skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's really appropriate or feasible or even helpful for most things. At least for myself, if I read through the entirety of a language's documentation I wouldn't remember half of it, and I probably wouldn't need everything I remembered.

Language and library designs should optimize for least-surprise.
Or worse https://youtu.be/9CO6M2HsoIA
It may be a risk, but it certainly isn’t a liability in the financial sense.
AI is going to lead to more mediocrity. The writing won’t win any awards. But I do think mediocrity as defined by less creativity and stagnation could doom us.
That's different from the situation noted in linked article. That happened before the airspace was closed.
Article said it needs A12 or M1 or higher.

That said, works after updating the OS.
Nah I misread
Back in the beforetimes, I'd sometimes make banana bread in the morning to take in to the office with me. I'd only have to get up an extra hour early for that, even if it is probably closer to cake than to "normal" bread.
It's worth noting that in the US government hierarchy, the United States Congress is superior to the Department of Defense. Why? Because they (both House and Senate) write the laws stating who and what the DoD is, the House funds the DoD, and the Senate confirms appointments of officers.

Specifically with regards to Matt Rosendale, he is a Representative from Montana. He is in a position where he can demand (and will get, within reason) information from the US military and represent Montana in demanding and publicizing said information.
And by the time you know what they are, by definition, they're not UFOs anymore.
Yes, better to let small, scrappy startups like Microsoft blaze the trail
When the CEO is finally asked to do something, to actually take some action, he stumbles and falls flat on his face.

Mr Pichai,you have been weighed, you have been measured and you have been found wanting.

What is Eric Schmidt up to these days? ;-)
SNAP is inflation-adjusted annually: benefits increased 12.5% for 2023 for example. The income levels for eligibility are also inflation-indexed.
What are the hardware requirements/ / resources dedicated to pull this off?
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Nucleosynthesis Periodic Table
Very cool project. I guess LangChain has some code related to this, but I don't think this team published their code anywhere
Yes, this is already well known and it is a complete disaster in the making. Also: the Russians leave the territory they evacuate heavily mined.

This war will have a very long aftermath.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/almost-one-third-ukrain...
> These are the last gasps of deluded authoritarians

This is what concerns me in the era of nuclear weapons.
For Remote Workers, These Cities Are Great Places to Live
More likely a small dense cloud or something.
Annoying Bug in macOS Ventura: Perpetual 'Background Items Added' Notification
Any reliably-sourced info re: why they were scrambled? The twitter thread suggests they flew from PDX to Montana...
Hrm, that list seems off. moa.party is an opt-in crossposter, where you have to authenticate to your account on both sides. Debirdify and Fedifinder are services to find your Twitter follows on Mastodon, based on pointers they've left in their bio, display name, or in pinned posts; they don't post anything.

That said, there are dozens of "BirdsiteLIVE" instances which are "public" crossposters (where you don't need to be, or get the approval of, the Twitter account being crossposted). A while ago in a thread on hachyderm.io's community issue tracker I came up with a list of a couple dozen without much effort.
Pressuring engineers, dispatchers and yard crews to stick to increasingly tight schedules, especially while understaffed, is exactly how you end up with more incidents.

They don't care. The costs are minimal compared to the profits, the bad PR can be massaged, etc.

Edit: also forgot that the president and both halves of congress have clearly telegraphed "full speed ahead" after the recent nonsense around the railroad union strikes. These workers aren't even getting time off for sick days or family emergencies (the latter of which is almost certainly a violation of the Family Medical Leave Act.)
"They" are definitely not speaking for the US government.
I hated the job and was ready to start looking for a new one once annual bonuses were paid this month, and the severance package is more than my bonus would have been, so it may all work out for the better.
The earth is best thought of as a ball of rock with an iron core that is slightly damp.
The oop model (or any "client" model of state) dependent on state outside your code being encapsulated/contained inside an object within your program is always confusing. It's not particular to this library or python.

A gui window handle within your program, or simply an open file handle, if the OS does something to your object, it's hard for you to know about it, and your object continually needs to refresh its state if you are concerned about it. I don't know what is referred to as a "task" in this case, but I don't think the lifetime of the actual task is the issue, it's the lifetime or your object.

It's always the case that if you instantiate an object with a ctor, you can't count on anything about it continuing if the dtor is invoked. The problem is much more general than this API, this library, this language, this use case. Just as you need to structure your C code so malloc and free will always match up spatially and temporally, you need to structure your oop code so ctors and dtors match up sensibly. Otherwise the confusion in your head will spread to your code.

And those who always want the compiler and tools to automatically do as much as possible to free them from the burden, are the ones who are most surprised by Heisenbergs. Computers can (or will try to) do anything, it's up to you to make sure it does what it needs to. Maybe someday AIs will do it better than us, but right now you need to provide the I.
Back in the cab driving days I used to see what people were buying with their food stamps when I helped them unload the trunk and all I have to say is it wasn’t healthy foods.

Also heard a bunch of different ways to turn them into cash.
It's currently under three licenses to make it as radioactive as possible while the software it supports is under development. Once I'm done, however, it's going to be under a single copyleft license because I never meant it to be incorporated into any code other than my monorepo. It also doesn't even use malloc(), so you wouldn't care about a lot of the details.

Links to it are in my comments, but I wouldn't look at it.

Instead, I'll describe something you can implement with helps that would be much simpler.

Keep a stack of data about allocations. You should keep a pointer to the allocation, the size, and the "destructor" (a function pointer to a function that takes a void pointer and returns nothing).

Write 3 destructors. Two should do nothing, but they should be separate. One should be for scopes, and the other should be for functions. The last destructor should cast its void pointer to a jmp_buf pointer and do a longjmp() on it.

Then have a normal allocation and deallocation function on the allocator. This is for normal allocations.

Have a function to enter a scope, enter a function, and set a jump. In each case, they should push data onto the stack with the appropriate destructor. (I push a pointer to the function name for functions, for debugging.)

Then have functions to exit a scope, exit a function, and do a jump. These should "unwind" all allocations until they reach an allocation that uses the scope destructor, function destructor, and setjmp() destructor, respectively. (You can text if two function pointers are equal to each other.)

I'll be happy to answer any more questions.
> Transformers and Datasets

Are these specific libraries?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34758429
The Southwest being out of water is not news, unfortunately.
> Any 14 packing-coloring of the grid must use color 6 somewhere, as otherwise it would be only using 13 colors that are no better than colors {1, ..., 13}, and thus not enough. Now, you can imagine the diamond you're considering is centered around one of these 6s. This is breaking a different kind of symmetry; a translational one

This is a good point; I had been thinking of the problem differently.

In this model, the diamond is viewed as just being a window onto the infinite grid, and we're not interested in whatever properties it might have considered as a finite graph. Thinking about it this way, the idea that the coloring in your article disproves is that "there is a 14-packing-coloring of the infinite grid which uses a chessboard pattern for color 1".

But then, since (by your later result) there is no 14-packing-coloring of the infinite grid, it's not too surprising that there isn't such a coloring that also features a chessboard.

What bothers me in this discussion of the chessboard conjecture is the switch: you say "at this point, we were conjecturing that using color 1 in the chessboard pattern that yields density 1/2 was optimal, meaning that you could packing-color a graph D_r with k colors (...) if, and only if, you could do it enforcing the chessboard pattern of 1's". And this seems plausible, and the illustration provided as a counterexample isn't actually a counterexample to this statement. You can packing-color the graph shown there with 14 colors, and you can do so while enforcing the chessboard pattern of 1s.

In your explanation here, you're viewing D_r as a subgraph of the successfully-colored infinite grid, not as a finite graph in its own right. That handily explains why the chessboard pattern goes around the center of D_r instead of through it. The illustration in the post does then show that there's a problem. But to my eye, the problem is in the premise of a successfully 14-packing-colored infinite grid, not in the chessboard conjecture. In between stating the chessboard conjecture and providing the counterexample, you changed what the chessboard conjecture said -- there is no reference to the infinite grid in your statement of the chessboard conjecture, but the illustration of a "counterexample" is a counterexample to a statement about the infinite grid. It feels wrong. :-/
Here's the thing. When I'm rapidly prototyping and exploring, I'm constantly asking questions and making hypotheses about what the thing I'm exploring will do when I turn various knobs and pull different levers. Part of any good process of making guesses and comparing the expected and actual results is making notes about the test and results. Those notes could be written in natural language, and many notes should start there, but why not formalize the guesses and discoveries and write them as executable, reproducible, tests?
https://newsasfacts.com/

Even my most unbiased source of news can’t come up with much distraction-worthy news outside of a small kerfuffle in the Philippines.
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Well one way to do it would be to shoot holes in the balloon so it leaks and descends slowly. Of course can’t wait for it to be over the sea to do that.
What have MS got to lose? They were not making a dent in search. Google has to be measured. They rushed it unnecessarily. It's not like an overnight coup --where it's done and over. Google has lots of time to respond.
I don’t understand what’s so interesting about a spy balloon anyway. Doesn’t China already have satellites in orbit able to take high resolution pictures anywhere in the country anyway?
PLAAF never enters Taiwanese air space. They only fly through international airspace within Taiwan's air defence identification zone.

Taiwan's air defence identification zone actually overlaps not only the Taiwan Strait but multiple Chinese mainland provinces such as Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi.
One idea is if the probability of QA API call is high but API returns nothing or conflicting results, then model may learn to say it isn’t sure about the result.
> So, the context is that these statements are used to ignore criticism of communists.

look back, that's not the context in _this conversation_.
Because the alternative is starvation. It's not like great food is available for much of the winter in many places. If you couldn't eat the somewhat rotten pie, you didn't eat.
I’m not trying to hide it! Why would I be woke?
We had a massive increase in SNAP benefits that was in response to the pandemic and big spikes in unemployment. Unemployment is not obviously an issue now, and the pandemic has relatively little effect on most Americans day-to-day.

I think what the poster was trying to get at was: if conditions have returned to status-quo, one would tend to think (all other things being equal) that a return to the SNAP status-quo would be reasonable.

You can make the argument that the safety net ought to be better; but talking about a "hunger cliff" seems rather emotive.
Would be interesting to see what would happen if they applied that formula per each high school, not per graduating body, with each high school getting some guaranteed college slots. Maybe poorer schools would get more attention this way.
The C standard says this:

> An iteration statement may be assumed by the implementation to terminate if its controlling
expression is not a constant expression,158) and none of the following operations are performed in its
body, controlling expression or (in the case of a for statement) its expression-3:159)

> — input/output operations

> — accessing a volatile object

> — synchronization or atomic operations.

So I guess this behavior is totally legitimate now after all.
they were just another research lab

They have been a top-3 AI lab right from the start.

A few researchers randomly stumbled upon [0] the fact huge LLMs work unexpectedly well

No. Early on Sutskever said he believed they can get to AGI by simply scaling up models. Yes, everyone was doing similar research but OpenAI has been consistently first to show groundbreaking results. GPT 1-2-3, DALLe 1-2, CLIP, Jukebox - one of these could be considered luck, but all together points to greatness.
I might not be understanding you, but are you saying your preference is that the preference not be offered?
Yes, [a successful] transitioning [in an accepting society] is the best treatment we have. Until that things differ and people suffer.
I think part of the problem is a lot of people either lost these skills or never had them to begin with. So it's something that is perceived as a complex time consuming task. And it is; if you are doing it on a large scale.

Most people have also gotten used to being able to eat whatever they want when they want it.
It has a 16,000 ft ceiling though. The balloon was at 60,000 ft.
It's not like SNAP is going away: if unemployment is lower but people are working lower paying jobs, those people are going to qualify for SNAP on the same basis as prior to the pandemic.
Why couldn't the devil cease the be the devil, like a gang ('s members) can cease to be a gang? Of course he wouldn't be the devil anymore, but that's fine by me.

Just like the rain can stop. It doesn't stop being wet, the concept is not redefined, it just ceases being there.

My point is that you are adding that characterization onto the concept, it does not logically follow from our definition of the concept, "the devil is the personification of evil", that it is evil by necessity. It might be that it is a being incapable to stop (no way for me to disprove it, unless someone can meet him; you can certainly write the story that way, or you can write it another way, with fallen angels or a Santa Clause) but it is perfectly imaginable that it could. Of course, it would stop being the devil as to the common definition. But nothing in the definition of the concept says that it doesn't have the agency to stop.
why'd you put "get above their station" in quotes? is it because the whole metaphor is kind of stupid?
Well getting rid of welfare will not force the market to raise wages, it will only add to the human misery and exploitation. People need to live, in order to live, they need money. Remove welfare and you’re just opening up more abuse and exploitation.

The right solution here would be for the government to enforce minimum wages in a way that is reflective of the true cost of living in a local setting. No exceptions.
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> Experiencing hardship conveys authority.

> There is no hierarchy of oppressions—except for anti-black oppression, which is in a class of its own.

> Trust black women.

> Prison is never the answer.

> Black people need black space.

> Allyship is usually performative.

> All non-black people, and many black people, are guilty of anti-blackness.

> There is no way out of anti-blackness.

Of these, I'd say 1, 4, and 5 make sense with caveats. The rest are spot on from what I know.

1. Experience does convey some authority on what you experienced, but making apt use of it requires thought.

4. I'd say American prison is seldom the answer. Once we get to a point where inmates aren't treated like cattle, I'd agree with this otherwise.

5. If we construe 'black space' as a space in which one's culture and history can be appreciated absent external influence, I'd say that makes sense. But white people shouldn't be scared to talk to a black person because they're afraid of intruding on their space. That's just fucked up.

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There are parents who are rich/powerful and are able to prepare their children for similar power, there are parents who live vicariously through their children; and unfortunately there are parents who are both. This leads to children holding the reins of entire institutions like colleges, and we pride ourselves in their emotionality towards important issues, but we forget that they're still children. The logic is knee-jerk, it's emotional, and it's not well thought out.

As an example saying the n-word is unilaterally banned in most contexts (in the eyes of these 𝚠̶𝚑̶𝚒̶𝚝̶𝚎̶ elite). And not as a curse word, but as a hate crime. Nevermind that the person who is most likely to use that word, is probably black. So all this is doing is preserving the delicate sensibilities of the person in power and forcing the black person, again, to conform.

I have hope for the coming generation that treats race as a joke, but not its history. But until it's normal to stop taking skin color so seriously on every aspect of human experience, and we can have a conversation about black racism, we've still some work to do.
Don’t Fear Putin’s Demise
There is a town called Elkader in Iowa. I thought it was something to do with Elks. In fact, someone else also made this error, since there are nearby towns called Elk Run etc.

Turns out, it was named after the famous Algerian revolutionary, Abd El Kader, who was widely respected in the West, including France, who he fought against:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkader,_Iowa
Thanks for pointing that out. I was watching for "misgendering" when reading it. And I did read the whole thing!

I actually found the misgendering part relevant. If Jamie Reed was as progressive as she claims, wouldn't that be something she would do "correctly?" I suppose you could say she no longer believes in trans identities, so that's why she isn't willing to do it anymore. But it feels like she is attacking the medical establishment and not the people, and as such would support what I'm assuming 100% of her patients desire, no? And, if you were to accept that she is writing for a conservative audience, it follows that that crowd would be turned off by using she when talking about someone born with a penis.

I found the rebuttal compelling and I'm struggling a lot with this issue. The fact that so many medical organizations support the current care guidelines feels very contradictory to the assertions made by JR.

And as the rebuttal author notes, JR was an intake worker, with limited access to the full story of these patients, and without proper medical training to do a full assessment.

All in all, both articles are worth a read.

After reading them both, I did feel like JR's was a well coordinated hit piece with dubious assertions, but would love to hear a rebuttal of the rebuttal!
Just because you found a branch of wood in front of you doesn't imply that you must be living in the forest.

Just because we found metallic balls doesn't mean it must be alien. It's far more likely an SCO state that's spying on the US.

Additionally, the last fictious alien event series around Roswell turned out to be the A12 prototype (aka SR-71 Blackbird) that was being tested for its radar stealth capabilities.

Yet none of those tinfoil hats ever realized that...so...here we are, with "aliens" supposedly using a crappy technology like a balloon instead of warp-drive capable space ships. Because you know, space can be travelled in a balloon and there must be oxygen of identical density on every single habitable planet /s
Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin
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China is capable of projecting an enormous amount of influence, though they do it without aircraft carriers. The west has basically lost Africa within a period of only ten years for instance. It's actually shocking.
The W and Z bosons[1] have mass, a fair bit of it actually.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_and_Z_bosons
> why do we always seem to grow by increasing density rather than establishing new small towns

When we grow population we increase density. The two concepts have a direct linear relationship there’s no other thing that can possibly happen.

The only relevant question is where the density increases. A new small town in a rural area is an increase in density for that area.

Your argument thus reduces, entirely, to “why don’t people go somewhere else instead of where I live?”
And we can make Ray more efficient by optimizing GPU hardware utilization https://centml.ai/
11km is a lot closer than 350km. closer, and a lot less air in the way.
for whatever reason, it looks like the mobile and the desktop versions have their X and Y axis swapped, so one may need to swap the instructions

DOWN <-> RIGHT

UP <-> LEFT

so try this

Green: left

orange: up - left - down

green: right - up - left - down - left - down

orange: right

green: right - down

orange: left - up - right

green: up
I think a median of 40 years is exactly the problem - I would expect a median of 20-30, with 40 being at the tail end.
I feel like I'm thrown back to the 80s, all this military and fear mongering and propaganda and war.
So what's the big blocker for Google to let the public try it out ? It can't be for lack of capability or resources
I get the urge for people to dump on Google. Search makes good profits and makes a tempting target.

And ChatGPT is cool in a "look my computer can write" kind of way. But it's kinda tangential to search, is (currently) laughingly inaccurate, and doesn't seem like an ideal ad platform (yet).

Which leaves me wondering, is this the next "touchscreen" moment, or is it the next "3D TV" moment?

If course it'll find usefulness going forward. It'll get better, and hopefully more accurate. But with my jaundiced eye, trained on endless hype-and-fail cycles, I've yet to be convinced.

One thing's for sure though, it's certainly captured the media's attention. Seldom have I seen a tech get into the public head as fast as this.

It writes very well, and the layperson does not expect their computer to lie, so if you accept what it says is true, then it really looks amazing.
Fossil bones from the largest penguin that ever lived unearthed in New Zealand