skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP maybe didn't word it perfectly, but they were talking about organizations not rocket families. Space Shuttle was not exactly NASA's first rocket, just as F9 wasn't SpaceX's first rocket. I don't know if no organization at all has ever been successful on the first try with an orbital rocket or not. The quote Eric Berger at Ars has given was a lot more specific [0]:

>No private company has ever launched its first independently developed, liquid-fueled rocket and had it reach orbit on the first try. And Relativity is pushing a lot of boundaries with its methane-fueled booster. Probably the biggest test here is whether the 3D-printed structure of Terran 1 can withstand the dynamic pressure of ascent through the lower atmosphere.

At the same time though it's important to acknowledge that the "works on the first try" for typical Old Space projects came at absolutely enormous expense [1], and it's reasonable for expectations to be different for a project representing billions to tens of billions of expenditure and billion(s) per rocket vs a private company doing something for tens to hundreds of millions. A properly done hardware rich test program has a lot of advantages.

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0: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/relativity-space-wil...

1: Not just in money either, but in terms of baking in bad designs until it was way too late to change them, which then could and did cause ongoing challenges for as long as the rockets were used. Like yes the first Space Shuttle made it, the design was made to work through heroic efforts, but the design also meant that heroic efforts were needed every single time. Which isn't very sustainable for something used for decades. And in turn we ended up losing multiple ones with humans on board and all lives lost.
Huge packed terrible public schools. Peer groups that I would prefer my kid not being a part of (or sex/drug culture in the US right now). etc
Sure, I guess technically there are some narrowly-scoped abuses you do have the means to stop, so my "abuse it however they want" bites off too much (like for example they can't legally use your address to show up at your house and murder you either). But for the most part no, you have very little say in what is done with your personal information once other parties have a copy of it.
Contemporary republics exist in three main forms:

1. Presidential republics - President is both head of state and head of government. No Prime Minister. Examples: US, most Latin American countries

2. Parliamentary republics - President is head of state, Prime Minister is head of government. President is mostly a symbolic figurehead with little real power; if they have any real power at all, it is generally only exercisable in times of constitutional crisis. Examples: Ireland, Malta, Germany, Austria, Israel

3. Semi-presidential republics. President is head of state, Prime Minister is head of government. Both have real substantive powers. Often, the PM is in charge of domestic policy, the President is in charge of military and foreign affairs. Examples: France, Russia, Finland (traditionally at least, it has been becoming more parliamentary)

Montenegro is officially considered parliamentary not semipresidential. However, the boundary between the two is not always clearcut - there is a near infinity of ways to divide power between a President and PM, and some parliamentary republics have much more powerful presidents than others

There are also oddball republics which don’t fit into any of those categories, like Switzerland (collective head of state) or San Marino (two equal heads of state at the same time)
The philosophical part is actually defining each of those terms so that there is an empirically-explorable question.
I didn't attend Stanford, but I've been on campus a zillion times for various functions (cultural events, choir, extension classes).

It's not like most colleges. There's no big group of off-campus apartment buildings that nearly all upperclassmen live in.

Equally Attractive Non-Alcoholic Beverages is, without doubt, the most nanny-ish rule ever invented ("What? You only have Coke? That's not equally attractive! I'm writing you up.")
You seemed genuinely interested in why you were not understood, so I was explaining my perspective. You can either get better at communicating or not, at your discretion.
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I don't think this will be a popular opinion, but IMHO learning how to deal with those things is a valuable thing that schooling provides.
In what? High-end desktop CPU performance? I don't think people in this thread is interested in that.
> As someone who just decided to learn React (and modern javascript, after 1.5 decades or so of not programming in javascript at all

Sorry you're experiencing this. It's not "just React" though, it's pretty much all Javascript (or Typescript) now. Especially front-end, but I swear, JS/TS on the front or back is like trying to learn to drive a car in heavy traffic while also repairing the brake lines which are malfunctioning
> Act with goodness towards it, and it will probably do the same to you.

Why? Humans aren't even like that, and AI almost surely isn't like humans. If AI exhibits even a fraction of the chauvinism snd tendency to stereotype that humans do, we're in for a very rough ride.
they are the one vendor who had the insight ~20 years ago to invest long-term in GPUs and have continuously made impressive products while supporting a cross-platform developer base. For this, I reward them with my $$$ (both work and home).
I’m currently working on a free open source framework for React developers and I’d love some feedback!

It’s a batteries included React framework for scaffolding out a Stripe level frontend, complete with a blog and documentation.

It’s built on top of Next.js, and is essentially free to host. :)

Please check out my minimum viable prototype and tell me what you think: https://elegantframework.com
Bullying is _much_ worse in school than in your later life in my experience. Yes, you can still get terrible people that gang up on someone in an office, but it's much less common than in school.

Most people who are behaving like sociopaths in middle school appear to grow out of it and lead normal lives.
Unschooling is not home-schooling.

Homeschooling typically means one of the parents or somebody in a pool of families follows some kind of curriculum still, unschooling expects kids to learn from... something.
> China doesn't allow American internet companies access to their market either though.

Google and Facebook both used to operate in China. The government of China told them to start censoring certain content. US lawmakers did not like this and warned the companies not to comply with Chinese rules. So the companies left China to keep the US side happy.

So to be clear, there was active pressure from the highest levels of US government for American companies not to build products in China that could be used for censorship.

The revisionist history is wild.
Good point! I just made the first mention of Readlang into a link to the website: https://readlang.com

It's a web-app and browser extension to help people learn languages by reading texts or websites in the language they are learning, get helpful translation hints and definitions to aid comprehension, and then to practice the new vocab with flashcards.
That’s one definition. I like “study what you want but you must study something.”. I have also seen what I call “raised by wolves” labeled as unschooling. We homeschooled, but it was somewhere between “school at home” and unschooling. It was structured, there was a core, but kid could follow there interests, assuming core was being served.
We use C and all our nodes are x86... so we just dump packed structs on the wire and the schema is a header file. I suspect this sort of simple approach works in most cases...

And really that's how the network stack on Linux and Co. is implemented (modulo taking care of endianness)
Equity: The Thief of Human Potential
If you homeschool then your kids can have friends with people older and younger than them and aren't subject to bullying. Isn't that more healthy than having your kid only exposed to people of exactly the same age and maturity level, and potentially develop issues from bullying?
The raid cost this guy real money, breaking in his door and damaging who knows what. I hope he makes a ton of money from this ordeal.
What can I learn at an industrialized school that I couldn't otherwise?

I definitely would have never learned about that 9/11 suicide compilation video a kid at school showed me.
What natural law indeed?

There isn't one. It's an arbitrary social construct. The argument that IP is property is built on a circle of quicksand.

In the case of land, at least, exclusivity of use can be an argument one could make (Only one person can physically use any one plot of it for any one particular purpose, and gosh, maybe it's in the social interest to have some set of rules for ajudicating disputes between two people who want to use it for different purposes, and one of many solutions to that question is private land ownership), but that's not even an argument that has any applicability in the IP space.

What's most interesting is that the IP commons can be freely plundered, at no cost, to build IP that is owned by someone. If we're going to treat IP as property, why does the creation of new IP not require a tax, levy, or dividend to be paid to the collective owners of the IP commons? All ideas are, after all, derivative.
This question misses the bigger point in some ways. The danger of AI is not that it will do bad thing X or terrible thing Y. It's that it will behave in ways we cannot predict and do things we cannot understand, all while we become more and more reliant on it.
Is that on the ground floor of the neutral milk hotel?
yeah... and also for the most part is was default to not be able to read and write. Rising literacy levels can be directly linked to the funding of schools in the 18-20th century.
I think a synthetic womb/cloning would counter the fertility decline among more advanced civilization
In addition,

1) it's open source.

2) you can run it yourself so the rug won't be pulled from under you when they decide to shutdown and move users up to the next version or another product as they've done with the older text-davinci models.

3) you get to align it (using RLFH) as opposed to a corporation dictating what is "aligned" and what is "safe."

4) you won't have to deal with government led censorship. For example, instead of the FBI using JIRA to manage a list of URLs to be censored (as they did according to the latest revelations) they can train the AI to self-censor as Bing has done.

5) you won't be using the product of a company that was started as a non-profit with $100M donation (from Elon Musk) to promote transparent AI only to take that money and turn into a for-profit company and close-source the AI.

Sources:

Elon is the source for #5 and Matt Taibbi is the source for #4. I doub't you'll have a problem sourcing #5 so here is the source for #4:

"31. After the 2020 election, when EIP was renamed the Virality Project, the Stanford lab was on-boarded to Twitter’s JIRA ticketing system, absorbing this government proxy into Twitter infrastructure – with a capability of taking in an incredible 50 million tweets a day." --Matt Taibbi on Twitter https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1633830104144183298
I'm skeptical that RNNs alone will outperform transformers. Perhaps some sort of transformer + rnn combo?

The issue with RNNs is that feedback signals decay over time, so the model will be biased towards more recent words.

Transformers on the other hand don't have this bias. A word 10,000 words ago could be just as important as a word 5 words ago. The tradeoff is that the context window for transformers is a hard cutoff point.
Oh my god, can we please nip this cult shit in the bud?

It’s not alive, don’t worship it.
Just use ChatGPT to refute their bullshit, it is no longer harder to refute bullshit than to create it, problem solved, there are now less problems than before.
Are his friends learning the lesson as well? Because they are also in school.
I think you could dispense with this issue by just adding Helicone to your list of subprocessors in your GDPR disclosure.
Nope, it was also one of the first Electron like distribution formats, with packaged Web applications.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application
MXM is alright for upgrading, but it's not modular the way this aims to be.

This includes cooling, so a small GPU could have smaller heatsinks and a beefy GPU could have huge heatsinks.

And if you don't want the GPU and the associated power draw plus the size and weight of the heatsinks, you can swap it for another module if you don't want to game on the go.

As they said in their presentation, it's not just for GPUs. You could have a supplemental battery. They will offer a storage expansion that gives you more M.2 slots. Hypothetically you could even just make a module that lets you fit a desktop GPU on the back, if you provided external power.
Both are fascinating tech
I'm saying that the test was of 3,000 white British people born in the 1920's (they specifically excluded non-white people) and what they found was that distant relatives scored similarly on tests (that's what it means to share common SNPs, given the context).

I'd be impressed if they saw the same thing across two populations where we know people aren't related, but I'd argue they just back-solved Britain's class structure.

One has to think critically in science.

>Do you have any evidence that kids doesn't inherit any intelligence

Well, if intelligence is inherited, then why are IQ tests going up over time (and therefore being recentered on 100 constantly)? Doesn't that imply learning is the driver?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4152423/

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2011-12794-032
There has been work on using AI for this at various levels - at the neural architecture level (finding neural architectures with high throughput/latency for a given hardware), at the algorithm level (finding faster matrix multiplication routines), and at the hardware level (iirc Google stated the latest version of google TPUs were partially designed with AI).
> protobufs are a data exchange format. The schema needs to map clearly to the wire format because it is a notation for the wire format, not your object model du jour.

Yes, exactly this. I don't understand the vitriol here. Protobufs work fine for a wide variety of purposes and where the criticisms matter people use a different tool.

> I do mourn the days when a project could bang out a great purpose-built binary serialization format and actually use it. But half the people I hire today, and everyone in the team down the hallway that needs to use our API, can no longer do that. I'm lucky if they know how two's complement works

Would be great to work at a place where everyone knew how the machine worked, but the vast majority of developers entering the workplace since about 2000 have learned Java and web sh*t exclusively.
Agreed. I love these people that think that hierarchy is a substitute. It’s the only way to scale but it misses a lot. Talking and actually understanding cross-cutting issues or solvable pain points is the only way. Most people don’t take on a sense of ownership and they infect a culture into being too conservative (which management also encourages because as you get bigger mistakes get amplified).
> ...loss for love of learning...

I'm still quite irritated, decades later, that the end result of my high school Honors English program was to take entire groups of people who clearly loved reading, and teach them to hate books. I kept in touch with a range of them, and almost none of us read a book for fun, for a decade after high school - because HS Honors English taught us that we couldn't properly understand a book unless we sliced it into tiny pieces, analyzed all the literary metaphors, and generally we weren't any good at that anyway, only the English Teacher could properly appreciate the book. And don't you dare read ahead of the assigned section!

I don't remember the plots of stuff I read, but I remember that grass was green to symbolize new life, rebirth, hope, etc. And I learned to bullshit.

It was miserable. And after four years, nobody touched books again outside requirements. It was awful.
On top of that, how will we even now when it's "ready"? We can't even manage social media effectively at the moment and AI is a arguably and order of complex. We're in way over our heads here and I don't see us getting out.
>SpaceX also 3d prints quite a bit.

Pretty much every modern rocket engine manufacturer does. The engines have a lot of unconventionally shaped pipes that could be manufactured as a single structural element using 3d printing to avoid the need for extra welding and potential points of failure.
Couldn't agree more on Excel. Not only it's KISS, but the kind of team that expects KPIs will want the Excel export anyway.

You can fill both a periodic form / monthly report, and an all-time table

The former can be printed and proudly features to teams. The latter can be converted to CSV to be ingested by any tool, and to do charts.
> It is normal, typical, common, and expected for universities in the United States to completely prohibit alcohol consumption on campus.

My question is: why does this article try so hard to make it seem like it’s not typical?
> This is absolutely an emotionally impulsive decision.

On Monday, I would have agreed with you. Today, I am thinking not so much.

Unless you are heavily invested in whatever you are working on, I would definitely consider jumping ship for an AI play.

The main reason I am sticking around my current role is that I was able to convince leadership that we must consider incorporation of AI technology in-house to remain competitive with our peers. I was even able to get buy-in for sending one of our other developers to AI/ML night classes at university so we have more coverage on the topic.
For context I'm a specialized back-end (but with a lot of experience in desktop GUI/game engine stuff) dev and I also wanted to learn React recently to round off my skills and be more marketable in the job market.

Like yourself I also prefer written docs, but trying to find such structured info was an exercise in futility. At the end I used my existing Pluralsight subscription and went through the React 18 path they have which is around 18 hours or so in total. The courses covered different topics around React like components, hooks, testing etc. Good thing is the courses also have full transcripts! I followed them along and created some small apps myself in the process. Now I'm pretty much sure I can handle working with React in a normal job setting. You might want to consider that option. To be honest FE seems like programming on easy mode compared to some of the things I'm used to working on in my day to day. If you are an experienced programmer you should have no problem getting caught up to speed on that relatively quickly.
Before "safety" think about is the genie fulfilling my wish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w65p_IIp6JY
Warms my heart to see a big company make this deal with the author rather than just shut it down. Bravo Duolingo.
I strongly dislike checking in code that hasn't gone through code review.

I trust that I'm not doing anything malicious, but I am also aware that I'm a human being and make mistakes. Sometimes really dumb ones. I like running it past another pair of eyes that aren't intimately familiar with my code to minimize the amount of dumb that makes it into the final product.
When reading a paper, it's useful to ask, "okay, what did they actually do?"

In this case, they tried out an early version of GPT-4 on a bunch of tasks, and on some of them it succeeded pretty well, and in other cases it partially succeeded. But no particular task is explored in enough depth to test its limits are or get a hint at how it does it.

So I don't think it's a great paper. It's more like a great demo in the format of a paper, showing some hints of GPT-4's capabilities. Now that GPT-4 is available to others, hopefully other people will explore further.
> My phone went from 50% to zero halfway through the final interview before onsite. I ran to my car to charge and called back 10 minutes later. Interview was dead. Such is life.

That must've been extremely frustrating. Just out of curiosity, what was the phone lol? I'd be _MAD_ if that ever happened to me. Like really mad. But as you said, such is life.
In a resouece-constrained way. For every word of propaganda they were able to afford earlier, they can now afford hundreds of thousands of times as many.
Well English is not easy for foreigners. I guess that’s true with any language if you aren’t a native speaker.
Some companies report this type of thing to consumer trust worthiness services (similar to credit bureaus). Other companies use these services to gage customer risk before initiating new service so you can effectively get yourself blacklisted.

Not saying this answer isn't the way to do it, but it's not without additional collateral damage in some cases.

Even if it doesn't impact other companies, the company in question may refuse to do business with you in the future (which may or may not be of concern).
Here, I would question this more if it was 1 or 2 children, instead of 5. I've come around on this.

I've seen a variety of schooling concepts and the ones with the most group autonomy had the most motivated children. And they integrated and socialized just fine after the high school equivalent.

A significant factor in my changing thoughts comes from recognizing that socializing can be done in extracurricular activities and in your community.

What grade schools aim to prepare you for isn't necessarily relevant. ie. colleges and corporations. Even the good ones are only preparing you for that, and you also don't need grade school to be eligible for those things, or other things.
I notice this too. What happened to CS degrees? All I meet are React-infused-piles-of-tools people that don't seem to be able to code anything without a mile long pile of tools.
Why is the Wall Street Journal posting some New Age BS?
Hi! Steve here. Happy to hang around here for a while if anyone wants to ask anything! :-)
Yes, Amazon, in 2009:

<https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106989...>

<https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18am...>
Anecdotally, I had both an Apple Arcade and an Apple TV trial a few years back. I tried cancelling prematurely to avoid surprise charges and the interface told me in no uncertain terms that if I cancelled before the trial expired, I’d lose access immediately.
I recently finally got around to reading EM Forster's in-some-ways-eerily-prescient https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/...
I think you can extract obvious parallels to social media, remote work, digital "connectedness", etc -- but also worth consideration in this context too.
Because Rails is awful. You do not need to choose JavaScript. Just don‘t go with Rails.
I think the Cambrian explosion is just beginning.
What's wrong with drag shows? At least, beyond being overblown hysteria pushed by Fox News?
Hmm. I don't think that's what I said. Even tylenol or cough medicine with red 40 has had an effect on my kids. You should do some research on the topic before dismissing my concerns.

There's a reason these dyes are banned in a myriad of places outside the US.
It sounds like your prompt needs work then. Not in a “jailbreak” way, just in a prompt engineering way. The APIs definitely let you do much worse than attacking or stealing hypothetical enemies in a video game.