skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this tracks with my experience in tech. All packaged and hyped under the brand of "Data Science".

Can't tell you how many times I was able to directly prove a change lead to a bad user experience only to be met with "Yeah but the data shows..." by some corpo cock sleeve of a manager or team lead.

All these shithead corps are actively monitoring AND MODIFYING USER BEHAVIOR without understanding human psychology or behavior science, because "The data shows"

IMO nothing short of a complete revolt in whatever fucking form that looks like.
Funniest comment I read in a while
ALL of McDonalds sucks 8-/

Don't eat there...
After hurricane Fiona only one gas station brand was operating. They had generators but the thing that caused problems was their computer. They had to keep rebooting it for the pumps to work. It was great to get gas but standing in line for an hour for gas was not fun. All the other stations were closed due to no power or no way to get the pumps to operate if they had power.
Do you mean software consultancy as in a company that accepts invoices and you work on that basis billing hourly for work they define? Or do you mean clients and consultancy like starting a company that does websites for businesses, marketing them, attracting clients, etc.?

Any tips on getting the first one going?
Can anyone translate this from marketing speak to developer speak? I’m genuinely not sure what this is. Is this like… WASM docker in the browser or what?
> What conclusions should we draw from this?

Imagine the 2009 H1N1 pandemic originated on a pig farm on the US and not in Mexico, and that the pandemic death toll was as big as SARS-CoV-2.

Now imagine the shit show that happens if Obama banned bacon.
By running the exercise with a small change the constraints and behavior of the rest of the process get emphasized. As an example, in one team their test process was entirely manual and took a month. They ran that entire test suite for every release, whether the release should have affected the requirements being tested or not. Why? Mostly because they didn't know what changes in the release would affect what requirements, but that was another problem. This did encourage larger batch sizes though because if you have that large cost in your process and the cost is fixed regardless of batch size (100 changes or 1, you spend a month testing) you might as well batch more changes into the release. Having more releases means you incur this large fixed cost more often and overall reduces your throughput.

And I don't think I understand your update to your comment or you don't understand the point of that example from mine. It was illustrating the submission topic: normalization of deviance. Sure, you should think about where things should be but if a customer comes in and says, "Swap these two items" and you can't provide a working version with that single change for months then things have gone off the rails somewhere. I put it in quotes to reflect a statement like what I have heard from those teams I worked with. To them a long effort for a trivial change is normal, when it should be considered deviance.

EDIT: effect->affect. Always trips me up.
Oh nice! I like the table output. I hadn't discovered that when I built dis-this. Does it have an option to enable the specializing adaptive interpreter? That's what I added this week (only available in 3.11).
I don't get it, why are they doing this?
When they mean safe, they mean it doesn’t expose any extra data to a new person

This thread has nothing to do with preventing your source from finding out
An example: Recently I looked for a small storage unit. All facilities in the local area offering spaces, of any size from small lockers up, were clearly targeting consumers looking to store household goods.

All of those consumer-targwttimg businesses without exception had "contact sales to get a quote".

I was expecting to face a sleazy upsell pitch, but all of those I contacted had a simple fixed price list covering each unit size after you contacted sales. It was just a way to force the prospective customer to call up first, amd to avoid publishing their price list.

The time spent on calls was annoying because I was in a hurry while comparison shopping, but there wasn't any upsell pitch. There was a surprising amount of information given by the vendors on those calls which ruled out their facility from being useful, though. Things they should really have included in the FAQs on their websites. Eg "24x7 access" on the website banners meaning."sorry 24x7 is not offered at the unit in your town because it's in a town centre, access is 9 to 4:30 only" after you called, if you remembered to ask
> has little to do with the quality of the output.

Non-snarky question: What else can you judge by? Isn't any alternative just putting more precise conditions on the output?

With ChatGPT, it's still easy enough to see it's mistakes, and its attempts at fiction and poetry, impressive as they are, are still clumsy to a trained eye, relative to expert human work. But what if they weren't? What happens when they're indistinguishable?
I think what you’re discounting is the effort it would take to increase energy output in Europe (my original statement) by 50%. It’s not happening. Energy production is flat or down for the past 30 years. Flat or down.

Europe will not build nuclear power plants so there is no hope of meeting the energy needs of a fully electric car population.
Well, not really "the cars"...

More like the fear of being CRUSHED by "the cars"
So ChatGPT didn't correctly summarize the text at all, this article does not talk about ethics at all, doesn't talk about potential uses and I would consider the statement about capturing context and incorporating knowledge from a wide range of sources to be a pretty poor summary of the text.

In fact I think that's a great example of exactly what is actually discussed, namely that the context that ChatGPT is able to hold is limited as it's context is held completely in its input. There is never any modification to it's internal state, we're just passing a longer input vector in to the start of the GPT-3 black box. For long inputs the embedding vector becomes more and more sparse and it needs to make more assumptions to fill in it's output.
It's also worth mentioning that Ada and SPARK are very easy to pick up these days. There's Cargo-like tool Alire [1], official VSCode plugin [2] and Open VSX plugin [3], Ada Language Server [4], Emacs Ada mode [5] and GNAT Studio [6]. With Alire one can easily install GNAT FSF builds (meaning GPL with linking exception) and SPARK tools. All libre software.

Not to mention Ada being really versatile and well thought out language. And there's upcoming Ada 2022 standard [7].

[1] https://alire.ada.dev/

[2] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AdaCore....

[3] https://open-vsx.org/extension/AdaCore/ada

[4] https://github.com/AdaCore/ada_language_server

[5] https://www.nongnu.org/ada-mode/

[6] https://github.com/AdaCore/gnatstudio

[7] https://learn.adacore.com/courses/whats-new-in-ada-2022/inde...
> there are some use cases that could tolerate it

Yes, and those usecases that "could tolerate it" will be a super-minority of usecases compared with usecases that "prefer moon-local latency".

Specifically for moon-local activities:

For example, the moon will likely host the largest telescopes and other measurement devices. Think JWST but 10^5x bigger! Including other measurement devices important for deep space exploration.

It'll be significantly cheaper to use AWS' moon-region (with 3 AZs of redundancy) for storage and processing, rather than shipping the data back to Earth for initial processing. Earth based users of the data can get local read-replicas of the post-processed data, with the ability to request transfer of the raw files.

It will also likely host the largest hadron collider, fusion research lab, etc. Anything that requires lots of land, few humans, and would otherwise disproportionately "impact the environment" or "cost too much based on land value" will likely be hosted on the moon. Additionally, anything like anti-matter research that might be considered "too risky for Earth".

Including ofcourse the moon wide Iron Dome's processing needs to protect the upcoming infrastructure from asteroids.

Additionally, coordination of large scale robotics on the moon for infrastructure creation will also be cheaper to host storage and processing on the moon.
No worries haha, not at all easy nor cheap to build these things. I'm sure it's useful in most cases.
People are willing to die for causes all the time. The idea that a bunch of people would not take an action because it might kill them, particularly in the military, is pretty naive.

The history of nuclear brinksmanship is built on almost the exact opposite problem: people who are completely willing to sacrifice themselves for the cause and their government and who believe fully that the cost would be worth it and the decision would be correct.

At the expense of one's own life is one of the easiest sacrifices to make, and people who believe it are dangerous because they tend to volunteer a bunch of others to do so alongside them.

Nuclear command and control isn't about keeping any one person alive, it's very much about keeping the system functional so the deterrent is preserved. There's no way, within it, to actually ensure any level of personal survival - but the various advocates for first strikes at different points in history have never been concerned with that. They want their legacy, they want the problem solved "forever".
Podcasts without RSS feeds are not podcasts.
A partial victory for Putin in Ukraine is an invitation to invade Moldova, the Baltic nations, and every other part of Europe Putin thinks is his rightful sphere of influence.

If you think this war is costly, consider the cost of continuing Russian revanchism.
Poland, Czechoslovakia 1989

South Africa 1990
What's a good historical example of a national or global institution voluntarily giving up totalitarian powers

That's the question you asked and 'it's a thing that happens all the time' is the answer. Global institutions don't have any 'totalitarian powers' so that one has a simple answer too.
You asked what. I said what. What I said is why someone might find it objectionable that they're still going.
I love when people point to metrics on barely used "used" cars.

The average for used car is no where fucking enar $29k. That is complete and utter batshit lunacy unless your idea of "used" is "5 yers old or newer" or something insane like that.

I can still go buy a clunker for $1000 tomorrow.

I do often run into people who think 100k miles is "super high mileage" and couldn't change a tire if a gun was held to their head. So I guess I can see those people being utterly out of the $2k clunker market.

...
For once, the evil company is on a path toward bankruptcy. Not because law enforcement or regulators stepped in, though. It's just a cash flow negative company with declining revenue living off money raised in 2021.
I've given up on SD cards for general purpose OS disk storage, I use small (≤16GB) SD cards for boot and small mSATA or m.2 SSDs in USB3 enclosures for everything else. Performance and reliability are drastically better, SMART gives you a heads up when a drive starts lotlike it will need replacement, cost isn't even much of an issue if you source your SSDs from fleaBay.
As someone who is unaware of any relevant literature on the subject, I'd love to hone my intuitions a bit. Could you say more about your line of reasoning?
double is still impossible on large scale
> Disagree with the theory that we are overgrown text prediction all you want, but you can't deny that it is an "understanding" in the sense that knowing it lets you build and test it.

Yeah, and it helps us understand how "overgrown text prediction" works, but not how humans work. In the same way that building a robotic arm won't help you understand how muscles work.

> If you can't build anything out of an "understanding", even a wrong thing, then you don't truly have an understanding.

Not entirely true. We can't build a star, but we do have a pretty good theory of how stars work.

But I do agree that we don't understand the human brain.
Reminds me, lots of people take pictures of their driver's license or credit card or whatever using their smartphone and then use their smartphone's builtin image editing tool to make the credit card number (or whatever) invisible before uploading the image to whatever service they need it for.

Sounds innocent right? Well, depending on the paintbrush tool used (this affects both Apple and Android) the number will be fully or partially recoverable, because the paintbrush is slightly translucent. The user will repeatedly cover up the number using the same paintbrush tool until they can't see the number anymore, but if you load the result in any (real) image editor and turn up the contrast in that area, you'll see the numbers.
I’m also equally confused.
Quadtrees have the distinction of being the simplest space decomposition data structures that also manifest every pathology and difficulty of said data structures. It is a great data structure to study for this reason.

While they work well in some applications, many people opt for one of two algorithm selection strategies as an alternative. First, select a more narrowly tailored algorithm that fits their application domain and requirements but avoiding many of the pathologies, giving up some generality but retaining the simplicity. R-trees are arguably an example of this (albeit a bit more complex). Second is to use more exotic and complex space decomposition algorithms that are significantly more difficult to implement in practical systems but retain at least as much generality while mitigating or eliminating most pathological cases.

A quadtree isn't a local maxima in the algorithm phase space in the same way a b+tree is.
> the September 2019 detection in Italy of covid 19 (screened lung tissue samples)

That study was sheer utter fucking crap. They rolled their own antibody test, didn't do any false-positive testing, claimed to find D614G circulating then, and that it was commonly occurring in respiratory samples, during a time when Italy didn't have any excess deaths. It is literally dumb as fuck.

The wastewater in early Dec seems to be good, matches the timeline of the pandemic, leading the wave of deaths by only a couple months, it only claims low levels of cryptic spread and was done by a totally separate group.
https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Straw_man
Just the default iPhone keyboard. Very weird "coincidence" ...
>Why isn't this build into every major operating system by now?

Because no desktop OS besides MacOS can handle Sleep with any semblance of competency.

>Why isn't this the default

See above.
I mean that’s not really an argument. That’s just saying “I feel like there will be a collapse because it happened before in unrelated circumstances. No I can’t tell you why it will happen “
I've been saying a similar thing for years too. Anyone want to team up to make attempt #27 at this problem?
Why can't it just be a triangle? Is there a reason it needs to be curved?
Read the link I posted above. It estimates braking distance with EPC vs pneumatic along with reductions in cars that derail. It DOES reduce breaking time in emergency stops which has fewer cars derail but I don't know if it is enough of a reduction to be worthwhile. I don't think it would have dramatically reduced the number of cars that derailed in this accident. I am willing to be proven wrong.
Wait wait wait. You expected Tesla to have pre-emptively done something to avoid negative PR? When have they ever done that?
Why did the competition stop in 2015?
Elon was also against sending modern main battle tanks to Ukraine, and he has been pedaling vatnik propaganda on Twitter: https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-slammed-amplifying-fake-195...
And then there is Metaverse level of inaccuracy, which we haven’t seen since the Middle Ages.
> If this rule were applied equally globally, everyone complaining would have _a lot_ removed from them...

You just don't get it: Everybody who is richer than me are spoiled brats, born with a silver spoon in their mouths, they should give money to me. Everybody who is poorer than me are lazy bums and drug addicts. I shouldn't have to give anything to them.
There is absolutely no reason why a precondition of driving an electric car should be having an app, sharing data with the manufacturer, or any of that nonsense.

I agree, and it is even getting bad with gas cars. GM, Ford, and non-domestics just snarf data, with build in cellular modems, and more.

The CEO of Ford was bragging about the revenue, at an earnings meeting, from selling this data.

All tracking, data gathering, needs to be made 100% illegal. It is constantly abused, and literally weaponized against consumers, and their democracies.
Interesting, thanks.

An art teacher told me what is kind of obvious: things aren't outlined in the real world. Painting a still life — the apple is in fact simply defined by where the apple color ends and the bowl color begins.

To be sure, when we start sketching we would probably find it convenient to make a little arc on the page that delineates the boundary of the apple but by the time you move to finishing the piece (if realism is what your going for) a line of any thickness delineating the apple should be gone.
You're absolutely correct. I was stunned how little security they employ.
Not sure if that follows. Just because preserving is more difficult, doesn't mean it has less value.
Are y’all telling me you don’t use cropping in your word processor?

I’m well aware that it’s reversible so I’m careful of what I put in to begin with, but I’m not going to open an image editor unless I really have to

I have other shit to do
Sure, I'll release the source code. It's pretty simple.
I'm only 25 and have had 6 jobs. The longest I've stayed at a company was a year. Just the way we have grown up in the industry, all the smart people giving advice on the internet say to not bother getting raises or promotions, just go and interview and it'll be much more efficient. And it has, I've gotten massive pay bumps every time. How can you for stay loyal to a company when they give a measly 3% raise? And make promotions ridiculously hard? Especially when that company will lay you off after years and escort you from the building with security?
It will happen but this story lacks that electrifying trucks is slower. Big gas station will remain and possibly gasoline become far expensive than diesel?
And yet belittling still gets you no where. Sounds like you aren't interested in conversing with others and rather just want to garner votes from your tribe.
>Using it as an excuse for other stuff, for political and business gain, is one of the main reasons climate change is not being taken seriously.

This.

So long as global warming is a question of monies I refuse to take it as anything more than just another game played by investors and politicians.
> "E3, D3, C4 ..." and NOTHING else. It knows nothing of the board. It doesnt event know that there are two players.

Yeah, like language have gramma rules games also have rules, in both cases LLM can learn rules, it's the same with many other structured chains of actions/tokens, you could also model actions from different domains and use them as language. It seems a lot of emergent behaviours of LLMs are what you could call generalized approximated algorithms for certain tasks. If we could distill only these patterns and extract them and maybe understand them (if possible, as some of these are HUGE) then based on this knowledge maybe we could create traditional algorithms that would solve similar problems.
Imagine Henry Ford getting a medal from literal Hitler.

There are comparable challenges today, in the form of people in the West who, still, after a year of war go on RT and spread an aggressor's propaganda.
This combined with zero gravity seems most promising
What needs redistribution incentive is assets not income. Anyone can get income, even disability is income. However assets are increasingly out of reach.
permanent connection to the cloud

You sure about that? Ford and GM track you, spy on you relentlessly.
You just explained how to increase technical debt in as few steps as possible.

The solution is getting a wavelength or dark fiber to the off-site, or throwing out the piece of junk SAN that only works on L2, it's too old by now.
Yeah, this was the point. I was intentionally hyperbolic.
>(iii) you have not enabled all filtering features available in GitHub Copilot

I was trying to find out what these exact filtering settings are but I land at this page [1].

The other links just download the Product Specific terms PDF again.

Not sure if this is an oversight or intentionally intended to be circular.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/configuring-github-copilo...
We need age limits now!
Taxation by itself is inflammatory and has been the reason for most uprising, revolutions and wars since the beginning of history. Using a higher perspective it is easy to see that taxation is analogous to war.
Technically just the income tax, but yes somewhere between 40 and 55 percent view it that way, the exact number depends on who is asking. Pew number are more like 55%, MSNBC lower.
Most "bike lanes" suck but physically separated bike lanes are great in my experience. You can also have slow streets or bike boulevards which filter the through traffic.
In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky.
"I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe."
"Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky.
"I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play"
Minsky shut his eyes,
"Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher.
"So that the room will be empty."
At that momment, Sussman was enlightened.
-- AI koan
That's right. I remember being told to flip a painting I was working on upside down. Walk 30 feet away...

It was a great trick that took me out of the painting that I had been doing from my "mind's eye". I saw it for the light and dark areas that is was. It allowed me to see how I could rebalance it (regarding the lights and shadows). Very cool.
I thought they just renamed Yammer to Viva engage. I was "migrated" to Viva but haven't noticed a single change other than the name. I have the unpopular opinion that it is better than email threads.
IANAL but my understanding of the licenses is that the difference between the personal and business license is that the personal license allows them to use any files you open in your IDE as training data, but the business license doesn't.
Recently there was a survey of Indian and what countries they considered threats. China was top, followed by the US. Pakistan was much lower in the list
There's a difference between "totalitarian" and "emergency" powers.

> Global institutions don't have any 'totalitarian powers'

If 50% of countries agree in May 2023 to the draft WHO/IHR amendment to drop "human rights", that would change.
And when you start looking at former politicians that get hired by the same consultant companies that they did let in on gov contracts...