skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a national security issue, these are some of our most essential workers, they should be some of the best treated, not the worst treated.
> The belief is that the climate is not static

It's a justified belief. Climate isn't static. For example, Sahara desert used to be an oasis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period
My problem with category theory (my limited study of it, several years ago) was that it describes and defines a list of properties, but those properties don't combine to reveal any unexpected, exciting results.

Again, with my abstract algebra example from above: after just a couple of basic abstract algebra definitions, you learn about subgroups. Simple enough, and not particularly exciting so far. But then you quickly reach Lagrange's Theorem, which shows that in a finite group, the number of subgroups divides the order of the parent group. And that means... if the group has a prime number of elements, then it can't contain any (non-trivial) subgroups at all! That's super cool and not at all obvious in the original definition of groups and subgroup. And it keeps going from there, with a brain-punishing amount of results that all just emerge from the basic definitions of a group, ring, and field.

In contrast, category theory just felt empty. This is definition of a functor. This is a monad. Here's different kinds of morphisms. Etc.

Dunno, maybe I just needed to keep reading. But my sense from flipping forward through my CT books is that it was mostly just more concept definitions.
This is one of the problems with polarization. The legitimate points of one side get grouped in with all the other ridiculous crap.

Every law, every program has a cost. Many times this costs are worth it. And there are plenty of times where they aren't, or have unintended side-effects.

Pointing out these costs and forcing society to recognize them as explicit decisions and tradeoffs is one of the key benefits of the Right, even if you disagree on where they fall on the balance of net-benefits in the final analysis.

TANSTAAFL
For inference, the best models are so large they won't fit in System RAM. GPT@home is not going to make a difference in that scenario.

For training such large models, data parallelism is no longer sufficient and tensor/pipeline parallelism is required. The problem is communication bottlenecks, differing device/network speeds and massive data transfer requirements become serious enough issues to kill any naive distributed training across the internet approach. Deep learning companies use fancy 100Gbps+ connections, do kernel hacking and use homogeneous hardware and it's still a serious challenge. There is no incentive for them to invest in something like GPT@home.

But it's not impossible and there's some research being done in the area. Although, it'll be a while until a GPT@home approach becomes a ready alternative. See https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.01288 and their recent GPT-JT test for more. Another development would be for networks to become more modular.
Oh well, time to go back to climbing the skyscraper.
CNBC interviewing Sam on the FTX Collapse - Live
> The ringleader of this group

Group? What university was this? Who was the resident assistant? Was that particular incident with the rock written up somewhere?

What you've written here isn't run-of-the-mill college bullying anecdata-- it is the beginning of a serious piece of investigative journalism.
A for effort, but I'm going to have to go with a C- on actual etymology. Unless mathematics and physics aren't considered branches of knowledge.

-ic/ics mostly just means "pertaining to" (minus the craft bit) and like all things in the English language, is never a hard and fast rule.
FTX isn’t DeFi. I think you’re conflating centralized entities building on top of crypto (which should be regulated the same way banks are due to multiple historical crisis created by shady banking) and DeFi which are much more transparent in how they operate (by design)
I don't recall the anywhere in the US where entire cities were shut down like in Shanghai, or where people had their doors welded shut. Can we have a modicum of perspective here?
Or just condemning antivax propaganda. I don’t believe people have the right to spread this on public platforms.

But Musk’s conception of this platform is a “town square,” or more broadly, “anything goes.”
I think you are right, but there's a bypass for us to use wisely :-)
Not all crypto people are 'crypto-anarchists'. That is a tiny fringe within a fringe (and FTX was hardly pushing that idea either)

Even among the hardcore anti-government anarchists I doubt many of them saw it as anything but something they wanted in the distant future, not something that exists today.
I did that the way we usually do, by adding a question mark to the title.
Depends on what was going on. That's a bit of a personal question.

But as I recall, one of the biggest things I would notice is if I hadn't gotten very restful sleep.
I think it’s just because everyone knows how to work with strings, it’s so tangible, and you can see what data a string contains right there in the print(thing).

You don’t even have to know what the type is of the thing to work on it’s string representation.
"Signal loss" is the overarching term for all the factors that lead to the company being less able to make good inferences about users. Not just the obvious consideration of "how do we serve an ad that is relevant to the user?" but for any data-driven decision that affects a user's experience.

The biggest recent cause of signal loss was Apple changing the rules for apps on their phone, but there are plenty of other causes.

The idea of a signal loss model is to identify ways to work around signal loss and still do a good job of making a decision with the data you have, when some of the data you were relying upon disappears suddenly.
I’ve never felt much of an allure for music streaming services. They’re great for skimming, but pretty useless for anything non-mainstream, so I’ve been slowly amassing a ripped CD library for decades, and use Plex (and the pretty amazing PlexAmp) to get at it.

My only gripe with Plex is that the only voice assistant that interacts with it is Alexa, and it requires me to have my Plex server shared over the Internet. On the other hand, that’s been handy a couple of times when I was out and about and wanted to stream a couple of songs (which it did as well as Spotify).
I would call CoinDesk "the media".

They used to be a competitor and are existentially scared that people will believe that crypto is gambling in a crooked house.
GitLab.com is a multi-tenant deployment.

GitLab Dedicated is for customers who want GitLab team to manage GitLab for them but not on GitLab.com

(I work there)
> Third, this opinion is indeed extremely common internally.

It is intensely weird to me that people hold the opinion that their company is building something that is bad for the world, and yet they stay there and continue to help build it.

I know that's easy to say as someone not in that situation, but not always easy to do for someone who is. I get that people don't always have a ton of choice about their employment; maybe they are afraid of losing their health insurance, maybe they are on a visa and can't easily switch jobs, or maybe they simply aren't able to find another job that works for them. Less noble, but maybe the pay is just too good, and if they stay for just a bit longer, it will be life changing. I can totally sympathize with that!

But if this opinion is "extremely common", I would expect that a good number of those people would have the ability to leave, to the point that perhaps Zuckerberg would rethink his strategy.

(I don't really buy the "change things from within" explanation; 1) that rarely works, especially in a company the size of Meta, and 2) if tried, that clearly has not worked, given Meta's continuing trajectory.)
At this scale it still isn’t large enough to cause a 2008-type of crisis like banks have done, thankfully
> and that customers might be made "whole" if FTX were recapitalized like Bitfinex was

The obvious difference being that Bitfinex seems to be run by adults.
> Speaking of cutting costs, the company is still pouring multiple billions of dollars into vaporware called “the metaverse”. News flash: no one wants to wear VR goggles to spend any time in a digital heaven where the role of God is played by Mark Zuckerberg and you can do anything you can imagine, including “work” and “shop”.

This ties in with my earlier thought about why Zuckerberg is upset with Apple. He's not standing up for any little guy, he's upset that he's not getting his way with iOS devices anymore and that nobody cares about "the metaverse." It's essentially a tantrum.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the Metaverse is literally just The Sims with a helmet. The only reason FB cares about it is it's a place to sell advertising. But nobody wants it. We wanted Facebook because we could be voyeurs, shout into the void, and receive little hits of dopamine from "likes". But who wants to be a voyeur of virtual people? People who play The Sims, that's who. I don't think The Sims will make billions of dollars, with or without a helmet.
Hah! There's one reason not to switch everything to `unsafe get_unchecked()`.
Thanks. I keep starring at my laptop to try a quick idea but unable to focus. I should try a break
reading the article it seems Loder continued to tweet about some right wing extremist even after being court ordered to stop. I think this qualifies as "breaking the rules" even if I disagree with him being banned (based on the article, I don't care to research Loder in depth).

It seems to me a reasonable course of action to ban people violating restraining orders on your website. I do suspect the restraining order is being misapplied here, but that maybe isn't twitters responsibility to determine? Not sure how I feel about that since twitter is aiming to be pro free-speech and this case specifically seems to be a free-speech issue. I could go either way, but I don't know enough about this Loder person, maybe he isn't high profile enough to warrant in-depth thought about his ban and otherwise would be unbanned in the name of free speech? I certainly would be more likely to think he would be unbanned if he was a right-wing activist, though, but I don't know that I've seen substantial evidence here that shows a banning bias as this particular ban could be entirely justified.
I don’t see Engelbart’s work - and all other similar pioneering work that routinely gets brought up anytime HCI folks get together to wax poetic about what could be - as reminder of how much more progress lies ahead of us.

In fact, most of the things shown in those demos can be done today - perhaps in more narrow ways, but fundamentally we have collaborative document editing, video chat, complex live drawing tools, multi stream video editing, handwriting recognition, etc etc etc. All operating at scales that could only be dreamt of in these early days.

What it brings to my mind though is that software doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Writing software requires many hours of human effort, maintaining it even more so. Sustained, focused, organized human effort requires funding of some sort [0]. Software exists to solve problems, and in our globalized capitalistic economies, it means the value of software does not lie in reaching some paragon of pure academic composability/extensibility, but in solving concrete problems for people while meeting some arbitrary costs/tradeoffs.

This is why those “tools for thoughts” demos seem to always rehash the same ideas and get stuck circling around the same drain that Engelbart & Kay & friends charted 50 years ago; in the meantime, some industrial company you’ve never heard of is paying a few consultants big bucks to come up with “boring” Excel spreadsheets that are just as much “tools for thought” as anything else that humans use.

Now, am I satisfied with this state of affairs, and would I love to see what models for writing and maintaining software could exist in a non capitalistic culture? Absolutely not, and absolutely.

But that seems to me to be more the root cause of why we’re still chasing the Engelbart mirage over half a century later, rather than some fundamental/conceptual “progress” to be made.

[0] and speaking of funding, it is interesting to look at what funding environments those open ended “tools for thought” projects tend to come from; more often than not academia, or in the case of ink and switch, an independently wealthy PI. Places directly connected to money making ventures, like Xerox PARC or MSR, are short lived, and few and far between.
> Through in my experience no one but old people is actually on facebook. (

I'd lower that threshold to middle-aged people (I'm in my early 40s myself), but that's about it. Facebook the social media platform is a sinking ship.
iTunes is a pretty low bar to beat! I would generalize that apple has never gotten music right except for the iPod with that sweeet jog dial.
Chuckle. I wonder about the "leopards ate my face" moment which seems particularly apt here if you consider Si valley VC money to largely be expensive steroids that appear to provide big growth fast, but will likely land you in worse shape long run either when you withdraw them, or by leaving you addicted trying to avoid the resulting crash.

AKA your removing the "vitamins" path in exchange for some future "medicine"
Ask HN: What's the coolest, non-useful project you've built
Simple tool to play torrents on Google Cast devices via WebTorrent
Source:

https://github.com/FluorescentHallucinogen/webtorrent-google...
The policy has catch all clauses in it (like "we can do what we want whenever") to avoid lawsuits, so if they ban people who otherwise aren't explicitly in violation of a policy it's easy to unban them without changing policy.
I once wrote a unifying parent class for several client-specific reports we had. Think the parent class implementing the top-level control flow/logic and the child implementations having methods that it calls into, sometimes once (e.g. for the header) and sometimes per-row.

Specific reports needed various kinds of customization. Some needed to call the client's web API to get some extra data for each row (and since this was across the internet, it needed to be async). Some needed to accumulate statistics on each row and sum them over the whole report at the end. One needed to query an ancillary database for each row, but all those queries had to be part of the same transaction so that they would be consistent.

Now in theory you can do ad-hoc things for each of those cases. You could make the per-row method always async (i.e. return Future), so that you can override it to do a web API call sometimes. You could stash the statistics in a mutable variable in the report that accumulates them, remembering to do locking. You could use a session on the ancillary database bound to a threadlocal to do the transaction management (most database libraries assume that's how you're doing things anyway), and as long as your returned Futures are never actually async then it would probably work. But realistically it would be very hard to do safely, and I'd never have spotted the underlying symmetry that let me pull out the high-level logic. More likely we'd've stuck with three distinct copy-pasted versions of the report code, with all the maintenance burden that implies.

In principle an abstraction never tells you something you didn't already know - whatever properties you're using, you could've always worked them out "by hand" for that specific case. Like, imagine programming without the concept of a "collection" or any idea of the things you can do on a collection generically (such as traverse it) - instead you just figure out that it's possible to traverse a linked list or a red-black tree or an array, so you write the code that works on all of them when you need it. That's absolutely a way that you can program. But if you don't have this vocabulary of concepts and patterns then realistically you miss so many chances to unify and simplify your code. And if you have the rigorous category-theory concepts, rather than fuzzier design patterns, then you have quick, objective rules for figuring out when your patterns apply - and, even more importantly, when they don't. You can use library code for handling those concepts with confidence, instead of e.g. wondering whether it's ok for your custom iterator to expect the library to always call hasNext() before it calls next(). It's a huge multiplier in practice.
I wish I didn't personally know more than one person who'd be scaling the wall of the OpenAI compound for reals if they got that response.
I'm in the middle of (and searching recent Mastodon discussions on HN because someone had made some good points about surveillance / privacy aspects that I'm trying to track down) a discussion with my instance admin over a block ("silencing") of another instance as that instance hosts a few accounts of US CISA staff.

The conflict between safe space / security and highly-visible but effectively pointless gestures is ... significant.

I'll also note that I've known my admin for many years (across a few social networks, with many interactions), and generally highly regard her take and approach on matters. This is not a trivial question, though I feel she's come down on the wrong side.
I'm three months in with medications, and if I have to be completely honest focusing is not the "best part" of them for me.

Along with ADHD I had a pretty strong depression (mainly secondary, as in created by ADHD, but with some elements that might seem primary). Stimulants, on the lower dose manifactured, lifted that from basically the first days. I still have bad days but they are not as crippling as before.

After a month or so I started to realize that I was much more relaxed in general, and that I was "finally" starting to lose track of appointments (like a normal person does, instead of remembering them all like my life depends on that). I think I had a good deal of anxiety that was completely making up for ADHD's forgetfulness. I think it freed a lot of "computational power" that before was used to make me a human agenda.

I also became much less strict with times and habits - it used to be very difficult for me to create and to break habits, while now it feels much more fluid. I used to not be able to go to bed before my last bedtime, which is incredibly frustrating (if my normal bedtime is midnight and I went to bed once at two, the next day I would habe to go to bed at 2).

I'd also advise against taking meds only "as needed", or skipping the weekends, at least for the first months. Even stimulants, which feel like hava an immediate effect, take 2/3 days to be active and from recent studies seem to be fully active only after some weeks. For me skipping a day is terribly limiting and I still feel the effects after a few days.
My 2nd newborn is 7 months old. Is it contributing.?
I get why people take issue with GIMP, but I'm glad that it exists and has existed. Back in the day I got a lot done with GIMP for both fun and school work, and it was great that it worked both on Windows and Linux. Better tools are around now, and GIMP has failed to live up to a lot of its promises, but I don't get why people need to shit all over it. No one is making you use GIMP. It's honestly amazing that people can even come close to making this kind of software as FOSS and keep it going for this long.
Password managers are a huge security antipattern and this will probably have to happen a couple dozen more times before infosec bloggers with affiliate marketing deals stop promoting them.
You don’t. A state level actor has access to all your data. You basically can’t connect to anything and always hold the asset
It could be noise in a benchmark that does IO, or has determinism problems.
I can't speak for any browser integration but I use the app's autofill and it works great.

Several, I personally like KeePassDX but Keepass2android is also there, possibly others I don't know about.
Sadly in some areas Uber eats and such have caused mom n pop delivery to disappear. There's a chain in Los Angeles, Lucifer's Pizza, which no longer offers delivery. If you call them up they tell you to use an app to order.
What the link you gave is supposed to show?

>It was a serious Photoshop competitor before it made a single cent.

Can you provide an actual reference of this? The AMA you gave explicitly says Photopea is making a revenue.
The New York Times did another interview with Bankman-Fried today, very much against the advice of his lawyers. I didn't watch it, but from a tweet summary [1], it sounds rather amazingly self-destructive.

Getting the lies on the record seems useful?

[1] https://twitter.com/edmundlee/status/1597957472761057282
What was the ultimate underlying pathology?
You don't have to go back to pre-history, passports for individuals didn't exist in the 19th century [0]. People were free to go to other countries whenever they wanted, and they did. There were travelers and migrations all over the place. Many cultures have traditions going back millennia of showing travellers generous hospitality.

Merchants activity was often regulated, with passports for commercial activity and other customs controls. But not people. The opposite of today.

I acknowledge that there would be concerns like you mention, like violent push-back from the natives, same as there are today. Some peoples are raised in insular cultures, some are welcoming, sometimes migrations cause understandable problems, etc.

I don't think the way we do things today is optimal. We've changed things so that money is given more freedom than people. And too many people are taught that foreigners are scary.

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/a-history-...
Thanks for sharing your experience! I felt and still feel in a similar way.

I don't think negatively of our condition though, it's part of life. I chose to look to change it because of how it impacted my relationship and because I wanted to regain some agency of how I use my time.

But I believe I did fine with it for a number of years before.

I'm glad I sought for help when I did and the short term impacts have been extremely positive for me.

I hope you continue on your path, and I'll be rooting for you.
I felt the best way to get feedback from users was by speaking with them directly.

I used email and LinkedIn DMs to set up feedback calls from our users.

Few of them directly sent their suggestions through written responses in emails and DMs.

We also recently set up https://feedback.supademo.com to collect feedback.
Caffeine with Ritalin (or Focalin) causes insomnia for me, and I'm definitely not alone in that; it's the first thing I tell anyone who talks to be about going on ADHD meds and I don't know why my Psychiatrist didn't say anything, particularly since a lot of ADHD people are self-medicating with caffeine.

Adderall and I were just not meant to ever go together. The first dosage had no effect other than a slightly elevated resting heartrate, and when the dose was increased, I was awake for 40 hours straight with mild psychosis.

OTOH, some people respond great to Addreall, and I've heard great things about Vyvanse (a prodrug for Adderall) for an all-day treatment for ADHD in those who do.
Single threaded perf gains have slowed down, this isn’t true anymore.
I think they're referring to their legal policy (like the one you sign with twitter when you sign up), and there's no reason that would have had to change for the changes he's implemented.
> I thought it was pretty fun to watch

As in: "Fun to watch people losing money they sent to someone who they thought was honest because he was on the cover of many mainstream publications who were presenting him as an altruistic genius"

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^this should be goldplated.
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