skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can make the argument that stagnant progress isn’t actually not progress, when it comes to AI progress. Kilcher and Karpathy recently had a video where they discussed how some new model (PALM or Dalle2 I forget which) showed zero progress during X thousand training cycles, and then suddenly rapid progress after those training cycles. It was as if the model was spending thousands of training cycles on grokking the concept, and then finally grokked it. It could simply be that as we continue to increase the number of parameters and data quality on these models that we will continue to see progress on the route to AGI as a whole, but only in step change functions that require many training cycles
> the delusions of the incoming transformer winter will be painful to watch

Meaning?
Uhhh well I would argue Tastyworks does it even better. But that was built by the same team so maybe its cheating?
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No he didn't. He announced his departure the day before the stock cratered (some jokingly blamed the drop on his announcement).
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One issue: It updates every 0.9 seconds so it looks like it counts too fast and then it stops at a second for too long. As a solution you could either do as righttoolforjob said and read the time more often so that the inaccuracy is unnoticeable, or to make it as efficient as possible, you can try to sleep for exactly the right amount of time.

If you want to try to sleep for the exact right amount of time, this is a great opportunity to learn about some more system calls because that's something you often come in contact with when programming in C. Here is an example of how it can be done on Linux...

Before the loop, get the current time in nanosecond precision by using `clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &t)`, where t is a `struct timespec` that needs to be declared before the call. Then in the loop (in the end), increment t.tv_sec by one and sleep until that new absolute time by calling `clock_nanosleep(CLOCK_REALTIME, TIMER_ABSTIME, &t, NULL)`.

Another thing you can try is to print the exact time at sub-second precision when the user presses ctrl+c. Here you can use clock_gettime again to get the exact time, and to catch the ctrl+c you need to use the `signal(SIGINT, your_ctrl_c_handler_function)` system call.
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Agreed. This feels like the next big step in open source machine learning. I would love to be able to dedicate CPU / GPU towards chunking out open-source GPT-3 / DALL-E 2 clones so long as the trained weights are shared with the world afterwards.

That feels more long-term productive to me than crunching coins.
What are your plans for dealing with people who do not wish to have a third-party commenting layer they have no moderation power in forced upon them, and for the problem of a “let’s find weird people and mock them until they are on the verge of suicide” community like LJDrama/Something Awful/4Chan/Kiwifarms/etc starting to use Kontxt?

This is a problem that every “we made a comments layer for the entire web!” project has faced.
I'd say Linux Mint. It combines everything that's good about Ubuntu while removing things like snap. Also the design is so much better but I feel that's a personal choice. But everything in linux just works so well now.

I run 4 monitors on 2560 resolution on two separate amd cards and everything runs flawlessly. I have all the software for free and most OSS is just as good if not better for my work (except games and Photoshop but photopea is a good alternative for that, and it can be easily my second nomination for this thread).

I know linux has evolved a lot and it's the effort of millions of volunteers which has made Linux what it is today, but for me personally Linux Mint really combines all the great things about linux into an amazingly elegant software.
To prevent overheating on my X1 ThinkPad under Fedora I set the CPU governor to the power safe mode. As an added benefit it makes the laptop almost silent even when using all the cores/threads to compile huge C++ code base that may the memory usage towards 32 GB. Surely it compiles slower, but the slowdown is less than 25%
I love everything about this idea. If any of you remember mybloglog which was acquired by yahoo back in the day, they had all the ingredients that were missing from the web back when the cool kids were calling in web2.0. I met and interacted with so many blog writers who were able to see me land on their website and followed my profile back to mine, opening up a whole new social experience for those who created on the web. I hope this service moves in that direction over time, providing an escape from the walled Gardens of social media today and bringing it back to the open web where it belongs. Why Google or others haven't decided to ship a similar service right in Chrome is beyond me .. instead of a me too offering that was Google Plus.. the open web itself is where those social interactions and connections to me make most sense.
Having more threads doesn't solve inter-thread concurrency like async/await does. With async/await you can achieve concurrency while ensuring there parallelism as well as is no parallelism (to avoid explicit critical sections).

I don't think you could, for example, use this model of many virtual threads with a traditional GUI framework as designs are still predominately single threaded by nature.

Said another way, cooperative scheduling has its place and will continue to.

I'm excited to see some threaded UI designs shake out of this, though.
Is this really aimed at providing an individual email client? I've used it in the past to send out bulk emails similar to Constant Contact (for example), and from their web site it appears their focus is still primarily on managing customer emails for business.
How do you color your function?
Plenty of people already spoof their locations on the app and the app itself offers location changing functionality, I'd hardly say that is removing functionality or defeating the purpose of the app.
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Weird, first it says,

"[...] zero plastic thrown in a garbage can in the United States enters the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre", in bold letters.

But then later in the article, it admits that about 50% of US plastics (it is unclear whether is all of them or only the ones meant to be recycled) were shipped "to Indonesia and Vietnam, which proceeded to improperly dump over 80% of it."

So, it does go into the ocean in the end, whether the fault of the US or any other country, the point is that your plastic straw has a big chance of finding its way to the sea.
I feel empowered when I don't have to worry as much about how to safely operate my car, and it's just automatically safer. And when I don't have to worry as much about other drivers on public roads because their cars are automatically safer. The amount I'd be happy to pay to make that functionality configurable in order to accommodate people with different preferences, is $0.00.
I had the impression that you were blue American and the cmoog person a red American.
Very cool! I was considering something like basil or peppers to get started. Does your geographic location get a lot of natural sunlight? I'm wondering if I need supplemental lighting since Seattle doesn't always get a ton of natural sunlight.
Eidos Montreal's recent work with Guardian's of the Galaxy is really well done and I think overshadowed by the absolute failure of Crystal Dynamic's Marvel Avengers game.

I think they'd succeed with a GotG 2 or another 3rd-person action adventure game with a different IP.
#3 is more complex than I let on. It needs a few things to remedy it:

A) A focus on creating material for the DM, and most especially pre-built playable areas. A decent-sized city would cover an entire book, for example, as it would have several maps, scores of encounter areas, and just as many, if not more, fleshed-out NPCs with their own goals, as well as areas "just outside of town" to be worked with. Or take the Dungeon Dozen, but make it 1) serious, 2) strictly fantasy, 3) two hundred entries long.

B) An allowance for players to craft their characters, but not along the rails TSR or WotC or some d20 affiliate has made. Referring back to my example, Conan (the movie Conan) wasn't a "barbarian" class, he was a lot of fighter, with a little thief, a guy whose CON exceeded his STR, and he should be buildable by taking a little from this or that, some out of this skill tree, a feat or two here and there ... this eliminates the need for splat books.
The important thing to understand about AWS (or Azure or GCP, for that matter) is that you're not eliminating learning how to deploy and use an OS underneath your apps, you're just using a different (sometimes better/easier, but always more proprietary) KIND of OS. Because that's what these cloud platforms are - replacements for the OS in the modern distributed world.

They can offer awesome leverage and benefit. They can also be horrible traps that can break a company. I've seen both. As Doug Comer once told me, Unix is a Power Tool. Power Tools can kill. So can cloud platforms. There is nothing new under the sun...
There was a tool a while ago that let you track bugs and implementations with comment tag inside your code. I think it sounded like "artifact", but I can't find it. I think it was abandoned, but are there other tools like that?
Google did this to me when I was signing up for a GSuite account. Decided I wouldn't risk my business with them then.
Okay, gotcha.
Just out of interest, why is it error prone? Because of some kind of merge conflicts of the results?
I have no answer but every time I get a cold drink at starbucks and see the new “no straw” lid (that seems to use as much or more plastic as the old lid + straw) I have the same question. It seems more about the “no straw” trend than about actually reducing plastic.
I'm just saying the cost of developing the runtime can now easily be mutualized between multiple languages
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It's appalling "everyone just bent over backwards apologizing to her ". It shows how detrimental the extreme "progressiveness" can be.
See also kickbacks, slightly lower down.

Has to be mentioned explicitly despite often, but not always, being illegal.
100% my flow too after a lot of experimentation. I have had several clunker lenovo machines and have run linux as a daily driver on and off for several years (I always wanted it to work, it was just infuriating with random glitches and the verbosity required to get a sane setup stable).

M1 MacBooks are legit, the Pro is the best machine I have ever owned by a long shot (several X1's, T Series etc) the screens are beautiful and I can get on and do whatever I need without worrying about glitches. I run commodity cloud linux VM's on things I need to deploy/monitor, its FAR easier (imo) to write the software on my Mac and then move it out.
One problem with 'used to use' is many might take it as implying that he now uses something different. Perhaps 'has used' would be better?
Yet even Adam Smith bases his entire theory on the supposed collective benefit of the invisible hand. Without collective benefit, there's nothing positive left to it.
The posts were flagged, you can see them if you turn on showdead. Here's sammy811's threadstarter:

> I was the one "attacking" the video platform! I saw fly io had insane bandwidth pricing for India, so I spawned a couple of VMs in India to constantly pull the 4k video. Sad the whole ASN got blocked!
Netflix doesn't do RSUs at all, they do options. You get a comp number, which is all cash. Then you choose, once a year, how much of that cash you want to use to buy options. The option discount changes occasionally, as well as the percent of your salary you can use to buy them. The options are 10 year options.

When I was there the option was 20% of the stock price and you could do 100% in stock if you wanted to. So if the stock was $100 a share I'd pay $20 for the option to buy a share at $100 for the next 10 years. In other words, I was break even if the stock went up 20%, and doubled my money if it went up 40%. It was a great program when the stock was growing more than 20% a year.

From what I understand most people take all cash now, or nearly all.
mu4e, so mu with emacs
You mean the hands-off owner that lets WashPo do wahtever as long as they don't make Amazon look bad

There's still a lot of room to maneuver in there
thanks for the heads up. fixed that :)
This is a good point, but if there are few (if any) publishable results coming out of a costly apparatus (and none are particularly notable), isn't that an indication that resources should be refocused to more productive projects? Resources are always limited.

If you think this costly and relatively unproductive apparatus should continue to receive funding, is there any circumstance which would cause you to discontinue it in favor of something else (which is not a direct replacement)?
A lack of journalistic coverage
Ooooh I'm gonna have to play thru with the commentary after I'm done with Elden Ring (and Nier Automata, and System Shock 2 and Ghostwire Tokyo and some other things I have lined up). What's the experience with commentary like?
I think you rather missed the point of the article.
They are likely using some fuzzy logic to detect people evading bans by creating multiple accounts. Could be some combination of IP address, OS, browser fingerprinting, etc.

This approach inevitably results in some amount of false positives, but nobody cares since the users aren't the paying customers.
Garbage can -> landfill

recycling can -> overseas countries -> ocean
> > • Many large functions – 200 functions exceeded 75 lines of non-comment code [NASA App. A p. 23]

> Large functions with no comments?

I don't think that's what the citation says. It says the functions had more than 75 lines of code not counting any comments. It doesn't say there were no comments in these functions.

Nitpick aside, I'm sure we can all agree that a large number of such lengthy functions is not good practice.
Good points there about longevity. If you're doing any EDA work you need to drag the EDA product through the lifecycle of the design. I have seen whole computers with OrCAD for MSDOS dragged along with a product just so the toolchain didn't get shafted.
My family and my friends each have something else they also call "The Game". I haven't had a chance to not-lose for a very long time.
A Forth REPL on Voyager would be news to me. It's possible, because I do know that Forth was used to program some flight instruments on later missions [1] but even then it didn't include a REPL.

I don't know anything about what is happening in Haskell-land, but from your description it sounds like what they are doing is very similar. Haskell shares a lot of intellectual DNA with Lisp so it's not surprising that it would end up being used this way.

[1] https://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html, see the "Miscellaneous stories" section.
I thought it was pretty clear, if you put the straw in the garbage can it will not enter the garbage patch, it goes to the landfill. If you put it in the recycling bin it has a good chance of entering the garbage patch.
The problem is browsers don’t render like a word processor, so it’s hard to fit the model to reality.
>async\await in no way relieve the developer from needing to worry about locks. If you have shared mutable memory, you have locks.

This isn't really true. For example, UI code often uses async/await for the concurrency but a single UI thread to prevent locking. Because this design is only concurrent and not parallel you don't need to worry about thread safety while still getting a way to yield execution to other code.
Not sure I'd say dogshit but not near as smooth as automata.

Plus the story of the original game took a looooooong time to get going combined with the ability to lock yourself out of the true ending without knowing or discovering it for like 75% of the game is definitely going to limit the audience.
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The point being made in the article is that plastic thrown into garbage cans in the US end up securely held in the sealed landfills as described,while plastics sent for recycling in the US end up getting exported and ultimately improperly dumped.

The author is saying that you should put plastics in the garbage rather than in the recycling.
I think it means they want you to add your phone number to your account.
They lock your account until you give them a valid phone number, it's probably nothing you did just they use 'dark patterns' to get your data. Everyone's probably better using Mastodon or something.
Humans use metals in colossal quantities, but only a small proportion of that, used to make weapons and ammo, is responsible for the majority of human deaths induced by metal items.

Similarly, fishing gear is specifically produced to lure, trap, catch, and ultimately kill marine life. One abandoned fishing net could be much more deadly than 10x of the same plastic by weight in the form of plastic straws, spoons, and cups.

I don't know if it's indeed so, but I can easily see why it could be so.