skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really can't stand the bait and switch branding of OpenAI. They are anything but open, and there is no reason to believe their tall tale that the only reason they don't release the model publicly is "ethical" reasons -- it's for monetary reasons and it's gatekeeping. Not only that, but they are playing a dangerous game strategically. Companies like Hugging Face actually release valuable parts of the open source NLP ecosystem which set new records for SOTA and which the rest of the industry can use.

For all the practitioners here who probably know more about this than I do, help me understand: how much of OpenAI is smoke and mirrors? Is it just me, or is GPT-3 just GPT-2 but with way more training data? Are there fundamental conceptual differences with how the scale of that data is handled?
Don't forger the fact 187.5 times the frequency is not the only improvement. Today you also have 4x the cores, 8x the bits and hardware 4Kp60 HEVC en/de-coding. There probably are more things (like AES encryption, linear algebra and FPU) hardware-accelerated, I don't really know. This way your emulated Archimedes can probably do much much more than it was supposed to.
My latest iPhone died after cycling in the rain with it for a little too long after it was previously dropped and cracked, and I'm back to my iPhone X (3 years old) and it's perfectly fine, more or less indistinguishable in performance from my latest one.

I wasn't planning on upgrading this year (a first), but this model has a dodgy mute switch that I never got fixed, so it looks like I will be after all.
Well, perhaps, but how is that relevant?
This story is about specifically targeting election fraud protesters, not drug dealers, etc.
Also when a logic meets a philosopher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_ontological_pro...
How many DSLR camera fits in your pocket?

Everything comes with a trade-off.
It looks like that @avx macro just tells Julia that it's okay to use the AVX instructions?

My specific question is, how do I tell Julia that I want to compute the popcount of the intersection of two byte strings of length 256 bytes?

A reference C code is at http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2020/1... in byte_intersect_256() and threshold_bin_tanimoto_search(); my blog posts shows the important parts - I link to the full definition for the C code.
That breaks undefs before includes.
Count me as one of the 80% that thinks its a waste, but does it anyway. A little bit of introspection is valuable.
> […] terrorists will be able to use their iPhones to coordinate terror repeatedly on a large scale, and there won't be anything Apple can do about it.

And? If they're using (say) Signal or even Messages, it's already end-to-end encrypted and there's nothing Apple can do about it.

> Is that really the world you want to live in?

You mean like they're able to use GPG/PGP, Tor browser, and Tails Linux distribution to potentially have secure encrypted communications now? Terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles, and organized crime have been the boogeymen against strong crypto for decades:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

We've been through this before in the 1990s, and the techies (who tend to often lean libertarian) have generally sided with opening things up even if that meant the baddies also got the same capabilities:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars

Coming at it form the opposite end: should the IETF weaken TLS with backdoors so the government agencies can monitor the bad people? Is that really the world you want to live in?
Alan Kay referred to this as the "Wirth school of non-programming".

It obviously has some merit, but I'd rather have a language be an enabler rather than a disabler. And again, not having to worry about messing up is or at least can be a kind of enabler, but I prefer a more positive approach, with good defaults encouraging me to do the good and simple, but the language getting out of my way for things it might not know about.
For those interested in Vitamin D and Covid, here is a summary of the research so far: https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-and-covid
Entering the music distribution business was round four between Apple Corps and Apple Computer. First case was way easier, in 1978 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer)
Rust's borrow checker would prevent Example 5 from compiling, since once you add `cust` to the collection, you can't touch it anymore (unless you insert a clone or etc.). So in this case at least, the inability to reason about code can be resolved by banning mutable aliasing, without eliminating mutability.
Mark Twain, on concern for the doings of mankind and on infinity:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24321794
I don't think that Russia is an unreliable partner, on the contrary in fact. Anyway I'm not arguing for natural gas at all, but for syngas, which should be carbon neutral. I never said "we shouldn't diversify", however I think we should diversify towards things that work.

H2 is hyped at the moment but can only be at best a very small part of the solution. Synthetic zero-carbon methane is almost certainly more interesting because the infrastructure is already there, most things working on oil can be converted to methane, etc.
Or the hubris of the language designer.
FreeBSD Under VMware ESXi on Arm Fling
Unless it were curated, which is why people are nice.
Windows compilers were the first to have it, naturally MSVC understands it.
To truly achieve the same thing as "tree shaking," the function call overhead would be abysmal. You'd have to check whether the module was loaded already (with synchronization if your program is multithreaded). For single threaded programs, you could avoid this by hot-patching your machine code, but there's no way around some synchronization barrier in multithreaded programs [1]. In JavaScript (or any language where you want to avoid sending a large bundle over the network), you'd incur the latency of a network request for the first call to any function.

You're right that people are already splitting apps into bundles, but that is usually done at the page level.

[1] You could probably avoid having to take a mutex after the first call to the function with self patching code, but that sounds incredibly ugly and could have other implications (self-modifying code could be detected as a virus; could be used as a gadget to exploit some other vulnerability).
I think they’re probably wrong but it depends how you look at it.

I buy the latest one when AppleCare runs out. That gives me the latest handset, 2 years protection against my own stupidity, the best eBay return after that period expires, the best battery life always and the happy period before iOS gets slow.

If I don’t do that I have to pay up full price for repairs, involve third party repairer risk or write the whole handset off if I do something stupid (which does happen). Also I would have to put up with declining battery health, slower operating systems and worn connectors etc.

That applies to the SE as well which has a really low total cost of ownership over two years with all risks mitigated taking resale value into account.

Trick is to plan and save up for things you’re going to buy while you’re using the last one.
Seconded. My daily driver is a Galaxy S6 (launched in March 2015) and I don't feel any need to upgrade for the hardware. (Although the model I own, G920A, is particularly locked down, and which I am not happy about.) I'm hoping it lasts long enough that I can replace it with a Librem 5 as my daily driver. (Might get a pinephone earlier than that so I can help make that a reality).
Linux is just Linux, if anything Debian/Ubuntu is mildly weird with the amount of patches, homebrew tooling and non-default configuration they ship. Distros like Arch, Gentoo and so on are pretty much just vanilla packages of upstream. Arch itself only has a handful of Arch-specific software packages: netctl, pacman and mkinitcpio.
They're not suprised that there are meat creatures, they are suprised that they are conscious.
The recent iPhone SE play was pretty cogent as well.
Turbo Pascal has supported circular dependencies since Turbo Pascal 5.5 for MS-DOS.
> if they're willing to cozy up with india

The Indian nationalists have been dreaming up such a situation since basically forever (so long as Pakistanis were willing to give up that whole pesky Islam thing), but let's just say that current relations aren't necessarily cozy. How would such a situation change?
Even so, surely we can raise the bar of geopolitical conversation above hunches and feelings. Someone has to basically guess at the specifics of your argument to respond.
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If God didn't mean for people to eat other people, then we wouldn't be made out of meat.

(To paraphrase Flanders and Swan's song, "The Reluctant Cannibal".)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjAHw2DEBgw
Ah okay I'm looking it up and it appears that the company must demonstrate that the word has a distinct association with their brand.

Man, IP law is such grey area... no wonder there are constant disputes and abuses.
Moderately low-level crates require some unsafe blocks. Rust is supposed to be a systems language from what I heard, so if you are going to write something larger, and/or complicated, and/or low-level, you will have to resort to unsafe blocks, I think.

Hyper requires 52 packages:

autocfg, bitflags, bytes, cfg-if, fnv, fuchsia-zircon, fuchsia-zircon-sys, futures-channel, futures-core, futures-sink, futures-task, futures-util, h2, hashbrown, http, http-body, httparse, httpdate, indexmap, iovec, itoa, kernel32-sys, lazy_static, libc, log, memchr, mio, miow, net2, pin-project, pin-project-internal, pin-project-lite, pin-utils, proc-macro2, quote, redox_syscall, slab, socket2, syn, tokio, tokio-util, tower-service, tracing, tracing-core, try-lock, unicode-xid, want, winapi, winapi-build, winapi-i686-pc-windows-gnu, winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu, ws2_32-sys

Without rust/library/:

$ grep -irn 'unsafe' | wc -l
3077

With rust/library/:

$ grep -irn 'unsafe' | wc -l
7854

Yep, there are indeed loads of them. Feel free to clone all of those repositories and look for those unsafe blocks. You could even get it per-crate.

Of course there are some false positives in there, and yes, some crates may not have unsafe blocks (so not all crates have them, you got me), but still... It is a bit too many unsafe blocks.

Or I do not know, maybe they just have a thing for unsafe blocks, for example in the standard library (std) you can find 2267 unsafe blocks.
Not everyone uses DWARF though.
That was the marketing, not reality.

The reality was their phone did get "hacked" and Apple participated in PRISM.
Yes, that's the problem. You embark much less energy as fuel, lose lots of room for passengers and cargo; I very much doubt this could make sense economically. My brother-in-law who is an aeronautical engineer at Airbus isn't convinced, either.
Smartphones drop in value so fast, it makes sense to buy a one-two year old flagship for a third of the price. And it won't be that far behind current flagships.
Something like “Failed YC startups” or “YC startup failures” would be a less ambiguous title.
This was one of graves' cool demos back when he was with hinton.
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.html
But isn't the former governor pretty much a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party though?
This isn't how technology works. I feel weird saying something so obvious to me but-

Servers/databases have IP addresses that can be blocked just as easy to stop and App.
Apple is taking sides with the oppressors. Shameful but predictable: "When it comes to hanging the capitalists they will sell us the rope." (supposedly Lenin)
> We've been through this before in the 1990s, and the techies (who tend to often lean libertarian) have generally sided with opening things up even if that meant the baddies also got the same capabilities:

Going in a different direction, you could also look at the state of Windows malware (and adware, eg toolbars) as a potential outcome to the un-walled garden approach: you end up with malware and thus the existence of an anti-malware industry.
Read the whole article. It was sanctioned and the families participated.
The point they raise is valid, though the tone is lacking.

If you want to define a graph data structure, cycles are inherent, so there must be some way to deal with them - they are not something that can simply be ignored. This is a completely practical problem, and identity instead of value equality is a valid answer. Of course, this doesn't contradict the original article: reference equality can still exist in the language, it just helps if it's not the default.

For example, in Common Lisp you have both `eq` (reference equality) and `equal` (typed value equality) [and even the somewhat stranger `equalp` (structural equality, e.g. (equalp '(1 2) '(1 2)) -> true)].
Two decent dSLR each with a decent lenses will cost $10k, an iPhone is $1k, so what can be had at that for two are APS-C mirrorless at best
Are you in the simulations/HPC field by any chance? If so do you mind telling me what it looks like in terms of career prospects from your vantage point?
Also if not in that field can you elaborate a bit more on what industry you are applying your skills to? You don't have to be very specific.
I ask because I have the exact same skill set and am in search of what to do next.
If they last 5 years, buying a used phone after three years for 20% of the original price sounds like a great deal. Two years later, you'd buy the next one.

After doing that for ten years, you'd have spent the price of one new phone, while buying new and using them for 5 years will cost you the price of two new phones over ten years.
It doesn't change the legal threats of the Belarus government, though. It can still compel Apple to ban self-installs.
So you've wasted a lot of money. You can do whatsapp and navigation on a $100 android phone just fine.
At one point, a thing called the Magna Carta was arrived at for just such a purpose. One might say that redefining what it means to be rich and powerful, is normal.
Pretty much share this sentiment. I read their FAQ page and it left a really bad taste in my mouth.

A further question that I'd like to add - are there any _truly_ open source initiatives that can remotely compete with GPT-3? What's stopping the OSS community (specifically, not just "funding")? Is it lack of compute power? Lack of data?
See Garmin Health Announces Sleep Study Results [1].

I used a Zeo [2] mobile for a few years and I thought I had a good feel for what my sleep cycles tended to look like.

I bought a Garmin VivoSmart last Black Friday mostly to try the SpO2 and sleep tracking. I shared your skepticism but, anecdotally, the sleep cycles are as good as what I would get from Zeo.

[1] https://www.garmin.com/en-US/blog/health/garmin-health-annou...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeo,_Inc.
I used Delphi in the 90s. I am amazed it's still around.
I think he's referring to this: https://github.com/speakeasy-engine/lighttouch
Oh, and to respond to this:

> Not to mention that the huge benefit of batteries is nearly instant (single-digit millisecond!) reaction time, allowing power demand fluctuations to be efficiently smoothed out. Hydrogen can't do that, even with fuel cells.

And hydrogen doesn't need to do that. An optimized system would include batteries to smooth over such rapid changes in the system. This is another species of the "hydrogen can't do everything, therefore it isn't useful for anything" fallacy.
I still have my OnePlus 5, 3 years now. The battery is not the best anymore, and I can see myself replacing it (the battery) in 2021. I thought about getting a new one, but I don’t need a high-end camera and the market for reasonably sized smartphones is vanishing small. Whenever I see something slightly interesting, it’s even bigger than the OP5 which is already at my upper limit (and I’m a 190 cm tall person with big hands)
Judging from what i see in the balkans. While china has invested a lot in greece for example, there s very little politically that has changed. In fact the relationships with US are at an all time high (Pompeo's words).
Not to take away from any conservation efforts to reduce or reverse these extinctions, but: is cloning a viable replacement strategy? Is it conceivable that in 100-200 years, cloning and re-introducing an extinct species will be fairly affordable (on a small scale)?

Judging from this article on Wikipedia, work is underway in this field, although it hasn't been too fruitful yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloning#Cloning_extinct_and_en...
you're living in a fantasy world, an absolute fantasy world, if you think Obama was more divisive than Trump.

And I didn't say Trump was racist, I said that inclusive (rather than divisive) language angers racists. I think it's very telling that you interpreted that as "trump = racist" and jumped into action with unrelated talking points you just happened to have laying around. That's very shill-like behavior.

Even though I think he probably is racist, I don't know for sure. What I do know for sure is that he intentionally uses rage-bait and wedge issues to divide the public for his own benefit. This is clear and obvious.

That "evidence" up there is from a class of argumentation designed not to change anyone's mind, but to give supporters an excuse to put concerns of racism out of their head and stay with him. That's why you find it so convincing. you want to like him. Most of politics is like this.

How can I tell? Well it's flimsy to anyone who cares to look. For example, the only numbers cited compare two values that are very similar (within 10%) but compare two period separated by 8 years, with the former during an bad economy that Obama inherited from Bush (and fixed) and the later during a good economy that Trump inherited from Obama (and destroyed). Also, as I'm sure you know, executive orders don't increase funding for anything. Congress does that. What Trump did is what he always does. Some purely-performative stunt that does no actual good and is just designed to grab headlines. Moving an advisory board into the White House is a death sentence, not a benefit.

But of course none of this matters. Your tribe is your tribe, until death do you part. What you might want to consider is that your tribe will only survive if you cut out the cancer.

I won't be responding further. Have a nice day, and try not to catch the 'rona.
I always thought Obelix was named after obelisks because of the menhir connection (e.g. both are upright stone monuments of a sort).

The connection with asterisk/Asterix makes it so much better.

FWIW, I only realized last year, ~30 years after I read the books, that Idefix was named thus because of "idée fixe"[0].

Ah, the unexpected depth of a children comic book!

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/id%C3%A9e_fixe
You are locked in, they genuinely don't care about your opinions.

Getting government contracts and keeping a market open is vastly more important.

Plus the whole privacy thing is just marketing, they have worked with the US government with PRISM. They will keep running the advertisements regardless if they sell your data to a government or corporation.
It's not mutually exclusive. I prefer to have both anticounterfeit schemes and protection from someone selling "SánDisk" or "Sandúsk" drives trying to get me to buy something different than I think I'm buying. This is especially true in markets where I'm not a very knowledgeable consumer.
Assange didn't leak anything. He published documents that Manning, an insider, leaked to him.

The First Amendment gives broad protection to publishers. If the government wants to stop a publication, it has to demonstrate that the publication would create a highly specific, concrete and irreparable harm. This is the result of New York Times v. United States (1971).

Justice Hugo Black's concurring opinion goes after the nebulous "security" justification for limiting freedom of the press:

> The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

> [...]

> The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_S...
Profit.

They are already requiring entitlements to develop things that use the network extension framework (no sideload for VPNs and proxies bypassing the Chinese firewall).

This is just them being forced (again) to make visible the negative sides of such a centralized platform.
North of England stands up to draconian Coronavirus restrictions
> if the price of renewable energy keeps dropping, it will be cheaper to make hydrogen than frac gas or mine coal.

I'm convinced that we can't know the real price of NRE because they're heavily subsidized everywhere. It's cheap only because we have other sources (coal, nuclear, gas) to provide for the baseline (that 60-75% of production that must be precisely tailored to the demand). If we hadn't that baseline, it would be very expensive.

> Even better, one accepted way to deal with renewables intermittency is to over provision. Over provisioning means we produce lots of unwanted electricity that is effectively free.

Over-provisioning is very much not free; you must invest tremendous amounts of capital to get first this over-provision, second masses of storage. Case in point, Germany spent 300 billions € building windmills in the past 20 years, and still burns masses of coal; had it spent 100 billions on nuclear, it would be 100% carbon-free today and would have been for years.
I wouldn't judge an entire country from two pieces of news...
Or you just buy something else for that exact period, in addition to apple. If you go to a war, do you get yourself a gun or just walk there in your kitchen gloves? If you want to make a tasty omelet, do you put your bulletproof vest on?

Why should one product be the answer to all situations? You know that apple is a walled garden. You know that walled gardens have their limits of usage. How does that mean that walls must be destroyed? It is non-sequitur.

Saying that apple interferes with your freedom is like saying a kitchen glove interferes with your right to defend against a knife. It is just an instrument with a narrow usage area, which may or may not fit your current needs.

Let's suppose that I don't support apple's political stances on many things for various reasons, but I will buy new iphone once it is out, because I see value in it. Not surprised if it fails at uprisings, not a problem, that simple. Where the flaw is?
I don't thing that cloning would be our best bet. And would be really expensive making it impractical.

Specially with those huge animals. Would need incredibly complex and humongous laboratories just for trying to hold each 3000 Kg newborn. Avoiding contamination and making the embryo cameras sterile for months would be a real headache.

We must forget the idea that cloning will save the day someday, be smart and use our narrow and shrinking interval of opportunity to act now.
Android is such a needy attention seeking asshole of an operating system though from experience.
I do that too. May I ask if you work for a university or national lab or industry and how competitive the pay is?
I work for a university and the career prospects don't seem so good for me at this point.