skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! Thanks for trying it out. There was a bug that should now be fixed. When I run the example unicorn prompt I get the follow. Don't hesitate to open an issue if you're still having trouble.

"In a shocking finding, scientists discovered a herd of unicorns living in a remote, previously unexplored valley, in the Andes Mountains. Even more surprising to the researchers was the fact that the unicorns spoke perfect English.

Bebek Uranzoglu, another member of the research team from the University of British Columbia, was working on a project the Latino-Canadian rodeo competition equipos to document a rare and remarkable ecosystem in the Andes Mountains.

His curiosity was piqued when he spotted an adolescent herd of about 10 unicorns foraging in a forest near the valley of the Jumbo Flu Group. The unicorns — whose numbers once swelled to 46,000 — were perched on the forest floor and watched the researchers work.

Urizoglu grew excited when he spotted another group that seemed to be thriving in an area below the herd. The team hoped the apparent population growth would indicate a human presence.

But when a team of researchers set up a camera trap, they were surprised to find the unicorns in the first place, and in a forest near a lake — in fact the forest was almost entirely made up of the animals. Despite their own magical presence, the team could not see the herd was populated by humans.

“The whole place almost smelled like animals,” says Bebek. “We were never able to find human footprints at any of the points we stood at. The trees were so large, you wouldn’t have been able to walk 40 meters through them. We assumed that the truth of the matter was, ‘Well the deer didn’t like this forest at all.’”
It is just lazy engineering. They want lookalikes. Fine. Collect, clean, mask the data in house and send it to FB. Dumpling to a 3rd party data directly from page is irresponsible to say the least as such "Opsies" are bound to happen.
It depends on the relationship the third party has with the 1st party.

https://github.com/truevault/hipaa-compliance-developers-gui... was on HN a week ago. It seemed to jive pretty well with our internal policies at the HIPAA compliant company I work for.
If you have patient info in file names, yep.
The people you're thinking of are Fox News personalities or opinions.

They do have a straight news org that isn't terrible, but they blur the line and fail to disclose when you're watching opinion and when you're watching news.
I would guess that an average FAANG ML engineer could code up and successfully execute a forward/backward pass on a GPT-1 or GPT-2 model with a day of effort or less. (GPT-3 a little harder, but not significantly). But is that model actually going to perform well? Most likely no. Model performance varies significantly due to subtle details in data processing implementations, seemingly insignificant details in code, and even from different numerical methods of calculating the same semantics.

If you don't believe me, consider that many ML researchers track their commits (or exact code versions) extremely carefully, because oftentimes they will make some change (or changes) they think are inconsequential and later find that actually, their model broke. If they made too many changes, whoops, guess you have to binary search over the diff to see what happened since your last "good run".

If the people who spent months (if not years) tuning a model can't tell whether it will work from the code, how could anyone else? Most ML researchers will not bother with most code that doesn't give proof of results (in terms of a model that can actually be evaluated) because it is just so unlikely that it will actually work well. Now, it might "work" in the sense that it converges and does something when you prompt it with examples. But will this GPT-3 reimplementation actually outperform say, the 10x smaller T5 checkpoint that was released by Google, or the other smaller language models others have released? If it doesn't, it's hard to argue that its very useful at all.

I think that's the spirit of why the original commenter said what they did, but I still do applaud the efforts of this team (and hope that their implementation is, in fact, highly performant!)
Wow they pretty much flushed all user trust and good will down the toilet with this. I had considered using them in the past but I sure won't be considering them now. Even if this were an accident how are there not procedures in place that would have required approval and vetting?
This common Twitter content format is great, but doesn't really represent the situation well. Let me help:

Companies that paywall: I shouldn't be expected to participate in the economy by any rules shared by society.

Anyone that isn't cheerleading them: I'm not paying you
An A or B in highschool level Social Studies (how your government works) sounds like a good baseline; but that course would have to be moved down to middle-school.
>traumatized from death of relatives

The average age of covid deaths was over 80. I hate to break it to you, but people over 80 don't exactly have a long time to left live. Arguably somebody who is traumatised (as opposed to just saddened) by an elderly relative dying isn't very emotionally adjusted, as dying of old age is inevitable.
This is where I'm at too. Totally on board for retiring the use of master/slave for primary/replica. But like you said, whitelist/blacklist didn't have anything to do with race. I just don't see why it's relevant at all to the conversation when we are talking about terms or names that may be racially insensitive. It's on you to bring up evidence for why a phrase is insensitive. I've yet to see any.
I heard rumors about similar stuff when I was a student - but not to that extent, that you had someone impersonate someone for the whole semester.

In majors with huge classes, no compulsory attendance, and schools where ID cards don't require a picture - this was apparently a thing. Some people would simply hire people to take the exam for them.

Obviously this wouldn't fly in a small class with 15-20 students or so, but very feasible in classes with 200-300 students, and where the exams are also open to previous year students.
Lockdowns cause suffering even if they're not a death sentence.
Makers are not interested in speaking with investors, because latter usually understand the shit that has to be actually done even less than their current CEO.
>"It’s been fully open, 5 days a week in person, since the start of the most recent school year last September."

Not true. The largest county in Florida, Miami-Dade, has had my child do school at home since March 2020. Only a tiny percentage of students are allowed in person even now.
There are already areas of the country where "this" isn't going on, where businesses are open at full capacity and the public is happy to patronize them. Even in the most socially distanced areas, there's lots of people going on vacations and eating in restaurants and having house parties with their friends and family. So when you talk about reopening in Easter 2022, it's hard to connect that with the state of things today, much less the likely results when vaccines finish rolling out.
Every reasonable person understands the need to reform the entire "justice system", from the police officer to the prosecutor's office to the legislature, but its not useful to ignore reality and pretend we live in a fantasy world where there aren't murderers, rapists and child molesters roaming around. A country of hundreds of millions of people is never going to be a utopian place without the need for laws, people who enforce the laws or places to put people who break the laws. Those who say we should abolish prisons and/or police either don't really mean "abolish", or aren't serious people with a grasp of objective reality. Those in the former category should drop the "abolish" rhetoric and say what they mean (whether that's reform, restructure, downsize). Those in the latter category are not mentally fit to be included in the debate.
I've seen some amazing footage of what I believe is the TR 3B craft. Can't say if it's B.S or real but fascinating none the less.

https://www.military.com/video/aircraft/military-aircraft/tr...
Never ever give marketing access to deploy arbitrary JS onto your website under any circumstances.

Google Tag Manager is an absolute cancer on web development.

Once it's in, you'll never get rid of it.
I'm surprised and disappointed that you didn't have your InfoSec and risk people in your corner.
Isn't WSL using 9p to mount the linux fs on windows side? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-for-wsl...
I find it refreshing to see someone willing to talk and think about these taboo kind of subjects. Myself I think it (sexual interaction) boils down to mutual consent, but there's obviously an age where a person cannot grasp the scope of what they're consenting to. And necrophilia fails this definition since consent is impossible (unless written in a will).

And now having looked into what he was actually accused of, of trying to imply that a sexual "assault" didn't necessarily happen, it's just strengthening my view that this "wokeness" is getting way out of hand in today's society.
Exactly , on one hand you have an age when most humans are capable of conceiving and have fully developed secondary sexual traits (nature's way to say a person is sexual mature) , say around 14/15 and on the other hand you have the age of a fully "developed" brain, around 25, when at least in theory a person is mature enough for all intents and purposes.

18 tries to establish a sensible balance from both extremes, but there is nothing magical or moral about it when compared with 17 or 19 or whatever in than range.
Here's a thought: paying to live in a functioning society where people less privileged than us don't die destitute serving us... might mean they don't have to guillotine us to survive when it comes to that. Just, you know, keep it in perspective if you don't have a moral compass about what you "get" living in a society where other people besides you are safe and healthy.
I think you may have read that wrong.

What the poster is saying is that people should be accountable for what they actually say, not what other people assume they must have meant.

It's subtle, but let me try to highlight the difference:

Take as an example, Stallman saying "...it is entirely possible Minsky could have been unaware of the coercive dynamic [between Epstein and the young womem] going on at the time. We'll call this P.

Also take,

"We should wait for the facts and evidence before jumping to conclusions". We'll call this W.

What Stallman said is just " We don't know if P or not P, therefore W".

There's nothing wrong that was said there. People read things though that were not said; i.e. that since Stallman said P, it must mean he thought that the young women must have been voluntarily doing it. (We'll call this V).

Much of the hulabaloo around the time came from people, (and journalists) adding in context that simply wasn't even there, which a quick perusal of CSAIL quickly made evident. Stallman never said it was the case that anyone involved was doing it of their own volition, merely that Minsky may not have picked up on the fact there was coercion going on, because if someone is being coerced, odds are they have been specifically instructed to hide the coersion. The fact is, one presupposes the knowing complicity of an individual by doing otherwise. Stallman cautioned that one should wait for evidence before coming to a hasty judgement.

Communication is hard. One must transmit, and another must receive, and both people be able to demonstrate they took from the exchange a shared understanding of a common arrangement of circumstance and subject, mapping to the same circumstances and subjects in the real world. The clincher though, is that there is so much low stakes communication that goes on in our lives where errors in reception or coding of meaning don't have readily tangible effects that become apparent within a short enough time for people to recognize a miscommunication happened, or that even if they recognize one happened, that it will adversely effect the outcome of the attempt at communication as a whole. As a result, there is a tendency to chronically underestimate the difficulty of communication overall.

EDITS: wording, punctuation, sentence flow.
Well that's what social media companies like to claim but we have no actual proof of that. Trust us, they say.
Linux kernel will no longer use terms ‘blacklist’ and ‘slave’ (2020)
As someone who has had multiple tests over an extended period of time the results were extremely detailed and changed over time. They list every bacteria and the % in each.

Are you saying that you had the exact same list of bacteria and % of each?

Test are not identical. I have a collection of hundreds of different results group by a few medical conditions I was researching.

The data is extremely detailed
and changes to diet reflect changes to samples.
>It is what it is. We all made sacrifices during the pandemic. This had to happen in order to save lives.

Saving lives isn't the be-all and end-all of public policy. Normally public policy would look at the net effect in terms of quality-of-life-adjusted-life-years, and by that metric the lockdowns have had an overwhelmingly negative effect, since the lives they saved were mostly people already on death's door, while the lives they destroyed were young and middle-aged people.
We've all heard of the bus factor. Software project isn't a one-man show. There's no shortage of brilliant pioneers handing the baton to someone else or just sliding into obscurity for any number of reasons (e.g., got bored, found another passion, started a new project, gone off the rail, etc.). People no longer care about ESR's opinions, and that's OK. There's no reason FSF should need Stallman's continued presence - it's a software advocacy group, not a cult.

I just find it frustrating that Stallman is considered beyond reproach, because he wrote something great decades ago, when his contribution in the past 20 years or so was hardly irreplaceable. Almost makes me wonder if he's being held as champion because he is an asshole who can't talk to women without creeping them out.
The largest county in Florida, Miami-Dade, has had my child do school at home since March 2020.

I've been trying since September to get him back in person but they don't allow it, so it's misleading to say they're open for in person. Only a tiny percentage of students are allowed in person.
It's scary to think that a company that seem to have a decent policy on privacy / data collection practices at one moment is just one step away from some marketing manager or MBA changing that. It's really hard to gain customer trust once you loose it, and in BackBlaze's case it seem to be for marginal if any monetary benefit.
I think part of the reason is that most of these companies don't value customer trust.
Thank you. That pretty much said it, better than I did.
What do you call the group that loves cops and unjust laws?
And I guess part of my question was that what you said (pretty close to my own understanding of the definitions) is predicated on piercing the veil of intent.

Versus most of the time, people who we don't know well do things for reasons that are inscrutable to us.

And we're left to judge solely on that basis of that information.
This is exactly where I am. I'm a uni student who also works at a software company (apprenticeship) and my personal learning has cratered during lockdown. I went from being the happiest I ever had (finally, I was setting out to achieve my life goals) to the complete and utter inverse.

Not only did I move back into my parents house due to loneliness, I was previous stuck for six months in a city with very few friends (as the lockdown started right as I was building up a network of people to hang out with).

I might not be suicidal, but I was teetering on the edge for a while. Spent more than half of this last year with a constant anxiety about dying. But it was not a fear of Covid, it was a fear of these lockdowns taking away time from my life that I will never get back, and how they might go on for years more, when it has hurt barely 0.01% of my age demographic. I'm at the point where I would accept even 10x the risk to get back to normal.

If I died tomorrow, I would've wasted the last year of my life. The only good thing I've gotten out of this is a bit of perspective that I won't be forgetting.
Maybe one-size-fits-all "guidance" is net harmful, and local knowledge and individual risk evaluation has outperformed the supposed advice, efforts and mandates of so-called experts.
If you are searching for 'good hotel in x' or 'mechanic in y', it's a pretty safe bet to say that you probably have commercial intent.

If you live a truly ascetic life, it's possible that you don't make those kinds of searches.
I feel like I should probably chime in here. I’m an expat, working remotely with several income sources. Some of them can be taxed in the US, some can’t (because it’s tax exempt income) but is taxed where I reside — corona relief cough. It gets really dicey, really fast, once you throw in FBARs and accountants trying to follow various tax laws, etc. It’s really easy to miss one in the EOY shuffle. For example, last year I almost nearly forgot I had a TransferWise account and all the fees were tax exempt (where I reside). I thought my accountant was going to have a conniption since it was the final draft before submitting it.

Yeah, it’s all “really simple” but it’s simple, as in “distributed systems are made of simple things, how can it be complicated?” It gets complicated, quickly, and with enough bank accounts in enough countries, it is easy to forget one or two.
That's precisely the problem though. Genuine tutelage requires a relationship with the student.

A 300 person class might as well be an online course, for all practical purposes.
Most people go with USB DACs I imagine.
I had a small class in engineering and was surprised at the exam time to see a few faces I hadn't seen all year. I assumed it must be people coming back to sit a second time or something. I'm so Naive.
That’s my gripe with “if you aren’t a paying customer, you are the product” because if you pay you are still the product.

Good job, backblaze. So many years of work building goodwill with transparency in hard disk reports ruined completely with one stroke.
I cannot confirm this. The only thing I see is googletagmanger (blocked by uBlock origin). No facebook access at all.
Not to mention the unbelievably exploitative humanities academia job market. Anyone doing a humanities PhD at this point needs either independent wealth or pathological ignorance of how callously the academy is treating the careers of new scholars. You'd think training in critical thinking would protect you against faith in a blatantly callous institution.
It's a lot more than just the person in marketing not realizing. You can't expect marketing to understand these things.

It means there's either nobody reviewing the privacy implications of marketing decisions, or that somebody who knows better is reviewing these decisions and decided leaking data like this is acceptable.

Both those possibilities make backblaze a non-starter for me now.
Thanks for sharing, Chris. Honestly it sounds to me like you're living the dream-- you're secure enough in your abilities that you can pursue the projects you're excited by rather than having to play career games as an employee for someone else. I hope it keeps working out for you :-)
As I said, I can pass. My point is that other people making me put in the work to pass are being assholes. The irony of them doing so in the name of diversity and inclusion is not lost on me.

> that your emotional intelligence was learned rather than instinctual does not make it less real.

That is a rather technical statement, that would be dependent on exactly what you mean by "emotional intelligence". Relying on general intelligence to do tasks that most people accomplish with more specialized brain power is certainly different, regardless of if you want to classify it as emotional intelligence or not.
"Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious." -- Dr. Fred Brooks
Or even being aware of it?
He doesn't do the right thing. He becomes agitated and sometimes aggressive when anyone points out that they're uncomfortable with his behaviour. He is not interested in their perspective or comfort.
I'd find your comment more compelling if it didn't include a non sequitur ad for your company.
the rsync guy posted in another recent thread that it’s actually 3x above a certain size, which i took to be most serious usage.
But it has its flaws - major flaws, some would say.

http://chrisparnin.me/pdf/stress_FSE_20.pdf

"To understand if coding interviews—as administered today—can induce stress that significantly hinders performance, we conducted a randomized controlled trial with 48 Computer Science students,comparing them in private and public whiteboard settings.

We found that performance is reduced by more than half, by simply being watched by an interviewer. We also observed that stress and cognitive load were significantly higher in a traditional technical interview when compared with our private interview.

Consequently, interviewers may be filtering out qualified candidates by confounding assessment of problem-solving ability with unnecessary stress."
>Somebody else from outside must come, and fix it.

I wonder how often / if that ever happens.
Your comment wasn't constructive and at worst, sounded like you were making light of mask wearing by suggesting we should just never leave our houses. Of course if everyone was confined to their houses, there would be less sickness but nobody is debating that. We're debating the normalization of mask wearing.
Historically, that would be dictators or authoritarians.
There's a new project in julia. Is that the kind of negative space you're talking about?
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-constructivegeometry-j...
There's a PyTorch + DeepSpeed repository here: https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neox
CloudMoji
In Software Psychology they try to avoid using words in software that triggers others. For example abort or kill might offend someone because it could be used for ending life. Yet I am certain Cancel Culture is behind this one. Computer Science has used blacklist, master, slave, etc for a long time now and books have to be updated to the new terms.
A CPA only knows what you tell them and ultimately relies on you remembering to tell them about a new bank account, invoices, etc. If one is forgotten or missed, the CPA won’t add it the books.