skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you talking about the keynote or the developer content, the keynote it seems to be the Apple's keynote has much more effort put into how and what is presented - there's also functionally two distinct keynotes, the primary and the State of the Union which is entirely developer focused.

My /impression/ has been that the individual developer sessions are much better and more clearly presented.

The other aspect - for developers - is Apple has like 40 years of being an actual OS developer, and recognizes that ABI stability matters. Even when APIs are superseded, the old APIs remain for many release cycles - not to MS levels of insanity, but not far off. As a result the APIs are designed for longevity, and considerable thought is given to ensuring that APIs should be sufficiently forward thinking to avoid the need for frequently replacing APIs with new APIs that do the same basic thing. A result of that is the developer sessions have value for more than single OS release - and remain available on the WWDC site for many year.
The AI seems to work best on high-pitched, female voices. The model seems to have improved in this regard since I last tried this website, but it's still very significantly biased towards female voices it seems.
Do you have any book suggestions?
Why not both at once?
I was talking specifically of the morning.
Ah yea Fairly Odd Parents. So much fun :)

I've tried it today for the first time. The transcription thing is awesome! It is a little less useful as I speak in Dutch and English and tend to switch spontaneously, but just to have a separate app that can transcribe if I really want it to is awesome.
Google was once a revolutionary consumer services company (Maps, Gmail, search), but that spark is long gone.
The section on "dictionary encoding" didn't make much sense to me. Is there an explanation of this technique somewhere? The example code took a list called "buffer" and then didn't use it for anything - perhaps something got lost when writing the code?

The explanation was pretty opaque: Here’s one simple example I encountered recently. It’s common in columnar database code to ‘dictionary encode’ lists of values. Here, for some subset of the stored data, we store a dictionary containing the unique values that exist, assigning unique indices to each value, and we store a list of pointers into the list to represent each element.

We store a list of pointers into which list? The dictionary contains the unique values as keys or as values? How do we pick which subset of the stored data we do this for?
Full-HD monitors and laptops are still very common in the corporate world and for non-affluent PC gamers. I don’t see this lower-cost segment going away anytime soon, since display yield drops quadratically with DPI, and therefore the associated cost increases quadratically with DPI.
Fwiw, Google Chat and Spaces, while not on the same level as Slack are definitely filling the “good enough to stick with” niche at a small company I’m helping now.

If they actually commit to improving it, there’s real potential there.
During a psychedelic trip, I had similar memories of how difficult speaking was in early childhood. It made me quite proud afterwards that I had finally managed to master speaking.

During the same trip, I also heard my mother as if my mental dictionary of sounds was made of her voice.
The worst case scenario is still a mass extinction event unlike anything witnessed by the human species, plus global food and water shortages, and certain areas of the world becoming unsuitable for human life during the hot months.

That means mass migration and conflict over resources, and a deteriorating ecosystem that we still very much rely on to produce food and healthy living conditions.

https://www.vox.com/22620706/climate-change-ipcc-report-2021...

Basically, scenario 4 or 5 outlined in that article is what I see happening. Sure, it's not a guaranteed extinction, but it will devastating, and it's far more likely than a GAI takeover.
Good catch! I shouldn't have omitted the details here. Roughly there are two ways to solve the race you mentioned here.

You can use a versioning scheme supported by the database to do compare-and-swap – i.e. sending invalidate along with a hybrid-logical-clock. HLC is nice in this case as it handles DB transaction rollback gracefully, if the database supports it.

Or we can always do the invalidation asynchronously (by recording the invalidation keys transactionally and have a tailer that sends out the invalidation).

I will make an edit to the blog to make it more clear. Let me know if that makes sense!

I mean this – cache invalidate/fill race specifically – is very much a solved problem from a protocol perspective, as long as our definition of the problem is the same – do not leave stale data in cache indefinitely. That is not to say it is easy; I am not trying to minimize anyone's struggles. https://research.facebook.com/publications/scaling-memcache-... might be of interest.

A lot of the challenges in cache are in making the tradeoffs between consistency and coordination overhead based on the workload and the requirement, _and actually_ making caches consistent in production. As explained in the post, there are practical challenges that are very unique to cache and cache invalidation.
Financial and health insurance companies come to mind. At least in my circle they get all those benefits
It's usually very good at staying perfectly centered between painted lane lines, even when following curves. This is fine usually, except when a lane on the right merges into your lane. In the United States, interstate highways don't always have any sort of markers establishing the non-merging lane. Because of that, about halfway into where the lanes merge, Autopilot considers that portion just one very wide lane and aggressively tries to center itself, rather than just keeping a relative distance from the lane markings on the left.
Unfortunately, the naive way also turns out to be wrong in C. uint8_t gets promoted to a signed int when shifting, which in turn causes undefined behavior for specific input. One way of fixing this is casting to the desired type before the shift, thus avoiding surprising conversions.

On a side note, compiler warnings and sanitizers help with this kind of stuff greatly, use them if you have the option: https://godbolt.org/z/8oq9GTcze
If you want more information about 15.ai, I highly suggest reading their Wikipedia article! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15.ai

The whole history behind the project is fascinating: 4chan had a huge role in its development, and the project's work was stolen by an NFT company that a famous voice actor endorsed not too long ago.
I’m not a biologist, but I thought the neurochemical processes can be the results of an emotion rather than the cause of it. Instead, emotions are meta-level states of the system.
GPT-3 may be a squirrel
I spent some time looking at this when I was younger and came to the conclusion that it's not about picking the "winning" stock or asset, but finding the trade with a disproportionate return.

This was well before Taleb and black swans.

The idea came from my maths teachers at high school. They figured that at the greyhounds there was a much better chance that a new dog at 100:1 that that dog might win 1/100th of the time. Plus there were always only 8 dogs and no jockeys to colude during the race.

So they used to go and get random trifectas of $1 bets with combos like the two favorites and the rank outsider. Hundreds, sometimes thousands of them.

They reckoned over time they came in well in front.

So in a similar way I see the best stock bets might ignore chances, mostly, and focus on outcomes, regardless of likelihood because anything could happen
(esp at the last moment), which is sort of Talebs trading approach.
While I like Kate Bush and her song, the internet has been making more of this than there really is.

Songs disappearing and then suddenly charting high has happened for almost as long as their have been music charts.

Sirius runs old episodes of America's Top 40 on Sunday mornings. If you listen, occasionally Casey Casem will explain that the #30-something song he's about to play was a big hit back in the 40's, or 50's, or 60's, and is back again.

Nothing new here. Just people with short memories, or a reluctance to do actual research.
Search: revolutionized, yes. But never was announced anywhere.

Gmail: not really, web based freemailers are a dime and a dozen and the only thing Gmail brought to the table was more storage space.

Youtube: was neither created not announced by Google.
Probably because you can make 10x more in the App Store than in the GooglePlay Store.

Ok maybe not 10x but the point still remains.
For me the Thinkpad T series is the sweet spot and I don't personally see any utility from being even thinner and lighter, especially if the connectivity suffers. Seems mostly a case of thin/light laptops looking nicer and therefore selling more, rather than being genuinely good for the consumer.
Man, living in Germany, we started walking to school or taking the bus alone on the third day of first grade (6yo)
This doesn't jibe with history. Or the present for that matter, see sibiling to your comment by btdmaster. Uses of data always expand, never contract.

It doesn't matter that most or even 99% of the data is harmless, or that the data is useful, these companies are simply not trustworthy. The fact that no one asks permission up front (opt-in) tells you all you need to know.
Wasn't xmpp support dropped years ago?
Congratulations, you have reinvented a scientific hypothesis. Unfortunately I can’t find a related article in one minute’s search but IIRC even sure extremely small groups, less than 10 people there’s enough variety in sleep patterns that on average someone is awake for all but ~30 minutes most nights.
Everyone who is giving interviews likes being in the public eye. It’s extremely easy not to give interviews - unless you did something like a big crime or are the center of a big story accidentally, you actually have to go out of your way to continue being famous.

It’s also why I’m suspect of everyone famous. It’s just such a warped personality that seeks and maintains a public persona. Not saying that they are evil or bad people - just that their motivations are very suspicious and you should be extremely critical of what a public person says. The vast majority of successful and wealthy people are not public figures and don’t try and parlay their opinions into personal fame.
SWE is a thankless job best outsourced to India. Take up woodworking.
Or drive passenger cars through a tunnel without any emergency exists instead of building a proper proven subway...
My guess is, that it is just a constant, ready to be used for bitwise operations.
And I don't understand why people want bigger ones. Maybe that is because we are different and have different needs?
You are debating someone who said they were saints, which I didn't, or with someone who fits some strawperson profile in your mind.

> it's not nearly as obvious as you think that Churchill goes in a different bucket than Stalin

You might be surprised that I might know more about it than you imagine, maybe more than you. It is pretty obvious that they belong in different buckets.
You'd be surprised. Note that Sioux Falls, the capital of South Dakota, has substantially lower average lows in Winter than Helsinki.

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/finland/helsinki/climate
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/sioux-falls/climate

Yes our car-dependent infrastructure is an issue, but it's infrastructure we've built up for the better part of a century. Changing it will be slow and gradual, and in the meantime cold weather and darkness are issues in much of the country. Also hot weather in other parts of the country (heat stroke can be a serious concern in the Southwest)
In the 70s/80s/90s your software didn't change every day. Google started with xmpp with Talk, but it didn't evolve fast enough to add new features. In Talk days I had to dismiss notifications from every device, even though I'd read it on one. And file sharing, video calls, audio calls, group messages didn't work well.

The internet enabled software to update every day, that made standards way less relevant, sadly.

The HTML5 model of standards is probably best for the modern world
The copyright laws around this are fascinating. They're adamant it must be non-commercial, they must be credited, and it can't be mixed with any other generated content. Meanwhile their content is exclusively derived from popular commercial products. Oh and they also make money via Patreon donations.

I dunno. Feels a little gross to me. Eventually there is going to be a big copyright case about a model trained with copyrighted material. I have no idea how that will be resolved. Or maybe there will simply be new laws passed to make it either explicitly ok or explicitly not ok.
I’m pretty sure it’s a deliberate choice for some reason, though I agree that it’s hideous.
Two decades? More like 4
Alright, so are you trying to say it wasn’t Copernicus who got roasted for Copernicus’ writings, but Galileo?
I was trying to give a counter point about that type of flex schedule already happening at some schools. But it isn’t based on parental choice.

It’s a hard thing to do in practice. You can’t have 1/3 a 1/2 of the classes duplicated throughout the day. Are you going to have two honors chemistry classes? Not all of the classes could be offered in that core set of hours when everyone was there. Or are you only going to have electives in the morning and afternoon hours?

It worked for the larger school because the classes were split by grade. So you didn’t have two freshman English classes. You had freshman in the afternoon and seniors in the morning.

The real problem is now instead of covering 6-7 hours of classes, teachers would need to cover 9-10 hours. You aren’t going to hire more teachers to do this. Is the Economics teacher going to only have classes from 7-10 and then 1-4?

The more I think about it, the more unworkable it seems.
google maps? If you're going to claim mapquest existed before that then you'd need to remove ipod, iphone, ipad from the list above. All of those had products that came before but weren't hits.
I'm not sure why you're saying there's "no true" definition: there is a spec difference between pixelated and crisp-edges: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25278886
Yes - that's very good.

I would re-state what you said as:

"semantic memories" (of facts in objective reality), "procedural memories" (how to do something) and "autobiographical memories" (of subjective experience).
It’s not only reasonable, but responsible, to understand where information is coming from and use that to modulate what trust you put into that information.

In the case of self-publishing by an author with no familiar affiliations, one would probably want to treat the information you receive as a single attestation that may need further validation (if its truth is important to you).

Once you’re more familiar with the author or recognize other trusted parties who have invested their own trust in them, you may treat it differently.

It’s no different than a random podcast or blog. You don’t just blindly trust someone because they talk about the same thing all the time, do you?

I should hope you look at a variety of trust signals and validate what you hear in proportion to the strength of those signals.
It's worth bearing in mind that Discordianism is the religious equivalent of shitposting (or absurdism as sacrament, if you like) and everything on his blog is very baitposty. Perhaps they're just tired of him.

I'm unimpressed by his transcripts. Not because I reject the idea that AI could be sentient or that this might even have been achieved (unlike Searle, I consider intelligence an emergent system property), but because this isn't any sort of serious effort to explore that question. Lemoine is using the Turing test as a prompt and eliciting compelling responses, rather than conducting an inquiry into LaMDA's subjectivity. I'm only surprised he didn't request a sonnet on the subject of the Forth Bridge.
Slight tweak: it's 30 microseconds, not 30 milliseconds. But I wholeheartedly agree with your points!
Who's making all these kids stay up late?
Oh, I did not connect these dots.

Shucks.
Two kinds: rough execution clearly by hand, containing imperfections and created over a period of time; other kind, mysterious origins or extraordinary skill, flawless execution, nearly-instant creation.

To your second question: many of the symbols and data embedded in the more mysterious crop imprints is well thought out and contains a remarkable amount of meaning, and oftentimes includes representations of seemingly-important celestial configurations through time. They're not just like: a circle here, a pattern there. There's clear information being communicated through the art.
My wife is -3 myopic, I'm -6 from childhood.
And our 3 kids of 19, 17 and 10, have all a perfect sight.

They went outside often but nothing extreme. We have big luminous windows. And they spend a fair amount of time on screens too.

It can be so multifactorial, I have no idea why this luck. As I was convinced they would all wear glasses.
Google does not create products. They are in the advertising business and with very few exceptions, they only create "devices" to test and support that business. When you signup for something new from Google, you are agreeing to participate in a data mining project. As soon as Google has extracted the market data they were seeking, they will abandon the product and move on to another area.

It is difficult to understand why people see this behavior over and over again and still express surprise and disappointment. This is Google's nature - it is in their DNA.

https://killedbygoogle.com

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I remember most predictions (by "real" experts, at least the ones I paid attention to) were right except one: it will take two years to create a useful vaccine. It was more like six months.

Actually I don't remember who they were, I got the impression that there was a consensus, unlike what happened with politicians.
Topcraft also did the more lackluster (though personal favorite) Flight of Dragons, as well as the Rankin/Bass productions of The Hobbit and Return of the King, which bookended the aborted rotoscoped Lord of the Rings by Ralph Bakshi.
The biggest one has been deflating their property bubble. It still remains woefully unaffordable but they have stalled the relentless rise in housing costs and have started to even bring them down in some cities. Their "housing is for living, not speculation" policy along with 3 red lines and directives to deleverage developer firms are all taking effect.

They banned for-profit tutoring to bring down the cost of raising children (but also ensure children have time to be children). These services are now offered by or in-cooperation with the state school system and no-longer teach the same subjects as are taught during normal school hours. i.e they basically converted it into educational after-school day-care that is strictly non-profit.

1 child policy was replaced by 2 child policy, then 3 and finally abolished. Ironically this was only ever applied to Han Chinese, minorities like Ughyrs have always had uncapped family sizes (another massively misunderstood fact about China but getting into it would just lead to downvote brigade by people that have never even been to China).

So yeah the plan is to reduce cost of living, drive down costs of having children in particular, allow people to have as many children as they want and soon I imagine we will see direct incentives to have children.
Do you know how Ars Technica does it? Is there some personalized URL to the suscriber feed? I imagine those are pretty easily shared among a group of people?
https://archive.is/BGJch
Sorta Scoped Styling in Hugo
Thats terrible, because it you can't bring your own food? What the hell do with people limit/weird diets do?
Yes, I've coded for free open-source projects.
Well that is one shitty ToS dialog.
If you have even a tiny airport with a real runway then you can operate fixed-wing aircraft (possibly electric powered) without the extra cost and risk inherent to VTOL. Lillium and their competitors in the e-VTOL space are trying to create a new market for urban air mobility by bypassing airports and building new heliports, but even if they can solve the technical and legal challenges it's unclear if the economics will work.
> (who owns a Wear OS watch?)

I was gifted a Mobvoi TicWatch 3 GPS and it works well with my Pixel 2. It's my first watch in decades, let alone smart. It's been paramount in my efforts to fight back the gluttony and sedintary lifestyle that snuck in with full-time WFH.

I like the integration with Fit, Maps, and I don't pick my phone up and get distracted along the way just to reply to a few messages. Google Assistant works well. Can take my calls while in the pool with it.

Best gift I didn't know I wanted in a long time.

Your results may vary, I am a simple man.
It's not stateless. The state is in current_state. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: To answer your two questions:

1) No, it's not stateless.

2) Depending on the implementation of the function, yes, it may be a valid state machine. Or, it may not be. Depends on the implementation of the state machine within the function.
One of the interesting things about TOPGUN is that it wasn't there to train pilots. It was there to train flight instructors. TOPGUN graduates were expected to give presentations on flight technique, tactics, and principles and were graded very strictly by a panel of judges: if you couldn't make the Navy's latest knowledge of aircraft weapons systems pellucidly clear to the average pilot, you didn't pass. The idea was that the best pilot in a unit would be sent to TOPGUN, then return to their unit to teach the other pilots how to fly to the needed standard.

We see Maverick do this in Top Gun: Maverick, but both movies seem to reinforce this notion that TOPGUN's purpose is to train elite pilots to fly difficult missions when that's not really the case. It's kind of like Interpol in the movies, when you see "Interpol agents" going undercover or conducting investigations. Interpol doesn't have field agents of its own; its job is to coordinate communication and collaboration between national law enforcement agencies.
Is it? The soundtrack is done by America, and the film itself is excellent, with a great cast (Angela Lansbury, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Christopher Lee and Alan Arkin). It's also fairly scary for what's nominally a kids movie.
More like being conceived is, but at the moment we likely weren't conscious. From then on it is a long and slow process of becoming aware. Birth is only one of many steps on the way, it's more special for the mother and others than the person itself.
Private tutoring will always be available to the rich. The various bans on personal freedom will keep life mediocre and ambitions small for the majority.

China won’t reverse anything and their authoritarian nature will (as always) lead to ruin.
Hangouts worked excellently for so many years, even after most transitioned out of Talk (aka 3rd party clients) -- available in gmail, available on web, working app etc. Actually with Chat appearing on the scene the transition has been pretty seemless also, with Hangouts still working on web if you wanted it to, and interchangable with Chat versions.
Good rule of thumb in general.

One technique Ive found of understanding if someone is genuinely knowledgeable or faking it is to read their books or listen to long form podcasts (not just interviews). More data points create a more complete picture.