skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Specifically, a web of trust designed for exactly that assertion: This person is a real human. Signatures here serve to assert what identity something came from.

There would be some of the usual web of trust problems, e.g., trying to explain to Joe Q. Public that you only sign for people you know, beyond doubt, are human. Preferably in person. Many other problems, too.

I guess you could say, my thought here isn't that this would solve the problems. The problems at this point are somewhat well known. What has been missing is any benefit significant enough to motivate us to get past those problems. If there is, it's obviously many years away. Wouldn't exactly suggest building a startup around this idea right now, if you get my drift. We still need to go through a phase of the problem getting larger before we even get to the phase where people start to realize this is a problem and start demanding that people online prove they are actually people, and goodness knows "I'm a human" is merely the lowest of low bars itself, not the solution to all trust problems.
This isn't convincing to me because jurisprudence is about having a principled and _consistent_ approach toward deriving meaning from laws. Of course your point about stare decisis (precedent guiding decisions) is a good one! No argument there.

The challenge typically is when there is no great precedent to draw from, or the original precedent was based on faulty reasoning (as you admit might be rampant in today's decisions!) How does a textualist derive such a meaning in a reproducible way without originalism? If stare decisis always beats textualism and we can't derive the meaning of laws without understanding the legislature's intent how do we not end up with a super-legislature?
It's also combined with years, decades, of trying to "solve problems at the highest level" which is the federal government, and those often end up being heavy handed or failures entirely.
Not this one, but Google's PaLM (which is 4x OPT3) trains semi-deterministically.

These kinds of large transformers can be relatively reproduceable in results and benchmarks. However, making them converge to the exact same parameter set might not be a reasonable expectation.
Well, your post sure read like a strawman, so that seemed like a rather reasonable assumption. (This one is much better.)

> OP's point was that judges should not be political...

Yes.

> ... and to that extent -- other judicial philosophies are better at constraining politics than originalism.

That's where I think you've got some proving to do. In particular, if you care about the text but not the original intent, how do you interpret the text? What other than the original intent should rule how you interpret the text? And how is that other thing - whatever it is - less subject to being politicized than the original intent is?

> How do you prove or disprove original intent? How do you sufficiently vet historical research to ensure that it's accurate? If a central finding in a judicial case is based on historical analogy that subsequent research shows to be false, what is the proper correction -- does the court on its own make an effort to correct the record, do they throw out the original case, or do you treat every case as one-off attempts to divine the truth based on an imagined historical record?

I don't think the historical record or the documentation of intent is that hard to come by, even for the Constitution. Things since then have even more record.
There's probably enough collateral involved that they come out ok either way. In other words you'd secure the loan against some bitcoin you already have that's maybe worth 2x what you're borrowing. So now you're holding 3x that amount. Ideally bitcoin goes up, you sell, then repay the loan and take profits.

If btc drops too much, you need to dump your coins and repay the loan.

My guess anyway.
> I had to indemnify the publisher against all claims related to my work, including any that the publisher decided, unilaterally, to settle.

I got something like this last month, as a (very small) software vendor!

The lawyers from a potential customer modified my standard contract. A DDG search finds an almost identical copy of the text at https://controlriskonline.net/Account/Register so I'll quote from it to preserve any implied confidentiality:

] Licensor will defend or settle any action brought against Customer to the extent that it is based upon a claim that the Software, as provided by Licensor to Customer under this Agreement and used within the scope of this Agreement, infringes any U.S. patent or any copyright or misappropriates any trade secret, and will pay any costs, damages and reasonable attorneys’ fees attributable to such claim that are awarded in final judgment or are payable in settlement, provided that Customer: (a) promptly notifies Licensor in writing of the claim; (b) grants Licensor sole control of the defense and settlement of the claim; and (c) provides Licensor, at Licensor’s expense, with all assistance, information and authority reasonably required for the defense and settlement of the claim.

Yeah, that got big no from me.

(What I actually said was that I could acquire liability insurance that could cover this, and pass this on as a cost-plus increase to my quoted price.)

They also wanted me to move jurisdiction from Sweden to the US, which ain't going to happen.

I also said that my quoted price didn't include the time and mental effort to negotiate legal terms with every potential customer, so if they wanted to discuss further changes I would need to raise my price.

> But I burned that editor, put her in a terrible position with her new bosses.

Yeah, I'm worried about that too. My primary contact is decently senior, but he's already done some back-and-forth for me, and I don't want to burn him further.
It looks like the author has come to a fairly similar conclusion, albeit from measuring something completely different:

"It’s worth noting that because sites with React or Angular spend more time on the CPU than others, that isn’t necessarily the same as saying React is more expensive on the CPU than Vue.js. In fact, it says very little about the performance of the core frameworks in play and much more about the approach to development these frameworks may encourage (whether intentionally or not) through documentation, ecosystem, and general coding practices."

CPU usage is vaguely interesting, although I assume the vast majority of people care more about their page load speed.

I'd also note that relying on technology detection from some third party is potentially going to be very misleading, unless that data is actually regularly updated. Sites change their technologies all the time, so even a significant percentage of the sites from the Next.js Showcase and MadeWithAngular.com aren't actually made with those technologies. Unless you take the time to either go through each site by hand, or else pull out the code from the Chrome extension for each framework to detect its presence in the way that the authors of that framework endorse, then you could easily have ~30% of the sites for each technology no longer actually using that technology.
I took down the data manually and got a correlation coefficient of -0.28. I'm not sure whether it's even reasonable to expect the relationship to be linear but IIRC that level of correlation is about as high as you get in the social sciences.
Tons of related discussion from a few days ago on the post this article references:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31858413
My experience is that this is often insufficient--or if we suppose that it's possible, I can't figure out how to express the complex idea by sticking a bunch of simple deliveries together.

I don't want to abuse analogies, but let's say that you get asked the question, "Why don't you write a computer program that detects when another program hangs, and then restarts the program?" If I'm just going to give an off-hand answer, I'll say that this is connected to a famous problem in computer science, and it's proven to be impossible to solve. If I really want to explain why it's not possible without hand-waving it, I'm going to have to explain concepts like computability, models of computation, and "code as data".

But it's natural to encounter people with these questions.

Philosophy is the same way. It's easy to come up philosophical questions and hard to come up with answers.

If you're writing an article, in either philosophy or computer programming, you're going to have to be careful to ride right line between simplicity and complexity. Too simple, and what you're saying is incorrect. Too complicated, and nobody will understand you.
The difference between this and a troll farm is like the difference between machine guns and lines of soldiers manually loading and firing muskets. Yes both can be used to gun down a lot of people, but machine guns are much faster and cheaper. Mechanized warfare is coming to propaganda and con artistry.

I'm not necessarily arguing for intervention to stop this release or something like that. The cat is out of the bag. There's no stopping it. This is going to happen, so get ready for it.

Oh, and throw in deepfakes. You'll have automatic con artistry at scale that can incorporate personalized fake audio and video on demand depicting any supporting detail it needs. It'll be like assigning each person a con artist who's also supported by a staff of content producers.
> How does a person convinced that bitcoin exchange is headed to $2.5 million take out a loan of 15K bitcoin if he actually thinks he'll be paying back it back at a higher exchange rate?

Part of being in crypto involves suspending disbelief, even your own.

There's also the famous saying "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it". In this case, you don't build a following in crypto by being bearish, ever. It's all about kumbayah and spreading positive vibes in the "community"
CA is working on mixed income public housing. I think it will avoid the faults of the previous projects we built. See AB 2053.
I would expect such a comment to be attached either when the commenter has watched the video and it is as described or when the commenter has not watched the video because of the frequency of such videos on YouTube.
If getting a firearm is as easy as driving forty-five minutes outside of town, then access may as well be unrestricted.
Got it, sounds like it's a tattoo in the sense of temporary tattoo/skin decal.
What would you be willing to pay for such a thing?
It's a rigid envelope, not a gas bag. The volume doesn't change, and you certainly wouldn't mix in atmospheric air.
>I can give you some examples of serious safety oriented criticism of large language models to contrast with what plays out in the press and amongst "ethicists".

To clarify I think the poster above was talking about the AI Alignment/Control Problem and not the specifics failure modes of particular models, LLM, CNNs etc. Very few people at OpenAI or Deepmind for example are seriously engaging with Alignment. Paul Cristiano at least acknowledges the problem but seems to think there will be available solutions in time to avert serious consequences which may or may not be the case. The folks at MIRI certainly don't seem optimistic.
I like Nim, but it's not for someone who likes classes.
Popular "wisdom" in cycling is that aerodynamics are not a factor below 10 mph and not much of one at 15. It becomes pretty noticeable in the 15-20+ mph range (increasing with the cube of speed, or something like that).
It seems to be related to the product images, or the images were easiest to identify and fight over https://www.trolley.co.uk/imgs/cease-and-desist-letter.png
While a product name, price could be public (a person can see it in a store), the picture is very specific and trolley didn't take the pictures.
NIMBYs get taken seriously because they show up in large numbers.

I totally understand the reaction many people have to government. I fall victim to it all the time. We see that politicians get bought and paid for, and we therefore assume that nothing can change the way things work, but this proves otherwise. At the end of the day, those who show up tend to win.

If we all want change, and judging by this thread a majority do, then we need to show up. Show up at the local meetings. Call your local reps. Be annoying. Get everyone you know to also be annoying. Politicians like remaining in power, and an angry mob shouting about the roads and bike lanes... that will motivate them.
no idea, there have been no examples of any country successfully reversing declining fertility rate. In fact, it seems only massive unplanned societal disruption - famine, war, invasion - increases the rate. Iraq for instance has had a population boom since the two US led invasions, 50% of its population are now under the age of 15.
I posted this exact link two days ago. What gives?
It's a lack of development of new housing for decades that caused the high prices we see in places like the Bay Area.
This should be flagged, it's flagrantly misleading.
I think an ever bigger evil is companies who do not calibrate their Leetcode type tests to their hiring needs. I was given a take-home test few years ago by a well-to do medical software company based out of Verona, WI. Their programming test had a question from past ICPC.

Typically Olympiad questions takes well-to-do teamwork & few hours of brainstorming - not a 30min timed test you give with a proctor watching your monitor
> If SPAs had better perf than MPAs, I can assure you Amazon (the store) would be an SPA.

What technology does the Instragram in-app shopping experience use?

Because whatever that is, it is 10x better than the Amazon app.

Amazon's websites, mobile and desktop, and app, are all horrible compared to the competition. Slow, hard to navigate, long load times, I wouldn't use Amazon as a point of reference for anything.
>Why is low fertility rate seen as a bad thing?

Because you'll live way past your productive years and the things you will consume (services, goods, medical, etc.) still need to be produced/done by someone.

The automation aspect in economy has been way overestimated - truck drivers were supposed to be automated 5 years ago, meanwhile we are facing real world issues because of truck driver shortages.

Even jobs that were considered trivial to automate like cashers are still performed by humans - after decades of self checkout tech.

Unless your retirement plan is a shotgun barrell - you need the next generation to both live their lives comfortably and provide for you.
Yeah, but that memset is super common due to how people clear structs.
Are you _amazon_?
Nearly none of the companies have the scale of amazon, nor the needs of amazon. "It's proven many many times" is all in the eyes of the beholder, i'd say.
Sure it might be slow if you are optimizing for 1ms latency, but that's not what 99% of the people do.

Google also doesn't use react. The ads stack is written in C++, for fb it's hack + c++, neither of which are the right tools for majority of use cases.
Are you me? LOL
Polling is what you do to provide evidence to support doing what you already want done.
For that matter it cannot be obvious that 'Colombo' is the name of the capital (again, of /one/ capital) or that 'Ceylon' was used for the place and/or that it still is. It's notions, like so much the rest. Things you meet and catch up with.
I think you are conflating normal people having normal opinions with some kind of conspiracy that simply doesn't exist.
You are understating the limitations of B+trees for real workloads. A common and growing problem is the lack of online indexing that scales, the particularly data model doesn't matter that much. Index construction throughput and scaling has been a serious problem at some pretty boring companies I've done work for.

Use of B+trees in new database kernels has definitely diminished. I'm not counting the installed base of SQLite etc. Ubiquity doesn't make something the pinnacle of technology -- just as often it means "legacy installed base". I still use PostgreSQL a lot and mod it when I need to but I am not under any illusions about its limitations.

A "modern" database kernel that can efficiently use modern hardware is going to be a thread-per-core architecture with all I/O and execution scheduling done in user space, and the ability to operate on modern storage densities found on database servers, which can exceed a petabyte of direct-attached storage. The implications of storage density and its interaction with indexing drive most of the real changes in the way database kernels are designed. You can find elements of this in open source, but mostly in big data platforms rather than proper database engines.

That said, no one builds new high-end databases for retail anymore, the economics don't make sense. All the money moved to more specialized implementations that cater to smaller audiences where you don't need to advertise. The kernels are fully general, and widely reused, but the interfaces and surrounding bits are purpose-built for particular workloads. Hell, my old storage engines are still used under license by that lot. The days of database billboards on the 101 are an anachronism.
What about stuff like Phoenix LiveView, which can push dozens of updates per second per client to hundreds of clients simultaneously?
One is a piece of software, governed (one hopes) by the terms of its license if at all, and the other is a group of people, or (according to some people's beliefs) some sort of incorporeal tulpa-like entity whose activities are carried out in the material plane by a group of people.

I don't know why you keep asking me questions that are answered in the document I linked at the top of the thread. It's less than 1000 words long, you can read it in three minutes.
I think this is an interesting idea, though I suspect "on net the status quo is worse environmentally" is a hard question to answer w/o the aforementioned in-depth reviews (at least to an extent; obviously the current system has problems).
Because I hold the vast majority of startup founders and VCs in contempt.
I've always had an interest in giving people feedback and have pushed for it at a few employers. What I've been told -- and I have no way to check this, considering I am not a lawyer -- is that giving post-interview feedback is legally fraught, contingent on the localities involved and would impose a review burden on the feedback which would, necessarily, be delayed by some weeks, carefully scrubbed and written.

Dunno how accurate that is, but I've been told it at more than one shop.
It really is great that Meta released the notes/logbook. Credit where credit is due. Very few other academic or industry labs release materials like this, especially when the reality is so messy.

Some interesting takeaways:

- Meta aren't using any software for scientific logbooks, just prepending a document

- So many hardware/cluster issues.

- Hot-swapping algorithms is common and likely underreported (in this case activation functions and optimization method)

- A well resourced team didn't solve enough issues to fully utilize compute resources until >50% of the total time into the project
Worth getting anyway -- the flu is pretty miserable.
The reason is the comp. You rarely get the similar results by off shoring AND cutting comp significantly.

It often turns out that people who are empowered to write good software as a team are also empowered to research their market value.

Or vice versa

People who don't challenge if they're getting paid similarly as the previous workers also aren't asking if they're being provided with the correct technical detail or even building the "right" thing. (This can be true of hiring too little experience, hiring people and burning them out)
...which is equally ridiculous. If Sony is actively preventing Playstation owners from installing other browsers with their control over app distribution, then that too should be considered malicious and just further indicates how necessary sweeping legislation like this is.
That would seem reasonable if he hasn’t invaded a country that happens to one of the largest grain exporters, and thus increased the price to a level that’s to high for poor countries.
NIMBYs will just lobby these people. I've seen it happen.
so all those 'desperate, uneducated and poor' people should move to your Switzerland instead? with its 96% white population and 27% higher cost of living? Would Switzerland even accept poor minorities in large numbers?

You sound like quite the elitist...that would be like me telling those 'poor uneducated and desperate people living in Detroit, they should just move to Naples FL or Beverly Hills to escape the poverty and crime - if only they were smart enough.
I'm thinking "lender of last resort"
What they are requiring might be interesting when compared to the Whitehouse Zero Trust Architecture [1] that was announced last year.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...
This is why I wish cover letters were more popular. Having a candidate tell you they don't have much experience using X to do Y but that they'd love to learn to / have been working on it on their spare time is better than having them lie on their resume (or miss out on candidates that are too honest for their own good).
I do not remember where I read it (probably xkcd) but it was that correlation is not casuation, though the numbers are doing big winks to you (or something like that)

As a physicist who had to endure helping biologists with statistics and cooling down their enthusiasm: it make sense to have a deeper thought about the experiment.

As parent wrote, there may be various reasons for the correlations, sometimes you have random stuff, sometimes indirect stuff and in others extraordinary stuff. Many discoveries (especially older ones) fall into the last category.
I'd want double to cover the cost of getting my own health coverage, my own life insurance, and to deal with tax complications that come with being a 1099 and not a W-2 employee.

And I'd also want contractually guaranteed time and a half for overtime.
I recently went through an interview process where to advance to the technical interview I would have to learn Go. I know a ton of languages. Haven’t done much with Go. Could I learn it? Sure, I could. But… I am not going to learn a new language where I am comfortable enough to do an interview just so that I have a chance to work for your pre-A round company. I am especially not going to do it when I have 2 job offers sitting on the table that I am currently considering. If you’re a startup founder recruiting other devs, don’t ask them to learn a whole new language on spec so they can interview with you. I’m sorry. You’re just not as hot as you think you are.
One note I remember from my research, variable speed systems are tightly coupled to the thermostat so you may not be able to use an easily automated thermostat. My thermostat shows humidity (Mitsubishi MHK2), but as far as I can tell that doesn't factor into when/how hard the AC runs.
>I've started doing something similar to the Author of the article. Whenever I feel I'm entering a conversation I'll need later I start recording.

Not sure where you're located, but some places require all parties to be aware that they're being recorded and not informing (and receiving consent) other parties can be a illegal act[0] in the US.

This link[1] looks at the US and other (a not very comprehensive list) countries.

I'm emphatically not saying you shouldn't record stuff, just that there are laws and you should be aware of them.

[0] https://recordinglaw.com/united-states-recording-laws/

[1] https://www.telemessage.com/call-recording-laws-an-internati...
If Safari is truly objectively better than other browsers, then it should have no problem competing with the likes of Chrome and Firefox. They can even keep pre-installing it too, as long as they give people the choice of other browsers then I'm happy.