skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is hard to pick the most absurd line. I quite enjoyed "2018: Scaling our infrastructure to keep the site up on Sunday’s (we were having constant outages every week)". Take a moment to reflect that implies achieving one 9 of reliability required an emergency all-hands response that bypassed their normal processes. I may not be an expert in high-reliability systems but that isn't how I expect the problem to be tackled.

My read is the management team are not very capable and that this gentleman is not a natural leader. Doesn't sound like he knows how to build systems in a planned and thoughtful manner and has embraced a classic lurching-into-crisis strategy for want of understanding any alternatives.

EDIT Also juxtaposes beautifully with the "‘keeping the lights on’ fallacy" he mentions. Those crazy engineers with their belief that they need to try and keep the lights on. Also, when I forcefully pull them away from that, why do the lights go out on Sunday???
Garmins chest strap recorded that my table had a heartbeat. Your mileage may vary.
> If only mountain lions in Southern California urban areas were bad for the economy (as opposed to just maiming young children).

Fortunately, nobody will try to execute that fart brain, because in 2024 we now that extirpating mountain lions, counterintuitively, will have the result to increase the number of children (and adults) killed on California.
Yes, but one back-of-the-envelope calculation (it was a Python program someone wrote up as part of a comment on Slashdot as I recall) demonstrated that if all of New York's roofs were covered in solar panels there would be enough energy to run the city....
Doesn't really matter what they call it - that's non-monogamy (edit: or cheating)
What? I have never heard of a school teaching the importance of static typing esp when it comes to engineering practices
But Python, Ruby and Javascript effectively encourage you to skip using types out of the box. (Elixir, too - it supports @spec, but doesn't require it.)

If you want to skip out on types in Typescript, you have to be explicit about it.
Typescript has one of the most advanced type systems of any of the common languages
I moved my Hue sensors to my primary Zigbee network and left the bulbs on the hub, especially since I have some of the gradient strips that don't work unless they are on the Hue hub, and my motion sensors have been rock solid.
Who is Jesse Signal?
System Design in a Hurry
It's not a very popular opinion, but I don't think any grower really knows what strain they are growing anyways. I think the strains have been so mixed and matched, and probably some growers will call theirs a specific strain just to sell more of it. And with how long Marijuana growing was underground, the sources of the seeds are totally undocumented. It's basically like a big game of telephone at this point.
Typically such people were punished severely for admitting mistakes as a child, while lying about it and pretending nothing happened was "fine" and got them off the hook.
This skit on rails conventions is ancient, but I will never think it's not hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obOd7WrrTWQ

There's been arguments over the years that push back to rails magic led to a new generation of explicitness. You're also correct in saying that it's part of the value prop for productivity. But there's an overhead to learning the conventions in the first place and these days there is no denying less and less people are coming to Rails and even less learning Ruby. That's just the lifecycle of software I suppose. I'm extremely grateful for the large companies with massive ruby codebases that continue to move the language and ecosystem forward.
> Types can't represent truth. Real world data doesn't have types. It changes incrementally however it wants, and all the time.

That's like saying "Maps can't represent truth". They're a model that works well enough, just like types do, if you do it right.
It's a good demonstration of how the simple and seemingly solid foundations of our free market can still lead to extreme unfairness.
TypeScript has "unknown" for this, forcing you to cast it, possibly to any, every time you use it. A much better type for your variables of unknown type!
I don't think that this level of isolation is good for most people though obviously I will not speak for you. I am a part of several in person communities that cannot be replaced by fast internet.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my reading is something like:

"It's premature and misleading to talk about a model faking a second alignment, when we haven't yet established whether it can (and what it means to) possess a true primary alignment in the first place."
Adding static typing only shows you how bad your code already is
I'm an automation engineer. You can also rent a remote desktop, automate its browser (or VM browsers) and send screenshots to your website.
Sure, but that's why my emphasis was on distributed grids. Interlinking local capacity / having one or two neighbors with fully fledged systems is way better than going weeks charging stuff in your car. When you're without power for weeks, you'll probably have enough sun for more than enough days to get yourself sorted. Hurricanes also tend to sweep up any other systems in the region, so once they disperse, it's pretty clear skies. Anecdotally, we didn't get any rain for months after Helene dissipated.

Also, diesel and gas were pretty much inaccessible for the first 5 days of the disaster, so unless you have a stockpile that's been treated for longevity, you might not even be able to run your whole home generator for long.
Right, and rural people are in touch with everyone don't live in a bubble either...
>stuck on the plot holes in the motivating story... How long would a thief really keep the AirTag anyway?

you discover something has been stolen (or lost), and not knowing exactly when it happened but curious about that too, you immediately try to look up where it was last seen and if it's still tracking. What's the problem with that scenario, sounds perfectly reasonable.

he wants the long battery not because the thief is going to carry it around for 10 years, but simply so that it will more likely to be charged and location tracking at the time it is stolen from the owner.
I had quite a few of those animal shirts, along with many Stonehenge party shirts. Gave most of them away since I wear collared shirts now that I'm a grown-up.
But but but!

My Personal Brand Consultant told me a beautiful wife with two kids and a late model luxury minivan are essential components of my fundraising endeavors! Round B investments are 27.3% less likely to succeed for single founders under 26 years old compared to founders with families.
Well I care and I would rather use model where my subsbcription gets distributed only to musicians I listen to. As a side effect, all these ghost/fake frauds for milking money would cease to exist.
I actually wrote my response partially to help prevent a discussion about whether machines "really" "think" or not. Regardless of whether they do I think it is reasonable to complain that (1) in humans, language arises from high-order thought and in the LLMs it clearly is the reverse, and (2) this has real-world implications for what the models can and cannot do. (cf., my other replies.)

With that context, to me, it makes the research seem kind of... well... pointless. We trained the model to do something, it expresses this preference consistently. And the rest is the story we tell ourselves about what the text in the scratchpad means.
It might help to consider that this comes from a company that was founded because the founders thought that OpenAI was not taking safety seriously.

A radiation therapy machine that can randomly give people doses of radiation orders of magnitude greater than their doctors prescribed is dangerous. A LLM saying something its authors did not like is not. The former actually did happen:

https://hackaday.com/2015/10/26/killed-by-a-machine-the-ther...

Putting a text generator outputting something that someone does not like on the same level as an actual danger to human life is inappropriate, but I do not expect Anthropic’s employees to agree.

Of course, contrarians would say that if incorporated into something else, it could be dangerous, but that is a concern for the creator of the larger work. If not, we would need to have the creators of everything, no matter how inane, concerned that their work might be used in something dangerous. That includes the authors of libc, and at that point we have reached a level so detached from any actual combined work that it is clear that worrying about what other authors do is absurd.

That said, I sometimes wonder if the claims of safety risks around LLMs are part of a genius marketing campaign meant to hype LLMs, much like how the stickers on SUVs warning about their rollover risk turned out to be a major selling point.
This was also posted on one of the best niche subs, r/cinematography.

Here is that thread [0], with mostly professional takes. One interesting take-away:

> I’ve pre-ordered one. Vision Pro sales will be around 1/2M at the one year mark, and there’s a total of about 3 hours of immersive content available on the headset across every app right now.

> That’s a once in a lifetime content opportunity.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/cinematography/comments/1hhvwfv/bla...
I've kind of wondered this over the years myself.

The downsides of being in a rigidly-defined monogamous relationship are all kind of obvious, I think. Most people do not experience love or attraction as zero-sum games: you can have a "crush" or whatever on Person B without diminishing your feelings for Person A. So a person in a monogamous relationship is going to miss out on some positive physical and emotional connections that might have been really enjoyable.

But...

I've known a fair number of people in poly/open/etc relationships over the years and they tend to be inherently unstable, even moreso than trad monogamy. Like you said, often one person wants more exclusivity.

Also... let's be totally honest. One partner is almost always going to have more access to sex and love outside the relationship. Either they are more attractive, more assertive, or simply have more free time, or any other number of reasons. So the "openness" never seems to work out in a totally equal and/or equitable way.

They also seem to run into the problem of time and energy. In the abstract, love and sex are not zero-sum games. But a person only has so much energy and so many free hours in a week. So in practicality, yeah. It does become a bit zero-sum.
The biggest con is that you have to do all of the legwork of learning how static typing works, and types in TS can be fairly complex.

When you have a team of engineers, this means your entire team needs to either learn or lean on an expert when tougher situations arise.
> NASA uses dishes in the Deep-Space Network (DSN) to communicate with Voyager 1. These dishes, located around the globe in Goldstone, Canberra and Madrid, are optimized for these higher frequencies

Madrid Longitude: 4.3° W

Goldstone Longitude: 116.9­° W

Canberra Longitude: 149.0° E

153.3° from Madrid to Canberra and only 94.1° from Canberra to Goldstone. Bit of a slight to Western Australia to skip over the ~120° option and put the third dish in Canberra.
its...really really bad isnt it?
Id take free Mcdonalds for a year via exploit over this. Heck they might have never catched it!
My experience of an airtag on my stolen $300 bike was that the tag showed up in a location the cops told me was about a block away from a notorious chop shop in the city. I just sighed and bought a new bike.
I have found him to say some incorrect stuff and being extremely reluctant to even reflect on it.

I dislike him quite a lot to be honest...
In that specific case, I chose megameters.
I'm not sure pensions/social security systems would be infeasible without a growing population. When they operate by having the payments into the system from current workers pay for the benefits of retired workers then yes, you may need a continually growing workforce to keep them going.

But if the payments in by workers were put into a fund that invested conservatively with the goal of just keeping up with inflation, that could be sufficient to grow enough to pay for their benefits when they retire.

I recently calculated if such a system would have worked with my US Social Security (SS) taxes. At ssa.gov you can download a record of all your reported earnings by year.

They also have tables for converting amounts from past years to current dollars. I believe the conversion is based on income percentiles rather than inflation, but from what I've been able to tell those are reasonable close to each other.

For example I see that in 1986 I earned exactly $42 000. In today's wages that would be $161 537. From another table at ssa.gov I see that in 1986 they would have withheld 5.7% of my pay for SS, and my employer would have also paid 5.7%, so that is $4 788 contributed to SS, which in today's dollars $18 415.

If all of that was just put in an account somewhere that earned just enough to just keep up with inflation it would have enough that if I retired next year it could pay my monthly SS benefit for 16 years. The life expectancy of a US male at the age I will be next year is 18 years, so that's pretty close.

I did another calculation where I assumed that my monthly SS contributions went into a fund that each month earned interest at a rate that matched the current T-bill rate. That turned out to not earn as much, but still earned enough to pay my monthly SS benefit for around 14 years.

If we assume that some of the fund especially when the worker is far from retirement is invested in something that aims for better growth than merely keeping up with inflation, but still is reasonably safe, there should be no trouble growing it to enough that when the worker retires the fund has enough to cover their benefits until death.

I did a similar calculation with my Medicare contributions. My total contributions for that, in today's dollars, are such that if I start Medicare next year would be enough that if paid monthly over my life expectancy and put toward the premiums from a health insurance plan from my state's ACA marketplace the amount the amount extra I'd have to pay monthly is pretty close to the current Medicare premium.

As with SS, if the contributions were managed for more growth than just keeping up with inflation, but still conservatively, it would be enough for an ACA marketplace plan.

I wonder if there are any pension/social security systems that actually work like that?
I think I even reference that in the talk... Dart is everything I wanted from Perl 6, which is why I'm happy to be coding in Dart now.
I'm surprised they can still get a positive SNR at those distances. Incredible
https://youtu.be/S-rj8m7Ssow

This is one of the better documentaries out there about Kowloon. It's in German but you can turn on English subtitles. They got a camera inside and you get a decent taste of what life was like there.
I don’t think it takes much creativity to write such an article. Type systems can be frustrating to work with and throw arcane errors that take a lot of experience to decipher.

The real question IMO is are the benefits worth the cost.
> More media is being produced than ever before, but very few people seem to be able to create art while sustaining a comfortable living.

These are two halves of the same coin.

For a little bit there it was a growth market. But ultimately human beings only have so much time to fill in their days. In the last decade we have reached a point in society where the typical person is listening to music in one form or another for every nearly waking hour (if they want to).

It's now a zero-sum game.
It really wasn't obvious at the time, though and it took at least 100 years or more for the split to become permanent.

e.g. There is currently a schism between the Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church which technically is not that different. Does that mean that the Russian Church is no longer Orthodox?
> The people who earn $10MM a year make decisions that impact the lives of thousands (10's of thousands, or 100's of thousands) of employees.

But those decisions are worthless without people to carry them out.

> They are usually also directly responsible for millions of dollars in salaries every month.

So what? The salaries may add up to millions but what’s the denominator? This doesn’t justify a 100x multiplier on earnings.

> Also not true even a little bit. Most of the lower and middle class already pay more than 20%.

Are you including sales, property, and state income tax?

Median income in the US is $80,610.00. The effective federal income tax rate at that income level is 16.23% but that assumes no deductions. In reality the median earner is going to take the standard deduction for $13,850.00 so they’re only going to pay federal income tax on $66,760.00 so their effective rate is 15.04%. This doesn’t consider student loan payments, mortgage interest deductions, or retirement account contributions, which will further lower the effective rate.

This is for the median income. For lower incomes the effect is even more dramatic.

So the only way most of the lower and middle class pay more than 20% is if you count all taxes paid. But that means for your flat 20%-no-deductions tax to be a better deal it has to come with an abolition of all other taxes.

If so how do municipalities get funding? Does it all come from the federal government?
Native Distributed Databases: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities [pdf]
Def agree that consensual non-monogamy (CNM) != polyamory, and there's a loottt of confusion out there around that distinction (and in this article and this HN thread, too).

I might be poly for the right people at the right time, but I'm not currently. However, I'm definitely CNM for life because all I want is to talk it out!

Well, that, and occasionally hook up with other people
If you're just doing normal stuff in the kitchen, the cheapest 400-grit diamond stone/plate bigger than a few inches you can find on Amazon is good enough.

Once you can get a knife sharp with that it'll only take seconds to get it ready for normal use. The next step would probably be some kind of a strop/compound for removing the bur and polishing the edge. Doing so will improve edge retention substantially.

After that, it's like anything; you can get as far as you'd like into the hobby; but you'll already be able to slice off translucent tomato windows without squishing anything, so it starts mattering less for normal use, especially with the battering a knife can take in the kitchen.
I think he's an asshole.

He's some kind of journalist, but from what I've read of him he seems like the sort of man who lives in unreasoning and unrelenting terror that the guy in the stall next to his might have a vagina instead of a penis. He's a minor hero to right-wingers because he feeds into their prejudices concerning transgender people.
Many asterisks here but there are methods for remediating herbicide and pesticide contamination. Not saying it’s universally solved, but its not universally unsolvable either.

Edit: I meant to speak specifically in terms of compost production.
> I may not be an expert in high-reliability systems but that isn't how I expect the problem to be tackled.

You probably know way better than me, but in my experience, configuring things correctly on healthy hardware gets you 99.99% by default. Adding some surplus capacity adds another 9, at least.

Then you build from there (autoscaling, hardware failovers, etc. etc.).
Tolerance isn't a moral precept. It's a peace treaty. If you aren't willing to tolerate trans people, then why should they tolerate you?
Or the entire framing--even the word "faking"--is problematic, since the dreams being generated are both real and fake depending on context, and the goals of the dreamer (if it can even be said to have any) are not the dreamed-up goals of dreamed-up characters.
python is a spec - not an implementation. It could be using CPython or Mojo, and still be Python.
> so that it will more likely to be charged and location tracking at the time it is stolen

Unless you're ignoring/suppressing the low battery notifications for months, that's already overwhelmingly likely.
Neither have I, but I don't talk shit about trans people for a living, either.
How much of my money am I supposed to fork over to streaming companies? Tidal, Qobuz, SoundCloud, YouTube Music, Deezer, Amazon Music, Apple. And how much work am I supposed to invest in migrating my playlists between them? I don't want to invest my time in digging through every new artist (SoundCloud?), at the same time, I occasionally find a deep rabbithole I want to go down. How do I go spelunking if the archive isn't deep and rich?
For my most boring tasks what I do is I write my to do list and break the work down into a stupid level of detail including all the practical steps too.

Like: open word document, review section 1, save document, email link to x.

This makes getting started easy enough and hopefully I pick up momentum and engagement as I go.
Those two products are doing totally different jobs. This is great for events, VR, and so on.

The BlackMagic design is aimed squarely at cinema use, where BM is already one of the industry standard platforms for color grading and increasingly for editing, and already highly respected for image acquisition. This matters because film distribution agreements increasingly mandate specific technologies for production to mitigate the risk of customer complaints abouts image quality.

The 3d part of the camera is somewhat relevant for the cinema release market (and VR headset users who want to watch a movie in 3d...but I think this will remain a small market because wearing a helmet/goggles to watch a movie is inherently anti-social), but even if you never plan to release in 3d it's nice to be able to acquire that way for vfx purposes. Recording ground truth 3d information during acquisition is always going to be superior and cheaper to inferring it computationally from a monocular image.
What was the culture like working on this project and back in those days? I’ve always been fascinated by the development of consoles, especially the story of the 360. Any sources you recommend to learn more? I thought the Microsoft documentary on Xbox was the best I’ve found so far.
My ex wanted to go work at a veterinarian's office. Several in the area had openings, but one significant caveat:

Each was offering only part-time hours (16-24h) but required "full-time availability".

That is not an fair exchange of effort.

Small business owners all too often (as much as they are also a valuable part of the community) think that they are entitled to far too much of their employees, and seem to think they have some inherent right to not just their business, but to their desired profit margins.

One local business here closed recently with this self-centered, presumptuous and tone-deaf message:

> It is so sad to see that our dream with all its potential has collapsed because the community was not willing to support it.
I guess this is subjective. But to me, there's a distracting amount of purple prose.

Prose has a function, which is to tap into metaphor in order to help words describe a sensory experience that's otherwise difficult for words to capture.

The article does have that kind of prose. But it also has plenty of prose for prose's sake. Prose for prose's sake – especially in journalism – is self-serving. It obfuscates the point, for the sake of prose (and ultimately, for the author's own satisfaction with himself).

Edit: that being said, I liked the article overall and I think the author did great at choosing an interesting subject and pretty well at writing about it. I certainly couldn't do better.