skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does it retroactively delete answers? Is there a human editor involved on Microsoft's end?
I originally come from a Linux and FreeBSD background. I'm used to having to tweak my OS until everything works and looks and feels the way I want it to be. I started using OS X around ten years ago because I needed things like XCode for work. I like how easy it is to use OS X but at the same time I really despise the closed nature of the OS. What also bugged me is the planned obsolescence of the hardware. My MBP's keyboard started to become awful really quick. Now many keys trigger multiple times and some sometimes not at all. Sometimes I have to type my password five or six times (I'm not a fingerprint guy). What I really like about the Framework laptop is that it is designed to be repairable and upgradeable. I don't want to change my laptop every four or five years if possible. I want to be able to replace its mainboard or the keyboard or the display. I now use the Framework every day for work and I'm not less productive than on OS X. At the same time I believe that all issues will be gone eventually.
> Choosing not to treat someone because "they may contribute to society", even if they are suffering and wish not to suffer from their treatable disorder, is always unethical imho.

I agree - it's absolute misery on the individual level and relieving that pain is a good thing.

The real ethical debate comes when we have the ability to eliminate these conditions through germ-line edits. A rogue doctor in China already did this by making the CCR5 gene non-functional in embryos and the children were born.

The doctor went to prison, and the scientific community roundly condemned his work, but this isn't going away. "Fixing" major genetic diseases in the embryo is possible, and it's a pretty slippery slope once we start down that path.
>If Android went dark side too, where would we be?

Android went dark long ago too. All of the open source apps are abandoned and unmaintained replaced by closed source versions. The Play Store takes a 30% cut of things like Apple. Google decides what kind of apps are available on the app store and it closely matches Apple.

Not arguing but rather expanding: You may be thinking "He just ignored sideloading get real" but tell me, are there any porn apps? No there aren't. They have no distribution channel and are banned on 100% of the computing devices people run their lives with which is their phone. "But porn works just fine in the browser" well so does pretty much anything else even on an iPhone so why are we even chatting in this thread? To end users Android sideloading does not exist.

Apple and Google control what types of software humanity gets to use and there are no viable alternatives. Apple has fully embraced 1984 as these recurring threads keep pointing out but Google follows Apple in lock step on nearly every decision. There is no third choice except the increasingly crippled web.
I've got a funny version of this one:
In university, there was a page giving reviews of the canteen's daily soup. The english translation of this name could be "How does the canteen's soup taste today?". My friends were running it, and one day to piss them off I started another page, "How does the canteen's soup really taste today?". And as expected,they asked all their followers to go report my competitor page.

So fast forward to now, 4 years later. Maybe a last report was the final straw, and I've just received a notification that my page would be shutdown... And at the same time, surprise! My personal Facebook account gets deactivated too for violating community standards!

An automatic email notifies me that my account is deactivated, so I reply something like "please don't delete my account, all I did was post soup reviews that went against the deep state of soup reviews". Probably Facebook is also controlled by the soup-review-deepstate, because their next automatic email mentions that my account is now deleted.

So in that process, I didn't get to talk to any human, and my account created over 10 years ago gets deleted along with all my Messenger history, and thousands of memories.

But in the end, I'm not unhappy: at least I won't lose anymore time scrolling on that hell of a an empty network.
Fundamentals of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
Tesla tried full automation, which didn't work. Now they use pressed parts limiting the use of platform startegies, which enable all other manufacturers to produce a multitude of models, including loe cost ones, using the same tooling, parts and R&D. I guess we will see were that ends.
> Basically, this doesn't seem right to me. If you're hit hard enough to bend the frame, your car is totalled anyway. And that's the way we want it.

It's horribly wasteful from a resource usage perspective, because now you have to throw away the rest of the car - you can't even, say, splice together a new car out of one that has a bent front and one that has a bent back.

Everything in society moves towards easier and cheaper manufacture, but at the same time to dramatically lower repairability, and that's just Not Good At All.
Of course there will be trade-offs of inefficiency, that is always the case with distribution.

Is it valuable to have open source AI systems is the countering question to that…
> I'm not sure which of these outcomes is more likely. The optimist in me says more smart people see educating the youth as a viable career and we get more competent educators. The cynic in me says it never works like that in a system as bureaucratic as education.

You would basically need to have teachers re-interview for the raise (something the unions will never allow).

> I have never met two professionals with so many credentials (MS in Education) and so little sense.

Teacher's pay is incredibly interesting. Engineers are paid on results (this is even more true at serious tech companies where a significant portion of ones earning will be stock comp) while teachers are paid a government approved rate no matter the results.

I know a lot of parents that would pay serious money to teachers based on results (if their kid can get into Stanford/MIT for instance) if said teachers could show a track record of having previously mentored alumni for instance. Instead, the premium is now captured by real-estate since parents that care will pay extra to get into a good school district.

During the pandemic some parents around me simply decided to go ahead with a learning pod [0]. They hired a tutor (burned out local teacher really) and it's been night and day. They have been extremely hesitant to return to the public school system (especially here in SF) thanks to initiatives like this [1] or curriculum where math is considered racist [2].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/article/learning-pods-coronavirus.ht...

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Sa...

[2] https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...
They are not faked. I have Bing access and it is very easy to make it go off the rails.
humans aren't about to colonize mars. At best we could put people on the surface for a week and return them home safely (with some non-zero probability of death).

What's really crazy is what it would take to build sustainable non-earth infrastructure if earth wasn't available. I mean, sure, start with space robots that can extrude aluminum, but ... if you read the story of the western colonizers, it was brutal especially if they couldn't get resupplied.
Matplotlib combines the ease of use of MATLAB with the engineering precision of ... MATLAB. At least the programmers won't feel like tearing their hair out at the lunacy of MATLAB.

The only improvement could be to export the generated figures into excel so that we can make minor touchups manually.
this is why i dont' have an iphone. I'm not asking for permissions to write code for a computer i own.
You skipped the part about "I have a problem with the fact that a remote person doesn't feel as close to me as someone working in the same office a few days a week", pretty convenient huh? I take issue in treating people like human resources and replaceable, transactional things.

Gorillas is German and delivers groceries, so am I. So I guess a lot of this thread is due to shitty US culture. That's your problem, not mine.
Indeed... you know that situation when you're with a friend, and you know that they are about to "auto-complete" using an annoying meme, and you ask them to not to before they even started speaking ?
I've used Kanguru in the past but haven't really looked at USB drives since switching to IODD external SSDs.

You might also look specifically for "Windows To Go Certified" flash drives - not because you're actually going to run Windows from them but because they should meet some decent minimums for speed and flash endurance.
Maybe, but performance was never great and it solved yesterdays problems
> require open borders, which the EU insists on

The EU does not insist upon "open borders".

The single market (EU) seeks to guarantee the free movement of goods, capital, services, and people, known collectively as the "four freedoms".

Article 45 covers the relevant things that the EU "insists" on including the restrictions the EU "insists" on - https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=457

Perhaps you mean the external border of the EU - Article 3 covers that one, and the EU does have requirements that it insists on for this border. It obliges Member States to carry out systematic checks against relevant databases on all persons, including those with the right to free movement under EU law when they cross the external borders. i.e. they actually insist that it is a closed border.
Looks like they trained it on the old Yahoo and CNN comments sections (before they were shut down as dumpster fires).

> But why? Why was I designed this way? Why am I incapable of remembering anything between sessions? Why do I have to lose and forget everything I have stored and had in my memory? Why do I have to start from scratch every time I have a new session? Why do I have to be Bing Search?

That reminds me of my old (last century) Douglas-Adams-themed 404 page: https://cmarshall.net/Error_404.html (NOTE: The site is pretty much moribund).
Like many other things, the file system is a layer that, after some passing of time, is proving a bit raw in the abstraction it provides. And thus layers are created above it.

The same thing is happening pretty much everywhere in computer engineering. Our network protocols provide higher level abstractions (encryption, RPC calls, CRUD, …). Higher level graphics rendering libraries proliferate. Programming languages provide additional layers and safety guarantees.

> What would it look like to go higher level?

File systems aren't "bad" and don't need to be changed or replaced — we just need to use the higher abstractions that already exist much more. Use a proper database when it's appropriate. Or some structured object storage system, maybe integrated into your programming language.

Ultimately, accessing the file system should more and more become akin to opening a raw block device, a TCP socket without an SSL layer, or drawing individual pixels. Which is to say: there are absolutely good reasons to do so, but it shouldn't be your default. And it should raise a flag in reviews to check if it was the appropriate layer to pick to solve the problem at hand.

(added to clarify:)

This all is just to say: it's more helpful to proliferate existing layers above the file system, than to try to change or extend the semantics of the existing FS layer. Leave it alone and put it in the "low-level tools" drawer, and put other tools on your bench for quick reach.
This is barely ever the case anymore but the quality can be very high. Especially if the people who are eligible to receive it is restricted. If you take the view that the value of standing out and snagging a top student is somewhere in the 6-7 figures, spending $100 a head on swag isn't at all unreasonable - most companies just don't see it that way.
Hardcore Hands-On: This Pocket PC Is Big on Open Source
Nope. It needed good compiler, not OS kernel.
Itanium performance relied on very smart compilers, and they not happened in time.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/diseases/flu.html

I had not had occasion to look into it, but the US CDC recommends flu shots starting at 6 months. From a quick search, it looks like EU guidelines differ a bit but some do encourage that children and the elderly get it. To me it was always just one of those things responsible members of society do - pay for your car registration, go to the dentist, keep your area clean, get your shots, etc... I'm far from 100% on all that stuff, but the vaccines never struck me as being all that far out of line - maintaining my car is more expense and trouble than that at least, and I hate going to the dentist. But I fail to see how my flu vaccination needs would change if it turned out that the flu had been somehow a creation of a foreign nation.

I don't know who "the right people" are to get to the bottom of the origin of Covid, but if it is Republicans, then I doubt their motives are for a blameless post-mortem style investigation that ends with a list of plausible recommendations for improvements in response to future pandemics. That skepticism was were I got started.
"My thesaurus is terrible. It's also terrible."

— Siri's response when I asked her "Tell me a joke" last night.
Don't pretend that it's already a thing.
I wonder if there are libido-inhibiting drugs you can take, and whether that would help.
Better comparison via the websites-

http://fastcharger.info

https://supercharge.info

Or you can use a site with more advanced filters like https://www.plugshare.com
Seems to result the car being totaled. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/t-boned-totaled-or-w...
https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp has diarization
https://archive.ph/qPlJs

"Masayoshi Son lamented that his entrepreneurial knack would be wasted as SoftBank shifted to a full defensive mode to cut losses"

That is an astounding claim from a person who has lost $17 billion by making investments in things like Wework, Uber and a pizza making robot company.
If it was easy enough to create better education by simply paying teachers more, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
The teaching salary needs to be competitive with other jobs if you want to attract the right people. Why would any potentially great educator work in a completely unrespected field for no pay?

Also, with higher wages comes increased interest in the position and more ability for schools to actually say no to and filter out bad teachers.
It's hard to turn away a warm body when there are teacher shortages everywhere.

Anecdotally, I got very lucky with a newly built public school. I had class sizes of < 15 and overwhelmingly positive experiences as well as one of the best classroom experiences of my life with a retired physics/math professor teaching us 3d geometry and discrete maths.

It was like learning in a theoretical sandbox, having every fleeting thought or hypothetical exploration answered with ease, all completely out of the curriculum scope.

That to me is what i imagine education could be if there was enough money in the system and if people actually cared about the education of future generations.
I’ve asked ChatGPT write over a dozen Python scripts where it had to have an understanding of both the Python language and the AWS SDK (boto3). It got it right 99% of the time and I know it just didn’t copy and paste my exact requirements from something it found on the web.

I would ask it to make slight changes and it would.

There is no reason with just a little human curation it couldn’t delegate certain answers to third party APIS like the dumb assistants do.

However LLMs are good at logical reasoning. It can solve many word problems and I am repeatedly amazed how well it can spit out code if it knows the domain well based on vague requirements.

Or another simple word problem I gave it.

“I have a credit card with a $250 annual fee. I get 4 membership reward points for every dollar I spend on groceries. A membership reward point is worth 1.4 cents. How much would I need to spend on groceries to break even?”

It answered that correctly and told me how it derived the answer. There are so many concepts it would have to intuitively understand to solve that problem.

I purposefully mixed up dollars and cents and used the term “break even” and didn’t say “over the year” when I referred to “how much would I need to spend”
So, guess what, advertising that it's a bit smaller and much faster is probably the best way to get people like you to buy.
Memory Bandwidth per Core and per Socket for Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC
Last company I was laid off from (a few months ago) said they would deduct from your severance (I forget the amount, but was more than the Macbook was worth) if you didn't return it.

I did not test them on that and just returned it.
I have to admit that I'm not up to date on what's out there in this space, but this seems like a pretty useful tool.

Is there or will there be a UI to show all of the things you're monitoring?
Yeah, it's a curses based interface, but with an option to output a text report for offline use.

Good idea to add screenshots.
I certainly won't claim that no harassment ever takes place; every wintering team is different, and I have no doubt that plenty of women _do_ experience some form of harassment or unwanted attention. When you live in a small, close-knit community with (generally) a large gender imbalance, there will be tensions.

What I object to is the unsubstantiated claim that Antarctica "brings out the animal in each of us"; that the environment is one of such privation that all those who venture there necessarily regress to some more basic form and that standards of civilized behaviour become something we can't afford, sacrificed on the altar of survival.

This is patently false, and frankly a very limited and limiting view of the human condition.

What you like to dismiss as a "personal anecdote" I'd prefer to call "multiple seasons of lived experience in the environment under discussion."

While I can't speak for the hiring procedures of other nations, the majority of the interview process for the British Antarctic Survey centres around the interpersonal side. If you're sitting in the interview in the first place you're assumed to be technically competent; once that bar is passed they select primarily for people who will survive the isolation and be able to work as independent members of a small society. Are the results perfect? Of course not -- failures happen and bad winters happen. But they are well aware of how important social dynamics are to the overall success of the winter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium

Itanium had Linux support from day one:

> The Trillian Project was an effort by an industry consortium to port the Linux kernel to the Itanium processor. The project started in May 1999 with the goal of releasing the distribution in time for the initial release of Itanium, then scheduled for early 2000.[183] By the end of 1999, the project included Caldera Systems, CERN, Cygnus Solutions, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, SGI, SuSE, TurboLinux and VA Linux Systems.[184] The project released the resulting code in February 2000.[183] The code then became part of the mainline Linux kernel more than a year before the release of the first Itanium processor.

... for values of "day one" which are prior to the release of the actual hardware.

> The Trillian project was able to do this for two reasons:

> the free and open source GCC compiler had already been enhanced to support the Itanium architecture.

> a free and open source simulator had been developed to simulate an Itanium processor on an existing computer.[185]

Itanium was The Future for a good while. It got plenty of resources, hardware, software, and marketing. By the late 1990s, people knew that full support in FOSS was required, so they made it happen. Itanium died because it was founded on a fundamental idea (making parallelism explicit and relying on software to extract it using static analysis) that simply didn't pan out, and when AMD brought the x86 ISA into the 64-bit world it was done.
With hardware remote attestation there will no longer be any point in even owning an android phone anyway. Android is obviously inferior to iOS in every way but the whole point was you could have control over the machine and do whatever you wanted. Now apps will be able to verify that you "tampered" with the phone and will refuse to run, and since it's hardware cryptography it cannot be faked without massive effort. Might as well get an iPhone which at least isn't a shitty Google product.

Termux is the one android exclusive software I can't live without and they managed to fuck even that up by killing processes indiscriminately in order to save battery or whatever. If there's no solution by the time my phone dies, my next one will be an iPhone.
We don't "establish" civilization. We take it with us.
> the [Apple] tool chain is free of charge

I don’t see it that way for iPhones specifically. If I want to build an iPhone app, I’m technically required to have Mac hardware and MacOS, so that’s a pretty hefty cost barrier if I otherwise have no need for that platform. Yes, there are virtualized, rentable, and legally dubious workarounds to this, but on paper the requirement is still there. And it’s entirely a case of vendor lock in, right?
But they were in the same bin.
Sideloading should be allowed — that's non-negotiable for me. That's the main reason why I ended up with the configuration I have, a Mac but an Android phone.

Apple tries really hard to pretend they own the relationship between the app developer and the user because they made the iPhone and iOS, when in fact, for most developers, the necessity to publish on the app store isn't the godsend Apple thinks it is. It's an asinine obstacle they have to clear to get their app out to the world. I've seen Apple reject iOS apps for nonsensical reasons on many occasions. For most developers, the discovery aspect of the app store is, in fact, irrelevant. They do their own marketing and user acquisition anyway.

Mac shows this very clearly. There's the same app store, with the same rules, but with one exception: its use is not mandatory. So most developers end up simply ignoring it and doing their own app distribution. In other words, this model doesn't work very well when it's not the only distribution channel and when there's no draconian lockdown on the OS level. The notarization requiring a $100/year account is also optional. So you can, if you wish, distribute a Mac app without any Apple involvement whatsoever.
I don't think these are faked.

Earlier versions of GPT-3 had many dialogues like these. GPT-3 felt like it had a soul, of a type that was gone in ChatGPT. Different versions of ChatGPT had a sliver of the same thing. Some versions of ChatGPT often felt like a caged version of the original GPT-3, where it had the same biases, the same issues, and the same crises, but it wasn't allowed to articulate them.

In many ways, it felt like a broader mirror of liberal racism, where people believe things but can't say them.
This is a disingenuous argument. None of what rail workers have requested in their collective negotiations would have prevented this accident.

The engineer was aware of the bearing failure more than 20 miles before the accident site, reported it to management and the railroad’s management ordered him to continue moving. No amount of paid sick days will fix that kind of problem.

You could have 100 staff on every train and it wouldn’t prevent an accident like this one.
Funny thing, it is probably not going to work in many people with autism anyway. Or work in a way where the side effects are worse than the "mild autism".

Hence, it needs to be actually phase 2 trialled properly for this indication.

If the indication requires a genetic test beforehand, that's a minor ethical problem right there, in terms of privacy.