skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article has a weird writing style, something is off. Maybe it feels like a high school essay?
> Email newsletter tools: Old or new, your pick

Am I wrong to think that most businesses/people pay for Mailchimp because getting your e-mail actually delivered into the inboxes of your target audience/customers is non-trivial? aka, you're going to end up in "spam" otherwise?

I find it hard to believe that you can "free-ly" send e-mail to, say, 100,000 e-mails and actually have it get delivered at a high rate? I would love to learn if I'm wrong though.

This article could've talked about DataDog vs Jaeger/ELK stack I think for tracing/logs.
Johnny Castaway was one of the first things to cause young me to experience genuine wonder at the vast and unpredictable possibilities of computers.
Maybe they were thinking about the immediate gratification cognitive bias. You might see the price on the shelf as you take each item from the shelf, but that doesn't translate to a total expense until you actually pay the Amazon bill at the end of the month.
Social media face filters vs. AI filter (Reddit)
How do you detect whether the user's browser has a slow implementation of an API without actually freezing the browser for 8 seconds?
Not shocked to see that module 0, machine learning, is 1. Optional and 2. Just a few YouTube videos.

It seems like most people I see billing themselves as an “AGI researcher” or discussing alignment on Twitter (or irl in SF) have no actual background in AI/ML.
If German had designed the high speed network in a sensible way, and had moved quickly on creating all those line, that would improve speed and punctuality.

The problem with the fast trains is exactly that the lines are either missing or end way to early, or start to late, only to then share to few local lines with local trains.
This is such a tired argument that doesn't pass historical muster

There's a whole section in the AskHistorians wiki on reddit, which is here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/faq/europe/#wiki...

One such answer is here https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/cwh8pi/comme...

There is no ground left to make the arguments you are advancing, which ultimately boil down to "the word was in the name". By that measure we really need to start hating on democracy, because everyone known what a disaster North Korea is, and they are a democracy. After all: it's in the name they chose for themselves - the people's democratic republic of korea.
Food choice being a proxy and signal for class/culture is nothing new. You’d be hard pressed to find a cultural tradition that doesn’t speak to it.

While everyone needs sustenance, there are often several adequate choices about how to get it and making those choices become a way of communicating to others. And communicating is an defining and seemingly valuable part of being human.

It’s not really weird and it’s not going anywhere.
You recently shopped at the Seattle Target by the market, too?
You know, chaotic neutral or lawful good, etc...
The site contradicts itself:

https://theiflife.com/2-meals-a-day/
Also want to add that getting a formal certificate for learning disabilities is expensive. From what I heard, an ADHD test costs a couple of thousand USD, which could mean a lot to low income families.
Ah, I see, I never considered one of them, thanks. One is discontinued, the other is expected to be replaced soon, but good to know.
Thinking of it in terms of race might indicate more about how you view things. As an example, think about how frequently throughout history people in power have claimed that women "can't handle" the positions of power that men had. They cite all kinds of nonsense like "emotional" or "hysterical"... conveniently ignoring all of the hysterical and emotional men throughout history.

Think about how something like that would affect how companies are formed. Things seem much better now, but I merely wanted to highlight one of many kinds of biases that are actively affecting our society, even if they are hard to qualify.
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Mistakes You Should Avoid in Your Tech Leadership Career
Much of the old "wisdom" now appears to be wrong based on recent research into protein metabolism. In order to optimize training adaptations and recovery, you need to space your protein intake out in multiple meals per day. This includes breakfast.

https://peterattiamd.com/donlayman/
I'm not a historian, but I think that if in 1900, when there were no successful airplanes, if you tried to have serious dialogues on how to design safe air traffic control systems, you would have been laughed at. Maybe you'd be able to anticipate some real problems, but some of your focus would be wildly off. And to the extent that you could see real issues coming, it would be heavily informed by what you could deduce about planes and how they would be used. And those skills would probably have been better directed at making trains or cars safer.

So I'm always a little surprised how seriously people take AI safety and alignment concerns about systems we don't yet know how to build, and how uninterested many of those same people are about 'alignment' issues with organizations and institutions we have today. And given our poor success in addressing our current issues, even where good policy proposals exist, why should we believe that technical solutions for AI alignment would be used even if they're researched and well-described?
This is not obviously a good thing. Landfill space is plentiful, and many plastics are quite stable in landfills and lock up their carbon content. But things that decay are likely to emit methane and CO2.

IMO the biggest benefit of compostable materials in food service is that they have a decent chance of eventually degrading to safe materials if they end up outside a landfill.
I've worked on contracts alongside MS employees and researchers in the past, and I've been pleasantly surprised.

Three decades of experience in the field, and unfortunately, I don't have quite the brooding disdain for Microsoft. Their stock has lined my pockets, their employees have treated my respectfully when we've worked together, their products do what they're advertised to do.

Something tells me you're under 40.
I think Spark is a good example of where the functional paradigm has done well in a niche.
Are you american?

The idea that trains are for 'commuting' is nonsense, they are for 'living'.
I don't buy that this is accidental.

When you write software, you test it on every platform you choose to support. If it doesn't work on a supported platform, then you take the time to fix it before release.

It's not an "accident" when the software doesn't work on a platform you didn't bother to test on. That platform is being neglected by policy, not because of some "accident" in the code.
The pass-through was really awkward. Depending on the exact board implementation it either looked perfect or terrible, and you couldn’t trust the reviewers because they were all blind, using awful monitors, and tended to focus on the game performance instead of whether it looked like trash the other 90% of the time you spent looking at the display.
Try game #160 (25/02).

Input as guesses:

digit

number

car

compare

Once you got the solution, please explain to me how it works again.
Thank you, I was feeling like I was very far outside of this thread until your comment.
I don't think that there was any well written article about as it was very plausible rumor. but you can see eg: https://searchcode.com/?q=osname.startswith%28%22windows+9%2... to see this issue present in a lot of publicly available source code.
Well, mostly...
The History and Politics of Wuxia
Given that last year I inherited a substantial amount of money from my deceased great aunt that was tax-free, clearly they haven't succeeded in that just yet. And they probably won't, I don't see how taxes on middle-class inheritances win elections with either party.

Sure perhaps we are heading to a Cyberpunk 2077 dystopia, but there's no guarantee of that. Even in such an apocalyptic dystopia, where every non-0.1 per-center's family wealth is directly or indirectly confiscated, I foresee a thriving black market for money-laundering and other services, and knowing how to navigate it will be routine for the successful and expected by the powerful.

Regardless, my family will be as best positioned at my death as I can manage. I can only manage so much. There's no use in living life assuming an extinction-level asteroid strike or similar. Worst case scenario at least I'll have done my best, the alternative is stagnation and despair, stuck in an endless cycle of wondering if I could have done better interrupted by periodic hedonistic numbing with vacations/video games/alcohol/other vices. I already did that for most of my twenties, it was perfectly rational (given my circumstances at the time), miserable and unproductive. Much worse than having some assholes steal all my shit at the end of my life, which I don't think is terribly likely anyway.
Here's a thing I always wanted: Show big Twitter discussion with loads of subthreads/replies in Reddit/HN "comment tree" format.
I visited the store in the Ogilvie Train Station when it first opened and, honestly, I felt like I was inside a vending machine, given how everything is stocked on the shelves.
Microsoft's largely useless support site does the same thing. There's something weird afoot in that organization.
The lab that’s growing mushroom computers
From the title I expected this to be a course for AIs. :)
I don't pay $200,000 a year for a car. If I were going to then I'd like to test drive it for 5-8 hours. An ideal test drive should help both sides understand what the future relationship will be like. That saves time and disappointment on both sides. You'd like to date someone before you marry them wouldn't you. I would always be happy to pay for a test drive though. If you're not willing to offer a test drive then you'll also probably miss out on some great relationships in your life.
Living in Germany, I don't even need plastic bags - I take produce from large bins, and carry it home in my bag pack (or shopping bags if I'm out doing a week's groceries). Why do we even need single-use plastic bags at all? Supermarkets over here sell more robust, reusable shopping bags at the checkout. These are a good alternative if you forget your own.
> strictly less expressive power

We have a difference in what we consider expressive. How in this more expressive language would you represent pure functions or deeply immutable datastructures if it only offered flexible/mutable ones? More flexible does not mean more expressive.

If by expressive you mean conciseness, "Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml"[0] is of interest.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20192645
If anything should get compostable plastic it’s food stickers.

I used to volunteer with a group that got compost from the yard waste composting facilities in Seattle, and that stuff was full of banana and apple stickers. And that’s presumably after it had been through a screen. Microplastics or soon to be.

I don’t know what the alternative is. If you want to write your congress critter it helps if you have an alternative suggestion.
Not sure I agree with Peter Hitchens, but he wrote a book (A Revolution Betrayed) about Modern, Grammar and Comprehensive secondary schools in Britain which digs into a lot of this as it feeds into the colleges systems in both countries. It’s a good book for getting your head around the problem.
Slack audio & video calls work fine on my Firefox.
Yeah it's not clear what he was asked. Swapping the direction of every edge of a binary tree would result in a DAG that is likely no longer a binary tree though.
You're right - the odds of success are incredibly slim. But we may only have one shot, because the first mid-air collision in this analogy could literally be the end of the world.
We definitely reuse bags more than twenty times. At the grocery store, one of the bags I use is from a trip I think I took almost a decade ago. Or another from my kids orthodontist, and he is in college now. You are probably not getting very good quality bags.
There is no contradiction. When does the days work end in Mediterranean countries?

Eat before the afternoon siesta.
"If you wanna hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don't stay."

- Steve Jobs

I think the real disconnect with the 'inclusive culture' boom comes because humans are involved so heavily in the process. The _idea_ is great, we want to be fully aware of our internal biases and avoid having them color our perception as much as possible so we do not shoot ourselves in the foot.

In practice, I have yet to see inclusivity programs at corporations be anything more than virtue signaling, and an opportunity to exclude others under the guise of "inclusivity" wink wink.

Remember 'affirmative action'? It's palpably Orwellian that inclusivity is newspeak; what we call it now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_alignment
It’s also simply not true that more user-facing bugs happen on nightlies. I run nightlies at times and have never found them to be less stable in any tangible way that would affect site usability and show up in a bug report. On the contrary, nightlies are the first to get important bug fixes. It’s overwhelmingly likely that GP is just a lazy audacious dickwad ignoring valid bug reports.
> forcibly migrated all Firefox users to Edge

Man, I can understand doing that for regular users who don't care, but as a developer?

Just a few weeks ago an integrator for an ERP system our customer had bought was trying to show some details in a Teams call when his PC suddenly rebooted. He came back and apologized, turns out it was a company policy forced reboot. In the middle of the day because what are timezones?

If my company tried anything like forcing which browser is installed or when my machine reboots, I'd hand in my resignation promptly.
Microsoft's tech forum pages have been highjacking the back button for years now. It's really despicable...
> Any other type of AI will create eternal torment nexuses like the roko guy said.

Note that the Roko torment nexus is a retrospective blackmail effort to give people an incentive to create the AI. It’s complete nonsense, since any AI that has, in fact, come into existence has no incentive to do it—the belief that an entity that would do it will have either already done its work or been unnecessary, so the actual torture is irrelevant.

An AI might create a torture nexus of some kind, but there is no reasonto think thar it will specifically and exclusively target those who believed it could exist and didn’t act to bring it ibto existence, which is the defining characterisric of Roko’s Basilisk.
I’m thinking of the potato utensils, do they emit methane?
I'm surprised Internet Archive is appropriate for a 220GB model weight dump.

Please feel free; it seems like a good idea. I'm not sure I have enough weekend left to figure out yet another upload service today.
Lets be real, Germany long distance ICE trains have a big punctuality problem. Other German trains are mostly good, but the ICE system has lots of issues.

A lot of those are political, the planning and execution of their high speed network is totally messed up.

They had a reasonably good plan in the 80s but then the reunification happens and of course building lots of highways into East Germany was higher priority.

All these things can be fixed, but it has persisted for quite a while.
> "Grow everything yourself and never interact with society" doesn't seem like a very fulfilling life to me.

It sounds like a great life to me... but not very realistic in this day and age.
When organic mass is sent to the landfill instead of being composted, it decomposes without oxygen, buried in the fill. Anaerobic digestion produces methane, while aerobic digestion only produces carbon dioxide. Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
Spotted the non-American! We love our Hershey's, butyric acid and all. European milk chocolates lack complexity IMO. It's akin to claiming Kraft Singles are a better cheese than Parmigiano Reggiano because they don't taste "like vomit".

That said, I'd prefer a good dark to either one.

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J44svaQc5WY
It's somewhat unclear to me what you have to lose here. You're going to their retail store that is littered with cameras as a feature they heavily advertise. You're returning a package with your name and address on it. If typing your password into the turnstile is the last straw, that just seems weird to me.

But even that wasn't required. OP did their return successfully.
Why does CSS animation consume so much CPU? I've been trying to use it in my own projects, but the fans kick in even with a single simple continuous animation. Unfortunately, this (awesome!) example is no exception.
How will you tell when that is happening?
I find self-imposed rules make things like this more fun. Sure, you could run around and get your health back. Or you could tell yourself "that's not fun" and just...don't do it.
> Putting the bits together into one register and doing the sign extension is a matter of arithmetic. It doesn't touch memory any more. You very much can do a 32 bit load and a 16 bit load and no other loads.

There is no 48 bit register nor can you make a 48 bit register via a 32 and 16 bit load, you'd still have a 64 bit register you wrote 48 bits into it's just you've assumed you're going to be using only the lower half of the mapping so 0x0000... is a valid sign-extension. If you were trying to access the other half of addressable memory that doesn't work though.

> No you don't. That's not how the sign extending works. The top seventeen bits of the 64-bit value are all the same.

The bits are the same if you want it to work but it's not the same thing as the bits being extended for you. You still actually have to load the sign extended bits i.e. if you put 0x0000F22... into the register and tell it to load the memory address it doesn't turn the memory address into 0xFFFFF22... for you. Your compiler or OS might be doing that on your behalf but the CPU does not. You will get an exception from the MMU if the memory address is not already sign extended when referenced. It may appears to work that way if you only ever work in user space where 0x0000... happens to extend the lower half for you if you don't set it but only half the memory is mapped in a way that holds true and it's still passing those 0's to the MMU (as again is evident if you set one of the bits to something else then try to call the address).

I think the rest follows with the above. It's not a matter of theory just create an assembly program that tries to load rax set to 0xFF0F...F20000 and compare it to one that tries to load rax set to 0xFFFF..F20000. One works, the other doesn't. The only explanation is the full value is being sent. If only 48 bits were sent to the MMU and it signed extended automatically 0xFF0F wouldn't create an exception. It's a 64 bit address where only 48 bits worth are legal, that's very different than a 48 bit address.
> nobody ever went there

As a shopper, sounds great! Not hard to understand why they’re closing, though.
Molten Salt Oxidation. "Burn" plastic (and everything else) in a bath of red-hot liquid salt. Exothermic reaction. Produces "synthesis gas". It's used to dispose of munitions and DDT and shi-- stuff like that.
No one wants to tell children they aren’t good enough but it’s much better than worsening the quality of everyone’s education. Especially when they don’t even want to be there. We should have never put so much emphasis on getting everyone a college degree.
Debatable whether crossing the event horizon is distinguishable from beeing there
In my experience only sites that look like local news have told me "oops you're in europe we don't do business with you". Stuff like "the times of Chakahooee, New Hampshire" *. I understand them not bothering, I only randomly - and rarely - reach them because of links on another site.

Most sites that do have a global audience have a popup. Sometimes very dark pattern ish, sometimes not. But they bother.

* I really hope I just made up that town name.
Assuming US due to agency choice. What about a 1099-INT? Surely even trivial interest earnings on 10mm would trigger this?

Moreover I'd expect that any given user w/10mm would be rolling into multiple accounts to maximize protection offered by FDIC.
This is like making the excuse that if somebody specific robs you, that retaliating against 3rd parties walking down the street that didn't do it and don't have any direct connection is legit.

If there is a beef about a violation, then take it up with those specific persons and entities. It's not acceptable to lash out and bully everybody. Worse yet, when the person is among the richest people in the room, so wants to stomp on the poor or others because they feel like it or to vent their rage.

Indiscriminate destruction of everyone's rights, freedoms, and privacy for an already rich company's profit margins, is plain wrong.
It's a great site for getting a weekly newsletter sent to your inbox - do recommend you check it out!
Probably referring to things like this: https://www.sba.gov/federal-contracting/contracting-assistan...
> What about quinoa made it associated with rich yuppies?

poor people use wheat etc.
The EU also has implemented even worse takedown laws and is currently fining and suing its members for not following their regulations on them.
If you have high bandwidth requirements, you can self-host on a VPS from the many possible providers. I personally have a hybrid setup with my high storage and resource intensive apps such as Nextcloud hosted on a server at home but host services that need high bandwidth, no NAT restrictions, and different security on a VPS. Yes I pay a small subscription to the VPS provider, but it is relatively small.
Ask HN: Have you lost enthusiasm for programming and learning after ChatGPT?
Personally, fantastic performance of LLMs and Stable Diffusion has hurt my motivation for reading documentations of cool libraries or studying another programming language book cause it seems to me all of these "classical" methods are going to be redundant soon.

I mean, how far are we from interactively describing the problem in English and having an AI translate it directly to ASM instructions? Aren't LLMs, "transformers" in essence?

Yeah, ChatGPT spits out hallucinations and downright wrong answers for some technical questions but it's only GPT3. Ridiculous amounts of funds is getting redirected to this space. They're gonna improve these models, they always do [1] [2].

And where do we stand here? Would you learn a book on "Optimal Design of Vacuum Tubes" when Shockley introduced the transistor? Would you read the documentation of a steamship when Tesla was demonstrating his coil to the public?

[1]: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:651/1*aksFYLAhO-I85DST29svXQ.png

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14045
I have recently written a paper on understanding machine learning via the lens of Hopf algebra https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01834.

Hopf algebras (which are really just tensors with recurrence relations built in) subsume convnets, transformers and diffusion model and also provide a theoretically better autodiff that operates within single layers as opposed to across entire graphs.

Furthermore, there is a correspondence between Hopf algebra and linear logic and Hopf algebras are related to zonotopes, which are polyhedra that have been used in verified numerical computation. I'm strongly convinced the LL connection can provide proofs over zonotopes which paves the way towards interpretable AI and will be central for alignment.

I'm working on a next gen Hopf algebra based machine learning framework.

Join my discord if you want to discuss this further https://discord.cofunctional.ai.