skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Might also be it's lonely at the top.

Yeah, poor poor lonely managers. They hold a lot of power over other people ("responsibility") and yet we're supposed to be sorry for them. Their burden is so great that they cry on the internet that they're not getting their endorphins.
Infinitone Microtonal Saxophone
In another comment you wrote "stop sign is a red octagon (with a white boundary) with the word "STOP" in the center. I could draw you a plausible picture of one without issue". The fact that you knew all of that without having to actually find a stop sign and look at it, that's mental imagery. It may be a skill some people are very good at (i.e. they can remember lots of small details) and others are not, but it's not that you don't have this skill at all.
I may be in the minority in this very diverse crowd, but yes, I would prefer that over my corporate job.
Ooh, Mittens!
Composition for the Infinitone here, https://youtu.be/56fLizLEn6Y?si=o20KmVemkuHid2RX
The Open (Source) Question in AI
Science Fiction???
Plus it can be run on any machine, while golang needs to be compiled for the specific architecture you'll be running it on. No messing about trying to get the right build.
Forget the Mona Lisa, maybe you've never seen it even in a book. Do you know what the shape of your country (like from a map) looks like? Of course you do, and it's not because you went around and did your own border survey, it's because you've seen the shape on maps thousands of times, and you can picture it in your head.
> I don’t personally agree with the term “overcorrecting” because they aren’t correcting anything.

When I think of "correctness" in programming, to me that means the output of the program conforms according to requirements. Presumably a lawful person who is looking for an AI assistant to sift through resumes would consider something that is biased against disabled people to be correct and conform to requirements.

Sure, if the requirements were "an AI assistant that behaves similarly to your average recruiter in all ways", then sure, a discriminatory AI would indeed be correct. But I'd hope we realize by now that people -- including recruiting staff -- are biased in a variety of ways, even when they actively try not to be.

Maybe "overcorrecting" is a weird way to put it. But I would characterize what you call "correct according to the inputs" as buggy and incorrect.

> If people are discriminatory or racist or sexist, it is not correct to attempt to hide it.

I agree, but that has nothing to do with determining that an AI assistant that's discriminatory is buggy and not fit for purpose.
The Vienna Secession is probably my favorite of all the historical art movements. There was an early art zine called Ver Sacrum. My personal favorite artist of this scene, Koloman Moser, made a lot of the covers and included artwork, as well as a variety of really cool tessellation patterns.

The University of Heidelberg has an online site with a lot of high quality scans of Ver Sacrum and related publications. There is a lot of variety in the Vienna Secession, and its aesthetic stretched all the way from graphic design to architecture and even interior design.
I propose line managers be on-call 3-4 days a week so they continue to get that high and actually be useful :-)
Yeah, nah!
Maybe also make /usr/bin/sudo immutable? would that help prevent a package manager from messing with it? I think so.
Cross-platform command-line utility to create projects from templates
An Ancient, 45-Foot Serpent Is Unearthed in India
"I used the GPT-4o model to generate the code for LetterDrop. That means the code is generated by the AI model, and I only need to provide the prompts to the model. This approach is very efficient and can save a lot of time. I've also recorded a video to show how to create the LetterDrop project using the GPT-4o model.

That also means you can easily customize the code by changing the prompts. You can find the prompts in the CDDR file."

???????
Prism: Mapping interpretable concepts and features in a latent space of language
> it means having to make, merge and delete branches all the time

Isn't this something that git makes simple?
I wonder how it fares actually cooling the body. Does the fabric also block heat coming from the body wearing it?

Has anyone information on the fabric that was able to cool the body that Ars covered?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/new-fabric-passively...
Removing parking reduces congestion because less people take the car, taking alternative forms of transportation instead. Removing parking to improve traffic flow so that you can push more robot taxis through the city results in more cars.
NeRF does glass, fog, reflections, and some furs better than gsplat. Gsplat does normal surfaces as well or better than NeRF, and gsplat also provides explicit geometry (a point cloud). NeRF models the entire image rendering function while gsplats only model typical surfaces.

This work (and others e.g. https://creiser.github.io/binary_opacity_grid/ ) attempt to blend the raytracing aspect of NeRF with the explicit surface aspect of gsplats.

One key non-research problem is that gsplats can render on mobile devices / headsets using vanilla WebGL APIs. But approaches like this paper require CUDA (and also apparently a top-shelf desktop GPU). If Apple and others (mostly Apple has been sandbagging tho) provided better support for WebGPU or an alternative API then NeRF research would be dramatically more impactful versus gsplats. The popularity of gsplats is largely due to its accessibility.
Maybe we don't need to bring up what humans do every time we talk about the limitations of this technology and what ought to be tolerated from it.
An important note about numpy broadcasting: numpy broadcasts from the back, so your life improves dramatically when you reference indices from the back as well: use axis references < 0. So if you want to reference a row: refer to axis=-1. This will ALWAYS refer to the row (first broadcasting dimension), whether you have a 1D vector or 2D matrix or any N-D array. Numpy is deeply unfriendly if you don't do this. To smooth out this an similar issues, there's the numpysane library. But simply using negative axis references goes a long way.
I've seen a wheel or sudo group often enough to think it's common.
They’re already trying to maximize revenue and have maximized saturation of ads until their network becomes less sticky by people getting annoyed and not using it.

So you’re getting the same number of ads either way, even if Facebook can’t make more money off you.
In theory, those ssh private keys are password protected.

In practice, maybe not.
Managing a software engineering team is obviously different than an IC, but both have the same potential for feelings of endorphin rushes and mindless/meaningless work. Manager roles may more often have less defined goals than IC, but in either role I’ve always made up my own goals anyways. I think at the core the difference we are talking about is those that function best with little oversight/direction vs those that function best with a predetermined set of steps.

As an IC I was told “go make a thing that does this”, and as a manager I was told “lead a team that makes a thing that does this”, and that’s about it. I thrive in this environment.

I got the same endorphin rush as an IC when I demoed my MVP as I did as a manager when I pushed to get a high performer on my team a raise[0].

As a manager you make your own goals more often than not, but if you do it right it’s similar to how the blog post talks about beating a PR in swimming. My manager PRs are focused on 1) people’s growth, 2) team building, 3) performance improvements, 4) people’s fulfillment in work[1].

Outside of that I also have the metrics I send up the chain, which sometimes hit over longer periods as mentioned, but those aren’t where I get my enjoyment from work.

I think good manager should be focusing a good amount of their time on growing every individual in their team, as well as the overall team with it. Maybe the problem is that this isn’t ever actual taught to new managers in any impactful way. Maybe the problem is that management takes a completely different skill set, but both can be equally as enjoyable.

[0] the best part was after I told her and as she was walking back to her desk she said “I can’t wait to tell my husband I make more than him now”.

[1] as a manager, team member fulfillment sometimes means hyping up something that wasn’t actually that important, or having them brief things to leadership they wouldn’t normally because it would mean something to them, or giving everyone a chance to succeed, etc.. knowing what makes someone happy and making a point to reward them for hard work is the point.
Reminder to use AdNauseum [1] that will not only hide the ads but also click it, messing with targeting and spending advertisers' money at the same time.

[1] https://adnauseam.io/
Act – run your GitHub Actions locally
> ???????

Please clarify what ??????? means here? You’ll find us willing to hear out your point of view, but first you’ll have to provide it.
This is from the "How to contribute?" section in readme.

Personally, I found it unbelievable. The author think contribute should change the prompt instead of the code..
To my best knowledge, these kind of code generation are non deterministic. This make it impossible to audit for correctness.
I am curious how is solving geometry problems for you, can you imagine slicing some geometric body with a plane and what it results? or given some geometric figure and an instruction to build some lines can you see the result without drawing it on paper ?

Fro me it feels that imagining things uses completely different brain part, because for me it does not feel or look like stuff in my dreams or what eyes can see, imagining things feel different,the scenes feel to me unclear, disappear fast , I do not have the ability to lock the image or rewind like in a video. Remembering a recent scene has a lot more details and colors then some old memory.

For geometry stuff is the same, I can't say I see it but somehow I have an animation my head on how I can transform the geometric stuff, but it is not vivid and it is not like a clear video, feels like is a different part of the brain that does this not the optic part.
Re: the 4FPS example, if one renders a VR180 view as an equirectangular image and lets the headset handle the 6DOF head movement, then 4FPS is plenty. Especially if there’s one render per-eye. 110% if there are no objects within a meter of the ego camera.

So your motivating problem does not exist.

More FPS is better, and yes we all do want to find a hybrid of NeRF and splats that works well, but then you should emphasize your theoretical and experimental contributions. Flatly claiming 4FPS doesn’t work is specious to most readers. Even Deva knows this is being too aggressive for a paper like this.
If you're into shape rotations with numpy arrays check out einopt.

Also consider using "None"
instead of "np.newaxis". To newcomers it's not as self-explanatory but it results in more readable code imho.
> feeling good about yourself is a human requirement

Sure. I feel good about being kind to other people, whereas the author's specifically chasing some sort of highs. I don't know where this expectation could have come from, considering managers are almost universally considered to have "more responsibility". More responsibility means more stress and less fun. You'd expect an adult to understand this before moving into management, but alas.

> Second, this requirement doesn't preclude you from thinking of others. Just like a parent doesn't have to hate themselves to love their kids.

To continue your comparison, a parent is expected to think of their kids first. We call that responsibility.

> third, if you expect your managers to never take care of their emotional needs you are only pushing them to burn out.

Nobody said that. But if your emotional need is to get constant highs and you didn't have enough foresight to realise you won't get that in management, I simply don't want you as my manager.

Like I said in my original comment, this blog post is a signal. I could be wrong, but I've seen so many bad managers that my intuition tells me something's off.
I’d just prefer the survival rate not drop to zero for everyone at the same time.
For the test to be meaningful, it should still produce accurate results when the subject is pretending to have the condition (the SAT wouldn’t be helpful if you could ace it by acting as if you know the all answers!)

Consider a turing test of sorts: I want to convince you I am phantastic, you are tasked with determining whether I am faking it. Could such a test be realized?

Consider, for example, the “draw a bicycle” phenomenon. Many alleged phantists are wholly unable to correctly render a bicycle onto paper, and furthermore they are often unable to self-evaluate that their renders are bogus. Many aphants on the other hand have no issue depicting a well formed bicycle onto a paper, and furthermore would be able to identify faulty ones.

Of course this test does not have perfect recall/accuracy, it’s just an example of how the results can be counterintuitive.
I think code generation is, generally speaking, pretty awful, but contributing to an LLM prompt is kind of an interesting evolution of software design. With that said, I don't really think it saves a lot of time (the author's Youtube videos[1] are literally like 10+ hours of messing with prompts and copy-pasting code), whereas the product in itself isn't particularly complicated.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL21oMWN6Y7PCqSwbwesD4...
Apparently the NHTSA stats aren't different for babies (likely because babies are usually heavily restrained, and probably brought out in a car less e.g. don't need school runs). Below are some US NHTSA publications with detailed answers, but here's a loose paraphrase a) it's dangerous being a nonoccupant in a driveway: nontraffic backover/backing crashes caused ~460 deaths in 2008 (~300 nontraffic + 160 traffic), see [3].
b) reported fatalities per year age of child seem to be roughly constant, i.e. babies do not exhibit a higher rate of traffic deaths (probably because they're typically restrained in carseats). See [1] p5: Table 1. Passenger Vehicle Occupants Involved in Fatal Traffic Crashes, by Survival Status and Age Group, and Restraint Use, 2021. In fact, the peak is for children passengers 13+ or 15+, not babies.
c) (These do not report crash speed, or separate freeway accidents from residential roads (posters here asking about "a drive around the neighborhood"), and you'd expect people would drive babies slightly slower.) NHTSA only separately reports nontraffic accidents (e.g. parking lots). Or non-crash deaths such as hyperthermia.

[1] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...
"Traffic Safety Facts, 2021 Data, Children, DOT HS 813-456"

Key Findings
• Of the 42,939 traffic fatalities in 2021 in the United States, 1,184 (3%) were children 14 and younger.
• An estimated 162,298 children were injured in traffic crashes in 2021, a 17-percent increase from 139,058 in 2020.
• Of the 26,325 passenger vehicle occupants killed in 2021 in traffic crashes, 863 (3%) were children. Of these 863 child passenger vehicle occupants killed in traffic crashes, restraint use was known for 769, of whom 308 (40%) were unrestrained.
• Of the 1,184 children killed in traffic crashes, an estimated 294 (25%) were killed in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes in 2021.

[2] From NHTSA: NCSA (National Center for Statistics and Analysis) Motor Vehicle Traffic Crash Data Resource Page https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/#/

[3] "DOT HS 811 144, November 2008, FATALITIES AND INJURIES IN MOTOR VEHICLE BACKING CRASHES" https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

A backover is a crash which occurs when a driver reverses into and injures or kills a nonoccupant such as a pedestrian or a bicyclist. Backovers can occur either on a public roadway or not on a public roadway, i.e., in a driveway or in a parking lot. The former are called traffic backovers and the latter nontraffic backovers. There are also “other backing crashes” that are not backovers, i.e., they do not involve a pedestrian or other nonoccupant, that occur when, for example, a driver backs into a tree or pole or when a driver backs out of a driveway or parking space and is struck by another vehicle. Together, backover crashes and other backing crashes are referred to as backing crashes."

Look at the table on page iv.: Fatalities and Injuries, by Type of Crash, Type of Vehicle
What does the London NHS hospitals data theft mean for patients?
Qilin stole information relating to 300m interactions with the NHS, which could be used in future scams
The point isn’t to rigorously define “visualize” or “imagine”—we will probably never be able to do this. The point is to use a verbal prompt to elicit a mental experience and then to try to probe that experience.

> A triangle doesn't have to be filled with a color to be a triangle. Why would you imagine it with any color in it in the first place, not just a wireframe, being transparent inside?

That’s just it: when I imagine a triangle, it is a definite image with a definite color. The visual details like color come automatically for me. I cannot imagine it in the more abstract way you are describing. If it’s a wireframe, the wireframe is gray. It’s always a full, colorful, 3d scene, perhaps vague but definitely with visual detail.
It decodes to uOPs optimized for the exact microarchitecture of that particular CPU. High performance ARM64 designs do the same.

But in the specific case of tracking variable length instruction boundaries, that happens in the L1i cache. uOP caches make decode bandwidth less critical, but it is still important enough to optimize.
They were stored in the user’s yubikeys (or similar) in this example.
Okay to be clear your initial premise was bad too
I found some NHTSA NCSA stats and posted them above.

- "where the baby is secured correctly" => "Restrained", <1 age group and 1-to-3 age group

- car speed is <= 40mph : NHTSA does not separate out
accident speed, or separate residential roads from freeways
I am one of the authors, should have mentioned. It's not part of Org yet, but should be some time this year.
I expect the reciped to give the ammounts of each ingredient. For example the second recipe in the video says:

Chicken tenders / Egg / Bread / Milk / Butter / Mapple Syrup

But the ratio of milk and eggs is very important. Also, it's not clear how to use the butter, I guess I can imagine the proportion of the other ingredients. Does it need some salt also?

Have you tried to follow the recipes? It looks like you like cooking. Have you tried to ask help from a moron friend and whatch how s/he follow the recipes?
This is interesting as an experiment, but a awful way to do production code.
Now ask the mothers of the recipients of those gunshots.
You don't have, but many sites you visit have a Facebook code hidden in their pages that sends data about any visitor to Facebook. Thus Facebook knows a lot about you even if you don't have an account.
There are billions of buyers, just that most of them don't want to pay that much.
I couldn't spot any way to make something like `ls -j` (j is an illegal option) throw an exception in ruby (as opposed to simply outputting the system error message).

The closest I could find is what you suggest (checking $?), or using something like this [1], which would require changing syntax:

system('ls -j', exception: true)

Would be great to know if there's some easy callback or, ideally, a global setting one can make so a ruby exception is thrown if there's an error running system commands using the backtick syntax.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/54132729/5783745
Can people with Aphantasia still have visual dreams -- where imagery is more real and vivid and more involuntary than willed .... than what they can 'see' when awake and conscious and are trying to muster up an image on purpose with closed eyes ?

I tried visualizing some images now -- and it seems harder than I expected, seems harder with eyes closed (makes eveyrthing feel too dark and low contrast). But I think my dreams are more vivid than that.

Also I relized that when actively trying to imagine things, the "resolution" or sharpness/focus of the mental picture is very narrow -- I can only imagine the "details" of texture/surface of things when focussing attention on a very small and narrow field of "vision".
I live in urban Vietnam. However, my visual imagination is derived heavily from paintings, particularly those of the romantic era (eg the Hudson river school). The promt suggest something very asymmetrical, which is anathema to the romantic schema (they avoid asymmetry but also too much symmetry). Not saying it's impossible for me to get there, just very difficult.

I guess the larger point is that vusualisation is as much fiction as it is recal.

By the way, I love the gmap link image, but I don't see it as an effective responce to the hint. I see it instead as a classic vista (I.e framed window-form).
Are there distributions where this doesn't happen? I feel like I'm often installing or compiling new versions of packages and languages because they're outdated on Ubuntu
They aren't paying for the unpackaged raw product, hence they feel the package is worth more than the content. There are many talented people who produce works worth packaging, not many who want to do all that packaging so it can reach consumers.
Yes. A completely reasonable read is: Claude was asked for something and responded with result based on work which exists online. So basically... Claude works at expected? (Same as other models)

The shadertoy example is just a few lines, so easy to train from. (And even that uses palette creation described on another blog)
As God intended
not to mention that battery fires don't release all of their stored energy at once, unlike explosives. Granted, they might burn uncontrollably for a long time, and difficult to extinguish.
man chattr
Yes, I have aphantasia and also have visual dreams.

I always figured daydreaming was just a metaphor, and had no idea most people could use visual faculties outside of an actual dream state!
Environmentalists are also ones who worked against building, which now makes it impossible to build out green infrastructure. So environmentalists are ones that fucked up the environment…
And the code is godawful. Just look at this mess for internationalization: https://github.com/i365dev/LetterDrop/blob/main/app%2Fsrc%2F... . The code is unmaintainable by a human - there is a ton of unnecessary duplication, a gigantic html string instead of something like tsx, etc etc. I don't know how the OP can trust this output - I certainly don't.
Whelp… TIL… again
lsattr - for reading attributes
chattr - for setting them

You need the `i` attribute. But this is filesystem dependent. Anyway protecting the `sudo` binary from package managers is a so-so idea.
The City of London which is not part of London (2016)
> but text/uri-list is a better format for the most common use of OPML (a collection of RSS/Atom feeds)

text/uri-list seems like joy to use technically, but in practice simple formats have tendency to evolve into frankenstein monster with a mess of extensions and variations (see markdown for example) where every vendor will extend the format to support something for their platform.

Users expect to maintain their feed structure for example when moving to a new platform just like a file system hierarchy, which text/uri-list doesn't seem to support right off the bat
Surely the robots doing all that work are worth way more than they are now sold for? Why should you take money from the robots and progress and give that to workers who didn't add that value? More money to robots means more progress.

See how easy it is to argue for the other side, that argument is so compelling that communists tend to focus more on robots over workers and keeping wages low than capitalist countries do.