skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I ever said anything about deference? Chao was a complete BS appointment who was clearly just there to hand off contracts to family friends... Buttigieg was someone who wanted to be endowed as the chief executive and instead got a cabinet appointment - they came from being a mayor to having a role on the national stage and I honestly don't think they've really accomplished anything of note that would give them a boost in an upcoming election - this collision was not their fault personally but they responded to it poorly and hasn't been doing much else. I'm pretty sure Katie Porter has had a much larger impact on most people's lives than Buttigieg.

To clarify - when I said I hold them to a higher standard than Chao it's because my expectations were for Chao to wave in a series of corrupt defunding decisions and they ended up only being relatively corrupt - they cleared the extremely low bar I had for them. I had expectations about Buttigieg and they have not lived up to them.
This has been percolating in my brain too. It seems like a lot of the criticisms of LLMs are actually insights in to how our brains work.

The way we’re interacting with GPT for example is starting to feel to me like it has a brain with knowledge structured similarly it ours, but no encapsulating consciousness. The answers it returns then feel like records of the synaptic paths that are connected to the questions. Just like our initial intuitions.

I started thinking about this when I saw that visual AI was having trouble “drawing” hands in a way that felt very familiar.
All those barriers and more apply to nuclear weapons. Prior to the Manhattan Project, nobody was even sure if nuclear energy could be sufficiently weaponized.

The biggest barrier to bio weapons is, I think motivation. Bio weapons are hard to target effectively and there is a chance of blowback. In addition, unlike nuclear weapons, they are not as useful against military targets. A nuclear bomb can annihilate a tank column. However, every major military has the capability of offering bio weapons protection to its soldiers (for example filtration systems in tanks).

In addition, because of incubation, etc, the country you are targeting always has the time for retaliation, if not with bio weapons then with nuclear weapons.

Thus it is not clear what bio weapons buy a country that nuclear weapons don’t.
> Yes, It's not clear at all that heat pumps are always a win -- depending on the energy source mix of your local grid

As others have noted, a new gas furnace might break even right now with an electric air-source heat pump, but how is it going to work out as electrification and decarbonization proceeds? Break even now, come out ahead in the future - choose heat pumps.
Often I use Python to write systems of CLI scripts to do data analysis or synthesis.

Notably this is not a Jupyter notebook where the code and data are mashed together but rather I have the code in one directory, activate a venv, then I cd to a directory where the data files I am working are kept. The node or maven model where your scripts run relative to the current directory is not what I want at all.
Fold

Scan

Map

Head/tail

Index (with an array)

The integers up to n

Concatenate

Flatten

Most of the operators are already familiar but they tend to work well on multidimensional arrays and with each other due to broadcast semantics (and some axis selection features). In other languages you may see the magic broadcasting for some operations like addition but many of the functions only work on vectors.
It's actually shocking to see some of the discussion and understanding of the code here. I'd say the "part-time programmers" qualifier is even generous.

Sad to see.
This might be helpful, a gist of google apps script to bulk delete email in batches.

https://gist.github.com/gene1wood/0f455239490e5342fa49
I believe the toxicity of Phosgene is more of a corrosive effect than being poisoned by something like snake venom. It chemically reacts with the tissue in your lungs rather than interfering with specific biochemical reactions, so you can’t really manufacture an antidote. Just like how there isn’t an antidote for chlorine gas.
We're planning to charge for active users in larger teams and to have a gracious tier for casual users like in your case. We do have many teams that use it for trainings and even interviews and we'd be interested if it works for you too.
What does China have in terms of LLMs?
If you use a dynamically typed language like Python or Ruby, sure. I use it for Rust and the compiler immediately catches any errors. Just one more reason I don't use dynamically typed languages.
Ahh the the Base Rate Fallacy - always something to keep in mind. A lot of people fall for that one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
Yeah, I think many people are using them for dynamically typed languages like Python or Ruby, not Rust or TypeScript. If it's the latter, your compiler will automatically find the errors for you.
This appears to implement nontrivial features such as constraint solving and the ability to easily fillet edges.

I like the idea of programming geometry, but never got the hang of the OpenSCAD language. I eventually settled on JSCAD.
OpenAI is a fairly new company, and if it tells you how it trained models what stops you from making one yourself?
Being one of the first people from out of state to assist in Katrina myself, I would argue that this shows that the POTUS showing up at a disaster site isn't a good measurement of how seriously they're taking the situation / how well they're handling it.
Didn’t the US bring a law to ban TikTok this week?
Yes, you're pretty much scaling the video while retaining its aspect ratio. We're doing that so users can't interfere with each other's setup (it was different early on and annoying).
The other future path is that all the other OEMs follow suit because they don't want to just make money once in selling hardware - but have a recurring revenue stream.

At the moment GM (and Tesla...) is capacity constrained so no reason to appease customers any more than they need to. Not till you have excess supply. I think GM can take the hit for a year or two and see if other OEMs follow. If not they can always say "whoops, here's an OTA upgrade".

If other OEMs follow what will consumers do - besides mounting their cellphone on their dash.
Use sqlite and store it in one file. Or use s3.

If you have 5 million users, you should be using a real system
Funny enough, this tracks the early history of Google as well. It was originally written by Larry Page and Sergey Brin (both grad students at the time) in Python, then Sanjay Ghemawat rewrote the whole thing in C++.
What is a trade engine?
I think that’s a feature though. The people who get into position of power are competent at politics. It’s a system that optimized for bullshitting. It takes a literal psychopath to not get frustrated/drained. You’re probably far too sane to make it.
Depending on the source...plausible deniability
Devil's advocate though: imagine you were to open source (probably with quite a short deadline) some 'algorithm' used in whatever you work on, but the rest should stay private; how would you go about that?

I don't think it's easy, there's inherently some interface(s!) where it's a hand-wavey 'get the thing from the private bit', and defining that sensibly is hard, and if you try to do it well will probably lead to a lot of meetings, scope creep, etc. - and as far as that goes it's not easy anyway, since it's highly technical and implementation-specific yet also a management/policy decision to make.
> Hunter Biden's business partner outlines Joe Biden's involvement

"The evidence sits on these three phones, I don’t want to go into anything any further. This will all be discussed with Senator Johnson and his committee and the American people can decide what’s fact"

That's pretty weak.

> You'd have to be pretty naive not to acknowledge the long-term benefits to the Democratic party of increasing the Hispanic demographic. An incredible betrayal of democracy.

Children that are born here, voting decades from now? They're not just going to blindly follow one party. That's not a betrayal of democracy.

> You'll note that at no point has anybody been held to account for any of the above.

You can't hold someone to account for making a bad dossier any more than you can hold candidates to account for saying random awful things about people. I don't know what you expect to see beyond voter dissatisfaction, which happened in droves.

And strictness of border enforcement is something the president legitimately gets to decide.

I don't know about pressure related to the laptop story and don't really want to get deeper into tangents right now.

> But if you (alledgedly) paid some hush money to a woman 7 years ago (years past the statute of limitations) well, you're gonna be held to account then of course.

The accusation is (probably) based on hiding campaign fund spending.
Point taken, it's on our roadmap...
15 years ago, GFS had "bytes" quotas and "files" quotas for internal users.

That doesn't matter directly here, but a file-count limit is an extremely natural thing to have from an operational perspective. Clearly Google still doesn't know how to communicate that type of thing to customers.
In Austin, TX and likely other US cities, https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2020-07-24/apds-secret-...

> secret citizen spying program that's active in the Austin area and across the country ... Threat Liaison Officers (TLOs), who report suspicious activity or behavior ... each TLO must sign a nondisclosure agreement with ARIC, including those not working in law enforcement, essentially creating secret citizen officers. These informants, known as For Official Use Only TLOs, are able to access the fusion centers' national intelligence database (excluding personal identifying information). The FOUO TLOs include private security officers with local hotels, malls, large venues, and local semiconductor companies.
it's libre and gratis, if that's not something that bothers you (and to be sure if you're just writing code for your own edification it's not a practical problem) then i would recommend dyalog, although as a side effect of being open J has a (perhaps only slightly) larger free ecosystem and community.

the down side is that subjectively some people (myself included) find J uglier, less effective as a tool of thought and due to some syntactic features (hooks and forks, but no proper lightweight anonymous function syntax)-prone to people posting impenetrably dense code as "examples"
Bigger vehicles by volume are safer, as there is more space for crumple zones. Bigger vehicles by mass are more dangerous, as there is more momentum and kinetic energy involved in a collision.
True - if you share your window or display on CoScreen, you can decide if you also want to share remote control or not. It’s a global toggle for all the windows you share. Also, only users who have the invite to your CoScreen (and therefore have a secure token to get into it) and are with you in it at that moment, would be able to type into your window if you allowed that.
And when everyone buys in, you go private everything and reap the benefits. Brilliant!
Lebron famously uses the free version of Spotify. Maybe he just does not see the value of paying for the blue mark.
Finally see what? DEI is extremely important. It's just also a space that can be dominated by some absolutely dumb people.
IMINT satellites are never GEO (if only because GEO is so far), so they don't "sit above" some area but fly over it at high speed, so it can get a 45° or 30° picture and the only issue is the target is a bit further than when you're straight above it.
It sounds like you’ve got so much of a chip on your shoulder that it’s resulted in you giving advice that’s objectively awful.
We need a DAWNBench* benchmark for training ChatGPT the fastest and cheapest.

* https://dawn.cs.stanford.edu/benchmark/
It's an open algorithm, but it's not open data! (joking)
No, you couldn't be more wrong. Nice argument you dug up there!

Language going forward... I hadn't had such a laugh in a while... It was dead in the 70s. Long before it was born. Are you under influence or something?

> There is a reason why bleeding edge ML stuff is done through Python

No, there isn't, and bleeding edge ML isn't done in Python. It's done mostly in C++ and more seldom in C. Which are another garbage languages, but that's just the reality we live in. Python is just a tiny fraction of what's being done, the tip of the tip of the iceberg.

And, no Python is not the backend of popular platforms, it is, again, a tiny little bit of what's going on in those "popular platforms", and, unlike you, I actually worked for those "popular platforms", so, would know how that is.

But, even, imagine that in your fairy-tale world Python is somehow so super-important and successful? Didn't I already explain how this is possible while still being a garbage language? -- I bet I did. You just rushed to spit your despair and frustration at me, because I offended something that you like... well, you think that you like, but really, you just don't know any better, just like other people using Python :( And that's really the sad part. You lack critical thinking to be really able to tell the quality of your tools. You substituted the ability to judge the quality of something by looking at what the majority is doing and following the herd.

And, I didn't study when Python became taught in school. In my days the language of choice for intro to CS was Visual Basic :| It's also garbage... and the whole idea that the intro to CS has to be done by learning a random fashionable language of the day is just dumb. It's a misunderstanding of SICP, which to someone who didn't understand what the book is about looks as if the author tried to teach the students Scheme, and later intro to CS classes were modeled on this book, but replaced Scheme with another language, while completely forgetting that Scheme was used in the first place as a language with "little syntax", to avoid spending time on learning the language.

You again are confused when you use the expression "dynamic typing", but you don't even know what that is. But you will never accept it because, again, you don't have the ability to critically think, you follow the herd. You red a "definition" somewhere that says that Python is "dynamically typed language", and you believed this nonsense, even though you never really thought about what that might mean...

One thing we agree on though: the direction the compute is going is to utilize more low-skill programmers, and that means, beside other things, following fads more than doing any sensible work. Python is the current fad, and so, for a while, we are stuck with this garbage. And, the way things are going, at best, I can hope for another equally idiotic language to come to replace it. But, probably not very soon.
> Indian govt charges outbound INR to USD conversion at 5%.

I'm sorry, what?
The people that have AI/ well trained LLMs talk about the stuff you can do with AI. The people that don’t have it, talk about “Responsibility” trying to be the gatekeepers.

Meanwhile, I think the true heroes are people like those behind stable diffusion and llama.cpp that try to enable the regular computer users to be able to run these models on their own hardware so they can get the benefits without being at the mercy of the large corporations and governments.
My unscientific pet theory is that poorly built/zoned neighborhoods and cities, designed as if every human needs to drive a giant car at all times, are to blame more
Fair point, HighWingTwinPropPhotos even.
Except, don’t go private this time. Appoint an external board not controlled by the CEO and write it into your bylaws.
Sure, but that is basically the question the OP was raising.

>I wonder if a lower life expectancy isn't the worst thing in the world....Maybe we shouldn't be trying as hard as we are to drag on life into the late 80s and beyond.

I think it is a reasonable and interesting question. If we could extend life to 200, but with the quality and cost of someone in their 80's, would that be socially desirable? Personally desirable?

What if you have to work 10X harder or more hours between 20 and 65 to support an elderly population 10X larger.
First: Friendly reminder to everyone to back up your data and then back up your backups to a separate location.

Second: I’m the person in my family who wakes up in a cold sweat worrying if our photos are backed up properly, or my music collection. I’ve got a handful of backups at the house that I double check periodically to make sure they haven’t decayed, and some stuff backed up to some cloud services. I’ve been talking to some family members and close friends about building some simple home lab raid devices that we can use to back up our stuff locally and to one another’s locations.

I’m not enough of a network engineer or server admin to know the best way to set it up, but I’m hoping we’ll figure out a simple, cost effective way to handle it. I’m hoping it’s a fun project either way and we can all avoid entropy for just a bit longer.
Take a look around this website, for starters.
> This floored me. One because in my mid Atlantic area nearly every house has a heat pump. When house shopping many years ago we never saw a listing that didn't have one.

In California, especially Southern California, many homes still have wall-mounted natural-convention gas heaters. Mainly because natural gas is plentiful (LA is basically sitting on top of an oil and gas reservoir) and heating isn't needed much of the year. Often they are placed in/on a wall between the two largest rooms, so that both are heated.

The technology is actually pretty neat: A thermopile sits in the pilot light's flame, which provides electricity to hold open the main shutoff solenoid valve and run a thermostat, so it needs no external electricity.
That is the pipeline... that is not the thing that goes to your house lol. Not to mention that a couple percent doesn't even come close to changing the math given above
I see, thanks! Looks like I might try both. The "no proper lightweight anonymous function syntax" sounds weird to me, I would have thought that's paramount for an array language? Do I misunderstand?
this is a bit obscure but Trealla Prolog allows for full unicode in the source and user defined operators, which is nice.
yknow customers usually get away

whats funnier is those who run these booter sites then ACCEPTS payment with paypal. dios mio
Now it's clear that there was a bug in the measurement. The author used a machine with lots of RAM, so I guess most of us are still stuck with quantized 13B. Still, the improvement hopefully translates, and I hope that 30B will run with 3 bit quantization in a few days.
i don't think it's stupid. i also find k more readable. 2 reasons why:

- k has much fewer primitives. it's easier to remember a smaller set of operations.

- k is statically parsable. APL is not. we know the program structure simply by reading the code.

this is completely subjective. because you find APL more intuitive doesn't prove anything. to each their own.
And the current system's have an incentive for success?

All of your criticisms of the bonus pay proposal can be easily addressed, as the other ones in this thread.

For example, test the kids once a year at the end of the academic year. There goes the incentive to fail the pretest.

The advanced students can go into the gifted track, which can be operated differently.

> And why would schools or states care?

They don't care now. Proof: Seattle got rid of their gifted programs.
Think back in history to the interaction of the natives of the America with other humans, from Europe, with only slightly better technology.

AGI would be make us the natives, only the disparity will grow geometrically.

There is good reason to worry.
Isn't almost any online payment method trivially trackable?

Bitcoin (and most other cryptocoins) needs a bit of effort to grovel the public transaction history, and XMR does things that supposedly make that not really work at all, but other than that...
3.5" floppies - 800K-1.44MB, small and slow.

Better than cassette tapes though...
2004 called, they want their flame back.

But seriously: Shuttleworth tried a classic EEE play on Debian, over and over and over. Obviously nerds mostly want to get along and will end up talking to each other, but it doesn't change the fact that, at the time, it was a (not-that-) thinly veiled, well-funded takeover attempt on the Debian ecosystem and community.

> Ubuntu changes feed back into Debian. Debian now has the `apt` command

It's nice that you bring up a classic case of unashamed namesquatting. People have been referring to "apt" in general terms since apt-get came on the scenes, 6 YEARS before Canonical was founded. But why give up the chance to piggyback on someone else's brand, eh...? So when the time came to churn on the umpteen apt-get frontend, they did just that.
They aren't at all. They are synthetic benchmarks that carry little resemblance to real world experience.
In the Wordle dict example, it would have helped if a type system could tell me I was wrong when I assumed that an indexing miss would generate an empty list.
There are recent efforts to provide a correctly rounded and performant C23 libm, such as https://core-math.gitlabpages.inria.fr/

Maybe correct rounding (and hence consistency) will be made into the standard requirements (at least for single and double precisions) in the near future?
Indonesia? Smart land use?

Hmmmm, call me skeptical, but i'll check it out. From what I know off the top of my head, ton of people, bunch of islands -> requires concentrated land use like manhattan or hk or singapore or sf or choose your concentrated land mass -- not sure any would qualify as good or smart or sustainable or 'some of the best' land use, but will def check it out.
I’m not a junior developer, but there are plenty of things that i know I don’t know.

I also prefer to learn by doing, and chatgpt gives me enough support in the places I’m lacking to make
It much easier for me to learn about what’s going on. Infinitely patient, and just a few keystrokes away whenever I need it.
This would be the stupidest possible way of conducting mass surveillance
In the US, many people I know have been periodically inundated with scam robocalls... in Mandarin! They spoof a number very close to your own which is a dead giveaway in a larger metropolitan area but probably pretty effective in rural areas with fewer local numbers. The novelty wore off after like the 10th "Nĭhǎo..."
> ...it is only because that group disproportionately participates in behavior that is bad for the platform. That isn't a problem.

That is exactly what Twitter's stance has been all along (in the pre-Elon era) and it IS a problem for the product because people being silenced due to their own bad behavior (example: misgendering transgender people) feel an injustice is being done. The rule-makers get to set the range of acceptable discourse on Twitter and those to the right of center have felt unfairly disadvantaged by the way it was done in the past.

Over time this has eroded trust in the product. Just because people aren't being labeled and ranked based on whether they are red team or blue team, the people deciding what "good" and "bad" behavior looks like on the platform have the power to disproportionately impact these groups.
https://profiles.howard.edu/nikole-hannah-jones (“Hannah-Jones holds a Master of Arts in Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned her Bachelor of Arts in History and African-American studies from the University of Notre Dame.”).

The ship has sailed on trying to limit “CRT” to its original academic meaning. People needed a word to refer to the ideology that had suddenly become prominent in public discourse, and “CRT” won. See: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/please-just-fucking-tel...