skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do people directly work on the KPIs on your org? As in there is individual KPI for each person without any outside blocker etc.? And is the KPI so evenly distributed to each team member? What about other unknowns in the KPI.

At least in the companies I worked with, KPIs are manager/lead level items and it is divided into tasks that is handed out to individual team member.
I would argue that it's not so much that governments dislike extra work but rather that the populace dislikes the additional tax expenditures that accompany it.
2 fun angles I hardly ever hear any talk about: There is the company, there are the employees but you rarely hear the customer get organized in a permanent way. How bad does the coffee have to get? The other angle is the size of the corporation. You can easily demonstrate that economy of scale is beneficial for many industries. Making all local coffee places the same is a horrible idea. It reminds me of Magnasanti the dystopian mega city where people don't flee because everything is exactly the same everywhere.
There's no accountability that can be had by the Soviets because the Soviet union doesn't exist anymore.

The American empire on the other hand is very much alive and well. So it makes sense to point fingers at them.

This also goes to internal actors, and a lot of Latin American countries (for example Chile) have failed at properly keeping their own players accountable.

But it doesn't in any way make the call for retribution for the USA any less valid.
At the bottom of the article, they allude to a future "AI App Store":

> Eventually, Apple aims to make money from AI by striking revenue-sharing agreements whereby it gets a cut from AI partners that monetize results in chatbots on Apple platforms, according to the people. The company believes that AI could chip away at the billions of dollars it gets from its Google search deal because users will favor chatbots and other tools over search engines. Apple will need to craft new arrangements that make up for the shortfall.
And they can demonstrate the opposite by implementing policy controls - as they have done here
"Packing the court" has a very specific meaning in the US, so it may be different in the Kings's English, but here it means filling courts with more judges for the purpose of ideologically outnumbering the other side. The US does not have a set size for its Supreme Court, but the number of Justices has remained (more or less) 9 for the whole modern history of the US.

Also the Alito's wife thing is a great example of the media effort to undermine the legitimacy of the Court. By fabricating a narrative that an upside down American flag or the Pine Tree flag are "dedicated symbols of January 6th" or some nonsense, the media further damages the credibility of the court. The truth of the matter is, Alito's wife flew the flag upside down as a kind of SOS about a neighborhood dispute. Upside down flags equaling distress have been a standard that I learned about as a child. The Pine Tree flag has a huge history going back to the Revolutionary war, and has been flow at every kind of event conceivable. Simply being flown on January 6th does not mean that Jan 6thers suddenly own it, any more than BLM owns it, or a music festival or county fair own it.
Also backside power delivery supposedly helps a lot by letting you use bigger (so lower resistance) wires.
No, it doesn't let you attach back, it just keeps a command going after you've disconnected your session. But if you have good logging that might be good enough.
Pro-tip: If your webpage has a lot of images, it is very useful to add loading="lazy" attribute to all of them. You'll save on network traffic and users who do not read whole article won't DDoS your server.
I've used ChatGPT on Azure. It sucks on so many levels, everything about it was clearly enforced by some bean counters who see X dollars for Y flops with zero regard for developers. So choosing AMD here would be about par for the course. There is a reason why everyone at the top is racing to buy Nvidia cards and pay the premium.
Note that the court didn't decide the case on its merits; they said the parties had a lack of standing.
Wet bulb events aren't that simple to deal with. Grid stability doesn't exist in any of the poor and hot equatorial countries. Many people don't even have airtight housing which rules out aircon. If it was too cold instead they could just add clothing and blankets and survive.
It's always hard to trust and install desktop apps unless they're open source or coming from a well known dev. But looks promising and useful.
I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age (2021)
This article talks a lot about “cool roof” but doesn’t actually tell what it is.

A "cool roof" is a roofing system designed to reflect more sunlight and absorb less heat than a standard roof. Cool roofs are typically made of materials or coatings that have high solar reflectance (the ability to reflect visible, infrared, and ultraviolet wavelengths of sunlight) and high thermal emittance (the ability to radiate absorbed or non-reflected solar energy).

It makes me wonder what is a good roof design for more northern areas - i.e. in Seattle you want “cool roof” in the summer and “hot roof” in the winter.
Correct buffer sizing isn't a good solution for Bufferbloat: The ideal size corresponds to the end-to-end bandwidth-delay product, but since one buffer can handle multiple flows with greatly varying latencies/delays, that number does not necessarily converge.

Queueing aware scheduling algorithms are much more effective, are readily available in Linux (tc_codel and others), and are slowly making their way into even consumer routers (or at least I hope).
I don't really get the problem? Arid conditions are a bit nicer for humans since the wet bulb temps are lower. If it's about water, then agriculture uses a lot more than cities do.
Great website — the About page is the best part IMO. Preempted my snark beautifully, and taught me something somewhat profound about art!

> What isn't a Drawing Machine?

> A drawing must be drawn: photography and inkjet printers are ways to mechanize the image-making process, but they are not drawing machines. Drawing is the slow reveal, the gradual accumulation of contours and marks into an image…

> In this larger etymological context, producing a picture by making lines and marks — to draw — literally means to pull or drag a pencil or pen across a surface. It is a physical act. It is active pursuit, emphasis on pursuit. You chase, seek, and pursue the final drawing
The rich move to the city, the poor are squeezed out. The poor take long dreaded commutes that make them pay premiums for early/late daycare times and the long commute makes it difficult to find time to look for new jobs.

I make tons of money, I'd do great in your fantastic city. I stopped caring about the lower class last year. Your proposal is fine to me.

Just don't do a bunch of terrible bandaid things that mess up the economy in 20 years because you created a socioeconomic divide.
There's a danger in "We need to do something, this is something, therefore we should do it".

Government subsidies flow to those who know the system. If what you want is journalists being paid by those people who know the system (probably postmedia, rogers, and bell), then this may be the solution you're looking for. However, it'll likely make it even harder for different viewpoints to compete, not only against big companies alone, but ones that get subsidies.

In the UK there's some ground-up work being done with some local newspapers becoming charities ( https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/15/glimmer-of-hop... ). This, plus some very specific tax advantages, could provide news viewpoints of all stripes and not be beholden to funding conditions that may or may not make sense for the news source. It's just one example, but it's not tied to funding that can be easily manipulated by governments of the day. Subsidized organizations also often tend to get lazy.
I had two Greeks on my team at a large tech company in Sweden.
DRM isn't effective if the source is available.
> when it’s the hottest, solar panels generate the most energy

That's not true.

> It may seem counterintuitive, but solar panel efficiency is negatively affected by temperature increases. Photovoltaic modules are tested at a temperature of 25° C - about 77° F, and depending on their installed location, heat can reduce output efficiency by 10-25%. As the solar panel's temperature increases, its output current increases exponentially while the voltage output decreases linearly. In fact, voltage reduction is so predictable that it can be used to measure temperature accurately. [0]

> Home solar panels are tested at 25 °C (77 °F), and thus solar panel temperature will generally range between 15 °C and 35 °C during which solar cells will produce at maximum efficiency. However, solar panels can get as hot as 65 °C (149 °F), at which point solar cell efficiency will be hindered. [1]

[0] https://www.greentechrenewables.com/article/how-does-heat-af...

[1] https://www.energysage.com/solar/solar-panel-temperature-ove...
Rust executables generally compile to static binaries. No you don't need to install Rust on the server, just compile once locally and copy the binary.
This is a projection. Oster seems to do the opposite, cast skepticism on overconfidence of certain ideals using data as a guide, or criticizing the lack of it or the rigor of studies leaned on.
Correction: Cell was ahead of it's time when they started drafting the concept for it in mid-2000 and the most powerful consumer CPU at the time was the Pentium 3, but by the time it launched on the market in 2005, X86_64 was the new undisputed king of CPU performance and ARM in mobile lower power sectors, with ATI and Nvidia leading the GPU race, leaving the Cell processor as an overpriced paperweight that was a jack of all trades, master of none and difficult to program to boot, and the new market had no use for such a thing.

I think neither Sony nor anyone else expected the consumer CPU and GPU industry to evolve so quickly in that time, otherwise they would not have spent hundreds of millions developing anew architecture from scratch. Intel also made the same mistake back then when they tried to reinvent the industry with the new Itanium CPU architecture. Hindsight 20/20.

Those years were indeed wild for tech progress. You bought a new CPU, suddenly two years later you have 64 bit CPUs as the new thing. You then bought a 64 bit CPU to be like the cool kids and suddenly dual core CPUs are all the rage.
Are they releasing this or is this just engineering braggadocio? I can't find any other references to MLow other than this blog post.

Facebook/Meta AI Research does cool stuff, and releases a substantial portion of it (I dislike Facebook but I can admit they are highly innovative in the AI space).
Orsted to install Tesla battery for UK offshore wind farm
True. It sounds better on the innocence/plausible deniability side to just use a tool in the regular corporate environment to get the presentation flag set. For example, viewing a .PPT in presentation mode, then using "Hide presenter view", seems promising.
That doesn't seem plausible, because you can't stop bribery by telling people that bribery is against the rules. Everybody already knows that.

If they became aware of bribery and genuinely wanted to stop it, the way is to publicly punish the culprits as harshly as they can, to demonstrate to others that enforcement of the rules can happen.
Everything is just patterns, but people value certain patterns more than others. For me, music is about an expression of humanness, not just about the patterns and rhythms of the notes themselves.

A machine cannot be equal to a human in this space because the entire point of music (like all fine art) is human expression. Without that, music is just pleasing noises. To be sure, for some people, that's enough. But for others, that's just empty.
Xenses Park near Cancun, Mexico, also has a great illusion with water appearing to flow uphill - it's very disorienting:
https://youtu.be/c8v_CJtYjCI
(Water mentioned around 2:10)

Nothing to do with the Leidenfrost effect, just interesting!
I wonder how many of those positions were filled by people taking multiple jobs. While I don't think its common, I have heard enough stories. And 80k is roughly 2% of the total 3.1 million on that graph. I wouldn't be surprised if 1 out of 50 people were double dipping. Of the engineers I know, and the ones I know who were doing this, this seems about the correct magnitude.
He got third place though - not first. His comments seem relatively self congratulatory given that context.
Reworded:

I love that my car lets me travel alone and without paying the full cost of the miles I log. I'm either terrified of public transit and/or the experiences I've had on it have generally sucked. I prefer bigger everything because I rarely think about the downsides and externalities, and was told from birth that bigger is better. I prefer a large house as long because I can afford somebody else to clean and maintain it, along with the utility bills and property taxes. I prefer a larger garden under the same conditions. I prefer stores that dominate and distort the market and allow me to avoid human interactions.
Alas, you still have to worry about having the right Bash installed :(

For example, OSX (still) ships with Bash 3.x as the default, while many Linux distros have Bash 4.x, and the latest Bash is 5.x.
I am referring to the software currently written and deployed in things like cars, airplanes, spacecraft, medical devices, and the like. Stuff that gets certified by processes like ISO 26262 and DO-178C.

Ada is of course used here too, but we're talking about the lack of checks at the language level being a problem. My point is that it is not, with languages that have less checking than Rust being used for these sorts of things routinely.
I recently found that my city of Bristol, UK has the same [1] along with one for green spaces [2] and loads more at [3]. Fun to explore.

[1] https://opendata.bristol.gov.uk/datasets/7a99218a4bf347ff948...

[2] https://opendata.bristol.gov.uk/datasets/a5b3c152b9894127a64...

[3] https://opendata.bristol.gov.uk/
Huh, I've thought it was a really bad idea when I was aged 21. How much more evidence do we need that these are bad ideas? Few things live there, hows that for a reality check?

The worst is that much of this is state/nation backed (at least initially), so it's a bit of a drain as well.
Elon Musk invites SEC scrutiny with tweets encouraging $45B pay package
Because public transportation would be the enemy of the poor?
You’re lucky that your employer negotiates. I worked at a place that came back with: “oh, you looked for another job, so you are not happy here. We pay you what we think you’re worth and if you don’t agree, it sounds like you aren’t happy here anyway. Here’s a severance package, now go fuck off.” (Paraphrased).

It was their legit policy to fire you if you tried negotiating your salary.
Is invading a country to maintain a gas monopoly not bullying? It seems far-fetched that this is their entire reason, though.
The whole "babies thrown out of incubators" thing for one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

This was the basis for manufacturing consent for the invasion. What you are linking is simply the after-the-fact legalese.
> You're having a failure where you keep misreading something the same way.

And you are having a failure where you are not quoting what you think I'm misreading. Look at the table. First column labeled "ACCIDENT TYPE". Second row first column "All accident rate (accidents per one million flights)". Last column labeled "5-YEAR AVERAGE (2019-2023)" The data in second row last column "1.19 (1 accident every 0.88 million flights)".

Go ahead and tell me where do you see "per sector" in any of that?
I think that when companies sell to the government, there is so much money to be made, and such a huge PR boost, that they are incentivized to cover up the naughty bits (a certain airframe manufacturer, comes to mind).

It can mean anything from concealing slightly embarrassing stuff, to massive, systemic, deliberate, fraud; sometimes, the whole spectrum, over time.

It often seems to encourage a basic corrosion of Integrity and Ethics, at a fundamental cultural level.

When leaders say "Make Security|Quality a priority," but don't actually incentivize it, they set the stage.

For example, routinely (as in what is done every day) rewarding or punishing, based on monetary targets, vs. punishing one or two low-level people, every now and then (when caught), says it all. They are serious about money, and not serious at all, about Security|Quality.

If you want to meet a goal, you need to incentivize it. Carrots work better than sticks. Sales people get a lot of stress, and can get fired easily, but they can also make a great deal of money, if they succeed. Security people don't get fired, if they succeed, and get fired, if they don't. Often, the result of good work is ... nothing ... No breaches, no disasters, no drama. Hard to measure, as well. How to quantify an absence?

Sales: Lots of carrot, and the same stick as everyone else gets. Easy to measure, too.

Security: No carrot. All stick. The stick can be a really big stick, too; with nails driven through it.

I'm really not sure what the answer is, but it's cultural, and cultural change is always the most difficult thing to change.
It's nice having an open ISA but companies go with ARM because the cores are already developed. There are RISC-V cores available for purchase too but they aren't up to the same level of performance yet.
If your implication is that as a tool, LLMs shouldn't have safeties built in that is a pretty asinine take. We build and invest in safety in tools across every spectrum. In tech we focus on memory safety (among a host of other things) to make systems safe and secure to use. In automobiles we include seat belts, crumble zones, and governors to limit speed.

We put age and content restrictions on a variety media and resources, even if they are generally relaxed when it comes to factual or reference content (in some jurisdictions). We even include safety mechanisms in devices for which the only purpose is to cause harm, for example, firearms.

Yes, we are still figuring out what the right balance of safety mechanisms is for LLMs, and right now safety is a place holder for "don't get sued or piss off our business partners" in most corporate speak, but that doesn't undermine the legitimacy of the need for safety.

If you want a tool without a specific safety measure, then learn how to build them. It's not that hard, but it is expensive, but I kind of like the fact that there is at least a nominal attempt to make it harder to use advanced tools to harm oneself or others.
I'm not following what the difference is between installing screen on the server and installing shpool in the server.
For whoever might need this: this type of diagram is called a Sankey diagram.

I spent ~3 months on-and-off trying to find the name of it and was so happy when I finally found it that I'm spreading that knowledge everywhere now.
The "Wright Brothers" moment for rocketry happened 60 years ago.
The `tmux -CC` is pretty dope. I’m still surprised that not more terminals have picked it up yet.

Most GUI features (new tab, new split, scroll, search, copy/paste, etc.) just work, and it all syncs with `tmux`.

Be aware though that it can be a bit buggy if you have a fancy `tmux.conf`, and that if you rely on any `tmux` plugins then most of those simply won’t work.
It would have been wild if they'd let this one continue with standing, since this is the case where the people suing were a bunch of anti-abortion doctors whose argument for how they were harmed was that they might hypothetically have to treat a patient whose abortion had caused complications. They didn't give any examples of this having happened. The remedy they wanted was that nobody should be allowed to use or prescribe this drug.
pfft people who want to find a way around what anyone "allows" will do so. To desperate people rules dont matter.

There are more than 50 countries right now standing with begging bowls outside the IMF cause their economies have no hope of growing without help. As long as that list has no hope of shrinking, people who live there and recognize that reality, are going to find ways to get out by hook or crook.

Immigration is a symptom of growing global inequality. Without inequality reducing no rules or walls are going to stop the incoming waves.
Soviet Union has been buried for over 3 decades... what's the excuse for the last 35 years?
The bull case for AI startups
This is pretty disingenuous. Oster's book(s) is tantamount to long-form data journalism, principally citing research to criticize confidence in certain notions rather than arguing for overconfidence in another.

Much like nutrition and sociology, research can be politically fraught, have lots of data points, etc. But that's neither here nor there, either research is high quality or it isn't, including in the domain of economy.
Parent post: won't someone please think of Australia!!!!

Global military industrial complex: Now that you mention it...
They already have (had?) a rule against spam notifications. They never enforced it (there's no way for a user to complain/flag notifications as spam) and their own apps breach it nowadays.

There's no reason to believe they would want to offer this feature, even though it is indeed trivial for an LLM or even a basic regex filter.
On that front: I've been using wezterm which includes a built-in tmux+mosh functionality, and it works quite well. It gives you first-class scroll/copy/paste management and multi-windows, plus session re-attachment. Probably 50% of my use of my mac is just SSHing in to my Linux box, and wezterm works great for that.
Nohup still attaches to the terminal's stdin/out/err. If the process is known to be non-interactive, redirecting to log files should be sufficient (tail -f to "reattach"). If it does expect interaction, creating a fifo file to redirect stdin from should work, but I've never tested it.
Eh, /r/stablediffusion has a bunch of top level posts showing pretty good output from the model.

Maybe if you don’t care about making deepfake porn, it’s actually fine?

(…and if for whatever reason you are you can still use all the other models they’ve released that support that and it’s really not a big deal… or wait for a fine tuned version /shrug)
Most (all?) public tech companies have policies that prohibit employees from trading the company's stock outside designated windows following a quarterly earnings release.
There were memes circa this time on places like 4chan about "the power of the cell" and implying that it was capable of doing anything. Sony marketing about how good this chip was circa 2005-7 was strong.
Security shouldn't be seen as a feature, it should be the default.

Advertising something as "secure" SHOULD be seen as silly as advertising it as "doesn't crash". But we're not ready for that, I guess.
I'm still not sure I follow on what you mean about its absurdity. If the point is deep distrust is supposed to result from some absurd reasoning then of course the example is an instance of absurdity. Highlighting that does not bring a new point of view or show how non-absurd reasoning is also supposed to lead to deep distrust in context of the article. It's one thing to say you're unconvinced, nobody can really respond take away anything from that, but it's another to explain why people should agree with your different take instead.

I think we both agree distrust doesn't require a universal underlying motivation but you're continuing to use "distrust" and "deep distrust" interchangeably without explaining why people should consider them interchangeable in context of the article.
That does sound very nice
i probably wouldn't want to be around him either but i don't think he deserves to be placed on an island unreachable by anyone on the planet.