skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree. This is where you get to invest: They're still looking for monthly sponsors. https://github.com/sponsors/DioxusLabs#sponsors
I benchmarked these against a few other RISC-V boards. They're pretty fast, relative to RISC-V (although not relative to x86): https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2024/11/19/benchmarking-risc-v-sp...

Note the benchmark is not very rigorous, but it reflects what we want to do with these boards which is to build Fedora packages.
I agree with you that Automattic needs a paradigm shift (massive leadership change, probably), but I don’t think the openness of their software is the problem.

Just because they have a huge number of OSS projects. Most of it is open source, even things that really don’t see 3rd party contributions (like https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins, https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso, https://github.com/Automattic/redvelvet-lib, https://github.com/Automattic/newspack-plugin, https://github.com/Automattic/pocket-casts-ios)

Automattic has other issues (leadership, especially!!) but software development happens largely in the open. Just look at the GH issues and PRs in the WP-calypso and Gutenberg repositories, and you’ll see even a lot of technical discussion and planning happening completely public. You can even chime in if you want :)

Automattic has lots of issues. But they simply have much more open software development practices than nearly any other tech company (most of which are completely private and closed source). I just don’t think this is the core problem.
I've wanted to learn Music Theory for about a decade (only learned guitar tabs as a teen and to read sheet music as an adult). Love what you made and just got the premium course.
When Alex Jones' auction is on the top of HN, but his most famous claim is right there with it -- Atrazine in the water turning the frogs gay
We have a models file that imports models from other files, to keep them in the same directory tree. Anyway one could import models from any location of the project. Every app the Django project is made from can have its own urls, models, migrations.
TL;DR:

The author recounts their experience as an intern building software for the Department of Defense, unaware of its intended use. The software, designed to locate WiFi signals, utilized algorithms like R^2, Gaussian estimation, and Kalman Filters to improve accuracy and tracking capabilities. Despite the technical intrigue, the author acknowledges the software’s purpose was to aid in killing people, highlighting the ethical implications of their work.

The author recounts a past experience working on a project for a Department of Defense contractor, where they were tasked with creating a tool to locate phones, ultimately realizing it was intended for targeting and potentially killing individuals. This experience, along with examples like a deceptive quiz and Uber’s “greyball” feature, highlights the potential for code to be used unethically or even illegally. The author emphasizes the importance of developers considering the ethical implications of their work, as software increasingly impacts various aspects of society.

Developers have a responsibility to consider the potential misuse of their work, as unethical applications can have serious consequences. While there is no universal solution, developers should critically evaluate project requests, consider worst-case scenarios, and prioritize ethical considerations over deadlines. Ultimately, developers must decide whether to build a product, even if it has the potential for misuse, or to prioritize ethical concerns and potentially face consequences.

Code can have serious consequences, even death.
...in Australia might be worth adding.
Elon Musk's Net Worth Tops $400B, a Historic First
Morality is personal. In any instance, we should think through first-, second-, and subsequent-order consequences of our actions and consider whether we're comfortable with those potential outcomes and whether those consequences balance one another.

I won't take the bait on defining the differences between wartime and peacetime work.
By this logic, software developers of life saving medical technology should have zero pride or comfort in knowing that their work directly saved lives. And the janitor at a hospital should feel no pride for helping to clean a place that makes people feel good.

It's a spectrum.
I find it ironic that a US citizen gets to enjoy the privilege of making an ethical choice of whether to support their military thanks pricesely to the fact the US possesses the most advanced military force out there.
Does this pan trick really gives you iron in a form you can assimilate and in a miningfull quantity?
You dont need UB for that.

A simple model for both compilers and programmers to understand:

"A variable whose address has not been taken need not be reachable via a random pointer".

I mean that's how an assembly programmer would think - if I put something in r0 I don't expect a store instruction to clobber it.
This doesn't answer the question about when this was occurring.
This would actually be a plausible excuse for region locking. If the MPEG stream were somehow optimized for NTSC/PAL.

If course the most likely reason is corporate greed, but it's also fun to consider other possibilities. Another hypothetical reason would be for sales in Islamic nations where certain content is prohibited. They could show the government censors that there is some level enforcement to prevent "illegal media" from being easily watched. Whereas without it, the government could have potentially made DVDs illegal in their entire nation. I'm trying to see this through the lens of the design committee back in the early 90s.
That's kinda what I'm doing. They still send me enough for my max dose reached (1.5mg/wk), but I've titrated down (to 0.5mg/wk) since I'm at the weight I should be at, so I just use a vial for a month, and toss the remainder. They send me two vials at a time.

The vials have a 6 month use by date, though evidence indicates semaglutide is stable for 1 year. I can log into the portal and tell it to skip a month, but since it's a push system, I don't get automatically billed. I actually have to do a checkin and the doc has to approve the refill. So if I have extra vials, I just skip that month's check in.

There's some indication that you don't have to toss the vial after a month, the FDA set those limits assuming it was insulin that is used sometimes more than daily. 4 penetrations of the vial's membrane probably isn't enough to contaminate it, but I'd rather be on the safe side so I don't use the vial for more than a month at a time. My partner is a pharmacist, so that part of the influence for the safer approach.
Does it help to explore the annoyance using gap analysis? I think of it as heuristics. As with humans, it's the pragmatic "whatever seems to work" where "seems" is determined via training. It's neither reasoning from first principles (system 1) nor just selecting the most likely/prevalent answer (system 2). And chaining heuristics doesn't make it reasoning, either. But where there's evidence that it's working from a model, then it becomes interesting, and begins to comply with classical epistemology wrt "reasoning". Unfortunately, information theory seems to treat any compression as a model leading to some pretty subtle delusions.
It is filled with meaning and evokes so many feelings - so glad you enjoyed it.
Inference costs per invocation aren’t high. Scale it out to billions of users and it’s a different story.

Training is amortized over each inference, so the cost of inference also needs to include the cost of training to break even unless made up elsewhere
Awful news.
> stupid geographical restrictions

DVDs had those too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code

> they tend to limit quality, both for copyright and traffic saving purposes

As long as the quality is above 480p, it’s still better than DVD.
When "incompetence" is so conveniently beneficial, and you have no way to prove, then the appearance of impropriety is enough to go ahead and charge impropriety.

I'm "incompetent" at doing the laundry. Strangely it's ok because strangely I never get asked to do the laundry. What a totally coincidental benefit that I am not knowingly perpetuating at all.
Right but this is even more reason to not trash the technology.
Scaling a company, especially when adding a new product and growing the team, involves several challenges and priorities:

Maintaining Culture: As the team grows, it's vital to preserve the company culture and ensure new hires align with core values.

Team Communication: Scaling introduces complexity. Establishing clear communication channels and processes prevents silos and confusion.

Resource Allocation: Balancing resources between the existing product and the new one is critical. Avoid spreading the team too thin.

Hiring Strategically: Focus on hiring for key roles that complement existing strengths and address gaps. Avoid over-hiring prematurely.

Operational Scalability: Systems, workflows, and tools should handle growth. Invest in scalable infrastructure early.

Customer Focus: Ensure the existing product's users remain satisfied while diverting attention to the new product.

Challenges include managing growing pains, maintaining quality, and staying adaptable. In my experience, a clear roadmap, strong leadership, and a collaborative team make scaling smoother.
HN users are the most demanding group of people I've ever encountered in my short time on this blue sphere.

Use a browser.
In which country is any of this different? Yes, if somebody is trying to scam you you may have to be prepared to go to court. I don't understand how else you're expecting a legal system to work.
The only board that is cheap and available with the ratified 1.0 vector extension I know of is the Kendryte K230, which you can find on some boards for about $40 USD: https://developer.canaan-creative.com/k230/dev/zh/00_hardwar...

Note that it's only on one 1.6GHz core, and still pretty anemic otherwise (pi form factor, it's to be expected.) So something "deskop grade" with all the nice extensions and other goodies is probably still a ways off. Maybe next year; we'll have to see -- but lots of useful extensions continue to be ratified today, so it may still be a while before things "cool off."
They die, or we send people in who themselves risk death.
They may also expect writes to address 0.
SuperCruise and FSD are not comparable.

SuperCruise does what it claims to do, keep it up the middle on listed corridors. Most highways and interstates are eligible. I love both systems.

FSD is truly almost there for unsupervised, point to point driving. People want to virtue signal and complain about Tesla but it is an amazing piece of hardware being mass produced today. My car is 3 years old.
following that definition even fossil fuels would be based on fusion, as most of it is comprised of photosynthetic life forms.
Zyn barely has any nicotine. In Europe most are 5x stronger but even 10x stronger pads at 50mg/g exist. This is nothing new. E-cig liquids have been as strong for a long time as well.
People are trying to make being overweight as something acceptable instead of a condition to be treated.
That's an assumption and not necessarily true. Some users may read it, some may skim, some may come to the page already convinced. For those latter groups, having a fast lane/shortcut call-to-action visible someplace like the top gives them a way to get started before they get overwhelmed/distracted and potentially leave.
BMI is trivial to measure conclusively, using tools that are almost universally available and ready. And at population scale, it's proven to be a strong and pretty signal for analyzing in studies like these as the ways in which BMI can fail for individuals is too uncommon for it to matter to population studies.

It's a perfect tool to use for studies like these, as it can contribute understanding society-level concerns about the obesity epidemic and what impact we can expect it to have if it continues not to be tackled.

But like with almost all medical and nutritional research, drawing conclusions for yourself as an individual based on these population-scale studies is inevitably fraught. In the case of BMI studies, you can often get a fair sense of whether you should be concerned or not, but do need to take into account other things that you know about your lifestyle and health. Your doctor, presumably, does exactly that.

Meanwhile, body fat percentage tends to be very hard to measure accurately in the first place and has different techniques that tend to have different error characteristics, making it hard to correlate it between studies done through different clinics, let alone against someone's personal assessment at home or with their personal doctor/trainer/whatever. It probably has high relevance to some medical and nutritional outcomes, but isn't a very useful input variable for research because its inescapably noisy.
I don't see anything in those articles about gay frogs.

Trans frogs, sure, but sex and sexual orientation are different.
Yes, that's precisely what I mean. It might or might not be a bad bet, but the Sandy Hook families are just as entitled to take that bet as anybody else. The idea that it's farcical to entertain any offer that doesn't involve putting Jones back in charge leads you down a really weird road.
Most libraries want to know if the media is damaged so they can replace it. Your friend can also put holds on things. Some library services also have streaming services, and there are free streaming services as well. PBS has a free streaming service, although I think parts of it are ad supported
> He paid $44B. He probably could have got it for less at the time, but if you think it's not worth that, I'm not sure what to tell you.

It's indisputable that Twitter was worth $44B at the time of the sale because by definition the price of something is what the buyer and seller agree to perform the transaction.

What's also indisputable is that even Elon Musk was refusing to pay that much for Twitter and tried to back down until he was sued to force him to put his money where his mouth was.
Auto Creating Reminders from Email Messages
If you can create an AppleScript and an email rule in Mail.app on macOS, you can create tasks for yourself.
Observationally people are truly addicted to them. I sometimes forget to bring mine but I'm an older millennial so I still remember our rotary phone lol.

A few days ago at the bakery I just walked in because the door was open and they were like "we don't open until 9" oh sorry I forgot both my phone and my watch.
Sounds like an absolute lifesaver. I can’t tell you how much time I’ve spent stuck in that loop of testing and retesting Voice AI systems—it’s maddening. The idea of automating that process is genius, and the fact it also helps show clients their system works properly is a massive win.

I’ll definitely give it a go—thanks for the trial credits! Looking forward to seeing how it works in practice.

Cheers,
Jon
Yeah, the inside of a cylinder google results explain a lot in terms of lacking training data. If you google "O'Neill cylinder" you'll get what I was actually after originally, and the generators do badly there too, even though there are more examples (but still way too few).

I think these kind of unusual requests will eventually need synthetic data, or possibly some way to give the model an "inner eye" by letting it build a 3d model of described scenes and "look at it", as there are lot of things like this that you can construct a mental idea of if you just work through it in your mind or draw it, but that most people won't have many conscious memories off unless you try to describe it in terms of something else.

E.g. for the cylinder example, you get better results if you ask for a tunnel - which often can be "almost" a cylinder. But trying to then nudge it toward an O'Neill cylinder, and it fails to grasp the scale or that there isn't a single "down", and starts putting openings.
I mean I would find it incredibly hard to believe if Meta pulls a "but what can we do" since they approve all those numbers for a business with a green fucking checkmark. Since it's mostly a paid service they encourage that is what I believe.
To be clear, Pat was pretty clear about it from the beginning and the industry experts mostly agreed with the board's push to split up the company.

From stratchery.

> Given this, you can make the case that Gelsinger was never the right person for the job; shortly after he took over I wrote in Intel Problems that the company needed to be split up, but he told me in a 2022 Stratechery Interview that he — and the board — weren’t interested in that:
> Zig: Trust the programmer to manually manage memory, but not to clean up unused variables.

That's such a good tagline, actually one of the things that annoyed me with zig as well. The other one is the lack of attention to syntax aesthetics and ergonomics, it's a bit all over the place and I am also not fond of semicolons.
That's a non solution for existing code that already calls GetPixel 20 million times.

It's not like I'm saying C is the best possible way to write new code.

I'm just commenting why this matters for performance, and “remove all undefined behavior" from C compilers is a non-starter.

Now go write Rust for all I care.
Cancer Drug Could Give Radiation Treatment Zero Side Effects
Is he prohibited from speaking? Or just being held accountable for what he already said?
“Biological purpose” is a weird phrase. Evolution has no purpose, it’s just what happens. Purpose is what we make of it.

In any case, it’s just a plain fact that some people don’t desire to raise a child. Many, probably most, do, but many don’t. Personally, I’d pick the video games. Heck, I’d pick nothing as a preferable alternative to raising children. Not everyone considers it a positive.
That's exactly the point. There wouldn't.

Yet, I observe what appears to be consistency and rules. Randomness happening to manifest in a way that mimics consistency and rules is very very unlikely, probably more unlikely than there actually being consistency and rules.
Haha please check out the product and if it'd be very helpful for you, we can do it!
The moral of the story is not "always be cynical and ridicule defense guys".
> to become proven the AV needs to drive somewhere for a while.

There's a straightforward solution to this that doesn't compromise public safety:

Employ paid training drivers who monitor the AV while it is collecting training data in environments where it does not yet meet the safety bar. These drivers are paid to be observant and intervene to avoid accidents. Furthermore, in their interventions, these training drivers provide critical training data used to improve the system.
To quantify, I've heard MDs say that the outliers (relatively high BMI but low body fat) constitute less than 1% of high BMI people. They also said that those outliers are still at risk of certain health troubles, like sleep apnea.

The suggestion of using BMI + waist circumference is an easier to measure risk factor than bodyfat percentage and helps to better capture those outliers.
Python is used for much more than just web dev and Django, whereas Ruby seams to only be synonymous with Ruby on Rails.

Do you think Rails is still worth using when investing in learning Python and Django has a much higher roi?
Both of these concepts are specifically defined in law, whereas “lie” is not. You are made of marshmallows! Sue me.
Funny to see movie people going through the same pain PC gamers did (lamenting the loss of "big box" retail games - the reasoning is much the same), especially the complaints around the loss of things like booklets etc.
No, not necessarily, and not in this case.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/alex-jones-cant-avoid-sandy-ho...

> Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.

> Bankruptcy can be used to wipe out debts and legal judgments, but not if they result from "willful or malicious injury" caused by the debtor, according to a decision by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston, Texas.

Bankruptcies have all sorts of exceptions like this for fraud, student loans, child support, unpaid taxes, etc.
I'll bet my next paycheck the above scenario never happened, or this company was less "major defense contractor" and more "VC-funded SaaS-app defense contractor wannabe."

Lockheed Martin doesn't need to trick anyone into working for them, and that includes software developers.

If this was a real thing that actually happened, everyone would need a security clearance anyway.
No, I do not know.

But I know that "that document doesn't exist" is a valid response to a discovery request. Silence is not a valid response, even if the document doesn't exist.

(If one side falsely claims the document doesn't exist, the other side then can present evidence to the judge that the document does in fact exist, and that the first side is withholding evidence. If you play that game and get caught, various bad things can happen to you. The judge can look more skeptically at everything you say thereafter, the judge can rule that the other side is entitled to assuming the contents of the document are whatever would be most damaging to your side's case, you or your lawyers can be fined, and your lawyers can be disbarred. Judges deal with this kind of stuff all the time; detecting and blocking such games is a major part of what they do.)
The website generally looks good, but the font in the headings is weird. What is up with the "d" in it?!
The undiscussed counterpoint is how a new weapon will also result in saving lives if used wisely. Nuclear stockpiling is a darn effective war deterrent, and has prevented an uncountable number of hot wars.
Great. 1 step forward and then 3 steps back. Then soon it’s 6 steps back, then 12. That’s what it means to have a runaway effect.
It appears that sentiments that downplay or dispute the health risks are growing in large social media bubbles, with strong effects on the real world. Efforts to push back on serving unhealthy food are undermined, doctors discouraged from discussing weight with their patients as a personal and sensitive issue; overweight models validate unhealthy body compositions. This surely has to please the food industry, which is as culpable as the tobacco industry in harming peoples health.

I would propose a concerted effort through mandatory levels of food quality that is served to the public (e.g. schools, hospitals), funded by a higher tax on sugary atrocities, limits on sale of sugary food and drinks to children, and an outright ban on any substance designed to create cravings.
It's an easier diagnostic metric. Being jacked shit house with high BMI will still suffer from health issues of merely being overweight relative to frame.
> WhatsApp after that Facebook acquisition has simply become worse.

Integrating Meta AI was actually genius. I use it all of the time.
Gmail is hosting your email. Being able to change the domain doesn't change that they're hosting it on their terms. I think there are other email providers that have more privacy-focused policies.
It's funny, he was almost correct, but in actuality Atrazine turns frogs transgender: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2842049/ .
I’ve taken a few dozen Waymo rides, but it doesn’t matger because this is not something you can really test as a person. The entire issue is whether you have, say, 7 or 9 nines of reliability (e.g., 10x or 0.1x times more dangerous than a human), and you can’t extrapolate that from how smooth it feels or whatever. FSD doesn’t have that reliability, which is why they don’t let you sleep.
It’s too early to conclude that nuclear weapons save more lives than they take.
GCP grew 35% last quarter , just saying ...
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