skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a first year grad student, I had a professor in material science who gave the same assignments and mostly same exams every year. Of course a) I didn't know this b) using previous works was prohibited c) cheating was rampant. I only found this out after getting heavily marked down on the first HW and joining a study group which was moderately chaste (eg only used the answers to check our work before turning it in). Missing a single question on HW or the exam would drop your grade a letter, and three or more was likely D/F range. When I brought this up with the professor before the final he at least acted completely shocked as I asked how likely he thought it was that half the class never missed a question (yes half the class got As). Really weird conversation, but most of the class was undergrads, and I think they liked the easy grade with minimal work and so he got 'good ratings'.

Undergrad college had 'infinite time' and 'open everything but people' exams, but graded on a curve so that sometimes getting half the questions right was an A. Much more stressful, learned more, and basically no cheating.

Certainly, I had one CS class with a newly invented language (compiled). In the days of Fortran, Pascal, and K&R that was kinda par for the course. Not much cheating on that either.
You can set the power limit of the 3090 as low as 100W. It will slow it down a lot, but probably still decently faster than a T4.
LLM (and deep learning in general) are to AGI what bogosort is to sorting. For some reason beyond me people think it's very important to not try to understand anything about the structure of the problem you're trying to solve and just make a very general algorithm which will be suboptimal in just about every way except for the generality of it's code.

Seeing the world as a trillion dimensional token soup is definitely quite general and at the same time very very weak in terms of expressivity.
There's an extremely large body of literature and multiple fields of study that have voluminously documented this. Books, podcasts, journals, news articles, congressional records, caselaw, websites, documentaries, museums, conferences spanning decades, hundreds of billions in investments, countless hours of lectures, multiple fortune 500 companies, entire university departments...

Your personal enrichment isn't my responsibility and I feel as much obligation to defend this body of work as I have to defend Maxwell's equations or the Pythagorean theorem - that's kinda on you at this point. You're free to be a crank and I'm free to decline to engage. I do however, wish you success in your pursuit.
Well, I would rather say "composing music [or any other creative process] is roulette for copyright law"; your arguments are not specifically critical for generated art, but for art in general. At any point in time an artist could create a work which is similar to previous work (which is essentially unavoidable to some degree). The author of the previous work can take you to court if he/she assumes a copyright infringement (whether this assumption is justified or not); and how a court judges in such a case is indeed very often a game of chance; that's why copyright law, along with patent law, is such a popular field for trolls. In the U.S., it is at least possible for two artists to independently produce very similar works and still both be copyrightable (if the second artist can show that he/she did not simply copy); in other parts of the world this is not possible and the first artist prevails.

Anyway, in principle, the court does not care how an artist created a work. However, according to the law and current jurisprudence, the author must be a human being; creations by a machine are still not protectable by copyright; the artist could, of course, publish art created by AI under his/her name (algorithms have long been involved in many art forms). But if the result is a work that looks similar to an existing one, we are back to the case above.

And just as little as software developers know about copyright or its international treaties, so little do lawyers know about AI algorithms. This explains the peculiar nature of the discussions and the recent lawsuits mentioned in the text.
You should be able to run Ubuntu with a VM in Vagrant just fine in a M1 too, in MacOs, without Asahi.

It just needs to be ARM Ubuntu, not Intel Ubuntu.
Part of the merger plans include the spin-off plans. This is typical even in large mergers that aren't government negotiated.
Hong Kong - National Security Law ( https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/24/uk-net-migra... )

Delisted = immediate ban of any trade with China, since the country can't be found in software ( = trade ban)

Either way, it's not my intent to pursuade you.

I'll let you figure it out on your own.

Which country?
Bing up your ass

https://youtu.be/7GM4Lt5k24s
In a public big tech company your ownership is immaterial in terms of your influence on the direction of the company.

Presumably in a smaller private company with 100% insider ownership, it could be arranged that employees have more influence. For example, the employees could vote on board seats or raise and discuss issues at a General Meeting of the company’s shareholders.

This would presumably not be the case in VC-funded startups where the founders and VCs would choose the board and retain the lion’s share of equity and all nominal control.

In practice, in most companies that are not agency-style partnerships the insider ownership doesn’t really matter in terms of influence from what I’ve seen. In agency partnerships there is a dual class issue of partners and regular employees.

A private company with a BDFL who retains 50% + 1 control but has the minority stake dispersed among the rest of the employees seems like an interesting approach. The “B” comes into play in how the majority owner supports decision making. The “D” acts as a forcing function and guardrail to limit the effect of internal politics.
Bionic finger uses touch to “see” inside human tissue
I can't claim to understand everything my brain is doing, but accepting input and filtering it through a bunch of neuron chains to result in some kind of output sounds like "statistical analysis" to me.

You seem convinced that ChatGPT will never have "actual intelligence" — care to make a prediction about something that LLMs will never accomplish? We know they can write code, write essays, generate artwork, and play chess. What's a task that requires "actual intelligence"? Parenting a child? Running for President? Making a steak sandwich?
Just don't use rootless. You can still do user namespace containers (the real benefit to rootless, IMO) as a root user. I predict we will find all sorts of fun, niche security bugs that were made to get rootless containers working, especially networking--linux really doesn't like unprivileged changes to the networking stack.

If you already have sudo/root access for your user, rootless is just going to cause more problems.
This was once very common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid
Keeping the header and footer (eg menu links) synced across articles is the reason I use a generator
You can use adguard DNS and it'll block ads even in apps.

The only place I see overt ads now is sponsors on youtube channels. So far I've managed to avoid buying anything through those.
Art is creativity expressed under constraints.
What Is Abstraction in Computer Science? [and Why Does It Matter?]
// And yet so few of the executives I've worked for have had good communication skills.

This is very different than my experience (finance and FAANG) where the people I worked for were almost always excellent communicators able to line up hundreds or thousands of people to "row" in the same direction.

Another point of my own experience: I was always very technical, but iterating on my ability to communicate/lead has made me a thousand times more productive/ impactful.
Effective communication is extremely challenging, and increasingly so. Async remote communication, a must these days, is still so lacking. So many misunderstandings and oversights that way.

I wish there was more content about that, and less about this vague idea of "communication". It's much like telling people in relationships their problems are about communication, yes human life is about communication, now what can they actually do about it besides "talk more"?

Forcing a grammar extension to automatically fix spelling mistakes, or enforcing silly rules like "no emoji" doesn't do anything to improve communication - the opposite, it gives people the idea they're communicating well when they're still communicating the same exact way in a new style.
A good adventure game is hard to make difficult and satisfying I think. I remember having a lot of trouble with monkey island puzzles until I figured out the game “logic”. But once you do, all the clues are there and it’s great.

If I need to know about random facts or topics or whatever, that’s not hard. That’s just annoying or the author is trying to prove how much smarter they are than you.
The manufactured new normal. I feel you, anon.
"maxed out on its credit etc and is not happier"

I came to the conclusion that sustaining the status quo, and even growing modestly, doesn't require a huge amount of effort on average (relative to history, of course).

But doing new things does require huge effort. Inventions, discoveries, traveling, new engineering challenges, etc., all seem to take a lot of resources, and the relative share of that consumption seems to be increasing.

Lots of people complain about America, and with good reason. But America also does a lot of stuff and there's no denying that. America was heavily involved in almost any invention or advancement that comes to mind from the last hundred years. America is the dominant force in NATO, which seems to have a renewed sense of purpose after a non-NATO country was invaded. And America absorbs huge numbers of migrants for all kinds of reasons, and many of them turn out to be a lot more productive once here.

It's hard to imagine all of that happening if everyone was maximizing for happiness. I'm not saying that it's better than happiness, just that it seems America is maximizing something else.

(Disclaimer: of course resources are still wasted in pursuit of these other things, and there are externalities.)
Positioning a Synchro Receiver’s Shaft from a Terminal Window
Just a set of files? Awesome! I had no idea that unix itself was a static OS.
A SDK for creating blockchains more easily
Currently, the number of L1 and L2 blockchains is constantly increasing, but at the same time it's extremely complex to create a new blockchain from scratch. Wouldn't it be possible to consider a framework in the form of an SDK, for example, that offers all the necessary tools for creators of new blockchains? It could be similar to how React drastically simplified front-end development a few years ago.
the world has changed dramatically in only one year. these advancements in AI are talked about everywhere and by everyone.

in 2018 i warned people i knew and i wrote many comments online warning people that huge changes were coming. almost every single person on HN insisted that GTP was just a parlor trick because it would ramble sometimes, get stuck in loops and overall did not demonstrate the insane level of lucidity that it does now. almost every single person on HN would silently downvote my comments. almost every single HN user insisted that AI could never progress to where it is now. well here is my bittersweet vindication. watching people move the goalposts is like watching a supernova. its so powerful and unbelievable that it can only be compared to a force of nature.

commenting a sentiment that doesnt paint AI as harmless is like screaming into a hurricane. i dont even know why i bother anymore. but let me just say it: i think carmack made a great point when he said that the first AGI will be a bunch of lower AIs plugged into each other. GTP doesnt behave in a sentient way but it is very similar to more primitive parts of the mind. its like a persons intuition. dont be fooled by the limitations of any one model. whats important is the road we are on. and for the hundredth time i will scream into the wind: there absolutely is hope in the idea of preventing AI from progressing rapidly or even at all. to do so is absolutely necessary for us to preserve anything that we would consider a good life for future generations.

and i will offer a prediction. nobody will agree with me. but after a handful of explosive advancements in AI, everyone will agree with me.
Computer architecture used to be and imho was properly a part of electrical engineering.

“Computer science” was never really scientific. Algorithms, symbolic logic, natural languages, computational complexity, finite model theory and compilers, after that it’s what, grinding gears?

Can you name one significant experimental result in computer science? Nothing comes to my mind.
I don't know why they would want to pay for it either. I'm just reacting to the BS strategy of anchoring the reader to $11 (+99 cents) instead of $12. It's sad to me that this works, and FB shows itself (again) as a company that prefers to exploit something that works rather than set a higher standard.
And! Lots of infrastructure projects were designed to enforce redlining or to break up political power bases of previously marginalized minorities that were starting to gain power. UIUC and the Dan Ryan were plopped down where they are for those ends.
The story is that they want out, not the wealth that enables buying citizenship.
I am intimately involved in online advertising. 500k+ monthly revenue from Google alone (1 of several dozen partners in our stack). Advertising had been changing but the advertisers and the SSPs and the DSPs are changing with it. All is well.

https://adrevenueindex.ezoic.com/
Remember, that’s for a highly customised setup, for a normal preconfigured desktop distro you’ll need a lot less
It sounds like those executives had exceptional communication skills—they know who to spend their time on that will help them get the next promotion, and as an underling/individual contributor, you’re not it. And yet they’re executives, which means that someone else is really liking what they’re saying, otherwise they wouldn’t be in that position.
I’m pretty sure they can do under the banner of fan fiction if they don’t seek to profit off it.
Yeah I think you should definitely go for it. I was hesitated for a long time as well but decided to just throw myself into it & use it as a learning experience. After about two years, I got myself a very basic browser & ton of useful knowledge about browsers & their quirks.

It wasn't an easy journey but I really enjoy it.
I'm not sure. Bright children might indeed notice some things and ask questions about them. My childrens' first encounter with Matilda was via me reading it to them, at the ready for any questions they might have had, and also (great nerd that I am) probably trying to provoke questions and answer ones that were never asked.

This is a difficult topic. It's complicated.
The Dead Juice Character of AI Generated Content
An essay on intentionality and meaning in speech, and what that means for interacting with AI content.
Can you point to where the thinking happens in a human?
There are current open source projects working on training their own LLMs.

I'm aware of one very credible one that has applied for a TPU grant from Google worth under $200K to train the whole model.

I think laion.ai will probably get their first with their fleet of A100s though.
Tax evasion. Why did ABBA wear such funny looking garments? - also tax evasion.
Well 'relatively', what I mean is it's still Stripe right, I'm no insider but I'm sure they'd have no trouble raising it as debt on decent almost traditional/established company ish terms. It's not the same as random fledgling startup seeks 10%.
Look at the forest. Trees are companies. Canopies are their sales. Ads are the trunks.

If all trees were forced to halve the length of their trunks nothing would change but a lot of resources would be saved.
Actually, I believe TurboTax has successfully lobbied congress so that it's illegal for the IRS to do that.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
A lot of historical (fictional) criticism of the Right has been criticism of authoritarianism rather than conservatism per se, because the extant or expected instances of authoritarianism were on the right. V for Vendetta is a great example.

To a large extent, it's probably more about the right (however you want to define it) being the historical establishment. In 2002, V for Vendetta made a lot of sense.

With the left as the current establishment and vector for authoritarianism, the same criticisms apply to them.

So I don't think it's really helpful to get caught up in the political alignment, it's more about where the power is.
That's just bad advice. You can mount HFS+ from Linux just fine.
At Marriott they don’t charge resort fees for corporate rates.
Yes and yes. It’s still business as usual and I’m happy to work as long as they’ll allow.
Which is odd because in every other language that uses let (lisp, scheme, swift, rust, scala/kotlin val, haskell, etc.), let bindings are const and let is synonymous with const.
An LLM will never be able to produce something that cannot be statistically derived from its training data.

So... creating a new language, maybe?
Stem cell transplantation is usually performed by bone marrow transplant, which is a pretty risky procedure: it involves destroying the recipient's own bone marrow to introduce the donor bone marrow, which can leave the recipient without significant numbers of white blood cells for a while, making them extremely vulnerable to infection.

In contrast, HAART for HIV is far less risky and far more safe, allowing people with HIV to live basically a normal life as long as their viral loads stay at undetectable limits.
"communication" is like "engage your core" - everyone says it, you know it's good, but you don't know what it means until you know what it means.

And unfortunately there are things in life that you can't just "teach" in a linear way. You have to be curious and self driven.

One example - let's say you and Bob always miscommunicate. Like you think you agree on something but weeks later it turns out you disappointed each other. What's your reaction? "Bob's a weird asshole?" Or is it more "I am curious, why does this always happens with Bob and me? Let me ask him. Let me ask others." Then you may actually have a chance to figure it out.
“Latinx is used only by the people educated at America’s most elite schools”
There's a lot more nuance there, but my summary would be: pax team created grsecurity patches which are awesome, they come as a big bundles rather than separate patches for each part, and are a bit disruptive - you need to know why you want them / are they worth it. Upstream doesn't want huge bundles, pax doesn't want to invest time in splitting them up and fighting with upstreaming each one separately. There's some external effort in the last years to chip away the most important ones, (KSPP, Popov Kees) but it's slow. In the meantime pax provides grsecurity as consultancy.

Again - I skipped lots of details.
On Not Taking Money for NetNewsWire
The lawsuit that could change California math education
> Public school math curriculum at Palo Alto and San Francisco for middle and high school shows some similarities: both have implemented a math detracking initiative — ceasing the separation of students by academic ability for reasons of equity.

If I were a talented minority student that could've joined the fastest track in my school and mastered algebra 2 before grade 8, yet I couldn't because my school detracked and my family couldn't afford tutoring. Should I thank my school for the sake of "equity"? On the the other hand, the kids in my class who could get tutoring would get ahead. And that is more equitable for me, why?

It looks the left think that to achieve equity is to pull everyone down instead of lifting some people up. As a result, those with means will find a way to go up anyway, and those without will be harmed. I have a hard time imagining that the school boards couldn't see this logic. Or did I miss something?
grass is always greener =) I remember watching the movie Good Bye Lenin! (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301357/) and thinking how nice things would be if we had just one choice for every product in the supermarket, so I wouldn't research each one and what made them different, and decide which I wanted, only to have them disappear. I get why products made by a state enterprise with no regard to performance or consumer reception would make for a bad time, though. Store generic/"white label" brands do somewhat meet this niche. But I dig that minimalist, text or line drawing only esthetic!
Not as far as I can see.

The the article doesn’t say anything about people ‘wanting out’. It discusses the controversial practice of wealth buying citizenship.

This is the only reason given in the article:

> many of the millionaires and billionaires who want this kind of passport are trying to escape crimes" such as tax evasion and money laundering.
Just tell students to use it like they might use StackOverflow or even a textbook. It might help you to learn, but it's not safe to try to just use it to give you the answer. You need to know the topic better than the machine does, because it will lie to you like nobody's business and doesn't care if it does.
I have MacOS 13.2.1 and it's definitely not completely fixed -- but better.

I did a ping test against my home router and I still get about 10% packet loss. Much better than the 40% when I first plugged it in.
Nope. But I don't have to do that to understand that LLMs do not assess truth or accuracy of anything.
I read them. It's doesn't say that.
>How many people here see any ads?

Almost everybody, day-in, day-out, Adblock or not.

Not to mention HN being an ad for YC, and featuring posts-as-ads for YC companies...
Usually the bing/eureka phase happens in the loo for me, for some reason.

Maybe it's just when I'm stretching my legs in general, be it to get a coffee or refill the water bottle or during a walk in nature.
The answers aren't right at all... Answer to question 4 is clearly bogus as another commenter (Dfiesl) pointed out. But question 5 is also wrong. It's not unclear, from the conversation we can deduce that Ana thought that Maria is pregnant, otherwise she wouldn't have said it, unless she intentionally wants to make Maria uncomfortable, which is an unusual set of circumstances. What's more is, that possibility would be inconsistent with the answer to Q4 ("trying to make conversation").

Test failed?
I can't have my database on a separate Linux box? Seems odd to insist on either precisely one server or go straight to container orchestration.

That said, I agree with you about the other generalisations!

EDIT: actually, where do PaaSes fit into this taxomony? I'd argue that level 2 is actually the PaaS level. You might choose an edge PaaS (Workers), distributed (Fly.io), or centralised (Elastic Beanstalk) depending on your needs. But ultimately this level is: "I write code, you run it". FaaSes are a subset of PaaS providers which focus on stateless models, but there's no reason you can't combine FaaS for your code with a managed database offering.
If they are employees they can negotiate a living wage. They all should band together and ask more if it is not livable.

In fact, we all should stop to frequent places that exploit employees by not paying them a livable wage. And if the solution to this means an increase in price, so be it.

The defense of 'they might be contractors', which rent a seat for a fixed price or on a % revenue sharing with the salon is even more ridiculous.

They are contractors, so they have all the means to set their own price.
That's cool! How does it work? Results were surprisingly good.
The costs and problems of using public and government data