skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll save you a click, it's Gary Marcus, with the same-old-same-old.

3 issues to exemplify problems with his perennial churn of critique: he assails Gato for poor visual reasoning, but omits that Gato is not supposed to be, and is not, anywhere near SOTA because Gato is a tiny GPT-2-sized model in comparison to things like Flamingo and trained far less on far less data (something like 2 OOMs less each), because it's mostly trained on all sorts of other things like Atari games & robotic arms (learning them all simultaneously as a Decision Transformer is what's amazing, not how well it does in setting SOTA, which it usually does not); he highlights Imagen failing on one example while ignoring that people found prompts which do it just fine in both Imagen & DALL-E 2 and replied to him on Twitter with those eg https://twitter.com/bneyshabur/status/1529506103708602369 (and he replied to them, so he definitely saw them); and he highlights DALL-E 2 failing an example as a fundamental flaw, while omitting that GLIDE (which is a component of DALL-E 2) or Imagen does it much better and it's just one of several side-effects of using unCLIP for more artistic images rather than some truly fundamental irrevocable limit in generative NN models.

Oh well. See you all in a few months when the big video diffusion model or Gato 2 or something else drops.
Of course, Wikipedia has over 200 citations of elections-gone-wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_the_Unite...
Most estimates I've seen of funding for New York students is $25k to $30k a year though. I would think that's more of a sign of incredible corruption and mismanagement and not that there isn't enough money to go around.

To compare, Stuyvesant High School, the best in NYC, is $18k per student.
My kid started bilingual school at grade 1. Because his native language is phonetically spelled, it took him a while to understand that English is not. Some spellings he could not shake; my favorite was "peapole" for "people" which persisted into second grade.

I was very annoyed to hear the English teacher (they recruited monoglot English teachers so they wouldn't take the easy path) say "English spelling is hard". The right answer is that "English spelling is only loosely phonetic".
That's exactly my point. There's a system today that has some amount of arbitrariness to it. Tweaking that system slightly is almost surely arbitrariness-preserving, likely not increasing or decreasing it significantly.
Sorry I forgot to specify that I commented on the paper mentioned in the start of the second paragraph. That study only looks at voting patterns and mortality.

I'm sympathetic to Warraich's position, but its weak that he combines the conclusions of the voter patterns and access-to-care study in an opinion article and not in a peer reviewed paper. Hopefully one is in preparation.
Your analysis is incomplete at this point. We do not know what will be the outcome of war. How long will sanctions and general isolation of Russia hold and what that might result in.

Perhaps it will(as it seems now, also) be seen as catastrophic mistake. Like Russia selling Alaska to US. My point is, it is way to early to tell and even if we knew the outcome: we have to have few events/outcomes like that for them to become an example of mistake to not make.

Generally countries can do whatever, despite all. It is more important we deter them and have tools to do that as broader "world" community. Otherwise we would have to forcefully own "other" countries to secure such peace.
ARMs are dangerous to the degree I'd say they're fraudulent. Certainly they are if all of crypto meets your standard.
It's interesting how everyone is talking about "how this can be so easy". Really what was done here was absolutely small fish compared to the much bigger issues with the US electoral system. I mean party operatives deciding voting districts, the legislative essentially selecting the judicative (admittedly an issue in many other democracies as well), a electoral system where a vote has vastly different influence depending on where you live, election financing which ensure that politicians of any party are beholden to wealthy lobbyists.

Really the issue that some small town election officials can fraudulently cast a couple of hundred votes is the least of your worries. Also worth pointing out, they were caught, so it wasn't actually so easy.
> hysteria

I think when you refer to disgreement as 'hysteria', it's very ironic and not really a serious discussion anymore.
> It invented the entire concept of web apps as desktop apps

Mozilla actually had that in early 2000 or so; their whole UI (before Firefox existed, even) was a webby. Except it was their own weird sort of webby and not normal HTML, most of the time.

Using normal HTML would be around IE4 with their .hta files, I think. Didn't seem to have too much uptake though.
> Make life harder for basically every western citizen by making gas prices skyrocket

That's mostly done by a certain Mr. Putin.
Look at the Atom repo, very few commits in the last year, and it's not like there are loads of open pull requests (serious PRs do get merged), and it's been strongly dropping off for a long time. It's the programming community that abandoned Atom, not Microsoft.
I mean, my question is what the real cost is. It's a standard that's fixed. Are there big Chromium rearchitectures that make v2 hard to keep?
If your definition of coercive is anything that doesn't entirely align with anybody's utility function, I'm curious as to what you wouldn't consider coercive.
I don’t think this is true at all.
It's a shame that states have to do this and not the federal government.
In Diablo 2 a friend could "rush you through the acts" what took like 20-30 minutes, not 5-10 hours
I’ve only used Alexa in stand-alone units, and Siri on my phone and watch. For me, Alexa regularly fails, and the overwhelming majority of my interaction attempts play out like this:

Me: Alexa, Badezimmer 10%

Alexa: Ich kann nicht Prozent auf Spotify finden

*Five attempts later, it actually works*

(It was even less reliable in English)

Siri mostly hears the right words when I ask questions, and the voice keyboard (is that the same speech-to-text engine?) is correct somewhat more often than the swipe keyboard (although that doesn’t say very much as the latter seems to have become very confused as a result of me learning German).
Another random fact: Toit is followed up with noice in Brooklyn 99
You would. It’s important for the client to pace it’s requests in a way that does not reveal too much (for example, the client should not just request both chunks of the article at the same time). The best thing to do would probably be to have a ‘load more’ button at the bottom of a very long article that makes a separate request.

If you think about it, the pacing of user queries could always reveal something (if there’s a long gap between quarries, perhaps it’s a dense mathematics article?). So the best we can hope for is pacing requests either randomly, or for even further protection, perhaps making dummy requests on a fixed cadence.
You can take a personal loan as a politician to support your campaign and have that paid back by campaign contributions. A house can be bought in an revocable trust by a political friend and be used as the politician's home address for residency purposes and physical residency purposes. Speaking engagements and their ilk often pay politicians for minimal work. A cousin or friend can be paid by a politician's campaign to perform services for a campaign. Most politicians and elected officials receive 2X or 3X pension time served over regular firefighters and first responders and other public state empolyees. A part-time politician over 5 years earns as much pension as a public employee working for 10-15 years in many states. Benefits abound in the rules for the rulemakers.

"Arm's length transactions" are more heavily regulated for corporate minions than they are for politicians in many ways.
Well, creating life forms would require us to create self-reproducing machines, which doesn't seem like the same thing.

This will end up in a goalpost-shifting debate where the extent of self-repair capabilities necessary to qualify as "self-repairing" is argued. I'd say that a fault-tolerant system is at least 50% of the way there.
Just about all papers and write-ups that describe big advances on important problems aren't titled 'Big advance in Problem X' or 'X now an ex-problem'.
> EDIT: Reading through "A real bug we found and fixed this year" and I'm still a bit confused.

yeah that specific bug is convoluted.

> It seems like a very contrived bug directed directly to how you deal with versioning (e.g. you allow the latest version to be present with stale metadata, or something?).

This is mostly for performance reason that I won't go into details too much here. Version is mostly an internal concept that clients don't care about. So it's OK-ish.

> My main concern with cache invalidation is what to invalidate at what time.

Can you elaborate? Our experience on cache invalidation is that you invalidate on mutation, and in terms of "what to invalidate" it depends on the computation, which you might have to give me a little more details.
Roy Spencer is a creationist, just FYI, and that link is to a climate change denial website. The RSS examined the same data and got .184.
https://archive.ph/3G8Tq
Interesting! I just wanted to let you know my perspective, which is probably quite unique.

I started using atom pre-1.0, a long, long time ago. I immediately jumped to vscode when I realised it existed.

The reason is a bit weird; it's the find-in-files/project (c-s-F/Ctrl+Shift+F) sidebar search/replace feature. Compared to the Atom (and from what I can see in the youtube talk, zed has the same "problem") which opens c-s-F results in the main window, vscode opens them in the sidebar and doesn't clutter the main view with it.

The reason this is powerful to me is that I code mostly in domain-specific, esoteric, private languages that have no API documentation, no stdlib or docs, and no online resources to learn from. So the only way to learn is by example, or talk to someone who knows. Learning by example is usually much faster than talking.

So what I do is any new project is just a subfolder in a workspace that contains all known code in the language and the way I find out how to do something is c-s-F.

When the results cover the main view, or even parts of it (which is also possible with atom), it's just way too intrusive. The sidebar file list is useless to me at this point - where the result comes from is irrelevant. So why not use that space?

Also of course the fact that vscodes cross-file search was blazingly fast was an upside as well (I believe they used ripgrep for that since the start?)

Another thing I want to mention is (and you highlight the keyword search in that youtube talk around 18:54) the power of the command palette search method that is available in vscode: first-letter-matching. I don't know what the proper name of it is, but essentially "ps" matches "pub struct" for example. Obviously it matches it with a lower score than something that starts with "ps", but it's very powerful for matching in the command palette.

Thanks for listening.
Slack has resolutely stupid browser blocking. My old Mac uses Safari v9. Slack, of course, wishes to block it for reasons. If I modify the user agent string to something else, I’m unblocked and Slack functions perfectly.. IOW, there is no necessary reason to block the old browser: they do it out of sheer capriciousness.
Is the claim that you will get rich by giving someone else your money now?

yes -> it's a Ponzi scheme.

no -> it's not a crypto project.
IMO the leap from sublime to vscode was because the extensions made it so welcoming & bultin. I think the next leap from that is by-default sharing of those extensions and config. WASM might be able to do that coupled with security defining execution. We need a trusted mechanism to share what git-hooks promised without thinking about it. Like you said, collaborative.

If extensions lock down the files they will touch and the urls that can be visited I think sharing them becomes more palatable.
Single parent households are perfectly capable of raising children who value education, cooperation, sobriety and non-violence. I would know, I grew up in one, as did many of my peers. The key difference was and continues to be culture. The question is who is accountable for culture? Is it "society", or the individuals who perpetuate that culture in their own households?
Roger Stone was a member of CREEP and has been working for Trump and many candidates in between. No lesson has been learned.
Because the world is made of bandwidth and large cities and each ISP will gladly sell you a multigigabit pipe for peanuts, and there’s 6G wireless with absolutely no outages whatsoever.

Also everyone just works at FAANG or is not worth talking to.

I have this weird idea of selling a globe where the only land is Bay Area. For $9,999.99 apiece. It’s being reinforced by articles like this one.
If school is work then we need to recognize the children's own agency in school, otherwise it it literally slavery.

Forcing children to spend the majority of their lives working against their will leads to problems, especially among non-conformists.
No, you need the password to decrypt your 2FA codes. There's no password for logging in. You're just incorrectly assuming how it works.

https://support.authy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360036077534-Wha...

>If you lose your Backup Password, you will not be able to decrypt your 2FA tokens from Twilio Authy servers and access them within the Authy app on any other device (Eg: If you bought a new phone to replace an old or lost device). If you still have access to the original device on which you set up the Authy app with your 2FA account tokens for the first time, you can follow these steps to re-configure your Authy app on a new device.

Authy admins cannot reset this password. It looks like they can disable encrypted backups, but not decrypt your shit.

So basically all an attacker should be able to do is gain control of your account, delete your old 2fa codes and then add his own.
Yes. I did things like create custom scripts to work more effectively with many different drafts in the revision control we were using. This allowed me to have more than a dozen projects going at a time so there was always something I could switch to that wasn't held up by the friction.
I have once worked for a customer where other freelancer had developed a special proxy. The customer required working in a hermetically closed vpn environment even to access the test systems. Whitelisting a single web page cost an unreasonable amount of budget and took days to weeks. Therefore someone had decided to run the vpn inside a virtual machine, and developed an http proxy that consisted of two processes, one running inside the VM and one outside. Now, you gan guess how they exchanged requests and responses. That whole setup was surprisingly usable.
The part I didn't get is why you couldn't use your weight to go off-balance in the direction you need to as opposed to moving the wheel.

To stick with the inverted pendulum example. Instead of moving the base backwards to move forwards, move the top forwards to move forwards.
Rural NY has many farmers. Like any other state. State laws can propagate to other states if left unchecked by corporate representatives. Our legislatures don't represent the interests of the people as well as they probably should.
I'm sorry, but this is complete FUD. This simply isn't a failure mode that's even remotely common by any measure.

The only thing that approximates this is that pocket lint can accrue inside the port, as small amounts of lint are repeatedly pressed into the port when inserting the connector. USB-C is susceptible to this too for exactly the same reasons: frequently-used female port that spends most of its life in a lint-generating pocket. As more is packed in, we push on the connector a little harder until the debris is deep enough to prevent contacts from connecting.

You can scoop it out in two seconds with a safety pin or other thin metal probe. And again, USB-C is equally susceptible to this failure mode.
I have to assume no-one in the team saw Pulp Fiction (1994) when you ended up picking up the name "Zed"...?
Putin's actions certainly don't help, but our policy response here is pretty stupid. Instead of ratcheting up our own oil production to counterbalance the loss of supply from Russia, it seems we have intensified anti-oil regulations [1] in service of the goal of some mystical "energy transition" that is yet to materialize [2]. Of course, my sources here are just what I see online, would love to hear from someone who has firsthand perspective on the US energy industry.

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/06/05/chevrons-ceo-says-...
[2] https://nypost.com/2022/05/23/biden-praises-gas-prices-as-pa...
> So it’s just inflating bundle sizes for no reason.

When using a bundler, it will be trivial to remove the annotations in the build process.

Using a TypeScript transpiler in that process is also trivial you might say. But static typing syntax and tooling as part of the language itself is the way to go imo.
It is worth noting that IQ is heavily impacted by environment and nurture, especially so at the ends of the spectrum.

When different groups have different home and social environments, it is expected that there will be IQ differences.

It is strange that people can be vocal about the harsh conditions difference groups are subjected to, but in denial about the damage done by those conditions.
Polaris is actually fairly simple to build. The harder question to answer is "why cache is inconsistent" and how you debug. The second half of the post talks about consistency tracing, which tracks all cache data state mutations.

Distributed systems are state machines, with consistency tracing keeping track of all the state transitions, debugging cache inconsistencies in an invalidation-based cache is very actionable and managable based on our experience.
> It always struck me as there were too many dwarves before you've created any sort of structure.

Agreed, which is why the first thing I build in any new fortress is a giant wall around my fortress with only one way in: a long retractable bridge over a giant pit of death. When new migrants arrive before I'm ready, I flip the switch as they're crossing the bridge. Rather gruesome, but I do get all their stuff and my fortress gets a reputation for being dangerous, so fewer migrants show up.
An application doing a paste needs to query the available clipboard formats and then ask for the data from one of them. This wouldn't work reliably if other applications could simultaneously change the clipboard. So the OpenClipboard API locks the clipboard and applications need to remember to call CloseClipboard.
Compared to America, many other democracies manage to get by with far less fraud. For example, election fraud is effectively unheard of in France; the system is so robust that even in very close elections there is never any real drama about recounts or such. For a country that considers democracy to be fundamental to its identity, the US's performance is embarrasing in comparison.
I don't want this. I want real types, that are checked and throw errors, or are at least coerced on being passed into/out of methods (preferably the former)

If you don't want to take the performance hit of type checks, you can still check and then remove type annotations during bundling. Having this would just mean that we will never ever ever get actual static typing in javascript, so it's actually worse than doing nothing.
I think that a sufficiently accurate simulation of a system exhibits the same emerging properties as the system itself.

For example, if I can perfectly simulate the weather in some simple planet, all possible emerging weather phenomena for that planet (say like clouds, rain etc) will be perfectly replicated in the simulation. Similarly, if we can perfectly simulate a human body, all of the emerging human phenomena will exist in the simulation (muscle movement, nerve impulses, brain patterns resulting in consciousness etc). I don't think consciousness is fundamentally different from other physical phenomena, it's just a particularly complex example.

Another angle to think about: We can't prove that we're not living in a simulation (or can you?). So our consciousness itself might be simulated for all we know. This is not a proof that we are amenable to being simulated, but it means that disproving it is very hard or impossible.
That's not selection bias, it's the actual working definition of "success." Or at least one definition. Those who say "I'll show that mofo" but fail are not those we label "successful" in this context.

It's always more complicated than that, of course. Lamborghini built some legendary cars and established a respected global brand. But I'd be surprised if il Commendatore ever gave a hoot about them. And the company itself could teach Trump a thing or two about bankruptcy.
> you also benefit because people aren't just changing stuff willy-nilly. E.g. your project you've been working on wont suddenly stop working in production out of the blue because Clive decided to totally change the database table schemas at 4am on Wednesday morning and nobody told you about it

It can. I worked at a 2400 person company. 'Dev/tech' side was... ~150 or so, so not thousands of devs, but not just '3 folks in a basement' sort of place. Lots of 'process', but only for some people (like me). Other people - people who were dating management, for example, could make whatever changes they wanted.

I would need to have a formal meeting with 2-3 "sr" folks to request a database index, then have to do a presentation about why it was needed, then wait for 'review' ("this might break something else"). But then other folks would literally just go on the database (because they had direct access) and fuck with whatever they felt like.

And... I'd be dinged because my deliverable was late because... "well... you should have planned your project better" (when... I had no hand in planning or setting deadlines). Not in my wildest dreams did I think requesting 2 indexes on a couple tables that only our application used would require 2.5 calendar weeks and multiple meetings, so... unsure how I should have raised a flag earlier that we might hit some roadblocks.

But yeah... hey, if you already had access to prod dbs, you could just go in and make live changes without testing or documentation ("it's OK, Steve used to be on the database team - he knows what he's doing").

Process/overhead isn't necessarily bad, but applied unequally, you wind up with hypocrisy and resentment (and people like me leaving in less than a year).
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> pseudo logic
facts don't care about your feelings; red states average higher obesity rates.