skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! I’m the EAI person who your criticism of the Pile is most directed at. I’m curious if you read Sections 6.5 and 7 of the Pile working paper and, if so, what your response to it is. As you note, virtually everyone trains on copyright data and just ignores any implications of that fact. I feel that our paper is very upfront about this though, going as far as to have a table that explicitly lists which subsets contain copyrighted text.

Also, I realize that you don’t have any ways of knowing this but we also have separated out the subset of the Pile that we can confirm is licensed CC-BY-SA or more leniently. This wasn’t done in time for the preprint, but is in the (currently under review) peer reviewed publication. Unfortunately the conference rules forbid you from posting materials or updating preprints between Jan 1st 2021 and the final decision announcement. But we will be making the license-compliant subset of the Pile public when we are able to and will give it equal prominence on our website to the “full” Pile.

Also, we will be releasing a datasheet for the dataset but again conference limitations prevent us from doing so yet.

If you’re interested in talking about this in depth, feel free to send me an email.
I try to ride any good session I can for 3-4 hours. I do not need a break after 25minutes, and the most challenging part is getting into it for me, not staying in it.
The Silver Pill (2013)
If you are thinking of Christianity, this poll included Judaism and Islam. Christianity's numbers are around 33%.
GenX isn't even in power yet for the most part. Most of the people representing us in government are the Boomers.

>because we're lazier, hedonists, more disrespectful, etc

Also, "they" said the same stuff about GenX.
Edmunds direct link with data: https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/electric-car-range-and-cons...
> I also have a Firefox extension that can be used to route some URLs via the proxy and others not

FoxyProxy? I love that one.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxyproxy-sta...
I kind of gave up understanding relativity and quantum physics, but might try again later.
The suez is the site of massive imperial intervention. The Suez crisis was precipitated when Egypt nationalized the canal. Western militaries and economic leverage are deployed to keep the prices low for the benefit of those governments.

It's a huge mistake to regard any international trade in the middle east as regulated by simple supply and demand curves. This is a site of world geostrategic focus, usually at the expense of the people that live there.
> have had to pee in bottles for years

Contractors can choose to pee where they want. But employees can sue so easily over this sort of thing. It's a specific OSHA violation.

This story depends on confusing the issue about who is and isn't a contractor, doing this to themselves.

The contractor should be let go. As the response notes, they represent the company and represent it badly.
> If the driver had knocked on our door and asked to use our bathroom, I'd have absolutely invited him in. This happened with a Fedex driver once before.

They don't have time to use a proper restroom. That's why they're peeing in bottles.
I read GEB a long time ago, followed by "I Am A Strange Loop", and the overarching impression they left on me is that we should focus on emergent behaviour and feedback loops, because they seem to be pointing to the direction where "high-minded embodiment of abstraction" probably lives.

So instead of believing GEB+IAASL haven't stood the test of time, I prefer to believe that current technology is akin to banging raw power together in hopes of seeing a spark of cool in the minor league of "this AI does this nifty (and maybe useful) thing better than humans" but we haven't yet upgraded to major league of AI choosing their own goals and what ever may emerge from that.

(It may be that I'm due for a re-read!)
> the answer will be it was a rogue employee and he has been let go (or disciplined, if he's lucky

Rogue contractor.
To the tinfoil layman it’s funny, if I am not mistaken, that as soon as the President of Egypt ordered it to be unloaded they suddenly got it unstuck within the next 24 hours.
I’d be curious to know how “range” is computed for ICE vehicles. Do you end when the gas gauge reaches “e” or until the engine stops? Seems to be perfectly analogous to the two possibilities with the Tesla. Either when the cars says it’s out, or when it actually stops.

Granted folks don’t seem to obsess over the range metric when it comes to ICE cars so the point may be moot.
This is only for this single asteroid, not all asteroids for the next 100 years.
Have you considered asking your employer to install EV charging stations for employee use? There are metered solutions if they’re not comfortable providing the power for free.

A client installed ChargePoint chargers for myself (Model S) and their full time employees with EVs (Plug in Prius, Bolts, various Teslas) when I provided them with incentive information and helped them through the process gratis (EVs and electrical infra are my jam).
I sincerely hope not. If such a thing were to happen that means the wealth divide would be significantly worse. That’s the opposite of the direction the world needs to be going in.
The GP may or not be suggesting that, but coconuts do migrate. Their physical structure enables that: a sealed capsule that can float, with rich nutrient density inside, and airtight, so due to all that, stays viable while it is carried across oceans from one country to another. And germinates and grows at the destination.
Read something to that effect somewhere, maybe in Wikipedia or similar.

Winds and tides and ocean currents and waves do the rest.
And then pass it over to Gen Z, Gen α, and Gen XMen
Yep! I have a Jabra headset and I picked up a fancy newish Razer mouse that uses 2.4. Very odd system interrupt behavior slows the whole system down. I changed the mouse over to bluetooth and the problem goes away. It's not as EXXXXXXTREME as using 2.4 on the mouse, but hey - the system isn't so laggy now.
To some degree.

But an enormous part of the (useful but narrow) success of AI is a specific set of ML tech, especially supervised learning.

And the amount of computational horsepower and data required gives one at least some pause given what the human brain can do with apparently so much less. Which implies there are probably significant advances required in cognitive science and neurophysiology and perhaps other fields of studies we haven't even considered. We may need other ways to solve problems that have proven more elusive to brute force than it looked like 5 years or so ago (e.g. general purpose full self-driving in busy cities).
It's cheaper and gentler to the ecosystem to just add Typescript support to node and call it a day.
Good thing we are talking normal monthly tidal variations (not seasonal) which vary by meters, not centimeters.
Exactly, this is what I rely on. People know me as the "people person" on my team. My career progression thus far has mostly been due to my ability to forge positive relationships throughout the organization (something that's desperately needed for cybersecurity teams.) If I screwed over a colleague like this, people know it would shatter those relationships and absolutely decimate my career. And cybersecurity is a small world, so it wouldn't be something I could easily brush under the rug.

It's sad, and sometimes frustrating, that I have to think in these "nuclear arms race" terms. And that's something else I try to be open about: that I'm really frustrated with this environment of fear. I think the more people openly acknowledge that, the easier it will be to move toward a healthier environment.
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Oh I always thought that was an apple tree!
I think calling it a rehash is unfair. I would call it "independent discovery", where the same general lived human experience gives rise to the same general ideas about the universe and society and right and wrong. Religion is a technology for dealing with the experience of being a person.
I wonder how much inheritance from boomers to Gen X will influence the transfer of wealth in the next 5-10 years
Just because something happens and there are memos about it doesn’t mean it happens because of corporate policy. I’ve worked jobs that had memos that said “please don’t pee all over the floor and seat of the bathroom” and “please don’t throw poop covered toilet paper in the trash”. In neither case was the job or corporate policy so unbearable as to not allow enough time for proper bathroom use. It just seems there are some people that don’t understand normal / acceptable human bathroom behavior.
Exactly. And I guess the package still needs to be compiled to JS before deploying to production? To avoid shipping a full TS compiler on a production server which would be a crazy thing to do.
It’s probably one of the more fair (or easiest fair data structure) you can ask someone about. If you don’t practice bfs or dfs recently you can forget traversal. With a linked list you can reason through it on the spot.
A quick look suggests that the Tigris is mostly navigable up to Baghdad, which would get you halfway there.

As an alternative (and ignoring the obviously substantial geopolitical concerns), is there a geographic reason not to dig a canal on the other side of the Sinai from, say, Aqaba to Rafah? If you had to dig that far, it would seem to be the next best option.
I would have loved to see Aliens: the Musical on Ice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi1_TA71Z3g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tnuthMhAR0

Unlike the bus drivers, the Austin theatre troupe that put the show on was well aware of how absurd what they were doing was from the get-go.
Funny you mention that! Yes, the four gospels that were canonized by a patriarchal church organization do seem to paint a picture like that. But the Gospel of Thomas, and other ancient "heretical" texts tell a different story, where Jesus explicitly acknowledgd women as equals and Mary as the favorite disciple. So even some very early Christians would disagree with Paul here.
This is perfect! I have news.google.com blocked on my PC because I'm trying to block a bad habit of idly typing it in and getting sucked into the void. Came to HN and still found a way to get the news drip without as much distraction. :)
Yeah, you can turn an e-ink device completely off, unpowered, and it will continues to display whatever was on the screen, unchanged, until you power it and change it. Any moment the display is not actually changing, it can be using zero power. Zero. That's the real amazing thing about e-ink.
Please everyone keep asking for cs fundamentals questions for interviews. I get to keep picking up great devs that get annoyed at all the weird questions.

I ask about how applicants have implemented things and bang around the edges with questions to gauge the depth of their understanding.
You can be 30+ and still be an insecure and oblivious fetus
It's one of the view apps always running on my Mac.

I wish it supported multiple windows, though.
St. Thomas also held that contraception was wrong, not merely abortion, so the fact that ensoulment didn't happen before quickening (in his learned opinion) didn't change his understanding of how moral contraception and abortion are (he believed they were both gravely sinful).

St. Thomas said ensoulment happened at quickening because the science of the time said that the zygote was a simple thing. Given that understanding, St. Thomas held that the rational soul was not necessary to explain the developments that happened and in fact, that the soul which animated such simple matter must be simpler. Modern science tells us that the zygote is anything but simple and so St. Thomas' objection on the basis of a "simple" material component are incorrect. St. Thomas also said that all that he had ever written was "so much straw" after receiving a mystical experience of God's love (not _wrong_, just completely inadequate).
Yes

I get almost exactly the EPA estimate on fleet of ~25yo cars, trucks and minivans. The car is almost always on the high end. I'm supposed to get 22. I get 21.something or 22.something or 23.something from week to week with 22 being most common. The vans and the trucks I don't drive enough to have a good feel for if they're less than an mpg high or low but they are definitely within +/-1mpg.

My commute is pretty much exclusively 70-90mph highway driving with approx four pulls (stoplights) from 0 to 50/70 (traffic speed in that area, depending on conditions) and am not shy about using all of 2nd gear.
MIT Takes Deep Dive into Dropping Lithium-Ion Battery Costs
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Is crowdfunding the perfect way to build your startup?
Cancel-as-a-service sounds like a good idea. Like a company checking the whole off and online history of someone, and then just plant some seeds on Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr etc. to make it working. You can pretty much do it almost 100% to be seen as something organic. Tbh I'm pretty sure some people do this already.
> There's 4 years in a standard CS degree program,

Depends on the nation, in Europe 3 years is the standard.
Why is it that OSX gets so many of these nice little apps that seem pretty easy to make multiplatform but they just... aren't?
But do you ask this question, because it‘s part of the job to write linked lists or because it‘s something they should know if they had proper education?
Very good. I will use
New York Covid Vaccine Passport Draws Privacy Concerns
Before science was a thing, people used the idea of God to explain the unexplainable. Today science explains those things for us.
very bom
Widgets in Big Sur are not the same as the old Dashboard: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211789
Canada panel recommends pause on giving AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to under 55
> Had the driver asked to use your bathroom, he likely would have lost precious time and have been indirectly penalized for it.

What's the alternative? No matter how reasonable the expectations are, there will always be drivers who would rather pee in a bottle and end their shift 10 minutes early than spend 10 minutes finding a bathroom.
She said it herself. See https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1375529101931520007 - in there, Warren says "And fight to break up Big Tech so you’re not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets." That's a direct threat to break up a private entity because it criticized her (a sitting Senator and representative of the federal government).
https://web.archive.org/web/20210329181322/https://www.nytim...
Personally, I prefer things that use a huge amount of memory to die instead of having the machine become unresponsive, especially if I have latency-sensitive things at the same time, like a conference call.

Now, my main issue is that disabling swap doesn't cause this. With swap, OOM ends up being detected and corrected by the kernel. On some machines, it doesn't happen without swap, and often neither with swap. A sweet spot seems to be current-to-last CPU gen with 8 GB of memory.

There's probably a lot of factors at play: what makes a task "hung"? How memory pressure is measured. Stuff probably changed with time, SSDs are now pretty quick, yet storage is a lot slower than RAM compared to what it used to be.

Anyway, I use zram and have upgraded my memory, I'll also increase a bit my swap partition size in light of all of this. I'll probably have a look at userspace OOM daemons too.
TCP over TCP is not the best idea, but it works in a pinch.

Edit: see below
That is like saying “don’t you understand! they were killed in the past, just let them do a little killing now to equilibrate things.”

Sometimes the opposite action is not what is needed to regain balance.

Affirmative action is what is keeping them poor. Segregation is what is keeping them poor. Give them special treatment and that is all you’ll make them, special, not equal. Integration, real integration which includes competition is what is needed. They need to earn their place because that is the only sure way they’ll keep it, and that is the only way others will respect them enough to treat them equally.
That's an article too early. (Though they seem to address later objections in their edit.) It turns out that Teslas display more of their capacity under "zero range," giving more of a warning/buffer to drivers at low battery. The Teslas turned out to drive farther than the other cars when displaying "zero range."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa_wf4EzLgY
Only by C developers that still believe C generates faster code than C++, while their beloved C compiler has been rewritten in C++.
I thought the same thing. This post included lots of data about the system-wide behavior of the DNS system, but no data about the end user experience. It's obvious there will be some reduced latency for users, but what is the distribution there in the real world? If the mean is like 10ms extra or something, it's not really worth optimizing for anybody except maybe the very biggest players on the web (and even they might decide the trade-offs are not worth it).

It's just very easy to shoot yourself in the foot with a long DNS TTL, in the worst case taking down your entire site until the TTL expires if you ever misconfigure it. Why risk it for a small gain?

Also, even theoretically it's not clear to me that it would help end user experience. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe if there's already an open connection from the browser to the server based on the TCP keep-alive settings, the browser will continue to use it rather than kill it and open a new connection starting with a DNS lookup even if the DNS TTL expires. So for an otherwise well-tuned site, each user session should expect to do a DNS lookup at the start of the session but then the rest of the requests in that session won't need to.

If that's true, then the only way DNS TTL will affect the end user experience is if the TTL is long enough such that there are a significant number of instances where the time between sessions for one user on the same device is longer than the DNS TTL. Most sites don't have their users returning every 30 minutes, they're lucky to get someone as a daily active or even weekly active user. So the TTL might have to be ~ a few days long to impact a significant number of users (and even then, probably only by a few tens of milliseconds at the beginning of the session).
The question is how much is the difference. I really really like the Taycan 4S, but if it has a much worse range than a Model 3 LR, I go with the later one (Model S is not available in Europe until September :( ). Of course the final price matters as well. It's just that highway range is an important part of the comparision.
Similarly for recursive algorithms in COBOL, before the newfangled RECURSIVE program type.
I've heard this said many times. Most people I know who have loved the book read it before turning 20. It's a great read, but I think there's something in the format that means it's best for bright but fertile minds.
This. The amount of gaudy 2 story mansions that's standing vacant while delapitated and for sale. Most of them end up as rentals as they don't sell, and deteriorate even more in value as they're not cared for. Add this to the inevitable fire insurance quotes you'll get for owning in a place that can accommodate such a monstrous build and it all comes out extremely wasteful and risky.
> I've never regretted a short TTL.

Very much this sentiment.

When migrating a website many years ago, I forgot to lower the TTL of companyname.co.uk. I had lowered the TTL of www. but not the root.

So when the big switchover came, half the traffic stayed where it was. Not only that the new backend fell over.

having that option to roll out/in would have been really useful.

Now with the cloud stuff goes away with, so having a TTL of 3600 means long outages.
When did payment processing become Wall Street? Is this the term for all finance now?

These start-ups are challenging stodgy banks. By and large, this is and has been good. But unless the jargon has completely changed over the last twenty years, someone helping retail traders buy stock or processing Salesforce payments isn't on Wall Street.

They're at the same institution. But their work, risk profile and compensation are vastly different. Last I checked, Wall Street is doing fine amidst this disruption, what with cryptocurrencies, SPACs and booming markets public and private.
> People are rightfully scornful of American evangelicalism, but they throw the baby out with the bath water and try to pretend that the orthodox (in sense of true and right) church has not done tremendous good in this world.

There's no "true and right" church. In fact the non-stop schism of the christian faith is evidence that the views espoused by christians are incredibly incoherent. One model to use is that the bible is a map and your interactions with actual people are the actual road. And you're trying to navigate your life with this map. You have a few options:

- Trust the map no matter what (fundamentalists)
- You end up also arguing about how the map *really* reads, because it's incoherent at its core! Denominations are started by people trying too hard to ascertain the "fundamentals."
- Trust the road no matter what
- Is your map even relevant then? What's the difference between this and being an atheist?
- Trust the road when you can see it and can't argue with it, trust the map otherwise
- This leads to shit like voting against progress because you are ignorant to the harm it does. Since the map is incoherent you still end up drawing incorrect conclusions in directions that are harmful.

These basically all suck and cause problems vs the strategy of "live in the world, and use some other map."
I wonder how much attitudes towards preferring office vs. WFH is dependent on the actual physical office environment.

I am in the prefer WFH camp. However if my office was something more akin to what I see in many Silicon Valley style tech companies, I could theoretically imagine myself enjoying the office more.

As it is, my current office (for that matter, for my entire career) is more akin to what you see in The Office TV show, or Dilbert, or other stereotypically dystopian, dull, boring, traditional offices where everyone is mandated to wear at least business casual - dress shirt, dress pants, dress shoes.
Believing markets and private property should be unregulated does not mean also believing the actions of market players should not be criticized.

Do you believe nothing that you think should be legal, should be criticized?
> If the driver had knocked on our door and asked to use our bathroom, I'd have absolutely invited him in. This happened with a Fedex driver once before. That person ended up leaving pee on the seat, which was pretty gross.

What with all the sorts of people in the world, how many folks would've invited them in vs. thinking the driver was weird and potentially reporting the action?

Asking to use your restroom (during pandemic times) seems pretty likely to trigger a customer complaint possibly even one as pleasant as "They were courteous and didn't leave a mess, but why are they being forced to use residential bathrooms, don't they have time off to pee?" - that's a complaint that doesn't reflect poorly on the driver at all but may still end up getting the driver fired if it causes a PR stink.

Without stronger labour laws and without a union drivers are stuck between a rock and a hard place.