skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plastics are relatively brittle however without those additives and will break down into harmful micro and nano plastics: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00489...

There’s a lot we can do about it. Clothes tires and mismanaged waste are leading sources for microplastic that can be reduced.
There was a really cool episode on Mindscape with Arik Kershenbaum: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QFLrpIslOOk

He talks about why certain things simply make sense. Like how wings evolved six times, why communication via sound is simple and communication via some sort of telepathy is not, and why it makes sense for a large animal to be symmetric. From that he reasons why alien life probably wouldn't look all that different.
Gpt3 is a graph neural network with added recursive information through positioninal encoding. It outputs sequentially, but I am not sure why a RNN would be required beyond that.

I would agree that the manner of reasoning must differ, since the sequence follows bpe tokens rather than logical steps, however who is to say that another form of mathematical reasoning could not lead to valid results?

For instance, Gpt might solve the problem at each output step insofar as required to generate that token.

It certainly iterates over each output token, and the encoding of the problem is equivalent so iterating over the characters of the math problem, roughly speaking. But yes, the iterated output does not follow a logical graph externally, it is token by token. But internally, the network can absolutely follow a more complex graph.

Could you say what you mean by single network path when we speak about attention based architectures?

What sort of operation or information is missing in such architecture?

I am aware of of some results relating to certain graphs, but I do not think this would apply to a text describing a math problem, say.
So you've decided to support an ideology that restricts the freedom of all people to do as they please because you think it's harmful for them. I've decided >20g per day of carbs is harmful for people that choose to do it. Watch out buddy I'm going for bread pasta etc... I don't think people should be able to eat it. I'm coming for your rights.
I don't think service of a plain-jane sealed warrant is obstructed or hampered in any way by anything we do, or don't do, with the warrant canary.

Therefore it's a very easy call to stop publishing the canary, keep running our business as usual, and then update the canary with the relevant (probably non-personal) details of the warrant we received once the dust has settled.

Alternatively, our counsel, along with the jurisdiction involved, might find a satisfactory "we were served with a lawful warrant in blah blah District in Colorado" and nothing else that does not violate the seal.

One gigantic advantage (among many) of running a very tightly held, lean business firm with no debt is that you can be patient.
Not quite that issue and not specifically on iPhone but for me the uncanny valley of photos taken with modern smartphone is the fake bokeh feature.
> About half the (presumably human) "eli5 GPS" answers I found on Reddit made the same mistake, so chatGPT just copied an apparently popular misconception.

I think that's one of the biggest problems with using LLMs for accurate answers. A lot of the text that's very useful for modelling human language and questions is also full of factual errors and questionable opinions. Answers being wrong is a problem with old-fashioned web search too, but I think LLMs necessarily lean more on quantity rather than quality of content...
Assuming you stick to a reasonable subset, it's probably not that bad. And it allows you to go beyond what a language like Python would let you once the basics are down.
Latest version: http://nabstreamingsummit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/202... (2022)
What's going to really slow their adoption down is creators of the raw information on which they are trained are going to need some way of being paid for their work.

Until payment is figured out it seems likely that creators will increasingly restrict access to their information and that will impact the utility and adoption of the models.

Google's probably got the advantage in terms of figuring that side of it out if it can overcome its inertia.
Their alleged standing is predicated on a single count of violating the Washington Public Nuisance Law, RCW 7.48.010 (see page 86 of their complaint[1])[2]. So their torturous logic is that somehow not only are the defendants' services addictive, but that the addiction thereof spurs students to engage in violent and/or disruptive behaviors that interferes with the enjoyment of school property and the safety of its employees (thus violating RCW 7.48.010 et seq.), thereby giving these clowns standing to sue.

Even if we take their claims at face value that the defendants knowingly created products that are demonstrably addictive, materially contributing to the conditions that occasioned this suit, the offences named in that section are unconstitutionally vague and, to the extent that it is those vague portions are those asserted in the cause of action, should be unenforceable.

I'm having a hard time believing Seattle School District No 1 actually thinks they'll succeed on the "merits" of this case, and am inclined to agree that this is nothing more than a publicity stunt on their part to call attention to a "problem" that has a fairly clear solution: students with behavioral issues tied to use of social networking services that are disruptive to school functions can and should be expelled. Problem solved.

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[1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.31...

[2] https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=7.48
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The mechanism of alcohol addiction is well known and studied, and alcohol is certainly in the same addictive potential class as cocaine, heroin, nicotine and amphetamines.
The interesting implication of panspermia is that is yes, we would recognize alien life. I find this optimistic. Anthropocentric perhaps? Like a version of living in a slightly more sophisticated sci-fi show.
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> colo cost + total server cost/(3 year) => $18,471/year

Meanwhile the company I just left was spending more than this for dozens of kubernetes clusters on AWS before signing a single customer. Sometimes I wonder what I'm still doing in this industry.
In my experience: Yes, and it’s fucking stupid. I actually left my last job of 4 years not because I was at risk of underperforming, but because I wasn’t interest in playing the song and dance for another year.
The 2023 Chorus would probably be fully digital instead of using a bucket-brigade device.

Even the humble DS-1 has now a digital version which, contrary to its analog counterpart "chugs".

I've always felt that the signal to noise ratio in digita circuits just wasn't there, but perhaps there were some significant advancements over the years in this field which I missed.
Damn that takes me back - I begged my parents for one, eventually got one and found out that there was no one to actually message.

Definitely remember being a little bit addicted to Cylandia and eventually found another person at my school who had one.
I'm curious what will happen in future systems where the AI can continually learn and update it's model on the fly. I note that ChatGPT can't download a URL from the Internet and summarise it for example, or apply it as new knowledge. Of course it seems ripe for exploitation since there is so much misinformation on the Internet anyway.
> If in the future AI can write as captivating and as structured as a skilled human, then why should we not enjoy reading it?

GPT, stable diffusion etc, all very clever and fun. Still about 3 billion light years away from anything resembling intelligence. What they have on their side is a massive source of pre-existing creativity, so if you are seeing something genuinely deep or artful, it's probably from a human... through ML.
I have seen ChatGPT mentioned on Twitter from time to time, but no-one who has done so has ever posted a link (that I have seen).
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Also, in a further iteration, people could upvote and downvote results, or even parts of it, so that it learns what it knows and what it doesn't. If it just say "I don't know" for bad results or omit the bad parts, it would already improve things quite a bit. Doing so is quite simple, really.
>How does “power of attorney” have any relevance here?

It doesn’t and that’s Earl’s point. That would be the best way for them to have any standing, but it just doesn’t line up.
Warrant canaries do not work, because they violate the spirit and law of what a gag or secret warrant means. No court would allow rsync to alert users this way without considering that a breach of the gag, just as if they said “hey we got a secret search warrant today.”
I don't own a car. I rent one when I need one, which isn't often. So I'm not used to any particular method or interface.

I absolutely hate touch screen controls in cars. They are unsafe to use when driving, and they control things like air con you need to operate. They are also really poorly designed in most cases. I've often given up trying to figure out how to how to change something. Pretty much never have a problem with physical controls.
I just wanted to say thank you for those libraries. They were a lifesaver when building my own pyodide based project.
I specifically assumed a max tweet size based on the maximum number of UTF-8 bytes a tweet can contain (560), with a link to an analysis of that, and discussion of how you could optimize for the common case of tweets that contain way fewer UTF-8 bytes than that. Everything in my post assumes unicode.
How we test our type annotations in a Python library.
Cigarette companies were explicitly banned from advertising to children for this exact reason. I don’t think this is a good example, because if they’re comparable then social media should be banned from advertising to children also.
I always dream about opening a single use plastic shop in the future, for those who just don‘t care and those who are actively opposed to it being removed everywhere.

For example, drinking delicious Coca-Cola Zero Sugar at McDonalds from a paper straw is disgusting. The straw usually disintegrates before I am done and sticks to the lips at the start.

I love single use plastic.
That size in bytes is based on the max size in UTF-8 and UTF-16. Codepoints below U+1100 are counted as one "character" by twitter and will need at most 2 bytes. Codepoints above it are counted as two "characters" by twitter and will need at most 4 bytes. Therefore 560 bytes, and it supports all languages.

Side note, this is more pessimistic than it needs to be, if you're willing to transcode. The larger codepoints fit into 20-21 bits, and the smaller ones fit into 12-13 bits.
also more favorable weather for pickle jar babushkas to be outside, on balcony. So more protection from drones and cruise missiles.
I downloaded the app on my M1 MBP. It installed fine but crashed first three times I started the transcription.

On a separate note, the app icon is very similar to Meeter app
Not GPT? I'm guessing whoever instigated the generation of the article.

Either that or dev/urandom, so sure GPT is prompting us in as much as a dice roll + finger on a page is.

I think people put too much stock in this stuff, it's not clever, it's just a new kind of automation.
One I suggested to my team lead was to ask what was a problem or challenge the applicant had been wrestling with recently w.r.t the language or job. I think an organic, open question like this would help to identify what the applicant spent time thinking about and provide insight into their nature as a programmer beyond what leetcode might offer.

I think a similar interesting question: asking for one or several things the applicant dislikes most about the programming language, would be similarly revealing.

YMMV when it comes to people who are smart but not very good talkers, but I think it's better than, say, asking people to sing a song, like some recruiters do.
I have received many vaccines, including covid. I don't get vaccinated for shit I don't care about.

The framing of people who don't get every vaccine offered to them as "anti-vax" is ridiculous. Have you been vaccinated against rabies, on the off chance you run into a bat? No, I really doubt you have. The risk is small so you round it down to zero and stop worrying about it.
Having read the complaint, no, it doesn't have relevance here (obviously I made that claim prior to reading the complaint), but what they do assert is even worse: They're trying to claim that use of Facebook, Tiktok, etc and consequent behavioral issues among students constitutes a nuisance. The phrase "void for vagueness" would seem to apply here.
> I think the premise that no social media = no depressed kids is pretty weak, imo.

That's clearly not the premise.

> Also, what's social media? Are messaging apps not social media?

The lawsuit makes specific claims about specific behavior by specific companies.
URL is https://mymood.today/

(The submitted http://www.mymood.today/ shows "Apache2 Default Page")
If you are alone, consider taking on someone for sales and finance. Selling to large businesses is a long, slow, drawn-out process, with much "paperwork" and an endless array of reasons for meetings. On your own you'll have no time to do actual dev or design work!

This is one of the reasons I'd probably never go solo unless I had little or no choice. I've seen it up close in a small (5 to 7 people) company selling to enterprise and from further away (I very rarely interact directly with clients & prospects at all these days) as part of a larger company (in both cases working on software to manage T&C and other regulatory requirements, mainly for public facing investment banks and insurance vendors), and I would find it infinitely infuriating.
What parent @waisbrot is saying seems uncommon (the source of this whole conversation), but granted, perhaps common enough (or is it instead worrisome enough) that nvim community took it out.

I still type :Q and :W as well, but that is not what is being discussed.

Have you ever irrevocably bricked your system, as @waisbrot mentioned they have twice, from typing :W or :Q? Have you ever bricked your system from typing :X? If so, that isn’t a “use :x vs :wq” problem, that’s seems more of a use common sense problem.
Lots of people with bad credit scores manage to rent. If this were impossible then a quarter of the population would be homeless.
Sending shakedown mails is cheap, especially because it's easy to automate the scanning of websites and assembly of such mails.

If even just 1% of recipients pay him it's a profitable "business" model.

I'd be VERY surprised if he'd ever take anyone to court.
I like the "getting excited" idea. A lot of people I've met really open up when they can get to talking about something they understand and are interested in. Instantly more comfortable now that the conversation is "in their domain"
> never got in trouble for hiring psychologists to devise their advertising

When is the last time you saw Joe Camel?
TypeVar is a cool feature of Python's typing library, and is essential for correctly typing certain code.
One thing I noticed is that while I had good ideas in the shower, I couldn't remember them! (no pen/paper, phone, etc.)

So, I started using mnemonics to remember my thoughts[0]. Now I take showers without feeling the anxiety of forgetting all the thing I thought about (e.g. chores, talk to someone, respond to email, write down an idea, etc.).

[0] https://alexpetralia.com/2017/12/31/shower-recall/
I find for me personally, note taking is a way of forcing me to actively listen. Most of my notes are like yours: haphazard and rarely looked at again.

The two things I do track are specific action items: those get a star in the margin so they can be found quickly and sometimes executives use specific wording they want you to emulate; that gets underlined and then offloaded to a reference document.

I also make sure to be aggressive about giving my notes dates and titles for meetings so I know where/when notes are from.
iOS allows you to shoot in RAW and avoid all (some?) post-processing. [1] I believe its even easier to set up in Halide.

Is it possible the appraiser was doing so?

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/iphone/iphae1e882a3/io...
What's a good waste management system? Honest question.
Only for Emacs users. Vim users generally replace it with Escape.
Rsync will destroy key and nobody would be able to update canary. No new canary means canary is dead.
I basically just ask questions about hash tables; starting from the concept of associative arrays, down to the implementation of a table specific to a purpose (a minimal perfect hash with a rolling hash function). Generally if a person is trying to be a SWE and doesn't know about associative arrays, they're not going to work out. I don't expect people to answer deep questions about specific hash performance you'd get from a CS grad who studied Knuth; I want to know how you think about a mildly complicated data structure.

Along the way I ask a few questions about bits, which provides some dynamic signal (for example, would this person be good at low-level stuff?)
We are doomed. The only conscious choice is not having more children to live on this dying planet. I see this is a fact. All our efforts to "save the climate" or ban some especially dangerous chemicals are lipstick on the pig.
> we don't even really have an agreed-upon definition of life

Regulated metabolism. Homeostasis. I think that's close to capturing the idea we're after. A self-aware computer still has to store its bits somewhere, and get energy and material to do that, presuming it wants to stay alive. That process might as well be called metabolism. Unless it is just totally alien (heh) physics, there would be some kind of metabolism, and localized regions which create an environment suitable for that metabolism to place. That would, if nothing else, produce heat and unusual compounds.
> Ask ChatGPT. It'll tell you

Without any way for you to know if it's the right answer or not. Wow, so useful.
Very often. I work with companies spending 10x as much on bad (bizarrely complex; indeed kubernetes, lambda, gateway, rds etc) setup and bad code on aws. Almost no traffic (b2b). Makes no sense at all.
Without the full article we can only go by the abstract of your link, which doesn't say anything definitive except that the effects on humans are unknown.
>> Human babies learn by watching the world around them.

While I understood what you meant, I'd just add that babies learn by a combination of multisensory triggers (so not only _watching_)
.. it’s been a clearly focused project for over 4 years now. A colleague is on the board..A bevy of mental health experts are core to this - so due diligence. I don’t know the layout of the legal team, but was told they have put this thru the ringer - the goal has always been a legal precedent, then actual legislation, then adoption by other entities as well. The Portland School District has a parallel lawsuit as well on the tails of ours.

.. I suggest this light reading: https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=7.48
I think the comparison you want to look at is Adderall vs. methamphetamine. Incidentally, addicts can't tell the difference between the two drugs if ingested in pill form at the same relative dosage. This is comparable to how opiate addiction works; an addict can't tell the difference between morphine and heroin, it just takes twice as much morphine to get the same effect.
One weak advantage is panspermia allows you to avoid the question.
Yes Mars...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGFEW2Hb2g

Copilot, I don't know.

VR is a thing, but still not the announced overwhelming revolution.
About 15 years ago, we had a great brewery that changed the game, and it felt like all of a sudden, there were so many options and relatively little difference between them. There are only so many IPAs with so many hops that a brewery can make. That got old quickly, but I still look fondly upon the days of cracking open a tall boy of Surly Furious.

I threw up my hands and chose a brewery that was local and reliably high-quality, and I suspect many consumers will feel overwhelmed with choice and short on time to peruse the dozens of offerings at their beer purveyor. I wouldn’t advise anyone to try to hop into that sector with dreams of making it big.

The first movers got a great deal by tapping a fresh market and forming early consumer followings. Those days are over. Consumers don’t need to have an allegiance to a microbrew because it’s so easy to get now, and unless your brew is God’s very own nectar, your business will be tenuous.

Some of the biggest names sold out to The Enemy (i.e. AB InBev), like Goose Island or Wicked Weed. They got rich, and then their product went to shit. I’m fairly certain I got formaldehyde poisoning from a Devil’s Backbone IPA bender (another AB InBev casualty). So in support of my body, please make great beer — just don’t quit your day jobs.

(Sorry for the two awful puns. I swear they were unintended but I left them in anyway after groaning.)
Why call it "dynamic" if it is compiled?
We had a Model 3. You could do one spritz with a physical control, but then had to interact with the touchscreen.
If you really wanted to run Twitter on one machine at any cost, wouldn't an IBM mainframe be much more practical?

You can even run Linux on them now. The specs he cites would actually be fairly small for a mainframe, which can reach up to 40TB of memory.

I'm not saying this is a good idea, but it seems better than what the OP proposes.
Had any of this harm been physical, everybody would be cheering to combat it. But because it's mental, it's "not real", right?

Behavioral scientists can plot any metric against the last decade and it spectacularly deviates from what came before it, in a bad way. A seismic shift.

It's a problem. A massively complicated problem where regulation will be tricky. For the record, even Zuckerberg himself has practically begged for regulation in response to issues affecting teen girls specifically.
There are no countries with good waste management systems. Waste counts as recycled, if it was exported. What happens after that, nobody knows and nobody cares. Even in Europe, just a tiny amount of plastic gets recycled, most is shipped away, so that others should care about.

Edit: Source: "The recycling lie" https://www.daserste.de/information/reportage-dokumentation/... (german)
In healthcare, yes, and everybody understands that.

In software engineering, not so much. I think the OP illustrates that fairly well. What he’s describing is a janitorial job, but he clearly thinks he’s a physician, and he has written a blog post titled “What it’s actually like to practice medicine”.
there's a UK company that does manufactured slate solar cells in larger quantities as well https://www.gb-sol.co.uk/products/pvslates/default.htm