how much of each ingredient to use -- we solve the deterministic problem of giving the chickens the nutrition we want at least total cost. And if the prices or availabilities of some of the ingredients vary, we can change a few numbers and run the linear programming calculation again.

So, net: We can do a lot with optimization.
I guess Science is our best attempt.. followed by well funded serious journalism ?

An adversarial network might actually make a good effort to matching assertions with verifiable facts .. or at least facts that have a high factualness page rank.
Yes, and fan is both loud and regularly running
Do 3/4 say it does more good than harm?
Just keep 4 spare CR2032 batteries handy in case it starts raining and your wiper button batteries are dead.
You can use the standalone binary (18 MB) to run it. Docker is just one deployment method.
I would expect prior to any study that least some disorders have to be correlated with the signals one gets from society.

Eating disorders are the first thing that comes to mind.
PG trying to pretend that he isn't materially biased in the matter of Sam's image, even without knowing about the early investment that YC made into OpenAI, is incredibly dubious given that brand and reputation have such amazing value and are implicitly reflected upon YC in the case of Mr. Altman. The impact of this post on me has been to tarnish my regard of PG, although I will likely always think highly of his early essay writing.
The OP covers all the salient points. We might as well throw in antigravity and FTL travel since we have left reality behind. This is classic Musk. Right down to asking the public to solve his problem for free. Nuts.

As far as the dream that maybe THIS data can be compressed that much, this is analog waveform data converted to digital samples (10b each). IF the information is actually low enough frequency that Nyquist can be satisfied at that compression level, the simplest approach is to just drop the sampling frequency and cut out the middle man. Either the people designing this monster are ignorant or the information is actually at frequencies too high to satisfy Nyquist, leading us right back to la la land.
Most people don't join with the "standard" grant, they negotiate it up quite significantly.

Refreshers only being you up to the "standard" target TC (as defined by the company). So after their initial grant fully vests, most engineers will see their comp drop by a couple hundred k, even with refreshers.

This is a huge contributing factor to the low retention at big tech - it's why most people leave by the time their initial grant runs out.
Searching the very title on Google give me these:

(2023) Is the 4-day work week closer than we think? - Nearly half of Aussies think it will happen within five years.
https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2023/is-the-4-day-work-week-cl...

(2021) Four-Day Workweeks Are Closer To Reality Than You Think
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeswigunski/2021/05/03/four-d...

(2018) Why the 4-day workweek might be closer than you think — and the 10 careers best suited to it
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/24/future-of-the-workforce-care...

..
Maybe it is as close as nuclear fusion.
I thought that was the entire ”value” of Twitter, Reddit, SO and other such platforms for LLM training?

It’s not like we haven’t got higher quality corpora, on average. They’re just poorly annotated.
IMO author shouldn't have censored the app names. The world deserves to know.
Opposite for me. Much rather have an extra day where I can do anything I want with no one bugging me. Workdays are basically a wash for me anyways.
Elementary Probability by Stirzaker is my favorite intro.
I think micro management is often misunderstood. The usual run off the mill micromanagement, that almost every terrible manager follows is what I call micro verification. Double guessing every step you take and adding a verification layer on top of it. In the long run, it erodes the confidence and risk taking abilities of employees and overall completely detrimental to a company.

Real micromanagement is the ability to dive in and solve unsolvable bugs or issues, rally the team until the minutest detail of an issue has been hashed out or remove any micro obstacle. Once a manager shows skin in the game and proves themselves, they often win the minds and hearts of all engineers, who then feel inspired to get into micro details themselves.

Now like a sleight of hand, you have scaled accountability and integrity in your team.

So micromanagement done in the right situation and in the spirit of moving things forward is highly beneficial. In most cases, however micromanagement devolves into this micro verification tool that every mediocre manager uses to justify their existence.
Well said. I’d say the new “problem” is using the word differently though, namely to denote “optimization environment” rather than the original’s sense of “unsolved paradox”
My car (2012 Vauxhall Astra J Hatchback) has 5 front windscreen wiper modes (once, off, interval controlled, medium interval, short interval), controlled by the position of the lever (with fully down being once, which is also momentary, and then proceeding upward in the order above).

It also has a dial on it to adjust the interval when using the interval controlled option. I don't get to control how fast the wipers move in any mode, only the interval between them moving; on the highest setting, the wipers also move a lot faster, as I believe this lever position bypasses the BCM and runs the motors directly. When it's raining I drive on interval controlled position 3 most of the time, with medium interval in heavier rain and I've only used short interval once.

Interval controlled position with the dial on maximum is the same as medium interval position, and the dial on minimum uses the rain sensor.

The same lever also controls the windscreen washers (pull toward you for cleaning the front windscreen, push away for the rear), which also puts the corresponding wipers on medium interval for 5 seconds automatically, and finally has a 3-position button on the far end to control the rear wipers (off, long interval, short interval).

I like this system. You can adjust every aspect of it with a finger and thumb without ever taking your eyes off the road.

https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/southwestvauxhallspares-i...
More interesting than the launch of AI overviews has been the universally cold and hostile response from the ad-supported media. There is an air of panicked existential dread in their reporting of it.

Yeah the AI is new and rough. That will be fixed. What won't be fixed is people's desire to read AI overviews instead of click bait headlines that drag you through ad ridden filler before the one worthwhile point.

The crack of Overview's faux pas is a twig breaking compared to the earth shaking crack of the words-for-adviews industry.
I was on a jury and some of them were reasonable, competent people, but I was shocked by a couple of them at how clueless and careless they were. They basically made a choice at the beginning of the trial and didn't seem to listen to anything after that.
Excuse me, lack of information is a misdirect. They have data warehouse of information that knows where this article is coming from, and every fucking url ever put into chrome. They bought the rights to /r/the_onion

It’s an onion article. Directly from the page.

Are they saying “the mighty google search” + “AI” is going to be somehow worse because they don’t have enough data about the fucking Onion article with dozens of hits in 2021?

Even a 3.8B parameter edge model (phi3-mini) has enough satire token clustered around the first two paragraphs to flag it accordingly.

https://cdn.some.pics/snekoil/66594bca93e19.jpg

as does llama3-7B

https://cdn.some.pics/snekoil/66594cb8cddcd.jpg

as does GPT4

https://cdn.some.pics/snekoil/66594e1a3de29.jpg

as does Claude

https://cdn.some.pics/snekoil/665955fb22618.jpg

Instead they gaslight us with words like “faithful” and “nobody asked the question”. Their entire competition executes better.

Just because they AI wash the search data to boost their stock narrative we don’t have to accept their lame limitations narrative. They chose this fight.

Also see my longer commentary at the root which is getting google brigaded like many other critical comments in this thread.

Also, this is Zuck level of malevolent naïveté, it’s not like they don’t have experience https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079371/google-ai-gemini...
Some good transcription solutions:

https://zapier.com/blog/best-text-dictation-software/#window...

https://otter.ai/

(Haven't actually tried Otter, but it gets a LOT of good reviews.)
... and I guess another problem is that many/most humans dont want to know the truth.

If we had a chatbot that said .. "btw, your religion XYZ is mostly made up myths" .. would that sell well ?
We built Yates (https://github.com/cerebruminc/yates) to solve the authz problem.

Yates implements Postgres RLS along with Prisma, which we use as our ORM, and then our GraphQL schema is generated using TypeGraphQL (https://typegraphql.com/). Overall, it's a very nice setup and allows us to be versatile on the client side while still having strong authentication integrity.

While perhaps not as polished as Hasura, this stack does have the nice benefit of being free ;-)
> Please keep in mind that I wrote the majority of this post ~7 months ago, so it’s likely that the IT landscape has shifted since then.

Not sure if this is serious or intended as a joke. It made me giggle nonetheless. Which is kind of sad.
This can be dangerous on untrusted files, because it's easy to forget that it will run arbitrary shell commands, rather than just setting variables to static values.
Charity, mostly. Earning money is a hard-to-fake sign that the person you're doing something for is genuinely getting value out of what you're doing for them.
But then why...

Hold on, I'm back to my earlier comment.
Slow Internet isn't just remote places, it also crops up in heavily populated urban areas. It's sad that you had better connectivity above the Arctic circle than the typical connectivity with hotel WiFi. Bad connectivity also happens with cellular connections all over the place.
Good thing Tesla saves $1 on a few IR LEDs and photoresistors. That $50000 Model 3 is now $49999.
The shift from extracting content from the web and showing it versus generating content is an inflection point in search. It’s hard to get right, and I don’t agree that people like it better than regular search. It seems so, but the reality is more nuanced since positive engagement vs. frustration are hard to distinguish at a distance.
Hmm.. is it the same? I think some activities lead to internal focused changes, others face outwards. For me things like programming tend towards mostly affect my internal landscape, and something like dating would make me look outwards.

(mostly)
At least where I live at a reasonable price. EVs are piling up on the lots here.
This is under-appreciated. AI overviews are an extinction level event for low-quality information-regurgitators. I'd love to read some analysis on this, since it seems like AI overviews will significantly erode Google's own AdSense revenue.
no one else has the small third row option

Kia EV9?
Surprising that it gets such good battery life with a fan running all the time.