skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my understanding and also my plan, but it does not seem feasible to force this as the vendor of the software. If the customer says they need SAML at some point the business side will require that it is implemented. I do want to try and get as far with only OIDC as possible, but I am a bit worried that some larger customer might just bulldoze through because they only want SAML. Might be much more likely for on premise cases, if you're in the cloud you probably use an identity provider that supports OIDC already.
Modern smart TVs could hypothetically overlay virtually anything, however, you would not be able to overlay on to another “app” or channel as it opens cans of worms. For example, Roku had a lot of fraud from channels which showed one thing to the viewer while downloading ads in the background to persuade the backend the ads had been seen.

Back in the digital satellite era there was a transition where it was possible for the interactive content from one channel to be overlaid on the video of another as long as both were on the same satellite and underlying channel (a bit like “frequency” but not always 1:1). This is because digital TV multiplexes multiple videos for different user visible channels into a single stream with their interactive gunk, and the gunk can switch video streams. The fun part was this bandwidth is auctioned, and because every shady gambling company (half of cyprus it seems) wanted to be overlaid on sports the most expensive bandwidth was any spare around the sports channels. Not sure anyone ever made use of this in the end though.
What a prima donna.
The NYT is a subscriber newspaper. Most readers read yesterday's paper. If you want to prove that the NYT misses important context, all you need to do is to ignore the context provided by yesterday's paper.

If you don't want to prove that, then maybe you should read the paper before writing what you just did.
I can't be the only one who read "edible" in the title. Fascinating work regardless
I could not find dataset with payroll hours reported and overtime reimbursed for each MTA employee.

I wanted to investigate how well MTA is managing its workforce and compensation (as to require additional tax in form of Congestion Pricing to fix its budget hole), but there seems to be no dataset for that.

Does anyone have links to MTA payroll/hours/overtime related dataset?

or alternatively, I need dataset to study each and every subway improvement project, and components of each project in materials, labor and etc
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There May Never Be Another Game Developer as Successful and Chaotic as Blizzard
Of course no Oracle databases. That would only have worked for the ITV teletext service.
Try installing it in commercial spaces with say a dozen+ devices. It's a nightmare. It's so God damn crap at syncing audio and introduced lag and glitches to audio despite all network conditions being rock solid. Pita to work with. Pretty bonkers given the price of the devices.
What Can We Learn from the Prolific Mr. Asimov?
You could do it with just the two power cables if you modulate a signal into the load. Turning the led on and off in a certain pattern/frequency etc.
Re-checked. Spoke, not met.

[Elon Musk Told Pentagon He Spoke to Russia's Putin] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-21/musk-told...

[Putin called SpaceX founder Elon Musk an “outstanding person,” days after Musk acknowledged he blocked off internet access from his Starlink satellites during a Ukrainian raid last year.] https://thehill.com/policy/international/4200236-putin-calls...
If the trip happened in the past 30 years, then your family probably walked along the south side of Queen St, just west of Yonge St. at the Hudson's Bay flagship store in Toronto.

as an example, see https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/ylxwxt/hudsons_bay...

just search for "Toronto Hudson's Bay Christmas Display Window"

Before then, Eaton's dept. store in the Eaton Centre, just north of the Queen St. Hudson's Bay store, may have had Christmas display windows as well.
Do data centers drive a lot of jobs or revenue for local or federal governments?
One clear piece of evidence would be ruling out "AI models the corvid brain" or "AI models the cephalopod brain" which might narrow it toward the human brain.

That it's functionally impossible to do either leads me to believe that "it models some form of intelligence" is about the best we can prove.
But then if instead of spending 20min taking pictures in front of the Mona Lisa to take the perfect selfie you can actually visit the museum and have an AI generate selfies that tell the story of your visit, will you still care to take them "manually" (with all the filters that still count as "manual")?

That's what I was thinking: if you spend hours taking selfies during your weekend, and during this time I just enjoy my time and have an AI generate better selfies of myself. What will you do?

And then when everybody just has an AI generate their story for them, so you know that all the pictures you see are synthesized. Will you care about watching them or will you rather use an app that likes the autogenerated selfies that make sense to you?
I will add "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" to another good movie she was in, along with an excellent cast.
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Why did my wife and I make this site? We want to make browsing Reddit more educational, hilarious, inspiring, and extremely cute.

We use Claude 3 Haiku to rate content from Reddit and you can change the rating category to "educational," "hilarious," "cute," or "political." That way you can see the best of the best while avoiding the worst (ragebait or doomscroll'y).

The website is available in web and Android!
Not to make a false dichotomy out of this case but it is worrying to me how OpenAI presents itself as a crucial force for humanity's technological progress and then justifying its blatant copyright infringements when doing so (with some people believing the bs). Yet the Internet Archive, with far fewer resources, seems to do a better job of storing and eventually helping in advancing knowledge while fighting tougher copyright battles.

And unlike with OAI, I don't find myself questioning the Archive's motives every other day.

That's what hype does, I guess.
Is it this? This is happening in github-actions
https://github.com/docker/setup-buildx-action/issues/358
Pay is part of the problem, but also prioritizing profit margin above all else.

The fundamental problem is if you understaff and overwork your employees, you make more money. The actual drop in quality for the service doesn't degrade enough to stop people from using it.

This is why hospitals are horror stories of nurses/doctors working 60+ hour weeks with no vacation and managing a huge patient load. It's because admin has found that even if you don't have enough nurses, that just means 1 or 2 patients suffer or wait in line for longer. Perhaps someone dies, but in the meantime you'll save 10s, 100s of thousands or even millions of dollars over the course of a year.

It's a pay problem, but it's also a staffing problem.
Congratulations! What an excellent idea, the only reason I ever want the newspaper is for the puzzles and doing them digitally isn’t the same.
Seems to me the article is claiming a lot of things, but is very light on actual comparisons that matter to you and me, namely: how does one of those fabled AI-designed chop compare to their competition ?

For example, how much better are these latest gen TPU's when compared to NVidia's equivalent offering ?
It’s a GDPR fine, so the max would be 4% global revenue, or a little over 5bn for Facebook. So, on the minor end of things, really, scaled for Facebook; Facebook has had much bigger GDPR fines.

If there were damages, that’d be dealt with separately by the courts (EU countries don’t do punitive damages, mostly; this sort of regulator action is used for punishment instead).
If everyone dies when the canary dies, then there wasn't much point in bringing it down there. The canary is at the margins, and thus it dies first when the gas comes. When it dies, everyone else should GTFO, because if the gas gets worse, they're next.
Yeah, SAML will probably fade away (slowly). And sometimes, you might be able to convince the customer just to use OIDC.

But human behavior change is hard and expensive. For the most part, it's just easier to give the customer what they're asking for / what they expect, even when you know they're wrong.

When you're trying to push an enterprise deal over the finish line, this is often just not a good enough reason to introduce friction with your buying committee.

And if you have to support SAML for one stubborn customer eventually, you might as well support SAML for all customers that really want it.
The original paper reports P&R metrics (WNS, TNS, area, power, wirelength, horizontal congestion, vertical congestion) - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03544-w

(no paywall): https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ey204/teaching/ACS/R244_2021_2022/...
How interesting! Thanks for sharing! :-)
Working conditions too. Pretty bad for nursing and teaching.
> you'll realize the academic dishonesty policy is essentially the playbook by which academics behave

If you are unable to "extrapolate to all of academia" then I suggest you be more selective in your statements.
I agree. To their defense, he had a few hundred papers published before joining, according to PubMed, and was a leader in his field: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Masliah%20E&filter=dat...

My concern is that with AI getting better and easier to use (e.g., in Photoshop) fraud will be extremely hard to detect.

We might need to re-think how research is done and results verified.
The reality on the ground (for me) has been refreshingly sane.

I work at a company with a substantial BI/ML footprint. Our head of research was tasked with evaluating the applicability of LLMs to either our product or our daily workflows.

To date the consensus is that there isn't much there for our product, that integrating LLMs into our models would introduce more problems than it would solve, and that we should cautiously experiment with allowing engineers to use tools like co-pilot, provided we take adequate steps to protect our IP.

It was a reasonable exercise carried out by a reasonable person for reasonable reasons (from my POV). I imagine this isn't an uncommon story? Color me pessimistically optimistic?

For practical reasons we need to have an answer to the buzzword bingo when communicating with customers/company ownership, and now we do. Now we don't talk much about it because there isn't much to talk about.
This is funny but he actually was right
My employer blocks ChatGPT at work and we are forced to use Copilot. It's trash. I use Google docs to communicate with GPT on my personal device. GPT is so much better. Copilot reminds me of GPT3. Plausible, but wrong all the time. GPT 4o and o1 are pretty much bang on most of the time.
Meanwhile at New Mexico Highlands University a janitor loses his life over a chemical spill: https://www.lasvegasoptic.com/news/community/chemical-concer...

There had been longstanding concerns about fumes in the building that made one faculty member sick enough to seek medical attention and workers comp, then they clean up a little and send in a janitor to go and mop, and the following day he is found dead. The photos from the newspaper article are something, cleanup crew in full-body suits with respirator.

It's doubtful that anyone will lose anything over this incident, the hypocrisy and double standard is not acceptable.
In some domains (math and code), progress is still very fast. In others it has slowed or arguably stopped.

We see little progress in "soft" skills like creative writing. EQBench is a benchmark that tests LLM ability to write stories, narratives, and poems. The winning models are mostly tiny Gemma finetunes with single-digit parameter counts. Huge foundation models with hundreds of billions of parameters (Claude 3 Opus, Llama 3.1 405B, GPT4) are nowhere near the top. (Yes, I know Gemma is a pruned Gemini). Fine-tuning > model size, which implies we don't have a path to "superhuman" creative writing (if that even exists). Unlike model size, fine-tuning can't be scaled indefinitely: once you've squeezed all the juice out of a model, what then?

OpenAI's new o1 model exhibits amazing progress in reasoning, math, and coding. Yet its writing is worse than GPT4-o's (as backed by EQBench and OpenAI's own research).

I'd also mention political persuasion (since people seem concerned about LLM-generated propaganda). In June, some researchers tested LLM ability to change the minds of human subjects on issues like privatization and assisted suicide. Tiny models are unpersuasive, as expected. But once a model is large enough to generate coherent sentences, persuasiveness kinda...stops. All large models are about equally persuasive. No runaway scaling laws are evident here.

This picture is uncertain due to instruction tuning. We don't really know what abilities LLMs "truly" possess, because they've been crippled to act as harmless, helpful chatbots. But we now have an open-source GPT-4-sized pretrained model to play with (Llama-3.1 405B base). People are doing interesting things with it, but it's not setting the world on fire.
But that is not how research works in Academia. They have to follow the bleeding edge of the field, or they may be doing work of their own that is already irrelevant. They will not wait until a consortium of insurance companies and underwriters have done the actuarial analysis and come up with an underwriting product that the institution has funded (and what is the institution's business model for recovering this cost in a field of pure research, anyway?)
I'm finding it really hard to imagine a circumstance where I'm sharing:

a) space

b) Sonos speakers

and c) a slack channel

All with the same person. And if I did, I'd probably just turn the speakers down and tell them it's too loud, then set the volume limit in Sonos.
Not necessarily a good thing if overall life experience is worse.
We've managed to hold the line on OIDC so far. So has Tailscale. If Tailscale can hold the line, given who they're selling to, I think most orgs can. Really, try to avoid doing SAML. Remember, as a vendor, you're often competing with companies that don't do real SSO integration at all.

At the very least: if I was ever to do SAML, I would rip your face off in the pricing for it.
Not a fact. An opinion.
The line between outright fraud, bad methods correctly implemented, messy data, and implementation bugs is fuzzy. Trying to criminalize anything not very very clearly #1 quickly turns into a case of “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”. You think groupthink in academia is bad just wait until professional disputes lead to jail time for the loser.
How the UK became the first G7 country to phase out coal power
i would change to: if you do ANYTHING online and you're not using AI, you simply cannot keep up with the competition. you're out.

it's depressing.
Link to examples: https://gitlab.com/rosie-pattern-language/rosie/-/blob/maste...
I don't buy the claim that this is trying to pass as news. It just looks like 90% of the other review pages on the internet. Here's what I'm seeing:

At the top of the page I see an Advertising Disclosure link. After that I see a byline for the actual human freelancer that wrote the article.

After that I see a huge call-out that "Commissions we earn from partner links on this page do not affect our opinions or evaluations. Our editorial content is based on thorough research and guidance from the Forbes Health Advisory Board".

Below that is a "Featured Partner Offer" with an info popover that reads "Partner Offers feature brands who paid Forbes Health to appear at the top of our list. While this may influence where their products or services appear on our site, it in no way affects our ratings, which are based on thorough research, solid methodologies and expert advice. Our partners cannot pay us to guarantee favorable reviews of their products or services". The offer contains no rating or editorial text.

Below that are the reviewed items, which have ratings and editorial text. Some of the text is linked to full reviews of specific products (e.g. https://www.forbes.com/health/cbd/cbdfx-gummies-review/).

Below that is the methodology: "To determine the best CBD gummies, the Forbes Health editorial team analyzed data on over 100 CBD gummy products ... then ranked the CBD gummies based on price, potency, flavor options available and whether its ingredients are all natural, organic, gluten-free and/or vegan-friendly." They don't claim to have tested all of them.

Again, this looks like 90% of the other review pages on the web, including things Forbes already publishes (e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/article..., https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/article...).
Isn't it also possible that the best in their society just left to find other opportunities? The people who couldn't leave would be more prone to gambling, alcoholism, etc.
Yes in combination. Customers generally buy these tools as a package deal. If the placer/floorplanner blows everything else out of the water, then a CAD vendor can upsell a lot of related tools.
And AlphaGo is trained to play Go? The point is training a model through self play to build neural network architectures. If it can play Go and architect chip placements, I don’t see why it couldn’t be trained to build novel ML architectures.
Do you renew the certificates used to distribute the public keys in SAML metadata, and if so why do you do it? I have had a hard time convincing people it is useless to renew those certs and have yet to find an implementation that care about those certificates.
Probably a useful reminder to some that you don't hate google enough.

Degoogle your life everyone.
> talking to them was a great way to, for lack of a better term, start getting encultured into the community

The normal term is "acculturated".
Naturally, Windows 11 seems to sometimes auto enable password expiration.
Write instructions on how to do this in any IDE.
> Talking with our data

Beautifully put, thanks for writing my thoughts out.
OECD average is 9k.[0]

US spends more per student than everyone else save Luxemburg, Switzerland, Austria and Norway.

[0]https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_cmd.pdf
Sounds complicated. You could just demand the lab log books. They are supposed to be dated and countersigned. Standard practice is to counter sign outside your group.
This is not going to end well for Matt. Remember the dispute is between WP Engine and Automattic, not the WordPress foundation (the .org). Blurring the lines between the foundation and his for-profit competitor to WP Engine (confusingly called WordPress.com) is not at all in the spirit of open source. Maybe he will be successful in his trademark claim, despite the foundation saying that using "WP" was okay for a decade, and then deciding to update the trademark terms to say it is confusing (again, ironic). His other claims about WP Engine not being "real wordpress" is one of the silliest arguments I've ever heard, considering his own competitor also disables features unless you pay. The feature he is upset about (post revisions being disabled), is literally a one line change in the config. Isn't the whole point of wordpress to be super customizable and moddable? It's one of the greatest strengths of the software, and it's open source, changing the defaults should be expected.

Edit: Oh I forgot about the part where all of these posts are being published on the .org, so they appear in the dashboard of every wordpress install (including WP Engine, until they disabled the news). I'd love to hear from a lawyers perspective on how this sabotage gets into unfair competition and tortious interference. I think that is going to make the trademark thing more difficult to take to court, knowing that WP Engine probably has good grounds to countersue for actual damages at this point.
Read this, for example.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66752264
I read the article and think that Arizona's problems are not inherent to the voucher system per se, just how they administered it. People found a loophole.

Need to tie closely the money coming out with the voucher and the corresponding decrease in spend on public school system
Far more people / companies are designing PCBs than there are designing custom chips.
> Milei, who took office in December, has slashed public spending in an effort to bring down annual inflation that peaked at close to 300 per cent in April. The price increases have eroded the purchasing power of workers and pensioners.

> Economists say the root cause of the high inflation is the money printed to fund spending by previous left-leaning Peronist governments, but the removal of price controls and a devaluation of the peso under Milei have also contributed.

So inflation may be causing it, but they don't tell us if inflation has actually improved or if it has gotten worse since Milei came into office. Has inflation actually gotten better?
That's a sports pub.
ALS!? :(

Not to join the Darl McBride Fan Club ("modern-day David" indeed), but nobody deserves that.
The more I read about the stock market the more I start to think about the negatives of EFTs and index funds. They’re like taking an antidepressant, the lows aren’t as low but the highs aren’t nearly as high. The market was more volatile when more “retail” investors purchased individual stocks.

Lots of people lose big, personally my biggest loss was $WISH wow I got hammered there. Had it been an index fund that incorporated WISH I would have been more protected… then again my direct purchase of NVDA more than paid that back

Obviously 70k into 264M is insane and either is like one in a billion luck or the result of insider information
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>technological unemployment.

I am too but not for the same reason. I know for a fact that a huge swath of jobs are basically meaningless. This "AI" is going to start giving execs the cost cutting excuses they need to mass remove jobs of that type. The job will still be meaningless but done but by a computer.

We will start seeing all kinds of disastrously anti-human decisions made and justified by these automated actors that are tuned to decide or "prove" things that just happen to always make certain people more money. Basically the same way "AI" destroys social media. The difference is people will really be affected by this in consequential real world ways, it's already happening.
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Hey what’s up fam,

Question. What’s the best, most modern solution to add translations to a software project.

For example, I’ve developed a WordPress plugin (PHP + typescript) that’s garnered some customers and now people are asking for translations to xyz languages.

So I’d have to go through all the code, edit all the strings to be Poedit compatible, etc etc.

How do people solve for this? It seems like it will take quite a bit of time.

Thank you!! Xoxo
private schools face fierce competition and immediate feedback loop from parents.

public school system is not accountable at all to parents.

this makes sure that interest of school and parents and kids are aligned and no political bs coming from above like DoE
I don't disagree with that. But as soon as you bring SF or NYC into a discussion about general issues in the US, Im out. Those places are extremely unique outliers and don't represent normal life for the majority of US citizens or cities.
Real Commodore hardware is going to break down eventually, I'd love to have something that uses modern parts so we aren't dependent on rare parts that are going to disappear or become super expensive.