skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sun's biggest potential competitor early on was Digital Equipment Corp's VAXStation.

Interesting; I'd never heard that. Was it because of customers already using VMS, just as Sun attracted customers already using Unix?

(I worked on CASE for mil/aerospace/datacom and ICEs at the time, and we developed for almost all the workstation platforms of that era, including the VAXstations. The VAXstations were interesting for software, but if you'd asked me then, I would've guessed that they were one of the lesser-important among our customers. Sun seemed most important to us by 1990, and before that, our founding East Coast HQ was an early Apollo shop, nothing DEC. Though a co-founder did have a PDP-8e as a kind of art display.)
Oh... That's a different matter again.

Civil contempt of court is handled under yet another set of laws. And those laws don't appear to have the same presumption of bail that the laws dealing with criminal pre-trial detention.

Which kind of makes sense, it's not the same thing; Criminal trials have bail because it might take months or years of delays for the prosecution and defence to build a case. Here, the court has ordered you directly to jail as a punishment for not following their order; You can leave at any time by complying with the court order.
You have to contact the carrier every time you use a cell tower.

Or are you saying you have to contact them to transfer eSIMs to new phones? You don’t have to do that anymore.
How is Santa delivering hundreds of thousands of gifts while he is over the middle of a large body of water?
watching an epistemological crisis play out in real time across the internet is truly sublime
Math, the hash function use magic numbers which in turn initialize and eventually map to a specific Galois Field, they are also called finite fields.

You have a set field size as you go over it, it loops and so output fields are never unique, you have a 1:infinite relationship. That property to determinism, there are problems computers cannot solve but we can. A computer requires determinism to do work, which in effect is that 1:1 state->next state mapping on the state graph. There's a lot of computer science theory and literature on this if you want to dig deeper. MIT has an OCW course in signals and systems.

Anywhere you see modulus math happening, its working with finite fields.
Perhaps warmer states won’t need to worry about the cold and the issues it brings?
>the bugs

Which US state doesn't have problems with bugs though? I know none hold a candle to Australia but it seems like each has its own unique problem with bugs.
EFS, while much more expensive for storage, might win out if request costs are the problem.
In my opinion, it would needlessly clutter the tool’s output. As long as there is no legal liability.
So it's a sneaky marketing blog then.

AWS - "Free to get data in, expensive to get out"
This seems like the attitude most artists have to image generators as well.
At this time, most agencies are largely ignoring the advancement of generative AI technology. This is likely due to most of the time in advertising being spent on developing campaign concepts and generating ideas. AI tools like GPT-3 and ChatGPT still struggle with coming up with high-quality campaign ideas. Our agency is using GPT-3 for summarizing and condensing briefing reports, writing "Schweinebauch" (which are equivalent to press releases, technical copy for automotive ads, and display ads on the web), and ChatGPT for creating target group personas that our creatives can engage with. For Art Direction, we're employing self-trained, stable diffusion models for storyboarding, style frames, and photo bashing layouts, which has drastically increased our prototyping speed. In the past, it was a running joke that if an Art Director said they needed thirty minutes, they would actually need two hours. But that’s no longer the case as this approach makes pre-production so much faster. I’m sure it has the potential to bring about real change to the industry, but for now, AI is just a useful tool that can’t fully replace internal resources. We’re seeing a drop of about 70 percent in the number of layout illustrators and stock images we need to book though. The main consequence of this, however, is that our creative directors are now having to deal with a much higher workload because they’re being presented with substantially more content to evaluate. Last year, we learned that copywriters and art directors who had a strong foundational understanding of their craft and a good grasp of their sector’s professional jargon produced much more impressive results with the help of AI than the ones who primarily relied on tutorials and trends for their work.
That's brilliant. Really put things into perspective.
The killer app for LLMs will finally be able to write ffmpeg invocations
I've been doing this manually for a while and it works surprisingly well even without the initial email. I usually start with a prompt like "Write an email apologizing for not being able to make it to a meeting due to a prior engagement". You can then ask the model to edit it by adding details, making it shorter or less professional and even translate it to another language.
Oh, thanks for the correction. I subscribe to the Guardian and must have read both articles this morning without realizing they were different.
I'd not like to use GPT3 (maybe GPT9 or so), but I certainly don't have fun writing commands, I do it because it's either the only or the best option, I'd bet that I'm very much in the majority there.
Whether it's a good policy in the first place is a bit of a different question than how to accommodate this policy to people with a disability; I just wanted to reply to that part. I don't really have an opinion about the policy as such; my education is from before laptops and phones and I have no classroom experience beyond that (i.e. I'm not a teacher).
Not to mention that such limitations accelerate the fragmentation of the Internet
F-Droid Security Issues
It uses a lot of cpu usage and I can’t find stuff I’m looking for for past 3 searches. I have to use my own system I already have of screenshotting 4x/min to go back to finding stuff.
There’s definitely a lot of variables that I’m sure I won’t appreciate until I am living this self-driving taxi experience, but I wouldn’t be selling my personal vehicles the moment such a service became available to me. I would finish out my current lease and just keep my one paid off vehicle. Once I have enough confidence in this new setup, I would go about selling that last car. That would probably be after 2-3 years minimum.
Politics apart, can anyone explain how access from China was possible if all PII data is under Oracle control?
Pretty cool! Does anyone know how open-source alternatives like GPT-J compare to ChatGPT? I've heard that it's comparable to GPT-3, but nothing close to GPT-3.5. I'd much prefer using a tool that I know won't eventually be put behind a paywall.
>But you know what I don't do? Freeze my ass off standing in a gas station in subzero temperatures and howling winds! Not missing that at all.

Filling up the car is the least painful part of driving in the winter. You park up next to a fuel pump with the heated seats slow-roasting your ass (and the car is probably warm by the time you reach a station), you get out of the car for about 4 minutes, and then you go back in the car to continue the slow roast.
Indeed. Obviously Gelman is accomplished in the field, so it's a bit surprising. But it's easy to get confused on these issues, for anyone apparently.

There is a part towards the end of the paper where he suggests that the coin flip is really a "point distribution" at .5, while the outcome of the fight is something else. I think the intuition that he was going for was that if the fight was repeated N times, the outcome likely would not be N/2 wins for each. This suggests that there is "something" about the problem that could probably be known, and that is different from 1/2. But obviously that "something" is not our prior in the scenario given before the fight occurs. Determining the prior should be as simple as: Are both outcomes possible? Yes. Do you have any reason to expect one over the other? No. Well, then you have your prior.

I think this "something" is where the idea of taking a uniform distribution on [0,1] comes from -- the idea that there is some "true" probability of the outcome of the fight, but we just don't know what it is, rather than realizing that no such thing exists. Really it seems like re-reading Jaynes should just clear the whole thing up.
Undertaker or custom coffin maker - demographics is the only real crystal ball available and it tells us there is a wave of demand coming.
> ReiserFS withered when its namesake dev was jailed for murdering his wife.

That is unimportant for the purpose of considering whether or not ReiserFS is any good.

Looking on Wikipedia, I can already find one problem though, which is the year 2038 problem. Wikipedia also says "Some directory operations (including unlink(2)) are not synchronous on ReiserFS, which can result in data corruption with applications relying heavily on file-based locksif the machine halts before it has synchronized the disk."

So, there are a few problems with ReiserFS (although it might have good ideas too). But if the author murdered his wife, that is the problem with the author, not a problem with ReiserFS. (It is still a problem, but it is a problem with something else.)
Is it true that most posts on self-hosted Mastodon are actually about self-hosting Mastodon?
I don’t think we will see independently reported data anytime soon.

Anecdotally the features in a Tesla make them ridiculously safer over any other car I have driven. My Model 3 has saved me from a collision numerous times.
Eh, I think the golden age was 5-8 years ago. Between the increased prices, increased shipping, increased consolidation (Asmodee) and so much moving to crowdfunding sites; without the games being tremendously better, I feel like we are in a silver age, at best.
Best way I know to write unmaintainable code is to use all the best practices you can find.
The only thing what has changed is childhood mortality. If you take statistical lifetime of most animals (say frogs) and count in all offspring with hope to describe their average life duration then it would be low number of seconds. Human as such seems to have always same lifespan programmed in, just natural early mortality has been taken away. Basic statistical bias.
Does almost removed early mortality really make our species stronger/better is another question. Removal of one natural survival test may have its own consequences.
> Eg compare a cache dropping randomly selected items to LFU or LRU caches

I think it's not that randomly (no pun intended) adding randomness to an existing algorithm or solution could improve it, but that sometimes a random sampling process mimics the underlying problem.

For caching, the assumption that LRU item should be ejected is that - an assumption. If you checked this assumption and found that it was wrong, but that instead the access patterns are random, then dropping random items _do_ mimic the problem domain, and that makes it a better solution!
> You don't get subject to slashing for your node going offline

Look up "inactivity leak". If enough staked value (>1/3) is offline, those nodes get slashed until >2/3 of the total stake is online again.
How is Santa over a large body of water in a sleigh pulled by reindeer? Magic my friend.
and once in a while, the shuffle puts the elements in a pattern that makes quicksort perform worst case (n^2). But i guess that is rare, the larger the list! So in practice, it works.
I tested it after the original Reuters report and it was definitely gone. Repeating the test shows it's back. Musk is lying, again.
Uh? Where I live, if I want to walk (trail or just to a friend) OSM is superior to google maps.

Maps is better because it has all the shops and opening times… which might be out of date by a year or two.
I've also had some interesting interactions between the academic world and my blog.

One time someone copy pasted a bunch of my blog posts, ran them through a thesaurus badly, and published the result in trash journals under their own name. For example: [1] was turned into [2]. Even stranger was they apparently then machine generated a gibberish paper, referencing many of these badly plagiarized papers, and put my name and a coworker's name on it as authors [3]. Without our permission, obviously. Actually, that's what led me to the badly plagiarized papers.

A different time, some researchers did work extending something I published in a blog post[4][5]. Opposite to the experience in this article, they actually went a bit far on credit: they asked me if I wanted to be listed as an author on their paper! I hadn't done any work on their paper, so I declined. My understanding is that this request was triggered by some third party, an advisor or a referee, concerned that just citing the blog post wouldn't be enough credit because a blog post wouldn't be seen as a real publication.

[1]: https://algassert.com/2016/04/24/eves-quantum-clone-computer...

[2]: https://www.questjournals.org/jses/papers/Vol3-issue-5/A3501...

[3]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337832721_Unconditi...

[4]: https://algassert.com/post/1905

[5]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08973
For adb you can get my channel too where I experiment with a new build system:

https://framagit.org/tyreunom/guix-android
It's also the worst of both worlds at the same time, since you have the issues of both petrol engines and battery electric cars. Your 50 km of pure electric range drops to like 20 km in the winter, and after that you're driving on your cold-ass petrol engine and lugging around a heavy battery.

I drove my mom's BMW 530e plug-in hybrid to the store and back (5 km in each direction). At the end, I think we had 5 km of range left. Granted, it did handle a grocery run just on battery and the heating system worked well, but that was about all that it had. The NEDC rating for the car is 50 km of electric range.
HN on GPT in a nutshell.
I wouldn’t want to die tomorrow. Is that desire “objective reality” or not? If it is, how is that different from not wanting to die a century from now?
> The modern cryptographic functions we were talking about are all based on primes.

No. They aren’t. Not elliptic curves, not any hash functions, not AES, not ChaCha20, and not any of the post-quantum stuff NIST is tossing about.

RSA is. That’s about it. And RSA is being rapidly phased out.
> During the periods of heat or cold, we now just peace out and travel, because we have ample cash to do so and still manage to put away for retirement.

that's nice but is it a good long term solution? i presume you don't have any kids. i wonder how this approach would work once you have kids and they start school. or maybe you do have kids but they are much older and moved out or no plans for kids idk.
Those are possibilities. But no way to verify because their past activities and videos don't show up. I think I'll set up some monitoring using YT API.
Bike lanes won‘t change a thing. Those who don‘t bike will mostly not be convinced by a lane. I know this, being born in a rather rural area with plenty of bike lanes. I‘m in favor of building them, but would take any bet that by itself that won‘t make a big difference.

Public transport will also have to be EV based. Trains won‘t cut it in most areas outside cities.

And besides - what you‘re saying is insanely risky. You want to keep going with ICEs for 15 years? This would just push back the necessary transition another decade. We would loose the time we desperately need to make the necessary changes.
I never feared death until I had children. Yes, life is short, and you don't even get to know exactly how short.
There's a full screen button that improves the situation.
No new car sales, and PHEVs are included which should solve edge cases. That's very different than all cars. Also, most of CA doesn't get cold enough that any of this discussion is relevant.
It can't be a very good game given their main selling point on the landing page is the fact that you'll get paid to actually play it.
GPT-J feels much worse than GPT Davinci on the lack of instruct capability. My understanding is that it was not trained on instruction-completion data as much. It's great for text classification, summarization, and other tasks.

However, I also feel like it hallucinates/gives wrong outputs more. TBH i love what Eleuther is doing and GPT-J has its merits, but it feels not ready for primetime. I'd think of it as most similar to GPT Curie.
Take this as a positive, rather than a normative, statement: there’s a state religion in the US, and Christmas is one of its holidays. The prime actor in American Christmas is Santa Claus, as made famous by the Coca Cola company in the early 20th century. You can draw some line between the Christian celebration around the 25th and the modern American holiday known as Christmas, but it’s roughly the same relation as the Christian holiday had with its solstice predecessors. Christmas in the 21st century in America is a predominantly commercial affair, any relationship to any prior religious celebrations is largely coincidental at this point.
If the two outcomes are both possible and that's all you know, that's exactly what .5 means.

I think the confusion comes from that, if the coin flip is repeated, we know (if the coin is fair) it will approach N/2, and in the other case, we don't know any such thing.
Yeah my point is it's not that black and white.

When you use a product, you're supporting the owner, and the brand. In IT it's not as widely used but clothing brands sell their brand more than they sell a product. A lot of brands aren't that great quality but people wear them proudly as a form of expression. Even regardless of the fact that they're made by little kids in a sweatshop half a world away. People judge us by the products we choose. It's a human thing. Pretending this phenomenon doesn't exist doesn't make it go away.

It can also clarify what to expect from the authors in the future and what direction they will go into with their product. In that sense it's more of a practical continuity-type of thing. In the case of Reiser, it's kinda hard to lead a thriving product when one is in jail for life.

Again I don't know what the deal is with suckless and their people (in fact if Poettering doesn't like them that's a plus for them in my book ;) ), but I don't see the people behind it and the product as two separate things.
50 Years of Wow- I lived through 5 decades of computing milestones
You're right, it was Slowlaris that killed Sun, and Java was meant to be a "Microsoft Killer", not a programming language.

Sun was a dead man walking long before Java. And Scott McNealy's me-too obsession with Microsoft was extremely unhealthy, leading to him actually naming the division "SunSoft". Never define and even NAME yourself in terms of your enemy. Scott McNealy knew neither himself nor his enemy.

“If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle” - Sun Tzu’s “The Art Of War”

Sun could never measure up to Microsoft, and McNealy was totally obsessed with fighting them, to the point that Java was not actually a programming language for solving developer's problems per se, but primarily a weapon in his personal vendetta against Microsoft, and Java developers were considered expendable mercenaries in that war, above all else. Everything they did with Java was measured by how much it would harm Microsoft, not help developers.

Scott McNealy was pathetically and pathologically obsessed with being and beating Bill Gates and Windows, yet so unfit for the task, just as he has been more recently obsessed with licking Trump's boots, raising money for him and his failed coup attempt, and towing his anti-mask anti-vax anti-science line of bullshit.

https://www.theregister.com/2019/09/17/mcnealy_trump_fundrai...

Michael Tiemann on "The Worst Job in the World":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Tiemann

>Michael Tiemann is vice president of open source affairs at Red Hat, Inc., and former President of the Open Source Initiative. [...] He co-founded Cygnus Solutions in 1989. [...] Opensource.com profiled him in 2014, calling him one of "open source's great explainers."

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/slowlaris/worst-...

>Subject: The Worst Job in the World

>From: Michael Tiemann <tiemann@cygnus.com>

>I have a friend who has to have the worst job in the world: he is a Unix system administrator. But it's worse than that, as I will soon tell. [...]
I totally agree!

There is definitely a difference in that repeated boxing matches are not independent probabilities. But honestly, if I put on my precision engineering hat, the fact that repeated coin flips are independently 1/2 just tells me that they're being repeated badly. With enough improvements to the test setup, we can get the variability out and they'll all be heads.
For ethical reasons we can't do this as a controlled experiment but actually I believe the assumption is that humans not exposed to language will spontaneously produce a proto-language. A subsequent generation of humans exposed only to the proto-language would refine that into a full blown language with a proper grammar and so on.

Profoundly deaf children in deprived areas with no exposure to whatever local sign language is dominant will sign spontaneously, and their parents, who have a language the child can't use, will learn rudimentary signs from the child. Again ethical considerations forbid experimenting on such children.
I feel it's destructive for people to hold this incorrect belief. People living into their 60s and 70s was very common for all of recorded history. By ignoring this, modern people are less incentivized to criticize and challenge their modern lives and the societies we live within.
Pretty sure this is not a secret to anyone that has ever used AWS
In some ways the UK is a view into the future of the US.

But this is not it.

Wealthy neighborhoods in the US are going to get these on the streets eventually. Places where poor folks live don't have the ROI needed to justify it. Wealthier folks tend to be older and have more time on their hands to do things like go complain at city council meetings.

You're going to get these chargers in the richest neighborhoods first (of course), and eventually to the decent middle class neighborhoods. The poorer areas where blue collar workers live (apartment complexes) will get it approximately never - the city won't invest in those areas because fuck them, and the apartment complexes won't invest in them, because fuck them.

https://youtu.be/MqkT4B-9MGk
Agreed. There is quickly going to be a bigger chasm between the best devs and average/bad devs bc of LLMs.
When a longtime Californian leaves California, they make a big stink about it like it's a zeitgeist and parlance of our times. And they only move to Portland, OR or Austin, TX. There have been a few to move to New York City, but that is seen as selling out. Lastly, a handful to Colorado but no one has an opinion on that therefore they are ex-communicated until they return to either California, Portland, or Austin.