skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your reply. A couple responses to advance the conversation.

As a side note, it's worth mentioning that apparently, from other responses, it seems we have little idea how much arithmetic GPT-3 has learned, and it may not be much.

Anyway, I think the important distinction between my perspective and Overconfident Pessimism, which you attribute to me, is that I'm not talking about (im)possibility of achievement, I'm talking about scientific methodology or lack thereof.

In other words, I'm not saying (here) that some NLP achievements are impossible. I'm saying that we are not rigorously testing, measuring, and verifying what we are even achieving. Instead we throw out superficially impressive examples of results and invite, or provoke, speculation about how much achievement probably must have maybe happened somewhere in order to produce them.

We have seen several years of this pattern, so this is not a GPT-3 specific criticism; it's just that particular quote so neatly captured patterns of lack of scientific rigour that we have seen repeatedly at this point.

Probably the first example was image recognition. Everyone was amazed by how well neural nets could classify images. There was a ton of analogous speculation -- along the lines of 'we're not sure, but the speculation is the networks figured out what it really means to be a panda or a stop sign and encoded it in their weights.' The terms "near-human performance" and then "human-level performance" were thrown around a lot.

Then we found adversarial examples and realized that e.g. if you rotate the turtle image slightly, the model becomes extremely confident that it's a rifle. So, obviously it has no understand of what a turtle or a rifle is. And obviously, we as researchers don't understand what those neural nets were doing under the hood, and that speculation was extremely over-optimistic.

Engineering cool things can absolutely be a part of a scientific process. But we have seen countless repetitions of this pattern (especially since GANs): press releases and impressive-looking examples without rigorous evaluation of what the models are doing or how; invitations to speculate on the best-possible interpretation; and announcing that the next step is to make it bigger. I think this approach is both anti-science and misleading to readers.
Not offended. The status quo = 'master'. You need to make a good reason to change it. The onus is on you to make a solid case to change the status quo.

I am fine with it, it is just so far fetched that it seems unnecessary and pedantic. It would be hypocritical to target one thing but not the rest. How about also removing the word "Master" from the dictionary? We should go the full 9 yards you know.

What's next? We wanna lobby MasterCard to rebrand themselves? Because everyone thinks that it is a card for the "Masters", right?

Absolutely ridiculous. I also heard some noise about the Chess game and colors of the pieces.
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All of my comments were made with honest intentions. I am sorry that you felt that they were "flamewar comments". If you are willing to give me an advice at which comment I should have stopped posting or worded differently so I could avoid it in the future I would appreciate it.

I will also note that all of my comments in this thread were under https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23972872, I avoided posting comments outside of this subthread intentionally as to avoid polluting the rest of the discussion. I continued responding as I felt that it would be rude not to address the concerns of everyone who relied to me.
I have had good use of FEC for archival purposes, plenty of testing but I haven't had to use it in anger.

This isn't the same tool I used, but it is derived from it, https://github.com/randombit/fecpp
At risk of making a useless comment: "nice".

Local memcached's? local caches or still distributed cache?
> The US has a huge (pun intended) obesity problem, and it seems related to worse health outcomes across several dimensions. This is just a fact.

Yes. Nobody wants to talk about the elephant in the room. In a just society, we'd make the obese pay for their cost to the non-obese population.
This is great! But how do you get away with giving general credit advice without a license!? Have you confirmed you don't need one as I'd be very surprised?
> Four hours after eating maximally, the participants [...] reported no desire to eat anything else, including sweet foods. This was surprising because reward centres in the brain are usually food specific, so eating pizza might not be expected to change the desire for sweet food.

No it's not surprising because - whether it's contrary or not the neurodrivel "reward centres in the brain" i'm not sure - as an adult you know that craving for a specific food item is entirely a high-level construction in your psychology to do with the story you're telling yourself about what it will mean to eat that, etc. and you should have experienced that it will go away as soon as you eat enough of anything else.
You're thinking of either Firefox focus on Android or Firefox on iOS, both of which use the OS native renderer.
Have you bought clothes at Walmart? Shoes? How long did they last? Not long I'll bet.

I'm sure you can find some quality items at Walmart, but you have to shop carefully.

If we were talking Costco healthcare, I'd be all in. All the "cut the fat" talk you mention, and you still end up with a quality product at a reasonable price.
Yeah, I'm pretty far from being able to switch to a Linux phone without the ability to read TOTP tokens from YubiKeys. For apps that don't support hardware tokens, I store the TOTP seeds on a YubiKey, which prevents malware on the phone from being able to steal my seeds.
A thought occurred to me on a recovery method while reading this article: If you had a disc that was marginal, where it might or might not read correctly depending on the phase of the moon, would it be possible to do something like take multiple raw images of the disc, perhaps using multiple different drives, and collectively use the images so captured to isolate out the bad parts and splice together a valid image file?

Or am I failing to grok the degree to which It's Complicated?
if you can send all three in the same message, Influx Line Protocol for example, we will store them as 3 columns in one table. Does this help?
Breathing is directly connected to the autonomic nervous system. Inhaling activates your sympathetic nervous system speeding up your heart rate and increasing the amount of electrodermal activity in your skin. Exhaling activates the parasympathetic nervous system slowing down your heart rate and decreasing the amount of electrodermal activity in your skin.

You can measure it with HRV and skin conductance sensors.
How does having all the customers use the cashier's discount card help the company at all? I've heard the opposite in many stores, where they prohibit the cashier from doing that since it's giving away money (and loyalty points to the cashier) without collecting any data.
This, but more precisely, people buying AMD stock while assuming that AMD will realize a higher profit and deliver more value to investors as a result of it being able to win some of Intel's customers, who are leaving because of the delays and issues Intel is having in fulfilling customers' computing needs :)
You might say the data drizzled out...
This is the main issue and I don't want to make it any more complicated. But I do want to explain something because people hear arguments between fusion scientists. Within the field no one really doubts that ITER is going to work (there's a few, of course, but the majority don't doubt). The thing they are arguing over is if it is needed. The big reason for ITER is not to generate power but to demonstrate that sustainable fusion is achievable. The idea is that if there is a demonstration people will stop shying away from it and investing would skyrocket (a government would have to be dumb not to substantially invest in PROVEN fusion devices). The counter argument is that there is enough funding and that they will beat ITER to the punch with small scale reactors (much closer to the path for devices that would provide actual energy to our grid). My take is "don't put all your eggs in one basket."
The author has picked a specific option, namely, forcibly breaking up the tech megagiants into smaller companies with the expectation to improve competition between them and reduce their market power in comparison to consumers and smaller competitors.
The Stutterer's Song: Remembering Bill Withers
I guess it's the difference between science and news. We can do all kinds of confirm common belief science, but maybe it's not worth the HN thread when common beliefs are upheld?
I really love going to Fogo de Chao, but it's hard not to overindulge. The worst I've ever felt in my life was after a trip to Fogo. An hour later I was still just sitting up straight on my couch trying not to look as uncomfortable as I felt. Took a while before I went back again, and I had a lot more control.
> Existing issues are currently read-only, and we are locking conversations, as we get started. Interaction limits are also in place to ensure issues originate from GitHub.

In other words: “our issue and community management functionality does not scale.”
>Their spam filter has a ton of false positives and those emails don't get forwarded to my real address.

This is very interesting to me. I've used Gmail for 10 years now and I've found the spam filter to be nearly impeccable. I can't recall a single false positive. I can't even recall a single false negative, though I am moderately careful about who I provide my email to.

Now I'm left wondering if most people think about Gmail more like me or more like you...
Thank so much!
> fifty years ago if you were a US citizen in a foreign nation you were nigh untouchable. Even the countries of most ill repute wouldnt dare to upset you. Arresting, imprisoning, or torturing an american meant incurring the wrath of a nation...

This is a incredible exaggeration and it's shame it has been upvoted.
I had the same question; is that supposed to be a euphemism for obesity or something?
Such thing would be very good, but again it's another extra account for payment that buyers should have.

I find using debit/card payments much easier (I use virtual cards with very limited fund in them for online payments) and things like Google/Apple/Samsung Pay make things much easier to deal with.
If as you say...

"nuclear power is the only realistic way to solve the looming energy crisis of the 21st century"

because...

"most people around the world think that nuclear fission is scary"

then we are fucked as a species.

Science does not respect people's feelings. If people have scary feelings about energy/climate change/wearing masks to prevent a disease that travels in the air, then those feelings need to be changed, or those people need to be sidelined.

What we must not do - what we cannot afford to do - its to derail the science to assuage the deniers.
Very well explained, thank you!
To be fair this looks really simple to wire up using the API and a single webhook.
I miss the 90s and early 2000s where Big Air was just about extreme sports. Hahaha.
Earlier bug existed in Catalina that also resulted in instability & crashes. For me the resolution was to remove 2 VMware related agents from startup. Vmware accelerated gfx still functioned correctly.
Yes - the sequence is ITER, DEMO, then PROTO:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOnstration_Power_Station

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTO_(fusion_reactor)
moving out of the industry is hard unless you did something remarkable. if you were in it a short time i would recommend leaving it off or finding a way to make it appear more mainstream.

i have certainly been removed from hiring funnels because of my years of work in the adult industry and they were not shy about stating that as the reason. One was a SaaS that happened to have a LOT of religious based organizations using their software. It has even been a possible issue for VCs.

sure, in a few coastal cities, porn and sex work are becoming less and less taboo, but most of the country still isn't on board with that and the risk of that attachment sabotaging something can be too much for some employers to look past.
Looks like the whole website is the same aesthetic, and I just spent over an hour going down the list of this guy's projects. Pretty fun.

A highlight: https://n-o-d-e.net/nano_server2.html
Don't worry so much about Guitar Center... I think the core advice of buying a cheap (used?) X at an X store instead of a cheap X at a general purpose store is pretty good. Your local bike store isn't going to sell the same low end bike shaped objects as a department store or even a chain sports store. Your local music shop is less likely to sell awful guitar shaped objects than Walmart. Etc.
> Yahoo was the search engine that crushed altavista

If you mean “bought Altavista and then squandered it”, then sure, but they definitely never crushed Altavista from my POV.
The US-led coalition won the Gulf War. In fact, it was a very decisive victory.
I have eczema, and at one point it got so severe from taking (too-)hot showers, that I could hardly sleep for weeks because of the discomfort. Out of desperation I gave up showering altogether so that I could heal. I eventually realized that I didn't really smell. After my skin healed I didn't resume showering. That was about four years ago. I've never had anyone (including my partner whom I live with) tell me I smell under normal circumstances (in fact I asked my partner directly), nor that my skin looks or feels oily or abnormal in any way. Same with my hair. I do smell for a few hours right after vigorous exercise or something, but it's nothing a little deodorant and a fresh shirt can't fix.

I don't know if everybody is this way - I'm sure it varies a lot by body chemistry - but for me at least there have been no downsides. In addition to saving time, I have to think I've saved an enormous amount of water. From the article, it sounds like I may be healthier for it too.
Tom Lehrer thought New Math was weird enough that he wrote a song about how to subtract with it. (Verse 2 is in base 8!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6OaYPVueW4
The question about needing nuclear really comes down to how you model energy dependence. Is the US (or X country) homogeneous in ability to produce, store, and distribute energy or is it heterogeneous?

Of course, things get much more complicated once we start talking about lifetime emissions and external environmental impacts.
You'd JUST need to move current from AC to DC, and span the whole of earth with superconductor cables.

You know, easy stuff to build and maintain.
I recall the turmoil across a few major DarkNet forums (namely Dread), which I used to visit occasionally out of morbid curiosity, the day on which the bunker was raided.

As I recall, at least one of the major drug trafficking sites had gone offline, which would infrequently happen, but the timing seemed obvious that it was being hosted in the bunker - and it wasn't going to be coming back.

Cybercrime and the DarkNet in general are truly fascinating subjects; the analogy used within this article of the group of misfits from the bunker going out in the local town and being regarded as a band of pirates coming ashore seems very apt - cybercriminals are much like the pirates of olde, and the DarkNet their network of hidden islands full of lawlessness and anarchy.
Animals don't wear clothing, so already we're starting with a default that's different from nature. It's much easier to trap in sweat, oils, and other byproducts if you're rubbing up against fabrics all day.
At my previous company, one of the devs added some debug output, but they added it to a hot loop and forgot to if it out in production.

As a result, all of our frontend servers slowed to a crawl because the logging calls were thrashing our disk I/O - and keep in mind, this is an application which never hits the disk and lives entirely in memory, mostly just assembling data structures from other APIs and combining them into a response for the client. To see a server like that brought to its knees by disk I/O from three lines of debug logging was... impressive, to say the least.
> Young men can eat twice as much food as they need to feel ‘full’, research shows.

I. AM. SHOCKED.
"The researchers acknowledge that their study involved healthy young men, so they plan to investigate whether similar effects are apparent in women, and for overweight and older populations."
This was a big thing with Tim Ferris when he was making an argument for "cheat days". Personally, I also found cheat days to be effective when on a restrictive diet. I think he ended up actually weighing his poop to prove the point.

I did notice that I couldn't breakthrough some key weight loss levels without both cheat days and intermittent fasting, with the cheat days seeming counter-intuitive to me.
Yes, the video above is basically about this, and is really worth watching -- it's a fantastic talk.

I'm pretty sure that Commonwealth Fusion Systems[0] is the entity affiliated with MIT that has been doing work to prove out the recently available higher magnetic field strength superconducting materials and apply them to tokamak construction to bring size down dramatically. They had a bunch of press in 2018/2019 when they first got underway[1], and it looks like they've received a lot more investment over the last few years and likely made quite some progress since then[2].

0 - https://cfs.energy/
1 - https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/03/09/new-approach-... (op-ed in the Boston Globe by a Vice President at MIT)
2 - https://cfs.energy/press/
The title is a reference to Tracy Kidder’s book: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
I'm not sure that's correct. Honey and fruit feasts are both quite common among extant forager groups in Africa. I don't see why our ancestors wouldn't have made use of the same resources.
I'd never heard of the R51, but after Googling it...good lord. I'd never buy it just based on its appearance. It looks more like a hot glue gun than a pistol.
Always interesting to learn more about the virus and that there is a lot of knowledge about handling ventilators. But even so, the numbers from New York say that 80% of people over 80 years do not make it once they are on the ventilator.

Source:
https://www.google.dk/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/health/el...

I do hope that more attention will be focused on telling that this virus is both causing respiratory issues and heart issues.
The leading comorbidities data from New York says it very clearly.

Source:
https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/220457/c...
I think it makes sense you would be able to enter deeper states of relaxation. I've heard in animal studies they've shown that if you disable the parasympathetic nerve into the heart then it just beats a constant, quite high rate. Marathon runners have considerably lower resting heart rate. It seems to be the parasympathetic nervous system acts as a brake that pumps on an off (connected to inhalation/exhalation) to keep it lower than it's default max speed. So that it's constantly lower means more parasympathetic bias?
-Still only anecdata, but I've been buying lots of music on CD since the late eighties, the oldest I know of was pressed in late 1983 sometime. (Which is only a year or so after the introduction of the CD anyway)

In sum, some 3,800 CDs. I ripped them all a couple of years ago - I had problems with a handful, but EAC eventually got them all to disk. I examined the troublesome ones, but no (visual) signs of disc rot.
I misunderstood... I meant a newly issued loyalty card, not cashier card.

Cashier card is something I don't understand either. Maybe some database somewhere with NOT NULL, so that problem was solved by issuing cashier cards?
This is certainly an interesting perspective. I have a friend that refuses to wear sunscreen because he feels like the risk to his health from rubbing all the "unknown chemicals" into his skin outweigh the health risk of skin cancer. While I still use sunscreen, his perspective did get me thinking about all the unknowns I've introduced into my body through the skin.

Logically, it makes sense that our skin can adapt to be less oily and odorous with taking a break from using a lot of soap. I've been only using shampoo to wash my hair every other time I shower and I've noticed that my hair now seems to take longer to get oily. It's basically the same concept as using soap on the rest of our skin.
The key quote from that paper is as follows:

"Against 32-bit IEEE 754 single-precision FMA, ELMA will not be effective, though, as the Kulisch accumulator is massive (increasing adder/shifter sizes and flip-flop power), and the log-to-linear lookup table is prohibitive."

So, these things may be effective if you can dial your precision down. Okay. We use domain-specific number representations all the time. Fixed-point binary for DSP. Decimal representations for currency.

The Facebook takeaway is that transistors are now so cheap, that we can do <16 bit floating arithmetic with mostly ROM lookup tables if we make some restrictions.

That is, however, NOT what Gustafson is proposing. He proposes these for general usage as a panacea to the complications of floating point.

Numerics isn't some secret cabal. A new floating point system that allowed the folks doing partial differential equation solvers, computational fluid dynamics, or discrete time simulation to gain even 25% in time or to open up a new simulation field because of extra stability would get a serious look.

And while William Kahan (who drove a lot of IEEE-754) generally comes off as an insufferable jerk, he knows his stuff, and he wasn't alone. The numerics folks at IBM and DEC (and others) were mostly converging to the same things with differences at the margins (signed zero, denorms, NaNs, etc.)--mostly because some of the things that IEEE-754 demanded were a huge pain to implement in hardware of the day.

As for politics, IEEE-754 was basically a reaction to allowing DEC or IBM to create a de facto definition of the floating point standard.
Nuclear is the safest energy source in terms of deaths per terawatt hour [1]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy#:~:text=....
Maybe we are talking past each other. By “FIRE” I mean the ability to live on investment income, exclusively and permanently, decades before a typical retirement age.

Retirement on a normal schedule and security for a few months of rest here and there are, I would say, baseline financial responsibility (if you can afford them). These are marginal sacrifices, not a lifestyle/subculture.
Yeah, well, that was my point - the US government's current bad behaviour will just create a stronger competitor - we'll all probably benefit as a result
Does anyone else find this style of writing absolutely aggravating?

The first paragraph has absolutely 0 value to me as a reader. It's almost like the goal of the writer is to take up as much of your time as possible.
One differentiating feature is "as of" join. You have records of the form (time, value), and you ask "what's the most recent value as of $time?"; On a non-TS oriented DBMS, this query is usually slow and hard to write. Window extensions to SQL can make it a little better, but - you can assume that a proper TSDB answers this query x10 to x10,000 times faster on the same hardware, especially when done in bulk (e.g.: I have one million (time,bid_price) records, and one million (time,transaction_price) records; For each transaction record, I want to know what the most-recent bid price was at that time.

That's something kdb+ and ClickHouse do in milliseconds; and I assume QuestDB can to, though I didn't check.
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