skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that immediately came to mind upon seeing the title is the way that efficient (digital) radio communications look much more similar to noise (due to information density) than old analog communication methods.

The article seems to be looking at things from an energy-usage perspective. Why don't we detect Dyson spheres and other large-scale technological projects? Maybe the most efficient ways of harnessing the energy of a planet blend in with the natural processes of the planet itself.

Or, as a sibling comment suggested, maybe the civilization that makes (alien) people happiest is one that outwardly resembles the world they evolved in.
> MoonBit is still in beta-preview. Introducing forks at this point could risk destabilizing the project. We aim to reach a more mature and stable status before welcoming community contributions.

> We want to safeguard against large cloud vendors leveraging our work for commercial purposes in a way that could undermine our efforts.

Normally I don't like the "technically not open source" comments, but this isn't even remotely open source.

The language looks like rust with some interesting type/generic fun added in. Not sure I like the syntax but it looks like a very expressive language.
I had to try Apple Watch for kids because my initial goal was not to buy iPhone to get the Apple Watch working.
The only "reasonable" would be supplying the tools to employees who want and are capable of making good use of them.

But make sure it never guides any downsizing or putting the screws on people to ever inhuman increases of productivity. Thus: it will never happen. Greed wins again
Early car door openers were triggered by normal airplanes, so they’d just randomly open while the homeowners were away.

Lawsuits were filed, and a standard that didn’t have that problem took over.

(Calling the replacement standard “secure” would be overselling it, but I guess it was good enough to make the courts happy.)
Begs the question, is this why Unitree has been advancing so quickly did they have access to this for the last year while it was being developed? I recall unitree showing mass simulated training of their robots in a physics based world recently.
Well, yes.

Organized human civilizations go back 2000-3000 years. Industrial civilization at scale goes back less than 200. A useful starting point is the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830). This the moment when the industrial revolution got out of beta, and, quite literally, picked up steam.

Extractable natural resources are somewhat finite. Sometimes, with more inputs, you can get more output. Fracking is a modern example. An older example is taconite, the low-grade iron ore (15% iron) mined after the reserves of high-grade ore (65% iron) were exhausted.[2] Gold and rare earths are extracted at great expense from very low concentrations in the raw material. At some point, extraction in high volume becomes impracticable.

We're only two hundred years into high-volume mined resource extraction.
The USGS has a Critical Materials List.[3] Most of the current problems are political and commercial, not outright shortages. USGS lists known reserves for mined resources. Most have at least a century of known resources left, but not a millennium. On a time scale of civilizations, that's not long.

Recycling is a battle against entropy. Almost all gold is recovered. About 80% of aluminum is recovered. About 60% of steel is recovered. Each time around, you lose some through dispersal into forms not easy to collect and recycle. So that, too, has a diminishing returns problem.

Sometime in the future, perhaps closer than the distance in time since Oxford University was founded, most of the minerals will no longer be available in large quantity. It will be a slow, but difficult transition.

Biological systems, though, mostly keep shuffling around C, H, O, and N. That's been working for over 300 million years now, pretty much recycling the same atoms. Long term, on the scale of millennia, systems running on the weaker bonds in that space can go on for millions of years. That's the default mode of planetary operation.

Energy isn't a long-term problem because forms of energy are convertible, and wind and solar keep working as long as the sun does, at least if there are enough materials left to build generators. That looks like a long-term win on the scale of thousands of years. Millions, though...

It's quite possible that industrial civilizations have a finite lifespan, bounded by material availability. Doesn't mean there can't be sentient civilizations. Or that they're limited to "nature". Biological systems can be engineered, too.

But you don't get interstellar travel out of biology. Too low-powered.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_and_Manchester_Railw...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taconite

[3] https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/us-geologica...
Yes, that was my usage of "secure" here. I obviously didn't mean that we should blindly trust SAML implementations. SAML should be avoided if possible, due to inherently complicated implementation. The same goes true for JWT. Both standards have better alternatives which are viable for the majority of necessary use cases.
I don’t think that’s a reasonable summary.

This stuff has been well understood for millennia.
Those are goofy "who cares" things, though. Doesn't mean you are wrong to want them, just they are very very niche use cases which almost nobody else is going to want.
They already have one https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin
No, it means that if you find yourself surrounded by mediocre/incompetent people, it means that you aren't working at a good place and that you may be mediocre too.
So birds and circadian clocks accurate to seven years are not the result of random biological mutations?
Though that's not what the Supreme Court actually held when tossing the bump stock ban: they instead said that a gun equipped with a bump stock isn't a machine gun and that's why the ban was invalid.

The case entirely hinged on the definition of machinegun being a gun that fires more than one shot "by a single function of the trigger" with the majority saying that because you need to keep forward pressure to keep firing, bump stocks don't count.

The aspect of bump stocks being just a part and not a gun wasn't important to the case because the statute is clear on this point: any part that's intended to convert a regular gun to a machine gun is itself a machine gun under the relevant law.
Just some fast feedback, I can't copy & paste in the connection url input form. On a mac.

Once loaded, I get the error "Table must contain a UUID column for vector visualization."

I'm assuming it's trying to find an ID column for grouping? Can we manually specify this? My ID columns are varchars.
Defense contractors are usually located in out of the way places. If you work for the USAF Lab in Rome, NY, you make less than a Facebook intern, but the only guy richer than you in town is the state trooper with overtime. They are also stable gigs with good benefits.
Why should I spend two or so hours watching a mediocre movie if I can also watch a great one, or do something else?

Reading a movie review or just asking a friend that’s seen it if they liked it has been a thing… always.
Optimizing task completion is different from optimizing task benefit.
I've been on all sides of this issue and I guarantee that as an individual contributor you lack the perspective and visibility into all of the factors that make up net productivity for your colleagues. Once you get a little more maturity and experience you'll probably understand this better.
O-1 is a nonimmigrant visa. You can't receive green card and further citizenship with O-1.
There's a story from the USS Drum (now a museum ship in Mobile, Alabama) that the skipper eventually gave up trying to get his crew to stop drinking the torpedo juice, and just ordered them to leave enough alcohol for a 1,500 yard range (out of 4,500yd or 9,000yd at slower speeds). Their success rate actually went up as a result, because they were making shots from much closer in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZQ-uMspz5c
I got an A in linear as a sophomore… a long time ago. If it’s needed for a job, I got some studying to do.
Statistical arbitrage with graph clustering algorithms
Llama in WhatsApp can search the web, so usually gets these queries right.

Hilariously it often believes that it can’t access the web and then hallucinates reasons for how it can know things beyond its knowledge cutoff date. But in any case, it works very well for this use case.
Well, that's too bad, as I had come to look forward to these exchanges in much the same way that my wife anticipates the Times crosswords - i.e. as a challenging but ultimately inconsequential mental exercise (I say inconsequential because this sort of debating shows no sign of solving the puzzle of what minds are.)

It seems to me to be an unfortunate choice for you to retire with a somewhat serious, yet passively-voiced, allegation, but if that is how you want to present yourself, then so be it, and people can make of it what they will. Best wishes to you!
I had this happen when the dongle is a little loose in the port. Solved lag with a couple of dongles by sliding a tiny bit of paper in alongside it.
Awesome. Thanks for the info here.
I have a couple of useful Logitech peripherals too. It should be quite useful.
I don’t know that being made entirely in the US is necessary, but Ubiquiti is headquartered in New York and manufactures its products in China, Vietnam, and Taiwan [0]. The point, I think, is that TP-Link and its management are largely beyond the reach of US law enforcement. The CCP have recently been found to be conducting large scale exploit attempts against Microsoft Azure infrastructure using infected router firmware installed almost exclusively TP-Link models. [1]

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0. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1511737/000151173719...

1. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/11/micro...
There's a rule of tens online: for every comment, there are ten interactions (like an upvote/down ote), and for every interaction, there are 10 views.

So, every comment on a post roughly equals 100 views.
Web or other search access for LLMs really isn’t that new anymore, and I doubt that Grok will do a statistically significant sampling of everything on X, so I don’t really expect it to fare much better than a model with access to regular web search.
Apparently modern US production ratios for ethyl vs isopropyl alcohols are roughly 100:1.

Expect they would have been the same during the war era, hence engineering torpedos to run on a more widely available fuel.
Technologists seem to have hopeless, irredeemable optimism that "just a bit more tech" will solve social problems. I think Musk's removal of the tech underpinnings of X was perhaps the counter-example which proves "not enouch tech" creates problems, but I do think "it's nice here so it will go on being nice here" is latent in how people talk about Bluesky, Mastodon, all the "other" socials.

People love to kibbitz about HN, and it is maybe clique-y but at the same time it's not just one or two people reminding everyone "be nice" -pretty well anyone can do it, and they do. Maybe there's some threshold level where that kind of self-policed experience dies against the tides.

I don't think being less censor-y is a good idea. I know thats hugely unpopular with a massive cohort of people. I don't for a minute pretend its defensible against a reductionist hard-core free-speech view of the world. I just think it turns out living in a completely-free speech world is tiresome. Some restraint turns out to be more than just "be nice" to be effective.

"be nice: or else" basically. But "or else" means you're in a permitted space, not an unconstrained space.
In the long tail of questions people ask, I would think asking about Shakespeare is relatively common (explain a play, explain a character, identify a quote, ...).
LOL

> all that aside, I am an American and place the interests of my people ahead of those of foreigners. as such, I will support a world order led by the government most likely to maximize our welfare and very nearly any means needed to preserve that.

The last sentence you said explained what you said above, it also explained many other *Amerikkans* minds

Interestingly, even the most loyal and fervent American imperialists have to find some ridiculous moral excuses.

Despise your hypocrisy, but appreciate your honesty.
I am somehow uniquely well positioned to answer this question. I worked at Trustpilot for 7 years, and am now a relatively large Vultr customer.

Vultr is great!
“Hey Siri, let me talk to ChatGPT voice mode” is the only thing I really need from it, and that’s unavailable for whatever reason.

“Hey Siri, call 1-800-CHATGPT” will have to do for now :)
Lue Elizondo on NJ Drone Mystery: 'We don't need paranoia, but preparation' [video]
The interesting corollary to this approach seems to be that productivity barriers are largely external.

A potential riske seems to be feedback systems where job satisfaction is determined by high or low pay.
Looks like any number of generic camera bags.

Camera bag design seems to have moved on from that, and a sling design seems to be more popular.

The sling lets you swing the bag from your back under your arm to in front of you. There is a zipper towards the side that lets you securely access the camera and accessories.

So pretty easily you can get your camera out, or later put it back without removing the backpack.
Someone should put together a package for the new administration with advertisements to target for H1B violations. I’m sure Stephen Miller would want to see it.
I think this is quite ridiculous. If they collect data, it will be a huge amount. Additionally, most traffic is already encrypted, so they would just get garbage.
The counter delusion is a built in emergent property of the system.
But some do! And sounds like this is one of them.
The Oura ring does a lot more analytics. There's a "sleep score", a "readiness score", various algorithms to suggest an "optimal sleep time", etc.

The Apple Watch just records stuff and throws it in the Health app. That's it. They added a "vitals" app that mostly alerts you when the numbers it records are drastically different than the norm, but it's not really analyzing or suggesting anything.

I get the feeling that Apple thought there would be a whole ecosystem of apps that would analyze your sleep data, so they didn't need to build any of it into the watch or the health app itself.
Faking Incremental Docker Loads
Nah, I'm out. You can talk that one somewhere else.
Former Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson Sentenced to Nearly 10 Years in Prison
Plus, people won’t let authorities know their livestock is infected until it spreads further
Lots of smoke alarms now have 10 year batteries.
Are you wondering why Conway’s Game of Life or the C++ type system isn’t trying to communicate with us from beyond the stars?
I was expecting something along the lines of: A very advanced civilization will exist while hiding signs of its existence; kind of creating a privacy shield as it is aware of potentially dangerous situations if it is discovered.
The idea that we should use finite natural resources more slowly or not at all to be sustainable doesn't make sense. What are we saving them for? Future people who would also uses them unsustainably? If we're sustainable forever, then future people won't need them. If future people do need them, they won't be sustainable and won't last. So why don't we just use them up as fast as we like?

Perhaps future people will have some important but finite need for them. So we save them for that one big moment when they're used for the really important purpose that will never be important anymore in the future of the human race? Seems unlikely such a use will appear, at least not one more important than what we've already done in building our industrialized society.
> No one takes the claim that you can’t measure software productivity seriously

At least three people do, and they are mentioned in the article: the author, his colleague, and Martin Fowler.

I suspect that software productivity (like the productivity of scientists, artists, composers, etc.) on any non-trivial project may be measurable on a scale of years, but not necessarily months or calendar quarters. A larger issue is that productivity is often due to external factors as much as it is to individual effort, and overnight success is often the result of extended periods of limited progress or even repeated failure.
Having to compete with people in the third world who have no expectations isn’t meritocracy. My dad grew up in a literal village and I remember sleeping under mosquito nets. Americans shouldn’t have to put up with the things I’m willing to put up with.
Perl is one of those power tools(as recommended in Let Over Lambda, together with vim and Lisp), if you learn it well enough to be good at it, and early enough in your career- You really have a mad productivity work horse. Its really one of those things which save tons of time and effort. A bit like O(1) hack of the productivity world.

Perhaps at the core of this just how many what we called regular programming tasks are just knowing how to work with text and unixy operating system. Perl is just unbelievably awesome at this. Another big edge of Perl is commitment to backwards compatibility, most people who learned Perl early in their careers decades back can use it on-demand basis. Its universally installed, fast and scripts written from the earliest days continue to run with 0 changes, despite endless OS upgrades.

Early enough in the timeline Perl was full unix hackers, and you learned a lot from them, this culture further bolsters Perl's productivity credentials. Not a week passes, that I have to whip up a Perl script to do something for someone has a 2 people and a month budget to do. And they are often amazed it can be done this quickly.

CPAN is another big edge Perl has. No other language apart from JS/npm ecosystem has anything close, and these are basically competing in very different domains so to that end CPAN really doesn't have a competition till date.

If you are looking to build using Perl do checkout the Camel book and HOP by mjd.
I should have made a better job of explaining that I have a de-googled android phone & even though I don't like Apple's business practices I would rather trust my data with Apple than Google.

Besides I bought the refurbished Apple Watch for third the price of Pixel Watch 3.

But I'm glad that Android users now have a good smart watch & there's competition in the space.
Each can compensate for the other only to an extent. We don't need top notch, we need good. Most large scale projects may fail, but we ended up assembling good people for all the rewrites. Five of the six projects were successful (in production with objectively better metrics). One failed due to underestimating the operational complexity of a piece of technology.
> Putin was a figurehead of the oligarch clan from Saint-Petersburg, who happened to have KGB connections as well. Russia had moved from the Western-like democratic path already. They could've chosen another person with the same results.

There were no oligarchs in St. Petersburg when Putin got into politics, and he wasn't a figurehead. Putin had ties to the St. Petersburg underworld, who were experienced with capitalism during communism. His affiliation with them helped him work his way up St. Petersburg politics as a deal fixer.

> It doesn't matter. Professional criminals don't operate out of hate.

Many of Putin's actions are absolutely driven by hatred of the West.

> Had Zyuganov become president in 1996, there could be an opportunity to build the democratic tradition of transition of power.

Only Zyuganov is to blame for losing. Pinning this on Americans is a huge stretch.
Wholeheartedly agree. SWEs are not factory workers. They don't punch in at 6am, put on their uniforms, make sure they meet their daily "lines of code" quota before clocking out at 10pm. We should not measure software productivity the same way we measure ball bearings production.

Using lines of code to track productivity is absurd (do people really believe it or is it just a strawman at this point?). I'm reminded of that midwit meme where a junior has very few lines of code written because they don't know the code base well enough, the midwit writes up an whole framework, and the senior engineer has a net negative lines of code contribution.

Theres also a fundamental difference between creating and maintaining code. Something like 10 guys wrote visicalc. Does that mean they were contributing millions of dollars in profit per hours? What about the maintainance to keep it going? Bug fixes? Patches? On call infra guys? What about opportunity cost of putting engineers on deadend projects?

My point is tracking productivity in software dev - maybe all knowledge work for that matter - is complicated. Maybe that's why there's so much "busywork" (emails, slack, tickets, meetings, etc). Everyone wants to look productive but no one knows what it means
It's class warfare. With more economic problems, AI and robotics putting pressure on work of ALL types.. they may turn to actual warfare between the US and China as an outlet to avoid a shooting war/revolt internally in multiple countries.

We can hope that ideas like UBI will help somehow.
I think the real highlight of the Bolt receiver is being able to pair up to 6 devices with just a single receiver.
No. It's not super common.
The owner of an 800 number literally pays for your calls to them. This is a promotion of their services, not a business critical or even paid product.
There's a continuum between free markets and communism. It's not either-or.

But the more to the left the economy goes, the less prosperous it is, and there is a point when it comes unglued.
> approved hardware will only run signed models

This is true. But this is an ability of the hardware owners. Intel and NVIDIA are not setting the rules - and there is a real commitment to that because its open source.

It's also confidential. Data, code, rules, ... all of these are processed together in secure enclaves. It's up to the hardware owner/users to determine that processing and to stamp/verify what they want.
No offense but reading this comment with the utmost attempt at interpreting it in good faith, it kind of sounds like you're just going off of vibes and can't actually quantify productivity any more than anyone else can. Otherwise... How exactly are you quantifying it? If you had to show your work, could you?
The attestations in this case are completely determined by you.
Not really. The internals are completely different.
I had the fenix 7 and I liked the sleep tracking.

Because the garmin can function without requiring and acount/online nonsense, it does the sleep analysis and recommendations on the watch.
Whatever dessert or baked good you use this in, this is not going to move the needle much on nutrition either way. This kind of product is what makes cakes and cookies fluffy (because of the air) but in products like those most of the calories are coming from the flour, not the whipped egg whites or peas or what have you.
So no then..
New Anthropic research: Alignment faking in large language models
Humans, regardless of geographic population, are remarkably similar in genetic make up. Humans are not, as you asserted, "so genetically diverse." Exactly the opposite.
What method is Genesis using for JIT compilation? What subset of Python syntax / operations will be supported?

The automatic differentiation seems to be intended for compatibility with Pytorch. Will Genesis be able to interface with JAX as well?

The project looks interesting, but the website is somewhat light on details. In any case, all the best to the developers! It's great to hear about various efforts in the space of differentiable simulators.
Maybe I missed it, but are there any performance numbers? It being 100% implemented in Python makes me very suspicious that this won’t scale to any kind of large robot.