skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing that capitalism requires is stable full property rights (including transfer) on capital. It most certainly doesn't require democracy; most authocracies today are capitalist.
> If you actually measure the world, however, then by almost any measure things are better now than they have been in the past (two notable exceptions are climate change and democracy vs autocracy).

Or US life expectancy, or healthcare/childcare/university costs (in the US), or homicides (in the US), or suicides, or population growth (arguably a good thing for climate change, but most people aren't choosing to put off kids because they care about overpopulation), or topsoil availability, or fresh water availability (climate change contributes but we're also using way too much), or garbage in the ocean, or the decimation of life in the ocean (which climate change isn't helping but it's more from overfishing), etc etc etc.

That's just off the top of my head, and I'm sure I can hunt down a lot more.

And it's super dependent on where you live too. Try telling Ukrainians, Sri Lankans, Syrians, Yemenis, Lebanese, etc. if they're better off now than they were in the past.
There's also the less prominent East/West Berlin border which is still visible due to the different light bulbs used in the different format street lights.

https://www.businessinsider.com/divide-between-west-east-ber...
Your link is completely unrelated to the claim that racism is responsible for the demographics of sports. It discusses the tendency of athletes with dark skin to be described as big and strong and light skinned athletes to be described as smart or knowledgeable.

The issue is that black people are overrepresented in the NBA. This is a "racist outcome" per the language of an ancestor comment. Is it because the league is prejudiced against white people and keeping them out? Prejudiced against black people and expressing the prejudice, for some reason, by admitting more black players to the league? Or, could it possibly be that black people are just more likely to be good at basketball? Black people are ~15% of the US population and ~75% of the NBA. Must be an awful lot of racism there...
Thanks for sharing. Wasn't aware of EdgeDB and running through the interactive tutorial now. As a general novice when it comes to databases (only ever interacted with pretty mature database systems on the job, never implemented one myself) I've always struggled with a personal lack of intuition when it came to getting comfortable with SQL. So far that's not the case with EdgeDB from what I've seen. I'm excited to dig into this a more and try it out with a personal project I'm working on.
Where Theory Meets Reality
Astute summary. Both are thought-provoking and do a lot of sincere advocacy but their arguments sometimes rest on shaky axiomatic foundations and strategic disingenuity.

Of course, many avowedly utilitarian institutions do the same thing at scale and radical political journals are trapped within a paradigm of trying to leverage a dysfunctional status quo to turn one way or the other while trying to compete in the field of abstractions at the same time.
Exactly. I have never met anyone in my life with the fear they are describing in learning to cook. Is there a person on earth actually afraid of the "literal fire on their stove"? I don't think an app is going to solve that problem.
The "Tips for Removing Ambiguity" section is quite helpful. This can translate well into the corporate world, especially Tech, when folks have to give presentations to execs or leadership who hate ambiguity and generally want to get straight to the point.
I wonder which came first though. Engineers shitting on sales, or engineers hearing about companies that laid off nearly all of engineering and kept nearly all of sales. Stories like that can darken an image pretty damned fast.
> The Music app is barely functional for listening to your own music files, and they make it very difficult to find broadcast radio streams, instead promoting “Apple Radio Stations”.

Oh wow I remember when Microsoft did that! Wow that turned out badly for them, even if the Zune app had an amazing UI.

Same mistakes, different decade.
> GNOME's nautilus, KDE's Dolphin and even Apple's finder do it right: press f2 and you can rename the file without changing the extension, unless you go out of you way for that.

This is exactly how Windows Explorer works by default too.
I have never seen this tool. Thanks for sharing!

The Alibaba price you cited is for interruptible/spot. For V100 on-demand (uninterruptible) Oracle is least expensive from that list at $1.275/hr.
What I find ironic is that there is a huge gap that FB left behind, IE: people still want a way to keep in regular contact with friends / classmates / former co-workers / family who they might not see physically on a regular basis. FB had this market, then effed it up because they got greedy with their advertising and data poaching. Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram - no other of the "social" platforms focuses on this need either. FB still is the default for this need, but they've made their users miserable in the process and plenty of people have just plain left because they don't trust FB. And the kids see it as something for old people.
Thanks for the suggestion. I found it in the ARD-Mediathek. My vacation begins tomorrow and now I have something to listen to on my train ride to Vienna (which hopefully will leave the station).
> To realize the full potential of ... EdgeQL efficiently, we must squeeze every last bit of functionality out of PostgreSQL's implementation

> That said, EdgeDB, the implementation, and EdgeQL, the language and the model, are different, and we encourage research into alternative EdgeQL implementations. We'll be releasing the formal EdgeQL spec and the graph-relational model whitepaper to make this easier.

Has the mentioned spec and model whitepaper been released?
Maybe they'll revamp Spirit's reputation? Never flown Spirit, only heard bad things. Flew Jetblue once, it was ok
BOGOF was definitely enough of an established term here for ads that were making fun of the term in a meta sense while sharing their offers to have existed in the 90s.

I've never seen it as just BOGO though.
The Linux Foundation made a series of videos a while back which has what you're looking for.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbzoR-pLrL6rsb1bc3En9...

That playlist doesn't have them all but you can search their YouTube channel for more.
> They might simply disagree with the methodology and that is a legit topic to discuss

Sure, but ignoring a clear explanation of the methodology isn’t.

> Also hacker news rules are to respond to the most charitable interpretation of the users point

The most charitable interpretation is indeed that he’s trolling and not stupid.
Which is precisely why most of them will stay poor forever: making terrible decisions over and over.
No idea; that's why I put something in brackets to be filled in. If he wasn't working on GNOME, then it moves his authority from "I was directly involved in the decisions" to "My colleagues were directly involved in the decisions"; still strong, but not quite as strong as the former.
I've heard the name, but now I know the story. Thank you for sharing!
They need to give it up and admit WFH is the way forward. Surprised Apple is so anti remote work. Heard from some folks who work there that leadership is very old school, love water cooler talk :/
A gun comes with special obligations to protect it. If someone borrows your car, or steals your left-running car, I don't think you should have have any criminal liability or risk of seizure. (Assuming you didn't conspire ahead of time, of course.)
This is a project I started during the early days of the pandemic lockdown. It is a virtual music room where you and your friends can play MIDI instruments in real-time. As it turns out it is a lot more fun when you can play along to real songs together, and so on top of that I built a game-like feature where you can upload a MIDI file, divide up its tracks among the players, and play along to the tracks in the style of a multiplayer music rhythm game.
I'm not sure if a guy who also owns largest terrorist-for-hire company in US is representative for the entire commercial world.
Thanks, I created this tool to exactly find cheapest GPUs then expanded to everything else.

Interruptible is sufficient for model training which is what these high end GPUs are typically used for (and you want cheapest possible)
> And you're still dealing with bipolar disorder?

Yes, although mild. Even though my service triggered and agravated it, I don’t have any claims to disability because it was considered preexisting.

The deal with my discharge was basically “We’ll give you an honorable in exchange for not claiming disability”. I think it was a fair trade.
I very much enjoyed ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’ when I read it, but in looking back while it was tremendous for middle school me, it doesn’t hold up. The whole “Fall of Rome/Dark Ages/Western Monasticism preserves civilization” narrative just isn’t true and is a misreading of Western history. That’s a post-hoc framing created in the late Renaissance/early modern era.
Double of nothing is still nothing.

I’ve been kicked off of Facebook for having an account of 13 years without giving it a phone number. Then they ask for my phone number, which of course, I refused but not before I had download all my backups.

Poof! double of nothing is still nothing.
This indeed is a lovely book, one of my very favorites, and one of the most influential science fiction novels written. Maybe only Vonnegut was able to match the combination of grimness and humor.

Walter M Miller Jr was a Catholic, and it helps to see the book through that particular blend of hopeless original sin and joyful redemption. He, and many of his characters, believed in both. It's a sensitive portrayal of people who are deeply religious for principled reasons, yet don't fall into easy caricature.

It's the only novel that he ever wrote. He published a couple dozen short stories, many of which are worth reading. Several are available here -- https://www.freesfonline.net/authors/Walter%20M._Miller,%20J...

His notes for a "Canticle" sequel were stitched together after his death into "Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman," but that's not even a patch on the original. Terry Bisson did much of the work, and I'm sure it was hard. Where "Canticle" is humane and sharp and focused, "Wild Horse Woman" is perfunctory and scattered and meandering.
Never was?
This uses the file system API, which users can use to grant read and write access to entire folders.

Malicious apps will never trick users into granting access to folders they shouldn’t, whereupon they won’t have their files exfiltrated, encrypted, and held to ransom.
The fact that Python let’s you pick byte order so easily has saved my skin bunches of times.
Great article.
I think it is less conspicuous to stuff encrypted data into unallocated space of ordinary filesystem with copious amount of redundancy to handle corruption caused by unaware filesystem, like Artifice: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/foci19-paper_barker.pdf
As opposed to democracy under one party communist rule? Who cares what Marx said, when we have history of his ideas being tried in Russia, China, North Korea, etc.
That's definitely incorrect behavior. Did you reach out to support?
I wouldn't say that's always the case.

For example not long ago I saw some "news" segment going around twitter saying a paper showed that the COVID mRNA vaccines where gene therapy. The paper said no such thing, it wasn't even a slight misinterpretation but an outright lie.
That tactic has already worked a couple of times, and the usual problem was that it was used for fraud, ie against the law, not because it was defeated by technical means. Besides... how exactly would it be detected? Keep in mind that you can replay actual traffic gathered from humans.

uBlock can only defeat client-side tracking - which has so far been _the_ tracking, sure, but I believe it is in the process of being replaced by server-side, which can't be defeated this way.
First you need VR goggles that you can reasonably work in...

These guys are making a go at that: https://simulavr.com/

And facebook is probably going to in the future given the R&D they've been showing off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6AOwDttBsc

But having used the current generations of headsets (Valve Index, Quest 2), they just aren't quite there yet.
What makes you believe the threat model for AWS is different than DO? They are just VMs at the end of the day.
Are the steps different for regular Coke?
Oddly enough, literal in that context is emphasizing the point instead of… the literal meaning.
> the trend of needing enormous models

I would rather say that there isn't a trend of needing enormous models but rather a trend of observing that enormous models (and straightforward increases in size) work. We've already seen many other tricks applied for transformer models (essentially, most of "BERTology") that demonstrated that being smarter about taking into account some stuff in training can get a big benefit, but that is all orthogonal to the size issue.

That trend would be bucked only if it turned out that for this task 770M is sufficient, i.e. that scaling this 'being smarter' approach from 770M parameters to the 12B parameters of OpenAI Codex does not get a further improvement - however, I am quite convinced that it would be noticeably better than this; and my expectations would be that the eventual outcome of this technique would be that OpenAI Codex v2 (or however that would be called) would beat this by having a model that includes this technique and some other improvements to training process and increases the size beyond 12B parameters.
> MSFT is adding engineering to Ubuntu to embed private data and keys at boot time

What? Where can I read about this?
> Am I wrong?

Kind of. It’s more that you're missing an important point. Software developers don’t want to be isolated to a platform.

I am writing my own higher level operating system in Typescript. In runs in the browser with a localhost Node instance or with Tauri. I provide a run time configuration for Electron but I cannot officially support Electron because it provide no support for SHA3. This means my application can almost equally anywhere that runs Node or Tauri.

The goal of this OS I’m writing is to solve for decentralization. I cannot do that if I am centrally tied to a single lower level OS. I don’t need identity management or DNS. I just need a network and a collision-free tiered identity scheme.
Why can't we prevent or cure hangovers?
>> It is current state of art approach.

That's not right. The approach described in the article and the linked paper is
not "state of the art". It beats one benchmark which has only been used to
compare one kind of system: neural program synthesis systems (Codex, AlphaCode,
GPT-j and the one in the article, CodeRL). It almost completely fails to
acknowledge the wider field of program synthesis that has existed long before
that benchmark. The benchmark is ad hoc and arbitrary and it tells us nothing
about the general capability of the compared systems, except that they are still
very bad at that particular benchmark.

I linked the Gulwani report above because it is a good, recent introduction to
the field of program synthesis research which is still dominated by non-neural
approaches and for very good reasons. I linked to another paper that shows an
example of a system of the non-neural kind that is common in program synthesis.

I pointed out that regardless of the one and only benchmark on which the
LLM-based systems have been tested that are listed in the article above, the
approach of code generation by LLM is primitive compared to the sophisticated
search and testing strategies developed by the wider prorgam sythesis community
over the years. Again, see Gulwani at al. for examples.

The proposed approach is also primitive compared to existing, earlier neural
program synthesis approaches, i.e. program synthesis approaches that do use a
neural network, but not an LLM, for example DreamCoder
[https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08381] or everything from Dawn Song's group
[https://sunblaze-ucb.github.io/program-synthesis/index.html] - none of which
I'm affiliated with in any way, btw.

If you're looking for the state of the art in program synthesis, look elsewhere
than LLM-based systems like the one in the article above. Even if you're looking
for the state of the art in neural program synthesis, look elsewhere. What is
described in the article above is a first, faltering step in a direction that
may still yield some good results in the future. Or it may not. But it's nothing
impressive for the time being.

>> Unpublish paper and results?

Gulwani et al is a technical report but it's a staple reference in the field,
and an easy introduction to outsiders. As far as I can tell, neither AlphaCode,
nor CodeRL (the Salesforce model described in the article) have been the subject
of published work. The article above is linking to an arxiv preprint.
Here is a short video about that study for people that like more video content than written content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6w9CbemhVY
They are imposing sanctions - they have pulled of from some strategic investments, they limited electronics sales, they just don't make much fuss about it, because they aren't Americans.

As for the gas - it's quite probable that even before the war Russians were selling it at loss, purely to stay relevant. Which means China buying it hurts Russian economy more than keeping away. And of course it benefits China.

Besides - what exactly would be the point of isolating Russia altogether? A new USSR? Because that's precisely what Rashists want. China wants a pacified, but functioning vassal state instead. Or perhaps states, because there's no reason really for anything east of Ural to remain with Russia.
I would be willing to wager that greater than 99% of people have never used the McDonald’s app to order anything. Perhaps you could elaborate?
Thankfully it's not deadly, seems to clear up in 2-4 weeks according to CDC. Don't know if we need lockdown part 2, COVID was a no brainer due to how deadly it was/is
Thank you! Yeah, we spent significant amount of effort making the syntax of EdgeQL logical and predictable. Most of the time, queries can be read from top to bottom easily, even when you don't know EdgeQL.
It's because they're the very basic sauces that "give birth" to all the others. It's not because it's a sauce your mother used to make.
Why Twitter, of all options?
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/07/04/largest-teach...
What I want is to flip this. Let the base of everything be a webcontainer. Like MS/Apple/Ubuntu all agree on a binary base that can run webcontainers. Then Firefox/Chrome/Edge even run on this beast.

You effectively download the entire browser on demand.

Fairly sure no one would agree on what that binary at the bottom looks like though. :(
How would this compare to using something like postgrest and using normal triggers/checks/RLS for validation?
It's not just the trip, it's what the trip means, and what it doesn't mean. In these situations people are trying to read something into anything they hear, and this one is a powderkeg.

Everyone thinks you can get large trips refunded at the last minute and it's common for someone to point out that's not how the world works. But what they'll be missing here is how far out were the reservations booked, and if we're doing layoffs now, what does it say about the executive team's ability to forecast? At least they weren't yet willing to admit to themselves that next year was going to be tough, or someone has been lying to the rest of the team about how things are, in an effort to... what? Get one more bonus? Keep morale up?

If people get demotivated by that, then they were one incident away from demotivation already and you fucked up a long time ago. Which is unpleasant to do and so people will procrastinate.
The point is that ordering a single item like this should be fast.
so many people were misusing the word “literally” the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition expanded to include the “figurative exaggerated” usage of it. So I understand but it’s “technically” correct
Thanks for the comment! Quick answer: it's complicated.

Long answer:
We own a substantial amount of compute ourselves, as far as Singapore where we have fully-owned hardware at Equinix SG1. We started with our own crypto mining operation just outside of Boston, but as wholesale consumers approached us in 2020 due to pandemic surges, we added business internet and power backups. Suddenly we were operating a rudimentary "office data center." Two large reseller sites sell on our fully-owned hardware. Boston's electric costs are very high ($0.23/kWh), so we're gradually moving more hardware to tier 3/4 data centers that are cheaper on a per-unit basis.

But, we partner with 3rd parties too (4 large scale 1000+ GPU operators each to be exact) to resell their compute. This is also how we'll enter Europe... we're working closely with an existing supplier that colocates servers at Hydro66 in Sweeden and another at Scaleway Paris. We provide the software, they provide the hardware, and we pay them a special rate based on the volume we're doing. Partnering with others is the only way we can handle large scale without insanely high capex costs (that being said, we do get preferential pricing as an NVIDIA Inception Program member, which we take advantage of for our own fully-owned hardware).

We have a doc in it here:
https://docs.tensordock.com/infrastructure/reservable-instan...

We're also working on a marketplace (client site: https://www.tensordock.com/product-marketplace, host site: https://www.tensordock.com/host). We expect a beta version to be up and running in the next ~2 weeks. With this, we'll have a script that hosts will use to install a small version of OpenStack. Then, they set prices, and customers can deploy directly on that hardware. By aggregating all these hosts together on the same marketplace, we hope we can slash the price of compute.

So far, owning our own hardware has allowed us to negotiate better rates and enter markets where previous services don't exist (namely, Singapore, where we sell subscription servers with 1070 GeForce cards for $150/month — unheard of pricing for an APAC city). Eventually, we hope there'll be suppliers in every city selling on our marketplace or core cloud product so that we can really become the #1 place for ML startups to provision compute. In a way, we want to be the Amazon of cloud computing. Amazon, in a way, created a global marketplace. Yes, they sell their own products, but they also sell others' products. By doing so, you know that you're getting a good deal on whatever you buy. We want to end up being the same thing for compute, but that's still a few years off :)

TL;DR - we own a lot of hardware, and we resell a lot of hardware. But in the future, we want to focus on the reselling aspect to truly be able to nail the user experience and handle demand surges while maintaining low costs.