skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to think of it in terms of topology — since that’s my background.

The semantics of a system is mapping the topology of the input space to output space.

DL expresses that relationship geometrically; symbolic reasoning expresses that relationship algebraically. For every geometric expression of semantics, there is some corresponding algebraic one — which we can view as the “internal language” of the DNN.
Malware Site That's Ranked 61st in World
I came across this interesting website that shows to be ranking 61st globally, according to SimilarWeb.

It is categorized as an "adult" website, but searching for it on Google only provides a list of sites claiming its malware. UBlock also flags the site as malware.

According to SimilarWeb, it has 700+ million monthly traffic.

And it has over 17.7 million backlinks according to my backlink checker, yet ranks for zero keywords (probably blacklisted).

Only the subdomain `syndication.[second-level-domain].com` is accessible, and the earliest archive.org for this subdomain is from May 13, 2020.

I suspect is has to do with malware and browser infections, causing users to unwittingly redirect to their website, explaining the huge traffic.

Anybody have further insights into what's going on here?
https://archive.ph/ZZbnK
But what about the % increase in power consumption?
For me it's not fantastical at all, it's an utterly spot-on take on our actual real life experience of urban life in America: giant parking lots, freeways, corporate parks, long walks through airport terminals and other liminal spaces designed at car-scale. But taken out of context so we're forced to reckon with it's weirdness, oppressiveness, scale, how starkly it juxtaposes against the natural world, how it will all last far beyond our own lifetimes and make us feel like lemmings in a giant maze devised by deities, and so on.

I think the way it looks like some kind of landing bay on Mars speaks just as much to how our sci-fi stories were influenced by our urban architecture as it does the reverse.
Yup.

You can test this. Compile hello world and send it to your friend.
Not them, but searching for "8TB HDD" on Amazon (huh, ironic) shows several options for $90, which is almost $10/TB. And this was 60 seconds of searching, no real effort put in.
> Were homesteaders the ones being farmed?

It wasn't the only political or economic goal, but a pretty explicit purpose of the Homestead Acts was to make it impossible for Native Americans to return to their historical territories.
The OpenAI API. I’m using text-davinci-002 (the default) for all of these, with temperature=0 for reproducibility/quality.
Yes, and another aspect of this was it being valid all across Germany - instead of scouring the maps and price lists of various regional providers (for whose fractured approach to public transport I have utter disdain and could insert many expletives here), you could just pay, travel, and forget
Hope you came across Dead Cells.

Incredible game with an amazing value for almost infinite-replayability
C Object System
such systems might spring up, but the market is far more limited than for generalist CoPilot-like systems, and they will thus likely be less sophisticated and thus easier spot (by other automated solutions)
I'm not so sure people are "happy" with bash, given the complaints that keep returning, and that many aren't aware that zsh is actually different in this regard.

I also think the value of being the de-facto standard is somewhat overrated (as is the value of portability by the way); many scripts only run on one platform, one you control. zsh is not hard to install.
That is just awful - I have similar stories. To me, it seems so unfortunate that students are just in this desperate grind to get all A's.

But I'm on the other side and don't have the stress of "my whole life depends on looking like an all-star" at university. Like, what do you do if you leave school with such a severe lack of actual skill?

OTOH, the last year I taught, every student in the program I was an adjunct for graduated with a job offer in hand. Maybe it all works out fine.
Even implementing an algorithm from a book teaches you something.

Most book algorithms are in pseudocode so you need to know how to write a loop or a function in the language you are using.

And just the act of typing it line-by-line will focus attention and help cement concepts in the brain (assuming one really wants to learn).

Hitting TAB in Copilot doesn't do any of those things.
With PoW, even if a majority of hashpower refuses to include a particular transaction in their mempool (and hence in blocks they mine), that transaction can be mined by some minority miner.

It's only when the majority is colluding to reorg the chain that the transaction can be censored.
We can't do anything about the Taiwan risk? I beg to differ. Are our political leaders, who are elected, ignoring it in hopes it'll go away, actively making it worse, or mitigating it?
I know a lot of what I teach is not really relevant to students who aren't chemistry majors--I even say this UP FRONT at the beginning of the course. I tell the students that they should think of the course as a way of assessing whether they can think logically and critically about "weird things." Because life is full of weird things that need logical and critical analysis.

In general, they appreciate my candor.

That being said, in my experience, the students who cheat often delude themselves into thinking that they understand the material--and they really don't.*

Then they seem shocked when they take a certification exam (where they have to leave phones at the door and are closely monitored) and they bomb the exam.*

* I'm speaking in generalities here. I'm sure there are some cheaters who are being "smart" about their cheating.
A mission statement that makes sense
RTFA :)
Opportunity costs were lower back then.
Isn’t there a different domain I can swap in so I can actually read this in a browser without immediately getting the Twitter “paywall” / login prompt?
Oh, ok, so the OP should, as a consumer, know about all monitor standards before purchasing one. Good to know.
Where would Putin even use nukes in Ukraine? Tactical nuclear weapons are only really useful against troop concentrations. At this stage of the war, Ukrainian forces are already dispersed and dug in. Many of them are engaged in close combat with Russian forces, so a Russian nuclear strike would end up being an "own goal" to some extent.

Putin could use strategic nuclear weapons to destroy Kyiv, or other civilian population centers or infrastructure. But to what end? That wouldn't align with any of his war goals.
It’s hilarious to see people bitch about huge amounts of money being given away to create useless crap on a VC site.
Zstd is very efficient in decompression https://engineering.fb.com/2016/08/31/core-data/smaller-and-...
One of the things I like most about Phoenix is actually the size.

Rails significantly slows down Ruby, while adding a lot of value.

Phoenix has a negligible effect on Elixir performance, while adding a lot of value.
whomever you tell (I like the idea of telling your direct manager), consider the option of only telling the following: "Hey boss, I have an idea how to automate this task of my colleagues and I am quite sure I could do it. However, since I already have a job for 100% of my time, I could arrange to do it in my free time for a bonus etc. etc."

What I've learned with automating my own tasks (I am in an administrative role myself), is that there's usually not much of an advantage in telling it. Which is why nowadays I don't tell anyone and just use the added free time however I want. (well, part of the reason is that I don't like my team enough to share it with them, as harsh as it sounds. I liked sharing with my prior team because there I knew that everyone was doing their part...)
The incentives usually are not set up well for automating your own (or your colleagues') tasks. Would probably be different if you were in a manager role, though.
"crash" in the context of elixir (to me) is about a part of a supervision tree - "let it crash"

Obviously running mnesia on an auto-scaling group makes about as much sense as running postgres on one.

So the missing context is ERTS, I suppose.
This reminds me of a commentary on the new megalaw - the Inflation Reduction Act - that it succeeded (got passed) because it wielded carrots rather than sticks.

This approach is compatible with your idea - to keep the tax side of the budget super simple, and put all the incentives and giveaways in the grants side (fairly transparently).

Property values on K Street would drop :-D
Generators are more or less useless to me. They are useful to create some tutorial code to see how some stuff should be idiomatically written, but for anything else I just ignore em and just write the code myself.

About the fragment. I agree it is useful but it's usefulness relies on the fact that most non basic sql is not implemented in ecto so you need to be able to use it somehow... Consider that the Django ORM implements almost anything that your gonna need (thing like Case, SQL functions, subqueries, whatever) so you only write ORM code!
Another example in the wild is glibc itself.

ubuntu@ip-10-16-0-17:~$ /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
GNU C Library (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.31-0ubuntu9.9) stable release version 2.31.
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled by GNU CC version 9.4.0.
libc ABIs: UNIQUE ABSOLUTE
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bugs>.
Would you encrypt files that are supposed to be publicly readable and accessible?

I get hashing it and providing hashes, but encrypting public files seems excessive.
To be fair, he's making two separate points. One technological and one political.

Germany is neither sunny nor windy nor has a long coastline. It's a poor candidate for those forms of energy regardless of who's making the panels and windmills. If they want zero emissions from power production they'll have to go nuclear or build out the infrastructure to import clean energy from countries with better renewable options.

Solar and Wind as we know them are part of the solution, but aside from a few areas that are abnormally sunny or windy by global standards there's no way they can even theoretically be the entire solution, and that's not even touching on the inadequacy of current battery technologies and mineral inputs needed to manufacture all this stuff.

From a political perspective, I'd say he's right that being beholden to China is little better than being beholden to Russia, only practical difference being China lacking options for military invasion.

Simple fact is there is no solution to climate change at the moment. We're working on a number of things that might one day become pieces of the solution, but I see too much "we just have to do X, Y and Z and climate change will be solved!" rhetoric that is wishful thinking at best, and ivory tower edicts ignoring all externalities of said decisions at worst. The world isn't a computer model.
I don't think using copilot is much worse than autocomplete.

It's an improvement of our toolbox, students SHOULD learn to use it.

It's not much worse than using c instead of assembler, or java instead of c, or ...

Throughout time people have invented new tools that makes their predecessors more efficient in their proffesion.

Too many programmers these days behaves like the workers did when automatic looms were invented. Or when the chainsaw was invented.. or the computers.. or the...
At some point I need to do the math and get an economics degree and use this idea to start a think tank.

The standard federal tax deduction is $12.5k and average US income is about $30k and US GDP is around $20 trillion and GDP per capita is about $60k. So you have about 50% of the economic output to work with. And you're right, average income tax per capita is $10k. Maybe $100k or even $10k is a better ball park starting point for a "universal tax credit". I just like the idea of setting the number higher than average earnings. I did hand wave around the assumption that in a scheme like this tax credits wouldn't be worth $1 on the open market but $1M is totally ludicrous I know. It was late and I didn't think anybody would notice haha. Got your attention though!

The general idea is that money could be more productive being added into the economy from the bottom rather than the top. The interesting idea is the marketplace and granting people some intrinsic value and some reason to participate in the economy other than just through labor output. Also not sure how to pay for healthcare, the military, infrastructure and social services if you mostly eliminate the federal budget. If the federal government took a cut of the transaction fees that could be another way to fund it. It's hard to define what "excess" profits are as well, $1B was also a totally arbitrary limit and most businesses don't create that much profit and you could game that system in a lot of ways. It's also difficult for small business to compete with large business in a marketplace for tax credits but I assumed that if you work for a company and also donate your tax credits to your employer that would convert to a cash bonus at some beneficial exchange rate for both. I imagine that's what the think tank would work on. Maybe I'll call it the "Institute for Science Fiction Economics".
Ah for me the lack of sense of what’s going on is sort of the point of it. The rotated projections are just as right as the regular Mercator projection in an objective way, but it really doesn’t feel that way.
I’d suggest exploratory convos with the people who own this part of the process - like you’re curious and want to learn more. Find out how many hours that part takes them on a weekly basis. Whatever your automation reduces that to is the value of it. Find out why they haven’t automated it before now. What would the people doing this manually be utilized to do if they weren’t busy with this? You may figure out that there are things your automation needs to account for that you weren’t aware of. When you’ve gotten more information, you could approach your manager with a proposal about what you are willing to do in your spare time for an agreed upon bonus and / or promotion - as if you haven’t done anything yet and of course, sell them on your ability to do this and why it should be you. You’d probably also want to understand if they’d lay off the people involved or just give them different work to do (don’t expect them to be honest though). If they’re interested and willing to pay you for it, great, go off and “finish it” and bring it back to them and implement it / integrate it. If they’re not willing to pay you for it, it’s not your problem to solve and you’ve learned a new skill - just maintain with them you’ve not built anything. The only way you should give this away for free is if you’re confident it’s going to put you on a better career track with that company (promotion, pay raise, etc). Great initiative - but it’s worth money and they should compensate you for it - because they will compensate themselves by either cutting costs through reducing their headcount, or increasing the output of their operations to make more money.
Chokepoint Capitalism
exactly, we would stick to AWS Secrets
Ummm…wut?
Anyone by chance know how many exabytes s3 is?

Did some searches but came up with some guesses like https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-big-is-s3/ but they are dated and still just guesses.
This is why Georgism is just an urbanizer's ideal; a gentrification engine, if you will.

It emphasizes putting things in the hands of someone that wants to do something with it rather than just maintaining ownership as an option until a voluntary sale is desirable for the occupant.

Gee. I wonder who could ever be behind a push to make it easier for developers and real estate investment firms to utilize artificially created economic pressure to rearrange the ownership landscape, while also pushing all incentives in the direction of urbanization above all else.
I don't agree with GP that naysayers might be "rabid" but I certainly know someone who was bitten by a bat(coin). "Rabid" is bang-on for at least some people.

It's relevant and non-hypocritical. It may not be the best comment, but neither was yours.
The skill of getting others to do work for you is highly valued in the Director and C-suites.
My software engineering teacher did something similar. We had a giant group project that had to be worked on by the whole class. He split the class into 5 groups of 5, and we divided the work by group, and groups had to work together to integrate with each other.
Guess all you want I suppose but there are fairly exhaustive studies on artificial sweeteners.
Nearly 2M fewer students have enrolled in public school
Leetcode interviews have maybe just become an example for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law - as long as people aren't aware, it's a great signal, but after people catch onto it, it becomes a measure of something else
I agree. I’d argue there’s a lot of literary criticism that comes later to tell us how we should view a place and time, or even characters in a book. And often and the answer is “Yeah well if you read the book, that’s in the book…”

Perhaps not as explicit, but it is hard to miss, and anyone familiar with humanity probably can guess the rest. Most people know they’re reading a book.
I don't have a lot of experience on this subject tbh, but apps weren't frustrating to me, a bit too game-ish imho but otherwise fine. The following relationship, however, felt a bit forced each time and i think overall was negative on my happiness.
so what if more do it? then you got a problem. just 3 miners control >50%
I will try it at some point, but I have... feelings... about its abuse of open source licenses software as a learning set.

Also I work in Rust these days, and use CLion. Not sure if it would be much help in that environment.
> With a lot of these problems more funding leads to faster solutions

Evidence, please. Would more funding for nuclear fusion lead to faster commercial-scale electric plants? Explain how the fundamental physics problems can get solved faster.

> China seems really patient about Taiwan.

I'd call that "wishful thinking." Given that they just demonstrated how they can effectively blockade the island without an invasion.
Maybe AI will know what to do with our burning planet...
Delivering random amount of cortisol to employees.
Ethereum is still using PoW as of today, so anything Ethermine did recently isn't really relevant to discussions about PoS. As long as Ethereum is using PoW, pools of any size can pick and choose what transactions to include in a block. Once Ethereum switches to PoS, that will no longer be possible (without further protocol changes)
https://archive.ph/NMzqj
At the end if the it is to get a job.
And cheating students often get better grades as most other students who don't cheat.

They may lose in the long run, but the non cheaters aren't even allowed to run
Anybody else feel like the advanced economy countries are complex and starting to collapse? I do.
A society where politicians tout "empathy" and "kindness" only to score political points, but have no appetite to do the hard work of identifying how to pay for all the consequences of being "empathetic"?

In another news today from NYT: New York City is now straining under the load of illegal immigrants after the Texas governor simply took all the sanctuary cities by their word: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/20/nyregion/nyc-migrants-tex...

jacknews - I have no idea where you live but one day, busloads of migrants may end up in your city. Would love to see what you actually do at that time. Words of "kindness" are cheap.
I don't think you spent enough time checking, he's a person with a PHD precisely in AI safety!

The type of reasoning you're displaying is addressed in another video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i1WlcCudpU
> comes a point when war is the only path that can relieve the accumulated stresses

This is historically untrue. When complex societies civil war, they tend to fall apart. (Wars of unification being an exception.) Their citizens’ living conditions permanently fell, often for generations, until an outside power subsumed them.

This trend looks to be strengthening as time goes on, probably on account of increasing species-wide firepower and mobility. Instead, peaceful (if politically violent) “revolutions” reboot the society from time to time. One could argue the Great Depression was the last such restructuring of the American system.
1) real-time remote communication - email works for most situations, but due to the async nature sometimes you want to resolve something quickly (e.g a customer issue) and a real-time chat is a better medium. Video chat is a bit heavy, because it requires scheduling, coordination etc where chat is "always on", and doesn't require you to prep for a video call.

2) user experience - IRC existed for decades before Slack and does most of the same functionality, but the UX is cumbersome for your average user.
What client do I use?
What server do I join?
What channels do I join?
How do I use /commands?
How do I get it on mobile?
Slack "just works", you sign in with your work account and everything is there, ready to go.
> if students are unwilling to learn, or are taking shortcuts, it will ultimately hurt them in the long run

That's a very limited, and dismissive view. If you allow students to use copilot, you're handing out certificates or diplomas to people who can't code. That will very quickly erode the value of your institute's certification, and with it, that of the other students. Otherwise, why not give everyone an MSc in CS? "It'll only hurt themselves in the long run".

> coding clever for-loops to perform algorithmic magic

A for loop for searching or summation is not algorithmic magic.

> maybe we should be measuring based on something else

No, why? Students have to understand the fundamentals. What those fundamentals are depends on the expertise. Once you've shown mastery, you can use more advanced tools. Teaching has always been like this, and for a good reason.
counterpoint - previously ruined land-owners in West Texas after the dust bowl, apparently turned enthusiastically to the small-rig Oil business, poisoned many a water table, and now have some of the most active fracking in the world. Lots of big trucks in that part of Texas showing the "success"
Not OP but what did the trick for me was a combination of the following sweeteners, listed from largest to least amount:

- erythritol (~0 calories, ~2/3s as sweet as sugar),

- xylitol (~60% of sugar calories, improves oral biome, inhibits enamel demineralization),

- stevia or sucralose for added sweetness.

After experimenting with different ratios I now rarely crave sugar at all anymore.

Another thing to consider is that the initial dopamine response to sweeteners seems to generally be lower than with sugar, but there are indications that this gap may lessen with continued use over a matter of weeks (at least in mice in a small number of studies).
Andrew Huberman from Stanford brought it up in a recent episode about nutrition: https://hubermanlab.com/how-foods-and-nutrients-control-our-...
Ah true point. Perhaps the addition /in the modern scientific era/ would be in place. Begging the question when that starts of course. Let’s say that economics was earlier embracing quantitative techniques in the 20th century and that there was a rift between the fields especially when sociology was young that nowadays is less pronounced. It’s all interpretation.
Some of those small towns in Kansas will give you a house if you agree to live there for a few years. Homesteading is still a thing in that small way at least.