skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a good show. Is there brigading? There could be, but that itself wouldn't be enough if the show itself was not good enough.

Is it 9/10? Mmm, not really.

Anecdotally, I've found that generally HBO needs to pass a lower bar in order to get a higher rating than Netflix has to. So, same quality, Netflix could get a 7-8/10, whereas HBO gets 9.*/10 on IMDB.

In the same way Elden Ring "revolutionized open world games" and is a "must play game", when it doesn't really have any internal motivation to begin with.
>This person asked me in a discussion about whether vitamin A is bad for you. He/She argued, “Why do people in countries that consume the most vitamin A have the longest lifespans and lowest rates of heart disease?” He/She was referring to Japan and France, specifically.

This comment really set me off. Obviously, I have no interest in going and running around trying to make my decisions about what to eat based on what somebody in Japan is eating. My dietary decisions are solely based on what is alleviating an actual health problem. I have no interest, nor care, nor any regard whatsoever, for what anybody else on the planet is eating, however or wherever they are eating it. It makes absolutely no difference to me. And it certainly shouldn’t make a difference to you.

If there is something – a diet or anything at all – that has a potential therapeutic effect, then having to run it through some kind of blue zone approval process is completely absurd!

That person doesn't understand that the "blue zone approval process" is exactly what he describes for himself.

Only instead of a sample of one, perhaps delluded and placebo-ed, with unknown long term lifespan results, it's a sample of many, with a proven lifespan track record.

It might not be scientific, but neither his method is. Both are however empirical, and the "let's see what blue zones do" has more inputs and more assurance of the effects than his method-of-one-person.
And very common German phrase to this very day! Good to now time travlers can still use, and understand, insults as far back as the 15th century!
Instead of "roll eyes", consider how you might have improved your comment by making a case how the "strong girl boss teenager" does, in fact, not at all fall under the general ideology of wokeism. You wasted a chance to convince other readers of your position.
Right, and if Tesla was called OpenCars or something it would be entirely reasonable to criticise them on that point.
First measurements of p11B fusion in a magnetically confined plasma
Actually, the great thing about this show is that it doesn't focus so much on the actual zombies, that just gets boring fast. This show is story driven and I really like that.
In an Epic Battle of Tanks, Russia Was Routed, Repeating Earlier Mistakes
Is not the solution but is certainly a good start until a solution is found.
Also, is not about banning social media, is about banning malware.
Pretty much all distros ship pipewire. Just not as the default audio server.
Stable Diffusion is a project like that. It cost millions to develop it. It is free, open source and can be run locally.
Not that new information has come to light; but because the existing information can now be interpreted this way without "seeming to support the wrong political side."
Also, this might be an interesting read: https://mode80.github.io/7-langs-in-12-months.html
I agree. Plus, I grew to actually like the path. I spend less time strategizing over what should I do next or feeling torn between reparation and progress. Turned out that the only reason I wanted the tree was that I could strategize over 2x bonus better ... which has zero to do with learning too.

I found myself more engaged after change to path.
> It sounds genius actually, if you produce content which success heavily relies on public opinion, why not hire a few PR companies to alternate the reality in reddit, youtube, etc.

I assume Reddit sells (or at least enables) a ton of marketing via boosting certain topics. Especially popular culture items that can be discussed, such as sports/tv shows/movies.
> It has avoided the missteps of Raku (Perl 6)

It is unclear to me what missteps you are referring to?
Owncast v0.1.0 Retrospective – Front End Web Rewrite · Gabe Kangas
there are two ways in which I can understand your message:

a) "these techniques allow for an easy to refactor codebase". I profusely disagree, its easier to refactor a function with some ugly switch than a behavior disseminated over dozens of files.

b) "we are actually careful and not draconian about these techniques only when appropriate", which I don't agree either, as in every experience I had interacting with people that believe in clean code in meatspace, was an obsession with having things done their way, assertions about "code smells" which were literally just not doing whatever they wanted.

maybe there's a c) I'm not seeing. But seeing this thread on its own its already high evidence that these two notions are clearly there in the CC community.

"we are actually performant" becomes "well, actually we are readable" becomes "well, actually we are testable" becomes "well, actually humm... just shut it and write on our code style". Some posts on this thread even talk about people not using these guidelines being evil and having to be ejected. Just imagine how people not suck up on this ideology look at it.
you listed 3 versions of C# in that list, and they are all as similar as versions of any other language are.
Nice. A tip: as long as you're asking for position anyway, you might as well make the units default to the units used in that location. 99% of the time that's what we want.

Don't forget the clock, too. It's not quite as odd to use am/pm as it is to use imperial units, but it's still the wrong choice for all of Europe minus U.K.
This article is not aimed at people who are working in a codebase where everything is super terrible. It's written for performance aware programming. One of the aspects of performance awareness is awareness of how virtual functions and tiny functions affect performance negatively.

> Also articles like this usually fail to mention code maintenance cost. For example by reducing usage of virtual calls you can make your code unmaintainable/expandable and suddenly every new change will cost you 2x more in development time.

This never actually happens in real life. I've never seen a codebase that is written with "clean code" principles in mind that is also maintainable and easy to develop on top of.
I'm curious as to what you mean by scorched Earth. Literally the fact that we are burning up our atmosphere, or something else? That said, I'll root for nature batting last before I root for the hellscape people unleash for economic incentives.

What needs to be understood is that this sort of technology is not an equalizer, regardless of the PR behind having your own personal Einstein/secretary at your beck and call. You can look at the state of modern computing sans AI to see this is true: many people with desktops are using Microsoft, Apple, or Google OSes, which become more and more restrictive as time goes on, despite the capabilities of such computers increasing regularly.
sorry, are you looking for rust crates, rust applications, etc.? I don't think rust is any less cross-platform than the alternatives, its all about what the library itself targets.

Ripgrep has been my favorite example of rust for years now, simple, fast, featureful.
https://archive.md/Pnx4M
When I realized that OpenAI is not open source, you knew it wasn't gone be open in any sense. How can you in 2010s start a thing with the name 'Open' and then not have it be Open Source.
chrome://settings/performance -- you can add sites that should remain active

I don't know how to mass administer this across an enterprise, but presumably it would leverage existing tools.
MRSK: Deploy Web Apps Anywhere
It can also serve as an audition for some folks. I’ve seen contributions turn into interviews.
I have the opposite stance. Visual Studio is my primary dislike in working with C#. It's mighty, I'll give it that. The debugging experience is strong. But it's slow, sluggish, components or itself crash sporadically; the extension ecosystem isn't great.

Working with containers/docker is a bit painful, too: as with all things Microsoft, there are layers of indirection to just make it work™. While it does, it's wonderful. Almost inevitably however, one runs into edge cases that are impossible to solve, because the config you need hasn't been surfaced to the GUI. That's where I prefer more 'hackable' IDEs like VSCode. In these situations, it might just allow you to drop a line of bash into some JSON config. Simple and works, no GUI work from the devs required.

One my of favorite pet peeves is running unit tests in parallel from inside VS, using the GUI/shortcuts. The setting for running unit tests in parallel is a nested setting, only accessible via GUI. Running unit tests in sequence is incredibly slow in our case (and when would you ever want unit tests _not_ run in parallel?). The setting is then stored somewhere in the `.vs/` directory, in _binary files_. You cannot version control them, and `git clean` regularly knocks that directory out, wiping the setting. Annoying, but not annoying enough to do anything about!
This is one of the reasons open-source-but-not-open-contribution is becoming more common. If you don't accept code contributions you don't have to worry at all about where that code ultimately came from, which could be an expensive legal problem further down the line.

Not-open-contribution is what I'll be going with if any of my nascent projects get to the point of having something I'm prepared to release for public consumption. I know I'm potentially losing out on help, but I'll be keeping as full control as possible of my stuff⁰. Found a bug: document it to me, and I'll fix it. Desperately want to fix it yourself because I'm not fast enough, or you just _really_ want to? Fork. Want to implement a new feature that I'm not planning or that I'm being too slow on for your needs? Fork¹, and if you are nice about it² I'll forward on anyone else wanting that feature to your project.

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[0] useful should I decide to alter the license(s) it is available under etc.

[1] or, if you don't want to be constrained by my licensing terms for my code, which are most likely AGPLv3, that get included in your project, clean-room reimplement (or release as patches initially, slowly replacing my code completely, and then relicense once all my stuff is replaced, similar to what LAME did for patent reasons)

[2] trying to nag me to change my mind before you do so is not being nice about it: if I say “no” or “maybe later” then continuing to beg/nag/cajole is wasting my time
It's condescending and not helpful because you are not a moderator, you just have a feeling of how things should work in your opinion.

If it's a rule violation in your opinion, then report it and it will be handled. Otherwise you at best come across as brown nosing and at worst the exact same kind of person that gets cancelled on Twitter for confronting and calling the police on a family barbecue in the park.
If you thought Gantz:O was good, this show isn’t for you.

What makes a movie like Jaws or Alien good is you don’t really see the monster very much. A zombie show ought not to be judged by zombie volume.
> Comparing the number of fatalities to population growth makes sense

It only makes sense if we compare the number of fatalities to number of pedestrians growth.

More people doesn't necessarily means more pedestrians.

For example: a car ban like there are in many European city centres, leads to a growth of the number of pedestrians in the area, not linked to a growth in the general population.

EDIT: counting population growth as a proxy for pedestrian growth is a spurious correlation.

Population can grow and pedestrian could go down in number and vice-versa, it is been observed in the past 20 years as a result of the fluctuation of urban areas population VS suburb/non-urban areas population.
Yes, tree cover is doing reasonably well, thankfully! But the loss of biodiversity and wildlife that isn't trees remains a critical issue.
im sure the takedown ended up adding to a charted metric, buried in a division quarterly ppt. Piracy is a stretch, at best its perhaps digital trespass(insofar as if youre not using the pluto site they are losing that delicious user data) and thus in breach of some EULA that absolutely no one but paramount is aware of
> The entire point of Duolingo is to learn a foreign language. Somebody without an absolute mountain of intrinsic motivation is never going to do this, period

This is not true tho. I never ever had intrinsic motivation for languages. I never liked learning them. Even as I knew my future literally depends on me learning good English, I just kept doing bare minimum I could get away with. Fact is, I knew 2 foreign langues very well - I was fluent in both.

And now, my kids do not like learning foreign languages. But they have them in school and do duoling. While they dont like classes much, they are actually progressing and one of them is already capable to follow netflix series in English.
Writing down the equations is the task for the AI.
Daniel’s a true legend in the community. If only we all could make something even 1% as useful as curl, the world would be a better place!

Thanks Daniel!

Edit: my comment is not intended to disparage the rest of us. Clearly there is an element of luck to making something tremendously useful. That being said, Daniel is an amazing steward of a useful tool. Sometimes the job can seem pretty thankless for him (cough Apple) so I wanted to thank him!
> It can even solve IQ tests...I mean, how much further are we moving the goal post?

The problem with test like this is that when trained on the existing big datasets (commoncrawl etc.), chances are the test is already in the input so the validation is not proper. Its the same thing with all the "AI beats SAT" headlines. The exercises for those very tests exist all over the internet already.
gitup and other git clients for example do this: https://gitup.co/
Yeah, check out the Lex Friedman podcast episode #333 around minute 52 where Andrew Karpathy talks about the OpenAI project "World of Bits" that did this.

https://youtu.be/cdiD-9MMpb0?t=3013
It has become evident that placing one's trust in mainstream media is an exercise in futility, as they are often found to be biased in their reporting against tech.

Elon Musk's claim regarding the algorithm flaw resulting in his de-ranking was indeed accurate.

The feature was intended to lower the ranking of frequently being blocked accounts. However, the flaw was that it did not account for larger accounts, allowing a small group of individuals to effectively engage in a DDOS attack against large accounts.
Hey, at least you're not hiding it.
I mean if its true and he has 100 million followers and he has only 10000ish impression then there is something seriously wrong. Because that flat out makes no sense.

Even if you assume 60% bods, and 70% of users not reading their timeline.
> By Thursday I got a call about a new position and I left so quick that the recruiters black listed me.

That's one way to reduce headhunting spam.
>Look, most modern software is spending 99.9% of the time waiting for user input, and 0.1% of the time actually calculating something.

Is it? What processes are running on your computer right now, how many are waiting for your interaction?

Further the 0.1% of the time I do interact, I want the results promptly.
For how popular it is, GitHub really sucks: internet has simply miserable ways to visualize commits :/.
Where's the ChatGPT paper?
Just precompute a list of values?
The solution has been around for decades - proper, enforced privacy laws, or just use our existing laws such as the CFAA that would no doubt cover spyware already.
Competition and progress on infra will drive the cost down over time. OpenAI won't be the only show in town. It will become like thinking it's a risk to build on AWS.
How does Stability.ai make money?

If their business plan is just "burning VC's money" for now, you can bet they'll be as close as OpenAI soon.
There is a lot of data showing less lines of codes correlates with less bugs.
I don't know if that works cross languages, like a language that requires annotations to help ensure correctness requires more lines thus does it correlate with fewer bugs than python? don't know.

but nim and C# have similar levels of safety
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Don’t modern compilers do this automatically (and aggressively) for almost any division by a constant?
Einsum Visualized
And how many of those have >10 billion installs?

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/10/15/curl-installations-pe...
Plenty innovations have come from state funding, like transistors, computers, the internet, and state funding for research still is the biggest by far. (a lot of it through the military, but still)
Daily walk prevents one in 10 early deaths – study
What goalpost specifically?
And the work he's talking about: https://paperswithcode.com/paper/world-of-bits-an-open-domai...
I started Ukrainian in Duolingo and 4 months later I can sorta kinda understand tweets in Ukrainian. The primary limitation is my vocabulary, I have to compensate by guessing through similarity to other slavic language. I can get gist of meaning from Ukrainian youtube videos.

With languages, passive understanding comes first, always. The active one is different and harder skill.
The compiler is already reducing integer division by a constant into these things.

Those algorithms become more important when you're dividing by a value known at runtime but which remains the same during parts of the program. That's where libdivide comes in.
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What's perhaps more distressing is the fact that this comes AFTER we removed a huge chunk of pedestrians and other vulnerable road users from the equation by putting them in a car for virtually all trips.

If you fill a pool with sharks then shark attack deaths will fall to 0 pretty quickly, after all! But it doesn't mean the pool is safe.
Wouldn’t a lookup table be a whole lot easier? I’d think a 64 entry table of integers would be fast to access once cached.
> I mean, how much further are we moving the goal post?

Look at it this way: humans don’t have BPE-encoded text as input to their brain. It is ALL visual input. For AGI, you would at least need to add audio input as well. And be driven by action and reward.

The learning capabilities of the brain are currently beyond the processing capabilities of current architectures. Just the notion of a model receiving only pixel data that contains a question and being able to output voice data that produces a correct answer, using no partial model trained on another corpus, is probably not tractable without significant improvements.

But the models can be very useful without being AGI!
You often can't know in advance what will be useful and what won't.
The only way this kind of research could be done "in the open" is if it was funded by taxpayers' money.

Except we have global corporations with elite fiscal layer teams, but no global government (giant lizzards are always disappointing) - so some global corporation was going to own it in the end, it was a matter of "time" and "US or Chinese". The time is now, he winner is US.

Moving on.

The next move is for (some) governements to regulate, others to let it be a complete far west, bad actors to become imaginative, and it the end... taxpayers' money will clean up the unforeseen consequences, while investor's money is spent on booze and swimming pools, I suspect ?

Still, nice to watch the horse race for being the "Great Filter" between 'AI', 'nukes' and 'climate change' (with 'social media' as the outsider).
> Two cpu generations later, the Pentium comes out, and both mul and div take 1 clock cycle.

Where are you getting this information? Agner[0] lists DIV as taking 17 cycles at best (8-bit operand already in a register) on the P5, and MUL as taking 11 cycles. Even Tiger Lake takes 6 cycles for DIV.

There are ways [1] to beat that, but I don't think you can get it down to a single cycle.

[0]: https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf p.162

[1]: https://lemire.me/blog/2019/02/08/faster-remainders-when-the...
Cool, thanks: https://scribblediffusion.com/scribbles/s6ivrkbmpfcjnjuoqjmf...
User-specific? Why isn't the page excluding the header part cached separately, or am I missing something?
Sounds interesting, I'll be sure to have a look!
it was simply developed at the right time to become the de-facto command-line utility.

But it should be a solved problem by now. No need for continuous full-time work.
Making the Most of Your Logs in Rails
Have you tried it? Obviously it won't be as structured as proper teaching, but I suspect that cajoling it into being a helpful language practice partner should be possible even as it is today.

It's language skills are crazy impressive. I've found there's no reason to not interact with it in my native language, it speaks and understands it just as well as English - and that was definitively not the case with earlier incarnations of GPT that I have tried.
A tool to do this transformation would not be hard.
I've sailed the high seas and still do, but I have to say that when I do it with comics, my heart hurts a bit. Unlike successful musicians and actors, comic writers and artists were already starving with the old model...
...and giant mulit-million dollar fines if caught and into the billions if repeated. The latter happened with Facebook, Instagram and the former with Snap.
The length is there but you can't access it.
Why We're Building ShareMint
Makes you wonder where's the catch, doesn't it?
Had a look, they have a macro for it. Cool!
Twitter timeline is broken for multiple users
It wasn't very good at the IQ test. But yes, it is promising.

"Although there is still a large performance gap between the current model and the average level of adults, KOSMOS-1 demonstrates the potential of MLLMs to perform zero-shot nonverbal reasoning by aligning perception with language models."
Is not the solution called curl :)
The absence of direct evidence is what makes this the most likely theory. There’s no evidence that links it to a wild animal so the big virology lab across the river with a history of questionable experimentation on coronaviruses becomes the mostly likely answer
True but many companies won't care much as long as it saves them a few bucks.
There's a big difference between "premature optimisation" and thinking about performance.

You shouldn't take that quote to mean you can entirely ignore performance 97% of the time.
Why do people say AKS (or AX) instead of ASK?
We know that alcohol consumption increased during these years, and that alcohol consumption plays a role in a about half of pedestrian fatalities. Seems to make sense.
People get around this by never putting themselves in the position of having to refuse. If, as a landlord, you only ever buy single bedroom apartments and studios, you aren’t going to run into families that need 4 bedrooms. It’s not illegal for the landlord to discriminate as to what sort of properties they buy.
What benefit is there to growing pot next to consumers? Compared to salads, for example, isn't pot easily stored and transported?
Ask HN: Why aren’t Twitter outages showing up on the front page anymore?
HN used to be a great source for quick insight into major outages. Feels like lately - and with Twitter in particular - big outages, like the one happening now, never make it to the front page.
Not him, but I had friend who worked as translator and literally lived from writing texts in foreign language. She used duolingo for like 6 languages, sometimes changing them as she felt like. She used other apps too tho, mostly for memorizing words.
https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom

open-source and funded by the French government
> The latter happened with Facebook, Instagram

Which still wasn't enough, as the scum is still running around freely stalking users just as well as before.