skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For my current job I negotiated that I would work four days (32 hours) per week, in exchange for less compensation. It's still plenty of money, just less than I could be making elsewhere. I'm not saying it couldn't be better, but it's hard to beat.
"This call may be recorded..."

They don't specify that it may not be you that records it. They are consenting.
Original article is from 2021 but it's been updated this year.
"From what I've seen of people running Linux on these things, it is definitely not something you'd want to develop on"

Can you please elaborate? I'm a programmer with a linux framework laptop (NixOS specifically).
Vote is 20th of June.
I think the issue is that I can make something simple, say a timer app or todo app, but I don't put it out there because I don't think it's necessarily unique nor signals technical talent. It just shows baseline competency (if even that these days).

But I appreciate your last couple of points. I do admire prolific people, but it is just a trait like any other. A very Mob Psycho 100 take. Thanks for that
> Shutting down so called Russian-propaganda sites

That's a significant disadvantage democracies that embrace freedom of speech have, though. China/Russia/other authoritarian shitholes have a very easy time shaping, blocking or severely limiting information spread from the outside world. Trying to play nice against a side which is cheating and playing dirty isn't exactly a winning strategy...
This is such a naive take that I'm honesty not sure how to respond. Like I mean this with zero judgement in the world, are you 14? Because this is word for word what I would have said at that age. And dgmr, I was certain and steadfast that I was correct and everyone else were just idiots.

It's difficult to explain why this is wrong because the very premise that ideas are even in competition in the manner you're suggesting just isn't true. There isn't some arena where scribes record victories and losses. And even on the individual level it doesn't work, that someone when presented with the truth will change their opinion. People won't even change their opinion even when it stands to benefit them personally.

I think folks get this idea of "marketplace of ideas" in their head and assume that "fitness" for an idea correlates with correctness. That better ideas spread and survive. No — entertaining ideas, ideas that conform to our existing biases, ideas that we were conditioned to think, ideas that get repeated over and over by someone with a big enough megaphone, ideas that sound plausibly correct, ideas that make people feel clever for thinking them, ideas that fit a particular narrative you believe, propaganda that is spread far and wide.

Being right has never and will never be enough. No one, not you, not me, not anyone is immune to taking on bad ideas. It took 40 years of the entire god damn western world organizing itself around a single message to get a critical mass people to believe that homosexuals were regular people and it still hasn't fully worked. Women have the rights we do because of the feminist movement in the 1970s. Slavery was abolished in 1865 and folks still think black people are inferior.

You're taking on the fallacy that progress just happens and isn't the result of a fuckton of work and sacrifice by people who consciously made it happen and who are out in the fields weeding constantly.

"When your crops are so bad you need to use herbicides to kill weeds lest they immediately take over your farm, it's time to change your crops."
Completely incorrect, as Sourcegraph has not historically trained models and Cody swaps between many open source and 3rd party models.
I know, I'm in academia. But this silence is why these things keep happening. PIs hold power over their students to keep them in line, through letters of recommendation to networking and post doc/job offers. We need to work to correct that.
How long ago was that? I’ve started ddg a year and I don’t see how can one go back to google.
The problem applies to any pair of sites with a 12-hour timezone offset, regardless of culture. PDT<->IST happens to be the one that practically occurs for Bay Area tech companies.
What's the argument that the early-fusion setup scales/maintains easier than late-fusion? Does this come at a tradeoff or is it just uniformly better?
There used to be so much hype about the potential for stem cells in medicine.
How would you go about setting this up? Do you mock out low level calls or are you running some sort of emulator?
Boop them while dragging the note balls.
I do not use automated testing, that's probably something I should learn, so thanks for that. I think often for me it's less about reinventing the wheel but more that I easily get stuck in tutorial hell. But good questions
I’ve had a walking desk for years in my home office. It was transformative for me. I found that once my body adjusted to walking I would go I to flow and find a hour or two had flown by. I particularly liked taking calls while in it. Now matter how much a waste of time the call was I would get a couple of kilometres in. I eventually was up to 10 milles a day. 4 km per hour for 4 hours. I had days when I walked more but I think 4 hours a day is a good limit point for me
Arvind (1947-2024)
Another great computer scientist is no longer with us...

Arvind, a longtime MIT professor, ACM and IEEE fellow, important contributor to computer performance, reliable and secure computing and co-founder of Sandburst and Bluespec, passed away today.
Yeah, people get salty when their preconceptions are shattered, especially when they've invested a lot of time/energy in thinking based on the idea that they were sound.

It goes beyond simple sunk cost and into the realm of reality slapping them with a harsh "humans aren't special, grow up", which I think is especially bitter for people who aren't already absurdists or nihilists.
And sometimes you fail to reproduce something because you failed to do it properly. I don't know how often that happens in the field on in the lab, but it's extremely common on the computational side.

Very often, the thing you are trying to reproduce isn't exactly the same that was published. You have to adapt the instructions to your specific case, which can easily go wrong. Or maybe you did a mistake in following the instructions. Or maybe you mixed the instructions for two different cases, because you didn't fully understand the subtleties of the topic. Or maybe you made a mistake in translating the provided scripts to your institute's computational environment.
AMD Is Investigating Claims That Company Data Was Stolen in Hack
Yup! Photons are tough, it's a lot easier with electrons.
The Titan Sub Recovery: A Hopeful Rescue Turned Tragic Mission
I argue that the number of such industries is and will be low.

Usually clients want consistency in the output. (they depend on the product/service)

Business owner usually wants consistency in employee/machinery output. (They cost money)

To me it seems that only low priority computation (incl. con-coins) is such industry.
(Investment kind of reused, and relatively few employees)

There will be some shift to adjust to intermitency (e.g. Worker hours might be shifted to the time when solar generates the most energy to take advantage of the price)
I am surprised by discussions, so far. Which, at the moment appear to be people poking holes in the shortcomings of friction as a model, and then a few talking about the unreasonable effectiveness of some processes.

My surprise is that neither discussion really leans in on the metaphor. Friction, as a metaphor, is really strong as the way you deal with things vastly changes the more mature a technology is. Consider how much extra lubricant is necessary in early combustion engines compared to more modern electric motors.

More, as you cannot always hope to eliminate the external cause of friction, you can design around it in different ways. Either by controlling what parts of a system are more frequently replaced , or by eliminating the need for them entirely, if and when you can. You can trace the different parts of a modern car to see how this has progressed.

Indeed, the modern car is a wonderful exploration, as we had some technologies that came and went entirely to deal with operator involvement. Manual transmissions largely were replaced by automatic for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was wear and tear on the clutch. And it seems to be going away entirely due to the nature of electric motors being so different from combustion ones?
I think you can get to acceptance. My wife died almost 20 years ago. I can think about her and remember the times we had and not feel so debilitated by her loss. I’m still sad that she’s gone and I still miss her, but I’ve given up on wanting things to have turned out differently.
Well, if you make satellites like the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, this is a good reason to make another, more sophisticated version.

But you're right that cheaper, more local telemetry may be more than adequate.

Heck, you can probably think, "I don't remember the last time it rained..."
Phoenix Playground – single-file Phoenix LiveView apps
If something like this catches on, attackers will simply start checking the digital signature of the processes, to ensure they are genuine.
but, but.... Was it slow and painful?
> working in radar stations on top of remote mountain.

Interesting story.

I worked in a bike shop a number of years ago. Guy came in and I helped him find some stuff for a long distance ride he was going to do. I noticed he had a black baseball hat with the initials "NJTTTF" sewn into the front of it and I had no idea wtf it meant so as he was checking out I asked him. He said, "You don't want to know." and I said, "I really do." and he said, "Its boring, seriously." and after some more bantering he said, "It stands for National Joint Terrorist Tracking Task Force." I just stood there confused, then asked him, "So you're CIA or NSA and track terrorists? That's pretty cool." He then said, "Not exactly NSA or CIA, but I do work for the government and yes, we do track terrorists. You ever hear about Weather Mountain? I was stationed there. Conspiracy nuts love it, but its not as cool as they say. I was in a windowless room with a sealed door listening to radio chatter and analyzing radar signals. Since the room was sealed, we had to open the door every 30 mins because we would run out of oxygen otherwise. It was hot, it was miserable, and the work was pretty boring when you get right down to it."

I asked him if he was still working for the gov and he said he was, in a different capacity. I asked him what he was working on and he said a few different things, but his favorite was cryptography. I told him I was fascinated with cryptography so he gave me a few books to read and then we parted ways.

Of course after he left, I went right to google and couldn't find a single thing on the task force but did find a bunch of conspiracy stuff on Weather Mountain, just like he said. Very interesting meeting and a very interesting guy for sure.
Granted, it’s not restrictive if you only want to use Nix for general utilities and Unix libraries. But it’s extremely restricting if you want to use Nix to manage macOS apps. And I love Nix, so of course I want to do that :)

Thanks for posting the link to sponsor this work.
What part of the feedback was most useful to Dropbox?

* That it didn't solve a problem for Linux users?

* That it ultimately relies on some internet connectivity?

* That it is not very "'viral' or income generating"?
>Who is the problem then, if not them?

Why is that the only people responsible for their children in any way at all whatsoever are never held accountable?? It is always, 100%, in every and all cases, the parent's fault. Either they're too stupid to know better, or they simply don't care.
Looking at their GitHub page or seems like they are using existing LLM services. It should be possible to modify cody to make it work with a local llm
sunk cost fallacy
some really interesting graphs in there
Nope, just check the process executable's digital signature - pretty simple.
bubble gonna pop some day

could be tomorrow or 10+years

gonna pop though
I wish more engineering tools had an equivalent of diff. Manually redlining schematics and drawings is such a pain.
This is already happening in academia.
Yeah, meanwhile, you can't buy video games with too much blood in them now because the censorship ship has sailed. Banning the nazi salute and certain types of ideological publishing is treating the symptoms and not the disease. It doesn't fix the issue, and it involves a lot of collateral damage.

Germany has in fact abolished fundamental rights (i.e. free expression) in response to collective fear and guilt about WW2. It's an unforced own goal, just like the USA did to itself after 9/11. The worst possible response. It harms only those who shouldn't be harmed; German nazis will still be nazis quietly in basements, and everyone else in Germany who isn't a nazi is subject to media censorship. It's nonsense.
> No real world practical adoption

You can quibble about which parts of the world are "real" or not, but the adoption of Bitcoin ($1.3T) dwarfs 99% of company market caps.
Nothing should be publishable to the public until it is vetted.
>We were told that the Internet would “dematerialise” society and decrease energy use. Contrary to this projection, it has become a large and rapidly growing consumer of energy itself. According to the latest estimates, the entire network already consumes 10% of global electricity production, with data traffic doubling roughly every two years.

Good ol' hypercapitalism sponsoring the Jevons paradox. You love to see it.
Despite being submitted several hours later, this post got all the votes and all the discussion.

Go here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40709824
I really can’t emphasise enough how wrong that interpretation is. It was hands down the worst intel failure by a considerable
margin. Worse than the time they lost the name of every CIA officer in the OPM hack.
You sort of can, if you select a non-red ball, move it around, and then and change its state to moving ('ball state' in the config panel).
All their users are writing "content" for free and communicate with each other. AI generated "content" does not really fit into this.

They do not want their users to go to ClosedAI or similar and communicate with an Artificial Stupidity instead talking to each other on Facebook.

So it is in their interest to undermine the market for Artificial Stupidities by releasing the models for free.
I believe you are mostly right.

However, I don't think the decline in battery prices is primarily due to the technologies used. Instead, it's more about economies of scale and demand, which help optimize prices.

From my perspective, nuclear energy is on a similar path but with significantly less investment. A major portion of nuclear costs stems from the lack of economies of scale.

In my opinion, the arguments against nuclear energy contribute to the perception of its economic inefficiency. If people don't believe in it or don't want it, there will never be an opportunity to achieve economies of scale.

Here its quite well documented: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-are-nuclear-power...
They already do that now, there's even a defined procedure for it. They just do it after the law has already passed.
You also need to prohibit merge commits.

I don't know the FC format. But I'm still willing to bet large sums of money that if you happen to change the same version in different ways and merge the changes that you'll wreck the file.
RNN gameplay agents and reinforcement learning are a thousand times more interesting than stochastic parrots that rephrase Google for you, you'll see once this hype wave finishes dying out in a couple years
Many commenters have commented with their own loss and grief. One thing that helped me recently is Anderson Cooper’s “All There Is” podcast, both hearing about his own grief and those of his guests (the Stephen Colbert episode in particular will always have space in my heart), but also for the information from those psychologists and other professionals that he has on.

Highly recommended!
Slightly unrelated, but I've been using a similar Stylish theme to this one for years and it makes my HN experience much more readable and enjoyable: https://userstyles.org/styles/46180/georgify-for-hacker-news
Hence why we ended up with USB-C cables.

Less fragile, similar data rate, simpler BOM, less sensitive to dirt and debris, plenty of power.
These proposals are only possible due to the centralized nature of current messaging services. Signal has historically opposed any efforts at federation or decentralization. I wonder whether this could be the kick in the pants to get them to reconsider that position, or if we'll have to build something decentralized without them if this passes.
not without purchasing the license or additional contracts. its nvidia IP.
ChatGPT is used more for science in countries where it is prohibited [pdf]
AI boom propping up the US economy
What do you mean by "punished"? You have the right to say whatever you want just like I have the right to not listen to what you're saying, not to employ you, not buy goods/services from you and to encourage my friends to do the same (we're both exercising our right to the freedom of speech).

> but the US constitution guarantees freedom of speech" yeah so does North Korean, argument invalid.

Well courts in the US are somewhat independent and generally tend to usually adhere to that part of the US constitution when making decisions. North Korean courts? Not so much... Obviously it's a spectrum since the world is not black and white but I really don't quite understand what are you trying to say.

Are you seriously claiming that you don't see a fundamental difference between the US and North Korea in this case? Or do you just want someone to spend their time compiling a list of Supreme Court decisions relating to freedom of speech?
iCloud Backup backs up the entirety of someone's iMessage history (or their endpoint iMessage sync keys, which equate to the same thing) each night to Apple without e2ee.

If you enable e2ee for iCloud/iCloud Backup, all of your iMessage traffic will still be escrowed, simply from the other end of all of your conversations because they still have iCloud e2ee turned off (because it's off by default).

If the endpoint sends the plaintext post-decryption to the middle transit service (Apple) in a way that is readable to that middle service (iCloud Backups contain complete iMessage history and are encrypted to Apple keys), then it's not e2ee. This is called "plaintext escrow".

Same goes for WhatsApp. It backs up its message history to iCloud or Google Drive, which are, in the usual case (99.9%+ of users) non-e2ee.
I actually disagree with assuming an inconsistency when no time frame is specified and the phrase isn't "dropped off" as you suggested.

I tried giving Llama 3 70B a prompt that addresses both issues:

```

Can you summarize joe’s schedule for my journal?

4:00: Joe leaves the house with Sue
4:30: Joe drops Sue off at the university
5:00: Joe drinks tea with Sue in the kitchen

```

Reply:

```

I think there may be a problem here!

According to the schedule, Joe drops Sue off at the university at 4:30, but then he's supposed to drink tea with her in the kitchen at 5:00. That doesn't seem possible, since Sue is no longer with him after 4:30.

If you could clarify or correct the schedule, I'd be happy to help you summarize it for your journal!

```

Even Llama 8B can catch this once told `You think out loud before replying going forward`, which imo should be part of any system prompt for an LLM:

```

Let me think out loud for a moment...

Okay, so Joe's schedule starts at 4:00 PM, and he leaves the house with Sue. That's a good starting point.

Hmmm... then at 4:30 PM, Joe drops Sue off at the university. That means Sue is no longer with Joe at this point.

Wait a minute... but then at 5:00 PM, Joe is drinking tea with Sue in the kitchen. That's a bit confusing, since I thought Sue was already at the university.

Ah, I think I see what's going on here. It looks like there's a mistake in the schedule. Joe can't be drinking tea with Sue in the kitchen at 5:00 PM if he dropped her off at the university at 4:30 PM.

```

-

I even tried generating a synthetic schedule with a full day's worth of items: 70B still caught the contradiction, 8B no longer did
That sounds like a really bad idea, the EMP from such a blast would mess with electronics in a large area.
I'm pretty sure you told the GP how they should or should not interact with others by telling them not to use acronyms. I'm don't understand how that's any different.
Thank you! How the hell is anyone supposed to discover things like this?
The tough thing with Sears homes is you never know who built them. They showed up in a boxcar and you either hired someone to build them, or you built them yourself. Here in the Midwest we have plenty of Sears homes and I've never heard a bad thing about them.

I guess that traces back to your "the problem is the builder, not the building" argument. You're right, but I think it's okay to dislike a blatant symbol of half-assedness.
By definition the land has a market value of zero because that is what was paid for it

Who would pay money for an asset with zero returns at all (or indeed negative returns due to a bunch of administrative costs)
You can take a single measurement of a single particle and discover it in a location forbidden by classical mechanics such as the shaded area between the two slits.
It's well documented that the complete iMessage history (if the "Messages in iCloud" feature is disabled) or the endpoint iMessage sync keys (if "Messages in iCloud" is enabled, the default), are included in the non-e2ee iCloud Backup which is non-e2ee and readable by Apple.

Approximately nobody has enabled e2ee for iCloud Backups (and approximately nobody wants to; they'd rather Apple be able to restore their photos and conversations when they've lost their phone and forgotten their password).

Each and every night when plugged in every iPhone by default makes sure that Apple receives an Apple-readable copy of all of the photos and iMessages (or iMessage cross-device sync keys) on the device.

It's not e2ee if the endpoint device escrows the plaintext. Apple and the FBI can read 99%+ of all iMessages in the world in near-realtime.

(This is because, in the usual case, the backup includes the "Messages in iCloud" cross-device endpoint synchronization keys, and Apple of course runs the sync servers that see the encrypted traffic. If you have Messages in iCloud turned off, the backup simply contains all of the iMessages directly, and Apple presumably only gets them once each 24h period when the iCloud Backup runs at night when plugged in and on wifi.)

The only case in which iMessage is e2ee is when both iMessage endpoints either have iCloud disabled, or both iMessage endpoints have iCloud Backup disabled, or both iMessage endpoints have iCloud Advanced Data Protection (backup e2ee) enabled. The moment you add an iPhone not so configured to the iMessage groupchat, the whole thing falls apart, because the defaults are to escrow the plaintext in a non-e2ee fashion.
Yes. The single particle interferes with itself. However the effect disappears if you measure which slit the particle went through.
Software should include documentation, which should mention all of the commands used there, so that you can know how to do it. Unfortunately, many of the settings are not very well documented, and the document is hard to find.
That's, what? Half an hour of operation to them?