skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Food for thought: what are the expected consequences of the exception?

If the error will stop the program flow and show a warning dialog to the user, it's useless to think too much about performance. More or less the same if it's going to log some message and abort the operation.

What is usually frowned upon is using the exception as a kind of goto for normal flow of the program. Exceptions should be... the exception.

Otherwise all this performance brouhaha is a waste of time.
this ignores the algorithm pushing stuff to you and it entirely ignores comments from randoms.
UT Austin put about 30 years of research into air-core rotors for pulsed power delivery[1], so it's not like this is a field without extant research

1: e.g. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261388468_Optimal_d...
HBO is pretty rough too. I travel a lot and I usually download a set of shows and movies to watch on various streaming services. 100% of the time, HBO fails to play it's downloaded content.
The same author, LMP88959/EMMIR, writes this really cool indie game called King's Crook. It uses a lot of the rendering, modeling, texturing, and sound design style of Jagex from back when the brothers Gower first worked on RuneScape 2.

Really cool, mind-blowing stuff. I think this guy is one of the few people in the world creating the software for that specific content creation pipeline.

He's got the exact MIDI style down and everything.
So if your friend says this, this implies that uncleaned rooms do happen from time to time, right?
This is not true and much of evolution has and is still debated today. Public universities make you believe otherwise but if you spend half an hour researching you will quickly find much of the foundations of evolutionary theory has been challenged by recent scientific discoveries
Many of these flags are not intended to be used on their own. For example, you can use "./chrome --memlog-sampling-rate=10000" but not "./chrome --10000". This information is, understandably, not explicitly stated on this page.
A question about the AI doomsday that's been bothering me
ChatGPT prompt: "What is the logic in assuming a particular computer node or system will develop intelligence before the global Internet as a whole?"

"The development of intelligence in a computer system would depend on a variety of factors, such as the capabilities and resources of the system, the algorithms and software being used, and the data and experiences available to the system.

It is not necessarily logical to assume that a particular system or node would be more likely to develop intelligence than the global Internet as a whole, which is a vast and interconnected network of computers and devices."
Humans are the ones that need electronic calculators and slide rules, not math.
After using CoPilot for about 8 months, I still find it useful. I still think it is worth $100/year.

I have experimented a little with coding and ChatGPT and it seems impressive at first looks.

I had a funny social interaction while on a hike this morning with three friends who are all semi-retired videographers. They seemed enthusiastic enough to hear about automation for software development but when I brought up my continued joy at automatic photo/video/added-music mixups in Apple Photos (‘memories’) they didn’t like that. One friend categorically stated that AIs will never be able to adequately edit video, etc. in postproduction. I think he is wrong but I let it slide. I travel a lot and have a ton of digital media assets and I so very much appreciate the automatically created mixups. I watch every mixup and flag about half to keep forever.
Programming is one of the more complex and exacting mental activities, so if this is true, it is not only the end of programing.

AI progress is astounding and the results impressive, but they still seem to be 'fuzzy', almost like an instantiated dream generated by the input. Sure, as an assistant it, is powerful, but it still seems to be missing something to be able to provide a complete abstraction between people and code.
I enjoy the film grain of old films. Ideally you don't notice it, but you might sense when it is gone.

Thanks for trying Netflix, but I think I hate this procedural-photography future we are slipping into.
Interesting: On page 4, there's a section listing out the crimes she will not be further prosecuted for. As you'd expect this includes the 7 counts listed earlier, but there's also an 8th section that's been redacted. Any ideas on what this could be referring to?
I feel you are confusing two emotions and it is coming through clearly -

> I had the good fortune (and good financial management) to make some investments with my savings so I'm probably able to live without working for 10 or 15 years. But I don't want to be aimless for that entire time.

Emotion 1 says "I want a purpose in life. I am well set financially and I would like to do something that is meaningful (for me and/or for the world)".

>I have some hobbies but they're not practical to make a living out of.

Emotion 2 says "Whatever I choose to do, should also be financially viable."

The conflict between these two is making it hard for you choose what to do. Pick one of these. Do you want a purpose that would be meaningful, even if you make no money out of it? Or do you want a job that would pay you enough, but maybe not so meaningful? You cannot evaluate option 1 with criteria for option 2 and vice versa.
People are a lot like ChatGPT, in that they fill in their next action based on what is most likely according to their training given what actions came before it.
It's like advanced level Prisoner's dilemma being played by prisoners who all took graduate level coursework in game theory. The lack of cooperation among the prisoners probably signals that they realize they aren't playing a version of iterated prisoner's dilemma any more.
>This is the dumbest assessment of the fediverse I've seen in a month full of dumb assessments of the fediverse.

>Just a really, really dumb assessment.

Your argument boils down to "run your own instance", which has specifically been addressed in the article. Perhaps instead of repeating the word "dumb", you could read it.

Regarding "run your own instance": sure, just like we all are running are email servers, right? Shouldn't be that hard to set up, right?

Not like there would be any issues with getting on one of the many blacklists[1] maintained by God knows who that you'd have no practical means to get removed from, right?

Right.

[1] https://github.com/Anthchirp/mastodon-defederate
I wouldn't say "intolerable" but there are certainly different interpretations. I like Schiff better than Gould, and I like Dinnerstein the most of all.
She was found not guilty of defrauding patients. He was guilty on all accounts.
> She got one thing… they won’t pursue tax fraud charges

I think you massively misread the doc.

Read the doc, its not that long

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23495436-crypto-coop...

> Moreover,if the defendant fully complies with the understandings specified in this Agreement, the defendant will not be further prosecuted criminally by this Office for any crimes, except for criminal tax violations

They agreed to not charge her with more crimes other than tax evasion. That's a huge deal given what she could have been charged with.

That's a huge difference from what you quoted.
It's not bizarre at all. The math community has unfortunately been down this road many times before. When an 80-year-old announces a 7 page proof of a famous problem, the smart money is on the proof being wrong. As the comments elsewhere on this story indicate, this heuristic turned out to be correct. The only new twist is that we have two 80-year-olds this time, not one.

To be clear, I don't like this state of affairs. As suggested above, the best course of action seems to be to ignore the posting.
So far I'm not impressed. If you ask these chatbots for something simple it usually gives you wikipedia/stackoverflow levels of answers with lots of edge conditions because they've been trained on so much garbage. And if you try to ask it for something difficult then it doesn't know how to produce it. And I've tried to make ChatGPT do physics and it keeps on failing on basic dimensional analysis.
True but I think the broader point still stands. Natural gas would either stay sequestered, leak into the atmosphere as an even more potent greenhouse gas, or breakdown into CO2.
> Anyone who uses your work will appreciate you having deep understanding of what you're doing.

But do they really? Do either consumers or investors really care?
Personally, I think Jarrett is grossly under-appreciated. That dude can play.
Yup, their complaint is that they wanted a separate email to *parents*. Its kind of ridiculously petty when you see what the actual complaint is here.

I have a lot of sympathy for school administrators and school board members. They deal with this sort of stuff from parents all the time.
> Also, speed matters. Going 15 or 50 when the thing breaks makes a difference.

Isnt this an argument that helmets are more important for passenger vehicles? After all, car accidents cause about 10x more head trauma in the usa.
They almost certainly did not think anything they were doing was wrong. Effective altruism and utilitarianism is one helluva drug
>De-federating based on association is not common

As long as it's possible, it will happen.
Drag will exert a constant force regardless of mass. So heavier wheels may allow you to coast farther, but at constant speed they don't affect the drag component.
Working age population is 207M. So 1% actually translates to millions of people (2 million)
> So all your film noise is synthesized

Strictly speaking ("film noise"), I suppose you're right. But we are all aware that there is such a thing as CCD noise, right? That's not being synthesized.

I wonder if one is preferable to the other: that is, is CCD noise worse than emulsion noise? My sense is that the CCD, with the Bayer filter in place, gives you wild chroma noise while film gives more of a tonal noise.
Well, since crypto bros actually believe their statements about NFTs etcetera, that's another way of agreeing with the thesis.
The rate it’s gone up is a red herring. If people don’t want to take the job at the posted rate then they are underpaying.

Instead of comparing if your pay has gone up 25%, ask if you’d rather take one of those jobs than yours. Because apparently that’s an option if you want.

There are almost certainly miserable working conditions, bad hours, and still an overall low wage. If people are able to find better jobs, then hotels need to treat people better or pay more to offset that.

Are we seriously going to cry about megacorps not getting away with paying workers trash wages for miserable jobs? Boo hoo, pay more.
This is likely true. I just read a report that said that the shortage highly correlates with the reduction of immigrants due to COVID and the tightening of immigration into the US. It may not be the only factor, but it is one that contributes to the shortage of service workers.

Like it or not, new immigrants are more likely to take jobs that pay less as compared to non-immigrants.
Kinda. It depends on whether the business has a positive enough return on this additional equity to offset the dilution, in which case it is absolutely what you want.

For example, if a new employee comes on board and gets a grant everyone else gets diluted a bit. This is a good deal if the new employee will generate sufficient value to offset this dilution. I think we can all come up with examples where this would or would not be the case.

Likewise with investors. Sometimes a new round will be exactly what a company needs to light the touchpaper and everyone will see a huge benefit in spite of dilution. Sometimes it’s just more cash on the big bonfire and not only does it not fix the fundamental problem but also hurts all the existing holders to add insult to injury.
It’s bad at solving logic puzzles today. We’ve just spent a decade-ish watching AI leapfrog over hurdle after hurdle that people said were going to be “impossible” or “would require reasoning/creativity” or “are at best 10 years away”. It feels foolish to assume we won’t see another unexpected leap.

I would be unsurprised if GPT-4 or 5 suddenly becomes really good at math and logic problems. And long before that I expect AI to be hard to distinguish from a human in terms of day-to-day executive function stuff.
You can source your .vimrc from neovim if you’re interested. I’ve been separating plugins based on the environment they depend on as well.
>or weren't allowed to immigrate to the US.

Which is exactly as it should be. ~Half the country doesn't want them. If that results in hotel stays being absurdly expensive (or perhaps changing laws so that hotel rooms don't need to be cleaned between guests), then so be it. America is democratic, and the people have spoken, so now let them suffer the consequences.
Browsers already include this feature in a coarse grained (but utterly sufficient) manner in the form of a scroll bar.
Nick Chapsas did a demo of just how much overhead regularly thrown exceptions cause: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f2elFRmeLE

Spoiler, each throw/catch costs 20 microseconds
Might as well harness the rising AI wave.
I really hope Caroline and Gary go to prison too.

It would be a slap in the face if they got some absurd plea deal where they didn't have to go to jail if they testified against Sam.
The process described uses a feature of AV1 to generate film grain based on parameters. Or exactly what you proposed.
Right?? So glad I'm not alone in this.
I know first hand PWC does. :)

I am not sure why an auditor would not touch crypto.

It should be the opposite. Any normal company that operates in financial markets should have normal company accounting and normal auditing. The issues at the moment pretty much stems from people thinking 'crypto' should be different.
While a third of COVID-19 fatalities were people using nursing homes and by definition not employed, and the over 65 cohort was 90% of fatalities, hundreds of thousands of people left life as well as the workforce. Some seniors can’t afford to retire or prefer to keep a job. The most dangerous job by virus morbidity was line cook, a service/“essential worker” job.

Then add in those disabled by the virus.

Indirect effects include “not working” people who were incapacitated by the virus who normally babysat their grandkids enabling a parent to work (or they’re sheltering in place instead of babysitting). School closures forced many working parents to quit. People who already had a pre-existing condition or high risk occupation retired early in the face of an unknown virus with early estimates of 2% fatality and 10% for old people (we now know this was inflated due to testing not keeping up with spread). Service workers were laid off and had to move on to other jobs. Many used the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance as runway to a better industry, go to college, or just work less. The prospect of mortality shifted people’s time-money trade off toward working less.

The government restricted immigration and many foreigners who could come did not want to work in a highly infected country.

This is all overlaid on a long term decrease in the workforce participation rate due to baby boomer retirements.
>"But at this particular fair, gossip was starting to spread about an Italian merchant who was there, and making a fortune.

He bought and sold nothing: all he had was a desk and an inkstand.

Day after day he sat there, receiving other merchants and signing their pieces of paper, and somehow becoming very rich.

The locals were very suspicious.

But to a new international elite of Europe's great merchant houses, his activities were perfectly legitimate.

He was buying and selling debt, and in doing so he was creating enormous economic value.

A merchant from Lyon who wanted to buy - say - Florentine wool could go to this banker and borrow something called a bill of exchange. This was a credit note, an IOU, but it was not denominated in the French livre or Florentine lira.

Its value was expressed in the ecu de marc, a private currency used by this international network of bankers.

And if the Lyonnaise merchant or his agents travelled to Florence, the bill of exchange from the banker in Lyon would be recognised by bankers in Florence, who would gladly exchange it for local currency.

Through this network of bankers, a local merchant could not only exchange currencies but also translate his creditworthiness in Lyon into creditworthiness in Florence, a city where nobody had ever heard of him - a valuable service, worth paying for."

PDS: Fascinating!
Commenter makes a point about Catholic schools and where their curriculum focus is, you turn that into an indictment of the church. Second commenter again focuses on schools, you again indict the church.

Everybody gets it, the Catholic Church had a scandal. It was awful and destructive to many folks and the church deserves the blame and fault for the coverup. However, that scandal doesn’t seem to have anything to do with a conversation about curriculum choices at a Catholic school. Your trying to derail a conversation because of your biases.
Unfortunately it seems like almost all the talented writers left after season 3/4.

Seasons 1 and 2 were absolutely hysterical and amazing, but by the end the writing got really terrible.
I usually book through Concur (corporate booking site) and have never had any trouble.

Hotels.com might not be a supported OTA however, since they are a consolidator. You can't even get HHonors points with hotels.com.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hilton-hilton-honors/1887120...
Reduce the goods and services they consume? This would show up as a drop in real GDP
> This is essentially the status quo, and it's not helpful. Better is possible.

It is helpful, since if you address all of the complaints, then your code will be proven to be free of the issues that the sound static analyzer can detect. In theory, you can produce C code that is proven to be memory safe by doing that, which effectively makes it semi-formally verified code. Unlike other methods of doing semi-formal verification, this method is actually usable by an average programmer.

Would you explain to me how that is the status quo? How would you do better?
We recently needed to apply for advanced access to more permission scopes on our Facebook app. It was an absolute nightmare. Between the out of date documentation, undocumented requirements, arbitrary rejections based on reviewer-side issues like network outages and php errors on Facebook’s internal testing platform, and me having to literally train their app reviewers on the new login flow meta built for instagram business login, I had quite the stressful week.
OP is saying how would we detect a civilisation unknown to us, and for who we are also unknown. A system such as you describe would only be practical for a civilisation trying to communicate with a known counter-party. Otherwise which stars do you target your laser on, and for how long?

Let’s say the Centaurans developed advanced technology 100 million years ago, would they beam this signal at our star for all 50 million years until we happened to evolve? Why our star system, why not any of millions of others? As this system is so directional each detector could only monitor one star at a time. How many do we build, and which stars do we point them at, and for how long?

For direct communication with an established target this would be fine, but as a broadcast system it’s way too target specific to work at galactic scale.
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wisdom, 1. in general, the best form of knowledge.
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with scientific knowledge of
the objects which are
naturally the highest;
metaphysics, including
natural theology.

practical wisdom, 1. prudence.
2. any excellent form of
practical knowledge, as of
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[0] https://isidore.co/misc/Res%20pro%20Deo/TheCatholicArchive_O...
Using exceptions in python isn't any more expensive than not using exceptions because the interpreter pays the same cost no matter what. It's a core design decision. Changing it would probably break some things.
What about the previous CEO of Alameda, Sam Trabucco?

Caroline only took over recently, I haven't heard anything about his legal standing at this point.
Yes, just like the FTX website is on the internet. So, do you blame the HTTP protocol for every online scam?

Anyone can put scam token on Ethereum, just like anyone can publish a website. It has no relevance to Ethereum whatsoever. What the poster meant was that the FTX, the organization, was not an Ethereum protocol, it was just a centralized financial institution that published some random token.
What are you on about? I do hilly rides all the time and personally feel the pain of not being able to reap the benefits of the climb _all the time_. Let's say I climb a big hill and there's a red light at the bottom of the other side. Guess where all my precious kinetic energy goes? It dissipates as sound and heat into my brake pads. Whoops! I ride about 60 miles a week on very hilly terrain. Off the top of my head, I can think of 3 very large hills that end in a stop sign at the bottom in the first 20 minutes of my regular ride! I actually can't think of a single hill where I'm totally free and clear going down the other side.

In my experience, hilly rides are just harder and I'm more tired after them. It's actually very surprising that what I would expect to be a common sense viewpoint is being considered the contrarian one! Sure, apply elementary physics and hills are meaningless, but apply real-world physics and maybe they aren't so meaningless. And we aren't even considering the differences in energy efficiency when your body has to work harder, or the major differences in energy loss through air drag at high speeds. There are also concerns about how comfortably and efficiently you are able to convert muscle energy into motion through pedaling (similar to how speed-walking gaits are very inefficient) at both the high (downhill) and low ends (uphill) of pedal RPM.
I really need to read Chomsky. I agree with your point!
The person is refreshingly honest.
Spending one's prime years of life as a glorofied ChatGPT instance doing data piping chores is a sad fate.

We should be able to do better than that.
> Programming will be obsolete. I believe the conventional idea of "writing a program" is headed for extinction, and indeed, for all but very specialized applications, most software, as we know it, will be replaced by AI systems that are trained rather than programmed. In situations where one needs a "simple" program (after all, not everything should require a model of hundreds of billions of parameters running on a cluster of GPUs), those programs will, themselves, be generated by an AI rather than coded by hand.

What is impossible to do then is something like convex optimization models for guidance of rockets. You need to be able to mathematically prove that the output of the program will always converge to the solution. You have to assume that the inputs to the algorithm could get scrambled by ionizing radiation on one cycle and that the next cycle it'll recover completely. You want hard mathematical proofs. You don't want a black box that has been trained a whole bunch and might have some sharp hidden edge condition that you'll never know exists until just the right input hits it.
also drugs are a helluva drug
In addition to being nice, Russians should grow a spine. The American people of 70s were massively better than current Russians: they stopped the Vietnam War by protesting against it.

Where are the massive Russian peotests?
0.6% accounts for all the open positions?