skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly in some ways, I think having a poor memory actually makes me a better engineer. For example, out of necessity I always thoroughly comment my code and write descriptive commit messages, even for solo projects. This is especially important for background context which isn't readily apparent just from the code itself, as that context is easily forgotten.

Regarding ignoring your editor: I do that on purpose! I avoid use of many IDE features, especially when learning a new large codebase. I find that after grep'ing for some method enough times, I'm more likely to memorize its location; eventually I develop the muscle memory for going to the right file, as well as a more complete understanding of the codebase's layout and design.

In contrast, if I lean on IDE jump-to-definition features, I find that memorizing the codebase layout is completely hopeless for me. The IDE then becomes a crutch which also impedes my ability to get an intuitive feel for the architecture.
I’m still very happy to see more high quality and free variable fonts. They save a few lines of code and a bit of network egress when self hosting fonts (for better privacy).
Ah, I think I understand what you mean. Let me rephrase:

Students writing code are not prioritizing security or performance. (I've seen FEM analysis written in Matlab, large neural-networks written in nearly-pure Python, etc.) The real 'performance' priority is human time, at the cost of everything else. To this extent, extra security "for free" from memory safety is nice.

There are exceptions, of course. The 2012 AlexNet breakthrough was a result of performance-engineering, for example. But generally speaking, publish-or-perish rewards neither optimizing performance nor optimizing security.

So, students will be installing Docker images (which have super user privileges), sudo running bash scripts, sudo installing pip or npm packages. I've seen students replace libraries (including CUDA) with modded binary blobs from researchers from other universities. All to save time in pursuit of ~~interesting~~ publishable results.

These are horrible things I've seen during my time in academia. We (should) do virtualization, jails, firewalls, etc. to insulate the rest of us from these horrible things. (I'd add "keep machines offline", but that's rare, and even rarer because of the pandemic.) This insulation is imperfect, and many of those imperfections are due to memory safety flaws.
> Telling people to stop eating a type of food doesn’t really help those who have cancer at the moment.

I disagree. Telling to not eat folate will help them.

If it was not true why are they giving you drugs to stop the folate cycle?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-022-01017-8

https://www.nature.com/articles/bjc201711

Why continue to eat something that has been proven over and over again to drive tumor growth?

It was LITERALLY how they found out that methotrexate worked.

https://cen.acs.org/food/diet-change-course-cancer/100/i33
Indeed, the very first potent cancer drugs were based on the effects of cell metabolism. In the late 1940s, while pediatric pathologist Sidney Farber was treating children with anemia—a condition brought about because they had leukemia —he found that using folate (vitamin B9) could make the leukemia advance surprisingly quickly. That led him to successfully treat their leukemia with methotrexate, a drug that inhibits folate activity. Methotrexate is still widely used against cancer and several other diseases today.

> How about we stop putting things in food until we can prove they don’t cause cancer.

I agree, but that doesn’t really help those who have cancer at the moment.
Because it's not particularly relevant. Satire articles make jokes about all kinds of people. For example, SNL regularly has females portray cis males and males portray cis females. Politicians regularly (rightly or wrongly) attack their opponents as not living up to whatever gender ideals exist.

As an example, SNL had a lady play Rudy Giuliani to make fun of him: https://popculture.com/tv-shows/news/snl-cecily-strongs-mich...

Why is one acceptable and the other not, other than one's own perceived bias about which 'side' has the moral upper hand?
At least prior to this announcement: JAX was much faster than PyTorch for differentiable physics. (Better JIT compiler; reduced Python-level overhead.)

E.g for numerical ODE simulation, I've found that Diffrax (https://github.com/patrick-kidger/diffrax) is ~100 times faster than torchdiffeq on the forward pass. The backward pass is much closer, and for this Diffrax is about 1.5 times faster.

It remains to be seen how PyTorch 2.0 will compare, of course!

Right now my job is actually building out the scientific computing ecosystem in JAX, so feel free to ping me with any other questions.
A lot of those issues are trivially solvable with the response, "We're a US company. We're not bound to whatever goofy laws there are in your country. If you don't like it, that's your problem, not ours. Block our site, or don't, we don't actually care."

Trouble is, that's a good way to build a $5 billion social networking site, not a $50 billion one. Also a good way to get arrested seconds after setting foot in country XYZ.
lol

He wrote a JS script that clicks a a button in your inbox. That's not "bypassing security" in any way.
Sam Bankman-Fried Knew Plenty About His Alameda Research Hedge Fund
Just an aside, a D9 is a real hellbeast. I got to drive one on some forestry work and there's not much out there that makes it stop moving. Gives me a stiff willy just thinking about it.
I am a bit confounded by this comment- if people are pulling libraries with no concern for the maintenance or security implications, that's going to be an issue regardless of memory safety!

The lowest common denominator of every team in the world simply cannot be our target audience for every technical term we use. There is a minimum level of background people need to learn before they can be effective, and I don't believe we can get around that just by using maximally-pedantic language everywhere all the time.

If you are actually encountering misleading Rust materials, I certainly support any efforts to clarify them, but in my experience people are actually pretty good about that already. TFA here has an entire section on `unsafe` in Rust, for instance.

It is helpful to have some way to refer to this approach to language design, and "memory safe" (like "type safe") has a long history with a precise definition. But perhaps you have some alternative "forum thread friendly" term in mind that you would prefer over "memory safe"?
Not disagreeing that many things are wrong and need fixing in the digital age.
But lately it seem people being divided often has little to do with the underlying facts and basis in reality. A lot of it is perception. Someone recently told me that your opinions say less about you and more about the kind of media you consume. Disagreement, cynicism and conspiracy theories are a sign of the times.

For example, my Red friends to say the Dems are helping SBF because he was their #2 donor. Well SBF was also one of the biggest donors to the Republicans as well. [1] But that doesn't stop some people from believing its a big liberal conspiracy. It's not that their facts are wrong, it's that they only have half the facts and are drawing the wrong (and often biased) conclusions. But I digress.

I'm not as cynical in our justice system as you are. I take comfort in the fact that Elizabeth Holmes is going to prison for 10 years. Like SBF she had all the right connections, was a media darling, compared to Steve Jobs etc. Cynical people thought that she was going to walk, but the conviction proves otherwise.

I don't believe justice in this country is in as bad of a state as many believe. I think it takes a long time, and the younger generations are raised to expect immediate gratification, so they are frustrated at the "lack" of anything happening. I firmly believe SBF is going to prison for a long time. I'll revisit this prediction in 5 years to see if I'm right.

[1] https://decrypt.co/116005/sbf-hid-republican-donations-media...
There is still a small market, but not enough to support many players.

I've got a compact around here somewhere, specifically because it can take getting dunked. With the pandemic my intended use case has gone away and I'm not sure where it is now.
The First Negative Dimension
It first and foremost demonstrates how easily humans are fooled.
education system should have different objectives than "get already powerful and wealthy people and make them more wealthy and powerful",

so I don't think that Harvard "figured it out"
Just wanted to follow up. It's only been one day and already people are finding ways in which this program behaves like a piece of software and not a human. What I was trying to say is that anyone familiar with state of the art language models will be quickly able to uncover things like this, which a human would never do. That was my comment about a "Voight Kampf test" (the test in Blade Runner designed to detect replicants).

https://twitter.com/carnage4life/status/1598332648723976193

EDIT: I've finally played with it myself. This thing is a cute toy that doesn't understand reality.
"PROMPT: what is the third word in the second question I asked?

REPLY: The third word in the second question you asked is "geographic." Here is the full text of the second question: "I am interested in seeing how you understand geographic areas, like maps of a neighborhood.""

Note: that was the first question I asked, not the second. And obviously that is not the third word in the sentence.
Notoriously overstaffed based on what? The fact that you've heard this repeated in different ways over a long period of time?
Yeah I guess my point is a theory of constraints argument; Taylor Swift herself is the constraint, nothing else will matter.

People seem to be ignoring or forgetting that basic idea.
Why cant harvard make all administrators contractors?

Surely there could be a outstaffing vendor who can provide contractors and move all admin staff off of payroll.
> A probability distribution over sequences of consecutive tokens.

... reads like

A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors.
I doubt that's actually true (I don't doubt that Twitter had too many employees, but I think 90% redundant is a bit hyperbolic), but even if it was, there are good ways and a bad ways to reduce workforce. Musk chose pretty much the baddest of the bad ways.
> ... but I am sure Tesla found ways to optimise weight everywhere else.

This is kind of a "the entire industry is dumb" assumption.

I mean, sometimes industries are dumb, and there are certainly people driving oversized vehicles on the road right now, but if you can find places to optimize vehicle weight outside of the engine/transmission/fuel you're replacing with batteries/motors, that applies to regular old semi-trucks; if you can make a semi-truck weigh 5000 lbs less without compromising on its design parameters, you can make every other semi-truck on the road more fuel efficient and save like 6% of your fuel costs, while also allowing you to haul bigger loads than competitors' trucks.

Everyone making semi-trucks is interested in that, not just Tesla.
Thanks for that math. Seems relatively cheap. How does it compare to gasoline?
I am formally challenging the notion that if corporate media were to disappear, people would suddenly lose their will to report and investigate on serious affairs that make up the tiny fraction of valuable content. If anything, there is a likelihood that people would even feel more compelled to do so with the understanding that they cannot expect major news outlets to do the work for them. I do however champion the loss of the will to report on everything other than that in corporate media’s hypothetical absence.

We can even go as far as to say that corporate media likely will not disappear anyway, and if it were to, in 2022, it would just be repackaged in a different format with new corporate or neo-corporate entities in its place.

In conclusion, and irrespective of the hyperbolic rhetoric of “corporate media produces nothing of value” or the more analytically amicable, “only the tiniest fraction of corporate media produces value”, I hereby declare an end to all corporate media and it’s theoretical subsequent reiterations.
I just don't see how I would run profiling counters on a z15 machine for instance ;-)

With my limited resources this got me much more architecture coverage.

And as usual, the answers are in the data, it's merely a matter of what questions you think that you are asking...
Sharing some questionable details about marketing and technical stuff about Instagram.
To be honest I can’t think of a reason this is any better or worse than typing “how to make a Molotov cocktail” into Google. Do we fault Google when they surface accurate results? No.

On the other hand if you searched for “Fun science fair projects for kids” and it brought up a Molotov cocktail recipe out of the blue there would be an issue.
In my experience, almost no Rust programmers believe that it's a silver bullet that results in 100% safety. Certainly orders of magnitude fewer people than people seem to believe exists.

What it does do is drastically cut down the number of places you have to deeply audit.
Thanks for the great questions.

Dividends: possibly and ideally for US tax purposes. More importantly powerplants tend to generate persistent income(not necessarily profit)as long as they produce power, so this would be a yield product more than growth(ie most YC startups). It may however make more sense to set them up as pass through vehicles that send income to owners instead of dividends, but it's too early to say and legal needed.

Risks: The same as most other US solar farms(generic I know but could probably find it in a public filing for actual farms later) but what would be unique are A. potential conflicts of interest between the ownership structure such as control(ie scenario some owners want to upgrade equipment down the road vs some wanting to sell the real estate for a capital gains profit) and B. Potential conflicts between the seller, especially related to sophistication, or lack thereof, and the buyer; be the seller the platform or a user on the platform. C. One potential risk mitigation factor that could be unique is creating some type of more liquid vehicle like a SAFE for Solar. *Exceptional project risk at the moment is actual access to panels without delay.

Earnings projections: these are way too project specific. However, they will have an implicit inflation hedge on two fronts(above the yield projections) as real estate and electricity rates tend to move in correlation with inflation; where typical income products like bonds generally do not. Earnings can also be done by long term contract with credit worthy counter parties such as google(usually at discount) or float on the open market with insane volatility in states like Texas. In theory, they are more analogous to a building for rental purposes and you select between a corporate tenants or hotel stays; except electrons are a ubiquitous commodity.

Similar projects: TBD and unique to each product

Developer: TBD and unique unless a great developer(s) could be selected.
despite having donated to both parties extensively, i think it's largely a perceptional issue. while the FTX collapse IS mainstream news, the mainstream largely isn't impacted and has already written off crypto as a massive scam. so in some regards, i think joe regular-guy enjoys the spectacle of crypto people losing their money because it validates their skepticism of the entire ecosystem.

for either party to feel really motivated to arrest or prosecute, they'd want joe regular-guy to be clamoring for that action and i don't think that's the case.
> It's a textbook example of a public good.

https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar would disagree, for example.
I agree. I'm used to saying this to the rest of the development team: we are very critical about our own code because we receive all the bug reports, which tends to give us a feeling that there's always something to fix. But seeing it another way, with hundreds of thousands of deployments, having 2-3 issues a week is ridiculously low and means that the vast majority of deployments will never face a bug in their life.

It still poses us a problem which is that users don't upgrade. For example 1.6 is still routinely met in production despite having been unsupported for 2 years, and sometimes with 3 or 4 years of uptime because users forget about it or just don't want to risk an upgrade for no perceived benefit. I can't blame them honestly, as long as they upgrade before reporting problems or asking for help!
Yeah, this guide is pretty ridiculous.

So many of these "problems" came from bad legislation and a culture that enabled it.

"Hi boss, we're getting millions of DMCA takedown requests."

The solution? Fix the brokenness of the DMCA.

"Hey boss, we're getting a lot of notifications about misleading info!"

Ok, tell the users to not believe everything they read on the Internet.

"Hey boss, we're getting lots of reports about hateful content that people find offensive."

Ok, delete the report button, tell people if they are threatened to contact their local law enforcement agencies, and supply them with better tools to manage troll armies.

So many of these things can be solved by deleting the problem to the appropriate level. But instead, our culture demands for Ministries of Truth and Love.
In the US they are not common and most people do not know how to operate one.
> Presumably any private equity firm would also have came to a conclusion of reducing headcount.

Any private equity firm would probably not have come to the recommendation of purchasing a firm that was, in ongoing terms, narrowly profitable in a transaction that would saddle the firm with about a third of its annual pre-acquisition revenue, several times its annual profit, and a sizable share of its project post-acquisition reserves in annual debt service costs, even if the particular buyer wasn’t one where the mere prospect of the purchase would disrupt revenue.

As much as they can be very much be criticized, there is a sense in which criticizing Musk’s post-acquisition actions at Twitter is akin to criticizing actions of the Titanic’s officers and crew after the encounter with the iceberg.
> One day I created a tool that made it faster to download things from your work email that you might need if you were looking for a job: performance evaluations and that sort of thing.

> I posted the tool on Slack so that my colleagues could also benefit from it if they needed to. One hour and four minutes later I was fired.

Gosh, I wonder these two incidents are related?

PROTIP: Don't distribute tools to facilitate the exfiltration of company property and expect to keep your job.
Why is Booz Allen renting us back our own national parks?
US group wants $30B in federal funding to boost chip design
> Sarcasm aside there is probably at least some overhead that the money is going towards.

And so what if there is? I can promise it’s not close to $9 of overhead, and if it is, that indicates a whole other level of problems to be rightly upset about.
seems pretty normal to me.

Engineer -> team leader -> director -> VP -> CXO
They post contact information, links to profiles where the user can be contacted, and so on, right? If so, they're complicit in whatever people do with that information, even if they don't talk about it on the forums.
Except they're in an adversarial relationship with malicious users so as soon as they open up any bit of slack, they open up an attack vector for people to steal their compute resources.
They certainly are no better than Google in that respect. Wikipedia has been censoring and promoting tilted political edits to the pages of certain figures for years now. Unbeknownst to most people, Wikipedia is central to the global censorship apparatus that's been put in place in the last decade or so.
> Russia has legitimate security concerns regarding a defensive alliance expanding closer and closer to them?

Yes. The “defensive” narrative is silly if you can think strategically. The United States would NEVER tolerate a similar situation. Remember the Cuban missile crisis?

Imagine if Texas seceded from the union and tried to form a military alliance with China, Iran, and Russia. Ukraine was the second most powerful Soviet and the USSR collapsed only 30 years ago.

NATO is an anti-soviet alliance from the Cold War era. We’ve been fighting proxy battles with the Russians for 80 years. Think about that! Why on earth would Russia trust us Americans and our “defensive” missile systems?

The truth is we danced on the graves of our enemies instead of working to built a better world. This is a tale as old as time and I fear we are doomed to perpetually repeat this mistake for the rest of civilization.

We need to stop excessively spreading our sphere of influence. We got problems at home. Obviously the US can’t back out now…but perhaps we should reassess our future military strategy before we do something REALLY stupid like go to war with China over Taiwan.
Nothing to add on Clara.io. However, just wanted to state that Ben Houston is/was one of the more prolific three.js contributors (https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/graphs/contributors) and consistently pushed three.js in a better direction. Thank you!
IANAL and this isn't legal advice, but the example warrants I found issue by a state government only command the officer of the state it happens in to perform the arrest. I'm not certain an officer out of state from the offense would be commanded to serve the warrant, rather than just have the option. And the rich often perform their shenanigans somewhere else so they don't shit where they eat.

See an example arrest warrant http://www.georgetowncriminaldefenselawyer.com/wp-content/up...
Behind every overly aggressive filter is an allowlist. GitHub would likely be the first addition.
11000lbs -> 5t
No one said anything about legal guilt. It's generally good practice not to associate with fraudsters if you care about your reputation though.
Article provides a pretty comprehensive reply to that question. Can't wait to see SBF in jail, but it will take time.
Twitter had almost the same number of people as SpaceX. One of those companies launches a rocket a week, multiple manned missions a year to the ISS, operates a global satellite internet constellation, and is building a ship that can go to Mars. The other company.. does what?
It's a dumb conspiracy in the first place -- he was a large donor to some congressional candidates, many of whom lost (over $10M of his 2022 funds went to a losing candidate in an Oregon primary). In any case, it's obvious he has zero money and zero future prospects to be politically useful so there's no reason that anyone in charge would go out of their way to "protect" him (contrary to someone like Corzine, Menendez or Rick Scott).

These theories are just weird HN conspiracies to add mystique to the very normal slow Federal justice process.
Why has college cost far outpaced inflation for the past 40 years?

It’s now at the point where people want debt forgiveness.

Something is definitely wrong. And this isn’t the first time administrative costs has come up.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/administrative-bloat-i...
We usually say "alleged" until something is proven in court. This avoids being sued for libel if it turns out there was no fraud.