skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't the case. If they received this email, it was because they were under the included credits amount. This way, even if they missed the email, they will have six months and we will continue to follow up. If you have a sponsorship, feel free to reach out to me and we can talk about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_China

For people 15-64, males back up 69% of the population, which is pretty loppy.
> I think you have to be careful not to piss audiences off with that technique. E.g. think of those too-long form articles that start "<Interesting hook and then...> David lives in a 3 bedroom house in rural blah with his two dogs, boopy and bloppy...". Instant close.

I would say that’s because the example is the antithesis of the advice given.

In this case, I don’t know who David is, I don’t care. Why are you telling me about him.
I find that ex-military employees tend to be (but are not always) mindful of details above and beyond the average. I feel the same way about people who've worked at hospitals.
They sell to execs, not to developers, and they have a lot of certifications and assurances that make them "low risk" to that audience.
As far as I can make out, Spirit employees (probably with the knowledge and tacit approval of management, because that's the way these things usually go) found a loophole in the record system that allowed them to avoid triggering QA checks. Boeing has blame for creating a system with such a loophole, or failing to find it before it was used, but it was Spirit personnel who actually used it.
Oracle's love and hate relationship with open source software
Show HN: Dstort – utility to "organize" randomly a directory
So this utility given a directory or path, will move randomly files in subdirectories and will move subdirectories randomly too. CAREFUL, if given system directory it will probably trash the system, equivalent of doing `rm -rf /`, except all the files are still there! :)

I don't know why I came up with this idea nor if its original but its mine.

You might ask, whats the use case, well that's an interesting question, you know why? Because...

(Of course, I'm open to feedback.)
Taking screenshots of everything a user sees, running it through image recognition, and cataloging all of it in a database is surveillance no matter what Microsoft currently intends to use the data for.

If intent mattered, police could have us all wiretapped without a warrant. They wouldn't be actively sueveilling us for a specific case so there's really no problem, right?
You can prevent discrimination by anonymizing interviews. You can't discriminate on the basis of race and gender if your interviewers can't discriminate between men and women, and between ethnicities. If bias was really the cause of the lack of "diversity" then anonymization will solve this. And if it doesn't then bias was not the cause of the lack of "diversity".
Microsoft Recalled
I doubt that. If you want a data hoover, look no further than chatGPT. People bring their data on a platter to it, private documents, drafts, personal problems, how to deal with government bureaucracy, anything actually. A diversity of people, they have more than 180M users, and if you assume a measly 10K tokens/user/month, that makes for 2 trillion tokens. And they are already language based, an alternation of AI text and human responses.

What can AI learn from human responses? They carry implicit feedback - did the user take the last response and build on it, or request a clarification, or pushed back? Did he try the idea and it didn't work? All that feedback served by the human helps the AI just as much as the AI helps the human.

chatGPT is a data blackhole. Every fine-tune can include new human preference data and new knowledge. Imagine the security implications if they fine-tune daily, learn a skill today, use it to assist someone else tomorrow. Maybe your nice idea will be implemented by someone else first!
> It's a shame we suck at acknowledging the obvious inefficiencies in our systems

Plants a significantly extremely inefficient at capturing carbon compared to industrial technology like carbon capture using Calcium Hydroxide.

> we'd free up huge amounts of land which we could use now to plant rapid growing, carbon-capturing plants

You severely underestimate the problem and overestimate the ability of trees to fix it. Planting trees doesn't scale to the levels required to make any difference even if we used all land on Earth. It would take around ~2 trillion trees planted per year just to offset the 40-50 gigatons of CO2 being pumped out per year. That is around ~2 billion acres of land - is more than the entire land area of the contiguous US - every year, just to break even.

Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38187573
I've been using GlitchTip https://glitchtip.com with the Sentry SDKs and I couldn't be happier. Completely self-hosted, literally just the container and a db, requires zero attention.
Washington has lots of universities... and the UW itself is larger than Berkeley.

Washington only has a population of 7.7 million, so it wouldn't make sense to have as many universties as California, which has a population of 39 million. For its size though, Seattle is one of the best educated places in the US...

I think the poor startup ecosystem has more to do with a lack of VC funding, and most people working for big companies like Amazon... and Amazon being notorious for suing to enforce non-competes, which are legal in Washington.
PlayStation Portal (Remote Play): Stack-buffer overflow in HEVC decoder
At least 12 exabytes of mostly encrypted data, waiting for the day that the NSA can decrypt it and unleash all of these tools on it.

Whenever that day happens (or happened) it will represent a massive shift in global power. It is on par with the Manhattan project in terms of scope and consequences.
Probably, but so did a lot of people. Computer vision and classifier/discriminator models were pretty common in the 2000s and extremely feasible with consumer hardware in the 2010s.
Are there serious proposals about this anywhere?
>then everyone would love it.

I do not think this is at all true.

Recall as implemented is an absolutely security and privacy nightmare, and would absolutely become a tool of oppression for abusers. MS deserved to reap the whirlwind here, as would any firm that offered the same sort of feature.
[What you type in the text field]

This new moderation system sucks, who the hell thought of this?!

[What is displayed to the world]

I love this new moderation system, makes the site so much better to use!

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You then think, fuck this, I'm deleting my account. Which you do losing access to it. But you see all your content is still there, and new posts are being made daily. Welcome to the new AI world where humans need not even apply.

Will it get this bad, no idea, but I bet some site will try it.
I've had similar thoughts, but how does that work for you in practice?

If you book a flight that says it's an airbus plane and then you show up and the airline had to sub in a boeing plane, do you just cancel your trip?

If you don't have the expensive tickets that allow same-day rebooking, I can't imagine any airline would humor an attempt to get a refund or to have them waive a rebooking fee.

Similarly if you're traveling for business and your company has paid for the ticket, some companies let you book your own travel and then get it reimbursed, but presumably you're needed at the destination so if the day of travel comes and the plane is an airbus and you "nope" out of there, you're going to have to hope that your work is okay with your explanation.

All of this is because "if it's boeing, I ain't going" can seem alarmist or reactionary since the FAA has so far declined to drop the hammer on them.
> The FAA is constantly auditing, certifying and testing airmen, airplanes and plants.

Are they?

Much of the work that would be done to inspect and certify the planes being manufactured was outsourced to the manufacturers to increase efficiency.

They build their planes, inspect their planes, inspect and approve modifications and major repairs to their planes, and issue their own airworthiness certificates for their planes.

For a long while, the FAA was barely even involved in rubber stamping whoever Boeing et al appointed as FAA inspectors at their plants, never mind inspecting and certifying the planes themselves—in 2016 the Transportation Department said more than 85% of the tasks associated with certification were delegated from the FAA to the manufacturer’s own inspectors. By 2018, the FAA said that Boeing was handling 96% of the certification process.

There were some reforms around 2021 (737 MAX crashes were 2018 and 2019), but they were mostly focused on improving the self inspection program, not solving the fundamental problem of having companies certify their own work.

> But it's totally incorrect to say they're an ex post facto investigations agency.

While the inspections and certifications have been delegated by the FAA and _technically_ are still done in the name of the FAA, the reality certainly looks much more like the FAA proper is only involved _after_ significant safety issues.

I really don’t think it’s quite as clear cut as you make it out to be.
I'm sure Lineage, Graphene et al would immediately remove it.

Something like that would likely also motivate a surge of interest in pure Linux phones, like the Librem or PinePhone, which would accelerate their development, and might be a net positive.
Crunchyroll also had similar freebooting origins.
Or, god forbid, from a Sumerian merchant...
Honestly, pretty much every laptop that isn't an absolute potato is good enough for gaming.

Contrary to what both people who don't really play games and people who make their gaming rigs their entire identity tend to think, the vast majority of games on the market run just fine on half-decent hardware with a concession here and there as far as resolution, particle systems, etc go. At $700+ you can get plenty of bang for your buck; even more so if you buy secondhand.
It seems immediately obvious to me from basic physical principles that carbon capture is very unlikely to be the solution.

"There was an old woman that swallowed a fly" comes to mind.

Okay, so let's say it's possible, you build out a shit ton of solar power to provide the energy required to sequester all of the carbon dioxide emitted so far.

This is a properly huge undertaking. Now you've paved over some appreciable fraction of the Earth and done a load of pollution and damage mining stuff to make the panels.

If I ransack your house and throw stuff everywhere it will take you a hell of a lot more work to undo the damage than it took me to cause it. Entropy is a bitch.
The delay of Recall has absolutely nothing to do with technical limitations.
Wheels are pretty useless without roads. Boats were much more useful.
Maybe, but "AI" companionship existed prior to the current AI hype. It was just more hardcoded stuff and pre-ChatGPT AI.

Plus paying for chatting with someone, following idols, and other parasocial relationships.
This is a good opportunity to respond with the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says.
I don't think your response is appropriate. Narrow domain "superintelligence" is around us everywhere-- every PID controller can drive a process to its target far beyond any human capability.

The obvious way to incorporate good search is to have extremely fast models that are being used in the search interior loop. Such models would be inherently less general, and likely trained on the specific problem or at least domain-- just for performance sake. The lesson in this article was that a tiny superspecialized model inside a powerful transitional search framework significantly outperformed a much larger more general model.

Use of explicit external search should make the optimization system's behavior and objective more transparent and tractable than just sampling the output of an auto-regressive model alone. If nothing else you can at least look at the branches it did and didn't explore. It's also a design that's more easy to bolt in varrious kinds of regularizes, code to steer it away from parts of the search space you don't want it operating in.

The irony of all the AI scaremongering is that if there is ever some evil AI with some LLM as an important part of its reasoning process if it is evil it may well be so because being evil is a big part of the narrative it was trained on. :D
Fair enough. We run about 10 different providers and automatically scale spend on who works best. Grapeshot is usually up in the top 5 for us.
Expensive in general but combine some decent tooling and spot instances and it can be insanely cheap.

The latest Nvidia L4 GPUs (24GB) instances are currently less than 15c p/h spot.

T4s are around 20c per hour spot, though they are smaller and slower.

I've been provisioning hundreds of these at a time to do large batch jobs at a fraction of the price of commercial solutions (i.e. 10-100x cheaper).

Any problem that fits in a smaller GPU and can be expressed as a batch job using spot instances can be done very cheaply on AWS.
They are certainly in any way identical, but to engine break, you usually need to switch into a lower gear (or a couple gears lower), which means that the clutch needs to reattach while the engine is rolling at a higher rpm than the gearbox can handle in that gear. Every downshift will do another "reattachment" through the clutch.

Which means that there will be some friction braking before internal engine resistance "takes over". Now, while both brake pads and clutches use "similar" material, it's not the same, and the cost is not the same (clutches are usually more expensive in modern cars).
The airlines moved maintenance overseas a few years ago, which make it harder for the FAA to inspect.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance...
I think reasonable people can disagree about whether having your message fail to be amplified by a corporate algorithmic megaphone is an ‘injustice’.
That is an interesting perspective. Curious which Apps do you rely on that seem abandoned? Might be a business opportunity hiding there.
>That said, I've often thought about what a programmer's spreadsheet tool would look like. Scientific grade plotting, N-dimensional spreadsheets, a real programming language in the cell formulas...

Someone must have attempted it?

That sounds suspiciously similar to any SQL database if you ask me...

I like postgres myself, but people talk fondly of mySQL too.. as for viewing the "spreadsheet", there are probably hundreds of solutions. I'm partial to DBeaver myself, if it's the spreadsheet feeling you're looking for at least.
While I don't disagree with your premise of monotonically increasing home value, now it has me thinking:

There's plenty of cheap land where we could make cheap houses. It's just in the middle of nowhere. Why isn't America making more new big cities? It seems like most new cities are suburbs of large metro areas, which makes sense for jobs, but not for cheap housing.

Of course the problem is in a new city you'll have people before you have jobs, but really you need jobs to have people be able to live there. Remote jobs could be the kickstarter here though, as long as you have reasonable internet. Or having a "company town," kind of like the car makers of old.

This could increase housing supply, keeping prices cheap, while still keeping an ever increasing property value investment for those who live there.

Really I think it comes down to the fact that we don't have new cities, and the small cities that could grow are very rural and are usually losing population.

Am I missing something here? Maybe I just don't know about these hot new cities because they are still small?
(hi Vincent.) I've lived in New Zealand for the last 12 years, and still also appreciate the the sounds of the birds every day. It never gets old, for me. The tui birds, bellbirds, saddlebacks, and grey warblers in particular.

When I lived in England for a year, I'd play recordings of New Zealand forests in the background because I was so homesick for these bird sounds.
Absolutely not. Please don't do this. Treat your audience as smart people and just tell them. All that pseudo-psychology just doesn't work with presentations.
As Combatant Commander of USCYBERCOM and previously the Commander of Cyber National Mission Forces, he would have had a lot of experience with DISA policy. OpenAI and Microsoft are currently working to get the Azure OpenAI service a full ATO as part of the FedRAMP process and I'm sure General Nakasone would bring a lot of value there alone. That's before you even get into concerns regarding national security and threats from foreign actors.
How Jeff Bezos Is Trying to Fix the Washington Post
Browser extension that globally blocks vertical video?
I dislike nearly everything about the recent vertical video format/medium that's taken over the internet since ~2018 or so. Is there an extension that globally blocks it across twitter/tumblr/youtube/anywhere embedded? Feels like it'd be pretty trivial to code if not, and I know there's a few other old web farts who would gladly use such an extension.
I don't think it is. It's a commonly taught technique to flight instructors and I personally think it does often work.

Not saying it applies in all situations.

I think it does depend on narrowly scoping the presentation.
3 out of 4 companies I've worked at, the DEI initiatives were plainly discriminatory. One designated a segment of headcount exclusive to "diverse" candidates. "Diverse" was defined as women and URM males. Another set a threshold of 40% in annual OKRs for women in all roles. Including software developers and electrical engineers (20% and 10% women respectively). The last mandated a certain percentage of on-site interviews be "diverse" before an offer was made. This resulted in unqualified candidates being scheduled for on-sites for the sake of fulfilling this requirement (the mandates were well above industry representation of "diverse" workers). Then HR noticed a lower hire rate for "diverse" candidates on the on-site, and not-so-subtly indicated that this was unacceptable. So in effect, it's a quota: X% of on-sites need to be "diverse" and those "diverse" candidates have to be hired a similar rate of non-diverse candidates.

I don't know what your personal experiences with DEI have been, but understand that for a lot of people "DEI" is effectively synonymous with "gender and racial discrimination".
meh, I just throw it in to a cup of water with
Glutamine, HMB and Taurine

Stir and swallow / chew :)
I am aware of character.ai’s metrics and its copycats’ so not denying there’s something there, but there’s no resounding evidence that it’s monetizable and sticky to a large degree. Unless it cranks up the dystopian features to unethical levels to get people hooked, of course, and most monetization is via selling nsfw features - so it checks the wrong boxes
Want to get rich? And have an enjoyable career? Without Microsoft or Adobe? Become a housing developer and build homes.
That's the point. Free will is a metaphysical concept that posits the existence of a soul outside physics.

Randomness in physics is a peephole through which the non physical world can interact with physics. Think of it like a game where you get control the RNG output for some rolls.
Do you happen to have any handy guides/docs/references for absolute beginners to follow?
so then i wonder why do people struggle with the impact of polar shifts on climate?
1B of tokens for Gemini Flash (which is on par with llama3-70b in my experience or even better sometimes) with 2:1 input-output would cost ~600 bucks (ignoring the fact they offer 1M tokens a day for free now). Ignoring electricity you'd break even in >8 years. You can find llama3-70b for ~same prices if you're interested in the specific model.
I find it odd about San Diego being number 1 in funding, but overall 19?

I know the military is throwing a lot of money around in San Diego, but would be surprised if it has such impact on the startup scene.
What is funny about it? It's about as a succinct descriptor to the situation as possible.
I don't remember Elon ever stating something does something it's not actually doing. His future timelines are off but it's never his competence that's been a problem with anything relating to SpaceX. And calling SpaceX (the entire industry leader) anywhere near "incompetent" beggars belief.

WDon't believe everything you read in headlines written by people with no understanding of the space industry. If you want to read about the industry, read about it on industry specific sites (like spacenews.com) or from industry specific reporters (Eric Berger or Stephen Clark at ArsTechnica). Davenport at Washington Post is good too.
The model is big enough that you need expensive Nvidia GPUs to run it effectively
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40661495
Curious if your dad is on TRT?

I have an aging FIL and curious about the effect of it on someone starting in their early - mid 70's

Anecdotal only of course, would obviously consult a Dr.

I've been on it for a few years now and the results have been pretty great.
Monetization of all those apps end up boiling down to selling uncensored chats, it’s not a differentiated space - even if we are talking about the lonely people demographic
I think this was also intended to help push the last foreign companies out of Russia. If they can't do currency exchanges easily then it increases reasons to get out of country.
UTM Blocked Outside App Store via Notarization
> Users in the US or other countries without national data privacy laws don’t have any foolproof ways to prevent Meta from using their data to train AI, which has likely already been used for such purposes. Meta does not have an opt-out feature for people living in these places.
> That being said, older process nodes are getting cheaper to the point where the manufacturing cost is feasible.

The older nodes have been cheap enough for quite a while now. Folks like Xfab have nodes where you can generate chips for about the same price as you can an injection mold.
Yes, Tobii sells cheap cameras and SDKs that have done exactly this for years now, to the point that several random games have Eye Tracking integration for no reason.
Love Excel. When I was little was really into exploring its features.
Sure, it could be that. Or it could be the uniquely relevant set of skills and insights a former NSA director could bring to a table of mostly tech academics trying to build tech that will definitely touch questions of state security.
Thanks for sharing these info!

One more question - what do you do for hobby? :-)
1 is the lowest score. 10 is highest
And yet, knowing that free will does not exist can change someone's whole life trajectory. So free will is a useful delusion. But we can't control if we get to have the delusion. It's not surprising if this like of reasoning seems familiar.
You don’t need to present from the same copy of the slides you distribute.
Where does it say it's weather related?

> The captain opted to put the “newer” first officer in command on the short flight to Lihue despite the forecasts, according to the memo.
The less-experienced first officer “inadvertently” pushed forward on the control column, then cut the speed causing the airplane to descend. Soon after, a warning system sounded alarms the jet was getting too close to the surface and the captain ordered the first officer to increase thrust. The plane then “climbed aggressively” at 8,500 feet per minute, the memo said.
Alright.

What happens when something weird happens and you have to manually change the kernel or your hardware just isn't supported.

I still wouldn't recommend Linux to most normal people. So your stuck with 3 realistic options.

Mac.
Chromebook.
Windows.

Chromebooks are actually really capable, but forget gaming or serious music creation.

I've been using desktop Linux for over 15 years. It's still much more work than normal people want to do.