skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm playing with a Colab posted in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32931349), and it's incredibly fun and accurate!

I tried the beginning of L'étranger (because you seem to be a fan of Camus ;-)

Here's the original:

> Aujourd’hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas. J’ai reçu un télégramme de l’asile : « Mère décédée. Enterrement demain. Sentiments distingués. » Cela ne veut rien dire. C’était peut-être hier.

> L’asile de vieillards est à Marengo, à quatre-vingts kilomètres d’Alger. Je prendrai l’autobus à deux heures et j’arriverai dans l’après-midi. Ainsi, je pourrai veiller et je rentrerai demain soir. J’ai demandé deux jours de congé à mon patron et il ne pouvait pas me les refuser avec une excuse pareille. Mais il n’avait pas l’air content. Je lui ai même dit : « Ce n’est pas de ma faute. » Il n’a pas répondu. J’ai pensé alors que je n’aurais pas dû lui dire cela. En somme, je n’avais pas à m’excuser. C’était plutôt à lui de me présenter ses condoléances.

Here's the transcription:

> Aujourdhui, maman est morte, peut être hier, je ne sais pas. J''ai reçu un télégramme de l''asile. Mère décédée, enterrement demain, sentiment distingué. Cela ne veut rien dire. C''était peut être hier.

> L''asile de Vieillard est à Maringot, à 80 km d''Alger. Je prendrai l''autobus à deux heures et j''arriverai dans l''après midi. Ainsi, je pourrai veiller et je rentrerai demain soir. J''ai demandé deux jours de congé à mon patron et il ne pouvait pas me les refuser avec une excuse pareille. Mais il n''avait pas l''air content. Je lui ai même dit, ce n''est pas de ma faute. Il n''a pas répondu. J''ai alors pensé que je n''aurais pas dû lui dire cela. En somme, je n''avais pas à m''excuser. C''était plutôt à lui de me présenter ses condoléances.

Except for the weird double quotes instead of the single apostrophe ('), it's close to perfect, and it only uses the "medium" model.

This is extremely exciting and fun! Happy to try other texts if you have something specific in mind!
Christchurch Call Initiative on Algorithmic Outcomes
As usual, it depends.

I just tested my own site, which I built using Gatsby — a JS framework — and https://astro.build, whose entire schtick is that they deliver as little JS to the page as possible.

(Because I’m thinking of rebuilding my site using Astro. But that’s not relevant here.)

In the default test, my page loaded in 1.6s and Astro in 1.9s. In the ‘not bad’ ratings below the main figures, my site fared better.

Now that my page is loaded, Gatsby does some neat pre-loading on hover of links. So clicking around my site is literally instantaneous. The same is not true of Astro, where every click is a classic HTTP request.

I am not judging Astro. That’s not the point of this post. I’m no Gatsby fanboy, I think it’s horribly over-complicated. I’m just saying. It’s complicated.
I would love to see the same for deploying things like a cloud/lambda function.
Skipping the boring parts of building a database using FoundationDB
Building distributed database systems correctly from the ground up is a notoriously hard problem. We have seen this firsthand building Docstore at Uber.

This is one of the most confusing aspects of the modern data infrastructure industry, why does every new system have to completely rebuild (not even reinvent!) the wheel? Vendors are spending so much time rebuilding existing solutions, they end up not solving the actual end users’ problems, although ostensibly that's why they decided to create a new data platform in the first place!

In this post we talk about our approach to building Tigris - the open source developer data platform. We talk about why we chose to build on top of FoundationDB, one of the most reliable distributed KV store with an amazing correctness story. We also go into detail about our experience using it.
Hard to keep up with all the great things. The AI community is really moving quick right now.
I'm certainly interested! If you wouldn't mind emailing me at iam@zachgarwood.com, I'd love to learn more about this type of position.
Plus: You can make it all reproducible using `guix time-machine`.
Carmack writes:

> I suspect OpenAI, with all their lavish funding and priority tensions, will have a hard time competing with the more agile efforts at a business level.
“Good” for ensuring you’re a compliant consumer - bad if you’re an individual person
Basically, I don't want anything I own to supervise me on behalf of 3rd parties, no matter how benevolent.
Hi from Australia!
I can't be the only one getting tired of the language policing.
Which country is poster child for your Islamic finance? Turkey? Sri Lanka? Or Quatar?
They don't. Some of them try to raise arguments, that they completed given tasks, but forget to mention that they compromised quality along the way.

Couple years ago, we had a lot of talks saying that engineers should have slack time to polish things. That's kinda counter-productive if slack time goes into working for other companies.
It has always seemed pretty clear to me from the USA involvement in various conflicts since WW2 that they don’t really give a rat ass about democracy.

I do find your argument convincing but I now wonder what the main NATO allies are getting out of it. After all it costs them dearly and they don’t really care about the Pacific.
Its not USA war and no, Russia isn't losing it yet. Sanctions arent as strong as you wouldve think, because Russians were already poor.

Main goal for now is to develop energy crisis in Europe and destabilize UE. If Russia achieve this goal its already win for them.
Maybe you could run the text through a grammar checker to identify the errors.
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Both hypotheticals are likely infringement. The first example may be considered de minimus, but the courts hate using those words, so they might just argue that you didn't blur it enough to be unrecognizable or that it could be unblurred.

However, the thing that makes AI training different is that:

1. In the US, it was ruled that scraping an entire corpus of books for the purpose of providing a search index of them is fair use (see Authors Guild v. Google). The logic in that suit would be quite similar to a defense of ML training.

2. In the EU, ML training on copyrighted material is explicitly legal as per the latest EU copyright directive.

Note that neither of these apply to the use of works generated by an AI. If I get GitHub Copilot to regurgitate GPL code, I haven't magically laundered copyrighted source code. I've just copied the GPL code - I had access to it through the AI and the thing I put out is substantially similar to the original. This is likely the reason why Getty Images is worried about AI-generated art, because we don't have adequate controls against training data regurgitation and people might be using it as a way to (insufficiently) launder copyright.
Um, sorry that was me when I left a script running in an infinite loop.
Well, to really get down to the meat of it...
Dunno about AWS, but GCP uses live migration, and will migrate your VM across physical machines as necessary. The disk volumes are all connected over the network, nothing really depends on the actual physical machine your VM is ran on.
Why wonder? https://www.craiyon.com/

At least on my pass, that is definitely two concepts that Craiyon does not think go together at all. YMMV.
Meta looks to cut costs by 10% or more over next few months, says report
Notch, accusing someone of "deliberate and misleading framing" arguments because they didn't use the exact, precise language that you did is assuming bad faith.

Your argument is weak, obtuse and unproductive. He clearly explained why you're wrong by explaining a culture he was deeply familiar with, and your response is a faux-intellectual straw man.

If you can't deal with the fact that you're not the suppository of all wisdom, please get off HN and go outside.
The point is that having near or below 0 rates has been a terrible policy for almost everyone, just as increasing them in response to inflation is going to hit most people hard now.

A problem has been kicked down the road for years, it was always going to blow up in our faces.
Measuring the speed of a page rendered on an iPhone 14 on an mmWave 5G connection a foot from an antenna is not a worthwhile test. If it takes 5 seconds for Twitter to load a tweet (which it does on my iPhone 12 Pro on WiFi) is that somehow better? A tweet, famously limited to 140 characters takes 5 seconds to load?

A news article or tweet takes way too long to load on my phone, it's just ludicrous that on a mid-range phone and connection it would take 45 seconds! A copy of Frankenstein[0] (~78k words) weighs in at 463KB. A random CNN article or tweet is not a damn copy of Frankenstein. There's no reason either should take more than a second to load and render.

An HTML document with a bare minimum CSS to not be ugly has enough information to render and be useful to a user. It can do that with a single request to a server. At minimum the same page rendered with JavaScript needs two connections to a server. It's also got a higher minimum threshold for displaying something to the user because the JavaScript needs to be downloaded, parsed, interpreted/JIT, then requests for useful resources made. All to do things a browser will already do for free.

There's full JavaScript applications that can't be built with just HTML and CSS. Of course they need to load and run the JavaScript. A tweet or news article are not applications. They do not need to load the equivalent of copies of Doom to display a dozen paragraphs of text or just 140 characters of text. The modern web's obsession with JavaScript everywhere is asinine.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84
What has starvation got to do with it? You can't eat money.

If you want to persuade someone to give you food for some kind of token then that token has to be meaningful enough that the person with the food can use it to get something else for it... social construct.

I am just saying that governance is inefficient due to poor incentives and that we are free to do whatever we want in cyberspace, including experiments on how we can align incentives better in the real world. If those experiments prove successful then the tokens will prove persuasive.
That sounds about right, but when it gathers about a billion dollars in it I'm a bit shocked it's still "just a start-up".
>I see a lot of hate being thrown on Russian civilians in these forums. That’s clearly racist.

The hate isn't on Russians as the carriers of Russian ethnicity. Such hate would be racist, i agree. The hate you see is on the carriers of Russian Nazism who openly espouses and propagandizes it. For example, many prominent targets of such a hate like those especially rabid Rashists propagandists on Russian TV are visibly not of Russian ethnicity. As another example - i'm a Russian and hasn't experienced any such hate even from Ukrainians i met here in teh last few months. I'm pretty sure though that if i were a Rashist and put the Russian Nazism Z-swastika on my car i'd become a target of such hate without people even bothering to check whether i'm of Russian, Jewish or Chinese ethnicity.

It is a trick that Russian propaganda actively using now - present legitimate hate against Russian Nazism as a racist hate against Russians. Don't fall for it :)

>Europeans have a cultural tendency to create moralistic almost religious justification for war and conquest. Whether it is the white man’s burden, or now denazification.

The main point of denazification isn't moralistic. It is a matter of survival. A nazism is "more" than just a fascism. The key foundation of nazist state is the "master-race/nation" ideology, and as a result one of the key characteristic of nazism is Lebensraum - "living space" for the "master-race/nation". While a plain fascist state, like Franco's Spain, can peacefully co-exist with its neighbors, it isn't an option in case of a nazist state like Germany back then or Russia today. Without denazification of Russia there is going to be no peace in the region, and with Russia being nuclear state it means that without denazification Russian presents a real nuclear threat to the world.

>The rest of the world has no reason to sympathise with actions that might trigger a nuclear war in Europe.

Of course nobody in the world is expected to sympathize with the Russian actions, and in particular with their intentional dragging of the world toward nuclear war. To avoid nuclear war Russia has to be stopped and the force is the only option for now.

> I used to think that European leaders understand that and it’s OK for Ukrainians to idly dream of wrecking great vengeance on Russia.

As far as i see, Ukrainians dream not about vengeance, they dream about Russia leaving them alone, something like having a kilometer high wall on the border with Russia. Unfortunately, without demilitarization, denuclearization and denazification of Russia the peace in the region isn't possible. In particular Russia wouldn't leave Ukrainians alone, and thus Ukrainians and the rest of the world have actually no choice wrt. what to do with Russia.
> Is that removing liquidity? Not really...

I disagree.

The US Treasury must issue new treasury bonds every month with face value equal to (a) that of old treasury bonds that mature, plus (b) a bit more to fund the federal deficit.

Someone else must buy all those new bonds, because otherwise the US Treasury would not have sufficient funds to pay back the old ones as they mature.

This means that someone else must somehow find liquidity to buy all those new bonds.

That someone else is (the private-sector parts of) the financial system. Who else would it be?

All that liquidity will leave the financial system's hands.
Which beats the previous highest assets to employee ratio of Madoff.
it's not just the coldness of the ice, salt dissolving in water actually decreases the temperature, it's an endothermic reaction.

the salt dissolving into the water brings the water down to 0... omg time for Farenheit to shine... brings the water down to 0F without freezing it (because of the lower equilibrium temp), which is -17.8C

(Farenheit uses this endothermic salted water temp as its definition of 0, I think because it was the coldest thing Dr. Farenheit knew how to produce in the lab)
Are Investors Staring Down Another ‘Lost Decade’ in the Stock Market?
They comprise a negligible amount of the drug trade. People are more likely to use Venmo than mess around with crypto wallets
It’s also inaccurate, but judging by the rest of his comments here, I’m not sure accuracy is the goal.
> it seems like quantum tunneling could be damaging to DNA

Copy errors are not the same as damage. Or "the optimal amount of copy-errors is non-zero".
Getty, skating to where the puck was.
Is there data suggesting comp bands are reducing as a result of the hiring climate? Cost of living is still through the roof, so while companies should pay based on value, there will presumably still be pressure based on that.
Spoiler alert, the “transitory” stuff was always bullshit and everyone knew it.
>I’m aware that is the case. If they weren’t doing that, though, it would result in a massive uncontrolled level of tightening.

Yes, so they aren't 'removing liquidity' because they are still 'injecting liquidity' at literally every treasury auction (as they have been for 15 years). They are simply injecting less liquidity than they have been, which is my entire point.

>I don’t see how it’s somehow a bad thing that they are being intentional about the draw down.

It's not a bad thing and I never said it was. If you want ideology, I think the Fed shouldn't even be doing QT and probably never should (I think inflation is largely unrelated to this liquidity).

>If I were to buy a bond ETF, that fund would be doing the same thing on my behalf. I wouldn’t be “buying” bonds just because the underlying product is maintaining a fixed asset level/ratio.

In literal terms, the government holds an auction for Treasury debt at various maturities. ~20 primary dealers bid on those Treasuries. Those ~20 primary dealers know exactly how much The Fed needs to buy from them. That influences their bids. If The Fed weren't buying from those dealers, they would bid for higher rates. In no way do those dealers consider the amount of debt that has reached maturity that month, they only care about new issuances.

Isn't this pretty basic supply/demand stuff here? Are you also implying that demand for bond ETFs has no effect on the price of underlying bonds?
Is this testing for spot instances?

In my limited experience, persistent (on-demand) GCP instances always boot up much faster than AWS EC2 instances.
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/for_nasa.gov_imagea...

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/for_stsci_site_imag...

But really, it's a NASA site, it's probably safe w/o noscript (ie, disable restrictions for tab). Or, you can just individually enable permanently: nasa.gov; digitalgov.gov; foresee.com; gstatic.com; youtube.com (is what makes it work for me).
>It is economic disparity that creates violence. Only when villas are in reach of a small poor town do you start to get petty muggings, scams and murders.

I remember hearing about this in a Jordan Peterson video. The correlation between economic inequality and young make violence is apparently one of the strongest in all of sociology, and still applies regardless of the size of the geographical boundary you draw.
Getty is being the blockbuster of the generated art age.
What blocks compassion?
Yes... ish.

On one hand, if you do a "this is the size of the net" and then divide it by the number of training images, its rather small amount of storage per image.

On the other hand, when I was playing with stable diffusion on the command line following the instructions of https://replicate.com/blog/run-stable-diffusion-on-m1-mac

python scripts/txt2img.py --prompt "wolf with bling walking down a street" --n_samples 6 --n_iter 1 --plms

I got: https://imgur.com/a/N1OufD1

Now, you tell me if there's a copyrighted image encoded in that data set or not.
For those wanting a TS Playground link: https://tinyurl.com/mw6pbpht
" A year ago Powell's keynote said the inflation is a supply side problem due to "transitory" issues."

This reminds me a lot of the 2008 crisis when Bernanke told us that everything was just fine until banks started collapsing. Personally I think the Fed has turned into a political institution that keeps inflating bubbles until there is no way out. I can't see much wisdom or foresight in their moves. They seem constantly behind the curve and instead of smoothing out business cycles they make them more extreme.
The cohorts at Meta are not fixed size (at least not at the team level).

You do get to see the average size of cohorts, and you will need to explain why your team doesn’t meet them - for example if the entire team project is going exceedingly well, or the team is really made out if a lot of extraordinarily talented people - then you can argue why you have more than the average rate of excellent rankings.
Google and Meta doubled head count during covid. They probably just realize they don't have the ability to productively manage that many people/the unique opportunities covid presented are gone, so they're trying to get back to a more manageable size.
And everyone* is likewise free to complain about inconsequential choices of verbiage while men are being drafted against their will and forced to invade their neighbours.

*everyone but those poor souls being drafted or invaded...
Canonical/Snapcraft websites are down
https://ubuntu.com/

https://snapcraft.io/

https://microk8s.io/

it appears all Canonical properties are returning error:
503 Service Unavailable No server is available to handle this request.
We do this where I work. It's a lot of extra data types, but they're all extremely simple and better safe than sorry. As a rule, we don't send or receive actual domain objects in our APIs. It doesn't matter if they're currently "safe" - they might not be in the future.
Hopefully apps like Briar[1] comes in handy in order to communicate and organize in the vicinity during these Internet shutdowns.

[1]: https://briarproject.org/
"Tyson"? Wow. That's... appropriate I guess?
You can ignore the empirical evidence. NFTs work.
As a conscript (yep, in real life), I've found the practice of conscription questionable and have during service heard anecdotes of ways that might seem strangely humorous to render themselves less useful in the military. While I have not attempted anything more unusual than calling in sick on days I feel absolutely flat (I am a human being not a machine, mind you), my fellow conscripts and I were no strangers to stories of broken limbs and other ailments. Notably, it's not uncommon to come across fit-looking folks who were active in some sport back in school and outside of military facilities being medically unfit for military service.

As someone who has this burden to bear (yep I get how this is related to national security etc.), I just don't particularly fancy this responsibility. There's a part of me that wishes I didn't exist if I could have things my way. Forced conscription/enlistment is a hell of our own design; a necessary evil as some say. I hope future generations come up with better means than mandatory human enlistment (maybe enlist machines instead).
Meta doesn’t do interviews when passing between teams though (at least not in the common case).
Heh! You've mistaken me for a marketer, I think.

When I said I wanted control over the ranking, I meant as a user. Tell me what parameters I can rank on; give me a UI that makes it reasonably easy to express a ranking. That's it.

I hope UI design and stuff is orthogonal to the construction of an open index. I think this could be very interesting.
Worth pointing out that the article is measuring provisioning latency and success rates (how quickly can you get a GPU box running and whether or not you get an error back from the API when you try), and not "reliability" as most readers would understand it (how likely they are to do what you want them to do without failure).

Definitely seems like interesting info, though.
> Genome-wide association study

They looked at what genes are correlated with

> of musical beat synchronization

an ability to keep the beat in music

> demonstrates high polygenicity

and found that it's a trait caused by a bunch of genes in some complex makeup, not just one.
No. I dont think it had streaming capabilities when i was doing this test two years ago, although i see it does now.
I don’t think there’s any real correspondence between the necessity of being mortal in order to be human.

I do think mortality is often used as an allegory in order to humble and show how arrogance leads to fallibility, and to that end I 100% agree. But it’s important to separate the story telling device and the meaning behind it in my opinion.
Hopefully. In 2030. Starting from 10K tons next year.
Microsoft ruthlessly fired tons of "low performers" for over a decade, which gave them the organizational efficiency they needed to ship such resoundingly successful products as Bing Search, Windows Mobile, and Windows 8
I find the phrase "bulk purchase land" to be vaguely amusing for some reason.

My neighbor's 11,000 sq-ft house sits on two 15 acre lots. You buy the land in places where a 40-acre lot isn't considered unusual. IOW, pretty much anywhere that's not a city or a suburb of a major city.

As for the "how," you contact a realtor who specializes in rural properties and tell them what you're looking for.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32916984 (yesterday)
I noticed too. For years I had exactly zero spam but recently a few got through
Seems like the only thing that matters to you is Putin’s perspective and not the one of 44 million Ukrainians.
The article says its 50 people at Google who are affected. And they have a chance to apply to other teams.
Hence

> As long as ‘killed by Google’ continues to be a well-known meme
The link is broken?