skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I also only completed an undergraduate degree, I did spend a few semesters doing research with a professor and ended up being co-author on a paper with him. Doing a first paper without the guidance of a researcher in the field would be very hard, but doable, and certainly performing research is doable.

I'd start with figuring out roughly what you want to investigate. Try to narrow it down as much as you can, but I understand that it'll start broad and probably eventually narrow down after going down a few rabbit holes. Eventually you have a pretty specific field you know you want to do research in. Find the top conferences in the field, look through some of the papers that seem interesting, and look at what they cite. You should be able to compile a list of textbooks and foundational articles that crop up often - read all of these. Maybe even try to replicate the results of some of the foundational papers - a lot of the time new work is extensions of the foundations, and people writing papers started out replicating those initial works anyway. If you're struggling to narrow things down or figure out what's important, focus on papers from one researcher or research group. Maybe even send them an email if you want their advice on what to read.

Finally, you have a decent grasp of the underpinnings of this narrow field and have seen some examples of how it's been extended in modern times. You might now have some ideas of what to experiment with in your own research, or if not you can try replicating more modern papers and see if that gives you ideas of what more to investigate.
Open-Source LaMDA Model
An open-source implementation for the pre-training architecture of Google's LaMDA in PyTorch. The research paper outlines an autoregressive, decoder-only, GPT-like transformer language model. The transformer uses T5 relative positional bias in the attention layers and gated-GELU activation function in the feed-forward layers.

The repository currently contains a script for basic training as well as Huggingface datasets and Weights & Biases integration.

LaMDA research paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08239

Github repository for the model: https://github.com/conceptofmind/LaMDA-pytorch

The pre-training architecture was peer-reviewed by Dr. Phil Wang. Please check out and support his work: https://github.com/lucidrains.

Updates: https://twitter.com/EnricoShippole
Have you met any developers before? As far as superiority complexes are concerned, I'm not sure designers are any worse.
Intel is actually using Lisp in its tools? Can you tell more about your job?
Yeah, it's okay when we do it because it affects us.
Not saving, just giving those $400m to AWS or Azure, over some amount of time =)
Is there a website where I can bet on the outcome of this?

I've seen lots of companies announce their intentions to move off of their mainframes, but I'm not sure I've ever actually seen one pull it off.
X has since ages the Xt and Xaw toolkits.
User A: "They intentionally sabotage Firefox" ... no evidence of this behavior

User B: "What if it's just them being cheap or incompetent?"... no evidence of this behavior either

Asshole take: "You MS Apologist! Quit making excuses for them" ... no evidence of this behavior either
The city said they would grandfather it if they could prove they'd been doing it for decades. Rightfully so. They provided such proof, and the city went back on their word and said that wasn't good enough. This damns the city's position on the matter, the couple are in the right and the city plainly in the wrong.
It's a more expensive(requires licensing) and completely proprietary protocol.
> I can take my money and do the same thing.

It will cost more than the package negotiated by your employer since you are out of the group-rate.

Which means it isn’t actually a free market choice with competition.

Applying free market choice to the healthcare itself sounds great but it’s difficult to make such choices when unconscious in the back of an ambulance, or after a drug company or doctor causes you permanent injury or death.
Heat pumps have COP of 2-4, so in either heating or cooling mode, they generate more heating/cooling than electricity used.

But the reason cooling is cheaper is the temperature differential. AZ might get to, say, 110°F peak (and far cooler at night), for a temp delta of 35°F while the Midwest will stay below 20°F for months, and even colder at night, for a temp differential no better than 50°F during the day and 60°F at night.
They have burned through so many engineers in some areas that they are probably not getting the best of the best in all areas.
You can tell this was written when design-thinking jargon was at its peak. The retelling of Rams' "10 principles" is always funny to me because he never "set out" to write those rules. For the uninitiated, here's a summary:

Starting in the late 70s Rams talked about the design ideas that led to the success of Braun, specifically three rules: a rule of order, a rule of harmony and a rule of economy. Later he would be describe these further as "function and performance, feasibility and aesthetic quality". Years later, his reflections on his contributions to Braun became six principles: "1. Good Design is innovative, 2. Good design renders utility to a product, 3. Good design is aesthetic design, 4. Good design makes a product easy to understand, 5. Good design is unobtrusive, 6. Good design is honest". It's not until one of his lectures in 1985 where he added the last four: "Good design means durability, Good design means consistency down to the last detail, Good design means respect for the environment and Good design means as little design as possible."

By the time these principles where published in the late 80s they were referred to as "Braun design department’s Design Philosophy" and were mostly a reflection of Braun's practice than Rams'. Nevertheless it seems Rams outlived the Braun brand and became a bigger brand himself. In his retrospective exhibition at the Design Museum in 2009, many drawings and photos of braun products where printed on posters which arguably started the Rams merchandise trend.

The poster that had the ten principles also contained a paragraph by Rams didn't get as much attention. He wrote: "I have distilled the essentials of my design philosophy into ten principles. But these principles cannot be set in stone because, just as technology and culture are constantly developing, so are ideas about good design".
Apple is a company, and it’s interested in making profits. Right now, its methods of making profits are slightly more aligned with what privacy conscious users desire than some other companies’, and that’s good.

Apple absolutely needs to be checked in other ways—-the fact that it’s selling advertising while setting policies that hurt other advertisers stinks to high heaven. Let antitrust rake them over the coals for that.
Especially when it's "line critical" to their business, or if the person can do other things as well.

Larger hotels often have dedicated staff for things like HVAC, etc, because the importance of getting things fixed quick if possible is worth the cost of having someone onsite/available.

And you see similar things with colleges, etc; they often have a maintenance deportment that can be pretty large (though no doubt they've spun it off and brought it back in-house for the same "change is progress" reasons).
> but my local government prevents that

They mandate you have a grass lawn?
I think it depends on the surgery. Farmers neuter their own pigs and cattle all the time which is a type of surgery.

My daughter had brain surgery and we found the actual medical paper describing how to perform the procedure. It’s basically 6 sentences long. Cut here, make an incision, use a tool there. All while being sure not to accidentally sever an infant’s spine and make them a quadriplegic. The actual instructions were simple enough that I could understand perfectly well how to do the procedure based on the document. However, I’m sure if I actually attempted the surgery I’d be a nervous wreck. I’d guess confidence is probably another part. But maybe a doctor will chime in.

I just tried to find the paper but am not sure where we dug it up or I’d just post it here.
> A rather dogged and obnoxious opinion of mine is that the 'optimisation ceiling' for statically-typed, total functional programming languages is significantly higher than traditional imperative languages with comparably weak type systems.

Curious about plans for this. When Haskell use exploded I followed a lot of the blogs talking about it someday being faster than C because purity made compiler reasoning easier and stream fusion and other things were going to change the world, but as time went on idiomatic Haskell never came even close to C. Now having a lot of performance experience I think a major factor is that functional languages insist on using lists for everything, which map poorly to hardware. Looking at your screenshots, it looks like it still employs the list paradigm.
The lock-in is less severe on AWS/Azure/Oracle/Google.
Will it though?

I don't know anyone who side loads onto Android, and even Epic gave up and put Fortnite back onto Google play[0].

I'm sure that any side loading will be hidden beneath layers of warnings designed to put off all but the most determined.

[0] https://www.polygon.com/2020/4/21/21229930/fortnite-availabl...
“Affirmative action” is a much broader category than explicitly race-conscious admissions and hiring policies.

Indeed, the term was coined by JFK to mean the exact opposite context of race-conscious policies. Executive Order 10925 requires government contractors to “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.”

The majority of minorities oppose explicit consideration of race both for college admissions (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/25/most-americ...) and hiring (https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/05/08/america...).

Both practices have become common in academia because it’s run by white liberals, who do like those policies.

Also note that California’s Prop 16, which would have allowed racial discrimination in public sector hiring, was defeated in every single majority Hispanic county.
Nope. It just further confirms decades-old predictions within the Standard Model of particle physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentaquark
I love EU: "Ensure that all apps are uninstallable and give users the ability to unsubscribe from core platform services under similar conditions to subscription."
> Putting something in a transient docker container and then bending over backwards to enable file persistence is just... wrong.

Do you mean declaring the volumes? What's so hard about that? There's a massive benefit when everything is homogenous. I can look at a docker-compose.yml file and instantly know where all the important data is. I can also copy volumes to a new host with a one-liner:

sudo docker run \
--rm \
--log-driver none \
--volume myservice_data:/data \
alpine \
tar -cf - -C /data . \
| ssh -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" user@host.example.com \
'sudo docker run --rm -i \
-v myservice_data:/data \
alpine tar -C /data -xpvf -'

For development, I self host Portainer, Caddy, Authelia, Cloudflare Tunnel, Gitea, Drone, MinIO, Nexus, Bookstack, Nextcloud, and ArchiveBox. I barely think about any of them. I pin to a major version and schedule nightly updates using SystemD. Everything is templated, so after I set up a new container it's as simple as:

systemctl enable --now update-container@gitea.timer

It's a very pragmatic solution if your needs are satisfied with vertical scaling because everything can go into a single VM that's plugged in to a homogenous VM backup system. The only thing that's a little bit complex about mine is that I run MinIO in a separate VM that doesn't get backed up because I use it as cache storage for APT, Docker Hub, NPM, etc. proxies in Nexus.

Docker can be frustrating while you're learning it, but everything's like that and once you get proficient with it you'll never want to go back to the old way of doing things. Docker is the packaging format that won (for servers) IMO.
Cookie consent is not gdpr.
It is two different modalities of heating though. Electrical heating is 95% efficient at dumping energy from the grid into your house, but a heat pump is using energy from the grid to concentrate and move heat from outside the house to the inside (which is itself unintuitive to people when it is already much colder outside the house than inside). So how do you develop a fair comparison of the two in total energy expended to keep the building at the desired temperature?
With such a small house and that high of a cooling bill, why have you not invested in better insulation/more efficient air conditioning?
That's not true. You clearly have no clue of the administrative side of things.
I get that everyone on Hacker News loves to repeat that nonsense, but it really sounds like no-one here has worked with a designer before. Are you thinking of graphic designers?
> - Other countries do have expansive suburbs. They don't look like ours, but they are fundamentally the same. Get outside of any major metropolitan and you will see spaced out houses in subdivisions with lawns.

At least in my travels, the suburbs I've seen outside the US have only borne a very surface-level similarity to their US counterparts. There are lawns and the houses are detached, but the suburbs themselves tend to be much denser and connected to city centers via rail. These combine to make European suburbs more sustainable than their American counterparts.

(There are other factors as well: most of Continental Europe has much more consistent rainfall than the Continental US, and there's no particular evidence that their suburban constructions are ultimately sustainable either -- they may just be more than our ludicrously unsustainable ones.)
They are probably hoping this is season 1 of 10 of a breakout show. Impossible to do that if you use famous actors in season 1 (unless they die in season 1 like Sean Bean in Game of Thrones) because they will all be demanding untenable salaries by season 3 killing the shows ability to continue. I’m stoked for such a high budget fantasy show to be coming out and don’t really care how true to Tolkien it is so long as the story and characters are compelling.
Try with a trailing slash

whatever.localhost/
Ask HN: How can you tell if ad networks have compromised your Tor?
As the title states. I use Tor purely for privacy, so that I can conduct searches (sometimes just for health stuff) without everything being logged in my Permanent Internet Record/getting fed into ad networks. I do understand that Tor is not guaranteed to be 100% anonymous.

Are there any hacks that tell you if ad networks have connected your 'real' identity to a Tor session? The only idea I had was going to Youtube and seeing if they suggest the same videos that they do for my normal Chrome sessions, but that appeared to not work. Do you try turning off adblock, say, and seeing if ads suggested on Tor are the same as you see in regular browser? Anything more technical that one can try with the ad networks? Would be curious to see if any of my Tor session has been compromised yet or not
Cookie popups existed long before GDPR was even on the drawing board. I don't dispute that the cookie banner regulation is stupid, but don't twist the truth to fit your narrative. GDPR is a completely separate regulation.
>>no one bugs me if my lawn is looking sad. But in other ways it would be nice to have a unified group to take care of some neighborhood things, like unifying garbage pickup since we have private garbage companies here:

In many locations neither of those items are purview of the HOA, those would be City ordinances and City Services.

HOA's in my experience fit 2 molds, with some over lap

The first takes care of common property of the community, like playgrounds, community centers, etc.

Then you have rules enforcement, which are beyond the standard city rules like length of grass, in the realm of the type and style of grass you can have, the plants you can have, the color of the home, the type of (or if you can) have a pool, or structure, or Playground, etc etc etc.

These HOA expanded on what would be normal governmental regulations around safety, and go into the realm of "property value" protection, and other ascetics needs of the community
I think what the other poster meant is that “cooling in a warm client is less energy intensive than heating in a cool climate” which is generally true.

This is partially because the temperature deltas are smaller. If you are aiming for 70 inside and you have 95 outside, you are fighting a 25-degree delta. But if you want 70 inside and have 25 outside, that’s a 45-degree delta the system has to overcome.
Great to know about the copy function in the web interface. Doing some cursory reading -- and someone correct me if I'm wrong -- I think if your Fastmail account is configured to use folders, you can only copy an email to multiple folders when using a third-party client that supports the functionality, however, if you enable labels, you can assign multiple labels to a single email in the web client and have that email be reflected as copied in folders of the same label name in any third-party client.

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278282-La...
That's allow me to say: sorry guys you still lost the way.

The fact that modern apps are web-apps is a living proof that the old model of document-based UIs was the right way against the widget/form model however old classic document-UIs was interactive, in the sense that the user can create and modify them inside themselves, web-apps might allow "a bit of customization" but are still FAR from being changeable at runtime by their users.

Perhaps in another 30+ years will finally rediscover the old model, sold as a very new high-tech thing, since nobody will remember the origin...

So far Emacs/org-mode/EXWM/org-roam can be used (I use them) as a document-based UI for almost anything, still integrated (thanks to EXWM) with modern/classic/raw-and-archaic GUIs like Firefox or GIMP. They are limited in GUI terms but at least they can have embedded images, live elements (org-mode headings, search&narrow UI to access them, attachments, links to anything that also just run live embedded code etc...
Does anything about this legislation prevent Apple from simply offering a big switch to put your device in “unprotected” mode, giving apps and even full alternative OS’s unrestricted access to the hardware, but without any Apple apps or services available?
Sure, but you also can’t guarantee that without insurance either.

Are you going to ask the ambulance to take you to a different hospital when the first one gives you their rate schedule for heart attack interventions?
with sideloading, chances are that somebody will enable androud tooling and apps on iphones, so that wont work for too long
They're limited series, effectively just glorified really long movies cut into 6 episodes. They also don't have real showrunners because Kevin Feige calls the shots on overall continuity and vision. It's doubtful that 5-9 season television is ever going to go to this model.
One thing that's interesting about this is that Peter Wright and his gang were almost definitely too rabid in their theories, but equally the lines that MI5 and the government use to refute those theories are almost definitely being very economical with the truth.

The argument maps produced for the IWP debate on Roger Hollis make a pretty clear case that even if not Hollis there was some kind of big fuckup back in the day.

https://www.iwp.edu/press-releases/2015/04/21/was-roger-holl...

A subtle bit of truth-massaging by the government is to allow historians like Christopher Andrew to produce official histories of MI5: Bribe the audience with enough inconsequential facts and they'll buy the coverup too. Short of making a FOIA request to the GRU how would they know? I think there is a similar use of agents like Gordievsky - "I don't think so" is conflated with "I represent all Soviet intelligence and I know so"

Another note: Whether he was wrong or right, Wright writes in a fantastically conversational tone about the engineering he had to do. Many here can probably empathize with his descriptions of being the only one in the room knowing Ohm's law for example.
I did? I have now spent like 20 minutes trying to figure it out. But I still don't get it.
Space marketing is tough as it is with space station updates, rovers, Mars etc from NASA et al, but this is just a whole other struggle. Is the general public supposed to care about the LHC starting up again etc? Higgs Boson was a total 'meh' moment ten years ago after a bit of hype. I suppose particle physics etc is just too obscure.
I thought the same at first but then realized that long after this series disappears from Amazon Prime and our collective consciousness Middle Earth will still be here. That's my hope anyway.
Same here. 48, but sometimes I think I look in my 30s. The system wasn't fooled.
> This is not true, and the article you're linking to doesn't support your claim. The majority of the nitrogen containing emissions are NOx.

Only by weight, but one molecule of NO (30 u) and especially NO2 (46 u) is much heavier than one molecule of NH3 (17 u). If you read literally the next sentence in the article, they convert the gross weight into amount of nitrogen, and the ammonia contains twice the nitrogen content.
That was some damned fine word smithing to diplomatically state what savages like myself would have just mangled into less flattering prose. <golf clap>
> Linux on an iPad! How nice would that be!

Honestly? It would absolutely suck.
Jeff had developed simulation models of the geographic and temporal patterning of urban crime, and had created predictive software that he marketed to law enforcement agencies.

Isn't this something the Sociology department should be running with? At the University I attended, the Anthropology department concerned itself with the study of human evolution and the study of modern primates. Is this not universal? Plus, at a university as big as UCLA you'd think they'd have a Criminology department that would work in conjunction with the Sociology department in creating such a model - ensuring it's been vetted and any unintentional biases have been scrubbed.

As it is, it's being presented as "one guy" created this model, sold it to the police department, and now faces backlash. I wouldn't expect someone so tone deaf to be a professor at such a prestigious university. Maybe we don't have the full story, but as presented this is pretty bad.
Feeling like optimization of design is overkill for early stage startups. In my perspective, if product/service can express themselves clearly with simple words, they shouldn't worry about perfect design.
what ever money save from garbage pickup will be vastly outdone by the enormous waste an HOA brings. Our HOA costs me 2K per year (that's a whole tesla every 20 years = 40K). And the only thing they do is take care of a couple of benches, blow some leaves off a few bushes, maybe a few sprinklers in a green area and 2 big white fences. Other than that, all the money goes to administration and inspectors that go around citing people for planting trees, etc. Now, our neighborhood does look really great but it's not because of the HOA, it's because we have larger lots and nice housing architecture and people take care of their properties really nicely (HOA doesn't do any of that).