skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting example of a pseudo-research article. It indeed looks like it's using scientific approach to an important problem, but the method is questionable:

- why did the authors pick 2,000 feet and 4,000 feet as thresholds? They refer to another article, but that article doesn't shed much light onto the problem as well

- why does the research cover the range of 1996-2006?

- the article looks at the low-income housing project built in 1996-2006. What's about the projects built before that?

- what was located on the site before the project was built?
The Mill (seems to be chugging along if any one is looking for an update) is an interesting take on the problem.

If you're not familiar its a (in development) exposed pipeline (static scheduling) VLIW ISA - not unheard of in DSP land but genuinely alien compared to a CISC scalar processor a la X86 or ARM. I'm not particularly optimistic about their chances of making into the shops but they haven't failed yet.
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There's actually precedent for this - sci-gen got papers accepted in IEEE and Springer publications, through peer review, and they had to investigate their back catalogue to look for others.

Given the propensity for academic writing to often favour the strategy of confusing the author through obfuscation (to make a minor advance sound more significant than it is), I suspect tools like this could, as you say, actually get published papers in some fields like social sciences. In an engineering or science paper you can check equations match conclusions, and that graphs match data etc.

In a more qualitative field of work, reviewed in a publish-or-perish system that doesn't incentivise time spent on detailed reviewing, I think there's a very real risk babble like this just comes across like every other paper they "review".

I think it takes a certain level of confidence to dismiss others' work as nonsensical waffle, but sadly this is a confidence many lack, and they assume there must be some sense located therein. Marketing text is a great place to train yourself to recognise much of what is written is meaningless hocum.

Sci-Gen - https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/

Reporting on withdrawals of papers - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278619529_Detection...
> Communism has "failed" in a lot of places, mostly due to
> the US strongly intervening to make it so.

The Great Leap Forward was not down to the US. Nor was the Cultural Revolution. Nor were Stalin's massacres. Enough said.
I certainly don't expect a magic bullet that solves everything, but I would like it to be treated like any other chronic illness. A single point of contact to help track and manage her symptoms, a care plan to ease her back into life with the expectation that some symptoms will be here forever, and the hope that they won't.
My whole comment was an answer to that exact question. The government pays, because the government paying smooths out the hit. The cost is more equitably distributed over the whole population, as opposed to being concentrated in a few unlucky neighborhoods.
I don't think we have any non-trivial treatments that are safe and effective enough to use on non-hospitalized folks. Until a patient's condition gets bad enough to justify risky/unpleasant interventions, rest and hydration seem like the proper prescription.
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The article’s first graphic is from a randomized 60-day follow-up. It shows fatigue and breathlessness for 50% and chest pain at around 20%.

This is among diagnosed patients, not those self-selecting to seek to seek treatment for their ongoing problems. It’s possible that some bias is introduced by people who are now completely fine being less likely to cooperate. But I doubt that any durch effect would make more than marginal differences.

It also ignores everyone who did not get tested, either because they did not have symptoms, because they just assumed they had it, or who couldn’t get tested (Italy in March was...busy).
Yes, it does. By comparing them to teach other, the broader trend in the housing market is held constant. They may be making other errors, but this isn't one of them.
Only if you believe 1996-2006 is impartial information 14 years later and not cherry picked
There's more to it than that. If you're applying for a junior position with no experience and a 4-year CS degree, you will very likely get an interview. If you apply for the same position with an online course or two, you're far less likely to get an interview.
Yeah, somewhere around first third, I skipped to the end to see if there was something about the text being GPT-3 generated.

I can't say what exactly ticked me off, but it's written in this very meandering, vacuous way - I wasn't really sure what the article was going for, some paragraphs are outright pointless (2nd in "Are you being served", for instance) - but of course, those are not solely marks of AI-generated text, but also of simply bad writing.

To realize that AI is now capable of producing a bad, but passable article without being obviously nonsensical, is still astonishing.
That would be SYSCL with pluggable backends, as they also decided to move beyond OpenCL.
I've tried racket/typed before and my knowledge or experience with it might be outdated, but sometimes I just could not get it to agree with my code. I fix one typing warning or thing it cannot infer and another would pop up. I fix the other, then a third pops up. I try to fix the third one, but realize I cannot and need to go back to the original state. When such things do not happen, it is very cool though. The code behing typed racket for me seems so mind bogglingly complex, I did not dare to investigate further. It is a language composed of macros, which use rackets macrology stuff, which is already more complex than other Schemes'. That language can be used to design any type system as far as I read about it.

With my typing trouble I should have come to the user list and asked, but I dId not, frustrated and thinking I was too stupid to get it ^^'

I did once at least see a question on the mailing list, where the answer was, that typed racket could not do it, as in infer types, so it might not be perfect yet, or perhaps it did improve since then.

I wish more Schemes could just copy the typed part of typed racket, using that macro language, as in theory they should be able to represent it, but I guess the devil is in the detail and slightly different workings of macro facilities.
Well I guess I have to expand the symbols for you, here we go:
No api stability heuristically imply no production readiness does not imply that api stability imply production readiness.

As you snarkily imply, the contrapositive should be common sense and not need to be stated. Yet your brain failed to see that your comment on gets() is exactly such a needless truism.
Came here to say this. In the prompt there was no example of rejecting a question for being nonsensical.
It really comes down to personality.

Highly creative people generally rank low on conscientiousness. Organisations as they grow need ALL their employees to be conscientious: organised, punctual, goal-oriented, accountable - to not just to control outcomes but maintain cohesiveness.

Organisation culture stifles those type of people.

For an organisation to keep their innovators they need to be siloed away in an autonomous 'Skunk Works' where they can be free from the bureaucracy required to run a company.
If you're not going to use the success value, you can ignore errors in Rust easily:

let _ = something_returning_Result();

This does not even give a warning.
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Have you ever hired human text writers?

I have. And I can tell you even with not-so-poorly-paid people you often get craptacular results. Writing is really damn hard, especially writing something which require domain knowledge.

From examples I've seen, it looks like GPT-3 works a lot better than your average human writer, for a fraction of cost, for a fraction of time.

A lot of low-quality content you see on the web is more of a copy-paste job than actual writing. Arguable, GPT-3 is also doing a transformative copy-paste, but it remixes content of thousands of sources in a coherent way. Most people can't do that.
In what concerns Android, Google would could have done better for WebP adoption than just dump a sample into Github and hope for the best.

https://github.com/android/ndk-samples/tree/master/webp
I think they will become even less valuable than they are now. If the cost to entry and completion is so low and people are speedrunning the material, the certification becomes worthless over time.
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> seems to be chugging along if any one is looking for an update

Cite? I've been looking for recent updates and haven't found any.
In this case it probably would be better to put more effort into attracting businesses to the US in general and to the smaller towns in particular.
My wife is cabin crew at BA. The best example I can give of things they need to know is how to let a bomb explode and leave the aircraft going. There's a procedure on how to cover a found bomb with layers of chairs, wet blankets, etc. She also needs to know all the ways to extinguish a fire, depending on its source.
Another problem is that most of the world is still too busy trying (and failing) to control the spread of infection. They don't have much attention to spare for people who aren't deemed infectious anymore.
Twitter (and "social media" in general [0]) is an extreme outlier.

Cancel culture is real, and a bit of real progress might be happening too, but judging it simply based on twitter is like judging anything based on what the most abrasive drunks throw at each other in pubs.

[0] the big problem of twitter and FB is that really anyone can talk to anyone, just comment whatever their completely unsolicited opinion happens to be. there's no moderation. there are likes, but there's no downvote. at least on reddit each community can set and try to keep their norms. and HN has dang :)
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I found this link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=VsqMpNrmTkioFJyEllK8sx3ELsv0PEhHphhNz30FttVUNkYwTlNPMVI1V0lXNjExMlExUlc4SE5YSS4u on openai.com, however, I am not sure if this is the link to be on the waiting list. Or, is the playground located somewhere else and I am looking at the wrong place?
(IANAD) I wonder if any of the neurological symptoms like depression and memory-loss are caused by chronic inflammation following infection. Virus reservoirs are mentioned in the article. Could it be that there are bits of broken up, deactivated virus floating around triggering auto-immune conditions?
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>What are humans except "text generation" machines?

Text generation doesn't chop wood, optimize speedruns, build machinery or win 100-metre dashes.

Text may be involved in training for these things, but to say that doing them is text generation would be like saying that... since compiling code and running AlphaZero both generates bits, AlphaZero is a compiler.
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They are it's just not obvious. Most of the budget never reaches the students and the teachers. I think 80% goes to administration or something usually. Very bad. Both schools may be getting the same amount of money but one will spend more on students and teachers. Some need metal detectors. One class clown or disturbance is all it needs to fuck up the whole teaching environment.
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Because one of the top complaints is how Vulkan is found lacking versus proprietary API SDKs, even with what LunarG provides to Khronos.
I am seeing 100s of GPT-3 demos around the internet now and wanted to give it a try. Ergo, asking here.
It’s interesting to see that it’s not necessarily that Keynesianism works, it’s just that is helps governments avoid making decisions. And this has made it incredibly popular.

I don’t think it can be used forever. It’s a bit like carrying on drinking on a hangover. After a while it’s going to catch up with you and the longer you carry on the worse it will be at the end.
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All you need is one bad student to distract the class. That effect is not small.
It's not an issue with sentinel values, but an issue with not escaping your inputs

I don't believe tar "falls for" such a stupid trick.

Confusing metadata with actual data is a classic security blunder

tl;dr: cpio has amateurish levels of input validation/handling
Can you elaborate on what "bootstrapped technical PhD into data science/ML jobs" means? Because to me it sounds like you got a higher paying job because of your PhD, not because of the Coursera stuff.
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Some times they team up, BUT if the citizens dont like what they do, both teamed up partys will loose in the next elections, so it's in the interest of every single one party to bind the voters they care for, sometimes they overlap and than they team up.
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> I completely disagree.

Disagreeing is alright, but here you don't really do, do you? I can translate the paragraph you have written into pseudocode:

> If that operation requires the contents of the file, then the program cannot continue unless it successfully reads the contents of the file. (...) If you cannot open the file, there isn't any more to do.

if (file opening fails):
stop doing things
else:
continue with your operations

This is just a regular "if-else" that can be done with any programming language. The behavior of your program when the file cannot be opened is part of the specification; just as its behavior when it can be opened. I agree with you on that, and I add that the desired behavior can always be implemented using regular control flow constructions. You do not need a specific language construct for "errors", as you have proven by the algorithm that you have described in your text.
Never mind, found it at last. Here is the link: https://beta.openai.com.

In other words, the link I pasted in the post is the correct one.
Quote from another story (by Der Spiegel):

>Long-term* symptoms reported by COVID-19 patients

>47% general fatigue

>24% prolonged respiratory problems

>*longer than 30 days; analysis of a study of COVID-19 symptoms from King's College London;

>8,065 people who tested positive, of whom 857 had long-term symptoms

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/covid-19-many-peo...
My point is the government never really pays, we pay the government after all, but I understand your point too.
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Regarding Android, yeah I get that it's optional (I actually didn't know that recent versions had made it mandatory). If you view Android as analogous to Windows though then I think it makes sense. There's lots of different devices running Android, some of which aren't even phones. My point is that, similar to desktop GPUs, you can choose a "lowest common denominator" API based on the maximum age of the physical devices that you want to support.

I don't see a problem with that approach. In fact it seems to be about the best you can hope for when it comes to hardware APIs in general (unless you're Apple and control all the hardware) since things are constantly being revised and redesigned.

Regarding Windows, what are you saying here? That Windows Store apps will be getting Win32 support in the near future because the sandbox will finally be able to accommodate it (but VK and GL will still be blocked)? Or that native (unsandboxed) Win32 apps will become sandboxed (and thus restricted) in the near future? (I suspect the former, which is neat but doesn't change anything regarding graphics APIs.)

I did learn a few new things here but am still left with the general impression that Vulkan has reasonably broad (and increasing) support while OpenGL ES 2.0 can target pretty much everything worth supporting (including most web browsers). (Of course I'd strongly prefer to use a more modern API than ES 2.0 if it's available.)
I was kind of hoping they would ask it some political questions. One of the very concerning things for me about these kinds of systems is their impact on political discourse, especially online.

If a system can be trained to advocate for a political viewpoint to the level of online debate without human interaction that could cause some interesting effects in online discourse.
You would enjoy Saygin et al, (2000) [1] ('Turing test: 50 years later).

'Not getting math right' is part of a classic repertoire of cheap hacks used to pass the Turing test by mimicking 'how' a human might speak. This includes pauses in typing, grammatical errors, fillers such as 'like' and on son in order to pass the TT, instead of building language competency so well that passing the TT is a by-product.
It's like 'teaching to the test' instead of teaching the subject.

"Some people interpret the TT as a setting in which you can "cheat". The game has no rules constraining the design of the machines. At some places in the paper, Turing describes how machines could be "rigged" to overcome certain obstacles proposed by opponents of the idea that machines can think.

"A very obvious example is about machines making mistakes. When the machine is faced with an arithmetical operation, in order not to give away its identity by being fast and accurate, it can pause for about 30 seconds before responding and occasionally give a wrong answer. Being able to carry out arithmetical calculations fast and accurately is generally considered intelligent behavior. However, Turing wishes to sacrifice this at the expense of human-ness.

"Some commentators think this is "cheating". The machine is resorting to certain "tricks" in its operations rather than imitating the human ways. However, arithmetic is a highly specific domain. Modifying the programs in this manner cannot hurt: If a machine can pass the test, it can then be re-programmed not to cheat at arithmetic. If it does not resort to this, the interrogator can ask a difficult arithmetical problem as his/her first question and decide that he/she is dealing with a machine right then and there."

[1]: Saygin, A. P., Cicekli, I., & Akman, V. (2000). Turing test: 50 years later. Minds and machines, 10(4), 463-518.
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No, not in the statistical sense.
I wonder if this power could be useful to generate diverse viewpoints. Even though the ideas would not be genuinely novel, the fact that the model has effectively read most of the internet could still be useful. You could imagine using a paragraph of output from each of these prompts to help form your own opinion:

"Bitcoin is the best thing since sliced-bread"

"Bitcoin will destroy the world"

"What would Kissinger have thought of bitcoin?"

"Why bitcoin will fail"

"Why bitcoin will beat Facebook's libra"

etc.

I have no idea if this would work well enough, and the implications of bias in the system need to be considered.
They need to _appear_ to have their customers’ (oops I meant users’) interests in mind.
The time between diagnosis and eventual death is not key. What's key is the cause of death and whether a patient had been cured in the meantime.

If someone is successfully treated, discharged from hospital then dies from an unrelated cause (a scenario they mention in the article) then they do have a point. I doubt these are common cases, though, but they should indeed be evaluated and corrected.

But their proposal to have a hard cut-off of 21 days after diagnosis is equally flawed although I can see the government being keen on lowering official stats...
> On Windows, using OpenGL directly will give performance problems and crashes _all the time_.

Didn't the original (Java) version of Minecraft use OpenGL? It seems to have done well enough...
> Why are there no low income Porsches?

There were - the Volkswagen Beetle. You could even bolt a Porsche engine directly onto the bug's transaxle. The same fellow (Ferdinand Porsche) designed both cars.

Many car lines have high and low ends, where the manufacturer tries to appeal to high and low spenders.
That was a beautiful image you painted. Thank you. I must seek them more earnestly now, being in the cockpit during the flight was so cool but I would still like to see it even not in flight.

Unrelated but when I started drinking kombucha my stutter went away. Try probiotics!
I have the exact same experience.

It took about 100 days before my wife could start working again, and she is still experiencing chest pain, breathlessness and fatigue (at first symptoms + 115 days).

She was told to endure and rest. What a great plan.
> The medical community, from my experience, does not handle this type of diagnosis well.

I've read some time ago that Stanford scientists developed a blood test. It'll be harder for docs to ignore once there's a proper diagnostic tool.
So, how is it "Fast", without any performance benchmarks? Are we just assuming that it is fast just because it is written in Rust?
It is literally true that the government can print money out of thin air. This is a genuine fact about the world today, so I don't see how Keynes would draw a different conclusion.

Keynes did say

If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coalmines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again… the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth also, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is. It would, indeed, be more sensible to build houses and the like; but if there are political and practical difficulties in the way of this, the above would be better than nothing.

which is a more eloquent argument for an expansionary monetary policy than most current economists could produce.
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Why do you believe they won't release the model? It's Open AI after all.

Google, NVIDIA and Microsoft also make their models freely available. Google already trained a model which is bigger than GPT-3.

There might be some delay, but no fundamental problem with it.

Fine-tuning the entire GPT-3 is impossible on a single GPU. But it's still possible to fine-tune specific layers. Plus, I'm sure somebody will release a distilled version of it which is more manageable.
This seems to be fake: https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/hsryyn/windows_ta...
It's different if it's your own company though. You can fail as much as you want, until you run out of money. :-)
Very cool!

Also, this website would suit GDPR compliance perfectly. You need a popup with one option:

"I'm okay with cookies!"
> I think it's reasonable to ask why existing car companies couldn't pull off anything like it...

Usually I leave comments alone unless I agree or disagree, but this is a really easy one to answer - the entire Tesla experiment has been grossly unprofitable so far and there isn't any concrete evidence that any business should follow in Tesla's footsteps. They just posted their first measly profit after a decade with not much to show for it.

It may yet come good and it has been a good ride for shareholders, but if you want to know why nobody is rushing to innovate like Tesla it is because they have been leaking money like a drunken sailor.
> The human economy has grown super-exponentially. The bigger it has gotten, the faster it has doubled, on average. The global economy churned out $74 trillion in goods and services in 2019, twice as much as in 2000.

Let's ban ads already.
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