skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, GPT-3 isn't any kind of general intelligence - it's explicitly architected as a language model - something that learns to pay attention to prior context to predict what word comes next. The only kind of world model it has is a statistical model of what word is most likely to come next based on the corpus it has been trained on.

You could argue that general intelligence is also based on prediction, and that a human's world model therefore isn't so different in nature, but there are some very significant differences ...

1) GPT-3's model is based only on a corpus of text (facts, lies, errors, etc) it was fed... there is no grounding in reality.

2) GPT-3 is only a passive model - it's not an agent that can act or in any way attempt to validate or augment it's world model.

3) GPT-3 is architecturally a language model .. it can get better with better or more data, but it's never going to be more than a language model.

The difference between a 3-year old's brain and GPT-3 is that the 3-year old's brain is not a one-trick pony ... it's a complex cognitive architecture, honed by millions of years evolution, capable of performing a whole range of tasks, not just language modelling.

The 3-year old's brain also has the massive advantage of being embedded in a 3-year old autonomous agent able to explore and interact with the world it's world model is representing... It you tell GPT-3 pigs can fly then as far as it is concerned pigs can fly, whereas the 3-year old can go seek out pigs and see that, in fact, they can't.
Tell HN: Triplebyte ignoring account deletion, unsubscribe requests
I have “permanently” deleted my account thru the formal process given by Triplebyte on their website when the last Triplebyte drama occurred a few weeks back. I have also unsubscribed from their corporate emails, their community newsletters, EVERYTHING, multiple times.

And yet, this morning, I receive yet another email from Triplebyte with this text at the bottom:

“You received this email because you have an account with Triplebyte.”

Screenshot proof (see date on deletion email vs the one I just received this morning at 8:40am): https://imgur.com/a/BmrirNH

Edit: issue identified and supposedly resolved - will be sure to post again if I receive any more emails.

Thank you.
And the A13 was built on ULP node with a maximum power budget of less than 6W. There is no reason why an A13 built on HP node with power budget of 20W and active cooling cant reach 4Ghz +.
See, that ancedote tells me absolutely nothing.

If he was rich, why did he have a roomate? Was this pre-riches? How in the world would you know he was a 'large' prescriber of Adderall? How would anyone go about making that claim? Did he happen to be a psychiatrist in a private practice and/or a specialist in his field? Was he in a lot of debt? I know it is an ancedote, but it doesn't really say much.

As far as "I've never seen a biological study...". This goes for a lot of things. People only usually bring it up with things like ADHD or whatever favorite thing is viewed as 'over-diagnosed', though. In this case, a quick google search can get you information that explains the brain scan differences comparing ADHD to neurotypical kids - like this one:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016271/
There is a very great portion of the American left that cares about economic status. I do believe that admissions should factor in socioeconomic status rather than just race, gender, etc., but believing this does not require me to generalize a very wide reaching political stance.
For me, having one beer when coding helps because it removes my discomfort of sitting in a chair for very long. If I've been sitting for a while and coding, my mind is willing but my body is complaining about the discomfort. A bit of alcohol goes a long way to help that.
Nothing is wrong with `Vec<Box<dyn EventHandler>>` itself; the issues are around the ergonomics of using trait objects in general (e.g. with regards to requiring that types that implement EventHandler also implement Clone, as mentioned in the parent comment).
Fascinating. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain further!
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Range calculations aren't done the same as as mpg estimates.

There's tons of anecdotes and tests linked in the other thread. A Model S has trouble going 300 miles at 80mph, let alone 400 miles.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23534540
If you have

Obj f(Obj a, Obj b);

in C++, you pass in Obj's vtable twice, and the returned value includes a vtable.

If you have

f :: Obj a => a -> a -> a

in Haskell, you pass in one dictionary. If you have

f :: (Obj a, Obj b) => a -> b -> a

in Haskell, you pass in two dictionaries. If you have

f :: (Obj a, Obj b, Obj c) => a -> b -> c

you pass in three dictionaries, and the caller gets to decide what the concrete type of c is, NOT the function implementation.

data DynObj = forall c. Obj c => DynObj c
f :: (Obj a, Obj b) => a -> b -> DynObj

In this case, you pass in two dictionaries and the returned value has a vtable. This essentially is what C++ does.
The treadmill has its origins as a torture device in Victorian prisons
When I was in high school (late '80s) vocational school was an option, and even regular high school had a good selection of shop classes. From what I understand this was mostly dismantled because of cost, liability, and the implied stigma of 'only' being a vocational school student. After all, if 'No Child Left Behind' then why would you send some to one school and some to another.

This kind of forced homogenization of outcomes is why many in the US are so skeptical of progressivism- instead of accepting that Johnny might succeed as a plumber let's force him to be another mediocre college-track student because the educational establishment 'knows' that's the only way to be successful.
This answers a different question, which is “where does the gravitational force go when I can’t feel it”.
Great, practical advice for companies of that size. We can debate about whether it's unfortunate that it's necessary (I'd tend to agree that it is), but learning how to do this is the basic block and tackling required to get things moving at BigCos.
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The "a skin rash I still struggle with until today" is probably skin thinning, too. Powerful steroids can permanently reduce the thickness of the skin, revealing capillaries in thin-skinned places like the face. It can look like a permanent sunburn.
Why would anyone dismiss it as slander? Eradication of Jews had been the stated goal of the Nazi party from the beginning. Progroms like kristallnacht was used as propaganda for the Nazi party. The Nuremberg laws was a matter of public record.
What Is Azure Static Web Apps? – Microsoft Docs
The 24/7 rain is exaggerated. I'd say it's getting quite rainy during the rainy season (I admit I also don't like this season much), but we have quite a bit of beautiful sunny days, especially when you head to south.
> Which is why I like Apple’s forced restrictions and “monopoly” of software on its devices.

A "monopoly" is not actually required for this. They can have their store and impose their restrictions even if there are competing stores. If users actually prefer those restrictions, they can still choose to buy apps only from that store, or only from stores that impose restrictions they like. That doesn't require the store to be tied to the hardware or to have a monopoly.

But notice that users have no reason to prefer a store that takes a 30% cut or prohibits apps that compete with Apple's or rejects apps based on opaque and arbitrary reasoning or political pressure. So the store could still do all the things you want, but the competitive pressure would keep it from doing the things that only Apple wants, because then another store could impose the restrictions you want but not the bad ones.
"develop" here refers to the process of (potentially) researching and then subsequently writing the software that exploits a vulnerability (an 'exploit'). It's used in the same sense as any other software development.

The process of discovering a vulnerability is called 'vulnerability research'.

So when Schneier says Facebook paid for an exploit to be developed, it means they paid for software that exploits a vulnerability.

In the case of paying for such exploits, it's not always clear who exactly did the research. Often the research comes from a third party who put together a simple proof of concept that demonstrates only that the security control can be breached (the PoC) -- then, a contractor may buy this vulnerability ('0day') from e.g. zerodium and develop an exploit for it, which will usually be pretty much point and shoot so you don't need an exploit dev team to leverage it.

Hope that makes sense.
I spent a month there in 1998 working with a software development partner. Language was a complete non-issue in the office but I definitely would have liked to have some conversational Chinese for dining, shopping, taxis, etc. but I’d assume the generational shift I saw then has continued in the last 20 years, too.
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> Intent to kill is something a sociopath does, do you think police force has more of them than the rest of society?

Actually, yes, they are filled with sociopaths. It's well known that lower-intelligence people become police. The police actively reject candidates with higher intelligence because the theory is that they become bored.

Also, it's well known that the occupation attracts bullies, who love the idea of bullying people and having power over regular citizens.

What you end up having is a group of low-IQ bullies, and they control the entire police force, because the "good" cops don't want to rock the boat. The stupid, boisterous bullies are the ones that create the culture of silence and complicity, and ultimately violence. I believe that cops love the idea that they are at war against the common citizen, which is why they draw their guns and escalate situations even before anything has happened.
Big tired after an intense day, and I haven't really sat down and digested the article, but it seems close enough that I think my - admittedly primitive - tip can be of relevance.

If you get stuck, you tell yourself in whatever way you want, and honestly, some version of the following: "I don't understand this thing that is happening, but I know there is a cause. It does not happen without cause."

Honestly, it's a bit odd, and I don't know if that's the best way to express it in English. Nevertheless, several people have some back to me and told me that it has helped them.

My initial inspiration, and hypothesis is that the simple acknowledgement that I don't understand the problem, and that the problem still - despite my lack of understanding - still follow the laws of cause and effect, somehow temporarily halts our brains tendency to protect our ego at almost any cost, logic be damned.

I started trying this out after puzzling about why it's unreasonably common to figure out the answer to something only moments after you get up from your desk to go ask someone else for help, even when you might have worked with it for hours. It had to have a reason, although I don't know exactly what it is!
But we are talking about the MacOS users, not iPhone users... They won't be affected by this.
Why do websites hijack the back button?

The article was interesting but I’m always turned off by pages to make me hit the back button like 20 times to actually go to the previous page I was visiting.
That seems like a very unreliable source. The author's credentials are "Oxford graduate" and "university lecturer".
Have you seen the iPhone pricing strategy? Yes they’ve moved up asp for the high end but are also now selling a $400 phone with chips that outperform anything else in the Android market. It’s very likely some of this margin will be shifted to consumers
It isn't generalizing a political stance, but summarizing the dominant narrative given to us by the media and what I call the new American left.

If the narrative was mostly about economic status, we would hear more about that and about universal programs. Rather than disparities and identity politics.
Here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15207/the-snapdragon-865-perf...

A13 still comes out a fair bit ahead in performance, but not in energy usage.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...

Feel free to try and explain it away but to say no one is calling for this would at this point be willful blindness. I have complete freedom to think that many of the protests demands are dangerous, poorly thought out and outright foolish.
I guess we live a similar life but in a different country (Canada vs Portugal?) which probably accounts for the difference. All those things you say are true but they just don't cost anything here and, besides that, it's mostly alway warm so those costs we don't have. I don't commute as I have forever worked from home (with rising salary, also forever).

We have chickens, many (fruit)trees, make beer, cider and wine. Outside gym. Pizza oven. It's great.
> But I'm not talking about jobs, at all. The US needs a robust manufacturing sector so that it remains economically competitive. Figuring out how to translate that economic competitiveness into material benefits for individuals is a separate problem. Confusing the two is itself a risk to our economic competitiveness. (To make this point is a somewhat hyperbolic way: if the goal is jobs, build a canal through the center of the country. Using spoons.)

Why, then, did you ignore the other chart I pointed out that specifically dealt with the economic value?

> Also, I think the manufacturing output numbers alone miss something important from my original post. Losing semiconductor manufacturing as a core competency also threatens the most profitable and important components of the US services sector.

I agree that losing this competency would be damaging. I disagree that it represents a threat. The threat is the continued consolidation of certain types of semiconductor manufacturing into an ever-shrinking pool of companies. While it would be slightly better if that pool were partly concentrated in the US, the size and diversity of that pool is a much bigger issue than where its members are located.
This is a good point. Potential energy is relative to a datum, which is arbitrary. So you could say a box on a table has no potential gravitational energy relative to the table, but it does have some relative to the floor. But there was no actual change in energy between the two measurements.
The best description I've heard is that energy is a measure of relationship. The spaceship on earth and in space has a relationship with the other planet the whole time, there's just very little that will happen as a result of that relationship until the distance between the two gets smaller.
I game on Mac, and I’m not excited about losing access to Steam.
But I have a 2018 MBP and I probably wouldn’t upgrade for a few years yet anyway.

Depending on how the announcement and rollout goes I could see myself buying one of the last intel 16” MacBooks, or just being content with my 2018, and either way not upgrading for a while.

I suspect that if the transition is “successful,” the first year or two on ARM will include a few noticeable trade offs, but those will quickly be “washed away” by a substantial performance gap where Apple’s hardware is just a LOT better than everyone else.

And if the transition is “unsuccessful,” well, I may end up finally buying a gaming PC... or just deciding I don’t care about the small handful of PC games I play and sticking to console.

Gaming on Mac has been second class for.... ever, so I would say anyone who really cares already has a windows machine.

But one last thought, keep in mind that while the quality of games is somewhat lower, the quantity on iOS is off the charts, including many games with high end graphics.

In a weird twist of fate, it’s possible that Apple’s decision to merge its desktops and laptops into the same architecture as its mobile phones actually increases the total addressable market so much that game makers are _more_ interested in doing the small amount of extra work it would take to make a game work on Mac as well as iOS. This happened when Firaxis started making Civ for iOS and then ended up updating the Mac version to use Metal, and when they did the performance was worlds better.
I've used Apple routers for many years, but since they've been discontinued I wonder what I'll do when I need to replace them. All the major alternatives seem to have crap software that requires frequent reboots and has security issues.

Can anyone recommend an awesome wireless router that works great off the shelf? I don't want to have to learn how to flash it with DD-WRT.
IMO your last statement is kind of ridiculous. Intel is literally the only company that does high volume wafer manufacturing in the US at anything approaching leading edge geometries. Are there any other American companies the government could even realistically support? (The only other US company that has any modern wafer fabs in the US is Micron and the only really have R&D and legacy long-life products being manufactured in the US.) Maybe if this program occurred 20 years ago you might have had another option. (And you would have basically looked like an idiot as for the next 10 years Intel pretty much made all the right decisions in manufacturing while everyone else in the US went down dead ends.)
VC firm that led a $2M round without meeting the founders in person
Building a one-time file sharing personal service with AWS CDK and Python
"once" is a personal cloud service that enables you to upload a local file of any size and get a link in return.

This link will allow one single download operation, deleting the file once it has been successfully transferred.

It has been designed to run on AWS using only serverless components.

It can be easily provisioned to a private AWS account and it has been designed to have a negligible footprint on the bill.
I am sick of having to assume my network hardware is trivially compromised.

What will it take for me to be able to purchase a microkernel driven router/access-point with audited drivers (or Rust based)? I would settle for mediocre performance (ie no gigabit) if I could have some strong security guarantees.

Can I setup Redox or seL4 as home network hardware at this point? Or would the pain threshold still be quite high?
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Nope most do, I’m a homeschooled student and I got accepted into both UofT’s engsci and Uwaterloo software eng without a high school diploma.

they consider you on a case by case basis and recommend/require that you take 5-6 grade 12 courses that you can take at a school or through distance learning. Other standardized tests like the Sat and ap exams are also recommended
Scientists hail dexamethasone as ‘major breakthrough’ in treating coronavirus
This is the problem. The family should reject the violent individual and turn in the person as a collective.

If the police were genuinely "good", they would act as a unit and reject the bad ones. In fact, the opposite happens, and they keep silent when bad cops commit crimes, and they reject the good ones who try to actually try to be good.

This is the culture that needs to be destroyed and rebuilt.
Unless I happen to use Windows, where emacs is very slow for me to use comfortably.
A perennial classic. Still pertinent after nearly twenty years.
I reccommend also doing some reading about foundational lattice field theory concepts in parallel with classic QFT. Comparing and contrasting the two can help with understanding both. Maybe start with ultraviolet divergence? Lattice based theories have also been more successful as far as making good predictions. I think it appeals to intuition that people who write software may find more familiar.
Technovation: Insurtech with Travelers CTO/COO
In this episode, Mojgan discusses the company’s commitment to making innovation part of its DNA and the strategic pillars the company has put in place, which are focused on evolving the way the company works to drive integrated teams to push the blurring of lines between business and technology. First, the company leverages design thinking methodologies and always starts with the customer and works backward, and it has small multifunctional teams of technologists and business experts. Second, the company has developed a strategic architecture, driving modernization and simplification where appropriate. Lastly, but most importantly is talent, which the company considers its advantage multiplier. Mojgan cites that Travelers drives new skill sets and engineering talent in a variety of ways. We also discuss Mojgan’s view on the future of women in technology, and the revolution she sees happening in that regard, how Mojgan looks at the company’s 160-year old history as a position of extreme strength, how Mojgan’s diverse career path has colored her experience at Travelers, and a variety of other topics.
But there might also be a performance hit with a GPU... There are various antipatterns like drawing on a canvas and then reading back the pixels repeatedly that perform atrociously with a GPU (due to the latency between the CPU and GPU). Some sites do a lot of that for things like custom font rendering, fingerprinting user hardware, custom data decompression algorithms that use canvas, etc.
To put a more cynical twist on it for those less emotionally inclined, the contradiction between a US that believes in equality between humans and 30% of its population suffering from the legacy of slavery will eventually tear US society apart. It doesn't matter if you don't personally feel guilt or the need to fix this racial inequality, if this issue doesn't get fixed there may not be a US in the future. Responsibility means dealing with the problems of life even if you don't want to and wish it didn't exist before those problems spiral out of control.
> If the attacker doesn't actually know the encryption key then the data will be garbled

That depends on exactly what sort of cipher scheme is used. I don't know what exact scheme we're talking about here (it wasn't described in the post and I didn't go hunting any further) but there are stream constructions where if you change a bit in the ciphertext, it changes a corresponding bit in the plaintext that comes out. This is because in these modes the keystream is independent of the data and the ciphertext is the result of XORing the keystream with the plaintext. The plaintext is unrecoverable without the key, but what's decoded can be manipulated, even without knowing what it is. Mac-then-encrypt is definitely a problem in that circumstance.

Encrypt-then-Mac is better in that it protects you from even decrypting anything before you've authenticated the source.

> it can leak out into everything, ... MAC, timing...

A good MAC algorithm doesn't leak anything about the plaintext. A good mac-checking algorithm doesn't give anything away with timing either.

(edited to remove references to CFB, my memory of that stream construction was inaccurate, but the point in general stands, if I can manipulate some of the ciphertext that make known-changes to the plaintext decryption, I'm back to being able to make a timing analysis on MAC checking. It's better to check the MAC first, and in constant time.)
I have one, and I do a lot of programming on it, but it has serious overheating problems, even on things like video calls or driving a 4K screen (god forbid you try a video call on a 4K screen). It brings my colleagues great hilarity when I have to get up and get an ice pack in the middle of a call.