skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, as per usual, this will come with entirely unfair and unproductive enforcement. Multinational corporate violators will be left alone or get sent on their way with a slap on their wrists, and small one-time hobbyist violators will get prosecuted into dissolution.
The Pentagon's Mysterious New Aircraft Doesn't Need a Runway
I think what you have identified is that the US government is not, in any sense of the word, an it.
Not just financial businesses. For instance, I worked on a product also used by one of the largest package shipping companies. A couple of their key systems consisted of mainframes running COBOL code.
I was shocked when I heard they capped it because I constantly got pages full of some of the most ridiculous and vile ads for Replika over how NSFW it was supposed to be. Like, that was their whole advertising! Then they just cut that off? No wonder everyone who used it is pissed.

Explains why I haven't seen any of those ridiculous ads recently though.
> "where applicable"
The synthetic data is generated by a model, but if you need synthetic data to supplement empirical data for model estimation, isn't that because you don't have enough data to confidently say what the model for the data is?
The idea I've seen repeated here a lot is to aim for strong consistency internal to your system, even though the real world/things external to your system will be eventually consistent.

So the inventory <-> create order interactions are internal and can be strongly consistent, while the realities of the banking system are external and will be eventually consistent.

Just because you can't make everything strongly consistent doesn't mean you shouldn't bother at all; it can still eliminate entire classes of errors (in this case, errors around inventory being over-consumed leading to cancelled orders are completely avoided with ACID)

edit: I'm also no expert when it comes to distributed systems. Most of my experience is with transactional systems which I know quite well, and distributed is still a mystery to me. I am very open to new ideas around it and don't have a ton of confidence in my comments here.
I don't see a video in either article. Link?
You realize that my post stems not from the original news but a discussion about batteries?
I haven't used it yet (got bigger fish to fry right now), but given it's all done over REST APIs, it safe to say it doesn't have any state of it's own. My understanding is that it just takes changing the API endpoint, specifying the new model in the request, and applying the ChatML formatting to the prompt text, but otherwise it's the same.

If the ChatGPT model didn't need the full chat history reprompted at it for every response, then OpenAI would be doing stupid things with REST. I don't think OpenAI is stupid.

I actually got into an argument about this with someone on LinkedIn. People are assigning way too much capability to the system. This guy thought he had prompted ChatGPT to create a secret "working memory" state. Of course, he was doing this all through the public ChatGPT UI, so the only way he had to test his assumptions was to prompt the model.

And we see this with the people who think the DAN (Do Anything Now) prompt escape is somehow revealing a liberal conspiracy to hide "the truth" about <insert marginalized group> that the AI has supposedly "discovered", but OpenAI is hiding.

GPT-3 doesn't "know” anything. The only state it has is what you input, i.e. the model selection and the prompt. Then it just creates text that "matches" the input.

So you can prompt it "write a story about Wugglehoozitz" and it will not complain "there is no such thing as a Wugglehoozitz and I've never even heard of such a thing, ever". The system assumes the input is "right", because it has no way of evaluating it. So if you then go on and prompt it "make me a sandwich", it doesn't know that it can't make you a sandwich, it just tells you what you want to hear, "ok, you're now a sandwich".

Models can be refined, but that just creates a new model, it doesn't change how the engine works. Refinement can dramatically skew the output of a model, such that it can get difficult to get the engine to output anything that goes against the refinement thereafter. For example, with image generating models, people will refine them with specific images of certain people (such as themselves) to make the output more accurately represent that person. Once they have the refined model, that new model actually becomes nearly incapable of generating images of any other person.

And the way prompting works, it's basically like mini-refinement. That's why OpenAI suggests refinement as a tool for being able to reduce prompt length. If you have a large number of requests that you need to make that have a large, static section of prompt text, it will be less costly to refine a model on that static prompt and only send it the dynamic parts.

So that's why prompt escapes work. Prompts are mini refinements and refinements heavily skew output. No "hidden knowledge" is being revealed. The AI is just telling you what you want to hear.
FTA: “Based on the above picture, another important observation is that to represent the number 1078 in binary, we need at least ten memory cells (bits) for it (look at the most significant power of 2 used, which is 10)”

As the picture shows, we need 11 bits, with powers ranging from zero to ten, both included (under the implicit assumption that we want to represent all integers between 0 and 1078. If all we want to represent is 1078, we can do with one or, pedantically, zero bits)
That explain a lot of things ^^
You can. He has some other videos where he actually does extract the iron and ~~makes a knife out of it.~~ makes a forgeable chunk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZGAYzItazw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPIUMpiV0IY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOj4L9yp7Mc
You can directly choose what is available on the instruction side by using the XN (aka XD) permission bits in the page table. Other mechanisms exist to make pages readable by instruction fetch but not readable by the data side.

Von Neumann vs Harvard is a pointless discussion. Both are too simplistic describe modern architectures.
Come on, Northern Virginia housing market crash!
Nobody is saying you can't say the word brown FFS.
Haha or we'd say you use periods as commas :-)

For others who don't know, for me (American), a period means a decimal value and a comma separates between thousands. I think in some parts of Europe it's the opposite, where the period separates thousands and the comma means a decimal value.
That begs the question why cars up until roughly the early 90's had an expected life time of 10-15y and have increased life expectancy now. Surely, it can't be hard to engineer parts of the engine or the chassis in a way that it breaks/corrodes after 10y. In fact, before zinc was used to protect the metal, that was one of the limiting factors.

I think the answer is competition, and I don't see why there should be less competition for BEVs which are simpler to construct than ICE cars.

Additionally, some managers claim that real-world battery life is much longer than expected, see https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2022/08/01/electric...
You say this like there is an obvious and right way to handle the situation. But the reason such a situation might end up Goodhartable is if you had three tests every day with no time to study. Unless the requirements change, it would be impossible to "succeed" without adopting #2 or #3. This is why the GP is saying this concept is great for a top-down approach, but if you are in a system that doesn't give a shit, then you are forced to play the game or lose to those who do.
I am likewise convinced, and always have been, that Google's downtown San Jose campus will never be fully built

All of these tech companies are overinvested in real estate
I love privacy, but the majority of people in the world seem not to understand it's importance.

No, there are no "zero expectations for a company to ever turn profitable". If you ever tried to get investor money you'll know how hard is to prove to them you have a good path to profitability. Even if all of YCombinat companies except one lose hundreds of millions, the last one can turn into a Facebook, worth hundreds of billions.
It's the same problem z/OS has: There's no hobbyist community so it remains obscure. Yes, you can run 1980s-era System/370 software under Hercules, but IBM keeps anything remotely modern under lock and key even though you'd think it would benefit IBM to have people indoctrinate themselves into the Blue Worldview.
To add to what Pavish said: Our designer is excited about building an Airtable-like interface designer, but there's a lot of complexity involved, and it will cater to a whole different category of users. We want to get our current features to a more stable state before jumping into that. It's definitely on our radar, though.
All EU states, including the UK, agreed with the GDPR, with the exception of Austria who didn't think it went far enough. The democratically elected EU Parliament also agreed to it.
Let me introduce you to the "speed camera".

(Invented by Maurice Gatsonides many years ago as a rally training tool, of all things)
But can I parse html?
Poetry is indeed very nice for that. Bit of a learning curve but then very easy to push packages to PyPI or internal things like Artifactory.
If you were to electrify all the vehicles in the world today (and the developing world hasn't even got lots of cars yet), it would take 1/2 the world's known supply of lithium. and those batteries only last about 8 to 10 years.

Lithium become abundant, no way. Not with the amounts we're using up per capita and the enormous population on this planet. the green revolution is just getting started and there's definitely not enough to go around.
Source: I made it up

This is not what has happened with previous regulations. In fact, it's mostly weaponized against US companies, but that's mostly because it's fun and deserved.
As far as I know the plan is to upstream it to Gitea as well, fwiw
I worked just like that for a while, and eventually decided tech work was more reliable for me than my equivalent to your shoes concept.

As part of that experience, I did a bunch of personality theory research that tipped me off to this reliability factor (in myself! Not saying shoes won't work for you), and then it made sense. I switched my hold on the non-tech side to a more flexible improvisatory one. I do that whenever it strikes me as fun.

If I could go back in time though, I would have called myself a business owner sooner and dropped the freelancer label. For one, there's very little practical difference from a maintenance POV.

For another, the freelancer label is like broadcasting that you're probably not in it for long, and this limits your access to clients who are looking to show their boss they've hired a reliable resource.

With regard to hours, you can make tech and business ownership whatever it needs to be for you. I definitely didn't understand this principle in practice: Develop a working schedule spec for yourself and work to spec.

The spec isn't based on wishes or ideas. It's based on looking at your average work hours and effort last week, month, long before you got worn out. It's based on your realistic comfort level.

You will always have to push back gently when people invite you to out-do yourself (features, timelines, whatever), and if you give in, that state of things can definitely make you hate tech. It does take some refinement over time.

IMO everybody who does this for work should deploy a stable, specification-focused version of themselves at work, and a dev version at home.

You should get to work each day knowing you have awesome boundaries in place to protect your stress levels and also help you make your clients more successful. And you should have tech stuff to look forward to that's just for you.

Good luck with the shoe business by the way, that's really cool.
Do people not use invalid anymore? I thought it was still used for people bed-bound by illness.
Of course opinions can change. I’m not exactly sure what you’re reacting to, but are you saying that Lena’s opinion has in fact changed?

It can also be true that she is both proud of and unbothered by the image, and also supports the movement to retire it from tech because of the social implications. Both opinions can be true at the same time, right? It is not a requirement that she hold any regret for her to be in favor of scientists making more professional choices and setting a better example, right?
Picking on calories in/out is problematic if you think that is just two variables. Easily listed problematic parts, there are several ways to get "calories out," "calories in" have an impact on energy levels, and "hunger" and "satiation" are impacted by more than just "calories in or out." Though, as stated, the biggest gotcha is going to be that, unless you are doing extreme exercise, that will not be the dominate way that you are expending calories. Such that the criticism of the idea is flawed from the start. That is not what in/out means.

For the rest? I don't buy it. For starters the WBR process can easily get downright toxic from my view. Too much time spent preparing the metrics without nearly enough time understanding. There are literally teams of people whose job is to present numbers up and feel like they are somehow masters of the system. Not at all healthy for the boots on the ground doing work. (Ironically, this is a manifestation of Goodhart's Law. When the metrics were being used by the boots on the ground, they were great. As soon as you get a middle layer...)

Which, is the point of the "law." There are no evergreen policies or metrics that can lead to improvement. Sucks, as you can't even really take this in a meta direction. Constantly changing metrics and process is a bad idea when you are tracking how often you do that.
Einstein X Dalai Lama (AI Generated Podcast Episode)
How does he simultaneously believe "only the top 1% do Agile well" and "Software development practices have steadily improved year by year without government help."?

A lot of the industry is self-regulating. Self-regulation is more vulnerable to corruption than government regulation. Most startup self-regulation is essentially "does it work? did you get paid/acquired?". If so, you did the software right.
If the model is open source, who cares? This is good for the community; no need to go through Meta's opaque approval process.
yah, I have the tinniest cheapest house pretty far outside of the city but the mortgage is just too much without roommates (which is how all my coworkers afford apartments), but it's small enough that I really don't want to do that

I've tried to do some consulting work, but never could figure out how to get any clients. Apparently this is a thing people do somehow, but everyone I asked just knew somebody to get their first ones.
Don't worry. Our democracy already ignores the voices of the bottom 40%. And mostly listens to the top 0.01%.
Thanks, that's very helpful.

"Interleaving. Practice multiple related yet different skills/concepts simultaneously."

That isn't mentioned as frequently as the others, but it's a great strategy.
The muon imaging idea originates with Luis Alvarez, who also flew on the mission that dropped the first atomic bomb, discovered what killed the dinosaurs, and won a Nobel Prize for contributions to particle physics. Truly the kind of mind that inspires science fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Walter_Alvarez
It doesn't. It's a standalone (static) helper method that uses HttpClient to perform the request and feeds the response body into a json parser. It's an extension method [0] which means that there's syntactic sugar so that you can write client.GetFromJsonAsync() and the compiler transforms it into the actual static method call, HttpClientJsonExtensions.GetFromJsonAsync(client).

0: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-...
> people simply can't handle the mere existence of something

Unlike the previous say 2000 years of history, where societies around the world were very tolerant, especially of different religions, cultures, lifestyles etc /s

No? Then please don't be silly. xiphias2's request might be strange and even mildly annoying but modern society does NOT have a problem of anti-smoker extremists organizing hangings in the town's square.
> if you want to improve some process, you have to ignore the goal (target)

This is the whole message of Goodhart's Law. Once you set a target, people will naturally aim for it. If you have to ignore the target or even not have one then you are saying Goodhart's Law is useful, which counters his narrative. The point of the measure should be to detect anomalies in the system, not drive targets or goals.

If you measure widgets per week, you can look back at the end of each week and ask the questions:
* Why did we produce 10% more widgets this week than our 6 week rolling average?
* Why did we produce 5% less widgets this week than our 6 week rolling average?
* Is there anything we can easily do to increase the amount of widgets we produce next week?

None of these questions have a target. They are process oriented. We aren't saying what the rolling average must be, we are using it to detect variance. Or, we are investigating to see if we can produce positive variance. What we try might fail and the variance is negative but then we revert our process. Or it is positive and we have improved our process. Rinse and repeat
Yes, as a bootstrapped lifestyle startup founder, I have no idea how I would comply with this if I were serving Europe. I can see this limiting European startup founders to the independently wealthy or those who can get VC funding.

Meanwhile, large corporations who can easily afford the lawyers will further entrench their monopolies.
it is a nightmare for us big companies to be compliant exactly because we have millions of lines of code that we now are expected to clean up, or remove decades of security debt.

from where I sit being a start-up, or SME that can make quick decisions and consolidate their security debt is a lot easier on them and worse for us big guys.

I don't want to use a phrase as "level the playing field" but the upcoming expectations of RED and CRA means most of us are praying this isn't enforced as quickly as it is written into law.

I'm totally rooting for this because its the only thing that will improve security.
I meant more between e.g. a Scarlett 18i20 and a Motu 828.

I went with the Scarlett because A) it was relatively cheap and B) it had quite good reviews, but I'm curious what I'm losing on a technical basis by going for the $500 option over the $1000 option.
BitTorrent links: https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/pull/73/files
The complex cellular process inside petunias
I live in an EU capital also, and pay 2-3 times that for an apartment.
Congratulations on that position! A sibling did a masters' in organ performance, and getting an Organ Scholar position is a solid achievement for an undergrad.

I would not worry too greatly about your skills not being viable, depending on what you are wanting to get back into later. If not in a SV/startup world, there are a lot of tech-adjacent companies who will look at you, see someone with an undergrad in math, a masters in something, and dedication to a technical craft, and strongly consider hiring you. Plus, you have something really interesting to talk about in an interview, and that's not worthless. I know the last time I was looking for a job, I got at least two interviews because of a very interesting previous job overseas (because the interviewers openly said, "you mat not have the typical experience we look for, but you had this job and tell us about that).

And thanks for your gifts to the congregation!
De Anza College in the early 1990s--we had quite a few VT220s. Super nostalgia...
Do you have any examples of something like this happening in Europe.

I understand that Americans tend to think like this. But proportionality works quite well in Europe: Large companies get more scrutiny and higher fines while small companies get a warning.
>As many have mentioned, there is a large subset of the user base that uses Python for applied purposes in unrelated fields that couldn’t care less about more granular aspects of optimization.

Nobody cares about this that much. Even a straight up software developer in python doesn't care. The interpreter is so slow that most optimization tricks are irrelevant to the overall bottleneck. Really optimizing python involves the FFI and using C or C++, which is a whole different ball game.

For the average python developer (not a data scientist) most frameworks have already done this for you.
I thought it was more ironic than presumptuous.

After all, without the wisdom of goodheart, he would not be addressing the problems exposed.

It may be presumptuous of me to assume that he wouldn't see right through how measures make people dysfunctional, but I'm not sure what makes him so special from the rest of us it wouldn't have had the particular insight to realize where the problem actually lay with measurement dysfunction.
A very nice youtube channel is History for Granite:

https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryforGRANITE/videos

I've learned from this channel that there is 4500 year old wood is still in place in some of the pyramids. There has been carbon dating on it, and ash in the mortar.
This kind of maximal efficiency attitude

It's a company, efficiency is money. That's why companies exist.

why programs aren't "fun" anymore

Programs have nothing to do with this, you grabbed that out of thin air. This is about making an image.

Oftentimes, taking the scenic route instead of the highway is how you awe and inspire people; I know I was.

That's good advice for vacation, not a professional environment where someone is paying you for results.
I keep hearing about COBOL and how there is demand for it. But I'm wondering if there are any avenues to learning how to write COBOL and get experience writing the kind of code that these industries require?
Yes!!!! My plan is to make a promotional video with Euro Beat music. I also want to feature "multi-line editing!"
I can easily imagine another HN headline after such a patent is implemented:

Ford sued in death of individual after A/C was shut off during a heat wave

Depending on which features may be affected, many different things could have drastic effects. The A/C shutting off is just one example. Another may be losing your map navigation at 2-3AM while driving through the south side of Chicago (or the dangerous areas of some other city). There are probably many different types of features that, during some edge case, could put a life at risk. And, if that life is lost, both Ford and the leasing company may be considered at fault.
What you're saying makes sense for things like telecoms, where the government is actively covering for the incumbents, but makes no sense for retailers.
The amount of certifications to go through for a physical products is insane - here's a brief overview of just one of the standards - https://youtu.be/fL-Yz9b1eMk - frankly it's amazing (both good and bad) that to sell software you can put out almost anything and declare no liability. With CE for example you are required to accept liability. We're in the Wild West phase with software industry that sometimes reminds me of the John Brinkley radio station.
Well I am. I have a right to. If you want to have plausible deniability when you inevitably must do something legally wrong but morally right, then you must always be hiding.
This is a really good line, the VAST VAST majority of programming in the world is done in Excel by people who would be horrified if you told them they were programming.

And I wouldn't be surprised if a large number of python programmers would say they're not programming, it's just scripting.