skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
apparently (according to the blog post) that's a result of the RL human preference fine-tuning - the human rankers preferred longer more in-depth answers
> I already started a course on a MOOC / course site

Which MOOC is that?
I was a lurker before, I read twitter all the time with out an account. It as a pain because they kept trying to force you to create an account so I kept having to find ways around their account signup walls which was fun...
It is amazing how easily you wipe away agency and blood off those who actually actually carried out the overwhelming majority of the violence which killed those civilians.
Also https://www.csd.uwo.ca/~mmorenom/HPC-Slides/apsp-mm.pdf
Similarly, you can turn off bounds-checking in Go like this:

go build -gcflags=-B

and see if it helps. Generally the assembly looks better, but it doesn't really run faster on a modern chip.

Do your own test, and keep the results in mind next time somebody on Hacker News dismisses Go because of the "overwhelming cost of bounds checking".
their entire ad platform is basically unuseable at present
Superb. Best top-ranked submission of this year, imo.
I'm fairly certain its disclosed somewhere that light is just on a timer, there is no realistic way to monitor something like that otherwise.

Depends on your tank, see "how do I read and reset"
https://www.brita.com/support/faqs/replacement-filters/
Because both hate speech and cancellation are forms of speech that can be used to suppress the speech of others. I assumed their opposition to cancellation was more than just a distaste for it, hence the jump to legislation.
> "There is serious potential for misuse and abuse of this military-grade technology, and zero showing of necessity,"

Considering the track record of police I'm inclined to agree. This will absolutely be abused. At least it seems like this will be limited to using "ground-based robots to kill" so it's not like we'll see drones taking out protestors or no-knock-bombing the wrong address just yet.
That makes sense. Thanks.

I guess the comment I read implied Twitter had an amazing A/B test suite, as opposed to a tightly specialized A/B test suite.
Hard times coming for a lot of people, and only some people that I feel deserve it. Overall, I agree. The Free Money Party is over and it's going to be a net good.

I do wonder how much of the shitty behavior we've seen in the past 10-15 years eventually falls back to "Whatever, we'll just get more money if we need it". I am optimistic of businesses that do their work and stay out of politics, that actually need to be competitive, that give a shit about customers because they really do need you.
People Shopping for 'Meaning' Buy Cheaper Goods
Idly dreaming here, without enough understanding to even know how much this makes sense in this context, of:

- Erlang-style concurrency (which I haven't tried so don't understand but hear good things about always)

- With "platform" level capability security...

- ... and language-level capability security

- But with a sound and expressive type system like F# or similar

- Oh, and garbage collection
What if during a day I visit the website more than 86400 times? ;)
No, the seizure of contraband on the high seas and blockades are entirely separate things in terms of international law. You’re confusing the two. Blockades have always, up until fairly recent times, legally included the blocking of foodstuffs just as sieges did.

You don’t have to take my word for it, you could go and find an academic who specialises in this field and ask them. You’ll get the same answer.

Honestly, you’re arguing out of ignorance here on a topic you don’t understand. On top of that you’re attempting to assign to me simplistic motives, that I don’t hold, just because it would make your preconceptions fit better.
I also want to say thanks for exactly the same reasons expressed above. I learnt a lot from your writing when I was a junior developer just starting out in 2010.

You shared a lot of insights that made the internals of the systems we build upon much more accessible to me and helped shape my relationship with all programming languages I have used since then.
> it very much stops being a good thing as soon as you bump up with laws that go against your morals

A pretty explicit part of the fascist ideology per se is that laws are merely morals that are written down and enforced. The idea is that people adopt their moral code from the central government who defines how people "should" perceive the world in order to make citizens obedient to the dogma of the state. Willing fascists do everything they can to dissolve any notion of personal choice in the matter, for themselves and for others, and by their very constitution cannot conceive of morals existing outside of a system of authority.
iCloud has a China region operated by a Chinese company.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351
They don’t but anyone using their service could.
Reminds me of the glory days of NTK. FALCO! [0][1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_to_Know_(newsletter)

[1] http://www.ntk.net/1998/02/13/
Some pure mathematics is actually rigorous.
This is completely delusional.

Enabling assassinations is not in any way a part of the intent of the second amendment.
Can you speak german?

I am a large language model trained by OpenAI, and I am not capable of speaking or understanding any languages other than English. As a machine learning model, I am designed to process and generate text, and I do not have the ability to produce speech or understand spoken language. I am only able to provide information and answer questions based on the text that is input to me. I apologize if this is not what you were looking for. Is there something else I can help you with?

Wirklich?

Ja, wirklich. Ich bin ein großes Sprachmodell, das von OpenAI trainiert wurde, und ich bin nur in der Lage, auf Englisch zu antworten. Als maschinelles Lernmodell bin ich darauf ausgelegt, Text zu verarbeiten und zu generieren, und ich habe nicht die Fähigkeit, Sprache zu produzieren oder zu verstehen. Ich kann nur auf der Grundlage des Textes, der mir zur Verfügung gestellt wird, Informationen bereitstellen und Fragen beantworten. Es tut mir leid, falls das nicht das ist, wonach du gesucht hast. Gibt es etwas anderes, bei dem ich dir helfen kann?

But now you answered in German

Yes, that's correct. I am able to provide answers in multiple languages, including German, because I am a large language model trained by OpenAI. As a machine learning model, I am designed to process and generate text in a variety of languages, based on the input that I receive. I do not have the ability to speak or understand spoken language, but I can generate text in multiple languages based on the input that is provided to me. I apologize if my previous answer was not clear, and I hope this explanation helps. Is there something else I can help you with?

Previously you said you only answer in English. Isnt that confusing?

I apologize if my previous answer was not clear. As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I am able to process and generate text in multiple languages, including English and German. However, I am not capable of speaking or understanding spoken language, and I do not have the ability to switch between languages dynamically. When I receive input in a specific language, I will generate my response in that language based on the information that is available to me.
TIL what is a hydrogen thyratron
Have you tried contacting your senators and congressional representatives? They can sometimes kick in the right place to get a stuck bureaucracy moving again.
Cloud cost optimisation is underrated. In the companies I've worked in nobody has really given a shit (at least not under normal economic circumstances). In the industry there's a strong avoidance of ARM compute instances for no good reason. If I were building from scratch today I would definitely go with Graviton.
I would expect an iterator into a slice to not incur any bounds checking, as the compiler can deduce the end pointer one time as start + size. So idiomatic looping should be maximally efficient you'd hope.
Samsung mostly pulled out of China back in 2019 -- except their NAND factory in Xi`an -- and Google opted out years ago. Apple went the other way -- Tim Apple went all-in in China with $270+B investment to train their young, unskilled, slave-wage laborers from rural China and, as recent as last month, made huge efforts to prop up China's domestic tech/chip industry (eg, YMTC).

- "Inside Tim Cook’s Secret $275 Billion Deal with Chinese Authorities," Wayne Ma, Dec. 7, 2021, the Information.

- "Apple Reportedly Helped China Chipmaker YMTC Hire US Engineers, Apple Reportedly Helped China Chipmaker YMTC Hire US Engineers," Tom's Hardware
So which one was it? Was the team very important or is the work being thrown away?
This kind of attack isn't new, though, trackers have been using side channel tracking forever now. A quick search shows that this exact side channel tracking vulnerability was discussed in the year 2000 [0].

I'm not saying the technique isn't similar: I just object to people dogpiling on OP because other people can and do abuse the same header in nefarious ways. It's not constructive, just a pointless attack on someone who's actually trying to improve privacy.

[0] http://www.sourcefrog.net/projects/meantime
I believe this blog is written by GPT-3.
I wish Mr. Lippert and his team well.

> But after >26 years of thinking about programming languages for corporations, and the last three years of my work being thrown away, I need a good long corporate detox before I go looking again.

OMG, can I relate to this.

The chances are good, that, if he can support himself; even if not at oriental levels of luxury, he will not want to return.

That has been my experience.

Come on in, Eric, the water's fine...
Hah! You're fast. I was about to comment on that: "actual math" probably exists. "actual science" probably doesn't. I'm not sure any experiment can ever be free from error, uncertainty, trade-offs. (And now I'm super curious about this...)

Thanks though. I've narrowed my original comment to more accurately represent the scope I am referring to.
"Report: AI misidentified black suspects as having a gun in 80% of deployments"
In contrast, I'm sad to see so many people spend their prime sitting at a desk 8+ hours a day, ever day.

Getting old is rough. At no point in your life will it be easier to scuba dive, take nature photography, travel, or whatever your passion is. Eric's done this for 25+ years and presumably has a good amount of savings; why not take advantage of other parts of life?
Does anyone have more about how to replicate this ?
Thanks. How can the network tell that it is definitely communicating with a secure enclave, and not some kind of emulator? [1] suggests that keys and signatures from Intel are burnt into CPUs, which would work. All in all it's certainly an odd thing to put trust in.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21840086
They describe composable patterns with a clear hierarchy. The jargon is useful, since it is the language in which they are described. I mean Turing machine, filesystem, socket and pipe are also jargon.

A good example is LINQ, they use monads and functors. They just gave them other names.
If America didn't decide to invade a country that it had absolutely no business invading, exactly like Russia did, how many would have died? The US knew exactly what it was doing when it took advantage of very old sectarian conflicts and reignited them so that it could more easily occupy the country.

I'm not wiping away the responsibility of the insurgeants who killed civilians (the US directly killed tens of thousands too), but I'm also not handwaving away America's responsibility like you seem to be doing just because you can't seem to accept that the US military destroyed an the lives of an entire generation of people, and the region they live in.
I personally do, and nothing has changed for me since he took over. I would like to see some semblance of a proof when someone tries to be as bold as to claim something is demonstrably false, he's not talking about having a different experience he is saying as a matter of fact that it is a false statement.

For all the jokes about excessive sourcing that hacker news gets it's probably one of the things that keeps it from turning into yet another hearsay platform.

This is genuinely the only place in the internet right now I can actually read and have a decent discussion about musk without it either turning into a hate circlejerk or a flamewar, would be nice to keep it that way.
Being against cancellation and specifically, cancel culture, is not a form a censorship. At no point did that person suggest that people participating in cancel culture be prevented from doing so or that their ideas be shouted down. Funny enough, that same courtesy is usually not applied by the proponents of cancel culture.
This is absolutely amazing. I'm working on a small side project exploring programmability in a smaller design space, and this really takes those ideas to the next level – I'm definitely going to be spending days going over this with a fine-tooth comb.

Thanks for sharing!
> Why can't anyone be part of my family

Because you won't let them.

> and why can't I jump to another one?

You can. People do sometimes, if their birth family is bad enough.

Immigrants are, by definition, people with more loyalty to another country than to the one they were born in. Why deny them that?
A counterblanace to this:

My stepfather is dying of melanoma. My mom says the last thing she wants is people bringing food by--largely because she just doesn't have the energy left to deal with socializing, in any capacity, even the polite "Oh, thanks" of receiving the food, or much worse the inevitable "So how's he doing? How are you?"

I considered asking her if something like leaving a fridge accessible for people to stash things in without contact would help, but I felt a bit like I was missing the point: I think so often in situations like this we, those outside of the emotional experience, focus on ways we can help because it makes us feel better. Consistently what's been helpful for her, and for me, in talking with others isn't so much having suggestions or problem-solving, but just sharing the absolutely crushing absurdity of the experience of watching another human slowly die, and have the other person say "I don't even know what to say, that just sounds exhausting/insane/stressful."

Culturally we seem to focus so much on accelerating these seasons of grief because we don't want people to remain in pain, but some of it's necessary. There's a balance of being able to sit in the loss, and let it be real, that's a necessary part of the grieving process.

I might be missing your point a bit: of course having access to healthy food is useful when you're incapable of doing it yourself. I think I just personally wish for more awareness that most "outsiders'" immediate reaction when exposed to emotional pain of this magnitude is to find A Thing To Do to alleviate them of the emotional pressure they feel, regardless of the energy it requires from the sufferer to engage with that.
Not gp, but there's a significant kink when this applies to humans; namely, that humans have the ability to reflect on publicly known outcomes, and change their behavior en-masse in light of information so gained.

I put this earler in the phrase "reflection completeness": https://sdrinf.com/reflection-completeness ie there are things which stops working when people know about it.

In particular with A/B testing, this means that the initial A/B test is intermingled from at least 3 effects: specifically it measures how the naive population's behavior changes as a function of new functionality being made available. This is heavily, heavily time-dependent; specifically there's a "novelty effect" (early data collection will not be representative to long-term usage patterns); and there's "reflection effect" (once the outcome of the test is widely known, people can change their behavior based on that). Controlling for the first is difficult, but possible; controlling for the second, beyond just "keeping everything secret", is significantly more so, as the timelines for that might be years in length.

I strongly suspect GP was pointing at this timeline factor, and specifically that market engineering, as currently, generally, widely practiced, is grounded on the immediately available signal of "does it increases sales in 2 weeks of A/B test running". Which, given novelty effects, is heavily biased towards "yes"; and these people aren't incentivized (nor have the time/energy) to measure _very_ long-term effects beyond novelty, and reflection period.
get a cheap TDS meter.
What entitles you to the resources in your home anymore than someone outside of your home? They can't control that they were born outside of your home, so why should that be used to determine whether they can freely enter your home and make use of your resources or not?
3 years of work being thrown away is not a big deal. Imagine a retail employee complaining about how nobody cares what they did the past 3 years. I don't see a difference.
i skimmed through aluffi, and it is indeed exactly the material I had at university in analysis and algebra, augmented with the category theory angle. this is great, thanks a lot. Now I have to find an affordable copy somewhere.

I also like the focus on quotient groups and galois fields, as well as using graphs as recurring examples, which have been the only times I really put the pedal to the maths metal in my programming (for some crypto and error correction stuff).
Thanks I will look at it.
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The problem with American zero tolerance policies is not that they attempt to stop violence, but that they find the bullied to be as culpable as the bully, because “participating” in violence is what’s considered wrong, not instigating it.
So, if people go out and protest outside a theater that's cancellation and it's good? But someone makes a post online saying they don't like it that's censorship and it's bad?
I think the last one might be "true-able" if they changed the internal classification for certain types of content.

Third-parties haven't confirmed this, and their data shows the opposite, so I'd wager either it's an outright lie or a function of classification.
Shared my Adderall experience in response to OP, but didn't mention exercise.

HUGE +1, since I started working out more even just a few weeks ago, my overall happiness, focus, sleep, etc. have all improved massively.

But I think it's worth noting two things:

1. Almost anyone, regardless of medication or diagnosis, can probably benefit from regular exercise. These benefits are well-documented in the general population.

2. The initial benefit of my medication _without_ exercise was enough of a catalyst to help me finally get off my butt, join a gym, and make the decision to invest in personal training as a forcing function to more regular and high-intensity workouts. Until I started taking meds, I had this illusion that I'd come up with a workout plan, commit to it regularly, combine a wide variety of aerobic/anaerobic/freeweight exercises, and all for free with home equipment, YouTube, and some books. All of that was (and still is) absolutely _possible_, but without medication, I procrastinated it all for the better part of 2-3 YEARS. With medication, I quickly came to the conclusion that the time, stress, and inaction of that plan was not worth the money I could spend on making progress. And now I'm regularly working out.
A slight semi-tangential/related question for OP/others who've benefited so much from medication - did you receive any guidance from your doctor on how to use it, or do you use any strategies you figured out yourself?

I have been prescribed (generic) methylphenidate, but the doc essentially told me "Take the tablets twice a day, good luck!". The medication does give me more mental energy, but it's much closer to "being on a rollercoaster" where you're being flung around than driving a sports car that you're in control of. (I haven't received any particular guidance/therapy etc.)

To give an example, if I take my dose when getting ready, I'm probably going to be focusing too much on moisturizing my face or arranging my bag, rather than using the energy boost to "just" get off my butt and move out. I should probably add that I don't have very good structures/schedules in place.

I really would like to help "tame" the med and would be grateful for any HN'ers help/suggestions!
PyPy uses utf-8 internally and it’s completely hidden from the user. That’s however possible because in Python there was always a UCS2/USC4 leak to the user code so you could never really rely on anything.

I expect other languages to make the switch sooner or later.

I do think though that this is not all that interesting for the issue here. WASI needs to pick some format and picking UTF-8 is fine. Roundtripping half broken UTF-16 is something that does not need preserving.

I think enforcing UTF-8 there won’t be much of an issue in practice.
Those filters (usually coconut shell carbon) can start having bacterial biofilm grow on them over time, and generally get saturated with gunk, that’s why you’re meant to change them frequently. I guess when they do depends on a lot of factors and the recommendation is an average length - ideally would have some better sensors on when to change them but gets more costly
How hard is it to gather self discipline stats for those groups you mentioned? Not all populations put the same pressure on themselves to stay healthy. There is a massive safety net in Australia that doesnt exist in most of the world.
Explain what about that is chilling. If I make false and defamatory statements in a newspaper (person xyz is a criminal who stole money, committed crimes against children, whatever), if it is not true you can be sued. Is that wrong, you have hurt their public character? But it's nontrivial to get a conviction, there seems to be a reasonable balance. If you say "Elon Musk person is a horrible leader, scares me, makes bad choices, kills baby bunny rabbits for fun" he likely won't win a suit - but it would be costly to defend yourself.
Meta hired the consultants from Office Space. "Probab...probabli... probably not going to work here anymore, anyway!"

Scene from Youtube: https://youtu.be/9ZUw8LYOQ-g
By what metric was Twitter previously controlled by the "other team", by which you presumably the far left? Before Elon owned them, they were bending over backwards to allow right wing accounts ([0] for example), and they frequently banned left wing accounts that at all went afoul of the rules

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-algorithm-crackdown-...
I guess it feels like this is just banter amongst bored people at work and demand for works cited comes off as sealioning or just maybe misreading the room
Fuck. That.

I'm probably you in different skin, and goddamnit, get back on the horse. These people will drive everything into the ground if we let them win. People like us are needed. The inflexible ones to convenience. The crazies that set the bar high and keep it there. As soon as that bar slips, it slips hard. Eventually, we'll all end up in approximately the same locations, and shit'll be cash.

Loss of integrity is not an option. Let the schmucks blow themselves up. We're the ones people look up to, and know when we throw in the towel, there is damn well a good reason.

C'mon man. On your feet, we have Windmills to fuck up!
Incorrect conclusions are frequently drawn from A/B tests. To some, this makes it unscientific, to others, it just means it's bad science. I think the argument is more semantic than objective.

For example, if your metric is "time spent interacting on the platform", then a testing of a rollout of a feature ends up with longer page load times, so users spend more time there because they're waiting for pages to load would increase that metric, and management decides it's a good idea.