skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe we're talking about different mathematical formalisms..

When you say latent representational structure not present in the data, am I correct in thinking you mean:

argmin theta: Loss = dist(data, model(data))

where

model(data) = layerL( ... layer3 ( layer2 ... layer1(data) ))

is actually obscuring some conditioning factor

human_understanding(observed data)

which actually goes into all the layers (by their choice of design, initialization), distance functions, optimization steps, data cleaning, splits, etc.?

And furthermore, also that

P(model simply memorizes observations + human provided inductive cues | model finds structure)

>>

P(model does something beyond memorization of observations + human cues | model finds structure)

? What would be your test to determine this? For instance, how would you measure the information content (under some pragmatic-enough encoding that could be realizable and built today) of the memorization + human cues, vs memorization + human cues + the extra bit that the model concludes? Not a gotcha question, curious about your answer.

Though, I have to say something about the first bit. Suppose you were comparing the safety and probability of catastrophic failure of some of the earliest buildings made in human civilization compared to something made in 2022. And suppose you conditioned that probability on the sum total of human knowledge at the time. The same laws of physics apply, but different amounts of knowledge went into producing each artifact.

Can we say that the latent structure (human theory of engineering) in the modern building (model) reveals more about the ground truth of the world (laws of physical reality) than is inside of the observations data set (does it collapse or not) than the old model? I think we can. And I don't feel that embarrassed to say that deep learning is just a part of the wider landscape of human experience.

You may be interested in this article that proposes Rip van Winkle's Razor: if you apply a state of the art method to an old dataset, for a fair comparison, you need to measure and take into account the increase in tooling that has become available since the time the benchmark was first released: http://www.offconvex.org/2021/04/07/ripvanwinkle/
Faster feedback loop is a much better development experience.
No, why would there be?
Thanks, I'm needing this.
Well each country have their own rules and traditions to decide who can be citizens or not, which give them the rights and duties that come with citizenship, I think it's fine. What bothers me with this law is that it depends on how they became citizen, making them half citizens or citizens on probation, something like that. And I'm sure they don't have half citizen duties.
Yeah, I usually set up private servers to use some meme port and I'm sure that's not an uncommon practice
Like when dropbox was first presented posted here on HN (before it was called dropbox), and the the top comments were all like “pssch.. no one will ever use that. Just use rsync”.
A HN classic

Edit - to op: post it because you find it interesting to work with and ignore all the know-it-alls. Maybe people will care, maybe not, but whatever. Do it because you like it.
How that is different with DALLE ?
https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/
> I don't think "stopping at stop signs" is anywhere near that floor.

Sure, but I'm responding to a comment that made a much broader claim. I think the claim I'm responding to is wrong.

Americans in particular don't really have a mental category like "road for bikes". I see it all the time...if it's for bikes, then that means it's really for pedestrians too, right? For kids learning to bike? For prams?

What I want in bicycle infrastructure is a means for regular people to get around. What I don't want is people learning to bike in traffic (where "traffic" means regular people on bikes just trying to get around!). If you're not a confident bicyclist, the road is not the place to learn. You should not be taking your little kids with their trikes on bicycle roads. You should be performing to some minimum standard of competence, such that you're not going to hurt or delay others.

> For people at the extremely low ends of skill and risk tolerance - most of those people aren't cycling, especially not in the U.S., where driving is considered the "default" mode of getting around. The single best way to help them improve is putting in better bike infrastructure

We agree!

>since people need a low-stakes place to gain experience and confidence.

Except this bit. I think making it seem safer is certainly a thing that will result in more people bicycling. Part of it is affecting decisions made by people who are already competent cyclists ("Should I continue to cycle to work?"), and part of it is affecting the decision to start cycling for newbies. But you really shouldn't be on the road until you're some minimum level of competent; find a parking lot.

If you want to stop at stop signs, that's totally fine.
If you look at it the other way you make extra in secret because you assume your enemy is doing the same?
Not necessarily. Organisations/billionaires who were previously not investing may have more incentive to do so now that covid is widespread.
An apple to apple comparison is impossible because rustboot compiled a very different language. But I suspect suitably updated rustboot would be still faster because compilation time is dominated by LLVM.
That really depends on what people 'think' is a lot. About 7 million Germans died in WWII (civilian + military), clearly a lot, but still 'only' 10% of the population.

The Ukraine military has reporter their own casualties as 3'000 men so far, which is huge, yet 10+ times that many people go into sport arenas every week.

If nuclear war now would kill 50% of the global population, it would certainly define our history for centuries, yet half of us (i.e more than 4 billion humans) would still be there afterwards.
Well, yeah, this is an imaginable scenario, because it's impossible to "ban" such things because of Streisand effect. I would oppose anything like this in the real world.
Were the eggs found by the girl the same eggs that the organizers had hid initially?
What I find interesting about word games is that they are very rarely games about words. E.g. Scrabble is adversarial optimization, Wordle is constraint satisfaction, etc.

To this day the puzzles I enjoy the most are crosswords and rebuses, mostly because I can switch off the part of my brain that screams "oh yeah, just grep /usr/dict/words".
Population for recruiting irregular military personnel is a strategic target, too.
The tb4 port does power delivery
Reminds me of await/async. With micropython you can get a nice little cooperative multiprocessing operating system going on a micro-controller!
Its incredibly bloated, but you have to consider the second-level effects of US Military spending, like our ability to project economic policy on the world, or prop up the domestic economy.

US Defense spending is the biggest welfare program in human history and both political parties fully support it.
I agree. What I’d like is to be given control so that I can at least work on improving my social life and interactions. I want pro software but for socializing. Something like my calendar app, email app, Photoshop, etc.

Imagine if our email app changed their goal from empowering users to engaging users. We’d have email apps that surfaced only engaging emails you received and buried the rest. It would maximize our short term app usage engagement to the detriment of long term goals (getting work done). Gmail shows it’s possible to meld good algorithms (spam detection) with good user empowering features, while also being an ad-supported model!
I'm not very comfortable with all the talks I hear or read about how nuclear war isn't so bad since russia invaded ukraine
This may be wildly incorrect, but a good offense may be the best defense. Seemingly all other military spending is the nuclear deterrent. An overly basic example: Nuking a country with 90% of money spent on defense means that country's retaliation will be pretty weak. Might be worth nuking them.

Nuking a country where 90% of money is spent on offensive capabilities means the retaliation will be extreme. Probably not worth nuking as you will get attacked back much harder.
Studies done in the 60s and 70s were aimed at much larger scale conflicts than would occur in 2022. However the general sentiment is accurate. Food production post-nuclear war is a wildcard, dependent on both fallout pattern, global capacity to increase food production, global interest in helping countries devastated by nuclear war, and targeting.

The assumption that nukes would primarily target ICBM silos seems suspect to me, as it would seem pointless to target silos which have already fired their missiles. The assumption that both sides haven't done some planning for both scorched earth targetting approaches, and "survivable" exchanges also seems suspect. Who's to say that Russia wouldn't target conventional military infrastructure, and civilian population centers, having assumed that all deployable warheads would already have been fired? They could reasonably assess that the value of targeting silos which have already fired their missiles is low, and the need for post-war food production will be high.

Alternately, they could adopt a scorched earth targeting policy to maximize fallout and leave the US in a permanently weakened state. I'm sure all nuclear powers have tried to maximize their choices in how to deploy weapons in any conflict.
Paternalism isn't categorically bad but I see it as a last resort. People have never had the option to filter out garbage from their feeds. If they did, there might be little need for paternalism.
Merely live in spitting distance of some strategic targets, then you don't have to worry about suffering for long. Thanks to Naval Base Kitsap, I don't think I'll have to worry about the basics if a nuclear war breaks out.
> every evaluation technique the entire industry figured out will mostly by filled with people that cant code

Is there a typo? The sentence doesn't make sense to me
That's just kicking the ball down the road. It is more reasonable to expect one developer to perform sufficient security work than to expect N users, some of whom may be non-technical, to check verified packages.
Following a nuclear exchange, it is unlikely that a country without ports, airports, transit networks, or a military, would remain the financial hub of the world.
The problem we have today is that of specialization. I dont believe there is a viable scenario where only 40% of the population dies. We either lose something like less than 10% of the population or we loose over 80%.

Food is the reason. In 1900 before the green revolution there were less than 2 billion people on the planet and huge portions of them grew their own food. After that point industrialisation and mass fossil fuel production of fertiliser allowed our population to explode. Now were completely dependant on those factories that have massive supply lines fed by specialists.
rather egrep, though
in terms of ai, this uses latent diffusion models: smaller model, does not use clip, and it was trained on noisy data.
I'd love a source
Acoup.blog is amazing. I just don't have time to read everything he writes, but highly recommend it.
No, it looks like a 2 years location dragnet warrant issued against someone for merely being around someone experiencing an overdose. IMO, this should be completely unconstitutional.
> Oooh, wait until they hear about CCPA...

Actually Virginia has its own data privacy law now, modelled on CCPA.
I love blu tack, it's one of the very few products that literally make me happy whenever I use it.

I use it to stick pictures, kids' drawings, postcards and random stuff to a cork board on my wall and to doors, and it worked flawlessly for years.

The only problem: my kids steal it to play with it.
There is no such finite period of time. You can call an async function and never await it.

Exception handling is something completely different. Yes, if you call an async function and do not catch the exception, Node will stop. But that is independent of having called await or not. Whether or not you await something async does not affect exception behavior.
There are many details that aren’t public, and part of what has been made public is highlighting that fact. This is probably intentional, to dissuade anyone from thinking it’ll be easy to compromise.

Elements of it are a show of importance. Like the fact that the cars are shiny Cadillacs and not dull vehicles made by Grumman or the like.

But the security features listed here are mostly intentionally muted and not showy. Like the fact that the vehicle is made to look like a normal Cadillac despite being more custom than not.
The jury is obviously still out, but I think The Drivers Cooperative is pretty successful, and I'm optimistic that it will continue to be.

https://drivers.coop/
I feel the same with Gitkraken. There has literally been nothing added to it since the first release that I would pay for, but as a subscription they have to tweek it.

$20 one time is all I need. I think Jetbrains has the best model for this.
Looks like a great product! I am also working on a similar product (https://cdevframework.io) in the same space, but I am focusing only on Python at the moment.

Are you using a custom IaaC management tool for the deployments, or is it compiling down to something like Aws Cloudformation or Terraform Providers?
I've been working with Linux systems for almost 20 years and became familiar with many files in /proc kernel provides to inspect its various subsystems.

/proc/sched_debug is one I still don't understand.
This would be one example from Deepmind using raw pixel input to stack objects. This has a relatively detailed reward function (but is also a very complicated task) - https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06192

There are other examples from OpenAI a while back using even just sparse rewards (i.e binary 1, 0 for success or failure over the whole task) - but these weren't pixel input if I remember correctly - https://openai.com/blog/ingredients-for-robotics-research/

I m afraid if you think providing any reward function is cheating then we have fundamentally different views of what AI/ML even means/involves. It appears humans and likely all animals have largely pre-programmed reward functions developed over billions of years of evolution (pain is bad, food is good, etc.). These reward functions are ultimately what underpin what we are trying to do, what outcomes are good/bad, to what degree we 'want' to explore vs exploit. The idea that human and animal 'intelligence' is born as a blank slate with nothing to guide it and no reward function to maximise doesn't seem to bear any resemblance to reality.

The only difference between a reward function that tells a robot 'you need to stack these objects but I m not going to tell you where in 3D space the objects are or where they need to go to stacked or the shapes/forces involved' and an animal that is born with a reward function that says 'you need to find food and shelter but I m not going to tell you how to collect the food or where to find shelter' is the level of abstraction. Fundamentally they appear the same.

You are pulling a sleight of hand when you suggest 'in the manner of animals who respond to the world without already having all the information about it' - there is a vast difference between an abstract reward function (which humans and animals also have) and 'having all the information about [the world]'.
If you were programming in Python or many other languages you could download documentation and have a local copy.

In both Python and Java doing a mini-project I frequently challenge myself to only use the standard library. It's good for practicing HackerRank-rank style programming (the fun of single-file Java)

When I am waiting for builds I sometimes hack on this

https://github.com/paulhoule/pidove

because I don't really like the Streams API and want to perfect my mastery of generics and internal DSLs.

Now that I think of it, standard-library only for node seems like a good challenge for me because I code a lot of front-end Javascript but just barely know the node API.

I've also hacked on things that are data-science and A.I. related on the bus where I've very deliberately set up a Jupyter environment with everything I need before the trip.
"Again, nuclear war is bad, and we should be very careful not to have one, but it is not as bad as it is often made out to be."

What kind of person gets up in the morning and decides this is the thing they need to write about and tell the world today? How are we served by this?
Tim Cook is right and wrong about sideloading
>If nobody else wants to pay you more, why would I?

Simple, because you want to make a profit. I can unironically and with all seriousness say I've chosen to become homeless on at least one occasion rather than work with people with your attitude.
A friend of mine decorated her entire college apartment for $10: One coffee-table art book from the B. Dalton outlet store, and one pack of Blu-Tak. Slice pages out of the book, stick 'em up, change as often as desired.

Of course the prints were ruined, but who cared? I would never use it on anything important.
See also: https://grist.org/article/food-kelloggs-froot-loops-recall/
US consumers are paying more for everything. China's inflation is different
Don’t bother yourself too much about salaries while you’re junior. The most important asset for you is - experience. Look for better experience, not for better salary.

Then you raise your income and career by switching companies (yes, this is the only scalable way at the moment).
If the problem is that the "recommendations" are biased, wouldn't it be simpler to:

1) Remove the recommendation part. Go back to a simpler version of Twitter.
2) Still give the option for a recommendation system but, somehow, open the code, maybe some version of the data and publish documentation (like papers or something) detailing the training process of the current running version.

than build a recommender system marketplace? Also, in what sense would this be different from allowing third party Twitter clients + opening a ritcher API?

The ultimate idea of using ML is to "automatically" build the recommender system the user likes (measuring this with some particular metric like online time or retention) the most and also automatically adapt it as his/her preferences change. The problem to me is more the metrics chosen to be optimized.

However, I believe that in the end, and in order to be profitable, user retention and time on the platform will still be pursued. It doesn't seem like an easy fix to me.

Regarding the "free speech" part, I'm not an expert, but I'd say (and after having watched the TED interview) that countries' legislations will considerably constraint this.

I love the idea of a true free platform tho
Issuing new shared dilutes the shares that all holders have. To benefit they have to purchase more, even though it's at a cheaper.
They survive on subsistence farming because their near large urban cities don't. The moment those cities are not fed the terrible order they already exist in gets worse. A supersaturation even can only exist as long as energy is being applied. When that is lost (fossils fuels) then a corrective event occurs.
Please do provide that link
Yes, the publications the U.S. made for the population back then were reassuring.

The people who actually plan the wars these days expect maybe 15 to 20 million people to still be alive in the U.S. a year and a half after a full general war.
> in a nuclear winter scenario

Did you read the article? I think you are making its point, which is that it is bad but not as bad as most people think.
Virginia as a whole has some pretty absurdly pro police laws, at least re: driving.

The lesser of either 20 over the speed limit or any speed over ~80~ 85 miles an hour (thanks jmisavage) in Virginia is a misdemeanor, and at least one auto journalist has been jailed in Virginia. https://jalopnik.com/never-speed-in-virginia-lessons-from-my...

It's also the only state to prohibit radar detectors.
"The assumption that nukes would primarily target ICBM silos seems suspect to me, as it would seem pointless to target silos which have already fired their missiles."

That's what SLBMs are for. An SLBM launched off the Oregon coast could hit missile silos in Montana in under 5 minutes. Launch in the middle of the night and there's not enough time to get the President out of bed and brief him before the missiles impact. (For that matter, if you park an SSBN 500 miles off Washington DC, it can get nuked in 3 minutes, probably killing the president as there's not enough time to get him down into the bunker. That's why the U.S. developed the SOSUS network, so you can't park an SSBN 500 miles off Washington without us knowing about it.)

Modern SLBMs (1980s and onwards) are explicitly designed for this role, with depressed flight trajectories, low CEP, MIRVs, hardened silo penetrators, and warhead yields calibrated to destroy typical silos, given an accurate ground burst.
Here’s what I’ve found works well in the long-term at a big company:
Tell your manager that money is important to you. Tell them that it’s motivating and tell them what you said above: that if your performance doesn’t meaningfully impact your compensation that it’s a bummer.

I would tell my manager this before the formal compensation discussion so it can factor into the compensation planning that likely happens in the month(s) leading up to the discussion.
This isn’t necessarily the fastest way to get a raise but it helps your manager know how to support you better, it keeps you both on the same side, and it builds a more trusting relationship. This is what I recommend if you see yourself working at this company for years to come.
Sadly part of a general trend I've noticed post Ukrainian invasion to "sell" nuclear war as a viable response (or at least not a deterrent for "going in there and fixing things dammit") These people have never been in a supermarket and looked at the countries where their food comes from apparently since shipping would pretty much be a dead industry with all port cities (and their port facilities) basically blown to smithereens. Everyone who lives on the coast is going to be "food challenged" in under a month, (likely sooner as hoarding would really kick in) and then starving and fighting their neighbors for food. There would be no "third party" that would be able to ship in food aid, it would be every person for themselves. If nothing else, this one effect would kill billions of people.
I don’t think of async await as “making async code act like sync code”.

I see it as adding meta data to a function type (async) and allowing you to attach the result to a given function scope (await).

The key utility of this is to allow you to use functions as a unit of composition, allowing you to leverage their already built tooling (IDE jump to function, stack frame based debugging, input and output types (in:args -> out:return).

Messaging runtimes like Golang and Erlang use an additional composition unit (channels and mailboxes), and do not allow you to follow the “tree of functions” paradigm like async await does. These result in having to follow a network graph of messages and nodes to find out what will happen.

You need to understand you are dealing with an event loop before you use async await. I think this is the issue the author is raising.
Not sure what to make of this. Given the active security incident, is "Heroku-like" really a recommendation?

But even past that, what does this give me beyond AWS CodePipelines? All comparisons on the site seem to be against "raw" AWS ("weeks to months" from code to deployment, really?).

But, hey, maybe I'm misunderstanding both this product and CodePipelines. Myself, I'm on Azure DevOps (which I guess is the same as "MS Azure" as opposed to "Google Azure"?), and there I can deploy my aspnetcore app to production in, like, 30s. Today.

So, what can I look forward to in 2023 with this product?