skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting adaptation - Ultramarathoners can adapt to have very high potassium levels. I remember participating in a study with Dr. Stephen Hammer from Indian River State College where we did blood draws, resting heart rates pre and post ultras and they were joking about how high runner's potassium levels were.
I think in most applications standard tokenizers work fine. There’s a point where too much of your vocabulary gets chopped up into single tokens anyway, and it ends up performing much worse. I’m not able to quantify it exactly for you. I’d have to benchmark it over some synthetic data to get a better idea.

One could imagine a situation where the opportunity for misspelling is very high - say, for example OCR of medium to low quality images. By not using a character-level tokenizer, your model also has to learn to associate complete tokens to any number of incomplete tokens. Instead, it’s simpler to just let the model infer words based on complete or mostly complete character sequences, rather than randomly chopped up word piece tokens.
A bit of a tangent, but my only real problem with Heroku involved a premium DB. Turns out that upgrading to premium enables high availability (HA) by default, and I don't even remember if you can disable it. HA replicates asynchronously to the standby master, so a master failover can cause a small amount of data loss. For my application, this was unacceptable, and I would have preferred unavailability instead (see CAP theorem). Today I have enough experience to check the fine print for that kind of detail, but anyway such a big change should come with big bold letters IMO.

[Edit: To this day I'm still puzzled by what I'm about to describe, so idk if it's Heroku's fault or mine.] I got a call from my colleague one day saying our database had gone back in time. Evidently we lost an hour of records. The code wasn't even capable of deleting rows, and nobody had direct DB access but me, so after leafing through the docs I suspected a failover event caused it. Premium DBs also let you roll back the DB to a previous point in time, and we were able to recover most of our data this way, like Back to the Future. If this really was a failover event, it's super weird if that the backup was more up to date than the standby master, and that a whole hour (rather than minute) was lost.
> “I think the pandemic has clearly reduced workaholism,” Shin told me. “And by the way, I think that’s a very positive thing for this country.”

I didn't even know workaholism was a word. Good on me, I guess. :)
Somehow we have grown a whole generation of people that thinks they are entitled to tell their neighbors what they are allowed to build. I too want everyone around me to have a one story house so I can look over them from my balcony, but guess what, that would impede on their property rights. California absolutely has the capacity to serve the current population, they just need to fix the shit show that is their housing policy.
> In 2019, I called this phenomenon “workism.” In a time of declining religiosity, rich Americans seemed to turn to their career to fill the spiritual vacuum at the center of their life. For better or (very often) for worse, their desk had become their altar.

I find this a very strange idea, and I think it's mostly formed by looking at something without understanding it. The people's motivation the author finds is "they've replaced religion with work". Why isn't it more practical: there's a lot of stuff to do and they want it done, so they do it?

Maybe it's just a divide where neither side understands the other, but I've never understood people who see a big task they want done and don't sink their teeth into it and work hard to get it done. I guess on Orwell's Animal Farm, there's Boxer and there's Napoleon, and Napoleon wonders why Boxer works so hard.
That makes it sound like optimising. To my not very great understanding, I think it’s more like keeping things right on the edge
There are some small form factor machines here with 10G but they aren't cheap

https://mitxpc.com/collections/mini-server
Sounds similar to https://mywaverly.com/
Molly’s Last Ride
It's not dead for baseball fans in the NYC Metro area!
"I can see now that the scientific community from the CDC to the WHO to the FDA and their representatives, repeatedly overstated the evidence and misled the public about its own views and policies, including on natural vs. artificial immunity, school closures and disease transmission, aerosol spread, mask mandates, and vaccine effectiveness and safety, especially among the young."

Don't see any support for any of these points in the article.
> What you describe is most definitely not libertarianism.

That's just a No True Scotsman fallacy.

A libertarian would say that employees can choose their employers, and the employers can therefore dictate the term of employment.

One of those terms can be "you are not allowed to freely associate with your fellow employees", and the libertarian would say "if you don't like it, don't work there. #freedom"

The realist recognizes that the employer-employee relationship is one that contains a significant imbalance of power, and that it requires a government to step in and put their finger on the scale in order to ensure fair and equitable treatment of employees. This isn't theory, it's practical reality that we learned from the post-industrial sweatshop era where child labor was the norm and employees had no rights to speak of.

Now, go ahead, feel free to define your personal belief set as "libertarian" if you want. But if you support government regulating the employer-employee relationship, you are not, by any definition I'm aware of, a libertarian.
Desktop is AOT compiled, not a VM, I'm pretty sure. Which makes performance even better, then.
I’ve always pushed back against the “no comments, they go out of date” sentiment.

Comments aren’t milk, they don’t just go off, developers let them go out of date.

As others have said, comments should be used to add why, to give context.
mathematical model - pseudoscience
Is futurice/how-to-get-healthy a public repo? It's not visible on https://github.com/orgs/futurice/repositories

If you fork a private repo and they remove you from the collaborators list, it's reasonable that your fork would be removed.
Sha is all you need LoL.

Sha every generated text and do a bloom filter... I guarantee much better than 27%.
Oh, let me clarify, I didn't mean that Skyler being written as an annoying character is necessarily a flaw. I don't know if it was intentional, but to me it feels like it works well within the story, and makes it feel more real to how real life often works out.

There are plenty of all around good people in real life who just happen to be annoying to interact with in certain contexts. That's just the reality of life, and imo the show executed it well.

To add, I found Marie to be written annoyingly as well, but in a very different way from Skyler, which further indicates that it was somewhat of a deliberate choice. Despite me finding both of them being frustrating to watch interactions with, I would say they were written well. And no, I don't have some bias against women in the show. One of my favorite, in all aspects, characters from the Breaking Bad universe is Kim Wexler from Better Call Saul spin-off, and by far.
People have gotten 17 Gbps so it's not limited to 10.
Well written blog post and most important that there are a lot of screenshots.

So many good OSS projects fail this simple task. Show some images!
> Isn't working smart somewhat implied?

Too many people believe in the labor theory of value, meaning one should get paid according to how hard and long one works. This theory is a false god, because employers do not care how long or hard you work, they only care about the value produced.

Being smart means applying your efforts at producing value, and finding ways to produce more value.
Oh crap! What a horror story.

We recently migrated from Heroku Postgres to Crunchy Bridge and can totally recommend it. So maybe set up your new database there instead.
I wonder if I should help my kids setup a server + webcam + screen capture tool so they can document 100% of their essay writing experience. That way if they ever get hit with a false positive they can just respond with hundreds of hours of video evidence that shows them as the unique author of every essay they've ever written.
Non-locality seems to be the least favorable way to resolve the Bell inequalities as far as most physicists are concerned. I'm not sure why though. I think they like exotic and unintuitive sounding stuff.
You really nailed it while perfectly dodging the personal attack.
https://byet.host/ last time I checked, but I haven't actually test it yet. And a quick google comes up with this too https://heliohost.org/
> I have personally witnessed students who could not speak or understand the simplest English, and were unable to come up with two coherent sentences in a classroom situation, but turned in graduate level essays. The difference is blindingly obvious.

Maybe someone helped them with their homework?
It seems like you were in fact brought into this world with the expectation that you make your own way and provide for yourself. Unless it’s your expectation that others do that for you or your parents have already provided for you
The HTML renderer is actually what was first, canvas came later. The canvas is the first class implementation while the HTML one is a fallback for mobile performance and I assume if canvas is fast enough, HTML will be dropped as well.
I'd have much less issue with this attitude if Medicare/medicaid wasn't funded by the state and essentially subsidized by private insurance.
I remember being quite surprised when I first learned that Heroku was owned by Salesforce, because I had such a different impression of the two companies. I haven't used it in a few years, but Heroku used to be a great platform for certain types of projects. Unfortunately, the number of concerning stories I have heard about them in recent years has discouraged me from ever using Heroku for a future project.
but a good friend might use windows. its up to people like us to protect them
Having your social life completely defined by and contained by work does though.
> first day of class, write a N word essay and sign a release permitting this to be used to detect cheating

Why once? Most students need writing skills more than half the high-school curriculum.
> Poverty is not having to eat

No, that's famine.

Poverty has many definitions, but generally it's not being able to meet a certain standard of living. It may include nutrition standards, but again, malnutrition in US is very different from malnutrition in Africa. Again, if someone is "poor" by US standards, but lives a happy life - good for them. I could learn a thing or two from them. You could too.

> "Yes", "yes", "no", and "no".

Absolutist views are rather boring and a clear indication of a closed mindset. The exact opposite of what the post is about.

> That doesn't address the worldview I mentioned, it's complete misdirection. The view is that the rich should get richer and the poor should get poorer.

But it does. Rich are getting richer is the natural effect of positive feedback loops. You are rewarded for the value you produce, which allows you to produce more value. Streamlining those loops allowed us to create enormous amount of wealth in the last century.

The only way to fight it is to create an artificial compensating negative feedback loop, i.e. punish people for creating value. Evidently, not a good idea if you look at famine in USSR (google for "Dekulakization").

People like you seem to focus on a few outliers without recognizing that "rich getting richer" has benefitted billions. If having a few billionaires is the cost of moving billions out of poverty, I'll gladly take it. So yeah, rich should be getting richer, because the only alternative is everybody being poor.

> Yes it is. Your proposed experiment is bullshit.

Is this really your best argument?
> Businesses that pay people who don't provide value are soon to go out of business.

Beg to differ. Nobody does this better than Fortune 500 companies.
Of course it's all a scale and there are infinite points along that scale. Wanting democracy at the lowest possible level doesn't preclude wanting to avoid going all the way to the "every man for himself" option. I guarantee some folks want it to be dictated at the federal level, even.
> No one is forcing the App Store devs in question to use this style of free trial.

They don't have to be forced. Scammers love this pricing model.
Shortwave on plain consumer radios is AM. A lot of stations there, a lot of them from China.
> I worked with some Rails folks a while back who were utterly convinced that comments were to be avoided because it meant your code was not clear.

What this means is that if your Ruby code is clear it should read like natural language. Injecting subtitles into the middle of the expression

# I decided to phrase it this way because I was in a rush and it was the first thing that came out. With more time I could no doubt articulate this in a more communicative way, but for the sake of a random post on the internet I'm not terribly worried.

interrupts the flow when one is reading the code, which makes for a much less pleasant experience. Ruby may not be the only language that is like this, but it is relatively unique in this regard. Comments in other languages don't seem to cause the same interruption.

# That's all I've got. Time to clean up.

I'm not sure this means don't provide additional information to future readers that may be beneficial, but be discriminating in where you put it. Or do whatever you want. Who cares what someone else thinks?
Recent and related:

Sourcehut will blacklist the Go module mirror - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310674 - Jan 2023 (337 comments)
Like shortwave broadcasting, AM have their place nowadays, it brings a comunication service to their target. It's true that it isn't as popular as before, but take a look to the postal service and their letters. Who writes a letter today? but you can do it without problem if you want.
Yeah ideally hold onto a backup for say a year, if the owner hasn't come and downloaded it after a year can then assume that they don't want it.
Yes, the kind of “work” that they were interested in. That they did because they enjoyed, not because they need a roof over their heads or progress in a rat race.

This kind of “work” wasn’t done with a primary goal of getting money. Dare I say, it was a “hobby”.
I kinda miss the hot Macbook on my lap, was very cozy on the couch on cold winter days.

The new Macbooks feel dead cold.
No: my contention is that nobody seriously believes that the DNC (or GOP) sat down and went "hmm, this is dirty money, but we'll take it anyways." Both do legal and reputational review, and almost certainly determined (correctly!) that both the law and ordinary people distinguish between "scammy but not openly criminal man in scammy industry gives money to politicians" and "definitely criminal man gives money to politicians."

Put another way: we have no special reason to believe that either the DNC or GOP leadership saw SBF as anything more than a convenient piggy bank. SBF in turn probably saw both as insurance, and time will tell on that.

> Also, you need to explain why somebody would donate equally to both parties in the first place, when both parties are engaged in a zero-sum game with each other for control of the federal government.

This is actually pretty easy to rationalize from the EA worldview: if you've convinced yourself that you can maximize good by maximizing your personal wealth (laws and norms be damned), it makes sense to maintain whatever regulatory framework (or lack thereof) enables you to do that. Giving money to both sides is a not unreasonable course of action in that context.
There are a lot of assumptions going into the framing of your question.

Just to start, you’re assuming we are using our resources and human labor efficiently.
This is extremely concerning.

The co-author on this is includes Professor Scott Aaronson. Reading his blog Shtetl-Optimized and reading his [sad/unfortunate/debate-able/correct?/factual?/biased?] views on adverse/collateral harm to Palestinians civilians makes me question whether this model would fully consider collateral damage and harm to innocent civilians, whomever that subgroup might be. What if his model works well, except for some minority groups' languages which might reflect OpenAI speak? Does it matter if the model is 99.9% accurate if the 0.1% is always one particular minority group that has a specific dialect or phrasing style? Who monitors it? Who guards these guards?
Try it after the recent 3.7 release, it seems like they fixed a lot of the performance issues, at least in my experience.
Google used to for me at least from around 2010-2015 +/- a few years. It was incredible. Now it is usually very hard to find anything I want via search. I suppose a certain amount of defect in search results is optimal for the ad business.
We can’t release the essay writing language model. Lazy children will use it to write their essays for them!

We can’t release the ai-generated text detection model. Lazy teachers will use it to falsely accuse children of cheating!

The problem here appears to be lazy people.

Can we train an AI to detect lazy people? I promise not to lazily rely on it without thinking.
> People will pay $20K for sport brakes or $10K for an unusual paint color.

But they get the brakes and they get the paint. What they get with supposed "full self-driving" is puffery and lies.

Musk's public statements around FSD since 2014 have been lies: https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-promises-full-self-driving-ne...

In 2016 Tesla claimed that all Teslas being produced "will have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver." That was a lie: https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now...

And these days Teslas can't even do full self-parking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsb2XBAIWyA

Now the word is that suckers who paid for FSD in a Tesla with Hardware 3 probably won't get Hardware 4: https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-gets-new-self...

Tesla was recently done for false advertising around FSD: https://electrek.co/2022/12/12/tesla-ordered-upgrade-self-dr...

Tesla also admits they have failed to deliver full self-driving but they think they don't need to refund any money because "failure is not fraud": https://electrek.co/2022/12/07/tesla-self-driving-claims-fai...

Despite the admission of failure, Musk is still running around claiming that FSD will one day magically become the "biggest asset value increase of anything in history": https://electrek.co/2023/01/26/elon-musk-thinks-not-smart-do...

It's not even bullshit artistry. It's just bullshit.
Maybe greater than it is now but WinAmp, Foobar2K, and VLC were all better than iTunes a decade ago.
1. The people to blame here are not the builders.

2. The people impacted are employees who now have a few days chilling. I would love to have this problem as an employee.
has since been fully confirmed by Business Insider and other news sites https://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-realized-la...
> This is the slipperiest of slopes.

It really isn't.

Drinking and eating crap is a choice. One may as well be addicted to it, but addiction may be treatable.

You are comparing a biological drive like sex and reproduction, with a desire for Coke, cigarettes, and fatty beef.

Also, societies will survive without sugary drinks. Without sex and children? I doubt it.
It is mostly dead here in Western Europe for over a decade now, I'm assuming a mix of relatively high cost, yet almost no relevance.
Got hired into a company. Shortly after was told how they hated having to hire a typical white engineer.
But they were desperate for someone that can actually solve problems.
They had a huge number of jr level diversity hires that just could solve the hard problems.
People literally just spent all day looking for reasons to be offended about one thing or another. Barely anyone was actually trying to improve their craft.

Someone got called a valuable resource. Then had to listen to them rage for hours at being labeled a resource.

Of course in the spirit of diversity they mocked their mostly white customers endlessly.

Was a horrible horrible job.
>But I can't grow a vegetable garden in a park.

It's funny how common things like vegetable gardens are in Internet rhetoric and how comparatively rare they are in the world I actually walk around in.

This is a thread about development policy. If you actually want to raise a vegetable garden, you're in a small minority. Nobody is forcing you to live anywhere, and there is certainly no need to prevent the growth of cities or preserve low-density neighborhoods in the inner region of a major metropolitan area to ensure there will be space for the small fraction of us who want to grow their own tomatoes. In fact the opposite is true: allowing dense development to take place ensures that there will be more unspoilt land available on the outskirts for those of us with a green thumb.
The answer is that people benefit from stability, both financially and socially.

Single and duplex zoning was a great deal for cities and close suburbs because they are operationally efficient - less services are required; fewer parks, fewer schools, fewer calls for fire and police service. It’s a good deal for people because financially it has been historically better to own a building and land vs rent or buy into coops.

For existing, pre-1990 low density urban neighborhoods, retrofitting medium density housing is usually a shitshow. Why?

- The areas of were detached houses that usually have yards, no parks, fire stations, etc.

- Because of healthcare and tax policy, it’s very difficult to run the types of small businesses that are needed to support an urban lifestyle. Boutiques, restaurants/bars and similar

- Because there are no local amenities, people still need cars, and there’s rarely enough parking to meet demand.

- Schools are tied to geography, and changes in school assignments are impactful and traumatic to families.

- Developers usually get tax credits for including street level retail, but have no financial incentive to rent them as tax policy pays them to do nothing.

If you look at functioning urban environments like NYC, you see it all over the place. I grew up in Brooklyn and Queens. As small retail fades away, major big box scaled retail moves in. The neighborhood 20-40k sq ft grocery stores of my childhood (Key Food, Finest, A&P, ShopRite) are being displaced by bodegas at the low end and big developments on the high end - which drive demand for cars and exclude people relying on transit.

You can only fix this stuff with fairly radical change, that will be very painful for lots of stakeholders.
> in Vancouver it's interesting how you nearly never encounter people with children

Well, observation bias is a factor. You don't encounter the people with kids when they're busy at home with their kids.
PayPal to lay off 2k employees in coming weeks, about 7%
That seems wasteful. Many projects do not actively advertise the GitHub tag downloads, and instead have their own stored and stable tarballs (or other distributions). And I suppose many users of those auto-generated downloads don’t care about their checksums.
'ai' in Northern French is pronounced like è (and so tends to be considered the standard pronunciation). Southerners tend to pronounce everything like é.

Aix is also the name of several towns, in which case the 'x' is not silent.
A lot of code is WTF enough that a comment explaining what it is attempting to do might be helpful. The real world is full of absolutely shit code, but it still earns the company money.