skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree; could be very helpful if somebody not fam with token buckets arrives at this code for some reason and needs to make sense of it. Also, I think one person's "what" is another person's "why":

> if self.one_time_burst > 0 {

What is this code doing? It's setting up a flow control statement. It's dereferencing the "one_time_burst" property on the object self and comparing the value to 0. If the value is greater than 0, it will execute the proceeding code block.

Why is this being done?

> [to] consume the one-time-burst budget.
And a warrant for your arrest, probably.
What’s a small sail boat you’d recommend? Can it be low maintenance?
Shooting from the hip...

Perhaps we require CPAs to certify that their clients are not engaged in wage theft? Small businesses that do their own taxes may have an incrementally greater chance of being audited. Then, IRS audits should also look for wage theft.
I actually felt the same about it as GP (if perhaps not as strongly; I still buy flowers for my mom even if I wouldn't be thrilled to receive them regularly myself), but didn't yet consider it like this.

Thanks for that comment, this makes sense. They're still being grown for this purpose so it's still resources being used, but yeah it's not necessarily just ripping plants out of the ground which is how I (without thinking it through, stupidly) pictured it. I should check how it compares to other gift-type items, perhaps they're not a bad generic gift at all. (Of course a gift that someone wished for and will use for years is always better, but that's far from always possible.)
Sam Bankman-Fried, unless I miss my guess.
> From the childs point of view [...] not existing at all seems to be as miserable as possible.

How can not existing be [as] miserable [as possible]?
Is existing not being? Is misery not possible? Or am I missing another option?

> what child is that btw? I thought a fetus wasn't one.

As far as I know nobody disputes that (unless there are complications with the pregnancy) a fetus usually evolves into a child when an abortion is made impossible.
IMHO writing a well-documented code requires a discipline and a set of good habbits.

One of those habbits is to update documentation (tests/comments) when software is evolving.

Unfortunately it is a very rare habbit it seems.
Shout out to all the future developers who will try to autocomplete strings containing 'pisswhacker' and find themselves thwarted by the thought police
Your goals seem to somewhat align with the podman project, except that they decided to make a drop in replacement for docker (to the point you can alias docker to podman) and leverage the docker ecosystem, and still use orchestration to build pods, etc. Notably, it's no longer a daemon, just some python scripts that do the same thing docker did.

Also, as good as systemd is (and I've defended it here a few times as better than what was before), it still feels like an organically grown accumulation of edge cases that were patched. I try to keep it's use to the subset of features that are easy to grow for not just myself but those of my team, and systemd is known (in my circles at least) as being somewhat obtuse. For me, that's a good argument for a dedicated application to handle it.
BS. might as well be money
If you're not familiar with their specific garden and the plants they like, cut flowers might be safer. Also it can be nice to have them inside and off-season as well. As the article says, "Flowers come without any obligations." That's what's so nice about them.
I felt like this article was a bit light on data scientist specific advice, and while I am not one, I do herd them for a living, so thought I'd put some random thoughts together:

1) Quite often you are not training a machine to be the best at something. You're training a machine to help a human to be the best at something. Be sure to optimise for this when necessary.

2) Push predictions, don't ask others to pull them. Focus on decoupling your data science team and their customers early on. The worst thing that can happen is duplicating logic, first to craft features during training, and later to submit those features to an API from clients. Even if you hide the feature engineering behind the API, this can either slow down predictions, or still require bulky requests from the client in the case of sequence data. Instead, stream data into your feature store, and stream predictions out onto your event bus. Then your data science team can truly be a black box.

3) Unit test invariants in your model's outputs. While you can't write tests for exact outputs, you can say "such and such a case should output a higher value than some other case, all things being equal". When your model disagrees, do at least consider that the model may be correct though.

4) Do ablation tests in reverse, and unit test each addition to your model's architecture to prove it helps.

5) Often you will train a model on historical data, and content yourself that all future predictions will be outside this training set. However, don't forget that sometimes updates to historical data will trigger a prediction to be recalculated, and this might be overfit. Sometimes you can serve cached results, but small feature changes make this harder.

6) Your data scientists are probably the people who are most intimate with your data. They will be the first to stumble on bugs and biases, so give them very good channels to report QA issues. If you are a lone data scientist in a larger organisation, seek out and forge these channels early.

7) Don't treat labelling tools as grubby little hacked together apps. Resource them properly, make sure you watch and listen to the humans building and using them.

8) Have objective ways of comparing models that are thematically similar but may differ in their exact goal variables. If you can't directly compare log loss or whatever like-for-like, find some more external criteria.

9) Much of your job is building trust in your models with stakeholders. Don't be afraid to build simple stuff that captures established intuitions before going deep - show people the machine gets the basics first.

10) If you're struggling to replicate a result from a paper, either with or without the original code, welcome to academia.

Probably not earth shattering stuff, I grant you.
I first heard that in a talk by Kevlin Henney [1]. I'm not sure if he's the one who came up with it though.

[1]: https://twitter.com/KevlinHenney/status/381021802941906944
Cool, it seems that Firefox and Safari support quite some languages on both Desktop and Mobile, but Chrome is English only :/
Specifically chrysanthemum. Other flowers are OK.
Recommended Books on Higher Mathematics
Is deliberately facilitating demographic change for political purposes an ethical use of technology? I imagine there would be some moral outrage if the people of the pivot districts learned that SV types (who may well not even live in Texas) were collaborating to enact political change by targeted migration. Is this not basically political colonization?
Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin (2009)
> It is as if nothing had happened.

Well, my resolve not to use GoDaddy for anything ever has been strengthened a bit.
This seems reasonable to me. The overwhelming majority of cars are not supercars, and most supercars spend their lives sitting in garages, so this will curtail a lot of powerful resistance to the electrification movement despite only negligibly reducing the CO2 savings it will bring.
Virtual routes can/should be developed to enable self-driving. Anything that can be reliably followed as a "track" by "computer vision" would work. Compared to a trains, the infrastructure investment would be negligible to install on major interstates. Cars that currently have cruise control with emergency stopping capabilities could utilize the "tracks" with minimal modifications. Confidence in your safety while being distracted and commuting is the value-add to transportation of Amtrak, and that could be replaced.

However, Amtrak has historically been a socialism that blue-collar towns are OK with participating in, so my guess is that this initiative has more to do with giving government money to those people than solving any real transportation issue.
Looks interesting, but at $969 for the hardcover and over $100 for the paperback, I think I’ll wait for the movie.
The Bosch Automotive Handbook, now in its tenth English-language edition, is the standard one-volume reference. Older, but still useful, are Garrett et al., The Motor Vehicle, and U.S. Army TM 9-8000, Principles of Automotive Vehicles. There are also many books on specific subjects, such as Limpert, Brake Design and Safety, or Hoag & Dondlinger, Vehicular Engine Design.

If you’re more interested in servicing, I’d strongly recommend the automakers’ paper or electronic workshop manuals and training materials: for newer, more sophisticated models, these may be the only source of the information needed for safe, effective repairs and maintenance.

There are also textbooks published for use in community colleges, and works such as the Honda Common Service Manual, which was written for motorcycle and power equipment technicians but has a good deal of information applicable to full-size vehicles.
farmgirlflowers.com does very pretty arrangements. I've bought flowers from them for my partner and my mom on a few occasions. Anybody else got leads on good shops?

Re: the article I too have learned to appreciate flowers. They bring beauty. Not everything has to be useful. After spending years walking through smelly cities it really is a blessing to stop and smell a rose or jasmine or, my personal favorite, lavender.
Bigger models might get us to AGI alone. I say that because of the graphs in this paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165v4.pdf

Quality is increasing with parameters. Even now, interfacing with codex leads to unique and clever solutions to the problems I present it.
Asynchronous message based programming before it became hip. In an ungodly language nevertheless. :)
This seems ripe for an automated legal claim filing system, like one I read about for parking citations or spam callers. A huge part of the problem is the cost & time of filing relative to 'small' amounts.
Everything, but I think they are suggesting that the market for them is being suppressed by hording or destruction of product.
china does not, and never has made the vast majority of ICs
Until a couple years later and the apps stop working from lack of updates and you've got the TV for another decade.
I'd call it a "marginal" business - the kind of thing that would get killed off by this proposal. It's up to the reader to decide if this is good or bad.
The 'results' are more plain to see in callout culture, but the negative effects are usually systematic and hidden.

In entertainment - we don't see all the scripts that were given a pass, the actors that were not considered because they were going to cause controversy by being the wrong ethnicity/gender, comedy writing rooms in particular are generally 'anything can be said unsafe spaces', which is an important part of the culture of good writing that has a questionable future.

If you go and have a look at films made just between 2000-2015 - you can see how many of them - even though they don't rise to the level of controversy today, and are probably not inherently controversial - would not get made today.

'The Last Samurai' with Tom Cruise - some could argue it's 'appropriation' I think many would argue that it's not, it's not really a 'White Saviour' film either. Though it shouldn't be objectively controversial per say, though maybe fodder for discussion, it probably would not get made because it just has the potentiality for ruin: there is just far, far too much risk in an escalating cascade of populist voices calling the film all sorts of things with or without legitimate grievance it won't matter - the mob rules.

Tom Cruise has 10 projects on the drawing board, and he's getting pitches daily, so there's going to be 'a different film' without the risk profile to his personal brand.

Studios (and BigCos) are risk averse and so what we see is a 'watering down' effect across the board.

Conan O'Brien had Sean Penn as a guest on his podcast and has some thoughtful things to say about it.

So does the analogy hold for capitalist control of Open AI? Possibly.

MSFT might be able to push for some 'results' which are seemingly more obvious and public, but the systematic effect of 'closed' and 'proprietary' results in stifled innovation and opportunity otherwise.

It's actually an interesting analogy but I think it's probably good for maybe reasons you might not suspect, and that is, the big part of the iceberg that never gets seen.
> "If you have one single turbine and you need to change the blade, you have to stop the whole operation,” says Ronny Karlsen, the company’s CFO. “We have 126 individual turbines, so if we need to change the blade, we can stop one turbine"

Sounds dangerous
Local cemetery ? ;-}
I think you are jumping ahead.

I am not, and I don't think anyone here seriously thinks that kiddie fiddling is new.

The issue is that Apple's platform is being used to store and share this abuse. Not by some clever mastermind, but by tech illiterate garden variety nonces. As I have alluded to before, whatsapp have reported hundreds of thousands of images in 2020. Apple have reported 256.[1]

This is a legal and PR risk. Storing these images, and or allowing them to be distributed via a system that you own carries stiff legal penalties. They have to do something about it. I don't think client side scanning is the best way.

The crucial point is this, you won't be able to find all of the nonces. But you will be able to find a good number. The idea is that you remove the ability for your standard criminal to be able to use your platform. Or at least give them the feeling that they might not be able to operate with impunity.

There will always be sophisticated criminals, always. But if we can keep them to a manageable number, then that will be an improvement.

[1]https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/gethelp/...
I am told that giving flowers on mother's day is rather gauche since it highlights the fact you don't think of your mother the other 364(5) days a year. I found a service that let me pay once and schedule a delivery a month for a year solved this particular problem.
But ... it's crazy that we created giant international supply chains to rush around flowers so they can be gifted with no awareness of season or region. Flowers are flown thousands of miles, and refrigerated in transit.

At some point, flowers were something we appreciated in nature. (It is interesting that we appreciate part of another life form's reproductive cycle in a relatively non-utilitarian way). Then flowers were something you could enjoy seasonally, and with a connection to the land and seasons around you.

But at some point, we decided that it made sense for jets to move flowers sometimes between continents, so you could buy roses any month of the year. And that's a little amazing and a little ridiculous.

Flowers make no demands on the recipient to enjoy other than that perhaps, they shouldn't think too much about where they came from.
Clearly religion isn’t a blanket free pass to do anything, otherwise the baker would have won the case. This is needed as religions do actually prescribe stoning people to death for example.

So a symbolic ritual sacrifice is protected, but an actual human sacrifice isn’t.
Didn’t Trail of Bits have a turnkey solution like this years ago?
11:27 Mon 6th £316.50 return.
Hi, I’m terrible at navigating HN and I can’t remember my login in order to use anything besides my mobile to post here BUT I saw you replied to a comment of mine 2 months ago regarding CFTR modulators for treating cystic fibrosis. You concluded your response by saying the drugs are prohibitively expensive and I wanted to let you know that if you have any of the qualifying mutations (there are A LOT) you wouldn’t need to pay for the medications as there are funds and grants that will cover the costs of therapy for CF patients. If you want some more information I can try to get you the resources you need. I’ve seen these medications change lives and I hope they will be available for all mutations some day, perhaps yours is already.
Yes, this is exactly how it works: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/media-great...
I can imagine that good will may sustain options 1-3 temporarily, but I also imagine (in the specific case of assistants and receptionists) that high tech firms will seek to remedy these problems through automation which yields option 4 long term (Cortana, Alexa, Google Assistant). It seems like we're on a course to reach a point where we replace more jobs than we add, or that the education ceiling to do the job that it's replaced with is too high (eg: it's technically advanced).
Not just "today". In late 00s folks at Microsoft Bing noticed that every time they'd release relevance improvements, Google within a couple of days would boost its search relevance just enough to stay a pace ahead. The running theory at MS was that they had a lot of gas in the tank relevance-wise, but artificially hobbled it, so that it's just above Bing's. Why? Because fewer people will click on the ads if the results are _too_ relevant. They'll click on the links instead.
The Musical System of Archytas (1965)
But iCloud is NOT encrypted, specifically because the FBI told them not to.

source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
PR to make it seem like they're a non-profit while still making 100x returns legally possible. 100x returns are about as good as you can possibly get (and much, much, much better than normal or even great) so they're pretending to act like a non-profit while still being very much for-profit. They're unnecessarily complicating their legal structure just for some publicity brownie points, and they aren't really changing anything substantial. It's also an attempt to make it seem like "you're only going to make as much as 100x on this supremely lucrative investment opportunity!" to dupe the gullible as the market is frothy and the hype is extraordinary.

Better yet, I'd call it unnecessary bullshit.
"Why this has taken off just leaves me scratching me head. It just makes no sense."

Isn't it just a lot easier to say "I am ignorant about this, can someone send me info on why it is gaining in popularity?", rather than claiming "it makes no sense"?
Not the GP, but once I gave flowers to a new Chinese girlfriend in college. She kindly explained how the meaning differed between cultures.

Mentioning races is not racism.
I am an avid gardner. I have a house full of plants, plus a front and back garden, plus a patch of veg. I enjoy gardening immensely. Although I do like getting plants as gifts, I very much still like enjoy cut flowers, and you know why?

> Flowers don’t take any effort on your part to be enjoyed. [...] Flowers come without any obligations.

Just like the article says.
#fff on #000. I find the site pretty exhausting to read. Like most "motherfucking websites", a bad example for a good site.
"No, you cannot make more money with your new thing!" scolds the toothless banshee of grift.
Zuckerberg is a Jew, don't you know they're an oppressed people. The Sulzberger owned New York Times told me so.
A ramdisk wouldn't help there?
My mom was a florist, and I had to spend a lot of my time helping her when I was a kid growing up. I naturally learned a lot about plants/flowers because of this. I also learned a lot of things that are just nice little tidbits to use later in life (now).

For the guys, always have a vase on hand at home. It doesn't matter much the quality/price. Whenever inviting a friend over, throw some flowers in it. Even if its a bundle from the grocery store. The impression it makes is well worth it. If you really don't like having the flower, give them away at the end of your get together. 2nd good impression from the same source.

As someone else pointed out, the type of flower and the color of the flowers have meanings that you might be unaware. FYI

Some flowers are more fragrant than others, and some have longer "shelf" life. Roses tend to wilt quickly, and aren't the most fragant (to fill a room). Lillies (stargazers, etc) will last a lot longer, and their fragrance can fill a room. ProTip: Once the lilly blooms, pinch off the stamen which is covered in pollen. They will drop off naturally even if you don't, but when the do the pollen dust gets on everything.

Keeping flowers cool prevents them from opening, so if you are buying something in advance you can clear out space in the fridge to help prolong them.

If you need flowers to bloom faster because you forgot and bought last second, you can try using a hair dryer to encourage them to bloom. There's a method to this, so you can read up on it. Bright light is your friend as well. A sunny window is perfect. Avoid the cold.

If the flowers came with a bag of powder as flower food, use only half of it or less. Use more when you change out the water. You should change the water out every couple of days at the longest if not daily for best results.
> I linked you to evidence that shows he lied.

No, you most definitely did not. You ignored most of the video and started quoting him mid-sentence. As I already explained to you. You've shown zero evidence that his genuine belief was anything different than he communicated in that interview. At best, all you've showed is that he gave poor advice, and even that itself is highly questionable given how you still can't be bothered to even quote him properly and depict the interview accurately. It's not exactly hard to make someone look like a monster when you cut their quotes in half and ignore all the surrounding context.

This conversation clearly isn't going anywhere so I'm not going to continue responding.
Thanks for you perspective. I'm considering using leverage so it's interesting to hear from people who are currently using it.

Also, you might find this tweet and paper interesting:

- Tweet: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1432891941138563077

- Paper: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.89...
There’s a difference between the libertarian fantasy of personal responsibility and the reality that many people do not behave with the best interest of others in mind.

If you are unaware of how resistant self-described “libertarians” are to wearing masks, taking vaccines, or reducing their carbon emissions, then you are the one who is ignorant.

If you want to say that those people are not true libertarians, fine, but I don’t see how you can pretend that relying on personal responsibility is actually effective.
'The study encompassed roughly 350,000 people in 600 villages." - wow, sounds promising

...

"Their conclusion? Masks work, period.". That's it. That's all they wrote. Not a single shred of data. No link to the study. Just "masks work, period". Do they prevent spread by 10%? .01%? 90%. Who knows, they "just work". Fantastic journalism. Could at least link to the actual study so people could see the data rather than your opinion piece.
I think this is the core of it, we have moved most of our resources to foreign wars and let our infrastructure to rot. That this is not even part of the public discourse shows the decay of the US as a country.
That modern Python example scream regression to me.
Why not simply cars = []?

This obsession with killing perfectly good languages with strongly typed hints is completely undermining the point.
> They are a state government attempting to enforce a law. By definition, it is not vigilante. Whether the law is agreeable or just is another question entirely; a political question.

Have you been asleep? The OP sees the Texas law as vigilantism because he doesn't believe that the people of Texas have a right to self-determination --- he believes, essentially, that angry-Twitter ought to get a veto over Texan law, and that Texan law that angry-Twitter doesn't like isn't really law at all.