skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 'Could' is the word.

Ok, "was" then. Operating systems were originally written in assembly and you can't write an operating system without some kind of hardware polling and command loops (even in the days before multi-tasking systems).

Even earlier computers in the days before operating systems would have command loops written in giant rings of punched sheets that would slowly spin round on reels like a cambelt. So this isn't even an innovation that was born from assembly, let alone any high level language.

I honestly do get what you're saying and I'm not trying to dismiss your point that people did this kind of stuff in LISP but what you need to understand is that people did this in a great number of different ways, in different languages and even mechanically too.
Having read the original comment again, I can see how it can be interpreted as suggesting to avoid Zoom as a precautionary measure, rather than accusing Zoom of wrongdoing. However, plenty of people are treating this incident as proof that Zoom is lying about encryption.
If you donate a print book to the library, it will almost always be handed off to the Friends of the Library (or similar organization) for their book sale to raise money. If there's something special about the book, it might be added to special collections (e.g., if you're an important public figure or you've donated a research collection on a special topic). Almost never will the book be added to the lending collection.
I've not used salt very much at all but I believe both tools provide similar functionality. pyinfra is only agentless vs. salt can do both which makes it more scalable at huge numbers of hosts. The major difference is the configuration in Python vs YAML, which I personally think is a big advantage (but can see arguments the other way too)!
there was (is?) a simple popular "hack" on their system, which is to only answer questions you actually care about in a partner
Yeah, you're the person he's talking about. If that's the way he can better communicate with his wife and she's ok with it, that's all that matters.

I used to randomize calendar events on my phone to remind me to call grandma, see dad, game with my brother, etc. It was very robotic looking and if I told anyone about it, I got weird looks but years later, I have great relationships with everyone in my family because I basically trained myself and the people I reached out to communicate well and not let conversation be awkward. If OP kept this up, I bet his relationship at worst would be the same and more likely healthier.
Stephen King's review of The Goldfinch: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/books/review/donna-tartts...
In my opinion what is going to kill GE appliance sales more than DRM water filters is the fact that GE appliance repair is going away.

GE repair workers were GE employees that knew how to fix GE appliances. They really knew what they were doing and were helpful and resourceful with the goal of repairing things instead of replacing things. A service call was expensive but absolutely worth the money.

I don't think most people care too much about paying $20 every six months for a "genuine" replacement water filter (especially when we all know the health risks of counterfeit garbage) for their $2000 refrigerator.

When the repair guy comes and tells you that your 10-year old fridge doesn't need to be replaced, it just needs a $200 circuit board and does the job in 10 minutes, you develop some brand loyalty. But that's all gone now because the new company got rid of it.
Yes, but to me this (the contradictory nature of a large set of rules in life) is a nuisance, not a feature to be welcomed. Sometimes it is unavoidable or very expensive to clean, but we should discourage adding complex rules contradicting our existing set if possible. My 2c.
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Thanks for sharing Shlax, I didn't know about it, and at first glance, I like the design choices: encapsulate task, pass the target object so you can mock it for testing, use await to delegate I/O...
Probably the most dangerous tool in a shop is the table saw. SawStop is really the only truly foolproof method to prevent injury. Unfortunately, they are not licensing their patent (even though they tried to initially), and they have shut down several other companies who have come out with similar mechanisms (at least Bosch).

The downside to this is that the cost of safety is relatively high ($2000+), and there is no way to retrofit high-quality used saws from the used market ($500+)
I think it is, yes.
> how strongly they're investing in growth

The combined LR isn't 72%. The combined LR includes marketing and sales.

I'd argue the pure LR should be evaluated without respect to growth. If you want to adjust for growth look at the combined LR which doesn't look too pretty. But if they can manage to get that LTV it will be a big success
This is what I submitted for beta list:

I want to create a software that can generate new code given business case hints, by studying existing open source code and their documentation.

I know this is vague, but sounds like what we eventually want for ourselves right?
In case still not clear, it does not do the transcription, it does not. Oh Hi Mark. It asks you to manually annotate it (in case you want to prepare a training data set for your algorithm), its not an AI algorithm.
Not everyone wants to be an admin to their infrastructure. Real existing services like Heroku and Squarespace exist as useful services because even though you might know how to design and build a website from scratch, sometimes you just need something done quickly without too much worrying about details of the system that do not matter for your project at this point. I really don't see how this wouldn't apply to AI projects as well.

I could make a much better site coding my own website from scratch and setting up servers myself, but for some projects I wouldn't even think about it that way, because using Heroku or Squarespace I can save a LOT of time and get the results I need much quicker.
Personally, I find it offensive to pander to these people ;-)
Should have made the winning number outside the range of printed numbers instead of being 'skipped'.
"Powered by Azure" -- Elon clearly distrust Amazon.
I don't have any answers to give you, but I want to say that this is a really loving and beautiful thing you're trying to do.
And yet, the no-police zone in Seattle is just what I described.
I love this attitude and feel some accord at a personal/intellectual level. You learn “programming” first, not a stack. (Well, ok, you tend to learn one language first and then branch out, but I assume you have been through that stage). So programming and problem solving should translate fairly well across domains.

However, my experience with looking for jobs in London is that if I don’t have more experience with most of the stack than someone else in a company/recruiter’s candidate set, I will not get the job (regardless of how well I communicate my ability to work in teams or problem solve). Even after 15 years professional coding and a Masters in Software Engineering.

How does your position work for you? Have you been able to learn new stacks “on the job”? Can we characterise a hiring pattern for different geographic areas? Do you go learning a prospective employer or client’s problem domain before making contact with them, and base conversations around that?
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making schooling not about actually useful information and skills, and maybe focused based on aptitude early on

this might depend on the country, with some being better, or a lot better than others

for example, in school, my teachers taught me useless trivia about Historical figures (some of which I later learned could be fictitious), I was also "taught" how to use sandpaper on an ornamental piece of wood (instead of learning how to use the tools to cut wood to make something useful, like a chair or a table)

wasting time on those useless things, instead of first aid, handling money (basic financial information, like savings accounts, how interests can work for you, or agains you, loans, etc.), laws (as in, what's legal, and illegal, and why), knowledge that should be universal, like the declaration of human rights

I also think shielding children from "bad language", and the knowledge of sex, and death does them a disservice, but I don't have an alternative that could be at least seen as reasonable

also, religion, at least the way it's "introduced" on chilren (forced on them, really)
"Flipping" journals is an option, but doesn't happen often because it's risk for the editors with little personal benefit.

The answer the project I volunteer for [1] is that the prestige of a journal comes from the researchers who submit or review for it, so we can also employ their reputations without the middleman - by having them endorse works, thus having their names instead of the journal names attached to the works.

[1] https://plaudit.pub/
Yeah. I lucked into something where they (foolishly) offered me all of the classes I could take in three months, so of course I hoovered each class but three up, but I paid attention to the instructors. I spent some time asking them how they liked teaching the classes and watched them pretty carefully, so when I found out that instructors weren't getting paid, I wasn't too surprised.

I extended for a couple of months to finish up some projects, but that heavy push at the end is usually the sign of a Membership Death Spiral (if you look at it upside down, it's a pyramid). The folks I quietly warned did not listen and ended up having paid for something they'd never get. I heard of someone at another Techshop who donated some enormous, expensive milling machine to them in exchange for a lifetime membership. Whew.

Still miss it.
Learn sign language, instead of holding on to the past.
This somehow doesn't violate any ethics concerning experimentation on humans?
My current employer's internal recruiter found me randomly on linkedin. I wouldn't have my job without being on there :)
Flash can support random writes, but not overwrites. The zoned namespaces abstraction is a little bit more restrictive than is necessary for SSDs, but it's being developed that way so that the same abstraction can also be used with SMR hard drives.
Why can't techincal papers use something similar to github/git Pull-request model?
This right here
Thank you - great lead.
It works great for me with regard to job hunting get pinged almost everyday by recruiters... my connections mostly are recruiters other than people I know/work with. Other than that I don't participate in social stuff as it has my name on it.

Granted I have some social accounts(reddit) that are doxxable but mostly they're not... I don't attack people I'm just weird/can't really be me with my name. YouTube is almost borderline but thankfully as of yet I'm not aware of an easy/public way to scan YouTube comments.
Get Hands Dirty
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCETeXD_3awsQv-9rSdCYXQQ

I'm in the US, but I find a tend to like european woodworking channels better.
Elon is no longer part of OpenAI. Microsoft invested $1b.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
> www.linkedin.com###voyager-feed

That's the one that I used, thanks! I find messaging valuable :)
> Is there any way to attach the deployement scenario in a Python object ?

It is possible to use pyinfra as a Python API, but this is not currently officially supported/may not follow semver, example: https://github.com/Fizzadar/pyinfra/blob/master/examples/api....

> How do I make a scenario pluggable? Reusable? Introspectable?

pyinfra comes with builtin support for packaging "deploys" as Python packages, see: https://pyinfra.readthedocs.io/en/v0.14.5/api/deploys.html, an example: https://github.com/Fizzadar/pyinfra-docker.
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I went to school for an undergrad in Industrial Engineering and started working in tech after graduating about 9 years back.
I work mostly on databases, business intelligence and reporting . That’s very business and operations oriented and any job switch seems like I have to start all over again.Also operations seem very susceptible to layoffs .

As a result I never seem to break into Software Development and doing programming , ML / AI , data engineering despite trying to teach myself through online learning .

How can I recover to convince employers to let me work on engineering and software development roles even though my work history is BI and operations? How do I break out of my current cycle to have a rewarding career without going back to school for another degree ?
Awesome! Just signed onto the wait list.
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Yeah, its only 10 PB, why don't we p2p a copy? 1000 people with 10 TB to spare wouldn't work but 50 000 storing 100-400 GB each would be managable. 50 k pp is ofc nothing and probably not even enough to get it done before everyone gets bored. (you know who you are) Tubing it into the boxes would be the hard part. Most wouldn't need to do much more than contribute bandwidth and temp storage.

Why isn't file coin done?
From what I understand it is more of a social engineering attack, deployed after the attacker has gained the personal information required to gain access to an account (which used to be sufficient, but in the Information Age we live in, a postal code / maiden name/date of birth are commonplace on someone’s Facebook profile and friends list).

So the issue is likely a combination of insufficient training for staff and dated methods for verification (for example, allowing people to verify via a PIN number over the phone, but not limiting the number of attempts before being locked out of the account, allowing brute force to be a viable (and successful) attack method.

Some attackers have taken advantage of the fact that some providers don’t have 24/7 support (don’t have the reference just remember reading about it being used to hack prominent crypto figures in social media, T mobile specifically if I can recall correctly) so they start the attack just before support hours end, giving them access to the account and then the down time to execute the attack (usually non-business hours) without the victim being able to do anything about it since they can’t get a hold of anyone once they notice they’ve been compromised (as the physical stores are closed and phone support unavailable until next morning). That is if they even notice as they could be asleep.
Why does LR even matter? They cede 75% of their risk so they operate more like a broker. I reckon the reason they don't cede more risk is because the re-insurers want them to have skin in the game. The re-insurers could get adversely selected if Lemonade can't price well
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Hey there (I'm the author of the piece). I was about to make this exact point. Perfectly said.

As a writer, creating a headline is always a balancing act. You want to drive interest and create curiosity but you also don't want to mislead readers because that will burn them and they'll never read your stuff again.

I felt I delivered on that curiosity. But the internet is a big place. Someone will always find a bone to pick.

I'm new to this site. My Medium stats said I was getting a sudden avalanche of traffic from here so I created an account just to address the initial comment of this thread.

Anyways, thanks for reading everyone.
> Nordic Semiconductor and LimitedResults did not agree on a responsible disclosure. That’s life.

Can you elaborate more on how this would work?
Thanks for the tip, we just fixed those bullets.
I didn't even think of this, I live in a country where there is no military, but yes, this
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This sounds cool but isn’t it possible to read them without subscribing to the newsletter ?
What about recording messages to other people for future events (e.g. graduation of a child, birth of grandchild etc.)?

Recording a message to a yet unborn grandchild is maybe something we could all do!
It absolutely is language policing.

That's orthogonal to whether it is correct information backing a warranted suggestion.
Did you choose to follow those people at some point? I get regular "recommendations" on who to follow on LinkedIn, including Gates, Nadella, and Branson, but I never take them. And I don't have any content in my feed from any of those folks.

All the content in my feed is from my connections or interactions by my connections. Of course there is plenty of vapid "thought-leader" content from them too.

Actually I've gotten some amusement from watching a few former colleagues overtly try the "LinkedIn thought leader" thing. Kind of funny to observe the (sometimes very large) gap between what they post and what I know they used to do in their day jobs.
https://youtu.be/0sR1rU3gLzQ

'This AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds'
That sounds nice if not a bit anachronistic. But as a child that had to carry 20lbs+ of books to school everyday I would have loved to have had a Kindle, a notepad, and some pencils as my daily load-out.

You with your immense home library of walls full of books can continue to do you.
Nobody is putting these huge models in production, even the smaller transformer models are still too expensive to run for most use cases.

With the way the field is moving, GPT-3 will be old news in a month, when more advances are made and open sourced.
This was my experience in most of my primary and secondary education (K-12) in Canada. If you were good at something right away, math, science, 2nd language, art, even gym class, you basically got some instruction and were able to learn a bit more and maybe even excel. This was my experience in Math and Science (I'm a Scientist/Engineer now). However, learning French, I struggled and rapidly fell behind. If you didn't excel you didn't really get enough teaching or attention to learn. Basically, as you say, you were expected to already just be good at stuff even from a young age and the system appeared to be designed around this idea. Learning (and critically practice) takes a lot of time for most things and everyone isn't good at it right away.

I had a similiar experience with driving lessons, I didn't take naturally to it and the limited number of lessons and the relative ease by which you can pass the test means I never really learned adequately during the "learning period" before you are granted a full license. In this case my mom forced me to continue and I continued to practice and eventually became competent and mostly comfortable. Many other activities I just gave up, no one wanted me on their T-ball team.
one is absolute numbers, other is per million.
At the $1000 point, most buyers are definitely focused on the price. Buyers who care about style are spending $2000+ on their fridge, and that's just for the low level stuff you find at a big box store.
Market consolidation would limit competition and hurt consumers so I'm glad they were purchased by an external player. But local restaurants are still hurting from exorbitant fees and something needs to be done to help.

Shameless plug: I'm working on a chrome extension that compares the price of your order across delivery services to get you the best price. We'll soon be linking to restaurants' websites to let people order direct and save on fees. For those interested, link is here: https://platerapp.app.link/1VRKKwGAe7
If said AI will also maintain it.
Why should I use this Bing proxy instead of DuckDuckGo or Qwant?
Good point. You could maintain a more reasonable pressure inside a submarine.
You may feel that the dismantling of copyright is an issue on par with civil rights. However, that sentiment is rare, and isn't supported by any plain reading of the constitution, unlike racial equality. IA's not going to be setting any precedents in the defense of the lawsuit. They are going to be handed a swift, expensive, and one-sided defeat.
I didn't say best raw data. Lidar obviously produces better raw data on an individual basis. Tesla has more real-world driving data overall. Nevertheless, it doesn't matter. Tesla is the only one going all-in on vision based self driving. That's the key thing that's going to get us to full self driving. Everyone will eventually need to do this.
(off topic)
Record a few things for her future self. E.g. favourite quotes, frequently used phrases.
I have observed this behavior, but never really understood it. Sometimes I have to think of people as having left over bits of event based code that overrides everything else in certain circumstances. Trying to remember what effects which people in which ways is my biggest challenge in work and probably life in general.
> run it with Docker

Isn’t the point of Docker that not everyone has to know the virtual envs, etc?
Yeah, me too. I do have some experience with functional languages (Clojure) but I never enjoyed languages with these "Railway-Oriented" constructs.
I haven't found this to be a problem.

Sounds like the author needs better friends and/or a more supportive social circle.
I left LinkedIn over 2 years ago now, never looked back since. A lot of what I wrote is similar in theme - https://tomaytotomato.com/linkedout/
Well, shaving away the error margins is one way you gain efficiency. But in doing so the assumption is made that the environment is static (or sufficiently static relative to that margin). How does the fastest ground vehicle hit that mark? By being the lightest, most streamlined it can be with the most powerful motor it can contain, running on one of the flattest longest spaces it can find. Put it on a NASCAR track and the operator would be dead.

An important note is that assumptions are often not made explicitly. People don't sit down and say, "I think this vehicle will never be used on an oval race track, therefore 'steering' will be minimal, and the throttle will be full-open or full-closed". They just know they're making the fastest ground vehicle, and so those decisions are consequences of that specific objective. They happen to have an implied assumption that the vehicle will never need to operate at lower speeds or make turns.

This leads to an interesting tangent, System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) by Nancy Leveson has an objective of improving system safety. But one of the ways it does this is to raise those assumptions to the level of conscious awareness by creating an explicit system model. It's not the only process that does this, but it's making headway in the systems safety community these days.
For an open-source approach, the MaryTTS project has a guide on how to add new voices to their tool: https://github.com/marytts/marytts/wiki/VoiceImportToolsTuto...
My home's solar installation exhibits the curious behavior of producing its maximum overall single day output when there is summer morning fog which burns off around 9AM. This effect is clearly visible in the production graphs, which show a steeper energy production increase earlier in the day when these conditions are present.

My theory is that the fog moves the onset of generation earlier by reflecting low angle morning sunlight from the east down to my solar panels. The 9AM fog burnoff is critical to maximizing production because after that time, the fog begins to inhibit the production of electricity rather than enhance it.
Looks like OpenAI is going head to head with huggingface.

This makes a lot of sense and it seems they are telegraphing to monetize what they have been doing. It also seems like this is why they don't release their models in a timely manner.
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