skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I am a chatbot company co-founder)

The beauty of machine learning systems is that they don't have to be perfect to provide value. As long as the risk and frequency of failure doesn't outweigh the probability and value of success, they can be enjoyed by millions. I see the proof every day.

Is self-driving perfect? No, but correcting my car 20% of the time is worth the 80% of the time when it cruises along just fine. I don't have to be able to sleep for it to be valuable.

Is G suite's text completion perfect? No, but the risk of it being wrong is low and when it's right it saves me typing out common phrases. It doesn't have to write my emails for me to be valuable.

Are chatbots humans? No, of course not. Can they answer common questions successfully? Yes. Can they automate simple workflows? Yes! Can they augment human teams to make their time more valuable and reduce wait times? Absolutely. They already are and will continue to evolve and get better.

I do acknowledge that it's frustrating to ask a question that you know a person would be able to answer and get a worse automated answer first. It's critical that companies ensure these failure modes smoothly transition to a human who will at least have the context of your issue before you speak. Smooth "hand off" is something we've spent thousands of person-hours on.

Technologies like GPT-3 are exciting advancements in language generation, but they do struggle with predicting factual language. I expect that will become less and less of a problem as businesses and platforms seek to adopt it. OpenAI is actively working on this: https://openai.com/blog/improving-factual-accuracy/
I'd imagine that the initial application is not the only touch point.
> Former boss

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Hey Simon, as you mentioned Github and I regard you as one of the biggest SQLite hackers on the interwebz, I was wondering if you've tried Fossil[0]?

Might be nice to hack around with, especially combined with its CGI extension[1] feature.

[0] https://fossil-scm.org/

[1] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/serverext.wiki
To be clear, the Jan 6 Committee sent criminal referrals to the DoJ, so the judicial system is the one deciding the fate of these individuals, not the Committee. In fact Steve Bannon's due process has been preserved; he has a court date set and he is currently free on bail. Mark Meadows has not been charged yet, but that will also be decided by the DoJ.

It's worth pointing out though, that Congress does in fact have a power of inherent contempt that enables them to enforce their own subpoenas. This is a separation of powers concern: what if Congress needs to subpoena someone in the Executive branch or DoJ in particular?
For the social media part that existed; see https://socialize.dmonn.ch/

It has fallen out of fashion tho.
Not enough neon.
> Meanwhile my sister's first programming course at university involved making a game using an existing bespoke framework.

I had exactly the same exercise on my first day on uni, we had to take some robot maze pathfinder game and adjust the algorithm a bit.

As someone who had been writing code for over a decade at that point (but who was unfamiliar with Java), I still remember it was intimidating.

I cannot imagine how it must have felt for people without prior coding experience.
I left because they kept setting a return to work date, and then pushing it further and further without ever offering permanent work from home options. It showed a lack of respect for their employees by not letting them plan their futures.

Additionally, there was a lot of surveys and manufactured consent internally. It was all so silly.
MS isn't, but yes, Epstein-Barr virus is more serious if you first catch it as an adult. That will likely knock you out with mononucleosis, a.k.a kissing sickness, for a few weeks. Fatigue can linger a lot longer.
Without experience you simply cannot know right from wrong
So is it the best healthcare in the world?,

or just the theoretical, "potential to be" best?

What's preferred? Why?
That's what I use, and it isn't working for me.
capex vs opex. Unless they burn the laser out its pretty cheap to operate.

Also its going to be very difficult to file an insurance claim with evidence that grannie or some amateur astronomer or hunter looking thru binocs got cataracts because a specific fedex plane flew over, but when a flare starts a fire there's usually enough debris in the wreckage to prove where it came from.
The parallel to Guillan Barré Syndrome seems intuitive. MS and GBS are both autoimmune disorders which damage myelin. MS is slower and chronic while GBS is acute and rarely relapses. What if MS is a low grade persistent immune response to a chronic viral infection such that those bad antibodies are created in small amounts indefinitely?
Only caveat is, and this is where I feel bad, if the person hasn't learned something new in a very long time, they forget what it feels like to change, or even become convinced that they can't. It can be hard to convince someone that no, you don't need to have aptitude or be any good at it after a few days, weeks, even months. You just need to keep doing it. As long as the goal is realistic, you'll succeed. Whether you are more or less "talented" than someone else affects the timeline (a little) but you are going to the same place (again, realistic goals).
Same boat. Didn't have an issue with HTTP3 two days ago, no reddit outage either. I wonder if my DNS resolver is helping somehow. I use Adguard.
Fixed for me now...
https://archive.is/MrtGD
Wonder if there’s any value in a 3rd party curation of Facebook to just give me meaningful updates from friends… aka the original usage. No links, no politics, just family pics, announcements, etc. I’d love to get a weekly digest to my email!
Why is it taken down?
Doubt it. I've been accessing Reddit with Firefox v96 without issues for quite some time.
Ok, so your limit is 1,000X. Fine, whatever. Let's take it as read that that is fair. But he is getting 100,000X or more. And worse, any hint of worker organization to maybe kinda sort of ask whether that's fair gets crushed.
Works for me too, both logged in, logged out, on old and new reddit. Maybe the change hasn't rolled out to all regions yet?
As a self-taught, highly agree almost all intro material I was coming upon back in 2013/14/15 was basically just a reference throwing concepts at you without a context that was incrementally increasing in complexity to guide you. I was one for trivia, so this was fine to a certain extent, but he's dead right, the job is not writing code (as much as the JIRA Industrial Complex would like to make it out to be), the job is thinking and problem-solving.

I only began to understand the thinking needed for doing my job after after mentoring by a consultant who fully grasped and could communicate this, where all the other in-house seniors were too stuck in the Complex for whatever reason to transmit this clearly (likely related to the near-unihibited freedom the consultant had relative to the in-house seniors).
Is anybody testing for virus/bacteria vs virus/bacteria interactions?
Note the word "activists" in the quote. Activists are not always representative of the communities they come from. Survey data shows that most blacks and Latinos in the US want more policing in their communities. Idk how they feel specifically about the camera question
I also find the font too small. Would be great to be able to make it bigger.
... and suddenly FF is working again. Somebudy dun goofed.
How exactly do they determine it's Firefox? I tried it from Postman using the same headers from Firefox and I get a 200, and fidgeting with the headers in Firefox doesn't change anything.
It seems to be an http3 issue. Trying to find a way to replicate it in a Chromium browser. I am trying to understand whether it is a Firefox specific issue, or if it's Reddit not handling the fallback.
No, it is definitely getting back a 403 from the server:

HTTP/2 403 Forbidden
retry-after: 0
content-type: text/plain
accept-ranges: bytes
date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:10:51 GMT
via: 1.1 varnish
cache-control: private, max-age=3600
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
server: snooserv
x-clacks-overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett
content-length: 7
X-Firefox-Spdy: h2
https://archive.is/RaEOa
From my understanding, the leading theory of what causes autoimmune diseases is viruses. The immune system responds to the virus and ends up mistakenly attacking the body as well. This seems to support that, and shows that different viruses cause different autoimmune diseases.

More info:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01835-w
Seems a bit of a dramatic take. I think Firefox has a few engineers on staff.
Grokking Go
Yes, it's really fascinating stuff. Just to add to that, cells must present a continuous sample of their proteasome on the cell surface in the form of a short peptide 9-12 amino acids long. T cells will recognise when the cell is producing protein it shouldn't be (i.e. because it became cancerous or infected with a virus), even if only one amino acid is incorrect.

It learns this in the thymus, which has a bizarre gene called AIRE which switches on genes from all over the body, essentially creating a representation of the entire body in the thymus gland as a sort of sandbox before they are let out.

However, we don't have enough T cells to recognise every possible sequence of 11 amino acids (which would weigh around 1.5 tons), so T cells must be so-called 'cross-reactive'[1]. And therefore other factors must go into how T cells respond to abnormalities.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nri3279
Nope, it didn't load in incognito mode for me either.
I swear to goodness sometimes it seems like the search for the decentralized Internet / Web 3.0 tech is being powered primarily by outrage from google and PayPal’s behavior specifically. They are the negative PR royal couple for centralized control gone wrong on the Internet.
Well Snow Crash describes a world with VR where a "visual stimulus" can lock people into their own heads, or make them slaves to an over mind. There might have been an "auditory stimulus" too...

Based on summaries of Atlas Shrugged, I believe that it describes a world in which real physical objects and locations are targeted for theft and destruction.

So your comment is a bit aggressively personal.
(voted "other")
I left my job in September due to burnout. In turn, that was due to being too invested in wanting to do good work, at a company that just didn't function at a basic level and thwarted my efforts at every turn. AND having this be the third similarly disastrous company I worked in within a 2-year span.

I took 4 months off and will be starting a new job in a couple weeks at a company that appears to be well-run and staffed with smart people. Also for significantly more money, but that's just icing.
> Normally, "violate" is something you do the law, or a contract, or an agreement. You can't normally "violate" a principle that you haven't declared your adherence to, just because someone else adheres to it.

If you're a vegan libertarian who refuses to patronize agricultural conglomerates engaged in factory farming because it's a violation of the non-aggression principle, your argument for them not being in violation of it is that they never agreed to it?

It's not the company's principle, it's the customer's. The company is violating it so the customer is offended and is willing to take their business elsewhere. And to publicly condemn the company over it so others do the same. This is how the free market is supposed to work.

If a company is charging 6000% margins, you don't say "well I guess there's no law against it," you stop patronizing that company. And if you can't, the market is broken.
I personally do not trust research that does not have reasonably polished publicly available code behind it.

A strong result isn’t just the final number, it’s also the process how you arrived there.
You're looking at the sky over the port through the analog eyes.
What happened to the original CDs?
This applies to a great deal of white-collar crime. As long as there aren't serious PERSONAL consequences for wrongdoing, just a fine that the company coffers will pay as the cost of doing business, nothing will change. We need to start to put CEOs in actual prison and to forfeit their fortune.
The NRC has approved several designs over the years. It's always a good idea to doublecheck what people say, even if it confirms your bias.
I played with Nim a little, and it's a great language.

The things that were difficult were 1) Remembering which objects were initialized with "newThing" and which needed "initThing," 2) I never quite figured out what the restrictions on writing an "iterator" are and why, and 3) It's not clear whether a uniform error/exception handling approach has been figured out. I'm also not a fan of canonicalizing variables so you can write them any way you want to, since it harms grepping and the consistency of code.

Otherwise, the language was really enjoyable, and code tends to be both surprisingly terse while remaining readable, and fast to compile and run. Being able to turn the GC off is a pretty cool feature, and I love the default "result" variable in functions.

Right now it feels like a "better Go," but I always watch any language that gives me hope that I will someday stop having to use C++.
> If it's propaganda it seemingly worked on the wrong audience

Not uncommon though, right? The tankies have also adopted the narrative of China as a Communist threat, or in Latin America you end up with the paradoxical situation of most opposition parties in Venezuela belonging to the Socialist International, yet you find feverish and uncritical Maduro support among young radicalized left-wing Americans.

We have the same phenomenon in Germany where ironically the formerly West-German members of Die Linke have a much more cartoonish, ideological view compared to their actually ex-socialist former East-German counterparts.
I don't think so, my Firefox was requesting with HTTP/2.
So basically no wheat, milk and processed foods?
This is clever and fantastic. I have been pondering a similar concept recently and I think I would like to contribute. I'm curious as to why LGPL-3 was chosen as the license, though, not that the license is a show stopper.
There's a lot of useful information contained within Reddit, not just memes, celebrity worship, and porn. I'd like to see decentralized alternatives flourish.
This article just seems petty. The author just quotes large chunks of the article by Gary Smith while inserting snide comments afterwards ("That's pretty funny!", "These are hilarious!"). Then goes on to ad hominem the original author.

There are no arguments presented for the intelligence of chatbots other then the authors own opinion. I don't know what this article adds to the conversation that Gary Smith's original article doesn't provide.
I never said otherwise. As you know, nvidia-containter-toolkit only very recently merged with nvidia-docker, and you know perfectly well that you have not always packaged or supported nvidia-docker.
I'm tired of just how blatantly manipulated the frontpage and major subreddits have become. It's nothing but constant agendaposting, ragebaiting, and screenshots of tweets. The oft-touted solution is to just unsubscribe from the default subs and that only helps a little bit. Go to any regional sub or hobbyist subreddit and you will still find mods turning a blind eye to agendaposting and partisan pestering.
The wild west internet of our youths is dying, and these are the death throes.
Portuguese ranks sixths on number of native speakers, according to Wikipedia.
They're going to use an A321 for long distance line haul?
Couldn't agree more!

Then add to that the fact that you're taxed on `gains` for investment.

So buy an ounce of gold. 1 year later sell it for 6% more than you paid. Cool, beat inflation right?

Well, no because now you pay capital gains on something that isn't really worth more than when you bought it.

Inflation _is_ a tax...

> govt policies backfiring

Yeah sure, they're `backfiring`...
Someone with a 3 min old account posted a threatening message unrelated to any ongoing discussions.
RIP that podcast. It's not the same show anymore.
EBV stays in the human body, a vaccine wouldn't.
Calling what Rick Lax does "magic" is pretty damn generous. He makes fake videos that are hyper produced. Think 5-minute crafts and friends.

Also pretty fitting to have this article sponsored by an NFT "product" that claims to be a "troll on the perfume industry". What even?
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It hit a bug that causes it to busyloop. It would do that even if you don't visit any site. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29918052
Truly amazing craftsmanship. A shame it was all put to use writing bibles and books of hours and saint's lives x)
I always try to choose a scenic path to run on, but the reality is I'm not looking at the scenery while running. Maybe for the first few minutes until I get into the zone, but I could probably only describe a small fraction of any path I've ever run on. That said, I can't stand indoor running for some reason.
I always thought the best way to learn programming is to find a program you want to create, and then figure out how to make that happen.

This is still how i learn (most effectively) today. If i want to learn a new language or something, i write something that i always wanted to write in it anyways. That way it doesn't get boring.

I think what you're describing might be similar in that canned-data is not interesting.
Sitting at a computer for 10 hours a day isn't a gendered thing.

There is nothing about computer science or programming that is gender specific. It, ideally, should sit around 50-50, ±5%. So yes, it is a problem that it so heavily skews male.

As to why, it's multi-faceted cultural issue, with how our society treats boys and girls starting from birth. In other words, a pipeline issue.
From that article: the whole fsyncgate thing seems like a pretty strong counterargument to "mmap adds more complexity than it removes":

https://danluu.com/fsyncgate/
Re: loading issues, I uploaded a pdf version to GitHub. Hope this helps! https://github.com/savarin/readcoin-rust/blob/main/post.pdf

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And yet Democratics encouraged and even participated in blocking the Supreme Court confirmation vote using... a march to the capital and overrunning capital security forces and successfuy occupying every space they attempted to reach.

Why shouldn't any of them been shot?

Both were confirmations to the highest level of office in their respective branch of government and both were staged by political opponents protesting and admittedly attempting to block an "unjust" transfer of power.

If "peaceful protest" vs "riotous coup" can hinge on the fact that your ideological allies could only have been there to "righteously have their voices heard" but ideological opponents must be there as "murderous usurpers", then your sympathetic reasoning might be better described as paranoid delusional projections.

Let's remember that it was Eric Holder and Bill Clinton who pardoned a woman who literally bombed the capital building.
That handles the specific problem of people not broadening their skills and I certainly wouldn't say that firing people is the best way to get more perspectives in your company. There's a general question of how to get rid of employees that are entrenched, want to stay, but aren't providing enough value.
Counterpoint: over the 18 years that I've been in the field, we've always had very male-heavy teams. Most teams have been all men. I can only think of one team that had more than one woman on it.

I'm US east-coast, suburban, and definitely not inside the SV culture bubble.
Not even old reddit works for me.
On the other hand, our University course started with half-baked explanation of what "public static void main" means (Java entry point) on the first day. It was horrible and no one understand anything until a few classes later we go to the meat of making/building stuff.
Nothing as detailed as the Twitter account, unfortunately — but I'm still looking!

Decent article:

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/12/house-speaker-paul-stocks...

Interesting (though they have 30 days to report their activities):

https://www.quiverquant.com/sources/senatetrading

https://www.quiverquant.com/sources/housetrading
Climate is also a known factor. MS is more prevalent in temperate climates. A study from some years back suggested that if you move before the age of 15 or so, you get the risk of your new climate instead.
Manual refactoring is certainly risky. So it should be set about with automated tests, specifically to protect the refactored functionality.

But I think any legitimate refacvtoring can be carried out by automatic tools, with guarantees of unchanged functionality/semantics.

The number of refactorings possible for any piece of code is almost infinite; you can't just let some tool loose on your code to perform all possible refactorings. That's madness. You need a human to judge which refactorings are beneficial. But the actual transformation should be performed by a tool that knows the language, and can guarantee semantic equivalence.

And you still need tests. You can scrap them once the refactoring has been shown to have not changed the functionality.
FedEx plane are everywhere some of them are probably doing signal intelligence for a long time.
Two New Tutorials for Golang 1.18
Personally, as someone who's had to dig through academic code in the field of bioinformatics, I do appreciate code being attached to the paper, regardless of the paper's level of detail or the code's quality (or lack thereof). I don't think many researchers expect high quality code unless you're releasing a library explicitly for general use and expect contributors. That said, a brief README with at least instructions to execute is a rare but welcome addition in my personal opinion.
> Here's a good example. The Fisher's iris flower data was released with his work in a 1936 paper. It was used as an example of his discriminate analysis. This data set has been repeatedly used over and over to show examples of cluster analysis and segmentation. Many statistics teachers use it in their curriculum. You never know where the research could lead to growth and development in a field.

You raise a good tangential point:

Releasing a data set can be just as useful as releasing code, and every bit as necessary to reproducing results.

Moreover, reproducing a well-curated dataset can be just as prohibitive in terms of time and expense.

How many papers have reused datasets such as ImageNet, Celeb-A, etc. in recent years?

By all means, release your datasets even if you don't release your code.
Teaching everyone the same way is wrong. Everyone has different learning styles, education and life experience.

If there is a large enough market share for a topic grouping like learners together can be very efficient.

Creating a one sized fits most solution is the default setting for many educators and yields an "okay" result.

Allowing learning at your own pace, with community support and many styles of consumable content will give a excellent result for self motivated individuals.

Students who are not motivated or need help with motivation can be handled differently.

Edit:

Learning styles has a broad meaning more than just the "I'm a visual learner."