skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this article doesn’t really seem to be hitting what I am about to say, I think someone on HN a while back described a related phenomenon (which leads to the same issue) really well. The Internet is Balkanizing. This is hardly a new concept but they were drilling down specifically into online communities.

People are electing to not freely share information on public forums like they used to. They are retreating into discord and other services where they can put down motes and raise the draw bridges. And who can blame them? So many forums and social media sites and forums are engaging in increasingly hostile design and monetization processes, AI/LLM’s are crawling everywhere vacuuming up everything then putting them behind paywalls and ruining the original sources’ abilities to be found in search, algorithms designed to create engagement foster vitriol and controversy, the list goes on. HN is a rare exception these days.

So what happens? A bunch of people with niche interests or knowledge sets congregate into private communities and only talk to each other. Which makes it harder for new people to join. It’s a sad state of affairs if you ask me.
Iterative denoising diffusion is such a hurdle for getting this sort of thing running at reasonable fps
It is also that US is mostly filled with either very large single family homes or apartments in areas where rents are generally always high. A focus on efficient, individual space that is like 400 sq ft. dense studios but which actually translates into lower rent (e.g. 2500$ in the example to somewhere 1000-1500$ is needed). A lot of reforms and time needed for this.
I have an Apple Watch. I don’t pay attention to my HRV on a daily basis, but if I look at it I can often see in retrospect—for example I had a cold at the beginning of the month which clearly shows up as a ~30ms drop in HRV.

Maybe I should pay more attention to it.
They are the single largest contributor to the project ?
Counterpoint: possibly OpenBSD doesn't really have any relevant 'kernel processes' (in line with the model: the kernel is there to serve user-mode, and not a goal on its own). (And tangentially: why do I need multiple `psimon` kernel processes? Tire pressure is good to keep in mind, I guess, but, at the kernel level? Repeatedly?).

I truly don't know, by the way; this was merely an example to illustrate my perceived difference-in-complexity between Linux and OpenBSD, which might be entirely misguided, but definitely part of the issue the article linked in the submission hints at?
> should we rethink the way we reward work to prioritize things that help society instead.

The problem is that everyone has different ideas about what helps society.

At least the current system, where people are compensated based on supply and demand, people actually want what's being produced. In contrast to the old soviet system where top down production decisions mean that what's "best for society" is of no use to pretty much anyone except those people who needed to fill their quota.
I went to follow this on the SpaceX YouTube channel since it is usually closer to real time.

It seems someone hijacked and played a video of the previous launch. Just as we got to launch time it cut to a fake badly dubbed speech by Elon Musk going on about Bitcoin, with a handy QR code.

This was a bit confusing but since it was 10 minutes in advance I managed to switch to another channel.

Still amazing, even if the video glitched at the key capture point.

And an hour later the Starship itself re entered to soft salty sea landing.

I don’t know how many prototype runs they need to do, I’m guessing they could stuff a shed load of Starlinks into the next one.
To combine with a language model simply replace the action vector with a language model latent.

Alternative as of last year there are now purely diffusion based text decoder models
Very different types of lectures. Small chunks of info, lots of graphical representations, etc. These are very different that the type of lectures I had in school.
> But I'm not owed a decent salary in return for following my own dreams rather than my employer's dreams. Nobody is.

Ok, but he is owed a decent salary for performing an important job. Without guys like this, we don't have a next generation of physicists (most of whom will move into the private sector).
I think the idea is it has to during your deep sleep specifically, which may or may not overlap with those 2 hour intervals.
If you want to prevent sb else to offer it as an hosted service without releasing source code, AGPL could work.

But sb could still sell your app by just distributing its source code along.
Sounds like you were on a scam, fake version of the channel.
Going from "I don't know this guy's situation" to "This guy is just making a statement" is a pretty big leap.
This booster is significantly larger than anything landed on an orbital launch before. Here is a size comparison, previous largest landed orbital rocket stage is the SpaceX Falcon 9 (three of them launch together as Falcon Heavy) on the left. Starship is on the right.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/SuperHea...

Landing via tower catch versus on a pad is advantageous because the weight of adding retractable landing legs to such a large rocket would be significant.
More money would make the situation worse. They need competent leadership. Everyone like to just say “add more money” because it means no actual operational change to the status quo.
Everyone has a pet theory about what’s wrong with SO; but here’s the truth:

Whatever they’re doing, it isn’t working.

Blame mods. Blame AI. Blame askers… whatever man.

That is a sinking ship.

If you don’t see people complain about SO, it’s because they aren’t using it, not because they’re using the search.

Pretty hard to argue at this point that the problem is with the users being too shit to use the platform.

That’s some high level BS.
I thought about trying it. This just killed it for me...
Apple had goals to make their these health monitoring features in their watch medically approved, to open up additional markets. For other watch makers, it was a checkbox on a feature list.
yes, an unexpected event is way more disrupting to efficient systems than to those which arent
OK, I also live with roommates while I'm saving up a downpayment and waiting for mortgage rates to drop. But c'mon, there's a huge difference between being homeless and having roommates. I've been close to being homeless before, and at that point I would have been happy to have even the shittiesy roommates if it meant not sleeping on the streets.

I'm disgusted at the implication that 70k isn't enough to live in LA. Yes, it may not be enough to meet some arbitrary standard, but it's insane to say that the alternative is being homeless. This is just a spoiled rich kid who isn't making enough to keep their previous standard of living. There's tons of working class people in that same community getting by on way less than 70k who aren't getting articles written about them.
We have lossless memory for models today. That's the training data. You could consider this the offline version of a replay buffer which is also typically lossless.

The online, continuous and lossy version of this problem is more like how our memory works and still largely unsolved.
Yeah, I spent some time thinking about and I think my reaction is heavily tinged by my experience, interests, and skills and probably doesn’t extrapolate.

I’m not a visual learner, but many people are, and this is probably a good illustration of a basic PC.

Likewise, editing visual 3D blocks may suit some people better than writing text.

It’s also probably the most fun way to build a CPU for most people. I would imagine writing scripts isn’t as much for people. Especially children, who I suspect might tinker with this for fun and would balk at learning to write Python to emulate a CPU.

I wonder if Redpiler is tied to the “thread per plot” model; it might be. Eg there’s some stuff in that doc about optimizing the size of nodes in the graph so they fit into the CPU cache.

I’m not an expert, but my offhand impression from the docs is that this is all meant to create a fairly small, very high performance world. The main server seems to want the opposite: maintaining acceptable but not necessarily amazing performance across a very large world.
Medium is even worse about this. It's more self-promotion than it is common help.
That's the brain on propaganda. There is no Russian that I ever met that hated either polish or Americans or ukranians. And I used to stay in Russian neighborhood
> The real problem is that automattic want wpengine to “contribute their share” - by development or rev share, and they’re using dirty tricks and smear tactics to do so.

Again I don't see what's wrong with this ? Clearly they have no recourse through GPL but they have trademarks and infrastructure. I don't see anything unreasonable about his behavior.
Reminds me of the early days of Google File System.

They used trios of regular consumer grade disks/servers etc as a cluster and it looked like a single node.

They had to replace a LOT of hardware but this was still cheaper than big iron industrial grades servers.
He can grow potatoes and sale contraband wares at the illegal market or immigrate to US and find a good paying job there. Oh wait, I though it was about 90ies in here places again.
That looks way too much to the one time I did DMT-5
He is asking for 100k, not 100k extra.

Factor in state and local taxes, utilities, necessary expenses, transportation, etc. it seems fully believable that he is paycheck to paycheck which gradually boils down to debt when life rolls a 1 and you have to pay $500 to fix something.
Can I hijack this thread for an almost completely unrelated question that I have observed in nearly every simulation of movement in space, even from sources like NASA and SpaceX which “should know better”?

And I’m mostly asking this out of scientific curiosity, not as a criticism.

Why do they always portray movement in space by showing stars moving past the view at variable rates, or even at all?

The opening screen of this video while you’re waiting for the feed to start shows stars moving that seem to be only feet away, and only a few inches in diameter. Like little orbs of light just passing outside the window.

Isn’t this highly unrealistic, for even extremely fast travel in space?

I would imagine at most you would see very slow movement of a very static field of stars. But every depiction in sci-fi, video games, and other simulations like in this video insist on making it seem like space is full of tiny 6-12” stars floating only feet away from each other.

Is there any explanation where this could actually be considered realistic that I’m not thinking of?

I’m just a lowly software engineer, so my expertise in this area is null. But from a basic understanding of stars and physics, this seems unrealistic.

Admittedly, I guess it wouldn’t be very exciting to view movement in space in a way that I’m imagining would be realistic, and maybe that’s the only explanation there is/needs to be.

But I guess I’m thinking that there would be enough people at SpaceX (for example) to scream “this is not even close to realistic!” for something like that to not make it to production, even if it is more exciting to watch.
My understanding from the description of the attack is that it didn't rely on any vulnerability in USB, only social engineering made possible by the Windows UI.
Amen. If the net present value and risk of being a professor paid as well as dealing with corporate B.S. I know which I would do...
Explain it then?
Note that it is if you only want the best candidate, all others being equally bad. If, instead, you are content with just a "good" candidate to avoid having to pick a terrible one, then a proposed solution is for the cutoff to be sqrt(n), where n is the number of candidates.

See "Cardinal payoff variant" in the Wikipedia page.
That code is identical to the commercial version ACF Pro which currently costs $49/yr for a single website.
You should be glorifying Shotwell, not Musk. Yes Must helped give her room to build but she's the genius and deserves the credit.
How do you know the second result is correct? Or the third? Or the fourth?
I’m not exactly sure that’s how the world works…
thank you for bringing the default SO reasons why these are not the case, but first off

>Often these are students asking for someone to solve their homework problems.

I don't think I've been in any class since elementary school in which I did not have foundational knowledge, I'm talking "I just realized there must be a technical discipline that handles this issue and I can't google my way to it level of questions."

If I'm a student, I have a textbook and the ability to read. I'm not asking textbook readable or relevant literature readable in the thing I am studying questions because I, being in a class on the subject I would "know the first thing" to quote my earlier post, that first thing being how to get more good and relevant knowledge on the thing I am in a class in.

I'm talking about things you don't even know what questions to ask to get that foundational knowledge which is among the most interesting questions to ask - the problem with SO is it only wants me to ask questions in a field in which I am already fairly expert but I have just hit a temporary stumbling block for some reason.

I remember when I was working on a big government security project and there was a Java guy who was an expert in a field that I knew nothing about and he would laugh and say you can't go to SO and ask about how do I ... long bit of technical jargon outside my field that I sort of understood hung together, maybe eigenvectors came up (this was in 2013)

Second thing, yes I know SO does not want people to ask non-factual questions, and it does not want me to ask questions in fields in which I am uninformed, so it follows it wants me to ask questions that I can probably find out myself one way or another, only SO is more convenient.

I gave some reasons why I do not find SO particularly convenient or useful given their constraints implying this is probably the same for others, you said two of my reasons were no good, but I notice you did not have any input on the underlying question of - why are people not asking as many questions on SO as they once did?
I'm not advocating a bad scientific study. I'm advocating a good one for detecting what might be another cause of it not working for monkeys other than 'duh! monkeys aren't mice!"

It's not about finding something inconclusive or incorrect. It's about finding all the ways you can make caloric restriction not cause extended lifespan in mice without harming them in some obvious ways that are hard to apply accidentally in research setting.

For example, maybe caloric restriction doesn't work if you feed mice badly inappropriate diet.
When I spent a year in Dresden I greatly enjoyed using the train instead of the plane for travel around the area as far as London in one direction and Sunny Beach, Bulgaria in the other. I lived close enough to walk to work and could do a lot of shopping on foot (great bakery 2 blocks away, a fancy chocolate store, a butcher, etc.) but sometimes used the tram to go to the city center and to further out towns.

I was maybe 3-4 blocks from a regional rail or S-Bahn station which that ticket entitles you to ride and it is a great ticket that can get you to nearby mountains or the Czech Republic or nearby cities like Leipzig. Really you could ride across Germany on the S-Bahn comfortably stopping where you want and staying overnight in a hotel occasionally. Nothing beat those sleeper trains which eliminated the hotel stay then you wake up in Dortmund and change trains for Amsterdam.

(EMEA people in 1998 seemed more inclined to use airlines than rail to go to distant domestic and international cities, they had service that was better and cheaper than the US; air service has become even more competitive in EMEA since then)

Dresdenites I knew who had cars would drive them to the appliance and furniture stores and even to nearby places like Quedlinburg and even to Berlin, Munich, Bremen, etc. with a resignation to traffic jams like that of the Los Angelino.

Delivery service is far along in the US and I would expect a truck to deliver anything larger than 7 cubic feet of sawdust even on my farm so I don’t need a truck. I have 8 horses but no trailer because we know many people who will move a horse for us for less than a month’s payment on a big ass truck.
The linked article quotes him: “I’m asking for $100,000 so I can afford my rent”.

I take that to mean $100k total, which is $2500 pre-tax.

I suspect his effective tax rate is significantly below your numbers. 22% may be the marginal federal tax rate on $70k (I didn’t check), but that would probably put his effective federal rate in the low teens.

EDIT: just checked, just below 11% according to this SmartAsset calculator which puts take-home just shy of $54k or $4500 a month. Only if he has ZERO other obligations like child support or student loans.

https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes#DV9x0OBRA9
The next one is already mostly built and very different from this one. They move fast.
I took a graduate level class in the 1990s from some SFI luminaries. It was a great class but the dismal conclusion was "this stuff is kind of neat but not very practical, traditional optimization techniques usually work better". None of us guessed if you could scale the networks up 1 million X or more they'd become magic.
Maybe you're thinking of "micromarriages"? [0]

[0] https://colah.github.io/personal/micromarriages/
Not contributing back to the project you're basing your business (eg. the smallest example being infrastructure they are cut off from).

Honestly zero sympathy for WP engine, and I don't really see a better way to force them to pay.
Yeah it definitely looked sketchy for a sec but was probably fully as intended
How many billions in subsidies has he had?
Joke's on PayPal. I got an email that said "you can't do business with PayPal anymore" for no reason, so I guess they've got jack and shit to share from me?
Yeah, seems obvious getting a roommate would be the answer here. I'm not sure if that's not as culturally acceptable in LA as here in NYC but there are people in their 40s and beyond who have roommates.
In addition to the other ways this is incredible, it is a stunning achievement in software development.
Academia is exploitative. The financial incentives are a symptom of the bigger problem. Is university career training for industry or for an academic track? It is not made clear to people entering the system, and is often murky to everyone years into a degree. There is encouragement for education for its own sake, there’s encouragement for education for a high paying career, and there’s encouragement to merge these two and enter academia in a professional capacity. There’s often a mountain of undischargeable personal debt behind it.

What people are typically not told is that financially stable academic positions are either political or hard to come by. It’s like professional sports: you can be a pro and just short of top notch and you’ll be playing in the minors for your career, making pennies. This could take the form of endless low-paying postdoctoral gigs, or the crown prize, an associate professorship with little or no benefits and a salary that just lets you scrape by.

In the meantime you are expected to pour your heart and soul into the endeavor. There is some reward in that but it is fleeting, and once you have committed to a career path the momentum to change tracks can be a real obstacle. Academia will suck you dry and demand more. Unless you end up with a tenured position at the end of that, it’s not sustainable unless you have another source of financial backing, like a spouse with a “real job.”

The US doesn’t really value education. Those who do are idealistic or exploitative, sometimes both. You’re buying into a deeply dysfunctional system and should at least go into it with eyes open.
Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech
He can get another job most scientists need to stock shelves or something puts their phd in perspective
DARPA is funding reef structures that will be colonized by corals and bivalves
I do recognise that "X" may have other positive externalities, but I don't know how to price any of them.

Modern policy in a nutshell.
Scientists found a way to make sound travel in only one direction
"We changed the name to OTP." "Three of the trendiest names we could think of. Open. Telecom. Platform."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ
Low pay isn't the problem. There's nowhere $70k shouldn't enable you to afford rent. Setback requirements, and single use & single family zoning are the problem.
Some studies on humans suggest that ‘moderate obesity’ can reduce lifespan by about 3 years [1]

I’m curious if there are any specific studies comparing the longevity of individuals with a BMI lower than 20 versus those with a BMI closer to 30.

[1] https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2009-03-18-moderate-obesity-takes-...
Can't wait for a bundle of something like this with screen capture. I'd love to pipe my convos/habits/apps/etc to a local index for search. Seems we're getting close
> Also version numbers are kind of meaningless.

Have you heard The Good News about the Semantic Versioning?

https://semver.org/
Why do you pick the two extreme situations. Isn't there a possibility of a middle ground?
I posted the smartasset tax calculator link in this thread but the upshot is his state taxes should be a bit over 4% effective, or about $3k.

Total effective tax burden (federal, fica, plus CA) on this pay amount for a single person with no other circumstances is just shy of 23%.
Isn't it essentially a henge made of megalithic blocks?
Yes, lecturer is a low level academic position, using the word "professor" to describe him is inaccurate, even though he has a Ph.D. If he is teaching one class, it likely isn't even a full-time position.

Academics are also typically paid a 10-month salary (the "academic year" he mentions), if they teach summer classes that is separate "summer pay." At research universities, part of a professor's salary is also funded by research grant awards they win.
> Stop applying a capitalist market rationale to public services.

We're discussing wages. Wages are all about that rationale. If you make a choice you should abide by it.

This is nothing to do with what students "deserve", whatever that means.
This is a really nice resource for monitoring earthquake activity in the PNW.
https://pnsn.org/earthquakes/recent/
https://pnsn.org/volcanoes/mount-adams
I'm on macOS 15.0.1 and it's built-in. See Battery -> Battery Health in System Preferences, then click the (i) on the status display. It will show a dialog with an option for "Optimized Battery Charging" that charges to 80%.

The option may also have been in earlier versions, I don't recall.
My experience was similar when I was doing a lot of cloning 15 years ago: We would routinely send tubes to a commercial sequencing service. How Plasmidsaurus competes against those other services is indeed the more interesting question.
Not sure why this article was deleted.

I've worked plenty of places where all the PM did was get ideas from their VP, write up tickets, and track progress.
But as far as I know, one Merlin engine produces more thrust than the empty booster weighs which means they have to time things perfectly to get to zero velocity exactly at the ground.

Super heavy can hover and even go down by throttling down more. This gives them more control for the landing and don’t have to time it exactly perfectly