skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wrote it as a general article on python dictionaries.

Yet as written it shows no understanding of how Python dictionaries work, and instead presents falsehoods.

"The hash function takes in the key as input and returns a unique integer value"

This is false. They are not unique.

>>> hash(9) == hash(2**64+1)
True

"A third probing sequence used in Python dictionaries is double hashing"

This ie another falsehood. Python does not use double hashing. Python objects only have a single hash.

"For small integers, Python dictionaries use linear probing with a small array size (8 or 16). For larger integers or strings, Python dictionaries use quadratic probing with a larger array size (32 or more). For other types of keys, Python dictionaries use double hashing with a larger array size (32 or more)."

This is another falsehood. This specialization does not exist.

If it does exist, show me in the code where it does this.

> more like my understanding of python dictionaries

Your article shows no understanding of Python dictionaries. It is a patchwork of different approaches to making a hash table, almost of which are not applicable to Python. Nor does it mention the places where Python is unusual compared to most hash table, even when clearly pointed out in the code comments.

It is easier for me to believe you are using ChatGPT (or something similar) than to believe you understand the topic.
Soybean, almond, rice, tiger nut... milks are basically the product and some extra water, and the result is milk-like.
I don't understand. Is this just the frontend or backend?
Pushing anything almond "for the environment" seems like it's a slap in the face of California, to me.
Digitalise the censored version so we have a copy. Then remove the censorship so we can see the original as intended.
> Calling the UAE a Russian ally is a massive stretch.

No, it is not. Of course they look out for themselves first. However, in this time of war and international sanctions they are one of the countries who are deepening their ties with Russia.

They are spending a lot of money on PR to make it seem like they are on the side of the west, but in actual fact they have been profiting massively from Russia over the last few years.

They may not be a military ally but they are certainly an economic ally of Russia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93United_Arab_E...

> Even though Russia invaded Ukraine, business between the two countries strengthened and many Russian businessmen has flocked to Dubai to purchase properties and invest in the region. Trade between the two countries has doubled to $5 billion over the last three years and they are approximately 4,000 companies with Russian roots that are operating within the country.[8]

> According to the leaked confidential US documents,[9] titled “Russia/UAE: Intelligence Relationship Deepening”, the Russian intelligence officials were engaged in strengthening their relations with the United Arab Emirates. The document stated that Russia had convinced the Emirates “to work together against US and UK intelligence agencies”. It also concluded that the UAE viewed it as an “opportunity” to diversify its partnerships, while the US was gradually parting ways from the Emirates. However, the UAE government had dismissed the accusations that they were maintaining close ties with Russian intelligence.[10]
I wasn't referring to photobashing, I meant firing up SD and ArtStudio for 10 minutes and getting something that looks amazing and has the desired composition.

Overall this feels like trying to get ChatGPT to do math: just let ChatGPT offload math to Wolfram.

Similarly I'd rather just offload the composition. Now we even have SAM which will happily pick out the parts of the image you want to compose
If you want to get better at manipulating your car's buttons without looking, practice doing various tasks with your eyes closed while stopped at a light. If that sounds ridiculous, just own the same car for 15 years instead. Realistically unless it's a rental car you're unfamiliar with so you don't know where you're going, you should be able to move your hand to the approximate area and feel your way to the right button without activating all the buttons you come across.

Touch screens have no such luxury - a graze is a press, the same as an actual press, and because it's a smooth surface, so even if you know the button you want is the second from the bottom, you can't find the bottom button and then go up one.

Ultimately the problem with the touch screen interface is that it has to be looked at, in order for the user to know what mode it's in. Is it in climate control? Is it in radio mode? Is it in Carplay navigation mode or deep in settings? Who knows! Let's find out by not looking at the road where the cars and people are.

As a pedestrian, this does not fill me with joy.
> History has stopped.

Sounds like the people saying "evolution has stopped" for humans, the fact that your living it (by definition) in slow motion because your part of it doesn't mean it has stopped.
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This article was the first time I’ve read of Spielberg owning up to the mistake that was editing out the guns in ET, and it felt.. cathartic. <deep breath> Like forgiving a father who never returned after going out for a pack of smokes after he reconnects thirty years later for a heartfelt apology. Yep, you jacked up one of the most significant films of my childhood for no good reason, thanks for owning up to the stupidity that we all saw it was back then. All better now.
The security of their personal devices on which they must install Microsoft spyware and accept it's terms, before being allowed to complete their education.
Yes, it works well but there is a limit of 16k words. See this reddit comment thread [0] for more details, but if your documents are anywhere near that big then I'd say Postgres is definitely not the right tool for you.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/12yhhcg/commen...
That's still the PostgreSQL problem: it has insane defaults.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-resou... tells you what all the parameters do, but not why and how to change them.

"If you have a dedicated database server with 1GB or more of RAM, a reasonable starting value for shared_buffers is 25% of the memory in your system." Why not set it to 25% of the memory in my system by default, then?

"Sets the base maximum amount of memory to be used by a query operation (such as a sort or hash table) before writing to temporary disk files. If this value is specified without units, it is taken as kilobytes. The default value is four megabytes (4MB)." Yes, and? Should I set it higher? When?

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Serv... hasn't been updated for two years and explains only a handful of parameters.

"If you do a lot of complex sorts, and have a lot of memory, then increasing the work_mem parameter allows PostgreSQL to do larger in-memory sorts which, unsurprisingly, will be faster than disk-based equivalents." How much is a lot? Do I need to care if I'm running mostly OLTP queries?

"This is a setting where data warehouse systems, where users are submitting very large queries, can readily make use of many gigabytes of memory." Okay, so I need to set it higher if I'm running OLAP queries. But how high is too high?

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Performance_Optimization is just a collection of blog posts written by random (probably smart) people that may or may not be outdated.

So when someone complains their Postgres instance runs like ass and smug Postgres weenies tell them to git gud at tuning, they should be less smug, because if your RDBMS requires extensive configuration to support nontrivial loads, you either make this configuration the default one or, if it's significantly different for different load profiles, put a whole section in the manual that covers day 1 and day 2 operations.
Only if you twist the definition of SaaS into meaninglessness.
Screens in cars are completely unnecessary, we have been driving without them for 80 or 90 years. You don't really want to get distracted when driving. Car makers are putting entertainment systems in front of drivers.

I'm shocked that no government hasn't stepped in and regulated its push. People are already looking at mobile phones while driving despite being told that is extremely dangerous to do so and on top of that we also now have theaters on 4 wheels.
That's less of a GPT problem and more of a human problem: bills/contracts/T&Cs/ToS have all been massively blown out because:
* Companies need to cover every minute detail/situation to prevent getting boned, especially in America where your citizens will sue at the drop of a hat
* Companies want to purposefully bulk out the contract so that most people don't bother reading it
This is The Register. It’s a British publication and frequently very sarcastic. I am British and I could feel the sarcasm drip off the screen.
Microsoft in furious attack on UK as major gaming deal blocked
Yes, but there are huge qualitative difference and they are important. Even among historians there is mission creep to adapt the past to fit a certain perspective.
Of course the Zeitgeist is an influence, but to say that deliberate re-interprations are just like any other reassesment is a lie.
There's a difference between new information clarifying history vs. ideology.

Perspective is always a thing, but lies are lies.
> physical layout of buttons is usually stateless - press button thing turns on, press it again it turns off

Not to be pedantic, but that is a state. But I get what you mean: the button has a fixed place. Know your car well enough and you won't even need to look there to turn the thing off or on.
ChatGPT and Bing Chat aren't trying to be safe, really. They're trying to avoid liability for their owners. AI as is is plenty dangerous enough to people who wield it properly (for propaganda, manipulation, hacking, accelerating malicious efforts etc.) even with the guardrails. It's like giving chimps machine guns.

Another issue of AI is the feedback loop. If you tell an AI "help me end my life" and it follows your instructions blindly, it'll end up convincing you to do so, as happened with a young family man recently, and maybe more we haven't heard of.

Existing art has no feedback loop. Movies are unlike AI because it's what they are. They don't follow orders, they just exist as immutable artifacts of human expression back when they were created. So to me it's different.

Oh, and also you'll soon be able to cook a model at home, so all these AI limitations are irrelevant mid-term.
Just pointing out that these do exist in some [1] places. But yeah, generally you're right.

[1] https://en.prostozkranu.krakow.pl
> It is still remembered with warm nostalgia today by countless middle-aged men who would never want their own children to play a game like this.

What ? Why wouldn't you let your kid play Duke Nukem 3D ? It's an awesome game?
Of course they are, nobody said anything suggesting otherwise.

However, saying "cow milk is for baby cows" is a silly reductive take that ignores pretty much the entirety of human history and the heritage we've built around it.

Oat grains are for baby oat plants! - See how silly that sounds?
If you like long movies, I highly recommend Sergei Bondarchuk's film of Tolstoy's "War and Peace" - IIRC, more than 7 hours long. I have never seen such dedication to the art of moviemaking.

Sergei Bondarchuk also plays, quite movingly, the "central" role of Pierre, a representation of Tolstoy himself in the story. (His daughter stars in another of my favorite long movies, Andrei Tarkovsky's "Solyaris".)

Mosfilm has uploaded it on YouTube in four parts:

Part 1
https://youtu.be/bIij-KQ0jYU

Part 2
https://youtu.be/uJjqSfdFuUI

Part 3
https://youtu.be/wpKA1meiJzs

Part 4
https://youtu.be/nvDMu5e4xzw
It's a nice story, the founder in exile fighting to keep his unrestricted messaging service, even against the fangs of an authoritarian government that regularly outright murders people around the world. A history of some technical sloppyness, we overlook it as "growth hacking". I'm afraid believing in that is about as smart as those criminals were trusting EncroChat.
Don't worry, it happened the same also to someone else: https://www.thegeographicalcure.com/post/underpants-in-the-s...
Did anyone force you to use either of those to complete your education? No? What's your point again?
> how about we use the art of that era to teach the new generation why certain things are wrong?

Better yet, let people decide for themselves what is – and isn't – "wrong".
Whilst I agree, that's what I don't get.

When a user is expected to have to repurchase a product in the future (e.g. phone upgrade), do they look at it as squeezing as much revenue out of a single user whilst they own a single device, or over lifetime ownership of many devices?

You can imagine a scenario where they squeeze an extra 20% revenue whilst that user owns their device (great for this quarter) at the cost of 100% of future revenue when the user moves to another brand on renewal.

If the average phone upgrade is 21 months [0], then this feels like a short enough timeframe for this to be felt in the numbers.

0: https://www.counterpointresearch.com/smartphone-users-replac...
Policing the present to fit my worldview is tyrannic. Changing the past to fit my worldview is lunatic.
Which models? My personal S series has no such thing but I was surprised that my work A series came with ads and stuff. Seems to be a similar strategy to Microsoft pushing crap on the Home versions of Windows but not doing so on the corporate versions.
Literally everything can be faked. Independent researchers, etc. Especially by the government. I don’t have an iota of trust in govts.
The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs
Need desktop app and mobile app.
Google's MediaPipe
Two weeks ago I took a ride on a friend's Tesla Model S with Autopilot 2.0 here in Sweden, with the FSD feature enabled, he tried to show me how awesome it was. Driving around for 15 minutes on the highway was nice until we got into the streets inside a part of the city, not even 5 minutes in the city the car tried to steer itself into a curb during a turn, almost hitting a pedestrian waiting for the light.

No thanks, that shouldn't be allowed on public roads.
He is infinitely right. No art should be revised, ever.
The language requirements for a PR are lower if you have a blue card
Do you hand out the keys for free? If not you are still punishing people who have the moral high ground.
It's quite fun that this is essentially the pre-50s Hollywood vertical integration again. I expect this will eventually end with antitrust legislation and mandatory licencing to third parties.
then that is exactly how much they worth on the job market.

The job market is not our god. Life is not some kind of economic art project.
Raw milk should almost never be drunk in today’s reality, regardless if you know where it came from. There is enough asymptomatic bacteria in cows that is really bad for you. Somehow raw milk became a religion in the US, but it’s really really unhealthy.
... because they produce milk?
Yes, it's terrible, CarPlay was designed to with touch in mind. You spend more time looking at the screen to figure out where your "cursor" is. I found the Tesla touch screen to be much safer to use.
Yeah, my cx-3 has this. I love it. I wouldn't want to go back to a normal touchscreen in my car.
> Nobody likes milk—like, literally nobody.

If that were true then you wouldn't need to scream it so hard. If people didn't like it, it wouldn't sell, and they'd stop making it.

But it's great! I love milk. Cold. Hot. As-is. In pancakes. Etc.

Alt Milks? Do I want to drink a bag of sugar with some liquid you managed to squeeze out of a root, after much processing and who knows what chemicals? No. No I do not.
Isn't that why UK is easing migration conditions from Africa and Asia now? To cover the shortage left by the EU migrants?

A friend of mine who just moved to the UK, went to a migrant GP who barely spoke English and was googling his symptoms to give him a diagnostic lol. No idea how he was allowed to practice medicine in the UK but it's terrifying.
It’s not that those feelings are wrong, it’s when you decide to alter artistic work based on the current vogue. It’s when you cross the line into censorship.
I don't own the company. I will push back a bit, but if management insists on using the foot-gun, why would I get on their bad side? They are adults as well and if they don't agree with me, I do as they tell me.
Might be an idea to actually read the article before replying.
Good half of people who complain about modern sensitivity are in it for inequality and for revenge.

You see that in a way they are perfectly fine with old sensitivity. As long as censorship and exclusion are done the way they have been done in past, they support it.
> caching and serving the content of everyone you federate with

This is a Mastodon quirk. Eugen made the decision that everything must be locally cached for the reason that big instances should not have a "slashdot effect" on remote, smaller instances. In my opinion that's wrong and his solution is actively working against the idea of "federated network", as the fediverse wants to be, and as the internet already is.

The user facing problems stemming from this decision is (from the top of my head) the fact that you can't view another user's past posts if his server didn't federate with yours. That's such a low bar of improvement that it baffles me that nobody bothered to fix it so far.
> They haven't edited other people's histories while continuing to label those histories as the work of the original authors.

You are extremely naive. This has happened lots and lots of times.
The anecdote isn’t relevant. Had it been called “almond drink” or “zarplof munksie” the outcome would’ve been the same.
Are you referring to the tweet by @arodericks? Amusingly his account has no sign of offical-ness, but I did find confirmation he really work(ed) for Twitter on newsmax [1].

A few days ago I would have agreed with you that it's unlikely a Twitter official just blatantly lied about something so obvious. But then they made the UI falsely indicate people had verified their phone numbers for a juvenile prank.

Now I don't trust Twitter more than a random user. So I have no idea what happened.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/twitter-files-taibbi-state...
Although I'm very against the silliness of the "milk is a white poison" crowd, it's important to know that lactose tolerance is mostly found in white people from north European origin. Other ethnicities have way higher levels of intolerance. Asian, Native Americans, African Americans... usually have 70-95% of lactose intolerance.

https://intermountainhealthcare.org/blogs/topics/live-well/2...
Morality is political.
Telegram has a long history of obfuscation when it comes to court orders. In Brazil, they simply ignored previous court orders until they were banned. They played a similar trick in Germany too, and backed down after heavy fines: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-takes-on-telegram-to-fight-ext...

So, I wouldn't take anything they say at face value. It's not only about giving out the information they have on these individuals, it's also about shutting down other similar groups according to the court order. I'm not a free speech absolutist, I think that no platform should harbor Nazism and death threats, particularly after they have already resulted in murder. If they fundamentally cannot comply with this, then they should be banned indeed.
It's best not to ask it anything like that, it has the most boring, bog-standard answers on anything divisive.
More people could live with much less energy if they didn't all drive around in 3-ton fossil-fuel-burning metal boxes and live in huge, separate houses with HVAC.
I am in Japan and when my mobile net has run out I've had to use public wifi for a day or two and it's not a pretty picture. I find I can barely connect after multiple tries and they drop out frequently, and often have time limits like 20 minutes on them.

Usually I get a sim from the airport vending machine, or for longer trips go to Yodobashi/Bic Camera and get one, you can get 30GB for less than the cost of a month's internet at home.
it's certainly not for no reason, but it could be a PR move not actually backed up by good technical evidence. The public evidence certainly most strongly hints that higher core voltages could be part of the issue, but the motherboard companies responding to that by doing the obvious thing does not necessarily mean they have actually confirmed the issue exists, just that they either think it's worth doing it just in case or as a way to avoid being seen as not doing anything about it.

This is a market segment which has had many a case of mass wild speculation and theories around a small case of reported failures, and most of the theories have turned out to be wrong.
The ASUS BIOS patch update description says:

"SoC voltage for Ryzen 7000X3D series limited to a maximum of 1.30V to protect the CPU and motherboard."

Does that mean it only applies the fix to the 3D, and with the non-3D 7000 series you're still at risk when using EXPO?
Does "Snowden leaks" mean anything to you? We know the US wiretapped its allies heads of state's mobile phones and manipulated CISCO routers en masse. We also know the US infiltrated satellite telcos in Germany and set up an encryption vendor in Switzerland alongside with the German intelligence who pulled out after finding out the US was also happily selling the compromised devices to its own European allies. We can also be pretty certain the US was involved in Israeli cyber attacks on Iran.
You could, you know, find new books and films.
I’ve been using https://github.com/samschott/maestral instead of Dropbox’s client for the last year or so and it’s been rock-solid.
When Stan came out on MTV, the swear words were definitely edited out. That is the only version I heard when I was growing up. The full version is something that played only late night and I was not watching TV at that time.
Maybe, maybe not?

It depends on what improved GPT-4 relative to 3. If it was adding more data, then we'd expect progress to speed up in the short-term and then come to a screeching halt as we run out of text.

If it was algorithmic/model improvements then it could be much quicker to improve or much slower.

I think the big problem is that nobody (except Open-AI) knows what GPT-4 does and how it does it, so it's hard to predict.

I'm generally a fan of a naive model given the uncertainties around this, hence my prediction of three years.
If profit can refer to a loss then why would you assume they had a positive profit in the last period? Perhaps not quite so easy to make sense of.

In any case, hopefully next quarter their losses can crater by 2000%, i.e., go from a small profit to a larger one and get back to about where they were.
this. im baffled how most platform that has user accounts does not allow provisioning of service accounts so users can easily access their data.
> There is talk of dropping this requirement, but I'll believe it when I see it.

I really hope it doesn't get dropped; it is unreasonable to live permanently in a country without speaking the local language

There are other types of residencies available if someone is an expat and doesn't plan on staying permanently

And it's not like they're asking for a high fluency; with B1, you can barely hold a simple coherent conversation
It's not because something can be done that it must be done.
Don't mega corps just follow what society/customers want?
As a fellow Australian I can agree and see some good points in this.
However I also think it no longer applies to post 2020 cars in a city/urban environment.
Yes it is from 1984:

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/481916-every-record-has-bee...
Wow, uninstall dropbox then.
I guess this is the business equivalent of "you catch more bees with honey"