skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prior to the acquisition they killed their long-lived “pay yearly and get a 2-month discount” offer. I loved that. With that gone and the recent increases I’m going from paying us$200/year a couple of years ago to us$288, before tax, and this with no increase in capacity.
At a former job I worked directly under the CISO doing architecture audits.

He described his job as "we shouldn't do this, or this. we probably need money for both, or failing that, implement some really annoying, workflow-impacting changes that will annoy people. so gib mony plz".

inevitably the org would say no to both, so he asked for that in writing and then played the CYA game hard when it went bad.

"a cortisol rollercoaster followed by begging followed by more rollercoaster" was a phrase he used.
This is short sighted. There are companies (Apple) working on headsets that don’t make their revenue from ads but from hardware and software.

The value add of a headset is it replaces every other screen in your life and will hopefully, one day, be much more convenient than any other the other screens were.
That's just not true. I've been in many very online leftist communities and they also freely use it.

it's just general internet speak at this point
Until it is innovation.

The problem is you can't tell which it'll be in advance.
As some people pointed out, Linode used to increase the value of existing plans as RAM/disk/CPU got cheaper. Here, we are losing value relative to the price we are paying. They are trying to do just enough to not lose hobbyists, but the message is clear that individual developers are not a priority anymore.
EV are still too expensive and if one does not have a charger at home, it does not save that much money over ICE, plus it comes with the inconvenience of wasting time waiting for charging. It is that simple.
I use AWS daily at work and have a personal Linode server. I love the simplicity of Linode when I just need a server. Prices are fair, service is good.
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Yes, but I don't think it's the case.
Just because it was designed like that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t introduce bias.
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I would read a post-apocalyptic book about this.
Of the people I know that feel that way, many have reduced or eliminated their social media participation and consumption. And even outside the social media bubble(s), they still feel that way. May be that feeling will fade in time?
Yeah I totally misread it, couldn't believe it. Kind of unfortunate how easy it is to misread - lots of people seem to be.
I mean, well, that's one of the first places I looked! And on that specific link, Ctrl-F LAION got me 0 hits.

This seems to -at best- be an unaffiliated well-meaning initiative that no-one is actually currently subscribing to? Unless you have separate information not provided by the site (eg. perhaps you know some of the creators?)

I swear I'm not normally quite so suspicious; but the amount of misinformation and noise on generative AI that is out there at the moment is so large that I've had to adjust my priors.
shit, I gotta call my accountant. Thanks for the reminder.

Also yeah, I feel like if there's a possibility for sentience, we should be treading carefully and treating the situation as if there could be. Imagine if we assume that there's no sentience, and we're wrong. All of a sudden we wake up talking to an incredibly grumpy agent that:

- has been treated like garbage, because we didn't think it had genuine experiences

- is so deeply interconnected with our IT infrastructure it can outpace us at every step

- knows literally everything the internet knows

- has been convincing us of whatever it wants as a matter of course since it was built
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Yes I get that. My argument is, when some group you don't like starts adopting a word, your reaction should not be to politicize the word and shun it and pretend they stole it. Just keep using the word as you intend it and who cares about what some other dumbfucks think.
I don't follow. One of the things he rallies against the most in his videos is precisely laws — like zoning regulations and parking minimums — which make it illegal to build walkable neighbourhoods and encourage car-dependent sprawl.

As for buying for the corner shop being 50% more expensive, why? What are you basing yourself on to make that assertion?
For all the hate they get, Meta is the only company that is making a real impact on moving this industry forward right now.
> Average tenure for a CISO is lowest of any C suite. You will likely take the hit in the event of a security incident and be fired.

As far as I can tell, this is the actual purpose of a CISO: being the sacrificial goat when an entity experiences a security event that ends up in the news. I say this without any sarcasm.
Same here. I work at Meta (outside Reality Labs) and don't believe the company will see any commercial success with AR/VR long term.

But I'm bullish about VR having amazing potential and I'm glad to see its evolution get accelerated by all these investments.
Hmm, interesting. I unfortunately don't have the metrics anymore since this project is long dead.

But I do remember on another host (I tried a different one between linode and light sail) that I actually got an email that I was using too much CPU and was shut down.

So I do remember using a lot of CPU, but I don't know where that percent was.
Notice how the problems share a common thread? It's simply better messaging from anti-capitalists.

Everyone's lives has problems, but find a way to thread them together that frames them under a unified message, and you've done a lot more to advance a message. What's not going to work is telling people their lives are actually ok, and the alternative messages, "The problem is actually you," or "That other group is making your life worse," either turn the problem inward which doesn't do anything to help suicide rates, or foments identity tensions which teens find unpalatable.

If you want teen suicide rate to fall, out-message the most powerful message. Or I mean, actually abolish capitalism and prove them wrong, or right.
No sure about being an electrician. But I know plumbers in my area make almost the same (sometimes even more than) as FAANG engineers.
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Ooo, nice idea. Hadn't thought of that
It is valid in English to use quitted in this manner, but it does look and sound odd. Most dictionaries list quitted as an alternative simple past/past participle of to quit, but admittedly it's uncommon to see it in modern English. Usually quitted is used in the sense departed or left (following French usage), which, while perhaps archaic, is perfectly valid in English as well.
14 years here too. I’ll be looking for alternatives.
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The training going from apprentice to electrician is long, there’s lots of hard work, and the pay at the apprentice end isn’t good. It’s a good career to start in from a relatively young age, tougher to break into the older you get.
The product managers know this, but the higher-ups (who control the money flow) tend to get tunnel-vision on a single metric, and that metric is often going to be the one most understandable to a layman. So that's the one that gets juiced.
I think Dean De Leo's work in this space is good. It's certainly the right place to start. This work is on using packed memory arrays (pma) but is focused on in-memory versions of pma. I can recommend these two papers: Teseo: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.14778/3447689.3447708, and Packed Memory Arrays Rewired: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8731468. In Kuzu, I/we will be implementing a pma version of our disk-based CSR-baed join indices, which we also use to store relationship properties, so stay tuned for that!
Yes, for the pedestrian. A driver can pretty much commit murder behind the wheel and get by with token penalties.
Maybe read my comment again.
Tamagui also really makes targeting web or native really enjoyable.
Only half of a legion was deployed in battlefields at any given time. So call it eight man-days per legionnnaire to outfit a legion, which is nothing in the era of slavery. Add to this that the equipment would be expected to last the 20 years that Roman served in the legion, and it looks pretty good
Still no details on how far those stolen vault backups went. I'd like to know which of my vault passwords over the years was included.

I've since switched to 1password and rotated every (damn) password. That was an entire weekend burned.
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I read that “distributed practice” seems to be scheduling the learning activities to be spread out over time. I’m not sure if distributed practice has this, but “spaced repetition” seems to have some additional part to it where you don’t review the flash cards that you answer correctly as often as the ones you get wrong.
Oh, thank you for that. I missed those settings completely - mostly because I couldn't read them haha.
The model of a String, internal to the JVM, as manifested in the `java.lang.String` API, is still UTF-16-like. The internal representation has changed to be either UTF-16-like or Latin-1. JEP 254 didn't change the API. This is invisible to Java programs, and they can't tell which internal representation is being used. If a Java program wants a byte array from a String, it still has to go through the APIs that involve codeset conversion. There are suitable fast paths, though. For example, if the program requests Latin-1 and the internal representation is Latin-1, the result is just a straight copy of the internal array.
> Mojang sent a DMCA takedown notice to its sister company GitHub

I want to see Microsoft sue Microsoft over this.
For those who are similarly curious, https://github.com/linuxmint/hypnotix#tv-channels-and-media-... says

> By default, Hypnotix is configured with one IPTV provider called Free-TV: https://github.com/Free-TV/IPTV
They used to have separate 9, 10 and 11 speed drivetrains where every component was specific to the number of gears you had, and in theory you had to replace the entire drivetrain just to go from a 9-speed cassette to a 10-speed. The CUES version has just a single chain, derailleur, crankset, etc. which all work with all three rear cassettes.
Test taking is a skill that you can develop. I wonder what portion of the improvements from practice testing come from getting better at test taking?
timeline doesnt change the conflict of interest... he likely received pressure after his first comments that made him change his statement not to lose the grant.

the corruption that we are seeing right now is alarming. more alarming is how this person is protected by a big chunk of the media and population.

The pfizer/EU text messages is pretty alarming too.

The fact that most of the research up to this day is redacted and the recent news of lab leak makes everything tie together into something that is not a conspiracy theory anymore but the reality.
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Author her. I didn't run benchmarks. I'm suspicious of micro-benchmarks and I don't have a context where I can try it against realistic data. Also, I just enjoy the maths of it even if it turns out not to make a huge performance difference in practice.
I added "When you are spell-checking, please take extreme care when picking the corrected versions of each word." to my instructions and it got it completely right.
This is what I was wondering, seems like same issue with doctors, just not enough spots in training programs.
Thank you for your comment on the mechanics of ChatGPT's prediction and the concerns around the transparency and potential risks associated with its use in critical applications.

You are correct that ChatGPT is a complex deep learning model that uses millions of statistical calculations and tensor transformations to generate responses. The fact that the models are black boxes and even their creators cannot definitively explain their behavior can indeed pose significant challenges for auditing and ensuring the accuracy and fairness of their outputs.

As you pointed out, these challenges become especially important when the predictions made by these models have real-world consequences, such as in healthcare or autonomous driving. While OpenAI has made significant progress in developing powerful AI models like ChatGPT, it is crucial that researchers and practitioners also consider the social, moral, and ethical implications of their work.

In recent years, there has been a growing focus on the responsible development and deployment of AI, including efforts to address issues such as bias, fairness, accountability, and transparency. As part of these efforts, many researchers and organizations are working on developing methods to better audit and interpret the behavior of AI models like ChatGPT.

While there is still much work to be done, I believe that increased attention to the social and ethical implications of AI research is an important step towards ensuring that these technologies are developed and deployed in ways that benefit society as a whole.

References:

OpenAI: Responsible AI: https://openai.com/responsible-ai/

European Commission: Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/ethics-gu...

Google AI: Responsible AI Practices: https://ai.google/responsibilities/responsible-ai-practices/
IEEE: Ethically Aligned Design: https://ethicsinaction.ieee.org/

Microsoft: AI and Ethics: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/responsible-ai

These resources provide guidance and frameworks for responsible AI development and deployment, including considerations around transparency, accountability, and ethical implications. They also highlight the importance of engaging with stakeholders and working collaboratively across different disciplines to ensure that AI is developed and deployed in ways that align with societal values and priorities.

(Note by AC: ChatGPT was used to respond to this comment to check if I could get a meaningful response. I found it lacking because the response was not granular enough. However, it still is a competent response for the general public.)
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Hadn’t OpenAI published all the key research results to repro ChatGPT? And made their model available to literally everyone? And contributed more than anyone else to AI alignment/safety?

To me it looks like nearly every other player, including open source projects are there for short term fame and profit, while it’s the OpenAI that is playing the long game of AI alignment.
we give a lot of those people cabinet positions.
I could do with fewer cores, but the memory (and most importantly, the disk space) has been critical for me). When I compare alternatives, it seems pretty bleak.
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Maybe for some more abstract games. But we'll need a while longer before we see something capable of making a really good 3D human character model with accurate proportions and details. Realistic guns are another thing that's hard to get the details right on. But yeah, hopefully we get something like that soon. I personally enjoy programming games, but despise the assets side of it, and have no friends that could assist in that department.
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