skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need humans. 'Self-distillation' and related approaches work surprisingly well. Like with GPT-3, you can get much better question-answering or French translation simply by generating a bunch of examples, ranking them with the model's own internal metrics (a simple ranking would be to accept an answer if the majority of one's samples agree on the same answer), and train further on that - with no humans or additional 'real' data involved. Remember that DALL-E 1 got a big quality boost by generating like 50 samples and using CLIP to rank them by similarity to the original text input. (You can also retrain the DALL-E 1 model to run in reverse - image to text - to score images. CogView did this.)

And if you are training on Internet data, then you are presumably training on human-curated selections. Even a minimal level of selection, like picking the best out of a dozen, by a DALL-E 2 API user, or by downstream humans selectively resharing higher-quality images, is a (slow) bootstrap.
During my many hours on Clubhouse last year, I listened in to a lot of flat Earth rooms. At first it was entertaining, but after a while you start to realise that these people truly do believe what they’re saying, and then it becomes frustrating and worrying.
only a user having the choice to sideload or not can solve the issues of the AppStore.
Decadence
I had issues with 10G copper SFP+ modules even when there was only one installed in the switch (Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN), the other modules installed being DAC/fiber. I got random disconnects I could not attribute until I checked the switch logs - the module was shutting down because it was reaching >90C when the ambient temp was 26C. I had to add a fan.
If your political tribe controls a given institution, then there is generally no need to do things by legislative fiat-- you simply do them, and your choices are status quo. Meanwhile the patrons of a library have essentially no say in who staffs their libraries or the schools where those librarians are trained, whereas the state legislature is at least theoretically democratically accountable.

Not making any kind of normative point here, just observing that it's a little less clear than "selfless librarians vs meddlesome politicians".
It would!
> Elie Wiesel's Night

I read that during my junior year in high school. It was the last straw that launched me into a depressive episode that wrecked my grades for the year that mattered most on college applications and I barely missed having to repeat the year.

It's probably not the fault of the book that it was dangerous to me, and if not Night, something else probably would have done it. I don't think censorship is a solution, but there is definitely room for educators to be aware of the psychological safety issues presented by traumatic material.
Yup, that would work. Nice idea!
For a future blog post, as a non engineer I'd be curious how an engineering team designs a system (like those you detail) and others in that mission when there is no way to test them fully in advance of the mission. I know that's a very basic general question but essentially how to you know a hypothesis you can't test works (even with various degrees of pre-testing and scientific knowledge. I am not talking about that 'we know that sound travels' or things that are known but things you are pretty sure but not absolutely sure until you have actually done them. (I do know things are done in stages with various testing and small steps but I guess I am unclear on how once lives are at stake (meaning liftoff from the moon) you really know 'it will all work as planned' meaning to a super high degree of likelihood enough to take the risk.
one of the reasons it was cheap was they got faulty 64k ram chips at a knock down price - hence the 48k. this film about sinclair is well worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM
Isn't then fullstack demand quite a contradictory in that sense?
Agreed. A 25gbps download will fill an 8TB HDD in 47 minutes, so how much are you going to actually utilize that full bandwidth? Not that any webhost will ever give you even remotely that much bandwidth. I'm on 1gbps fiber and I've never saturated my connected. That would require 40 simultaneous 4K streams going at the same time in my house.
Which two countries would those be?
It strikes me as being kind of like a horoscope - you can apply some bits of it to almost any political movement, but it doesn't really fit anything 100%. Which means it's therefore useless.
My understanding of cosmology and astronomy is there is an inherent "ladder", nesting of assumptions, or indirect argument structure. Like, IF the Moon is a sphere, then by the shadows Earth leaves upon it during eclipses, Earth is a sphere. This reasoning came before Aristotle knew the Earth was sphere.

https://youtu.be/7ne0GArfeMs?t=632

This is still a way to do science. I'm willing to believe the experimenters dealt with the inherent novelty in a scientific way. What do you mean known celestial body?? We've only ever "been" to 2. We don't get to run all the experiments you'd like. As long as the process is self-correcting, it works. You have not shown this method to be uncorrecting. Better and better standards are used to strengthen these claims. And it is expected some degree of future corrections will occur. That's the nature of the beast.
I don't know. I just guess.

It's not a completely random guess. Context informs the guess. For example, all the examples they give, and the books I saw when I scrolled through the underlying list their article is based on, seem to be about and banned for having gay sex, sexual abuse of children, sex with children, and racism. If they were equally interested in all banned books I think it would be an odd coincidence for all of their examples to be in that narrow range of topics. There are no books about how to run drug labs, commit genocide, or burn heretics among their examples? Odd...
Everyone in this thread talking about how "science is never settled" and maybe that's true, but this move isn't designed to discredit some competing scientists, it's designed to shutdown bad-faith propaganda paid for by oil companies and other entrenched interests.

Curious how y'all would propose combating this type of misinformation. Or is this just something we should accept as a necessary evil on any platform?
I have occasionally thought of writing code to allow this (sort of a 'burst' feature for occasional exceptions) but the 80 char limit is not a real problem in practice. In fact it functions as a classic creative constraint.
I don't get the "lack of use case" comments. There is no use case TODAY. But what does having 25Gbit fiber enable to be built TOMORROW? Shared photorealistic VR spaces immediately come to mind.
Haha so in reality, it even surpassed Windows in the last 5 years! (Granted it has more to do with desktop losing to mobile.)
Of course there's room for improvement, what's silly is thinking a coal-powered linked list is an improvement :)

You don't want true decentralization for state level activities such as voting. If it's truly decentralized and permission less, allowing anyone to control the ledger, your adversaries will take control. If you have to build a system that accounts for that, you rely on a central authority to switch you over, which invalidates the permissionless and decentralized premise.

There's a reason we've been talking about killer applications of the blockchain for 14 years and zero of them have taken hold - they're all fundamentally flawed. Like concert tickets! Should be easy, everyone hates Ticketmaster. Killer NFT use case right? Of course not, because the venues are owned by LiveNation, the performers are managed by LiveNation and TicketMaster is owned by, wait for it, LiveNation. You can throw up a ticketing system on AWS in like 5 minutes flat, that's not the reason TicketMaster has been successful.
> The cost of production is already low

The Sopranos cost 2 million dollars per episode. HBO will not be afford to produce an infinite number of those using their existing methods any time soon.
Sounds similar to the Politician's syllogism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism
The books being banned are more of antiracist.

Maybe if the usual measure of freedom of speech did not consistently priviledged white supremacist books, as if those were more important then their oposition, the state of affairs would not be as it is.
I disagree. People with nothing to lose are risking the least. Poor people can most afford to take risks.
In a language with a sensible typing system, I would create

class Route:

_route = [] # can be GoogleyRoute or MetaRoute

And import Route everywhere. That import would help in creating instance objects AND be used as a type.

But we can't do this with the spaghetti that python type annotations are.
But doesn't the wokish leftism also tick most of the boxes. You can say that they have real issue to complain about, but completely made up is not one of the boxes.
As far as climate; I am a fan of things that work.
Also this discussion got flagged so :(
My company uses Google Chat, which indeed has rooms with mandatory threads. You wouldn’t believe the number of people who just post their new topics in whatever last existing thread is visible. We’ve been using it for years now and asking people to create their own thread still happens several times a day. Most people just don’t get it.

I guess this is why Google Chat is now pushing thread-less rooms, and is rolling out on-the-fly threads like Slack.
None of your points actually address the sample size and study design issues that wouldn’t be unacceptable even in social sciences today. Generalizing results from a fistful of privileged undergrads is a well-known issue even in the community.
>in some cases they could leapfrog copper almost entirely and jump straight to fibre.

I visited Nepal several years back. They were going straight to wireless. All of the villages in the mountains had a solar panel on their roof that they used to charge their cellphones and there was a cell tower on the ridges.

It was surreal to see villagers use Facebook but have no road access to the main city.
Light-Driven Microdrones
Thanks for the clear demonstration that the use of analogy is no substitute for reason.

The problem is one of confusion. There are at least three distinct things that we call science. Primus, the social enterprise itself. This is where “consensus” applies. Secundus, the method for understanding the rules governing the system of the world. This is where what you call “low level” activities are. Tertius, the body of accepted knowledge that’s been ascertained. Unfortunately, this doesn’t necessarily follow from the scientific method. Sometimes it instead follows from the needs of the social enterprise of science, which we rather clumsily call politics.

It’s only by clearly and distinctly considering these three concepts that we can avoid frankly intellectually crippling confusion.
They raise their prices, add ads, crack down on account sharing, add games nobody asked for, have min/maxed shows that include suggestive programming, and people are wondering why their stock dropped?

Netflix is being run by MBAs. It could benefit much more if it actually listened to their customers instead of doubling down each week on yet another terrible idea.
And they are lead by a very proud grew up wealthy New Yorker.
It’s frightening how many points suddenly switched from false to true in Europe and the US during the Covid and current war.

If we don’t change we are going to the point of no return into fascistic tech dystopia, from where current Chinese system would look like a distant dream of human rights and democracy.
Why Twitter shareholders should reject Musk's offer
That's not really about Apple but about Unity. I've recently written about what a nightmare it was to be a Unity developer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31065208
> The reason I like to use this as a litmus test is that people often say something like "I'm against banning books" but what they mean is "I am for things I like".

I am positive that 98%+ of people that state the former mean the former.
Where are you seeing real yield on TIPS? There is certainly that 0.125% positive fixed coupon rate subject to that principal inflation adjustment. Looking at https://www.treasurydirect.gov/instit/annceresult/annceresul... TIPS tab, all the recent auctions had a high yield of < 0% with the exception of the 30-year TIPS on 02/28/2022 at a high yield of 0.195%. Secondary market does seem to show some deals on 20+ years with some getting close to 0.50%. TIPSWatch [1] runs the numbers on I Series and TIPS. TIPS yields are improving but I'm not sure it has quite changed the balance yet. Of course, especially in tax deferred/exempt accounts, TIPS have that great attractiveness of principal adjustment (depending on one's inflation view versus nominals) and no annual limits so the time will probably arrive soon enough.

[1] https://tipswatch.com/2022/04/21/new-5-year-tips-auctions-wi...
Interesting. In populous areas of the US they use HFC so the cable to your house only services a few buildings, with the neighborhood having a fiber optic back-haul that is shared, but much faster
> Well you have to appeal to your audience. If you speak as a Bangladeshi how much would the average American member of the audience understand?

That's why I don't like the whole business of identity politics. It creates this situation where the minorities you see on TV speaking for minority groups are the ones who are saying the things white people want to hear.

> And most of the desis I know support Harris over Gabard.

I'm not talking about overall support, but instead the particular attacks white Democrats aimed at Gabbard in the 2020 primary (pre-Fox News appearances). It was over things where Gabbard was taking a position that was different from white Democrats, but typical of desis.

I think it’s fair to say that Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi Democrats are typically more socially conservative than white Democrats. Likewise, Indians and Bangladeshis often have an affinity for Russia arising from those countries' alignment with the Soviet Union. E.g.: https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/bengalis-and-th....

I found it weird for white people to be talking so much about south asian identity on one hand, while attacking a south Asian woman in a nasty way for having opinions that a lot of south Asian women have.
The simple answer is to not put your life savings into “Akutars”[1] untested and unvetted token contract.

[1] https://www.aku.world/
This line of explanation is an excellent example of when C-suite types walk in and ask, "Why can't you do {simple thing X}"?
That is true. I'm just the only one commenting publicly these days.
Parallel Hashmap
Building the Inverse Jim Cramer Index
Note that Bohmian mechanics (the actual mathematical formalism) is not consistent with Special Relativity, unlike regular Quantum Mechanics. It's not proven that it can't be made consistent, and some are still working on that, but so far it has remained elusive. This means that it's not really "an interpretation" of QM, it's a slightly different theory, one that is worse at predicting observed reality...
Honestly, reverse proxying anything with Caddy has been so easy that I can’t use anything else anymore.
Docker containers are utterly easy to proxy, the defaults (e.g. the php_fastcgi directive) are sane and mostly work out of the box, the documentation is great, and everything seems so well thought out that one has to wonder why we put up so long with the convolutions of Apache and Nginx.
The establishment in the US (or Britain) always support those things (except going to war with Russia that if any support comes from the GOP).
VW is the exception to the role in the auto industry. I don't see why it couldn't work. It's just a question of how much we care.
> I don't have anything better to offer though - C pointers make a whole lot possible in a very terse way.

Terseness isn't a virtue in and of itself. If terseness helps readability that's great, but unreadable terse code isn't something to aim for.

One of the redeeming aspects of the C pointer declaration syntax is that hairy declarations can be decomposed using typedefs. Improving readability at the cost of reduced density is a good trade.
What viruses do we have herd immunity to that we will lose if people aren't exposed for 5-10 years due to wearing masks?
What's the other side of a circle?
I have a working theory that if Pocket God was uploaded with Bitcode, then Apple can recompile/relink it automatically for each year’s platform updates; and for projects not uploaded with Bitcode, the harsher standard is being applied to get that recompilation.
Orwell's essay on "What is Fascism?", and the latter part of Homage work to illustrate that these terms and similar are just used to paint an enemy and are bereft of meaning, so that Eco's definition is somewhat undefined isn't surprising, regardless of it's derivation.
Good point. Edited!
What exactly about gis/satellite data required such an insane uplink?
Just a guess, but I suspect a book gets banned because it's well known; it has content judged as immoral, unnecessarily sexual, etc.; and parents in an area suspect that teachers or librarians will try to convey the book to their children against the parents wishes. They thus take action through their school boards to draw a perfectly clear line.

BPL is not subject to any of those jurisdictions, so they're legally untouchable as they do the same work of trying to undermine those parents.
That's interesting, my observation is that you keep using caricatures of US political polarization, where one has to imagine that the left imagines that The Turner Diaries is a good example of something to ban and one has to imagine that the right imagines that The 1619 Project is something to ban.

This might be playing out reliably, in places that ban books. So way to go Library Genesis for passing the test.

It just seems like US caricatures of beliefs that don't actually represent people's beliefs, while being limited to US stuff, is just not the best test.
An earlier version did the TLS termination in the proxy. It's true you can avoid the HTTP parsing issues, but you lose the ability to do client certs or have backend-specific cipher/TLS version requirements. Also, I really like it that IPv6 clients can connect directly to the backend, bypassing any proxies.
And then US government prints trillions of dollars and inflate your savings. Or Russian government locks you USDs while Visa, Mastercard and sanctions make it impossible to move money out of the country. Or ask Belorussians and Argentinians how much they like double digit inflation that goes year after year after year while government limits ability to buy a more stable currency.

Above is just about money but there is another perspective. Think about a car sale and how would you automate it. To date most car sales require some paperwork to register the right transfer. This happens behind the scenes and you may not know but it happens and occupies some people. You simply cannot automate a car same with just a database. There must be a trust component in the system and a way to maintain it. Trust maintenance typically means audits, licensees, etc and they do not come for free.
Belief in Flat Earth is most definitely not a joke for a very large group of people (though it is absolutely a joke for a much larger group of people). It is part of a wider movement of biblical literalism and conspiracy theories describing an international anti-christian plot.

The fact that it is easily disproved isn't really a problem for these kinds of conspiracy theories. It actually kind of acts as a purity test for members. Kind of like how scams still use the "nigerian prince" trope, because it ensures only the most promising marks fall for it.

A great documentary on the topic by Dan Olson aka Folding ideas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44
I don't understand what you are trying to say but Anjuta and Glade are respectively
22 and 24 years old.

Anjuta stopped making progress well before GTK 4. GNOME Builder is a great alternative and was developed with GTK 3, the GTK 4 port is coming along quite well thought.

Glade is being phased out for Cambalache by its own maintainer.

I find GNOME development/platform refreshing because it's not hype driven, and it doesn't reinvent itself every year.
Your doctor as an actual person would likely have plenty of interesting things to say because he's not a human relay in a disinfo campaign rooted in facebook twitter and reddit.

It isn't merely a controversial topic nor an unpopular position on the topic that is problematic. It is accounts created 20 minutes ago to promote bullshit making an otherwise interesting topic a boring referendum on bullshit. How many times would YOU like to explain that covid isn't flu nor totally safe if you eat right and exercise?
I don’t think it’s a far leap to consider AI a tool, much like a digital camera. In the case of the camera, the human provides inputs and conditions, then the camera produces a digital image. In the case of AI, the human provides inputs and conditions, then the AI produces a digital image.

The case in question was a PR stunt intended to get the AI recognized as the author in order to build clout for the company that created the AI. “Look, a judge determined that our AI is so advanced that it can be the author of works of art, and is therefore a person.” It’s similar to stunts that try to get courts to recognize god as real or not real.

The fundamental question was not whether the work could be copyrighted or not - only whether the AI could be listed as the author of the work. It would be similar to if I tried to register a copyright with my digital camera listed as the author of the work. A camera is not a person, so it cannot be the author.
Turkey is making a big diplomatic and corporate push into Africa
The timing suggests that an automated system was tripped by a deluge of malicious abuse reports.

I'd say that's pretty in character.
Smart contracts have two modes of operation:

1) Upgradeable - where an authority has the right to replace the live contact at any time and rug-pull everyone. That's not trustless, and it's no better than running an app in AWS.

2) Non-upgradeable - where you simply have a self-funding bug bounty waiting to get popped. Even if they're audited.

They're not smart, and they're not interesting, to me anyways.
Freedom of speech in advertising means you are paying and have a monetization strategy. That is more commonly known as fraud and many systems might ultimately penalize platforms when they catch up with their being new outlets for new frauds.

Maybe cigarettes are the new health food! Maybe, but if the consensus is no it is unethical and hopefully illegal to present a case as a cigarette manufacturer directly to the people as a run around of systems of critique. Each member of the public can't be individually expected to resist all logical fallacies that are profitable cons, no?
With getpy[0], a python wrapper, you can get 200x faster map reads in parallel

In [1]: import numpy as np
...: import getpy as gp

In [2]: key_type = np.dtype('u8')
...: value_type = np.dtype('u8')

In [3]: keys = np.random.randint(1, 1000, size=10**2, dtype=key_type)
...: values = np.random.randint(1, 1000, size=10**2, dtype=value_type)
...:
...: gp_dict = gp.Dict(key_type, value_type, default_value=42)
...: gp_dict[keys] = values
...:
...: random_keys = np.random.randint(1, 1000, size=500, dtype=key_type)

In [4]: %timeit random_values = gp_dict[random_keys]
2.19 µs ± 11.6 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100,000 loops each)

In [7]: %timeit [gp_dict[k] for k in random_keys]
491 µs ± 3.51 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1,000 loops each)

[0] https://github.com/atom-moyer/getpy
Some of this may be due to the Librem 5.

In the time it took me to write this comment, they could have shipped anywhere from zero to one phones.

That's conceivably not nothing.
> 'Self-distillation' and related approaches work surprisingly well.

Surprising is an understatement. That's nuts.