skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A naval blockade of a nuclear power probably leads to a nuclear war.

Taking Taiwan is a giant pain in the ass for China which is why it is unlikely to happen in any foreseeable future (e.g. 30-50 years). Honestly, it seems like China despite its words sometimes is perfectly content with the current status quo so long as Taiwan doesn't try to foment political unrest on the mainland.
> It might be easier to understand what you're actually saying if it didn't seem like you were being deliberately vague and hand-wavish just to sound sophisticated.

And, yet, your refutation is:

>Given deeper thought, one will find that it's a much more complicated problem to model for. Intuition starts to get fuzzy and practicality goes out the window when factoring in physical constraints.

I think one of these is deliberately vague and hand-wavish just to sound sophisticated. The one that's arguing for some mystical mind-body duality and "deeper thought".
Dropped a request by 40 seconds, by preventing entity framework round-tripping the db 3000+ times, for a property which was already held in memory! Pretty much a 1 liner change. Took some time to find, and the use of miniprofiler (thx Stackoverflow!).
This goes back to the tying of a SQL query directly to profits. That would be an interesting story if it were true, but such a story is probably an extreme rarity.

We're talking about calculating the impact of your weekly or daily work directly to profit generation. There is a level of granularity and detail to your claim that is likely impossible to realistically calculate, so it would be very hard to accept such claims at face value.
High-income tax avoidance far larger than thought, new paper estimates
> what would be the Access equivalent of today

Access.
The reason we humans can understand very complex situations with very little information very quickly (such as navigating through traffic) is that we not only perceive that "stuff" is out there and moving, but we also instantly classify that stuff, and in so doing, understand what it can and cant do almost instantly. A large semi truck can only maneuver in certain ways and certain speeds, a car moving erratically likely has a driver that is somehow impaired, a child is fully upredictable and could jump in the street, etc. We know about not just that stuff is out there, but what that stuff is, and how it causally can behave given how things have been behaving up to that point.
https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html

https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/12/understanding-the-inn...

That is, some people have different needs, and so dismissing FreeCAD because it doesn't yet fulfill your needs is a mistake.
Richard Stallman is coming back to the board of the FSF
Real change can only happen if the poor (people earning less than $1M per year) unite against the rich. Instead, the poor are hopelessly divided and fight pointless culture battles, like the main/master debate.
> You don't really need that service performed that badly if you can't pay that much for it either.

You don't really need US-made goods, just buy the ones made in China. You don't really need an appliance repair service, just throw it out and buy another one. Fixed income people don't really need low priced goods and services, they can just pay more (somehow).

You're making the assumption that the alternative isn't worse.

> Makes traffic better too since they're not commuting.

Or makes traffic worse in the alternative because the higher-paying job involves a longer commute (and higher transportation costs that eat the extra money), which is what had made the lower-paying job viable to begin with.

> Offering crappy jobs is bad because people might actually take them; now they don't have the free time needed to find better ones.

This is patronizing. If something is really worse for people then why are they doing it? Are you certain that you're smarter than them and know more about their circumstances than they do?

> It reduces economic productivity and it might be cheaper to just pay them unemployment.

You've identified a serious flaw in the unemployment system. Taking a bad job causes you to lose it, remaining unemployed doesn't. Replace unemployment with a UBI. Now you don't need a minimum wage.
GPT-3 is a model architecture, not a model. While the largest GPT-3 model is 175B, that very paper has a table that includes "GPT-3 XL" (1.3B) and "GPT-3 2.7B" as models in the GPT-3 architecture. The 2.7B model is the same size as Ada, a model that OpenAI currently sells API access to under the moniker "GPT-3"
The letter on their site is dumb. It's the complete wrong approach to security. They have an implicit assumption that v5 will be perfect and totally not going to be exploited right out the gate.

They would be better off focusing on securing their existing site. Log EVERYTHING, make sure you don't have any ways to inject SQL, make sure that if anyone can break out server side they can't get to anything useful. Just basic stuff.

That said, they don't owe anyone anything. It's all volunteer, but if you are going to do it do it well.
Often, the order of messages doesn't matter that much. When it does matter, there are a couple patterns to consider.

a) be sure to give C whole requests, don't ask C for current data, modify it in A and then send it back to C (which is begging for B to send a modification in the mean time). C's mailbox enforces an ordering on requests (all calls will be handled in the order they are received, not in the order they are sent)

b) rather than A sending to B and C, and B also sends to C, send only from A to B and from B to C. B sends along A's information. Downside is if B crashes before sending to C, A's information is lost. You could also have A send to C, and C replies to B, which then does work and sends back to C.

c) when multiple processes are working on a single thing, try to combine them. A single process will find it hard to race with itself, and will have a clear order of events. I'm in the middle of cleaning up some code that had three processes around one thing (a state process, a reader and a writer), and there were so many weird and racy things because of the separation; putting it into one process means things can't change unexpectedly.
My wife is Persian, she uses golden pompano - everyone enjoyed it. We're in southern CA.
100% zoom, if only because it lets you record a separate audio track per speaker. Make sure you’re both off mute when the recording starts otherwise the audio tracks won’t be the same length
> more than many will make in a year by purchasing bullshit.

Often more than people make in a lifetime.
RMS: "I'm not planning to resign a second time!"
For a freight truck to cross Europe can take multiple days, especially as drivers are not allowed to drive more than 9 hours a day (all European trucks are outfitted with a tachograph) and in some countries they have to stop for all of Sunday. During those days on the road, drivers need to be able to stop and use a quality toilet and buy food, which generally means a petrol station. That is the existing infrastructure – your vision of hermetically sealed, disease-free places to stop is simply unrealistic as considerable time and money would be needed to build these everywhere in Europe that a driver would need to stop.
Because: (a) The money spent on the OS (b) The bios is not open so cannot do that (c) impossible to gain the confidence of bosses doing this, it has to come from a manufacturer (d) the expense of doing that for each device is not trivial, if done even half way properly.

I do not think that is a very good suggestion!
The false assumption here is that making kids stay home for a year saves a single life from covid.

It doesn't - the kids have a better survival rate than they do from the flu, and the people who are at risk are overwhelmingly not getting it from kids.

Do a cost-benefit analysis. Keeping kids in detention fails it every time.
> There's other 'bits and pieces' of those frameworks scattered throughout the standard psych world that seem a bit strange by themselves -- the child inside, talking to the different parts of yourself, etc. They're all parts of a framework that really does make a lot of sense on the whole once you're able to get it at scale (in my opinion), it's just that the pieces alone admittedly look ridiculous.

> If either of y'all want any info on that or have any questions about the exercise (or the above post), just let me know and I'll answer as best as I can.

I'll take you up on that offer :D

I don't think I have any major trauma lurking within me, but I do find that I have an internal divide between my "unemotional, technical, calculating" and "in the moment, emotionally unrestrained, lost-in-music" sides. Not expecting spontaneous therapy here, but I've found your posts in this thread very informative already, so I'll gladly soak up whatever you feel like sharing :)
I see so that means this GPT Neo is 64 less powerful?
A somewhat good move, tbh.

He has followers and nowhere to converse. And it's not just 1-to-many. His followers want to talk among themselves.

As long as he can keep the site out of a legal problem. It can be a decent hit.

Parlor is way too extreme.

Necessary disclosure: I'm in no way a trump supporter. 99% of social networks fail, but this one may have a good foundation to succeed.
The vulnerable voluntarily self-isolating, while the less vulnerable live more normal lives, is a very desireable outcome, and much better than a blanket lockdown, which imposes restrictions on large subsections of the population which are not vulnerable.
No one really cares, except the people on that project.

NASA already contracted SpaceX Heavy for the Lunar Gateway station.
language of systems

that sounds about right to me.... and unfortunately, in my experience, most people (and alot of devs too) are not very good at systems thinking... but its an important skill to have!
Evolution of UX in Chess
Insights about the evolution of the usability of chess sets throughout history.
That's not proof of them being business partners.
Are there any metrics available for secondary sale of NFTs?
godelmachine: What's with the editorialized title?
U.S. Covid-19 Vaccination Rate by Age
Yeah, I know. I just don't feel that it's constructive to complain about it. I don't deny it; I just won't let it stop me.

Despite all that, I have it real good. I am able to do work that I love (and not get paid a dime for it), and live a life that includes friends, health, wonder and joy.

I may not be a TED-talkin', man-bunned, skinny-jeans-wearin' jargonaut, but the folks that end up working with me are very, very happy to do so.

I've (not exaggerating) been shipping (as in "delivering finished product") software my entire adult life.

That tends to make my work speak for itself.
Erlang has a bunch of tools to help enforce determinism or at least suss out concurrency issues. For example: you can specify multiple receive statements to process your queued messages in a specific order, there is also a process manager (pman:start()) that allows you to explore concurrency related events, and not to mention Mutex Semaphores as a pattern to mitigate those issues.

There doesn't seem to be a real solution to deadlocks. I got the oreilly book in front of me and it's basically saying: be careful, but don't worry.

And I don't think erlang has a shared mutable states. In fact a google search for "erlang shared mutable state" has you as the first result.
That sounds like 3 years of work given how much it has improved between this version and 0.14 which is the last one I used extensively.
Sadly this is unsurprising. Those who could help the most, doing the least.
Cities and cultures change, which is why you can apply for development permits. Going ahead with a demolition you don’t have a permit for because you think that will force them to grant you one is stupid and deserves punishment like this. The other option is a slippery slope where someone. Starts bulding recidential units in industrial zoning and renting it out without permits because it’ll force the industry to move etc.

You’ll never be able to buy land in a city without any restrictions and that’s perfectly fine. If you want land without restrictions don’t buy in a city, go find an island somewhere.
Saudi Aramco to prioritize energy supply to China for 50 yrs, says CEO
Uh, maybe try meeting more people? Many business owners run honest operations that yield good profits over time.
It's because Ethereum uses a blockchain and mining that there are thousands of computers with identical copies of the transaction history.
Can New Technologies Eliminate the Grim Practice of Chick Culling?
>>> prefer looking at ads that are relevant to their search, when they made that search with commercial intent?

This is a good distinction, if it also contains the nub of the problem - "with commercial intent". FAANG have very little
(no, they have no) way of telling if my intent is commercial or just day to day existence.

I spend most of my life not wanting to buy stuff, and yet most of my online interaction assumes that I am wallet out ready to buy ... something.

(I assume (as a straight man) this is what most women feel like on a night out.)

this is also why I think duckduckgo has the right approach - for all FAANGs targeting based in behaviour etc, they are trying 99% of the time not to present the best match given commercial intent but they are trying to convert non-commercial behaviour into commercial behaviour. No wonder the ad conversion rates are poor. And we could get pretty much same response rates with context-only ads ala duckduckgo - or even a tag in google like "shopping: men's trainers"

In short FAANG are like those guys trying to "neg" women into sex. All the effort is in the wrong place.
> The big problem nobody talks about with actors and message passing is non-determinism and state.

People talk about that all the time with actors and message passing, since the actor model is largely a tool for structuring the management of those things (not usually for eliminating them, because for many problem domains those are inherent to the domain.)
Our current estimate is that it requires between 2000 and 4000 V100 months.
I think I agree with your sentiment, but should the GP be worse off for being honest/pessimistic/seeing things clearly? I'm sure there are lots of people doing what the GP describes that don't feel they are doing anything immoral. Are they in the clear? If you're actually participating in fraud it's one thing, but doing something legal but morally dubious like working around browser privacy comes down much more to individual perspective.

This potentially is another argument for laws / regulation.
Also, they were very explicit that everything was legal, and was similar to, and better than what other testing companies were doing.
Notes for Introduction to the Theory of Computation UPenn (2021)
My thoughts exactly. We are too conditioned!
Iterating via reference instead of copy in C++ is a great way to get a speed up with a one character change.

I.e. changing for (const MyType v : collection) to
for (const MyType& v : collection)
> And I don't think erlang has a shared mutable states

An actor has state. It's mutable - each message can modify it. It's shared - two process working with a shared actor share that state. To me, that's shared mutable state. It causes classic race conditions.

(I know this is an unpopular opinion, and somewhat deliberately contrary and provocative, but ultimately truthful.)
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You have ETS and Mnesia that are technically shared mutable state, and people have built Raft / Paxos / DeltaCRDT / etc. which also provide some form of it -- albeit a safe one -- but while it does exist, actually sharing the state between PIDs is a very rare thing ime. I don't have super in-depth experience in the Erlang ecosystem, so take this with a pinch -- or handful! -- of salt ofc.
There are people working on that.

* https://opensage.github.io/

* https://github.com/TheAssemblyArmada/Thyme
I think we're still a generation or so away from getting to this level. Fundamentally, though, it doesn't seem to be too wild of a suggestion that DNA is going to end up looking like an incredibly complex, incredibly hacky computer program, utilizing every last potential possibility of its mechanical substrate.

Think about demoscene or 80s video game programming, tight little assembly routines by developers that did not care anywhere near as much about simple and clear code, security, portability, or anything else as they did about raw performance. Analyzing some of these after the fact (not that I've done it, but I've read the stories of people doing it) seems to be every bit as difficult as being able to do it in the first place. And this is something that _is_ the product of intelligent design; when raw evolution is responsible for the work, it's even less liable to make some kind of logical sense when viewed at the lowest level. The emergent effect of random change (and its impact on reproductive fitness) is the only thing that matters.

Now, consider this: scientists analyzing a simple processor can't even tell you how it works, using modern equipment:

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...

> we take a classical microprocessor as a model organism, and use our ability to perform arbitrary experiments on it to see if popular data analysis methods from neuroscience can elucidate the way it processes information. Microprocessors are among those artificial information processing systems that are both complex and that we understand at all levels, from the overall logical flow, via logical gates, to the dynamics of transistors. We show that the approaches reveal interesting structure in the data but do not meaningfully describe the hierarchy of information processing in the microprocessor. This suggests current analytic approaches in neuroscience may fall short of producing meaningful understanding of neural systems, regardless of the amount of data.

What do we take from that? It seems to me that our current understanding of DNA is extremely crude, and that we're still a few breakthroughs away from understanding any moderate to large scale 'logical structure' in it.
I had one good outcome from the pandemic (besides no dying). I had an abundance of time and years of programming experience plus some good ideas. I went all in all writing some OSS and to my surprise people actually began using these libraries. Some even contributed PRs! I in turn began feeling more confident to contribute PRs to other projects. Some were even accepted!

So the take away I got from this article is. Why spend time writing something that "decorates" or improves some OSS in userland and will be lost for eternity in a private code base when I could open source it. This depends on the type of company you work for of course, but to the authors point, why work at a company that doesn't embrace contributing back to the OSS these free loading capitalists have built their business on.
Brazilian private pilot survived and was found 36 days after the accident
That's the rub for me.

If I buy the baseball card, I get whatever (limited) utility it offers. I can put it in an album, frame it and hang it on the wall, stick it in the spokes of a bicycle wheel, use it as a very small shim or insulator.

If I buy the rights to the card, I get the utility that offers. I can contract out and offer reprints of the 1990 Topps Juan Agosto card for the millions of people who want one.

If I buy a NFT corresponding to the photo on the card, what utility have I bought? What new capabilities or rights do I possess? As best I can tell, nothing.

NFTs are the MMO version of the "I am Rich" app with factions and customizable skins. You can demonstrate your economic might by exchanging large quantities of money for something with negligible if any actual utility. But you at least get to pick which particular piece of uselessness you're associating yourself with, so you can use it as a more precise social signaling thing.
Worked our ok for lucas arts, kaspersky and probably some others. There are plenty of fraud out there where leadership is not in a relationship
I always hear Economist talk about how global the oil market is making the possibility of price and supply manipulations sound incredibly remote. This certainly doesn't support that view.
Somewhat ironic that this is also an an anecdote
While broadly right this has some inaccurate parts, in particular:

> If we were talking about OpenGL, there would be absolutely nothing you can do. In OpenGL or other older APIs, it’s only possible to do API calls from one thread.

Isn't really true. You can load textures off thread[1] and other things which come in handy. Vulkan expands that but I've done multithreaded texture loading for instance almost a decade ago.

This is particular important if your not loading compressed textures as there's usually a tiling/swizzle pass and the texture copy can be significant on large textures(unless you're using something like eglCreateImageKHR).

[1] https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/OpenGL_and_multithreadin...
Website appears down. Here's the archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210321232118/https://melindawy...
also, for some quick and simple Q&A system. Haystack https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack (essentially dense vector similarity on Elastic Search) looks pretty promising and supports whole pipeline.
These mice plagues are a cyclic phenomena. I remember being in one in 1973, living in a small town in the wheat belt. Australia - land of floods, fires and pest plagues.
I don't think anyone making less than the median US income has even heard of the main/master debate :)

But sure, I agree with the larger point. Culture wars are great for keeping the weak divided. The $GME fiasco - albeit a bit silly - was the first glimmer of hope I saw in a long time towards that unification. Hopefully there's more to come.
The attacks on him were dubious at best.
If the biggest names in the game are ads and finance, you'll find a justification to climb your way into that job. What else are you supposed to do? A comfy middle class life is not a guarantee, and any ambiguous notions of moral duty are quickly discarded to secure some semblance of security.
You'd think if someone scored low on TOEFL and SAT English, but their essays were a literature work of art..it would raise red flags.
Are there any output samples? Would like to get a sense of how close this is to GPT-2 vs. GPT-3 levels of coherency.
If even want to explore a topic with some nuance you need more than 280 characters. Twitter's quota gives you three, maybe four, sentences. That's not enough to even define conflicting view points, let along explore those view points in depth.
Bolden's recently changed his tune:

“SLS will go away," he said. "It could go away during a Biden administration or a next Trump administration… because at some point commercial entities are going to catch up. They are really going to build a heavy lift launch vehicle sort of like SLS that they will be able to fly for a much cheaper price than NASA can do SLS. That’s just the way it works.”

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/former-nasa-administ...
Some countries have mandated that masks be worn even outdoors and even when there is no one around. This has been the case in Poland and Romania for many months, for instance. The Polish health minister openly stated there is little scientific basis for this, he just thinks it is more likely that citizens will have their masks on when entering shops or meeting people if they have to wear it at all times.

Think about how much it sucks if you are a glasses wearer and your glasses are fogging up all the time (you can't even see the traffic lights when you want to safely cross the street), or how much it sucks to cycle long distances with this thing on your face.

I think a lot of Europeans would readily accept wearing a mask in shops for the next year. But yes, getting rid of this outdoor mask requirement would be a big relief and major return to normal.