skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, my point is that IMO they're not very memorable or real-looking names. "Elisabeth Brown Presley" feels a lot more natural and memorable than "Jacquette Brandtr Johm", at least as far I'm concerned.
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On a re-read, I'm not sure why I thought that, sorry. Context: I don't know much about machine learning and when I was scanning through comments, doing text generation one character at a time seemed silly and I must have been in the grips of "everything could be GPT!" hysteria. My robot detector needs work, clearly. Need to get educated.
Nope, should be open to access for anyone. But I posted the wrong link. This one should work: https://hub.docker.com/r/bergkvist/lib-lagraph
previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23851862
I use Cafe Bustelo's instant espresso at the ratio 1tbsp per six oz. The flavor is quite toasty and bitter, but the mouthfeel is great IMHO and it's exceedingly cheap.

I'd love a proper espresso machine or even a moka pot but alas, small children.
They seem to be involved in 7 wars currently.

The thing that is grotesque about it: there doesn’t seem to be a clear agreement or plan to stop. As if warring was some kind of natural law. From observing history it certainly seems that way.
Yeah no.

The biggest issue in all my dev work so far was a really shitty codebase which would work somehow and had and still have hidden big issues going on.

You just don't see it today perhaps and delivered it in 1 day instead of 3. But you will fix the issue in production half a year later and either have lost data, corrupted data or you have to correct data.

Not doing any tests, is literally shit.

Missing Unit tests also often means no proper CI/CD pipeline. Because yeah why would you need a proper build if you don't even execute tests anyway right?

IT IS always a clearly ignored requirement of doing proper work. Quality work. Do less, do better. Its the fault of the manager to not think about it and enforce it and its the fault of the developer to build shit.
And that is why he made his own...got the point?
> At what point do you stop being able to distinguish an agenda determined social engineering bot from a non native speaking teenage 4chan troll ?

I'm...not sure why you would want to? I can't see either being particularly helpful regarding discourse on the Internet or in real life.
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This comment (and to be fair the visualisation itself) completely misunderstands what derivatives are.

The vast majority expire and never have any value.
I appreciate Minecraft as a game.

But,instead of donating/contributing to it(because it is closed source and is paid software), i would instead donate/contribute/play https://www.minetest.net which is opensource/free alternative to Minecraft ,and minetest has better modding capabilities too.
The other responses to your comment would appear to indicate the rbenv/asdf/etc. question is still unanswered.
Higher capital gains tax would mean fewer people investing in equities, since their gains would be diminished by taxation. Fewer equity buyers means lower equity prices. People already in the markets must find a buyer to exit and realize those gains.

There may be other factors I am missing, of course, but as Walt said: tax something if you want less of it.
Yes, the emergent ability to understand commands mixed in with examples is pretty crazy.
@orf agree 100%

I just tried one now, it gave me
"Kerianne Granny Dorise the Pulchritude of Belknap preserved Anissa Gareth Elery and 26 dead bees"

What are the chances of someone spelling "Pulchritude" correctly ? Especially a non-native/non-fluent person ?

And will an American spell "Dorise" as "Dorize" if you're telling them that word on the phone ?

And the case-sensitivity of the whole thing ?

Just give me old fashioned UUID's any way of the week ! Case-insensitive and no concerns about spelling.
They do a whole lot more than just marketing gimmick, they just don't do it publicly due to risk of backlash involved in activism (and businesses hate risk!).

Now whether this "whole lot more" can be good, bad or ugly is an entirely different story!
IIRC if you edit after a certain period of time, HN marks your post with an asterisk to indicate that it's been edited.
> “ Designer General of NPO Energia Valentin Glushko”

Looks like a bad-@$$ in a leather jacket and t-shirt
I’ve been working on this app for some time now. It’s been a lot of long nights. It will start free and will let you create native apps from your iOS/iPadOS device. It would help a lot if I could get some early feedback. I want it to be an app that’s very useful for all of you :)

Release Date is July 31st, if you are interested in checking it out, I added a link to the Public TestFlight. You can also search for Pineapple Build Apps on the App Store and pre-order it.
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> it's quite common that floating point ops throwaway bits (i.e. beyond the epsilon) will be numerically different between vendors.

I think these implementation-specific shenanigans only applied to legacy x87 instructions which used 80-bit registers. SSE and AVX instructions operate on 32 or 64-bit floats. The math there, including rounding behavior, is well specified in these IEEE standards.

I’ve made a small test app: https://github.com/Const-me/SimdPrecisionTest/blob/master/ma...

It abuses AES instructions to generate long pseudo-random sequence of bits, then re-interprets these bits as floats, does some FP math on these numbers, and saves the output.

I’ve tested addition, multiplication, FMA, and float to integer conversions. All 4 output files, 1 GB / each, are bitwise equal between AMD desktop and Intel laptop.
I admit I too wish I could buffer video.

Back in the day, you could open a tab, hit pause, go back to whatever you are reading, and by the time you finish that article and maybe grab a cup of coffee, the video is fully loaded and you can watch at your leisure.

These days, all the websites are so smart that they realise that you are not on the tab and load nothing so even though the page is been open for 20-minutes, you still have the lovely privilege of sitting there staring at the throbber every so often, thanks to your work insisting on full VPN tunnelling.
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Very easy to deploy, but keeping it off of blacklists is still a neverending goose-chase that you can’t win. If you actually plan to depend on this mail server, this path will fail you.

It’s sad, really, because it’s a really cool package. It manages it’s own DNS and everything. But it’s just not enough.
Many thanks for this remark. That scenario is unfortunately within the realm of possibility -- indeed in a later chapter I will address the topic of climate.

But there are other ways of failing which I think also need to be insured against -- hence my engagement with the cyclical models of history, to see what insight they have to offer.
Can you elaborate? I can't figure out what you're referring to with just that, but I wonder whether it's a silly nickname for a common limitation of databases?
Seed finding takes quite a lot of number theory, and the following video is a good introduction: https://youtu.be/XVrR1WImOh8

Seed finding was originally important to find witch hut structures that are generated close by in order to make efficient farms. Soon speedrunners saw the utility of finding a good seed for their uses, and with the rise of pewdiepie's let's play many begun trying to figure out the seed for his world. Eventually this lead to the current project and packpng.com
> ZFS is fine, but it is overkill for most home applications

Yeah, not having silent data corruption is "overkill", sure. /s Why not use ZFS? It takes 15 seconds to install, and its CLI is fairly intuitive. Works fine. Costs $0. Why not, even for "home" applications?

I could see how it could be unsuitable for "entreprise" applications where there are strict performance requirements etc, but for home, I wish I could use ZFS everywhere.
You're assuming that those products weren't capable of reaching scale without Google's intervention. By that logic, Bill Gates should have sold Microsoft to IBM, because that is the only way Windows would have ever reached scale.
The popular coffee YouTuber and 2007 world barista champion James Hoffmann did an instant coffee roundup a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cIqLvJz8VM

Sadly I think some of the products featured aren't available outside the UK.
I am from Europe and I never thought that for things as IDE drives it has such connotation in the US. I feel sorry how things are. If American society wants to heal from this past, they will need do acknowledge the pain it brought.

Heck, in Germany quite a few two-letter abbreviations like "SS" are that taboo that you'll never find them even in numerical source code. ("SS" was the acronym for the Nazi storm troopers.) These letter combinations are utterly burnt and nobody uses them since the WWII was over.
I had thought both Adidas and Nike were made up words, like Kodak.
Because if the taxpayers pay for the research in the first place, they shouldn't have to pay for it again at point of sale for corporate profit.
Enemy of the State was overstated at the time. It resembles 21st century spying programs so closely because the US government used the movie as a blueprint to develop those programs: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01792-5
Not sure where you are working but not a lot of people work at/on a huge code base.

Most codebases are build and operated by 1-3 teams and if you are not able to reproduce your prod env as a test env, your architecture is broken.
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None of that is posted on websites with "doomscrolling". Most countries publish their laws and recommendations on their own websites.

People kept up with laws before twitter and reddit.
> It is also unfair to expect someone to just be 'equally performing' in the workplace during pregnancy.

I was equally performing during pregnancy. The thing about pregnancy is that it varies a lot.
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You can switch on the radio once a day for half an hour and get a full update while you make breakfast or something - doesn’t need any more than that really. And no chance of commenting!
Here's my alternative view:

If OpenAI had open sourced GPT-3, there would be an equivalently angry thread about how they were endangering democracy/social order/etc, and not being responsible with the powerful tool they had created (see other threads on HN regarding those working in facial recognition).

Both that group, and the one posting here have valid points, and there would be strong, valid critique of their decision no matter which way they chose.
Agreed. I love a good espresso, but enjoy most coffee. My daily home coffee is pour over with freshly ground beans. Can't really beat the flavor/price. But, I also like Starbucks and McDs coffee. If anything, they are both very consistent so you get the same cup when traveling.
Another potential application/adaptation that would be useful is lossy text compression, but I'm not excited about using 300 GB of RAM or a web service to compress and decompress text.
Thats a weird point you are making.

Yes i would test basic / standard customizations a customer would do.

I would test the customization system itself.

If it is to complex, your cusotmiztaion system will bring you much more issues later on.
Essentially the same people figureheads leading the project.
At the point of the 2019 election stopping Brexit wasn't really on the table - no major party was against it. Labour had a vague message that was not anti-Brexit. Lib Dems may have technically been anti-Brexit but have no trust (is "no Brexit" the same as "no tuition fees"?) and have fewer seats than even the SNP (oh and their leader lost her seat).

The public were basically given no choice in 2019
An avg video creator wants the money, not control. Its the reason why youtube is so hot right now. Avg user just doesn't care.
That title’s editorialised.

How about just ‘$600 Unemployment Benefit Scheme to End’?
That's a stronger opinion about their views than necessarily is true.

Based on their actions, OpenAI seems to (rightly, in my opinion) view that some people would misuse GPT-3/etc, even if the majority would not.
> I would argue that the concerning thing is that when accused of dogwhistling, while plausibly deniable, is also completely irrefutable. How can I show you that the text is not secret code words?

Once again: it’s patterns of phrases and contexts. Dogwhistles only work because of plausible deniability and people like you.

> I have only come across the great replacement theory twice and both times it was in this exact context.

This is a testament to ignorance, not the evidence that you think it is. The existence of this conspiracy theory is well attested online, as are its standard dogwhistles.

> This is McCarthyism 2.0.

If “McCarthyism 2.0” means “having some private schlub call you out on your pseudonymous account for being racist (or playing into racist language),” then the real McCarthyism must have been a real cakewalk. Funnily enough, that’s not how I learned about it.
Their are some deeper news aggregations. I would argue that Twitter is just so absolutely shallow, that it offers a misrepresentation of reality.

I read the Wall Street Journal for general/business/politics news. I feel that you really have to pay for news if you want accurate reporting. Goldman Sachs has an ok podcast for market updates.

For transient issues, you really need to dig around for where the field experts are posting their analyses... ...but it's also important not to get sucked into every online controversy/story. Achieving your life goals is about FOCUS - and most news are just distractions.

For Pandemic stuff, I listen to the 10 min clinical updates on TWIV every few days, and watch the numbers on the New York Times data charts (not the articles).

The Sans internet storm for IT security, because I'm in that field.

If there's a Iran/NK conflict going on, I'll listen to the Arms Control Wonk podcast analysis. Stuff like that - there are some great experts podcasts out there.

If I'm bored, I'll read HackerNews and ZeroHedge.

I have found very little value in what my local city/state officials have to say.
That's actually one of the internal names, which can be seen in WormNET URLs:
http://wormnet1.team17.com/wormageddonweb/Login.asp
> For GPT-2, their repository is archived

Fun fact: the GPT-3 repo (https://github.com/openai/gpt-3 ) is archived too, but it does use the GitHub archive feature, unlike the GPT-2 repo.
Yes, democracy breed nationalism (in a sens of : attachement to the nation) that makes fighting war easier. And mercenaries less relevant.

You can find historians articles that explained how revolutionary France "beat" the royalist coalition in 92 despite being dead broke.

Just as an offside remarks: history is not as fixed as wikipedia. You should always question the history you've learned. That's questions like Furet's "is the French revolution the mother of all totalitarism?" that made the field really advance. And to ask this kind of question, subjectivity is good as long as evidence can still convince you. I don't think any furetien academic is still convinced that the French revolution bred all totalitarism, but their responses to more marxist historians (as well as tehier new questions) are invaluable to make the field advance.

You really needs diversity of thought in literary fields.
Fun is fine outside production code.
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Fake it 'til you make it applies. When you're in the habit of stressing/overthinking, it's temporarily built into the way you process things. To overcome it, you have to practice controlling your mind. Sometimes starting with, "What is the worst way I could do this?" is helpful, because there's nowhere to go but up, and sometimes you trick your brain into producing solutions that seemed too ridiculous to consider - my own experience, anyway.
1. Because it's not very difficult to avoid breaking compatibility;
2. Because we don't want to invalidate the original system requirements.
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Probably projecting here, but the imo the no1 reason to start a business is writing software for others does not scale, while selling software/service is lucrative.
> Oh, and by the way, I believe saying "This AI stuff is dangerous to world", the same as politicians saying "We need to check your web history for pedophilia stuff". It's funny how some people don't see the irony in how they oppose one thing and support another that is practically the same.

Some AI/ML applications are clearly dangerous to the world. See other HN comment sections when facial recognition comes up.
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It would be great as a "lorem ipsum" generator ...
> because the motors and other moving parts become increasigly efficient (& are already much better than a combustion engine) then less energy is required for the same resulting work

The resulting work is more important than the efficiency. Teslas have exceptionally low air drag, which is great for driving range.

However when you go from 80 to 90% system efficiency, you only increase range by 12%. Once youre at 99%, you really cant improve any more. 99% to 99.5% means the motor outputs half as much heat but goes hardly any farther.
Readers may find this brief statistical review useful:

https://zenodo.org/record/3952241
> Being in a global pandemic is arguably much more stressful than work.

Depends where you live and on your lifestyle. I know that for me and close friends it actually has the opposite effect, I'm much more chill than before covid and I doubt we're the only ones.
That makes me think we are closer rather than farther away because all that would be needed is for this model to recognize the problem space in a question:

“Oh, you are asking a math question, you know a human doesn’t calculate math in their language processing sections of their brain right, neither do I... here is your answer”

If we allowed the response to delegate commands, it could start to achieve some crazy stuff.
> less competitive pressure abroad

Or in other words, better quality of life? Yes, you can drive a new beemer, have a house with a pool and and 3 holidays abroad every year in China too -- if you are the one in a hundred to win the job lottery and work 60 hours a week not to get sacked (or if your daddy is a CCP aristocrat).

In the US/Western Europe/Japan at least half the people can affort that upper-middle class living standard, while only working 40 hours.

It's less competitive pressure because everyone can achieve it.
Google was willing to pay the most. This means it was more confident than anyone else of being able to scale the products.
This is a bad idea that does not bring any benefits.

All code that goes to the master branch must have been vetted (code reviews and tests).

It is perfectly possible to submit code to a review branch and then to merge it onto the master branch once reviewed. This can even be automated when used with code review tools, e.g. Gerrit.

Btw, dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23870194
I would link to https://www.minetest.net. The certificate on that site doesn't include the bare domain without www.
I don't have much to add but I'm upvoting in order to lend your question more visibility.

I'm not sure if it can be measured directly somehow, that is why I'm often skeptical of published findings in social sciences. I feel like there often too many factors (especially unconscious) at play. For example I read a couple of the seminal books on Charisma and Social Influence and too often wondered how much of the influential effect must actually be attributed to the (conventional) physical attractivity and the "Halo" effect[1].

>So my question would be, how do you assess that your 'problem-solving' abilities have improved over time?

'Number of solved problems' would be some kind of benchmark.
The 'harder' the problem is, which you solved, the 'greater' the skill must be.

I have an acquintance that does research on "Gamifying" approaches to mental health issues (depression, ADHD, etc.).
To me what you're looking for really sounds like some kind of skill-tree. The kind you find in a lot of RPG-based games[2].

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

[2]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dtq3sE_WoAAt8GO?format=jpg&name=...
Use https://www.minetest.net/ because for some reason the SSL cert only covers the www subdomain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_base_effect
You can read 'The Coaching Habit' to help you in your relationship with subordinates.

'Getting to Yes' and 'Exactly What to Say' could be helpful books when you have to negotiate with your superiors or peers.
For the past 4 weeks I was in North West Florida and it was almost impossible to get coins. I went to 3 grocery stores and they all denied me. Gas stations even had signs warning customers to use exact change. The credit unions in my network wouldn’t give anything out either.

Thankfully Loomis dropped a bunch off at my condo’s property management office. Most places told me they were only accepting new coins from the cash delivery companies due to COVID.
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I wish the post was more clear about its actual scenario, because:

My spicy take is that if you are concerned about email, instead of trying to be cool you should skip PGP and just put up a Google Form.

This is perfectly reasonable for Golang, which is a Google project anyway, but not for the rest of the planet.
This really should be titled "How Ruby on Rails Could Be Much Better for Shared Hosting", as that's where the issue really was for Dreamhost at the time. In a shared hosting environment back then:

* You didn't get root shell access. Dreamhost were (and still are) one of the good platforms in that they allowed shell access at all. Many shared hosting platforms didn't even do that, requiring you to upload files using FTP.

* The services provided were generally ones where a single server process (or processes) could serve a large number of shared hosting tennants: a web server with many virtual hosts, PHP applications running within that shared web server, jabber services, mail services, etc.

* All web server configuration was either through the control panel or .htaccess files, because you were sharing the web server instance with everyone else on your shared server.

* The economics of shared hosting meant you couldn't keep processes running for each individual hosting user for an extended period of time: memory was just too expensive to dedicate that way.

Rails didn't really fit this model: a production Rails app loads all the code in to memory and then expects to run for a number of hours serving requests. Shared hosting required these processes to shut down when there was no traffic to the site, and then start up on demand when a new request for the app came in. So the fundamental problem was not "Ruby on Rails needs to be a helluva lot faster", it was "Rails is too slow to start up to serve a single HTTP request and then be shut down again".

I did run a production Rails app on Dreamhost shared hosting for a while: it seemed to receive just enough traffic not to get killed, but not so much that it became an issue. But as soon as virtual server hosting became cheap enough to make the jump, we moved.
Saving commits are good for code archeology. Like initial implementation did not work because
Ppl are people. A hawker centre is something between a street food market and a food court (specifically in Singapore).
You can calculate it yourself.

Europe (exl Russia) is around 176000
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