skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried [when is ambulance coming out], and you did correctly understand it was referring to the movie. But the result is strictly worse than the same search on Google (which also knew it was a movie, but actually gave an instant answer to the question rather just a IMDB link, and answered the question correctly for my location unlike the IMDB page). Bing also returned an instant answer, but their answer is even more wrong (the release was pushed back by a couple of months, Bing claims that the movie would be released at the future date of February 2022).

Then I tried [will there be a wheat shortage this year?], and the top result was a lunatic fringe prepper blog, from which you extracted a confident answer that there will definitely be a wheat shortage. Google doesn't try to answer the question (which I'd argue is correct for something this speculative), and only links to reputable news sources all of which look relevant. Bing is the same, but mixes in some more alternative results at the bottom of the page.

Then, since you said that this worked best in a conversational manner I asked [is it due to the war?], obviously referring to the previous question. Rather than keep the context of that previous search in mind, you replied with information on the current local weather. (In Fahrenheit, for a location in Europe).

At this point, combined with how incredibly slow the searches are, my goodwill would be gone as a real user.
>This is presented as humans hard coding answers to the prompts. No way is that the full picture. If you try out his prompts the responses are fairly invariant to paraphrases. Hard coded answers don't scale like that.

It's presented as humans hard coding answers to some specific prompts.

I feel like this is mostly people reactign to the title instead of the entire post. The author's point is:

>In some sense this is all fine, it’s a sort of meta-learning where the components of the system include testers such as Gary Smith and those 40 contractors they hired through Upwork and ScaleAI. They can fix thousands of queries a day.

>On the other hand, there does seem something funny about GPT-3 presents this shiny surface where you can send it any query and it gives you an answer, but under the hood there are a bunch of freelancers busily checking all the responses and rewriting them to make the computer look smart.

>It’s kinda like if someone were showing off some fancy car engine but the vehicle is actually being powered by some hidden hamster wheels. The organization of the process is itself impressive, but it’s not quite what is advertised.

>To be fair, OpenAI does state that “InstructGPT is then further fine-tuned on a dataset labeled by human labelers.” But this still seems misleading to me. It’s not just that the algorithm is fine-tuned on the dataset. It seems that these freelancers are being hired specifically to rewrite the output.
I'll disagree. Linux has better font rendering than Windows and macOS.
but is uranium cost is 10% and you suddenly make it 10x as expensive, didn't you just essentially almost double the cost of the enterprise as a whole?

say
current costs:

$10 is my uranium cost

$90 is the rest

total = $100

ocean extracted uranium:

$100 is my new uranium cost

$90 (as before)

total = $190
You should look up how many people are killed per MWh produced by coal and natural gas. People overweight on rare, high impact disasters and underweight things that quietly kill people in a dispersed way.

Related fact, roof top solar actually kills more people per MWh than nuclear, and that is entirely due to installation accidents.
I suspect the engineering schools will be the least affected / first to recover from this trend.
No.

Just by eyeballing futures prices:

Cattle is up ~21% since pre-pandemic https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=CME%3ALE1!

Lean hog is up 53% since pre-pandemic https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=CME%3AHE1!

Also, looking at CPI figures, the "Meats, Poultry, Fish, and Eggs" is only up 19% since pre-pandemic levels.
I'd say one of the valuable things an SAT tutor could teach is an attitude: to take initiative, and reject resignment to failure.

The biggest difference I noticed in how I would take a test versus other people I tried to coach is that I viewed the test as a fun game like a challenging video game level. And those who struggled on the test viewed it as dreadful judgement being rendered on them.

It's like when you can tell someone is extremely self-conscious while dancing: Beyond teaching them any actual dance moves, you have to turn off the part of their brain which is blocking their natural mental resources for problem solving, and that's often the fear they are inadequate to the task, will disappoint their supporters, and that it will hurt their future prospects.
My question was equally valid to me. I didn't understand the GP's question to be dismissive or ignorant, I just want to learn where they're coming from.
It would be exponential if the net growth rate was 0.1%. If your savings account produces 0.1% interest that is still exponential growth. According to the rule of 70 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72) it would double in 700 years. That is exponential!
Is there anything like this, but for docker (compose)?
It’s pretty easy to understand what is going on in Ukraine in general. It’s also pretty easy to notice certain politicians/institutions/companies reactions. Then it will be pretty easy to make choices. If people ain’t passive, we can ensure this ain’t happening again in 5-8 years.
It's complicated.

The math of quantum mechanics itself is reversible. Every quantum operation is defined by a matrix, and it's possible to invert that matrix to run the operation backwards in time. The past uniquely determines the future.

"Collapse" interferes with that. It's not a quantum mechanical operator. It forms a bridge between quantum and classical operations by throwing away part of the wave function. It's able to do that because part of the wave function goes to (effectively) zero during decoherence.

With MWI you ignore that, and continue to treat the whole wave function. That follows the mathematical formalism, so it's more useful for thinking about unitarity, even though experimentally it's the same thing.

So the short answer is that the paper isn't ignoring quantum mechanics. For the purpose of this paper we're hand-waving away the question of what happens when the wave function becomes separable like that, because it's not important here. What's important is the conflict: even if you treat quantum mechanics as predictable (because it is, in that sense), you still run into problems with black holes.

That points in the direction of the problems with fusing relativity to quantum mechanics, which is an open question.
Your first post claims it isn't a test of scholastic aptitude, and then this one says that it does predict scholastic success, and what could reliably predict scholastic success other than a test of scholastic aptitude?

Sure, a big donation by the student's dad, but that's a known quantity. I took the same SAT you did if it matters.

Which certain backgrounds are you referring to? I'd ask you for the references to show the supposed boost that test prep gives to SAT scores, but then I'd have to find the papers that fail to reproduce it...
My wife (who is an experienced nurse) told me about that case this morning. She has mixed feelings, but is not terribly sympathetic. This person should not be working in the profession, that seems clear. In jail, I don't know. Is there such a thing as "criminally incompetent"?
Hence my rule “only ask for startup advice from friends who have told you previous ideas were incredibly stupid”.
I grew up poor, and from my anecdotal experience people do better on the SAT if they "are rich". You can also pay people to take the test for you.

Maybe it's because they don't have to spend their days worry about getting shot, stabbed or beaten to the ground by gangs. Maybe it's because they get to eat every day. I guess, perhaps, they get more quality study time. Or, heck maybe you're all right, random questions - your ability to regurgitate the points on the unit circle at will - indicates the level of education you are qualified to attempt. Thank goodness these tests will let you know what you are capable of.

To be fair, I tried to get into several universities (over the pandemic) to round out my self taught education, but I was rejected everywhere I applied. So, I guess for some people - tests or no tests - it doesn't really matter. Apparently, I am too stupid to get an education. Good to know.

For anyone who is salty about this (I used to be quite angry about this and the "Google style" hiring process (which is essentially the same thing)), this realization helped me get over this:

_These tests are designed to filter out people like you. You have a qualities they do not want. That's why they are used. The tests are working from their point of view. They wont stop using them. Your life will be much easier if you just accept it, let it go, and go do something else._
"Jewish heritage" is unclear to me, but if your father was Jewish and had turned on the TV Steve would not be permitted to watch it.
I don't think anyone argues that transformers haven't revolutionised text generation.

The real question is how good this text generation generalises to other language tasks. That's the more interesting one to me, at least.
You conflate vertical differentiation with horizontal differentiation. Horizontal differentiation is what is usually understood as “diversity” and considered good among certain groups of people. Vertical differentiation is what is usually understood as “hierarchy” and considered bad among those groups of people.

MIT like many American universities does only general admission and that’s indeed would be considered weird in other countries, but it seems like a whole nother issue.
The article is well written and Haskell appears to have what’s necessary to work efficiently with algebraic data types (matching and overloading).

But in the end, it’s just fancy words for union and intersection types, or am I missing something ?
It's just semantics.

data Bool = False | True
data Maybe a = Nothing | Just a

Bool is a nullary type constructor or simply type. False and True are nullary data constructors or simply constants. Maybe is an unary type constructor taking one parameter to construct a fully saturated type (eg. Maybe Int), but calling it a "Maybe type" is ok, no crazy ambiguity. Nothing is a constant and Just is an unary data constructor taking one parameter to construct fully saturated data (eg. Just 1).
I think there is huge potential for a freemium approach. And it means that searchers are the customer not the product. We went a long time with no funding and living off toast and vegemite to survive, so we're incredibly grateful to have some support to help us pay for food and API and model training costs now.

We've received backing and funds from YC and angels so far. We're lucky that we're a small team of 2, and we're frugal about things, so we've tried to come up with cost effective ways of building Andi.

My own feeling is that search is such a huge problem, and the more people trying different things, different approaches, commercial and non-commercial, the better for the whole world. It's really exciting to see projects like https://search.marginala.nu/ popping up and getting lots of interest and support as well. It has to be good for everyone to have some innovation in search after so long as a tired monopoly.
It's worth mentioning that the primary hazard, that networks fail and this makes a mess of function types, does not necessarily apply on shared memory systems.

Specifically when 'remote' means a CPU in the same address space, communicating over a reliable medium (if pcie fails, so does the nldey, which ~= perfectly reliable), then pointers can be passed around without problem and the function call can look and behave exactly as if it was running on the local CPU.
My goal is to build bazel support for Ada, including building of crosscompilation toolchains and platform runtimes. Will see how it will work out :)
The MDN Plus release is probably the evidence you're thinking of.
I suspect human will have LONG since destroyed themselves by the time the sun dies, probably before we're spacefaring and out of the solar system.
> Why you're repeating something I stated is beyond me. I said capitalism is unfair.

You said that as a means of supporting your larger point which is that capitalism is flawed. I am arguing that unfairness (as I defined it) is the whole essence of capitalism, which is very different from saying it's an unwanted byproduct of it. We want unfairness.

If you instead want fairness, there are other systems for that in use by other countries. You can move to one of those countries if you prefer that system. But there are good reasons that capitalist countries are the most prosperous.

> Employers fuck people over, they don't freeload off of them.

It's equally possible for employees to fuck over employers, we just tend not to do it (for good reasons).
This is not the "value" you're thinking of. Value of having perfect health is not the same as business value. Valuable medicine isn't the same as a trip to Seychelles - even though both may cost thousands of dollars.

You're also forgetting that medication is almost exclusively a cost issue. Unless you are taking performance enhancing products - other medication is a cost to getting to your "normal". (Even antidepressants exist to get you to a baseline mental state, not to give you extra - that's performance enhancing drugs)

You already give your doctor that $100 and they literally do the research... and other than getting a better doctor, you will not get any better tool.

But back to the reason for the product and it's very clear where the idea came from. Identifying what painkiller you prefer isn't a constant issue neither it is of great value to the vast majority.
>Why would this be surprising? I assume that they're rolling out new models with new parameters, input data, and corrections, all the time.

Because the answers to specific questions are hard coded. It's not the result of a new model. It's the result of someone writing an if/then statement. Or at least that's what the author claims.
Hmm, but that Go post argues that Sum types are only the right choice in a minority of situations and if you looked at, say, Rust you'd see APIs return sum types all over the place.

If we were to believe that "build yet another interface every time" was an equally good solution which is just a different flavour from sum types we'd expect to see equivalent APIs in Go with such interfaces and we do not. It's not a different style, it's just worse.

Example, suppose I got a string from a user, u, and I am now trying to see where that string is in another string I have from somewhere, x

In Rust x.find(u) returns Option<usize>, ie either None or Some(number)

But in Go strings.Index(x, u) returns int, and I have to know that the integer -1 is used as a sentinel value meaning "not found" rather than "found at position -1".

OK, so strings don't have great ergonomics, how about file opening? Let's open a file named george.txt which alas might not exist.

In Rust File::open("george.txt") returns Result<File>, ie either an Error or Ok(File)

But in Go os.Open("george.txt") return a tuple with both an error and my file and then I need to check whether the error was actually nil (no error).
My experience with an all-stress game is Papers, Please. Between the pressures of the government bureaucracy, the time stressor and the plight of the poor people you have to crush... it's exhausting.
As a hobby mail everything is fun (from MUAs to sieve). If it needs to be reliable it's not. Don't miss self-hosting my email service either ("has the response to my application arrived or did I fail to receive it").
In this case, I was thinking about moving a currently half a rack worth of equipment from premises to colo, as the (internal) users are mostly on WFH anyway. They would not generate 1 Gbps of external traffic, not even in spikes. Currently, as it is, it makes more sense to stay on premises, but if some increase of density happened, it could make some sense.

However, it is not going to happen, it would be somewhere at bottom with priority. It was just an exercise, what could be done.
There are privacy preserving tracking applications (i.e. Corona-Warn in Germany, etc.) that can tell you if you had a longer significant exposure. Maybe that’s helpful. The caveat is that not everyone uses the app but I think it might still be helpful.
Isn't futures designed specifically to allow for this kind of hedging? eg. everybody thinks that food prices are going to the moon next harvest, but farmers don't want to pay the risk, so futures allow farmers to lock in prices now and not have to worry about a price crash come harvest time.
I don't really "buy" the reasoning[1] behind "no syntax highlighting" either, BUT I turned off syntax highlighting (in vim/neovim in my case) about 5 years ago (that was ~15 years into programming full time) and haven't looked back. I just don't miss it at all. At first I wanted to see what it was like to not have syntax highlighting because I realized I had never questioned the need for it. I found out I really liked not having it! I can't put my finger on why exactly, and this is the first time I think I've ever written a single word on the subject (ie, I'm not trying to convince anyone else to try it).

But I also use "light mode" (white background, black text) in my terminal, editor, etc, so... take all this however you will :)

(In reference to the topic at hand, I've tried seriously using acme, and although its "elegance" is attractive, I wasn't able to make it stick. I'll still open it or sam up every once in a while, and vis (https://git.sr.ht/~martanne/vis) is an editor I always have in the back of my mind to try to use more.)

[1]: The reasons against syntax highlighting in the article seem to be 1. it hides ugly code, 2. it's possible to waste a lot of time on configuring your colorscheme, 3. (not in the article, but) the old "do you syntax highlight prose? I didn't think so". I don't find 1 or 3 to be convincing, and wasting time on a colorscheme... whether it's a "waste" or not depends on your own preferences and circumstances.
Henry Ford and Steve Jobs can have the mindless market they've created. Adjacent to that, a system that detaches the need for marketing would unlock more human creativity. Why is google so valuable? Because the system is designed to optimize for Google-like local minimums, and not for creativity or the unknown future.
But you're not paying to win. You're just paying to have a different experience. In fact, when you start your best shot at winning is with the champions they give you, since they're the easiest. League is better described as pay to lose if anything.
Well, first off, Apple isn't virtualizing Intel, they're emulating it. "Virtualization" implies that your CPU has special hardware support for running a kernel as if it were a regular OS process; which almost never crosses architecture boundaries. Apple does have special support in M1 for certain x86 features like total store order, but most of the work is done in software to translate binaries to ARM64 before they are executed. They just omitted emulating anything beyond Intel macOS user-mode, because that's relatively easy and lightweight[0].

Intel doesn't virtualize Apple hardware because it doesn't make business sense and is questionably legal (see also: Corellium). Apple silicon is just-different-enough from a regular ARM64 design that anything that can actually boot macOS almost certainly exists purely to break the macOS license agreement.

[0] Specifically, having all your code neatly packaged into executables and libraries means that you can AOT-compile nearly everything and not have to actually interpret or JIT x86 code. There's also no need to emulate, say, x86 context switches or page table walking; you just stop emulation, run the syscall on the ARM side, and then restart the emulation once that's done.

Of course, they still have a JIT, just in case you decide to run a binary that also contains a JIT.
I'm more concerned about global warming personally...
You could do that if software vendors bothered to provide the option.

To your example, you can download Elasticsearch as an archive from their website [0], unarchive it, and you're off to the races.

JetBrains IDEs work the same way, grab a zip, unzip it, and bam, you're good to go. They can even keep themselves up to date on their own. It will also install a shortcut in your DE's menu.

Ditto for Zoom and 1Passowrd, who even support more "exotic" distributions, such as Arch, on top of Snaps and Flatpaks.

While I think that in practice the issues you describe do exist, I think the cause is mainly that Linux is still a second-class citizen and not a priority for vendors to support properly. But hey, at least they try, as opposed to others who don't give a damn at all.

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[0] https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch ; also available as a .deb or .rpm download
>Removing admission tests was a huge slap in the face to social mobility out of the middle class. To reiterate other commenters, admission tests are the hardest part of the process to game and the least biased towards things like having a tiger parent, while being the most predictive indicator of success in college. Wealthy and well connected people can easily game extracurriculars and essays, and HS grades are vastly inflated at this point across the country. That pretty much only leaves standardized tests for your average kid who isn’t being deliberately primed by their environment to stand out for selective college admissions.

I agree with most of this but Exams are absolutely gameable. There's a reason there is a multibillion dollar industry focused on them. There's a reason why Cram School exists across Asia and there's a reason why parents will pay thousands for ACT/SAT tutoring. Because it flat out works. You can increase your scores substantially by paying for these services. All else being equal I would expect that between 2 students with identical aptitudes where one has paid thousands of dollars for tutoring that the student with tutoring will score higher than the other. This can't be ignored. Can you mitigate this with self motivated preparation? Sure. But again, all else being equal and between 2 equally talented and motivated testers the one whose parents paid for a tutor that achieved a perfect score is almost always going to score higher.
"Leaven bread" has a specific definition, and yeast is not included in that definition in any way. It's about time and flour.

Because yeast is often used people sometimes think that yeast is what's forbidden on Passover, but that's not correct.
Same; once I got the message, I put the game down and haven't picked it back up again. It's genuinely stressful and demoralizing.
> Yeah, when you're doing something that is politically/ideologically unpopular or in the minority

I don't think they are though. I think there would be massively popular and wide support for this. You're seeing it in SF right now as the school board is being overthrown for trying to ruin the school system in the name of "equity" or some other garbage reason. The people finally found out and organized.

All this woke stuff today is actually very unpopular and it's why you see Democrats trying to separate themselves from it and make progressives own it. It's even unpopular with the arbitrary groups it claims it helps.

Most people want to be good people and treat others with respect and woke ideology sounds good on the surface ("anti-racist", sure sounds great!) until you get past the formal meaning and into the actual meaning. Sort of like how Democratic Republic of Korea sounds great until you actually read into it.
It’s called aquagenic pruritus.

It’s not an actual allergy, more like a water-induced itching, and yeah everyone you talk to assumes it’s psychosomatic, which kinda sucks.