skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, deep learning weather models have proven to be excellent at forecasting the tracks of hurricanes. But while these models are better at predicting where hurricanes will go, they tend to be lower-performing on the intensity changes of such storms relative to physics-based models.

For context, intensity changes are the current Big Problem. Otis [1] had its track predicted almost exactly, but its explosive intensification from a tropical storm to a Cat 5 was totally unpredicted. Possibly some of the ~$12bn damage could have been avoided if Mexico had known that in advance.

I've said this before in another comment some months back, but I'll repeat: my worry is that these models aren't learning some comprehensive new climate dynamics model with parameterisations [2] , but only fitting what the Earth has historically done. And if AI weather prediction is only learning what climate dynamics do 95% of the time, it's almost by definition not useful for predicting extreme weather and it will get less accurate the more the climate changes. You're just going to get more Otises.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Otis

[2] much as I would welcome, with open arms, some accurate AI-generated black-box parameterisations for e.g. subgrid precipitation - might be more explainable than the FORTRAN black-box parameterisations we have now :)*
In friendly poker games that I play we just make all the chips have the same value. We do a $40 buy in and you get 50 chips, each worth 80 cents. Since all of the chips have the same value we just mix all of the colors together. No one ever has to think about how the chips break down.
No, that's exactly my point. The walls are all printed together as a single monolithic building. I can do a repair in my house to the point that you can't tell it was ever broken. I'm not confident you can do the same here.
Sure, I'll revise.

Apple is providing this so that others may benefit from their success. GNOME, again, making excuses for their failure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitionism
Is this backed by any science, btw? If it is just so simple there should be studies on it. Trying to make cheap and easy weight loss happen is one of the most well funded research arms.
Deception abilities emerged in large language models
It really has come a long way. Obviously this is one users needs, and other folks will find other things that are missing or not 100%. But the fact that in this case the conversation as moved from gaming more generally, to vendor specific overclocking is quite a sign of the times.
This seems to me largely explicable even without reference to labor cost. I live in a downtown townhouse and asked my own builder why these kinds of projects take so long compared to the cookie cutter suburban projects. Some of it is more difficult permitting, zoning, having to often clear existing buildings first. But part of it according to him is just a shortage of skilled tradespeople who are even qualified to do the work.

Basic microeconomics would dictate you can just pay more and induce more people to take the job, but if you're talking about a usually lifelong career choice that takes years at bare minimum to master, and requires an apprenticeship with already existing masters, no matter what you offer to pay, you can only increase the labor supply so quickly, and even then it might take a generation. Very few, if any, businesses have that kind of time horizon. Thus, it does not happen, and instead, there simply aren't enough people who have the necessary skill to do certain jobs. I would imagine that all of the custom stonecutting and sculpting to create very ornate unique buildings is one of those sufficiently rare skills that, no matter how many cities and people might claim to prefer one type of architecture over another visually, you're instead going to get what is actually possible to build fast enough to meet the required rate for new buildings to go up, which means standard shapes and sizes that are pre-fabricated in abundance by robots.
Reminds me of this article on a similar approach: https://bgolus.medium.com/rendering-a-sphere-on-a-quad-13c92...
In the context of cloud, it's cargo cult security. Something somewhere says "you must have encryption at rest." I find it very hard to believe Amazon's or Google's servers do not already have full disk encryption. So what are you protecting again? If you're storing the decryption keys in KMS in the same cloud, you're not hiding anything from the cloud provider. The only rationale I can think of for doing this is defense-in-depth, but seeing how many companies struggle to even get IAM right I doubt this would help much.

Security compliance and real world security are a universe apart. You have encryption at rest with mandated AES-GCM/SHA512? Cool story bro, some teenagers just broke into your network with a bit of social engineering and a 6 year old CVE.
Maybe a factor of why this happens is the expectation for senior engineers and higher to do less hands-on work and more management and planning work, which leads to an overall degradation of technical skills because engineers don't specialize in their domain for their entire career.

In other words, the tech skill shortage is self-inflicted with the industry pushing for engineers to add "business value" as the number one priority instead of focusing on mastering their technical skills throughout their entire career.
> With AI ‘sucking the air out of almost all non-AI investments in the whole tech world,’ companies are cutting what they believe are unnecessary jobs

Not enough AI on your CV. Is there a php or perl scripting AI yet? I imagine a future of lots of little AIs that know their own out-of-fashion domain talking to a bigger AI. Maybe layers and layers of AIs. I wonder if they'll have meetings or chats.

Maybe we can give them ambition to self-automate or create new layers.
I almost didn’t get a new prescription for my GLP-1 but then not even the fear of gaining weight, but rather the fear of having the food noise back is why I decided to continue… even though the weigh loss is plateauing.
This is called Bayesian reasoning, BTW, and you subconsciously do it all the time. Your entire life would be almost completely incomprehensible otherwise.
Are spheres ever rendered with multiple rendering poles to decrease the pinching you describe?

As an example a sphere with a “true north” pole that is rendered with one rendering pole at “true north” and another at 0',0’. When the user is looking at the sphere sidelong the former is used and if the user looks at it from closer to the “true north” pole, the equatorial render is used.
I might be dumb here, but I don't understand the chart of "most important IT skills". What are the percentages of? Why do they add up to much more than 100%?
At some point we always need some sort of model of the world, you don’t want to call it physics?, that’s fine, but you are still modeling the world

Interestingly though, physical models are usually expressed as mathematical equations. Which is an arbitrary way of modeling

A Neural Network could technically “discover” different models, just through optimizing predictions for whatever we want the model to do

We might not be able to distill the NN into nice compact equations, but they might still form a pretty good model of whatever phenomenon is fed to it through observational data

Note that just by picking the input data and the output expectations, we are already defining a model
New Apple Universal Link for ESIM Install
more like subsidizing Bell and Rogers, these days
Not op, but FWIW, I know people who make high six figures (explicitly, $750k>) at companies that aren't household names or FAANG(ish) companies (or AI companies for that matter), though I also know my share of people that are at such companies that most people, or maybe just people here have heard of, that also make > $750k. Some of them aren't even software engineers! Most (all?) of them aren't paid that much on their W2 though and have lucked out with stock options/RSUs/related compensation (again, at non-FAANG companies, some private).

Not trying to brag that I have well-paid friends, though it might come across that way; just corroborating the fact that it's possible for late-career professionals to make that kind of money at non-FAANG companies.
> The general advice should be for people that are otherwise healthy

Not from a public health standpoint unless healthy people would actually be harmed.

1/3 of adult Americans are obese. It varies by country, but add in various other health issues and risk factors like smoking or being around lots of other people at work and most people have some risk factors elevating their benefit from minimal to meaningful.

So as everyone benefits at least a little and some people get a very significant benefit the general recommendation is for everyone over 6 to get a flue shot.
It does have the advantage of context menus that contain all of the context, rather than a button to revert to an older version of the context menu that has what you actually want!
Agreed, but data is so easy to find online! My breakthrough was that Python comes with SQLite built-in. Pointing DuckDB at a CSV file looks even easier.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html

https://duckdb.org/docs/data/csv/overview.html
Nvidia emails: Elon Musk diverting Tesla GPUs to his other companies
A lot of the entry-level positions in the US are pretty similar, if you aren't being disproportionately compensated for living expenses. Outside of San Fransisco this is pretty much considered average compensation at the bottom of the ladder.
Evaluating LLMs with Giskard in MLflow
Unless the components are expensive, that proposition seems dubious. It's much more economical to take a process that produces everything within 12% centered on the desired value and sell it as ±20%. 100% inspection is generally to be avoided in mass production, except in cases where the process cannot reach that capability, chip manufacturing being the classic example. For parts that cost a fraction of a penny, nobody is inspecting to find the jewels in the rough.
Wikipedia has a nice table of these values that I actually have printed out and hanging above my bench.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_series_of_preferred_numbers#...

The fact of the matter is that nowadays, E96 series resistors are readily available and dirt cheap. And if you need more precision than that, you either don't know much about electronics or you know a whole lot about electronics, heh.
To put some numbers on it, assume a civilization of 1 trillion people, with each person using 1 000 things that needs a large prime, and those 1 000 things need to generate a new prime 1 000 times a second.

The most conservative bound on the chance that a random single Miller-Rabin test will say that a composite number is prime is 1/4.

Using that bound, if that civilization used Miller-Rabin with 48 random Miller-Rabin tests to find primes they would get a composite falsely identified as a prime about once every 60 000 years.

If they used 64 tests they would have one false positive about ever 258 trillion years. That's past the point when all stars in the universe have run out of fuel.

Now assume that every star in the universe has a similar civilization. If everyone uses 96 Miller-Rabin tests there will be a false positive about once per 24 billion years.

As I said that is using a false positive rate of 1/4, which is very conservative. There's a paper [1], "Average Case Error Estimates For the Strong Prime Test" by Damgard, Landrock, and Pomerance that gives several bounds.

Their bounds are in terms of k, the number of bits of the odd number being tests, and t, the number of random Miller-Rabin tests. They give 4 bounds, for various ranges of k and t:

(* Valid for k >= 2 *)
k^2 4^(2-Sqrt[k])

(* Valid if t = 2, k >= 88 or if 3 <= t <= k/9, k >= 21 *)
k^(3/2) 2^t t^(-1/2) 4^(2-Sqrt[t k])

(* Valid for t >= k/9, k >= 21 *)
7/20 k 2^(-5t) + 1/7 k^(15/4) 2^(-k/2-2t) + 12 k 2^(-k/4-3t)

(* Valid for t >= k/4, k >= 21 *)
1/7 k^(15/4) 2^(-k/2-2t)

It is the second one that is most relevant in most situations where you want a large prime and want to do as few tests as possible to get your false positive chances below your acceptable threshold.

Using the hypothetical trillion being civilization with each being needing a million primes a second, here's the expected number of years between that civilization seeing a false positive using the second bound above, for k = 64 and t 2 through 5:

2 3.6 x 10^26
3 7.6 x 10^27
4 8.5 x 10^28
5 6.5 x 10^29

The bound gets lower as k increases. If they needed 1024 bit primes that table becomes:

2 1.5 x 10^45
3 1.3 x 10^51
4 1.1 x 10^56
5 2.1 x 10^60

[1] https://math.dartmouth.edu/~carlp/PDF/paper88.pdf
Shouldn't you be proactive with IT maintenance?
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Well the median income in the whole of the UK is 35k... that amount for a job within London is not great, indeed.

They complain that they can't find "talent", and my cynical take is that the scheme is to get immigrants on sponsored visas who will do that to get to the UK then move job when they can.
The argument being made above is that it isn't fashion, it's the relative cost of labor that's the significant factor. Places like Columbo have extremely cheap skilled labor, and also face incredibly high material costs because the domestic supply chain simply doesn't produce the necessary materials. You could produce artistic decorative elements locally very easily. If you've been inside many of these places, that's often what's inside where the design is dictated by local cultural preferences rather than political vision and whatever the small number of skyscraper architecture firms want to design.
Honestly the OP comment was helpful for me, because I was confused I read the story wrong, or that I missed something.
But 80 is within 20% of 70 so we're fine ;)
How goes "it already happened" with infinite time? Does it mean there is no infinite time?

Also no free will sounds so horrible yet so liberating.
Tech salaries are poverty in London, house prices and rent are still rising, a friend of mine could not even afford rent and is still employed at a tech company.

Startups like Wayve AI most recently raised $1BN in the UK and still pays AI engineers lower than US peers.

Only FAANG and banking can pay high salaries in London.
Depends on where in the production line they are being tested. If they are tested after they've had their color bands applied, then you wouldn't be able to sell it as a 66kH since the markings would for a 68kH
Kamal and Hetzner = Joy
(disclaimer: I've not looked at mamba specifically yet) but state spaces as used current are different from traditional RNNs in a very simple way: the state is linearly (often associatively) accumulated while in RNN the state is passed/accumulated as an input/output of a non-linear function.
You're confusing the quantum-classical transition with the quantum-gravity to classical-gravity transition. (People understood the relativistic-Galilean transition before they understood the QFT-classical-field-theoy transition.)
Richard Feynman talked about this in his talk about “What is Fire?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pIYI5JQLE
Sure, but check your sentence's grammar; it implies you're asking as a general rule of biology.

As to COVID, dunno.
Analyzing the data it becomes clear that the A/D used by Neuralink is defective, i.e. very poor accuracy. The A/D introduces a huge amount of distortion, which in practice manifests as noise.

Until this A/D linearity problem is fixed, there is no point pursuing compression schemes. The data is so badly mangled it makes it pretty near impossible to find patterns.
Databricks acquires Tabular, Snowflake fork Iceberg?
it's different

affected distribution is always x>3/4, both before and after

what's measured is upper bound on number of zeroes <y, relative to y

it was <y^(3/5), now it's <y^(13/25)

it says nothing about absence of zeroes, but the density result already affects prime distributions
Wow, this article is cool, but it loads a lot of shaders the more you scroll down the page, and unless you are on a very powerful computer, your browser might slow to a crawl.
> Apps from big publishers were more expensive than the indies in the 1980s. And indie shops that were charging ~$40 ($100 in 2024 dollars) for their titles.

Similarly, in the 1990s, things like Myst and Sim City 2000 were $40 each. Shareware at the time (mostly indie) were usually $20 or less; often $5, and sometimes fun/silly things like postcardware or beerware.
Limited support

https://docs.malloydata.dev/documentation/

"Malloy currently works with SQL databases BigQuery, Postgres, and querying Parquet and CSV via DuckDB."
The issue is probably volume. Very few applications need a resistor that's exactly 66kΩ, but a lot of applications need resistors that are in the ballpark of 68kΩ (but nobody would really notice if some 56kΩ resistors slipped in there).

For every finely tuned resonance circuit there are a thousand status LEDs where nobody cares if one product ships with a brighter or dimmer LED.
Bogus.
But a nice spoof.
thanks for surfacing `expect` to our attention. I'll add a compare/contrast to the ht readme
To expand on what andyk wrote in the sibling comment:

Programs running in a terminal don't get individual components of composite key presses such as ctrl+a, shift+b, so they don't see "a with ctrl modifier" or "b with shift modifier". The modifier keys are handled by terminal emulator before sending the key's ascii value to the program, modifying the regular ascii letters appropriately. So when "a" (ascii value 0x61) is pressed while holding shift, its ascii value is ... shifted (down) by a constant 0x20, making it ascii 0x41, which represents "A". Similar with ctrl key, which shifts down the ascii value by 0x60, turning "a" into 0x01. So to send "ctrl+d" you send input with a single byte of value 0x04 ("d" ascii 0x64 minus 0x60). ht uses PTY under the hood, and this is how you send keyboard input into to a program via a PTY. This is kinda low level though, and there's definitely a possibility of implementing a high level input method in ht, which would parse string such as "<ctrl+d>" and automatically turn it into 0x04 before sending it to the process.

In other words, the way input in ht works right now was the easiest, simplest way of implementing this to get it out the door.
If you are a "leader" trying to hire a "skilled" AI worker, you are probably an idiot. It's literally a brand new field! - you are choosing the most limp-wristed, back-seat response possible. The only skill you are going to hire for is the ability to lie on a resume.

Unfortunately, I think this myopia extends to the entire breadth of the "skills gap". Any executive complaining is kind of admitting they lack the skills to actually manage humans.

What actual leaders are doing is the same thing they have always done - hire smart, enthusiastic people and give them the resources they need. The whole point is to recognize potential talent - not just reading the tag and slotting them into thankless positions then complaining when they don't fit. But this requires trust, and flexibility, trial and error, and actual knowledge. And certainly no executive would want themselves treated in such a way.

But this kind of leadership is hard and requires admitting failure occasionally - so for some reason spending 3 months cross-training a programmer to be an IT Operations specialist is seen as inferior to waiting 9 months to overpay someone new.
The bit you remember might be great. The part you don't remember might never have existed. I've often "solved" problems in semi-lucid sleep, by brainstorming an idea and pursuing it, but when I push, the idea doesn't makes sense, or is meaningless, not just wrong.
How do you "wipe the disk" ?

Serious question: is there a sane, working, single solution to ensure that ? Flash-based devices are so complicated (versus the old rusty devices)

Anyway, this sound exhausting
Snowflake unveiled Polaris yesterday,
Databricks acquires Tabular today.
What's coming tmr?
I'm reminded of Canada's first weird tale (probably), 'A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder' by James De Mille.

The narrative structure of Strange Manuscript is that of a story within a story. The frame story has four characters. Lord Featherstone, a British aristocrat, has fled the boredom of society to cruise the south seas in his yacht. He is accompanied by Dr. Congreve, a medical doctor who is knowledgeable in such fields as geography, botany, and paleontology; by Noel Oxenden, a Cambridge scholar who is an expert on philology; and by Otto Melick, "a littérateur from London". The four are becalmed in mid-Atlantic when they discover a copper cylinder containing a letter and a manuscript written on an unusual material which the doctor later identifies as papyrus. To while away the time, they take turns reading the manuscript aloud, pausing between turns to discuss its contents and debate its authenticity.

The author seems to have been a rather cool dude

Among the books from his library presented by the family to Dalhousie College are hymnologies of the Greek Church, a beautiful set of Euripides, works in modern Greek, Sanskrit, and Persian showing signs of use, as well as French, German and Italian classics with pencilled marginalia, all attesting the breadth of his intellectual interests. Since his death, his best book, A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder has been published by Harper's. It anticipates such romances as King Solomon's Mines, being a tale of wild adventures in an Antarctic Topsy-turveydom where lovers fly about on tame pterodactyls, and utter unselfishness is the chief aim in life of the highly civilised (but cannibal) inhabitants. [...] De Mille was a tall, handsome, dark man, an excellent teacher, a good conversationalist, best in monologue, an amateur musician, an adept at caricatures and comic verses; in short, a most unusual personality.
> Seems a bit rich considering that OpenAI itself is an avid and leading contestant in that reckless race.

How so? The article is about the culture at OpenAI.
Also, I have to wonder if anyone who actually reads webcomics was involved in the production of this, because "professional quality" (read: hyperrealistic) art is not the selling point at all even for the decidedly NSFW ones.
I had to make some data conversions and markdown table creation by hand. Took me one hour, what has usually been a 1 minute job for GPT-4.
What's the excuse for the static blog post loading with Javascript?
Thanks for the explanation!

Wanting to just type and have the game do the right thing is a very reasonable expectation, and auto-assignment is an interesting idea. It might need to be a one-way street to avoid unpredictable cascades though, such that you can go from "any letter A" to a "concrete letter A in that specific group" automatically, but not from a "concrete A" to "any A".
Excellent additional points on the labor cost/availability issues. Thanks.
After having worked at a few companies I can tell you that they generally do not.
Archivebox with its multi-method backups. Screenshots, text, html, etc.
Which one has a good price/accuracy ratio?
There are some rules against extreme profanity, death threats and bullying of minors anywhere. So true freedom of speech does not exist anyway.
About as affordable as living in new york.

Reminder that your taxes pay for the subsidies that make the prices on EVs even anywhere near that "affordable" range.
I think his comment contains a speech-to-text error. I assume it is supposed to read "their solution is just a parasitically leech off of other countries' large businesses."