skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that's why everyone just ignores this approach even though it makes a lot more intuitive sense.

- No one ignores the correspondence between QFTs and stochastic processes (which is what I assume you're talking about, since the claim that QED is just Monte Carlo is extremely false if taken literally), any halfway decent intro QFT class will cover it.

- It only "makes more intuitive sense" because you've papered over all the gory details. There's very little intuitive or natural about analytic continuation in C^{\infty}, for instance.
Interestingly, Zeno had said the exact opposite, a hundred years earlier -- that since a 'whole' could be divided into an infinite number of smaller 'parts', which themselves could be divided ad infinitum, that these infinite parts when summed up must be far greater than the whole. Which was the basis for nearly all of his popular paradoxes.

(And then Newton and Leibnitz, some two millennia later, spoiled everybody's fun by developing the integral calculus such that whole categories of amusing philosophical conundrums became utterly mundane mathematical word problems with rigorously defined correct answers)
Ah, thank you for pointing this out, it all makes a lot more sense to me now. The table in the paper alone was a giant red flag for me.
Baking with ChatGPT
I don't want to use Cloudflare.
Why would Elon Musk say something so controversial, yet so brave
Anyone who have done even a bit of web development have come across CSS Tricks. Wish you good luck!
I wonder how good the best language models are at detecting bs.

So many experiments to run...
Similarly as when an individual takes down an unproportionally large part of a process (eg factory worker taking down the entire production line), this is the fault of the gallery that failed to secure the piece properly. Since about 800 of this dog is made, the cynically minded could think this was intentional for some publicity. It was insured, there are people wanting to buy the pieces, etc.
The author explained the ownership and move semantics, but NOT why it "click" for him/her.

I understand what the claims advantages of Rust are, but I can't understand those cult-like passions.
Yeah, exactly, that’s what my paraphrased comment was about.
asking his readers to trust him and his single source, with no hard facts presented
I pay the equivalent of USD $420 every ten years to have government-issued ID. Facebook wants to charge me $12 a month, for them to look at this ID once. That is $1440 over 10 years. The two services offered are pretty similar: check it once, issue a stamp of approval, then administer that system over time. Why is Facebook's service 3.5x the price?
Do you have examples of good images made this way available to the public? I've only ever seen it used sloppily with the intent of hiding bad composition using a fancy technical effect, so it'd be really nice to see something else!
Not really sure what this is supposed to be about, but I was talking about IBM Research[1].

As Wikipedia notes, 6 Nobel prizes and 6 Turing awards is just the start. This has very little to do with OS/360 or anything - instead they were inventing scanning tunneling microscope[2] or Fortran[3].

I'm sure I'd be able to give a better list, but the Watson research center website[4] is down for me....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Research

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_tunneling_microscope

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran

[4] https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_page.php?i...
From the article -

> "This kind of thing unfortunately happens, that is why the artwork was covered by insurance"
Hi ChatGPT
It just makes no sense, Russia didn't need to blow up the pipelines, they could just turn off the supply. In fact, they lost a substatial negotiating ability (being able to turn the gas back on) with the explosions.

As always, follow the money. USA are now the fracking gas suppliers to Europe, and have cut European 'dependence' on Russia (aka a modicum of independence from USA) which they'd been bleating about for a long time.
Truth is everchanging. Twitter is the Internet's source of truth provided it keeps the top half of users closer to the truth. Elon M isn't the kind of CEO to short change investors or users. Investing $5B in Elon M goes further than escooters will ever.
What details are clearly incorrect?

Also he only quotes a single anonymous source. He has stated before that he verifies info from multiple sources, and goes to great lengths to protect sources, so it is very likely that there are more but that he cannot give details without endangering them.

https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/162628975702088089...
Which AI?
It's funny, now that I think about it. That tournament is also where I was told some techniques after-the-fact that might have led me to win a match against a brown belt, who was not yet 18 and therefore we weren't technically in the same class. Our weight was about the same, but he was younger and had a lot more experience in Judo. He had also forgotten to bring his cup, so I agreed not to do certain throws.

Most of the match was him trying to throw me, and my natural defenses being good enough that he couldn't quite manage it. And then I'd try to throw him and his trained defenses were much better. And so we would kind of drag each other down onto the mat, and that latter would continue -- his trained attacks weren't quite good enough to get through my natural defenses, and my attacks were not remotely close to good enough to get through his trained defenses.

Ultimately, his training won out, because he knew of more ground attacks than I did, and he managed to get me into situations I couldn't get out of. And he did that three times in a row.

After the match, my teacher told me if I had not attempted to attack but had instead gone more defensive, I probably could have changed tack and easily walked him out of the ring, which would have automatically caused him to lose. But then we agreed that wouldn't have been a very sporting win.

Nevertheless, I was technically the winner of the heavyweight adult class in that tournament, simply by showing up. But it was fun doing a demo match with this brown belt, even though it didn't impact who won which weight class.

Unfortunately, that was the only fun thing that happened at that Dojo.
How the Guardian saw the 20th century (2014)
Randomized versus historical controls for clinical trials
That’s disturbing. What if you don’t have an account?
Is there maybe a linter you can use with C and then use as a required status check on merge requests in GitHub / Gitlab?
Interesting that my anti-war reply gets flagged over here. Can't have anyone critical of wars allowed to speak out. Nor can certain extremist ideological movements with a history of mass destruction, whose current activities are well documented, be acknowledged. I believe that answers your question...
What's fucked up is that the average Mexican line cook who doesn't speak english contributes more to the world than an MIT-trained McKinsey consultant making 10x as much.
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> Can any of these be conclusively ruled out?

Of course not. It's a fallacy to think it is possible.

Even in the case where someone claims to have been the party that did it and produced documentary evidence showing it the political environment dictates that other parties will claim it is fake or a false flag.
Zuck needs protection from foreign governments, spy agencies and prying hedge funds or just from anyone that could profit/benefit from harming or spying on him.
> ex post facto (laws cannot apply retroactively)

Funny enough, deportation is regarded as a civil matter and thus the ex post facto clause does not apply here. Nothing in the constitution prevents the U.S. from deporting him to Antarctica. https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C3-3-...

Whether or not Superman is illegal or not, he is at least undocumented. And given the historical context and the authors, it's not a stretch to say that Superman is, in part, the story of a refugee trying to make it in America. Which is something than many people described as "illegal immigrants" identity with.
What are the obvious reasons it can't be USA? Seems to me there is nothing obvious about this incident besides the fact that it benefits the USA strategically and economically.
Though this is moving background, not moving camera.
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Looks like it was Midjourney.
> no impact on climate change

Less impact, surely. Not zero impact.
Well on the side of the Americans doing it, we have a reputable western journalist citing their anonymous sources saying it was the Americans and Norwegians, the Americans in the past having actively vowed to stop Nordstream 2 if Russia invaded Ukraine, and the Americans have the abundantly clear motive of kneecapping the Russian economy, while increasing the value of their own oil exports.

On the side of the Russians doing it - the Russians total lack of motive proves it was them. Blowing up your own pipeline is so incredibly stupid and self defeating that people will always doubt you did it, making it the perfect false flag attack! Imagine how inspired the Russians are to support this war now that a piece of inanimate infrastructure blew up with a heavily indirect impact on their day to day lives! Plus the Germans will suspect America because of the Russians total lack of motive.
It can’t be = You can’t have official proof.
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`pip install replbuilder`

Making a small tool for easier repl building, no more manual argument parsing. Perfect for creating ops tools and other context heavy cli operations.
When you consider the other things that have been going on it would be but Russia is going to make sure they have a chain of deniability. Would the West go to war over something that doesn't cause mass public outage and they can't pin on Russia with a high degree of certainty? I doubt it.

Actually whoever did it it seems like the best course of action for Europe is to not talk about it. Russia, USA, Ukrainian terrorists it doesn't really matter.
If you want to run it locally, the Automatic1111 repo that was mentioned does have most up-to-date models, but it's also messy and breaks often. But is your GPU up to the task?
Wow I’m honored you were provoked by my comment and wrote such a thoughtful response!
I've always defended the much-disliked fake Mandarin character from Iron Man 3, Trevor Slattery, on the basis that he is basically the man Tony Stark would've been were it not for the latter's genius and indomitable will. Both characters share the same vices: women, booze, and a vastly overinflated ego, but Slattery is weak and allows himself to be pushed around by greater, sinister forces. Whereas Stark not only refuses to be pushed around, but he does have that inner moral compass, even if ruthlessly following his own ethics leads to trouble (that whole Ultron initiative, for instance).
This is stock Firefox with DNS level blocking of crap.
Looks like sampling on the dependent variable.
„undefined behavior“
This sounds like the equivalent of Typescript for C.
As an organizational scheme for approximate numerical calculations, the path-integral formulation is fine. But path integrals can't serve as a rigorous foundation for QFTs, because for the most part they don't actually exist. The high-frequency behavior Woit describes is one obstacle; the fact that no infinite-dimensional Lebesgue measure is possible is another. There are others.

Presumably there's some mathematical object out there that captures all the data a path integral ought to have without its pathologies, but no one knows what it is yet.
Essentially we have another story of people being offered equity compensation in a non-public company as though it were real compensation. Now they're even potentially being hit with tax liability for that equity despite having no way to realize the income.

This sounds like stripe does not actually have the cash to cover the withholding even then, and if they can't I think that means the employees are getting $X of "income" being taxed on that, and then having to put some significant % of that value aside, from their own assets, to cover that tax burden. Because stripe insisted on equity compensation with no method for equity compensation to have a non zero real world value despite its non zero tax value? "cool" I really hope stripe's equity compensation is a significant multiple of other companies to make up for this ... if they ever actually go public. Otherwise the "equity" remains fictitious zero value BS.
Odd, the article so confidently says it's an accident over and over, but other reports [1] [2] say she touched it on purpose.

Is the owner of the gallery district manager here simply lying for insurance purposes?

[1] https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/oops-woman-accidentally-br...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/arts/jeff-koons-sculpture...
The problem with Elon's crusade is that he still fundamentally believes that "truth" is something outside of human production, something which is there to be discovered if only we could assemble enough good people to do it. The uncomfortable reality is truth is merely social consensus, which is usually reached through repetition and reinforcement of the approved narrative, and the application of sufficient social costs to those who hold dissenting views.
If you had PG&E in California you know this is specifically untrue. Tons of solar, soaring power cost inflation for everyone.
Might as well also consider the possibility that they weren't damaged at all then too.
That's unlikely to work. The memory has to be fast with low latency, even switching from on-board VRAM to system RAM slows performance at least 10-100x. The bottleneck isn't computing power it's I/O. Total bus bandwidth of a common small AI cluster is around 1 terabyte per second.

We really shouldn't be building an "open source" AI in the first place though, and it's going to be illegal to do so soon. The weaponization power will be made clear soon and that will justifiably spook everyone.
I personally don’t think it’s Russia(I think it’s Poland).

However the theory Russia did it or rather a sect of the Russia’s power structure did it is definitely plausible.

Many hardliners in the government saw the pipeline as a tool to negotiate with the West and a way out of the full scale war many hardliners are calling for. Blowing the pipeline has backed Putin into a corner.

The moderates on the other hand see the same thing as well. This forces Putin into a corner and weakens him considerably if the war goes badly (it was/is).

The only person who didn’t want the pipeline blown up was Putin himself. His power structure all had something to gain if the pipes were blown.

Many people say “well Russia wouldn’t do that” and they’re already wrong. Russia’s motives are not singular they are plural. There are competing groups within the Kremlin that are held together by Putin, not a singular will of Russia.
Trying to produce more Ramanujans by recreating the conditions of his childhood seems about as likely to work as trying to produce more cargo flights by waving landing signals around on a runway.
hopefully the existing content will remain online/preserved?
Yeah the comments arguing about missing ship data make no sense, of course the perpetrators would have tried to cover their tracks.
The first one they had to do for real to know how to build the staging for the later fakes.
Me too! I remember looking at that page endlessly in around 2014 when my then boss decided that flexbox was in wide enough use that we could use it.

The diagrams made it extra useful.
And lack of competition? Even if they are huge players I am sure they are basically kept hostage of their server chip providers. There is not much to choose from.
He didn't fail to consider that, he just didn't consider that, because he had no reason to consider that, just like he didn't consider the orbit of Pluto or the phases of the moon.

If you think he should have considered and controlled for something, say why explicitly.
Thank you, let me know if you have suggestion and how whether you can apply it to your work.
Anyone else is free to implement the same thing. Even extracting the hash doesn't matter if it can't be compared across individual devices.
Computer Science is not about learning to make software, although it is usually a byproduct, as strong understanding of fundamental allows you to design software correctly from the first principle. Programming; however, is usually done through training at work.

Computer Science is about understanding what computation can and cannot achieve, and more importantly, how to achieve it (that is where it differs from Mathematics, where mathematicians are usually not interested in the how part). Under this definition, we can put typical college subjects into consideration:

* Data Structures and Algorithms: about studying how to manipulate data to solve a task efficiently.

* Complexity Theory: about formal classification of hardness of problems. What makes a computational problem "hard" or "easy"?

* Computer System: about how to construct a software system to achieve certain purposes. What are the constraints in a system (performance, security, privacy, correctness, fault tolerance, etc), and how to design a system to address such constraints? What tradeoffs to be made when you cannot meet all the desired requirements?

* Distributed System: how to design system with a few to massive number of computers that are connected in a network? How do you reason about fault tolerance, consistency, sharding, and so on?

* Operating System: about how to create abstraction to the hardware, that allows for other softwares to interact with it without having to explicitly deal with the hardware?

The list could go on, but I just give a couple of examples.
I’ve seen them used for hardware register access a lot. But there were usually a separate set of header files for when you are not using GCC/Clang - I didn’t look at those
Yikes, that's just begging to get knocked over
Is there like a "temperature" setting you can change? And set it to 0 to produce less flickering?
Infra at large companies becomes platform engineering. Things like dev tools, internal tooling and deployments is the domain of infra. Using AWS is also not a get out of jail free card, you still need people who understand how to operate the services.
1. Build sufficient capacity for an initial batch of users;

2. Invite a batch of users;

3. Amplify your invitation;

4. Project future growth;

5. Keep capacity up to match growth;

6. Don't scare off your users.
This is a good question, but if you look at it closely, Cloudflare seems to be the only company advocating for attestation schemes for the web.

It’s almost as if the conspiracy theory of Cloudflare acting as an arm of the US government and helping in the centralization of the internet is actually true.
It's difficult to argue in circumstances where some elements of his story that appear to make it less likely are said to be untrue in order to defend that story.

Notably there doesn't appear to be any reason for him to claim it was a single source when he could equally have claimed he verified it with multiple sources (even if there was only one additional source. It's no less untrue, right?)

I think in these circumstances you can only look at Hersh's record. Since the turn of the millennium it really isn't very good. With the exception of the Abu Ghraib story (which he wasn't alone in breaking) I don't think any of his major stories have turned out to be true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh

(He was also very lucky to avoid publishing forged claims about Kennedy in the late 1990's).
Also, assuming it is LA, what about earthquakes? Several other sculptures on podiums there...
Here is my example. In the last two weeks I have rewritten, from scratch, one of my genomics pipelines which can analyse 1000 clinical exomes in a few hours to return candidate genetic causes of rare disease.

* 42 scripts/programs.

* 3694 lines of code.

* Several languages.

* Process raw fastq data up to germline variant calling.

* Using high-performance computing cluster.

* Process vcf data into clinical variant interpretation.

* Options for custom filtering strategies.

* Statistical analysis and logs.

* Replaced several mainstream tools that are difficult to manage.

Final results:

1. This work was ~6-10x times faster.

2. I probably would not have rewritten this better version as it would have taken too long.

3. Instead of getting stuck at any difficult impasse I can get context-specific alternatives and testable example code.
> And, code performance is, as you say, part of test performance. If the tests take too long, perhaps the code needs to be improved.

Yes. I mentioned this is in the last section. When test-performance is alright, typically you don't need to optimize code anymore.

For me, optimizations in the "code performance" category are for example trading off a generalist API for a more complicated tweaked version that reaches into details and enables caching. The kinds of optimizations game developers do where they make the code less general and pretty, but more performant.

> OTOH, I have got a few test suites that run for 30 minutes or more, just because the search space is so big. But that's code that only needs to be tested once.

What are these suites testing?
I thought it was all the people reading the domain as "Expert Sex Change" and being infuriated when they discovered it had nothing to do with gender reassignment.
Hah I love this. It's a quaint blend of modern and old

DJGPP and Allegro really gave DOS powers it didn't have

Good times but I certainly enjoy the convenience of modern OSs
They want to make these things mandatory at some point. The frog must be boiled ever so slowly.
And he’s been there since CSS-tricks was bought in april ‘22 if I read the blogposts correctly?
Thanks for the kind response. I actually generated that comment by feeding parts of the article into ChatGPT and asking it the previous comment.

If you would like to ask it more things about this article I have it searchable here:
https://app.conifer.chat/threads/37321fdc-6a04-4c56-a857-21b...
It is mostly the unbanked who have no credit. College track kids often get their first credit in the form of student loans or low limit student credit cards.

There are plenty of places that rent without credit checks. Where do you think all the people with no credit (or no SSN!) live? It might not be on the nice side of the tracks, though.
Midjourney is a proprietary model so I don't feel like there are any useful teaching moments coming from this post. You won't be able to find out how it does anything.

One interesting thing I noticed recently is their model isn't well calibrated. ie prompting with an empty string generates very specific artstation/deviantart style character portraits.
Often Occams razor applies to these potentially murky situations.

The Minerva tracks are from September, and to me look like they are scanning for something, rather than laying anything in a specific location. Possibly the Russians had a tip-off or spies informing that the pipes were mined.

The story might actually be partly true, except it was the US who feared a pipe inspection, and so detonated the evidence.
Sad to see this happen. Geoff, if you're reading this, please let me glom on to your next thing.
Naw, I'm in a big city. I'm toast.
Can you explain where "tbgs genTargetPercentage" comes from? Googling it just brings up your own comment.
In retrospect I forgot that people will also sign up on levels.fyi or blind to brag about compensation. Yeah I would love to lurk, but not at the potential cost of my job.