skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
High-functioning might contradict calling it a problem? From the stories I read about Christopher Hitchens, he seemed like the definition of an unrepentant alcoholic and seemed to function quite well, but of course he died a bit young. I don't think many people are Christopher Hitchens though.
The reception your comment got says a lot about the HN community's ability to have adult discussion about subjects involving bodily harm.

The supply chain for our basic necessities of life maims and kills people but we consider putting food on plates to be well worth the tradeoffs. Having a blood diamond on your ring is not something we consider to be worth the tradeoffs. The tradeoffs made to get a smartphone or computer into a consumer's hand, along with the tradeoffs of consuming booze, exist somewhere in the nuanced continuum between those fairly extreme example points.
Depending on what the compiler and microcode are doing, maybe you already are!
> If you want to just learn it [...] then probably Haskell is the best language to learn the concepts

I do believe that the creator of Elixir (parent comment's poster) already knows the concepts. I might be wrong, though.
What people are really saying, but never will admit, is that they want AI to mirror their own biases, not to have none. That's the reason they are "cleaning" the input data.
Makes sense. Elon and Bezos have several spheres they overlap in now. From a business perspective having Elon own a core distribution of Bezos' news business doesn't make sense. This is likely true for the less-public families that own a lot of the media conglomerates as well.
> Google maps is fantastic. It beats literally everything else I can think of.

At least for walking and cycling, OSM has data leagues better than Gmaps. Also for driving actually, but navigation is indeed not as good. Lack of traffic info...
I outsource rat control to the neighborhood foxes and cats.
Are virtual cards actually useful for crimes? I assumed they were primarily for ending subscriptions that make canceling orders of magnitude harder than signing up.

Actual scammers I expect have stolen credit card databases to test.
It'd be such a relief if online Linux threads focused mostly on the technology itself and not on the various personalities historically associated with it.
Some years ago, I evaluated Protonmail as a replacement for my personal gmail account.

When came the steps "can I easily move from this service?", I realized you have to _pay_ to export all your emails from the service. They make it super easy for you to open an account and receive emails, and then makes you pay if you want to get a copy of your own data.

I contacted the support to tell them it is likely illegal under European Data Privacy laws. They replied I can still export email for free one by one if I wanted to... (which is obviously not a valid answer when you have 5000 emails)

Then I looked in Swiss laws for a similar clause, and found that Swiss laws doesn't give users of online services the right to easily and freely get a copy of their data. It was a law proposal at the time of my research.

So yeah... Your data is so secure in Switzerland that you don't even own your data !
Does a platform of mostly invite only communities count as microblogging?

Is Facebook a microblogging platform too?
What you're saying is (kinda) my response when people ask me about self-driving cars:

How does the car deal with object X on the road? For X=piano, a stack of solar panels, a tank, an airplane, a pile of stones ...

No one knows and since the size of the set of X is infinite, no one can appropriately train for it either.

That's why we can't have self-driving cars without a general understanding of what objects are and how they move.
I got a mastodon account on the mastodon.social instance years ago and took another look recently.

I still can't figure it out. I see people say they're moving to mastodon, try to search for them on the platform, and find nothing. Possibly they're on another instance that's not searchable from mastodon.social, or their name is different, or the search is bad...

But the end result is I can't find anybody there.
I did software consulting for a few different clients that built "smart" irrigation pumps. The work was an even split between a custom SOP/ERP/back-office system, and data-ingestion/processing pipelines. There was a fair bit of IP involved.
This. So much this. The Pantone system covers displays, materials of all types, paper of all types, and fabrics. The same Pantone color will look exactly the same on all those materials. That's why it's the standard and not just for graphic artists, but also for manufacturing, fashion, and other industries I'm probably not even aware of.
I think explainability is overrated (to use a Trumpian expression) & this fixation with coming up with explanations for inferences is a red herring. We cannot explain our own thoughts and actions and tend to ascribe logic & reason to many of our own actions, but it's almost always system-1 driven, for the most part. Correcting for edge-cases and unknown-unknowns is where we should focus our efforts methinks.
My last TomTom device was from a few years ago and it wasn't that great. Slow, low resolution display and updates took hours to apply.

I now use the TomTom Android app and it's better than any other app or device I have used. Good maps, with clear instructions and great traffic information.
Ending legacy admissions is a very quick way to reduce alumni donations.

I get the feeling that legacy admissions are actually a benefit for other students because it means that powerful families can become part of your social network. That is a big difference from a state school.
This is true until it isn't. I expect that if Twitter dies, it won't be a mass exodus, but a thousand cuts. It's not dying tomorrow, but in my opinion its days are numbered.

And I don't mean just because Musk took over, although he's made some decisions already that make no sense to me. It's got issues. People WANT an alternative.
Yes indeed, the lustre makes a huge difference with some colours - sometimes even affecting the perceived hue, not just the vibrance - Pantone 136C vs 136U for example. Same ink, different paper.
Businesses want multiple revenue streams at different layers of the stack with different cycles. Charging developers, printers, consumable producers, hardware makers, etc... means Pantone can make money at every level and they can increase/decrease the price as those different layers as more or less spending capacity is available at that period in the cycle for that layer.
Thank you. I will fix this issue
yeah.. sounds like a storm in a teacup unfortunately and is probably unlikely to have any effect on anything (incl. the adoption speed of Mastodon)... heck that number is probably 0.003% of the BOTS on Twitter ;)
Excuse the self-promotion but we have an independent crawler-index and so are one of very few genuine alternatives: https://www.mojeek.com/
On issue with the court system is it is extremely dependent on the specific people making the argument.

If they had said it’s a correction factor for the inherent racial bias of our selection criteria that’s far more compelling. Aka, we want to reward potential students for being on a yacht club/legacy admissions etc, but by doing so we disadvantage some minorities. But elite collages really don’t want to make that arguemnt.
I don't follow your logic. That makes them holy? Ego-less? Better than the rest of us?

Evidently, they gain media favor. They were the source of those figures, yes? So why even say anything?

Not-for-profit !== higher calling. It simply means a different set of financial and ta rules. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Not to pile on but this is just one of the many reasons why SMS is bad for 2FA.

https://sec.okta.com/articles/2020/05/sms-two-factor-authent...
The quality of Google Map is better than others because it has more users, and thus better input data. And that's the real problem - competitors cannot improve improve their product without better data, and so users find it inferior and avoid their product / service and turn back to Google Maps (which allows Google to improve their product further and take a lead). Note though that Google has another edge over its competitors - (1) Android OS has been collecting geo-location data even if you don't use Google Maps and (2) Google also gets their competitors data if a user uses a competing map app on Android OS.

Google search is also in a similar position - the vast amount of users means its competitors just cannot improve their product because users become disappointed with the quality and stop using it, thus denying them a chance to improve their product.

The old solution to prevent anti-competitive behaviour and foster healthy capitalism was to break them up. But for more modern problems like this, I think a different approach is also needed - we need to force such monopolies to also share their data with the competitors, till the competitors become large enough to compete with them on their own.

(For those seeking a decent alternatives to Google Maps, I recommend Here - https://wego.here.com/ - it was owned by Nokia before they sold it to a consortium of European automobile manufacturers and is quite good).
I wonder how many RHEL licenses they actually had, a minimal amount to make support requests I'd guess.
Apple hasn’t made a decent mouse for more than twenty years starting with the hockey puck.
Since Google stopped using/supporting XMPP/Jabber as chat protocol it has just become worse and worse. Luckily I moved almost all my Google Talk contacts to other Jabber/XMPP servers and to Matrix.
It's quite easy to explain. You take a bunch of tensors and multiply them by a bunch of tensors.

Humans can't wrap their heads around multiple tensors being multiplied together and never will. It's not a problem with AI. It's a problem with humans. It's not AIs fault that we can understand F=ma but can't understand 50 tensors being stacked.
If it's not a compelling state interest doesn't that mean that the government should let the universities do as they wish?
Amazing SDF software
The fired senior management might already be familiar with lawyers experienced in making Elon pay up. They will get their money and then some.
I didn't say any of that?
Steinway is interesting - the company was founded in the USA by Heinrich Steinweg - a german immigrant that previously founded another piano company in his home region that also still exists today: Grotrian-Steinweg Pianofortefabrik in Braunschweig, Germany.
I live in Braunschweig and a friend of mine worked in the company as an engineer for a few years.
Can someone please explain what happened. I've seen the video a few times now, so I saw what happened but I am completely ignorant of either regs or etiquettes that allowed it to happen. It's a race right? I would assume grinding your car up against a wall would slow it down somewhat. Why were all the cars in the lower part of the screen going so much slower in a still live race that something like what happened could work?
> the latest "scandal" in, say, the knitting world

Figuring that was likely an exaggeration, but realizing that you just never really know in 2022, I decided to google “knitting scandal” and low and behold the human race never fails to disappoint in its capacity to create chaos among its various communities.
> There is nothing magical about functional programming

How come not? I read that F# gives you compiler exception when you didn't match all possible values. Or when you didn't handle __maybe__ cases. JS even doesn't mind comparing strings with ints and incorrectly summing them together and not throwing a runtime exception less alone a compiler complaint.

"1" == 1
true
"1" + 1
'11'
Ok, so you are talking about rowhammer. Let me try to put this in my own words.

https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf

DRAM is using hardware technology that is hard. Each dram bit can be addressed by ranks, banks, chips rows and columns. Depending on stuff, you typically read/load a whole cache line from DRAM. This is nice and easy. However, AFAIU there is delay needed in the chip after reading bytes. This means a read to subsequent cache line would be slow. Therefore, there is a strong reason to lay out subsequent data far away, ideally on different chips.

So you can read cache line #0 that can be on some physical chip #A and if you read line #1 it should not be on chip #A but ideally on a "random" other physical die.

This mapping, of "physical memory address" into actually where the data is on the DDRAM, is very much a hash function. This is usually done by the CPU manufacturer I guess. See the reversing of sandy bridge algo:

https://lackingrhoticity.blogspot.com/2015/04/l3-cache-mappi...

Rowhammer is an attack, where the attacker targets a single physical chip of DRAM and cause its misbehaviour due to keeping it active in unusal patterns. RowHammer is basically about reversing that hashing and exploiting the shortcuts dram manufacturers took when producing the chips.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/every-7-8us-your-computers-memor...

But this is about DRAM. I don't know how it works in Cache, but I don't think there is a special hashing algo. It just uses middle bits to address the cache line, as the parent article says.
> Ending legacy admissions is a very quick way to reduce alumni donations.

MIT is a good counterexample with a large endowment and no legacies.
I’m sure some of that was done in collaboration with bean counters
I don't think these are just ergonomic wrinkles. I was surprised to learn that it seems to matter which instance you join. I assumed "decentralized" means "it doesn't matter where you're located". To me this is rather a basic, philosophical flaw.

I would also expect a decentralized network to easily support multiple identities. At least the default client seemingly does not. Twitter on the other hand allows switching between profiles.

I think these two issues are connected. It seems to me the mastodon community (or parts of it) leans towards a rather weird understanding of identity and community.
You gave up using a programming language after a day? And Haskell after installing/building some dependencies for 20mins? Tbh, this sounds like you were not really trying. What kind of experience with a programming language do you expect to have after a mere day? Learning takes time. Anyone might spew some not idiomatic code within a day, but really becoming proficient usually takes longer.

Do you have any references for the "Rust is heavily influenced by FP" thing? To me it does not feel that much FP. I have (for now) given up writing FP like code in Rust. ML-influence -- Yeah maybe, if I squint a bit.
Pretty sure more than that re/joined since twitter's acquisition was confirmed. If you count the numbers since this whole ordeal began months ago, I'd say it's a pretty low chance Twitter is gonna "die" or get "tumblr"'d. They began stagnating years ago but this is at least gonna drag it for years to come. If Musk plays it right it might even grow (assuming meta's endeavors stay the same).
Zoonotic spillovers are rare, this is why you probably never heard about corona viruses before 2002/2003 (SARS). The probability is increasing of course because we are detroying animals' habitats. And because we live in a densely interconnected world but can't agree on how to control diseases. We can either work on those problems, or throw the hands up in the air and blame the bats.
I've seen that with good models (I think it was StableDiffusion, not sure), you could get style imitation of a specific person's style; even if it was using a ocean of works, the model was still successfully fishing the exact drops of a specific artist (or close enough that I couldn't tell the difference). And thus the model was able to rip-off dozen of different styles.
Ha! I was one of them. I never even used Twitter, but a nerd friend of mine told me about the Fediverse told me about it and I actually got quite excited.

Find the right server and it seems like a great place to be!
That makes Mastodon more of an attractive alternative to Discord rather than a replacement of the "digital commons" aspect of Twitter. But as some people have stated, maybe Mastodon doesn't want to _be_ that, but some people hope that there can be something that can assume that mantle.
Only Apple devices
Can you give some examples of increased code complexity over the last 20 years? I am blanking on that.

I have noticed a lot more ops complexity and additional library usage, but not complexity in the code I am responsible for.
Where are you finding these amazing user-generated images?
This will turn into another lesson in why simplistic business aphorisms fail to capture the true reasons for success or failure.
I think these kinds of articles are geared toward people who do not know (even superficially) about the models. Perhaps the sentiment they want to elicit is "If the person who created these models cannot explain how they work, then he is not so different from me."
Solution - need some big pull to get this done.

The number needs to be recreated at the original provider (assuming no one else has picked it up), activated, ported multiple times (if you have ported earlier) and then brought to the current final provider.

Source - lost a 20+ year old number during a port activity the same way. Fortunately the provider was a client, and got a circle head involved to recover the number in the way it is mentioned above. Took a week.
Mogan v1.1.1: Faster GNU TeXmacs Using KDE Breeze Icons
I think that will be true for "mass produced content" things like music for specific activities or uses e.g. workout music, background music for TV/movies/games/restaurants. I think there will still be a lot of people involved in higher value productions. They will definitely be using AI generated content as a multiplier but will likely add their own composition and tweaks to it in order to make it fit their vision. The first step in any design process will probably be to generate a bunch of related content kind of like 3D modelling artists dig up a bunch of reference material before starting their work except the reference material will probably be able to be directly incorporated into the finished piece. There will also be a bunch of purists who do everything themselves, this is obvious since there are still a lot of people who knit their own sweaters.
I think it's a mistake to think that Mastodon would necessarily be the beneficiary of any Twitter exodus. I think it's more likely that the beneficiaries would be established, centralized services like Discord or Reddit. The underlying media models may be different, but I suspect people care less about the model than about seeing things they're interested in, and plenty of these people will already have accounts on these other major services. (Some people use Twitter less for "participating in a specific niche community" and more for "building a personal brand", but there are other centralized services that provide that as well, like Instagram).
Why does it require a "brain study" to even suggest restructuring the workday?
I've certainly entered passwords at the shell prompt by accident. This doesn't happen often, but it sure does.
There was this discussion about recovering from burnout a while back. Perhaps it can help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33260525

But I can fully understand you, I don't think I completely burned out, but I was somewhere along the spectrum. I was, and am, in a priviledged situation where I can afford to take some months of work. Initially it did not feel like it helped all that much, but on later reflection it at least "stopped the bleeding".

I am in a better place now a year or two later, but my perspective on work has probably changed forever.
OpenSSL Dodges a Security Bullet
>It seems to me the mastodon community (or parts of it) leans towards a rather weird understanding of identity and community.

I get that sense too. It feels mostly like vBulletin with Birdsite skin with some cross-forum RSS built in.
The military will accept recruits who have previously used marijuana (and some other drugs). But they need to pass a urine test when they actually enlist.
The asymptotic behavior is not the entire story. Because persistent data structures almost necessarily need to have their data allocated non-contiguously they have terrible cache performance and prefetching/speculation behavior in comparison to data structures that take advantage of contiguous memory locations.

I also mentioned sets, not lists.
New Species of Scops-Owl Discovered in Africa
It has a well hidden web version. The easiest way to access the web version is via duckduckgo - just do a search for anything and click the map tab. the actual map tiles and data all come from apples servers.
This appears to be an unbiased way to give developers the ability to point to permissively licensed source code and say, "look, this fragment is open source, therefore I'm not infringing by copying it."

There are caveats but this seems to be a move in the right direction.
I read neural network (NN) books in the 90ies, and they covered for example the problem with corner cases already. One thing I remember is a (comparatively simple) NN which created the past tense of an english verb, and there are exceptions like "go" and "went". It preserved that for a while, but further training brought it back to "goed", because NNs do generalize and you need tons of additional "storage" in a NN to keep such corner cases around. That also means if you need (near) 100% reliability you are in the wrong place when it comes to NN aka "AI".
I think we're reading different threads.

As others have already mentioned here before:

- a "style" isn't copyright-able

- Looking at how others have done art, imitating them to learn, and then combining what we learned with everything else we've seen in our life is how humans produce art. And it's the same way that stablediffusion produces art: train on data, reproduce based on what it's learned, combine everything its seen with a prompt to create something new.
> Even if copyright didn't exist, you couldn't copy the Google executable.

If copyright did not exist, you could take it as a google employee and start your own google without going to jail.
> Is there any scenario where that is no longer true?

Yes, if the system is already down and the cost of introducing new problems is zero. Which is not the case now.
LMAO, no, but your reasoning is.
> If you fire me? No obligation.

Lets change fire to lay off. There is a subtle but important difference. If you fire someone it is generally for cause - that is they did something bad. You still want someone doing their job, but because of their bad behavior it can't be them. That is if someone gets a MBA, moves to a management position and starts demanding sex of their underlings, you fire them and demand they pay for the education you got.

By contrast when you lay someone off, you are saying "you were good at your job, but we don't need someone doing your job anymore" (or maybe we can't afford to pay someone to do the job). You lost your job, but there wasn't anything you could have done different if you wanted to stay.
For my personal server?

ArchLinux, something I would never use professionally but enjoy on my machine. Packages are mostly vanilla and are updated quickly.

The last software company I worked for used CentOS.
I mean no responsible developer would take the output of a ML model and then act on that without any tests on whether the output makes sense or not. That's the way to handle unexplainable AI.

There's also opportunity to look at uncertainty estimation, i.e. look at the epistemic uncertainty of the model and use it as a proxy for potential error. That seems to be a main thrust for AI right now. I'm currently writing a paper looking at this for dynamical systems.
I imagine we’ll hear these same justifications from the Supreme Court.
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