skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need math to explain why, for example, a statistical model trained to find the plausible combinations of words or phrases in its corpus that matches a prompt is not a promising approach to NLP and general understanding, and using it to win at tasks designed to assess NLP success essentialy amounts to cheating. You also don't need math to explain that, in very real terms, the meaning of any phrase produced by GPT-3 lies in the mind of the reader and not in GPT-3's output, which doesn't see any meaning in the phrases it produces (unlike, say, the output of a rule-based system, which, while much more rudimentary, generally has reasoning about the topic at hand behind it, and not about word probabilities).
> The lesson here is that there’s no meaningful conversations to be had between 60 year olds and teenagers.

> the mental pain of eating meals with teenagers for days

I really think this incorrectly stereotypes an entire generation as this set of unreasonable and irrational fools. While the teenagers on the trip misjudged the author's intentions, it is the Times that are at fault for using those complaints as grounds for discipline.
> When wearing your policymaking hat, I agree that you should consider what people actually do (which is not always wise) rather than just what they should do.

> But when actually struggling (or perhaps even when comfortable), you should forget about policy and fairness and just make the best decisions you can and keep trying to do the right thing, and that gives you or your children or grandchildren the best chance to make it to a comfortable place.

This exact dichotomy comes up when I give advice. I have started calling it 'advice for persons' vs 'advice for peoples' (the grammatical peculiarity is on purpose). Both are often completely different.

OP's advice is great for persons. It doesn't work for policy making which is decidedly about peoples. But, I don't think that was its intention to begin with.
Things are really not looking so hot for BlueOrigin if they do not get the Human Landing System for the Moon contract.

They seem to focus on that, but I think most space fans, don't want them to get it. The Dynetics lander and the SpaceX lander are far more popular.

BlueOrigin plan seems very politically focused, the literally put together a group of the most powerful companies in terms of lobbying. But partnering with these old space companies, basically also lead to their bid being almost as expensive as the other two together.

Unfortunately for them, NASA has the authority to do the selection, not congress. So the influence is not that direct. However, congress can of course still try to influence the results with back channels, they could just tell NASA, pick this or you will not get the funding.

Arguably congress influence Crew selection, SerraNevada was both cheaper and arguably better for NASA. Based on performance score SerraNevada should have gotten it. Back then it was still viable to claim that Boeing had higher 'mission assurance'.

I have no problem with BlueOrigin, but I don't think they deserve a human lander contact. Their design is not that amazing, their cost is high and they don't have a history of amazing performance that would recommend them, neither does their main partner (the opposite actually).

Bezos will still have to spend a number of billions on this, even when New Glenn flies, BlueOrigin will continue to bleed money for quite a while.
Important to remember that this type of codec can be used as a backup for higher-bandwidth codecs. You don’t necessarily need to hear it’s artifacts all the time. The higher level codec also only needs to encode the differences between the prediction and groundtruth. The same thinking applies to video especially of faces. Neural nets are a huge leap forward for this type of data compression and will likely be used pretty much everywhere in the future with great success.
Plus not everyone cares about Netflix and FSD Real Soon Now © for an extra $10k.
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Griddy couldn't handle their financial obligations and ERCOT knew and Griddy knew it. Can you point out other companies with a griddy style business model that are still functioning in Texas because a casual survey on startpage/ddg and I didn't find anthing
Because the power to name something implies dominion over that thing. In Christianity you're supposed to "never use the Lord's name in vein" because even uttering an established name has implications--e.g. calling upon the power of that name.

That basic cultural logic (which may even be partly innate) is as true today as it was 5000 years ago, though obviously the practical implications are different. More interestingly, the power in naming isn't something modern culture seems explicitly aware of even though modern identity politics is predicated on these cultural powers. Thus few people seem to make the connection between ancient taboo words and modern identity politics.

This also helps explain the power of religious texts. If spoken words have power, then what happens when you commit words to a physical representation? And pass them down through time? Religious texts can be easily conceived of as the divine made incarnate.

This all may seem superficially nuts, especially if you're atheist, until you really dig into all the debates we continually have over language, including in tech communities (e.g. why is naming a project or even just a variable so difficult?), and try to understand why people invest themselves in these debates. Names and labels have power because that's how we create categories; categories separate things with the implication of intrinsic differences; they're how we attach ideas to things, and create meaning out of thin air. That really is a form of dominion and control.
Concurrent Versions System – a method for independent cooperation (1986) [pdf]
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I am not informed enough to make any useful remarks, but I will say keep going!

Making any kind of physical good or service is more than a decent challenge, especially if for a higher purpose!

So I wish you the best.
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Surprised to see no mention of fundamental frequencies or harmonics
but almost no one codes to the CUDA driver api.
If your editor doesn't allow you to enter arbitrary characters using a standard keyboard then you need a better editor.
Since Roku became an advertising company their products have become less useful and customer service is non-existent. I won't buy any more Roku products.
You aren't calling them strings, but they are. I didn't specify "NUL-terminated ASCII" or anything like that. Call them S-expressions if you prefer. It makes no difference.

C++ can manipulate itself. Granted, you'll want a library such as LLVM, but you can get the job done yourself if you are a glutton for punishment.

Code is represented via data structures on normal (von Neumann) hardware. LISP is every bit as compiled as C++. Both forms of C++, human-readable and compiled, can be manipulated. It's the same as LISP, except that "human readable" is debatable for any form of LISP.
Not to sound rude, but the first operation that a camera must complete, before taking a photo, is finding the distance between the camera and the subject. Making a true 3d map of the subject and surrounding, regardless of light levels, is pretty much end game for camera focus, which is why it's coming to future high end Sony cameras. It's nuts we're getting this in a consumer camera. Ideal focus tracking, and all of computational photography perks, should give better result for photos and videos.

It would be super neat if they added some sort of 3d image/video capture. I would love to start taking 3d videos now, that I'll be able to enjoy on my cheap 3d picture frame, in the future.
I saw nothing of the sort in chmod600's comment. They even led with "When wearing your policymaking hat, I agree that you should consider what people actually do."

Policymakers in Washington and poor immigrants on the streets need different advice, because they control different things. If you are President or Congressperson in the U.S.A, then by all means: let's have a more humane immigration system, and universal health care, and a social safety net.

But if you're a poor immigrant in this country, none of that policy is up to you. Non-citizens don't get to vote; Congresspeople do not listen to them. They risk being deported for the slightest infraction. They often require their employer to sponsor their continued stay in the U.S. They lack financial resources, and oftentimes job skills. They lack cultural capital and a support network.

But they can control several things. They can control where they choose to settle, and move to areas with more opportunity. They can control what they choose to spend money on, and not let anything out the door that isn't absolutely essential for survival. They can control what they do with their time, and allocate that to building new skills and pursuing new opportunities. If they don't do all of those things, they will fall behind, through the cracks, because that's how life is for poor non-citizens in America. It's usually worse for poor non-citizens in the countries they came from, too.

Being able to think systemically, act collectively, and be free from any sort of reprisal or consequence is itself a form of privilege. I thought that chmod600's comment acknowledged reality more than yours did, because not everybody has that privilege. And if you're one of the many people who don't, your best option is to think about your own enlightened self-interest, act according to the options available to you, consider consequences carefully, and not feel too guilty about doing the best that you can.
The brain memoizes learned concepts just like computers often using a LFU-like algorithm at least my brain seems to
Yes, something like this. No IPv4 might be inconvienent at times. The price is nearly twice as much as a scaleway C1, not sure how the specs really compare.

What does Brexit mean for EU customers? Do we slip paying VAT now? 24% in my case.
This isn't really a comment about dependent types, but one of the things I hate about environment variables is that you can't query a binary to ask what environment variables it supports.

Sometimes I wish I lived in the alternate universe where every executable binary on my computer had a machine-readable interface description that included every command line argument, every environment variable, every file it needs access to (if not provided as a command line argument), and all file I/O was strongly typed.

Example use case of the latter is that if I have a postscript file and want to convert it to a pdf but don't know the name of the program that does it, I could run a solver that figures out that in a pipeline like this: "cat foo.ps | $converter > foo.pdf", ps2pdf could be substituted for $converter and result in a well-typed command line. This could be integrated into tab completion.
That comment is from a different user and was posted an hour after the one to which I replied.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26244093
I don't think that will happen. But 15Gb shared between email, drive and photos is not that much nowadays.
Just for clarity, to keep on the topic of the article: If you compile a D program with the -betterC flag, you give up many features so that your program runs with only the C runtime. It's great for a C programmer not wanting to learn a new language or for being able to make incremental changes to a C codebase while adding things like metaprogramming. If you're satisfied with the experience writing C, you'll probably also be satisfied writing D and compiling with the -betterC flag. As an example, here's a -betterC hello world:

https://run.dlang.io/is/TKOBgA

Once you move on to other goals (using the whole language, as is usually the case) there are numerous complaints. Some don't think the VS Code plugin is good enough and that sort of thing. Some argue that Dub, the package manager, is not good enough for their needs. I suppose like every language has people that try it and don't like it.

It doesn't take much to try it. You can use the online D editor and read the official tutorial. If you like it, you can dig in further to see if it has the ecosystem you need.

https://run.dlang.io/

http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html
Yeah, the old "white" men who run Hollywood, record labels and the news media.

Oh wait, is that anti-Semitic to say? Then was it anti-white of you to say?

Also being cancelled for opposing a war that was engineered by globalist neocons is not proof that the interests of white males used to be the basis for cancelling people lol.

And there's nothing "democratic" about this lol, the cancelling is still done to suit the interests of those "white" people who run these organisations. No one cares if some people don't want to buy some tickets to a show, they care when Mastercard and Visa have secret blacklists of anyone to the right of Mitt Romney that they don't allow to transact on their monopoly global financial network.
It was chilling when before the first day of school may parents made it very clear I shouldn't tell anyone (especially not teachers) that they were listening to Radio Free Europe.
> I am bit sceptic if most people would recognise subjectively well-done SIMD language (lets say from correctness and performance standpoint)

I found ISPC (https://ispc.github.io) to be a little easier to work with than CUDA, for SIMD on CPUs, as it sits a bit in the middle of the CUDA and regular C models. Interop can work via C ABI i.e. trivial, it generates regular object files, and so on.
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A very good rule of thumb: Freedom-respecting (fully, 100% open-source) software won't screw you.

Simply knowing someone could be watching you and your source code reduces the chance of malicious code.
in other words, Nvidia's product execution was spot-on.
I had to listen to your wav sample 4 times before understanding what it was saying... To me, that isn't intelligible... Perhaps with practice one could learn to understand it, but that isn't really what I want from my audio codec.
So does the US. The only real difference between countries is not if it is different but how each has implemented it in law. The result is the same.
it's a pet project.
Aren't you doing a similar thing by not typing the word 'nigga' or 'nigger' ?
I think calling the word in question a "magic incantation" is fairly dismissive of the meaningfulness of that specific word, and the specific cultural reasons why it's treated as it is.

There aren't a lot of historical analogs to it.
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yes, it takes an outside perspective to identity the luck involved because people in every socioeconomic class and background all have their own challenges that they faced whether they will receive empathy for it or not

for your post I was mainly aiming to point out to others how a cycle effects a large portion of American society, disproportionately affecting minorities relative to their population. The prior unpaid ticket and prior leniency leads to the harsher penalty for the next infraction, which is all more likely to happen when there is an assumption of suspicion and over-policing. This practically ensures that violent infractions become the only choices available to people and harms our collective society. Despite there no longer being racially exclusionary laws, and despite there (typically) being no individual person consciously trying to disenfranchisement someone, it is still easy to quantify how a result becomes so common.
Brian Berliner's 1990 followup¹ is an interesting read for the historical perspective too.

https://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/psd/28.cvs/paper.pdf
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You started the flamewar upthread.

It always feels like the mods are against you. I don't even know what your views are—that's not the filter through which I read comments like this. There's too much quantity to work through and it's not energy-efficient to do that.

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