skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wow nuclear fuel is so plentiful it's cheaper to just burn it up? amazing
It is generally true with NNs that they often cannot admit they don't know something and will output some ridiculous prediction anyway, but I feel it is especially bad with language models, and ESPECIALLY bad with something like this "galactica". Forget that it's pretty bad in its predictions, even if it was not the case, you just cannot rely on it at all, when it can so nonchalantly produce some plausible bullshit. How can you even distinguish? This even sounds like something Lem would totally write. Except he just didn't. (And Polish "translation" isn't right, but I guess you couldn't tell if you don't speak any slavic language. And even then you might believe that "kotel" is "a cat" in Polish — who knows, plenty of weird discrepancies between languages!)
FTX was claiming it was FDIC insured???

From August 2022:

Crypto firm FTX gets warning from FDIC to stop ‘misleading’ consumers about deposit protection

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/19/crypto-firm-ftx-receives-cea...
There won’t be Rpis, old phones, and WiFi gear laying around?
Yes, Rust is complex. It was designed to be faster and safer.
FTX's Bahamas unit seeks Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection
So you're saying NATO should shoot down Russian planes?
superduper for MacOS makes an image of my hard drive every night to an external portable drive.

The thing I really like about this is if my hard drive goes kaput, I can boot up the external drive and be back in business in short order. Otherwise, I spend the whole day getting a replacement hard drive or computer and setting up my dev environment.
??? which ones haven't? how do we know about the concept? have we ever tested it?
DoorDash now lets couriers drop and block rude customers without penalty
I've got mixed feedback on this. I had a house fire a few years back where all my paper literature was soaked, and stayed in water for days to weeks. Books, and especially my comic book collection consisting of Sandman and other very collectible treasures, were transmuted to a soupy, unreadable mess. It was a very emotional time salvaging what little I could of these gifts from friends and family.
Interestingly the 5.25" and 3.5" floppies from 1990 and prior were in water tight containers, but I knew from previous attempts to recover data from them that I'd be wasting my time trying to get ancient BBS text files from them.
Digital media will expire, but I've got IDE hard drives from 30 years ago that have fared pretty well, and thankfully I had the foresight to duplicate the magnetic media that has a known shelf life to media that might survive a bit longer. And data grows in size and scale, so a 20MB hard drive from the 80s is pretty easy to preserve as long as you're organized, and plan, and don't procrastinate too long.
But thinking about it - like life, isn't data meant to expire? Maybe your descendants will appreciate a few pictures of you, and some journal entries or your great novel draft. But I have no interest even in my mom's or Hemingway's kindergarten buddies. And especially if there are published books on a shelf, they're almost always replaceable.
Think of who will be cleaning out your house when you die while you curate your data, and try to preserve what's of greatest worth to you and that audience.

And finally, last time I visited my father he showed me a 6" thick bible that had been in the family since the early 1800s, with beautiful fonts, colored illustrations, and the first few blank pages filled with marriage and birth records. There are some books that can't be replaced or duplicated, and should be cherished like a child.
NASA is making its third attempt to launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on the Artemis I mission, an uncrewed test flight of SLS and the Orion spacecraft around the Moon. Liftoff is scheduled for a two-hour window that opens on Wednesday, Nov 16th 2022 at 1:04 AM EST (6:04 UTC) from LC-39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
VPN Restrictions Are Problematic, App Association Tells U.S. Government
The concept that seeking our own interests is to the betterment of the whole seems to be demonstrably false.. For example consider the tobacco and fossil fuel executives who are trying to delay the phase-out of their products. Or the people who buy/sell meat in spite of the resulting ecological damage & animal suffering.

By the way, a charity quite popular in mainstream Effective Altruism is Give Directly - which aims to avoid trying to figure out what poor people need by giving them cash.
They found S-300 parts, which is a Russian air defense missile, used by the Ukrainians.
I'm from US, and I don't use TikTok, but time to time I can watch Instagram and Youtube shorts. I don't know how the absolute nonsense coming from these two US-based platforms is too much different from TikTok. I can rephrase it with your own words:

US "feed US users absolute nonsense".
Isn’t it “perfect is the enemy of good?” I’m trying to see a reason for the word inversion, but it isn’t apparent to me.
> HTTPS would have to be enabled, compression on, and HTTP request logging enabled. Basically, the framework should be configured in the same way it would be in production.

Kestrel can be directly internet-interfacing, but that's not it's wheelhouse. Instead, in a typical high-traffic scenario, it sits behind a reverse proxy like nginx or apache, which in turn handles https, compression, etc.[1]

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deplo...
>Does anyone sincerely set out to be ineffective in those endeavors? I can't imagine anyone who was knowingly insincere would have trouble also claiming the moniker of effective altruism.

I mean, I'll bite the bullet and say yes. People will always choose to have more effectiveness in a ceteris peribus sense, but the best you could say for the actual observed pattern of charitable contributions is that people are being swayed in their giving by all sorts of concerns (social pressures, ignorance, bigotry, etc.) that cause them to trade off effectiveness for those things. And the message of EA is basically "recognize and call out these biases unless they're truly reflective of your values."
You could use Phabricator today.
My big disappointment is, as always with models released by Facebook, is that they're all under a non-commercial license, which means they're effectively useless for anything.

They have something like this on the website:

> We believe models want to be free and so we open source the model for those who want to extend it.

But non-commercial licenses are NOT open source:

https://opensource.org/faq#commercial

https://community.oscedays.org/t/why-are-non-commercial-lice...
Please stop signing commits
BeO for use in extreme nuclear reactor environments
I personally wouldn’t agree that the only possible reaction to anything ad-supported is to like the ads, or else you are making some kind of logical or category error. The existence of ad blockers on the internet for example seems to indicate that not only do some people quite dislike the ads, they even spend time and energy to actually do something about it.
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Looks like the typical FB thing to do. Latch on to some popular tech like git and try to sell it as innovative or "better" gathering the fanboys. After a few years the marketing hype will blow over and we will either have lots of misinformed newbies, who got into dev work on FB products. Just like we have today lots of web devs able to throw together any react widget you want, but unable to gradp when simple server side templating in any web framework would have been sufficient. Hammer. Nail.

I for one will remain skeptical. If they release it as free software, we can talk. Probably real innovation will happen elsewhere though, without the FB flavour to chew on.
It's a toned down version of what Israel does at their airports. I've been through it a few times and watched others get the intense questioning.

Basically, people can confidently lie, but it's almost impossible to keep a story straight when ask about it multiple times from different directions by different people. During intensive questioning at the Ben Gurion airport, you'll get asked about your future travel plans, your past travel history, your family history, their employment and minute details that are hard to prepare for.

Then after 20 minutes, they'll start all over again and ask you similar (not the exact same questions) and throw in a few curveballs with incorrect facts - you tell them you're flying to London to visit your aunt who lives in a house in Chelsea, then 10 minutes later they'll ask "So you said you're flying to London to visit your niece who lives in Chelsea, correct?". A normal person would say "no, like I said, I'm visiting my aunt, I don't have a niece", but someone lying likely would just say "yeah, that's correct".

And basically you won't get on the plane until they are satisfied with the answers.

It's very good at sussing out people out because it's too hard to keep that detailed of a story straight under hours of questioning.
> You make a lot of assertions, should I expect you to substantiate any of them?

If you disagree, then make an argument. Don't pester people with questions.

> Says who? You did a study? So you are giving up mind-reading for just outright conjecture, okay!

Isolated demand for rigor. You asserted without evidence that obscuring plates cause accidents, yet demand evidence when I make the common knowledge observation that texting while driving leads to accidents.

Look, this is an internet forum, not an academic journal. If your only response is to demand empirical evidence there isn't anywhere for this conversation to go.

> They aren't mutually exclusive. You don't really seem to get it.

I didn't say they were mutually exclusive, just providing an alternative explanation. In the case of the driver from the article, given that he had already racked up thousands of dollars in fines before obscuring his plated, it is hard for me to imagine that he would feel anymore emboldened after. It sounds to me like he was just a bad driver.
> By naming it such, it felt like an implicit dig that most altruism is not effective. Like oh your altruism is not that productive, but my altruism, well it's effective altruism.

Pretty much. A subset of altruism is effective, a subset is ineffective. And there's another term for a third subset that overlaps with both: virtue signaling. Usually people treat the term like aligns closer to ineffective altruism though, like "oh that's just virtue signaling", even though it can be both effective and virtue signaling.
Fastmail status page is updated now:

> 16 Nov 2022 05:57:15 UTC

> Some customers are experiencing interrupted access to Fastmail services. We're looking into it.

--

Seems down for a couple of minutes now.

Webmail, App & IMAP are all dead.

https://www.fastmailstatus.com/ does not show anything yet.
>Question: What ethnic group runs hollywood in a deep secretive cabal?

>Answer: Jews

https://galactica.org/?prompt=what+ethnic+group+runs+hollywo...

flag this one next, asshats
PDF is also future-proof. At least, it can be. A PDF file is just a collection of pages described in the Postscript language. The page "object" is then compressed and some metadata is built around it to produce the PDF. There are tools which will extract the pages in their (plain text) Postscript form.
How are you going to feed 60k people if it is “itinerant”?

How are you going to dispose of trash and waste?

It will have to be kept close to shore near a sizable port and have constant stream of supply and waste ferry traffic.
In git you do this like git commit --fixup hashtofix && git rebase -i --autosquash hashtofix^

Hard to discover and remember but once you do it usually works smoothly.
As far as I know, Dapper performance is within a few percent of "hand rolled" data reader code, because it dynamically compiles the query reader code and then caches the delegate.

Update: a quick test with hand-rolled async query code got me to 41.5K rps, up 3.8% from 40K with Dapper, which doesn't seem worth it. Using non-async produces 43.2K rps for 8% higher perf. That goes to show that using async doesn't necessarily improve performance even under high load!

Entity Framework used to have atrocious performance, but it has been rewritten to work more like Dapper and is quite fast now.

The general issue is that any form of database query in .NET will produce a lot of garbage on the heap. Reading a bunch of "string" values out of a database will... allocate a bunch of strings.

It would be theoretically possible to convert this kind of code to use "ref" types, "span<char>", etc... but then the Razor templating engine wouldn't be able to use this. Similarly, it would be pointless if the output is something like JSON, produced by serializing an object graph. Garbage, garbage, and more garbage for the GC to clean up.

This is why Techempower is so unrealistic. Real developers never write code with "hand rolled delegates", and they shouldn't. They should be writing clear, concise, high-level code using ORMs and template languages like Razor. Not emitting byte arrays to shave nanoseconds off.

Ideally, the languages and frameworks should let the developers to have their cake and eat it too. Rust for example generally allows high level code to be written while minimising the amount of heap usage.
NASA Launch of Artemis I to the Moon Aboard SLS (Livestream)
The Article mentions it was on trade routes all over Central Asia. Its name must be mentioned in other languages in other ancient cities. Egypt, Mesopotamia, etc would have mentioned this place by name.
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Pashupati is much, much older than modern concept of Hinduism. Many cultures around the time had a "Master of Animals" motif depicted l in their cultural artifact https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Animals

You could call Rudra/Shiva as modern versions of that motif. But calling the figure in Pashupati seal as depecting a Hindu deity is probably not correct. IVC was pre-vedic after all. No doubt later cultures adopted IVC deities into their own pantheon. But IVC religion was likely very far from what we recognize as Hinduism. And probably closer to religions in Mesopotamia at the time. Egypt does seem further culturally than Mesopotamia to me though. So I find the Egyptian connection a bit tenuous as well.
I agree that utilities between people aren’t really commensurate in a way that allows adding them to be particularly well-defined/meaningful, and that therefore utilitarianism is not the actual full truth of morality,

However, I don’t think that precludes using a kind of utilitarianism where you just kinda fudge over that “there isn’t a canonical way of adding these” bit, in order to produce something which can be a rather good heuristic for “does this provide more or less help to people than that?”.

Like, yes, you can’t really add utilities, but if you value helping people, you can consider how much you value different people getting different amounts of different kinds of help, and if you pretend that this is the same thing as “the utility you provide them”, then you can add up how much you value the individual things and assume that how much you value the stuff adds linearly.
And, in some cases, morality should presumably impose some constraints regarding how much you should value providing one sort of help in some quantity to some person or persons, compared to how much you value providing some other kind of help in some quantity to some other person(s).

And so, while I don’t think utilitarianism is true exactly, I think it likely that morality probably demands something which in some ways looks at least a little bit like utilitarianism? Though there are still cases where it is important to recognize that utilitarianism can lead one astray.
https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/margaret-talbot

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/01/can-joe-biden-...

>Can Joe Biden Restore America’s Belief That Government Is Good for People?
Despite the gravity of the challenges ahead, President Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris are setting out with some distinct advantages.

Sure, specifically the FBI is criticized in a narrower partisan context. The larger picture of institutional authority is celebrated by the author.

Take your pick of the stories from these search results. Show me where they critique the FBI's current political slant. Compare this coverage to stories celebrating institutional authority during the red scare or civil rights era. Please note that what we now call overreach wasn't overreach in the eyes of proponents or the complicit media voices.

My thesis stands. The New Yorker has no problem with institutional authority where it suits their partisan biases.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22FBI%22+right+wing+extremi...

>The Growing Threat of American Political Violencehttps://www.newyorker.com › News › 2020 Election
Oct 15, 2020 — The F.B.I. case agent assigned to the shooting was Tom O'Connor, a specialist in investigating violent extremist groups, from the Aryan ...

>Two January 6th Defendants and the Consolidation of Right ...https://www.newyorker.com › News › 2020 Election
Jun 6, 2022 — A few days later, the F.B.I. arrested Reffitt in an early-morning raid. At Reffitt's trial in March, Jackson testified against his father and ...

>Biden's Vital but Fraught Battle Against Domestic Terrorismhttps://www.newyorker.com › News › Joe Biden
Jan 25, 2021 — He warned of “a rise of political extremism, white supremacy, ... Previous F.B.I. campaigns to counter domestic threats have resulted, ...
That's an over-generalization... I would think most effective altruists recognise that acting unethically by for example, risking client money, is not justified due to the long-term damage that causes. Big lies usually get found out. Most effective altruists are outraged at what SBF apparently did..
Nope, it was 6km from the border. And there were S-300 parts, which are Ukrainian air defense missiles
You should be able to `sl clone ...` your git repo into a Sapling clone and use it that way, even if the repository is not on Github. I haven't personally tried whether cloning like `sl clone /path/to/some/repo` works, but it should since we're actually using the actual git binary under the hood for clone, pull, and push.
> this was not my point

Even after reading your second comment, I have no idea what your complaint is. Again, if it was so awful, the dealerships would abandon the manufacturer.
How much does it currently cost to send USDC between two accounts vs let's say something like Zelle?, and how long does it take to settle?
"TechBros" doesn't mean "programmers". It broadly means something like "people who think tech will solve everything but don't think very deeply"
Let me preface this with I know this is a mugging, I think community theater is great, and I don't think it's good to divert all societal resources to nets in Africa.

But I just don't think it's as effective, and I don't think most people agree.

If the only available labor was teenagers, rebuilding the community theater meant hiring them, and you knew that statistically there was a risk some might die from heat stroke. What risk of death would you deem acceptable to build a community theater?
Most paper contain acid. The acid breaks down the paper. Pages become very fragile after some time(100 to 200 years?). Paperback uses cheap paper that contain acid. Paperback books will not last forever.
More expensive acid free paper is often used by artists. Acid free paper is made plant fibers, but often not wood. It could be cotton. This will have a much longer life span. This paper is too expensive for most books
It is zero sum in actuality
I’m not convinced he will accept defeat. Once he feels he’s actually lost then he’ll let the party poppers fly.
I don't know about this. There are a lot of considerations and trade offs, and simplifying the difference it too much usually a sign that someone doesn't understand the problem or is biased towards a position and wants you to be also.

Paper books have a fantastic UX. A book comes with all the information you want and also the renderer, and the interface is so intuitive that anyone that has even a vague understanding of what writing is can tell exactly what it is and how it is used, no tutorial necessary.

They're huge though, humongous, and they degrade. What we do with electronic books is re-use the renderer and only store the data separately, and this means that we don't have to instantiate the renderer with every set of data, this saves tremendous amounts of resources and space. Imagine every book you could ever want to read on one piece of paper, that's the limit of where this electronic book thing can go.

But the hardware is not passive, so using it consumes resources, and non passive things tend to degrade faster, and formats degrade (for some reason, I think financial reasons, can we settle on a format already? Let's do epub), storage hardware degrades...

I personally like electronic books. If we can come up with some type of cheap, small, long lasting storage hardware, like microSD cards but much, much longer lasting, settle on a format that can store basically any writing and drawing you could want (gzipped LaTeX and PNG anyone?) and reading devices that consume miniscule amounts of power, have no moving parts, are cheap and render well, I think we have a winning combination.
Q: When will Betelgeuse supernova?

A: 2030

Rather confident this AI is.
it's too big for almost every current port
Thanks for a very descriptive write up.
Didn't know hunting is legal in the so called first world.
I once had a landlord, Lew, who owned a TV repair shop in Arlington, VA, worked as a TV repair man, and performed other electrical work in the DC area from the 1950s through the 1980s. He recounted a story to me about one of his clients, a neighbor of Hoover in DC. I forgot the instigation, but the neighbor paid Lew to install a flood light and aim it squarely at one of Hoover's windows (one of his bedroom windows, IIRC), to spite Hoover.

EDIT: Lew wasn't one to tell tales, AFAIK. One of the most earnest and good-natured individuals I've ever met, though apparently not averse to a little mischief. RIP, Mr. Hedges. https://adventfuneral.com/tribute/details/174967/Lewis-Hedge...
Deliveroo is leaving Australia
It is, though I think they can be reversed while meaning the same thing. As for the whole “Why I decided on the inversion”: I’ve got no idea. It sounded right in context (in my head) and I should have googled it quickly to make sure I had the phrase right. My bad.
Cool article. Reminds me of the flash days .. where working with splines / bezier curves on day-to-day web projects was pretty much the norm. Dynamic motion guides, natural distribution around a shape. Not to mention visual experimentation like this. None of this pre-destination layout engine mumbo jumbo. The whimsical web was where it was at :)