skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR: Ultibo is a bare-metal environment written completely in Free Pascal. Because it supports multi-threading you can see it as Unikernel Operating System. You develop your bare-metal program in Lazarus IDE in Free Pascal and use Ultibo as (unikernel) library for your application. After compilation you get the Raspberry Pi image file which you put on your SD-card and run the program on RPI - baremetal. It has support for USB, Ethernet, FAT, NTFS, ...
Law firms can demand payment in advance. It's called a retainer.
That's just an accounting/presentation gimmick. Mathematically, it would be the same if the deduction was 0% or 100% shown in paycheck, instead of 50%.
Frankly, none of this matters for the purposes of our government and this conversation. Only the Constitution matters. SCOTUS literally cannot be "ignored" since they are the only body of government that decides what is or is not Constitutional.
Hahaha. Yeah my eyes are kind of old too, which makes it easier to ignore the day and/or date.

I treat my watch as my "approximate time" device. I usually set it a few minutes fast on purpose. If I need the exact time or the exact date I look at my phone.

But don't worry. I have a host of other OCD behaviors around watches!
> massive computing storage / processing upgrades

I feel that the improvement in the previous 20 years was much more massive.

Forty years ago PCs had been introduced quite recently and an internal disk was still a non-standard option.

Ditto for “smart phones”. Forty years ago 1G telephony was not yet available in the US, nevermind how dumb and bulky those phones were.
This was the Python code outputted by ChatGPT when I pasted in the original problem:

import random
import sympy

def generate_large_int(num_digits):
return int("".join(str(random.randint(0,9)) for _ in range(num_digits)))

# Generate the first large integer
first_int = generate_large_int(500)

# Generate two prime factors of the first integer
while True:
factor1 = sympy.randprime(10\*250, 10\*251)
factor2 = sympy.randprime(10\*250, 10\*251)
if first_int % factor1 == 0 and first_int % factor2 == 0:
break

print(f"{first_int},{factor1},{factor2}","STOP")
I think these things you list, are what empathy is used for. (Among others.)
So we’ll spread out energy production to more smaller actors, and it will be more interesting how energy is used. That could rejuvenate markets, let old fossil giants die.

Trudeau should rejoin the Paris Accords and move to the secondary and tertiary sectors (or as Mulcair put, get rid of Dutch Disease), or Canada (and everybody else) will be fucked.
Yeah I had the same confusion, the linked PDF explains it. Basically sudo determines the list of files to edit after expanding the `EDITOR` variable into separate arguments, and the `--` in the argument list (added by `sudo`) is used to determine where the file arguments provided to `sudoedit` start in the new argument list.

By adding your own `--` in the `EDITOR` variable, `sudo` gets confused and thinks that `--` is the start of the `sudoedit` file arguments and thus happily copies and edits all the files after it.
I never believed in the "tech douchebags are going to make the world better" hype but I can see the appeal for the general HN audience.
Those who fund big tech are no different than those who fund big oil.
By uncommitted changes do you mean edited files? Then something like syncthing or anything functionally similar to Dropbox.
Well yes, having no context memory, being slightly worse and requiring either a monster rig to run or paying per prompt made it completely and utterly irrelevant.

Even now that it's improved and free to use its actual practical usability is marginal at best given the rate of blatantly wrong info being spewed with 105% confidence at the moment.
Nice. My little CLI utility that filters and lists my servers in EC2 is 11MB (GO).
US and China lead in thermal energy storage patents
> including the uppercased common nouns that refer to specific branding decisions.

Some people have sometimes capitalization for common nouns that "seem important" or something like that (I don't know their actual reasoning). I've asked multiple times why but never got an answer.
100x yes. I agree with parent that pushing live changes is way to intrusive, but a synced working/staging directory could be incredibly helpful.

I don’t see any fundamental reason why git or, even 3p tooling for git, couldn’t support this use case using something like private, ephemeral, auto-synced branches.
By a transformer I essentially mean a model (probably LLM) that operates on a context-window of tokens by appending a new token and then shifting.

If I understand correctly the solution you give would be an example of what I mean by using prompt engineering to solve the problem. It is like building a meta model using a transformer.
Pagerank for My Obsidian Notes
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/QpFcm
How do ‘co-ceo’ positions work?
Haha :)

By the way, the story goes that back in 1960, one of the big Wall Street firms wanted to know whether, since the depression, it was better to invest in big companies or little companies. They asked all the universities in and around NYC, who all told them that nobody knew. One of the executives was a U of C grad and asked them one day when he was in Chicago. They said that they had no idea but that if they gave them money they’d find out. When they published the study, everyone started calling and asking for access to the data, and thus the entire field of academic financial research was born :)

The study was done on a univac 2 and it blew people’s minds that such quantities of data could be analyzed in one go.
In my case, I've got years worth of Tweetbot muscle memory. Using different clients is... a little rough right now.
I came across a mention of a notation for describing ballet moves in connection to IBM and thought of John Carmack's description of how he did Judo on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and since seeing John Carmack's Tweet on his use of LambdaLabsApi or somesuch, you can imagine two Boston Dynamics Atlas robots going through the motions as if fighting UFC MMA or the Powerslap League.
What if you're being recruited for a counterintelligence job for a 3-letter agency and part of the job definition is being intimately familiar with the details of how persons might attempt to beat a polygraph? That's definitely something a person in that specific field would spend a good deal of time studying.

I guess this is sort of a chicken/egg problem since you can't or won't get hired for the job if you appear too familiar with the workings of the recruitment process. But then if you don't get hired, they might be leaving out one of the better informed candidates.

Anecdotally from the defense contractor industry I've known a number of people who have a whole bookshelf of books on subjects like cold war era espionage, are deeply familiar with some of the most noteworthy moles/spies that were publicly prosecuted and jailed (or north korean, chinese, soviet officers and officials who were just straight out executed with a bullet to the back of the head). It didn't seem to prevent any of them from passing their clearances. Some jobs want to know that you're motivated to learn the subject matter at hand and research its past 60+ years of history.
Having control on which ads are shown to users probably is one.
I recently had the opportunity to talk to the head of a company which is trying to build quantum computers. It's very obviously a spin off from a university to provide a way to keep their better Ph. D students employed and researching but not on University payroll (i.e. with the various requirements that entails).

Basically her opinion was they were 10 years at least away from meaningfully getting beyond 4 practical qubits with their technology, and weren't worried about it because everyone reporting more are using hundreds to thousands of qubits to error correct out to get the 60 or so they report using in calculations (their technology value add was that they could do with a lot less error correction).

The overall take away I got was quantum computers aren't "imminent" - they're 30 years away at minimum, probably more. The company exists because it's important basic research, but it's definitely not a "commercial products soon" endeavor - it was basically a way to fund focused research on a particular method.
Amiga Creator Jay Miner's Negative Views on the Role of Computers in Human Life
Australian Open’s digital Roblox experience triples real-world attendance
Ocean water is lively. A single drop has something like ten million viruses.

https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2011/013097/decade-long-study-reve...

But in the article the photographer said he'd come up empty on some of the dives. So it's fairly spread out.
Either way, and I am absolutely not in a position to draw any conclusion about any customer who requests or does not request a refund.
My father got caught at an agricultural inspection entering the U.S. with an apple he’d picked up in a business class lounge and forgotten about. He got special treatment every time he entered the U.S. for about the next five years.
HashiCorp vault is a pretty good answer. It has plugins to auto rotate a number of different connections, works with both static and dynamicly created users, whole host of auditing optinons.
I've had ChatGPT find some pretty esoteric bugs in ways that shocked me.

Like semi-jokingly asking it to "improve" some code thinking it'd come up with some non obvious control flow... then instead having it immediately point out a subtle bug along the lines of "the code sets flag A instead of setting flag B on <insert line>" flag B wasn't even unused, so it's not like a simple unused variable heuristic would have caught that.
To my knowledge that feature is only available if you have 500 or more karma.

However, I could bookmark it another way in the future.
> In theory any time a system needs access to that database you could have a process that creates an entirely new user just for that session, with a random password

But doesn't that process just become the new login method? Doesn't that process need its own secrets to have the (much greater) authority to make new users? Doesn't compromising this process give you much more power than compromising one system would have?
If the issue is that 3rd party clients don't show ads, why not just require them to do so? Surely that's a better alternative than shutting them down completely.
I recently tried to work on CodeSandbox. Simple examples didn’t work or I couldn’t figure out how to make them work. Using repl.it now. I highly recommend to go through basic examples of frontend projects and evaluate them.
In Japan, a Visit to the Casio G-Shock Factory
That's too big picture. The manager probably meant the picture one or two levels smaller.
Californians harvest water during historic storms
As a sidenote and somewhat related: Suppose we train BackwardsGPT on the same sequences of tokens as GPT but reversed. The question is: What would this model be good at? Because it would be ver bad at most things. But some tasks might be easier. By understanding what BackwardsGPT can do, we can understand what GPT naturally can't do.
https://archive.ph/jEJX2
goto statement in something as important as sudo? Seriously? Talk about bad practices.
Twitter, Developers, Trust (2022)
Have you heard of Citadel?
The Userscripts extension [0] and the user script version of Tweak New Twitter [1] (standard "I made this" disclaimer here) are both open-source, used on top of the web version that'll give you a forced non-algorithmic timeline (and more)

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/userscripts/id1463298887

[1] https://github.com/insin/tweak-new-twitter#tweak-new-twitter
Sales extroverts.
This perspective is utterly perplexing to me. The very reasoning behind allowing something as terrifying as a supreme court to exist was that its power comes entirely from the consent of the people and the other two branches. They 100% can be ignored. The executive and legislative simply don't do what they say, and poof, they're ignored. This isn't theoretical—one of their first major decisions, Marbury v Madison, was made with the expectation that if they ruled too much the "wrong" way, Madison and Jefferson were entirely willing to simply declare their decision void and ignore it. The decision may well have come out different if not for that reality (i.e. yes, they literally—literally—can be ignored).

There's the high school civics version of the court, then there's the court as it actually functions. The former has never been a close match to reality, not even in the eyes of (some of) the founders themselves.
Except for startups when commit messages are more like "asdf", "aoeu", "quick fix", or "demo" because some investor barged in and demanded a demo before they would wire funds.

If ChatGPT could change that to something like "disable current limits" or "disable safety checks" or whatever that might be marginally better.
> I would have ask if they were a judge. At least they are tasked with weighing the facts and deciding and not fighting for one point of view

But then in the US it still wouldn't matter unless they are your judge.
Twitter officially bans third-party clients with new developer rules
In the sense that the inside of the digestive system is contiguous with the skin.

You can trace a path from, say, the back of your knee, through the intestines, and out to your eye lid, as you can trace a path from any point on a the outside of a torus.

We're just a very complicated doughnut.

It's something a medical scientist type I studied under was fond of saying, and I find it a useful model
If I didn't know better, I'd be wondering if Musk was shorting Twitter's stock. Has anyone ever managed to do so much damage to a company in such a short amount of time?
From a pragmatic perspective, being able to use AI to accelerate or otherwise enhance computations for science and engineering has a pretty big value proposition. Being able to turn around high fidelity calculations in a fraction of the time would yield much better product designs and scientific results.

On the flip side, like you suggest, the cost of being wrong can much higher than many current uses of AI. This is where research into AI interpretability, robustness, and uncertainty quantification can really help.
This isn't rhetoric, the LGB Alliance isn't some group that just happens to not focus on T of LGBT. They're a group that wants the T dropped from LGBT, that believes, advocates for, and fights for legislation that defines trans men as women and vice versa. They were literally established in opposition to LGBT groups supporting trans people and still are.

There is no gaslighting whatsoever, one of the co-founders literally, somewhat famously, broke down in court when backed into a logical corner about whether trans women were lesbians. Even if you take the naive definition of "transphobia" where there must be actual fear it still holds up.

Of course they don't say their beliefs are transphobic. That's the real rhetoric -- because they're happy to tell you that they think that trans women are men who pretend to be women like that doesn't invalidate the very core definition of what it means to be trans.

This group would run into no trouble whatsoever had they had no stance at all about trans people and just said that they preferred to focus on the sexuality rather than gender issues.
I don't think you're going to find a one-size-fits-all model, but there's probably some higher marching orders, probably from the board.

Then, the CEO's either have separate portfolios of what they oversee OR they have to be in agreement about how they're going to achieve the vision bestowed upon them.
You got off easy. I once had to apply for a clearance for an admin assistant position, coming out of college (which was certainly overkill; I never once came into contact with classified material, with the closest I ever got being walking past the building's one-room SCIF while seeking signatures for textbook order authorizations). When I got to that question, I truthfully answered that my single brush with mind-altering substances had been an edible a peer had passed me, after he realized that I was having trouble relaxing during a particularly difficult time, senior year. Back in then-present day, my boss had gone over the application, tsked, asked why I'd mentioned it, tsked again, and said that it was too late to remove, since she'd already seen it. It was sent off without another word.

My reserved, nerdy self was replacing her bubbly English major bestie, so I don't think she liked me much from jump, anyway.
Too bad? The idea that we should treat companies that stop longer providing a product as charities deserving of free money is a bit silly.

Twitterific built their business on something that we often acknowledge here as being very shaky: the whim of a third-party platform. If the company hasn't considered and prepared for the scenario where that third-party platform completely cuts off your access, that's irresponsible as a business owner.
> “There was a strong incentive and even obligation to consume alcohol,” Galy said. Monsieur T. alleges that he was subjected to “humiliating and intrusive practices such as the simulation of sexual acts, the obligation to share a bed with a colleague during seminars, the usage of nicknames and the posting in the office of deformed and doctored photographs.”

I have seen managers that does not realize that employees laugh at their bad jokes not because are funny but because they feel obligated. This seems a company-wide case of not understanding the power relationship with the employees.

> Work fun is fine, but it is a poor substitute for the attributes that make a workplace truly attractive: job stability, proper benefits, equal pay, prospects for advancement, flexibility, a respectful and well-resourced environment.

That is a reasonable conclusion.
The worst part about GPT-3 is people using it to automate things where the entire value comes from what the human annotates rather than automates. This is an idea, which like many others involving GPT-3, which I believe will destroy more value than it creates.
> for their own benefit.

I'd question the 'benefit' bit; this seems clearly bad for Twitter.
I’m not defending criminal activity. I’m being a realist and recognising it exists, and thus there is a logical reason for the existence of crypto. It’s all well and good to say the solution is to not break laws, but that is not how the world works. It’s like saying the solution to lung cancer is for people to stop smoking, it’s absurd.
These are good recommendations, but I think beginners tend to burn out due to the lack of a structured program and/or exercise solutions if they are trying to study on their own. The simplest structured program I can think of that satisfies both is:

* Basic Mathematics by Lang. Covers basic algebra and geometry at high school level.

Then one of these two, depending on your interests, or both:

* Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra and Differential Forms by Hubbard and Hubbard. Takes you through linear algebra, single-variable calculus and multiple variable calculus. Analysis is discussed in an appendix. All proofs have a constructive bias, so it's very algorithmic and natural for a CS-minded student. Solutions are in a separate volume.

* Program = Proof by Mimram. Discusses logic and computation, and takes you from the basics to depedent type theory and beyond. Uses OCaml and Agda. Freely available at: https://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/Labo/Samuel.Mimram/teaching...
>As there is no hidden state, no "memory" or "intention" can be passed to the future

This is probably your misconception : "Transformers are RNNs" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.16236.pdf (see section 3.4)

Even though an inner state is not specified explicitly like in a LSTM, for a transformer it's possible to view the inner state as implicitly defined as the inner features (deterministically derived from the layers weights) applied to the past inputs.

Therefore transformers can learn to do the task by learning to remember a,b,ab to this inner state and write them in order ab,a,b (Though to train it you'll probably have to give it an initial random context to be able to produce different sequences : From this source of entropy it will learn to produce 2 hidden variables which it will use to produce a,b,and ab)

I concede that it will not be an easy task to learn in this way, and that it's probably easier to train a chain of thought model where you will allow it to use its output to remember the state (by writing it down), instead of having to memorize in its weights. So if you train it to produce a,b,ab,a,b and then another transformer to extract the last 3 outputs a*b,a,b it become very easy.
Thats a pre-authorization. You can't cancel it other if it was a fraudulent transaction.
I'm curious how many of those 7.66m created an account, binged a few target shows, then cancelled when they'd watched what they wanted to watch. It's become a more common tactic in my circles, and it could explain the mismatch between hitting revenue and subscriber targets.
It makes sense to do that for a testing site and wait for lightning to happen. How does it work for general purpose?

They can’t just say “in three microseconds we’re restricting airspace —get out now! Ooops, too late!”
I did use Unison but I lost a lot of time merging changes. Then I switched to syncthing that also work on my Android devices. Syncthing has it's share of pain points, most notably that out of sync / override changes button that many people don't understand. It's a very bad piece of UX and it makes people wonder if they are about to lose some data on one or both sides of sync. They should do without it at least when sync is not bidirectional.
Huge but somewhat dull games. No Man's Sky is probably the big name that went that way recently. Or, in its own way, Dwarf Fortress.
This is horrible. Commit messages should contain the reason why this change has been made and not imprecise prose summaries of what the diff looks like.
Box2Mask: A Unique Method for Single-Shot Instance Segmentation
I always avoided awk because I thought it was just a really weird looking alternative to sed. When it's nicely formatted like this it looks like a perfectly sensible C-like language.
I used it to chat with myself (Reddit profile), since (ideally professional, but at least chat-level) communication is part of my work interest. It seemed to try, but the answers were not so good, more like a sketch of some broad things someone like me might say if they were stumbling. Confidently stumbling, but still stumbling.

I used it for journaling practice. It didn't get at a quality result as fast as my own tools here do, but I can see why others would find it helpful. Particularly if they are new to journaling and somewhat directionless in that context.

I used it to compare my written coaching services, as I used to offer email-based coaching. This result with ChatGPT wasn't very good. At a minimum it is not familiar with ongoing qualitative evaluation of the communicative relationship, and aspects like identifying & working around blind spots, but more experiments here would probably be needed to really get at a good explanation of the effect.

I can see why it's useful for you, given what you wrote.

Overall I'd say it's very similar to my experiences in making art with fractals [1]. If you want to poke the various software packages, interact a bit, and kind of sit back and observe the results...probably so-so outcomes. If you are willing/able to develop & provide subjectively qualified input on the results though, the outcomes will probably be much better & much more useful.

But you should ideally have an outcome standard in mind, even if you are open to whatever the outcome might be.

I do have some privacy concerns and would like to know more about the privacy aspect, plus the aspect of getting a good, above-board dataset with regard to input sourcing, and using that dataset offline.

Fun world we live in though, hope to see more upgrades & uses too.

1. Shameless! https://www.instagram.com/marcolas/