skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some context/history:

For compiler people reading this, a lot of common compiler terms have been entirely reinvented in the context of machine learning frameworks. An ML "graph" refers almost exactly to the dataflow graph (DFG) of a program. TensorFlow 1.0 only exposed a DFG, which is well known to be far simpler to apply optimizations to (assuming you have a linear algebra compiler).

PyTorch integrated with Python (an interpreted language) and does not expose an underlying DFG. This is labeled "eager" and means that compilation of PyTorch requires optimization over both the control flow graph (CFG) and DFG. Python by default exposes neither of these things in a standard way. Some ML workloads simplify easily to a DFG (torch FX can handle this), but the general case does not. Although TorchScript (a subset of Python) tackled the CFG in 1.0, the team is now taking it further and compiling Python byte-code itself (with torchdynamo), which means you don't need to change any code and still get compilation speed ups! That's why 2.0 is significant.

Of course, all of this requires a linear algebra compiler to actually do the optimizations which is why things like AITemplate (for inference) and TorchInductor (which calls into a bunch of other compilers for training) exist for PyTorch. TensorFlow's linear algebra compiler is XLA.
The Happy Bunny License
Yes, OK, madeleines. I think that A.J. Liebling said something to the effect, If he could do that with madeleines, just think what he could do with cassoulet. (My copy of Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris was recently damaged in a flood, and has not yet been replaced.)
Lehman wasn't fraud, though.
I don't know what the subject we were discussing (whether TikTok is part of a plot to dumb down Americans) has to do with Xinjiang.

> every single message you have posted is defending China

I just comment on what interests me at the moment, and because of the rising level of paranoia about China (paranoia which I think is dangerous), I've been commenting more on these sorts of issues - which I happen to know a bit about.

Shill accusations go against HN rules, by the way.
Yes absolutely.

Jobs like this are hard to get into, the barrier to entry tends to be high, but once you are on a high functioning team it is really pleasant.
I think pessimizer is implying that spending a night or two on the beach in the tropics within walking distance of a town is perhaps not actually that risky.
In the context of comparing it to TnT or a Sulfur battery you need the oxygen too.
And I always thought it was because misspelling threw (early) spam filters off.
Or maybe it could be amended to be adapted to the today's world (i doubt recommendation algorithms were on the minds of 18th century lawmakers).
It’s interesting very few have pieced this together. Booz has brought in substantial revenue for the government. The site has already paid for itself.
Perhaps, if we look only at the species that we know have already gone fully extinct. And of course, if there are more than a handful of any species, it technically could recover.

But driving looking only through the rear-view mirror is a plan for disaster.

We must also look at the declines in existing species, like 80% over just a few decades of insects, many types of plants, birds, fish, and more. These are massive and rapid declines, and there is little in the way of trends that are turning in their favor.

In fact, more than climate change, habitat destruction and over-fishing/over-grazing/over-extraction may destroy many species far before climate change would undo them.

Moreover, the actual measurements of climate change indicate that it is changing far MORE rapidly than the models. Plus, we're apparently blowing right through a number of tipping points, including arctic albedo (from sea ice completely melting where it never did before, and the last few inches of ice no longer reflecting white), gigatons of methane starting to release from the thawing permafrost, and several other feed-forward disasters.

Plus, few are looking at what point the food web breaks. Once that happens (and no one knows if we first lose the bees, the plankton, or some other critical link, or a zoonotic pandemic where we don't get as lucky as the last time) we're so far beyond screwed.... and so is the ecosystem
> In 2008 the iPhone (original) was just out and had potato for camera, so everyone was still using SLR's and "normal cameras". But yet... people still got upset.

Yes. It seems the social memory of this is being lost, but I heard LOTS of stories back then of people getting upset at someone with a camera. And also earlier, before smartphones even existed. The idea that it's the existence of smartphones that's made people defensive about cameras seems to be merely plausible but not actually true.
How much are they paying? I suspect it may be a shocking premium.
"But recent research by Fed economists finds that the participation gap is now mostly due to excess retirements—that is, retirements in excess of what would have been expected from population aging alone. These excess retirements might now account for more than 2 million of the 3‑1/2 million shortfall in the labor force.

What explains these excess retirements? Health issues have surely played a role, as COVID has posed a particularly large threat to the lives and health of the elderly. In addition, many older workers lost their jobs in the early stages of the pandemic, when layoffs were historically high. The cost of finding new employment may have appeared particularly large for these workers, given pandemic-related disruptions to the work environment and health concerns.

Also, gains in the stock market and rising house prices in the first two years of the pandemic contributed to an increase in wealth that likely facilitated early retirement for some people."

Kind of amusing that to certain extent the true cause of the labor shortage runs perhaps contrary to the common narrative of "entitled millennials unwilling to work hard" but perhaps the truth is more along the lines of being due to "enjoying the fruits of early retirement" boomers and FIRE practitioners?
High pressure to me, in this case, is because the stakes are high. And if not enough time is given that makes it pressure. The whole
way I think in these circumstances is different to on the job. There is more
shortcutting, looking for artificial tricks and so on. In the real job more deep thinking/strategic/ looking for real world murphys law type things that’ll bite you.

But interviewing, i.e. determining if you want 5k hours work from someone in less than 5 hours, is going to be heuristic and imperfect. Always.
In US. Our 2005 CR-V has a clutch-starter interlock. None of my other (older) five manual cars have/had them. It does not appear to be a federal motor vehicle standard requirement*. On some cars which are factory-equipped, there are instructions on how to defeat the system (typically for off-road/trail riding).

* https://www.nhtsa.gov/interpretations/24473drn
“Guilt by association” doesn’t imply legal guilt? It’s a common euphemism and it fits exactly what you’re describing.

Signal has often valued being technically correct over pandering to media narratives for marketing reasons.
Tucker Carlson: I can't believe what I'm hearing. Some so-called "experts" are using artificial intelligence to generate fake Bible verses.

This is just outrageous. The Bible is the word of God, and no machine can replicate its wisdom and power.

These fake verses are nothing more than a cheap imitation, created by godless liberals who want to undermine the authority of the Bible.

And let me tell you, the American people are not going to stand for it. We believe in the power of the Bible, and we will not let these fake verses tarnish its reputation.

We need to speak out against this blasphemy and let these liberals know that they cannot mess with the word of God.

The Bible is not a toy to be played with by these so-called "experts" and their fancy machines. It is a sacred text, and it deserves to be treated with the respect and reverence it deserves.

We need to take a stand against this sacrilege and protect the integrity of the Bible. And that's the truth.
It is incomplete and inaccurate. i.e. current service I have is not reported in the map, service drops we no longer use but still exist in the demarc are not reported. Perhaps one day it will be useful, but in the 6 locations I could use it for it was inadequate.
Summary: Inflation is is lower (ie: the prices continue to increase, but at a rate slower than expected). The 2nd derivative of prices is down with an (expected, at the time of the speech) PCE of 6.0% YoY.

Powell still thinks that inflation will take a lot of work to tame and expects interest rates to remain elevated. But these results here are _better than expected_, so the stock market / bond market responded quite favorably this past Wednesday.
The irony is that all they had to do was copy the Firefox builtin update dialog that simply prompts you to restart the browser for updates.
There's also The Dangerous Book for Boys
For me, it's partly the things you say, but also the zooooooooooom. Ain't no camera phone with good zoom.
The left-leaning head of the FBI made similar comments today: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/fb...

And you won’t believe me when I say this, but in US-China diplomatic terms, an official saying a technology “allows them…if they want to” to perform influence operations means they already are.

As further corroboration, Andrew Schultz revealed earlier this week on the PBD podcast that sources at the State Dept confirmed these influencing operations were happening in the US via TikTok
The article misses one of the most common misspelling reason: getting thru Bayesian filters. It has more to do with tech and less with psychology.
I had been wondering about this new notification warning there's 12 days left to close snap-store. I don't have snap-store running!
"let s be different"
I was going on the various media reports which lump them together. You’re right that they report the two separately:

https://news.microsoft.com/2022/10/25/microsoft-cloud-streng...

They appear to define “Intelligent Cloud” like this:

> • Server products and cloud services, including Azure and other cloud services; SQL Server, Windows Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (“CALs”); and Nuance and GitHub.

> • Enterprise Services, including Enterprise Support Services, Microsoft Consulting Services, and Nuance professional services

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/segment-information...
Patent of ARC(Adaptive Replacement Cache) is expired
Expires on 2022-12-06, but status is already expired:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7167953B2/en

But another patent exists:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070106846A1/en

I'm not sure that we can already create a patent-free implementation of ARC. Does anyone know?

However, note that ARC's hit ratios are worse than constant complexity algorithm today:
https://github.com/falsandtru/dw-cache
Boomers are retiring and there aren't enough young people to fill their shoes, which creates an imbalance between supply and demand for labor.

>Finally, we come to core services other than housing. This spending category covers a wide range of services ... constituting more than half of the core PCE index. ... Because wages make up the largest cost in delivering these services, the labor market holds the key to understanding inflation in this category.
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>Comparing the current labor force with the Congressional Budget Office's pre-pandemic forecast of labor force growth reveals a current labor force shortfall of roughly 3-1/2 million people. ... excess retirements might now account for more than 2 million of the 3‑1/2 million shortfall in the labor force.
>
>What explains these excess retirements? ... many older workers lost their jobs in the early stages of the pandemic ... The cost of finding new employment may have appeared particularly large for these workers ... Also, gains in the stock market and rising house prices in the first two years of the pandemic contributed to an increase in wealth that likely facilitated early retirement for some people.
The thing that happen doesn't resemble the things you feared at all. Let me explain the key way humans fool this language model:

They try something.

Then if it doesn't work, they hit the reset button on the dialog, and try again.

It is far, far easier to gain control over something you can reliably reset to a previous state, than it is to gain control over most things in the real world, which is full of irreversible interactions.

If I could make you forget our previous interactions, and try over and over, I could make you do a lot of silly things too. I could probably do it to everyone, even people much smarter than me in whatever way you choose. Given enough tries - say, if there were a million like me who tried over and over - we could probably downright "hack" you. I don't trust ANY amount of intelligence, no matter how defined, could protect someone on those terms.
The last time I looked at Ubuntu as a daily driver, a few years back, I remember reading the threads about snap and its forced updates. The sheer arrogance of the snap team in their hardline refusal to acknowledge that this would be useful to users was staggering, and for me, ample reason to write Ubuntu off.

Glad that they finally came around. I'm sure many people are happy with this.
Nature Conservancy buys insurance for Hawaii’s coral reefs
It is crazy that Fujifilm cameras can't do phone-type HDR. I have one and I share your pain.
OpenIKED 7.2 Released
Last I saw, QualComm's firmware was very tedious to even view, not to mention analyze. Being downloadable doesn't make them significantly more transparent.
Its a technically because that is not what brought him to public attention, he made himself a target so they went looking into his life for something to charge him with.

If you look hard enough through anyone's phone and online history you will find something to put them away for - no exception.

I say he should not belong on the list because his company was not scam company its still alive to this day - the ethics aside of hiking drug prices.
I think you need to add US regulatory and political considerations when considering the liability of targeting consumers versus business. In the US, rural users are over-represented in congress and are by far the biggest beneficiaries of Starlink (vs other available options). In my area, I can only WFH because of Starlink, so you better be sure that I contact my swing state Representatives and Senators anytime I hear about something that might negatively impact Starlink service.
I hope more people start using the matrix.org protocol so we can all start benefitting from being able to implement and use such features easily!
Yes! This is addressed in the article.

It's one of the other benefits of small social media. A tiny site with ~1000 monthly users is much less likely to receive urgent takedown-request emails from Malaysia.
I mostly agree with you, including the sentiment that people are often just being whiny assholes.

> Clearly the government is making more money than it is spending, which is what you want

I think it would be nice if our federal lands were supported by federal tax dollars instead of pay to use.

But that single point pales in comparison to the number of whiny assholes who absolutely refuse to acknowledge that the reservation systems exist to keep us from very obviously trampling and permanently ruining our treasured parks and lands.
The problem is, so many of the people that work in this area are not ML people and basically have interpreted "safety" though the lens of various social justice type stuff.

The consequence is this kind of thing (the GPT chatbot) where the focus is preventing access to information or lecturing about identity politics. On the other hand, there are important "safety" areas that are ignored, like how probably is it that the answer is correct, and what is it based on, to let people properly judge the info their getting and interact with the AI. Working on that would have been way more helpful than what has been optimized for here
More meta:

Write a satirical example of a Hacker News thread about a new OpenAI chatbot being released.

> Thread: "Introducing the newest chatbot from OpenAI: Assistant! It can answer any question, solve any problem, and even tell you what the weather is like on Mars!"

> User 1: "Wow, this chatbot is amazing! I bet it can even replace all of our human moderators on Hacker News!"

> User 2: "I don't know about that... I asked it what the square root of 144 is and it said it was 12. That's just basic math, any human moderator would know that!"

> User 3: "Ha! I asked it what the capital of France is and it said it was 'Paris.' Talk about an easy question for a so-called 'intelligent' chatbot!"

> User 4: "I tried asking it about the latest advancements in quantum computing and it just stared at me with a blank expression. I think it's just a fancy calculator, not a real AI."

> User 5: "I asked it to write a satirical example of a Hacker News thread and it came up with this one. I guess it's not as smart as we thought..."
You need to multiply those numbers by 3 to reflect that the cloud storage service has geographic redundancy, and you need a software stack which provides the same replication and bitrot protection, etc.
I believe there is a distinction here between Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, and Baxter State Park. Last I was aware, the latter contains the mountain itself.
If anyone hasn't played Space Engine, check it out! Labor of love.
Are you talking about a platform/portal where the published 3D web content (games, simulations, virtual events) can be discovered and accessed by users?
My intuition here is you would do well to somehow give yourself 2 year runway of life expenses (sleep on mum or mates sofa for example!) and build up the SaaS. If you are working your ass off then do it for yourself.

You may be “lonely” doing this so make sure you mitigate for that.
I think it's pretty funny you're acting like looking at the unrandom sample of elected officials is worse than grabbing assorted randos when trying to study politics. It's even funnier that you're taking people's off-the-cuff opinions given to a stranger stranger more seriously than you're taking the actual political behavior of passing laws. Believe what you like, I suppose, but I have a hard time taking you seriously here.
> The money you pay for tuition really isn't going into a better education, it's maintaining the illusion that draws big names as both students and professors, and all the networking opportunities that then manifest as better outcomes for graduates.

Good professors, students, and networking makes a good education though, so yes it is really going to a better education.
> Needless to say, people are pretty happy with smartphone photography. Which is optically pure shit, but clever software fixes that quite well. And not just that, it's idiot-proof. Those are two monumental achievements.

In the past photography was optically pure shit, and we could only take 36 photos at a time before cranking out a new roll of film, and we had to drive to a photo store to pay to get those 36 photos developed and only them we could see if the photos were any good.
Having to eat Kraft Singles on Wonderbread when you were promised Michelin star catering is not exactly a humanitarian crisis.
It seems that the discussions about the prosecution of SBF all assume that the U.S. will take the lead in prosecuting him, but couldn't he also face fraud charges in any of the countries where FTX operated? I hope that prosecutors in all of these countries are investigating this matter.
I got my home office broken into and filed a police report. Big fucking deal.

The cops will absolutely NOT say that to you in SF. They know the report is necessary for your insurance claim. They will do it for you. They will recommend it.
FWIW Firefox has supported that for a ~year now and you could fix it yourself it was just more work than the prebuilt way.
I just looked it up because someone else called me on it. They include things like GitHub but not Xbox.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/segment-information...
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me..."

- Abe Simpson
The first one. I agree with your second point.
> If your cell happens to have a major urban area in it, you would have to share the satellite downlink with many many more people

In theory most or all of the people in a major metro area would be opting for faster, cheaper ISPs. Starlink is for people way out in the boonies that don’t have any other good options.
I too have an X100T and used to like it a lot; it takes amazing pictures. But it's a little bulky and has a fixed lens.

The Panasonic GX80 is smaller and has interchangeable lenses. It has a smaller sensor but it's so small you can really carry it everywhere. I use it much more than the Fuji now.
>>- Characters play acting, "do not break character, even for a second": https://twitter.com/gf_256/status/1598178469955112961

I think the joke is actually on human intelligence because OpenAI is smart enough to realize that when acting, it does not matter if a random number is actually random.
Is Keanu Reeves the "The One" or was Neo?
Starlink is game-changing for even somewhat rural. My brother's place is just outside of a small, but by the scale of Maine significant city, and Starlink turns it from a previously barely 1 Mbps download to somewhere he can actually work from.

I live 45 miles outside of a major Northeast city, have just one broadband option which is mostly OK but would still seriously consider Starlink as a backup. I barely get cellphone reception at my house without WiFi assist because I'm in the shadow of a hill.
That's not the point OP was making. On the contrary, you have to believe that frontends are important to be really mad about how terribly they are made.
the guy who made me hit the road hitchhiking…

i loved ‘on the road’ and ‘the dharma bums’

my favorite quote or at least one i will always remember: “… silence is the golden mountain”
My impression is that what bothers us about France is its refusal to applaud all of our actions. And some of this is got up by the press: I can remember cases of US government spokesmen shrugging off stuff that the press regarded as an affront.
Well guess I can't buy a empty lot in a forested area and use an irradiance map to calculate how much solar capacity I would have with my plans, nor can I lookup my Starlink coverage with the FCC map because according to you that would be bullshit due to the trees that I plan on clearing...
Lensa AI Goes Viral: iPhone App Based on Stable Diffusion
Anecdotally, my own current UI gripe in iOS messages is identifying different variations of groups containing mostly the same people.

- My family
- My wife's family
- Both of our families
- My family but only those nearby
- My family but only those attending a specific event
- My family but minus one person

The current "facepile" approach really fails in distinguishing them... we've all been making mistakes sending messages to the wrong subsets.

I know that it's possible to name groups, but it's not something that I always remember to do (or care to do, for a transient conversation)
Musk Enforces Ban on 'Hateful Conduct' as Critics Predict Flood of Bigotry
There is no concrete evidence for it e.g. someone that we can trust who was a scammer who can confirm this was a conscious strategy.
I’ve never been able to get it to work. Setting it to act as a USB-C card reader and tethering to my iPad isn’t too bad, though.
I really, truly do not intend to be glib. I simply, genuinely think that closing Pandora's Box is impossible.

That doesn't mean that I also think that Paperclipocalypse is inevitable, or even slightly likely. But I mean it when I wish the best for the team working on this.
+1 for Cascadia Code, and especially for the ligatures.