skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean the remaining 25k will also be out of a job?

The article linked above doesn't go into detail on what container royalties are, but it sounds like it was a protection from being laid off negotiated in the past.

And in the context of AI so frequently discussed here, perhaps more workers will need those types of protections as automation takes hold elsewhere.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775463
I second this motion 100%

Confusing use by labels only benefit corps by allowing them to over buy and then let their inventory spoil on the shelf while they charge full price for year old garbage.

If customers knew when their food was made, people would be grossed out and not buy rice cooked 8 months ago from the refrigerated section. it would force corps to have more sales to rotate inventory more often.
The key bit I didn't understand at first was what happens if the two groups of attention learn the same thing; because their attention masks are subtracted from one another if they both output similar values the attention across the board will drop to zero and this will lead to high loss. So the only way to reduce loss is if they learn to attend to different things. One of the simplest strategies they could learn (and this paper claims that they do) is for one group to focus on relevant context and the other to focus on irrelevant context. Thus one group learns the noise and the other the signal (it's not this cut and dry but is a useful simplification for understanding IMO).
SE Asians do too, ever been to JP, TH or PH?
That is a really strange plot. It looks like they are fitting a really high order polynomial to what is more or less a linear or maybe quadratic trend. And the overfitting exaggerates the recent trend.
> By being less distracted by irrelevant context, Diff Transformer can mitigate hallucination in question answering and text summarization

I’m very interested in this claim. I was under the impression that hallucination is unavoidable in these kinds of models. IIRC proof for that was trending on HN a couple weeks ago.
> My understanding is that majority of non-raw exports are in shipping containers and those have to be shipped back.

Not always, that's partly why shipping containers are so inexpensive to buy.
Maybe convert it to an offline version of furby instead. My position would be not to confound treating/medicine with a neat stuffed animal.
It does look like the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is mostly professors: https://www.kva.se/en/about-us/members/list-of-academy-membe...
Totally agree on the packing date.

Why not just have three dates:
“Packaged”, “Best by”, and “Expiration”

I feel like that would be extremely clear for people
That's a fairly thin article. The one note about how much these laid off workers are making is just an allegation aimed at less than 3% of the total number of laid off workers, not a value with any citations. It would help a lot if there were actual figures on how much the container royalties are.

And while ongoing payments are unusual, it's still basically a severance package. Those dock workers no longer work at the docks because they were let go due to automation. Do they have other jobs? Probably. The article doesn't provide any info about that either.

It is the NY Post though. So I'm not super surprised by the lack of substance, just allegations.
Clearly, should have used a queue instead of a stack!
Who start reading "mein kampf" beside scholar anyway?

I haven't actually started it yet, but I have a copy on my shelf waiting. Along with Das Kapital, Mao's "Little Red Book", etc.

Why? Especially given that I'm closer to a Randian than anything else (I really did like Atlas Shrugged although it's not my favorite book). Well, I feel like if you're going to reject a belief system, or feel somewhat at-odds with followers of a given system of thought or whatever, it's best to have some familiarity with that system of thought. It's just a matter of intellectual honesty.

I mean, looking back over the years here on HN and the various discussions that pop up around Atlas Shrugged and Ayn Rand. You can tell that a LOT of the people criticizing Rand and Atlas Shrugged have never read the book (or probably any of her other works) and are attacking straw-men.

I refrain from (most) attacks on Marx (and the specifics of what Hitler, Mao, etc had to say) because I don't have the deep familiarity with their material. OTOH, I have no problem saying I have enough general familiarity to mostly reject the thinking of those folks in a sort of abstract sense. The point being, one may read a work that you disagree with (or expect to disagree with) just so you can have an intellectually honest conversation about it, or a deeper conversation that goes beyond a superficial familiarity.
Ultimately, a lot of Rust's safety features (which I'd argue are desirable everywhere, regardless of performance) require the sort of precise tracking people complain about.

And once you have that, you might as well use it to free memory too. The idea of "Rust but GC" is fundamentally nonsense, because for GC to make sense you'd first need to rip out so much of Rust's selling point to begin with.

It mostly seems to come from a perspective of "But surely all this GC research must be good for something, right? Anything?", rather than a concrete idea of where the GC would actually help.
It “feels” to me like the uncertainty principle. Think of availability as an interval of time by which all nodes have to be connected. If you set A high enough, sure, you can have both CP to your heart’s delight. As A shrinks, you lose the ability to have both C and P and have to pick one. It’s something like CxP/A>n, where n is a constant within a system.
Rust is a dumpster fire of a programming language. Use Zig.
> smooth out peak times not in the name of efficiency, but rather to lower the amount of dock workers the container terminal needs to hire.

I’m confused. Efficiency means you don’t need to hire as much, since your peak-to-trough ratio is lower. Or you can handle more load, if you were capacity-constrained.

I don’t get why this is framed as a secret “other reason”.

My understanding is that shipping is a competitive market, is this not the case? If it is you expect price decreases to be passed on to customers.
There’s probably a small chance that they could both learn the same thing, but it’s probably not likely enough to be a major issue.
for science. but i think he's gonna time it perfectly with his natural death sometime far off into the future
Whenever Roblox comes up on HN I am compelled to take the opportunity to try and remind people that Roblox is not safe for children. Yes, you may have parental controls, watch every single moment of your kids' gameplay, and have kids that immediately log of at the first sign of sexual content. This comment is not for you.

If however, you think that Roblox is a bit creepy, weird, and not appropriate for your kids, then keep them as far away as possible - your instinct is right (it is probably worse than that). Roblox may not be a "paedophile hellscape" (I think that it is), but it is definitely an onramp for sexual exploitation. There are paedophile rings that target certain types of people and behaviours and groom them. My daughter was caught up in such a ring (12 y/o UK. Ring traced to Indonesia). Nothing in Roblox addresses (or can even) the underlying mechanics and social engineering that is going on. The linked OP contains a lot of related links and material. Go and read it.

My previous post on the subject https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32015542
> during pre-training, there is never an incentive for the model to say "I don't know" because it would be penalized. the model is incentivized to make an educated guess

The guess can be "I don't know". The base LLM would generally only say I don't know if it "knew" that it didn't know, which is not going to be very common. The tuned LLM would be the level responsible for trying to equate a lack of understanding to saying "I don't know"
Would the async experiment also imply better interop between .NET languages?

One issue I’ve heard from F# devs was the lack of ability to comfortably call C# asynchrony methods
Wow. We have really opened Pandora’s Box. Imagine what political opponents and their supporters will be pumping out with this stuff. This makes me sad for my children’s futures.
Alfred Noble Prize
> the ILA demanded a complete ban on introducing new port automation

"The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of automated machinery due to concerns relating to worker pay and output quality." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
You might be confusing communism with dictatorship.
I liked Atlas Shrugged, but consider The Fountainhead a better work.
> abstractions to replace functionality that exists in the browser.

I was just having the conversation yesterday. We were talking about how React Query/Tanstack Query is a bit of a rats nest under the hood. We're looking into ways of taking it out to simplify things a bit, especially since we aren't using a ton of the library's features, nor will ever have a need for them. Found myself saying "I wish the native fetch() had a built in cache layer... oh yeah".

The "standard browser" is pretty much the most expansive standard library that exists.
Exclusivity hasn't been true. eg F-droid can auto update apps.
Understanding ReplacingMergeTree in ClickHouse
Right, shares the same PHY/layer 1, but logically separated at layer 2. :)
No, the confusion is over the price of an item beyond its magical date. The pipelines producing milk and eggs perpetually need shelf space tomorrow, so the date is an ordinal signal. These rules are the same independent of the political persuasion of the farmers and grocers involved.
I'm curious, is there a standard practice of library developers in a certain space collaborating across languages, sharing issues and corner cases and solutions? Is this a common practice with a name? Or is it up to you to look through issues and release notes on projects in the same space to glean useful information?
Building graph vector search using VectorETL
He was probably considered since he is mentioned in the reasoning paper, still it could be one of those unfortunate omissions in the nobel history since those deciding the prize might have a hard time to measure impact.
Hmm, thanks, that sounds plausible enough. Have you seen this possibility discussed anywhere?
>high latency between nodes rather than latency between the sender and the system

Yes, that's what I meant. To clarify, latency between the sender and the system would still not be an availability issue, but it also wouldn't be a partition. It's just out of scope of the CAP theorem. The user might be on a bad mobile connection, but it doesn't impact the distributed system itself.
Automation messes up the flow of illegal drugs. The big stuff does not come in a backpack but in container ships/trucks.

In LATAM, dock workers make sure this goes undetected. I know of an IE who was championing a dock worker scheduling optimization algo, typical Operations Management stuff. Dude was killed.

I'd like to think that this kind of things do not happen here. But every time I've thought along those lines, I've been mistaken. It's just happens at a different scale.
Just like The Jobs Bank program the UAW and the Detroit auto makers had in the 80s and 90s.

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/stellantis-uaw-lawsuit-...

"The Jobs Bank, established by GM in the mid-80s and adopted by Ford and Chrysler due to pattern bargaining, generally prohibited the Detroit automakers from laying off employees," the automaker said. "By the 2000s, Chrysler had over 2,000 employees in the Jobs Bank at a staggering cost. These employees were on active payroll, but were not allowed to perform any production work."

https://www.npr.org/2006/02/02/5185887/idled-auto-workers-ta...

The Jobs Bank was set up by mutual agreement between U.S. automakers and the United Auto Workers union to protect workers from layoffs. Begun in the mid-1980s, the program is being tapped by thousands of workers. Many of those receiving checks do community service work or take courses. Others sit around, watching movies or doing crossword puzzles -- all while making $26 an hour or more.
'In awe': scientists impressed by latest ChatGPT model o1
Does anyone understand why they are taking the difference between transformers instead of the sum? It seems to me that in a noise reducing solution we would be more interested in the sum, as random noise would cancel out and signal would be constructive.

Of course, even if I'm right proper training would account to that by inverting signs where appropriate. Still, it seems weird to present it as the difference, especially seeing as they compare this directly to noise cancelling headphones, where we sum both microphones inputs.
you'd want what exactly? 10 times more small satellites in the {or}bits (i never noticed ...)?
That specific line was baseless speculation. There's nothing to suggest countermeasures at that point and the whole line is redacted.

> for the power-hardened facility it is clearly stated at the start

I'm not sure that's as relevant as the page implies. We'd have to know the exact procedures, but having a site with multiple power sources and protections doesn't mean the switching system can never fail. If you have 2 failures in a short time, the best course of action is very likely "stop touching that thing until someone qualified figures out what's going wrong".
Ah, this is true, but it's weird consider this issue (that I agree google might be overstepping in) in a lawsuit that doesn't involve an affected OEM.
What a laughably naive view of the world.

Ever wondered why goods are affordable in our "modern market economies"?

It's because we exploit labor and resources in poorer countries, at a fraction of what it would cost here, to produce cheap goods.

So what do you think is going to happen the day that all poorer countries have developed into "modern market economies" and we can't exploit them like we do today? You realize that our economies would have to change completely?
Sadly no. One day perhaps.

But I know who did...
Unless you are actually handling out of memory errors and running in production with memory overcommit turned off, you probably should just panic if malloc fails. Disabling exceptions achieves this in C++.

If you are trying to handle OOM, then you should at least have a big fuzz test setup that causes malloc to spuriously return null, and also set your debug builds to do this too.

Good luck writing stable software that way (vs just not dynamically allocating stuff on the heap) —- everything becomes exponentially more complicated and difficult to reason about / test.
The many lead-in paragraphs are a bit abrasive, even if true, and I think they make it difficult to get to the meat of the argument. The lede is quite buried.

That said, engineers don't always get as much choice as they should either. Often there is pressure to pick a popular technology because it is popular, over a more 'boring' technology. There is no perfect choice, and it isn't always just a matter of the best technology fit.

I would put 'picking the right technology' up there with 'naming things' and 'off by one errors' for these reasons.
> predict a weight of exactly zero for some of the values

Wouldn’t this be pretty unlikely, though?
If you value people solely by their economic output then I am just going to immediately discard your opinion.
> are in all lilkelihood rebranded or made in china products

IPVM did all the legwork on this a while ago and unconvered that, not that surprisingly, two and a half OEMs (including Dahua and Hikvision) are manufacturing essentially every not-completely-garbage CCTV camera coming out of china, and a bunch that very explicitly claimed to not come out of china.
DeSantis Administration Threatening to Prosecute Media for Airing Pro-Choice Ads
Interesting bad actor problems, whereas a union (which is typically a good thing) does a bad thing (25k job grift, making goods more expensive for everyone), and gives all unions a bad public image and weakens them as a result (bad thing, since it erodes worker leverage/rights in the long term)

What's the proposed solution here?
Where is this same energy for trust fund kids?
It's not possible to get rid of it entirely, but if you can get the model to bullshit only 0.1% of the time instead of 5% of the time it's a massive improvement.

Most of it should be happening when there's no data to draw conclusions from. E.g. STT models make up words in silence, vision models find things in lens cap noise, LLMs make up explanations when they have no data to pull from.

The real solution would be more along the lines of training models to specifically ignore these cases, or in the case of LLMs to just know when to say "I don't know".
> Half of our economy is built around making as many people replaceable as possible so that their wages can be driven into the ground

Amusingly, this is both true and has the exact opposite effect of what you imply here.

The data does not show a downward spiral of individual wages and wealth, and in fact shows quite the opposite. And this is driven by real economic growth, which is driven by tech, which is frequently deployed in the hopes of automating away some work.

However, just from a first-principles point of view, more automation is better. We can't do things unintelligently just because that means more work. The goal is more wealth, not more work.
I’d say generally for most people, at least anecdotally, their work laptop is their only laptop because they’re expensive and have good specs. Especially for Apple products (which is the majority of the share of hardware in this anecdote), it’s natural to want and expect the continuity between devices.

Employers usually allow this or don’t explicitly forbid it, and most employees aren’t exactly security conscious or willing to sacrifice convenience. So it’s not that shocking to me, but it is weird that there isn’t more education or rules around it.
Show HN: My friend's son thought he was Peter Pan, so I built him an app
My buddy's kid, Francisco, is obsessed with Peter Pan. It's adorable, but it got me thinking... what if Francisco could actually see himself in Neverland?

This gave me the idea to build an app that could take any child's photo and drop them right into their favorite storybook. After a year and the magic of Stable Diffusion (thanks, ComfyUI!), MyStorybook was born.

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Noise cancelling headphones are probably the wrong analogy here.

The better example is the differential signalling used in professional audio and many digital signaling protocols like Ethernet, HDMI and USB.

Instead of using one wire, referencing to ground, they send the signal as the difference between both wires. Both wires end up carrying the same signal with inverted polarity. Because both wires are running next to each-other any external noice will be applied to both equally.

The voltage will change, but the difference in voltage between both wires is untouched. And when you subtract the two voltages at the receiver end, any noise simply gets subtracted out.
Automation can be scaled up and down much more effectively than labor. You just turn off the machines when you don't need them and turn them back on when you do.
The even wilder thing is that the CIA actively hired former Nazis (and relocated them and their families) in Operation Paperclip after the war to aid in Cold War operations...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
> I think calling it a conspiracy theory is a bit of a stretch.

It's the textbook definition of a conspiracy theory, isn't it? I mean, a group conspiring to not awarding the most prestigious prize in science to someone who deserved it because of who their employer was, and suddenly awarding it once he switched employers?

> But I don't get the impression there are lot of fans of Google in the Prize Committee.

This is a conspiracy-oriented line of reasoning. Who anyone's employer was is something that never surfaced when discussing Nobel prizes. Suddenly it became the basis of a theory on how people conspired to first not award it and afterwards award it, and somehow the guy's accomplishments don't even register in the discussion.

That's what these conspiracy theories bring to the table.
Yes. Not just the physical assets, but the data, too.

My favorite example is with rail ports. To pick up a container at a rail yard, the truck driver needs a pickup number. The pickup number is associated to the container and is shared (often times on a piece of paper) when the driver checks in.

The pickup number needs to make its way from the cargo owner to the truck driver. How does this happen?

Rail carriers issue the pickup number to cargo owners via email when the train arrives. Cargo owners email it to a freight forwarder. The freight forwarder emails it to the broker. The broker emails to the trucking company. The trucking company emails it or texts it to the driver. This needs to happen in less than 2 days, else someone along that chain is on the hook to pay a storage fee to the rail yard.
The other comment (sibling of the one you replied to) already quoted the entire tweet. (Yes it's short and snarky.)
The article notes that many automated ports are poor performers productivity-wise and presents this as evidence that automation doesn't increase productivity. However, it stands to reason that ports already suffering from low productivity would be the most inclined to adopt automation. I think it's safe to say automation is not a silver bullet that will cause a port to jump from the bottom to the top of the rankings, but that doesn't mean these ports wouldn't be worse off without the improvements they've made.

Also while the article champions various process improvements to make ports more efficient that don't strictly require automation, it's not an either/or scenario. Implementing automation can make it easier to implement process improvements like scheduling, and process improvements which reduce variability make automation less expensive and more capable. It makes sense to pursue both in parallel.
Hinton: Studied psychology, became cognitive scientist.

Schmidhuber: Studied cs and math, developed algorithmic theory of the computable universe.

Hinton wins Nobel price in physics.
Earth's 'vital signs' show humanity's future in balance, say climate experts
in another paper which popped up recently they approximated uncertainty with Entropy and inserted "wait!" tokens whenever Entropy was high, simulating chain of thought within the system.