skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah my mom is a piano teacher and described the same difficulty. In university (USSR) they would play the same song twice. The first time she got all the notes and the second time she’d fill in the melody. Other students without perfect pitch would be able to transcribe the entire thing the first time and just use the second time to correct any mistakes they made.
A longer name for WGS 84.
How do they propose enforcing it?
> I don't understand why Wired chose to omit those.

I like to think I’m a rational person, but I read the headline, got alarmed and clicked on the link. I read the article and got more alarmed, and so I clicked on another link within the article. The purpose of news is not to inform. It’s to generate fear based on biases and use that to generate clicks and more fear. If done well, it’s designed to create an unvirtuous circle of fear and clicks. This article served its purpose perfectly.
Note there's a selection bias here: any lethal mutation that causes a fetus to spontaneously die before a child is born is uncounted here. There are many tweaks that are fatal during development, you just don't count them if you only look at born children.
WebAssembly+WebUSB port of the SANE scanner library
How Not to Write a Microbenchmark (2002)
https://archive.ph/r4nW5
Thanks! I'm aware of the abstract technical idea, but is there any evidence that Ward's wiki ever worked like that? Did he ever accept a "pull request" or are there any notable forks which do?
What was the intent of this message?
I don’t have a problem with opinions on products, but urging people to “do x instead of y because standards” is such an intellectually lazy take, especially when the party being criticized has led development on some of the most influential open source projects in history.

I’d love to see OP do anything as remotely influential in the industry as DHH.
I remember changing the weight of some of the cars in the game, making Stella a 20 ton beast.

It was not fun when you played against the modded cars. I got totally crushed when I forgot to revert the changes
From my limited experience in small midwestern cities, I haven't seen too many people stay with pure adjuncting for long. I was an adjunct for one year and then got a one year contract that was up for annual renewal until the university got a new president and decided the university wouldn't have any 1 year contracts any more (now I'm full time at the community college which doesn't have tenure).

While I have a PhD, most of the people who adjuncted only had MAs and so weren't eligible for a tenure track job. From my phd program at an R1 school, I'm not aware of anyone who is adjuncting as their main source of income. Only handful of them are at R1s. Many either left academia or are in potions similar to mine which aren't research focused.

The reason people stay in adjuncting is because they hope for the full time contracts, the like teaching, and they like the flexibility of being able to pick which days they teach (I know this from experience because as a full time employee while I do have flexibility, there are times when no adjuncts will cover an 8am or night class and we have to do it and I have already been warned that in the Fall it looks like we won't have adjuncts to cover certain days because they don't want to work those days).
It's hard not to just want the damn AI to take over already when you read confident comments like OP, but the truth is:

> The new MIT study adds to a growing body of evidence that the size of algorithms matters less than their architectural complexity. For example, earlier this month, a team of Google researchers published a study claiming that a model much smaller than GPT-3 — fine-tuned language net (FLAN) — bests GPT-3 by a large margin on a number of challenging benchmarks. And in a 2020 survey, OpenAI found that since 2012, the amount of compute needed to train an AI model to the same performance on classifying images in a popular benchmark, ImageNet, has been decreasing by a factor of two every 16 months.

[0]: Improved algorithms may be more important for AI performance than faster hardware: https://venturebeat.com/ai/improved-algorithms-may-be-more-i...
Would love to know what your other 4 are.
If this makes it easier to build new buildings/housing, I'm all for it.
good! the number of active leaks in old cities is astounding, thousands in some cases… not to mention the impact on indoor air quality… it’s time to start moving on
Right, it's not just offshore oil rigs, it can be processing facilities deep onshore, like in a place appropriately named Commerce City:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/suncor-prepares-to-reop...

And it's the Gulf Coast where there can be a lot this for miles, it's 24/7. Flaring is of course, "normal":

https://www.facebook.com/KRIS6News/videos/live-view-from-our...

For my life's work I needed to become very comfortable working in this environment, especially where the big ships are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW9Frtkqy3Y

Dystopias are us.
this is brilliant, please open source it. I need AI to tell me which AI events to go to.
Finally got it! Seed is 5905480. Tried your seed but wasn't able to clear it :)
sh shell is specified in POSIX, and it's 'always' there, but it's simply not as usable as bash. It's easier to start as a sh script and give into make it a bash script than to switch to something else later.

Perl has a reputation, and isn't always available. Python isn't always available either and has the 2 vs 3 problem still (maybe not for much longer).

Many scripts are super simple, or at least start that way, so something that starts as just a list of commands to run is a better interface; but it gets unweildy if you need deeper logic and nesting of things. Such is life.
Yes, absolutely. You are never going to out-accelerate the truck in front of you.

If someone hits the back of you, it's a them problem.

If you prefer to end up driving into the side of a truck and getting squashed, then I guess that's your decision.
The overall tone of the article just reeks of propoganda
I started using Autopy [0] for writing scripts to automate games on Windows, and then discovered that scrcpy lets me do the same for Android. I've used it for solving picross puzzles and right now I'm working on a solver for the Zachtronics solitaire games.

[0] https://pypi.org/project/autopy/
I learned about the wet bulb temperature from his book.

Wet bulb temperature measures heat and humidity at the same time.

It's the lowest temperature that can be achieved through evaporative cooling, measured using a thermometer covered in a water-soaked cloth to simulate the cooling effect of evaporation on the surrounding air.

If the wet bulb temperature stays above body temperature for a long time, you will die since there's no way to cool off.

The book speculates that even when tens of millions of Indians die from the heat, that won't be enough to get nations and corporations to fix the problem.

In his narrative, the only solution is a global clandestine black-ops campaign of sabotage and assassination to target the powerful individuals blocking progress to protect their own wealth.
Both Dell and Lenovo will sell you laptops with Ubuntu. The selection is admittedly (significantly) smaller than for Windows laptops, but it certainly removes uncertainty over whether the hardware will be supported.

It seems strange to me that, over the last 15 years, hardware makers and sellers haven't tried harder to commoditize their complements and ensure that every computer they sell is at least Linux capable and ready to go.
At a certain point the only way to get through to people is to respond in a way that matches their maturity level.

When people are saying ridiculous things like "You will be as insouciant, and as clueless, when your much-admired billionaire masters destroy the last remaining living ecosystem" about satellites in LEO you're not dealing with a person with adult emotions.

For one, the last time I checked LEO isn't an ecosystem with living things in it and I can't think of a single ecosystem out there we could destroy. Whatever "ecosystem" that exists in LEO is an ecosystem _we_ created. I guarantee good old "nature" won't be creating life there anytime soon if you're excluding humans from nature.
I was always disappointed it never summoned some grumpy graybeard unix admin from a dark server room basement to give me a chiding lecture.
One cool thing, I think, is that you can do

import foo/bar

And foo's bar library will just work in your program without you having to download it then bundle it. It will just look for foo’s bar library online when it runs (and I guess it’ll be running on an online platform, not necessarily on your own computer).
AI is a marketing term
On the one hand we have people lauding SpaceX/Musk as super geniuses able to achieve great feats without the supposed waste and largesse of the government, and on the other we have the same group wringing their hands when expectations are set based on their gushing praise.
Okay, so let's say we can actually do this.

An AI with the same goal can still:

Launch a ton of traditional weapons

Bomb nuclear reactors

Socially engineer another country into launching nukes

Release COVID-23 by breaking the lab airlock

...

And in a more developed version, just create weapons more destructive than nukes using some magic physics we don't know yet.

# Disabled for safety

Merged in 0ecb7a, closing this.
I hope the follow up to your dog challenge is escaping from the angry neighbor and then getting shot.
I can help with "verified correct sources", have a look at "Language Models are Few-Shot Learners" section 2.2 [1].

You may also be interested in Apendix A in the same document: "Details of Common Crawl Filtering"

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165.pdf
The long demise of the stretch limousine
"never wrestle with a pig – it gets mud all over you and the pig likes it". It would probably be just about as effective as piling cash and a wheelbarrow and lighting it on fire.

For whatever their motivations they already seem to be intentionally racking up their legal bills as high as they possibly can. Some have suggested that since in the UK it's possible for non-attorneys to own firms that this could be used to launder money (Wright's known sponsor spent a decade on a DHS most wanted list for money laundering), though I've seen nothing but speculation. ... whatever the reason they clearly don't mind spending on litigation.

If you win anything they won't pay-- they already have an unpaid judgement against them for ~$140 million dollars in Florida-- their latest gambit in that case has been to announce Wright's wives are actually the plaintiff, that they've fired the plaintiff's attorney and appointed their own. ( Probably a good place to read was the real plaintiff's ultimately unsuccessful motion to strike the fake one's appearance https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.52... the entire docket there is confusing now because you have to scroll to the bottom of each brief to find out if its the real plaintiff or the fake plaintiff).

Wright himself almost certainly couldn't pay-- he has no known source of funding except from extracting money from sponsors via his creator of Bitcoin fiction. Losing cases in and of itself hasn't made him stop or even really slowed him down. Engaging with him in civil court at all is necessary to prevent the personal ruination of his targets, but doesn't seem like a likely path to make him quit.
If your “host servers” are known (say 4 backends) you set up the balancer and point it to the 4 host IPs.

If you are dynamically allocating host servers and needing to register them with the LB you should probably consider K8s?

This is designed for a “more stable” world:

Have some hosts. Have an LB. Deploy containers to those hosts. Avoid superfluous k8s complexity that you don’t need.
It's not feasible to edit a majority of most adult cell types; it's not practical at this time. You'd need a very effective vector (high sensitivity and specificity). More likely, you'd want a vector that targeted neuronal stem cells and transform a large fraction of them. Those cells would then go on to make new, modified cells.

I do want to point out that were are absolutely very far from modifying germlines to eliminate most diseases. That's a common conceit, and as somebody who's worked in the field for 30 years: temper your expectations. A single person died in a single gene therapy trial 25 years ago and that pretty much stopped gene therapy in its tracks for a long time. Societal expectations for safety when modifying genes is far more stringent than any other medical technology.
> lives have always been cheaper than Items

You know, reinforced concrete can withstand earthquakes quite well too. And in a predictable way. Good luck predicting how sound your wood construction is after the first earthquake.
Germany Sets the New Standard for Cheap, National Mass Transit
My non-anglosphere anecdote: I love it for the bromance. I don't think anyone cares about the English except the English themselves.
> China's first attempt is not a notable achievement in the same way the first successful landing after many failures is.

Landing on the first attempt is pretty impressive in itself, given the difficulty in landing at all is.

> I really hate these sinophiles' attempts to elevate China into some super-awesome, super-intelligent master race.

...I'm sorry, what the fuck are you talking about?
Termux is great.

One of my favorite tricks is sharing a photo to it, then running a quick `python -m http.server 8000` while on wifi. It makes it dirt simple to send a photo from my phone to any local machine on my network without the hassle of cloud services (including generation loss from recompression), incompatible apps, bluetooth pairing, etc.
Very interesting idea. I think it depends on precision with which that implant can communicate heading. If precision is 10 degrees or less, this can actually be extremely useful to visually impaired people.
> I’d love to see OP do anything as remotely influential in the industry as DHH.

I vastly prefer their appeal to standards over your appeal to authority.
Mickey Mouse is in fact a Disney character, not a show.
I have used termux for to SSH to various boxen in a pinch, but I just recently realised it allows me to write and run arbitrary scripts on my phone!

I can basically do (limited -- but sufficient for my needs) Android programming without knowing a lick of Android. And I can do it on the phone itself. Crazy that I didn't realise this potential sooner.
Right. My brother and I discussed this out of curiosity and you're spot on. Prerecorded message is sufficient, and AI introduces too many wildcards.

But the biggest reason is that ethically, it somehow seems very wrong to trick my grandma that way.

Not sure why parent comment is getting downvoted though, it's certainly an interesting idea.
Had to look up the technique, Eguchi method, and it uses color rather than complicated musical notation to associate with each key. Interesting how those who have synesthesia naturally have this same color, key association.
Can MRSK be used to manage deploying applications that are distributed as Docker images, such as Adguard Home?

I see there is support for ‘accessories’ such as Redis. What if I only want to deploy an image and skip building a Dockerfile and pushing it to a registry?
My mom says it’s helpful for her as a music teacher. It was annoying when she tried to teach me piano and she’d be cooking in the kitchen and I’d be playing in the other room and she’d call out when I made a mistake. But that’s probably just because I was an ornery student. Objectively my mom is a fantastic teacher. Her students all do really well in competitions and my nieces love playing with her. I’m sure perfect pitch is only a small part of it but it helps.
> Android 13+ includes a crosvm based virtulization setup

Interesting; but I feel that their choice of a hypervisor-based design here supports my point of plain container-based isolation (or even containers + gVisor) being insufficient to achieve true sandboxing on Android.

> Android's sandboxing is not limited to ART and has multiple layers [0]. Native apps cannot bypass sandboxing, I don't think.

Yes, but when I say "sandboxing", I mean just the ART sandbox, not the other layers. I don't care whether you can get root / jailbreak the device. I (and presumably Google, in not publishing apps that do this in the Play Store) care about whether an application that, upon installation, doesn't request permission to e.g. read your contacts, can actually read your contacts. There are certain capabilities like that (not sure if "reading your contacts" is one of them, but you get the idea), that are only prevented from being accessed by ART, not by Linux ACLs. This is especially true when there's one level of permission that gets you access to a certain database file through an API, but then another level of permission that gets you access to certain special records in that database file through the same API. The lower level of permission is already granting you Linux filesystem ACLs to the database file; the only difference between the two permissions comes down to what ART will allow you to request through the higher-level API.
pigcat's brother here :)

In our case, my grandmother always calls my parents home phone number. The phone provider only offers simple call forwarding, so we route all calls to the home phone over to a Twilio number. We have a very simple Twilio Studio flow that routes calls from my grandmother's phone number to the call handler script we created, and all other calls are routed to my dad's cell phone number: https://share.cleanshot.com/ywwhzJ8H

We are a little lucky in that we can forward calls from our landline to a cell phone. If your relative is calling you directly on your cell phone, your carrier would need to offer selective forwarding for this strategy to work
One point I would add is that this mostly applies to the "1st world" IMO, because in many parts of the world there is local produce and meat and it's often part of the culture to grow your own (or at least to keep a few chickens and fruit trees). However, yes globally most urban dwellers get their food at the grocery store and really enjoy being able to purchase it for money.
Or you set up your system so mail for root gets redirected to an smtp server with an actual inbox read by actual people
2002: phones as big as bricks. 2007: pocket computer. Don't tell me were not going to have brain computers in the next few years!
The prose is incredible. I find myself agreeing with the author of this opinion piece: it's Jane Austen at sea https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/28/why-patrick-ob...
GPT-Minus1
Why? Performance? Security?
A framework is no good if it requires that the engineers working with it are excellent in order to not create a mess. A great framework or language _should_ empower participants with average ability and experience to produce good results.
If electric stoves are so much better than gas stoves, why do the gas stoves have to be banned?
The math is similar so GPUs have been hijacked by AI nerds

Gamers everywhere are pissed that GPUs are so expensive now.
The current governor is from the Buffalo metro area.

Wrong time to make this claim.
To prepare for frontend/javascript interview. You can look at this ebook I created with collections of commonly asked frontend questions with solution.
Whether or not a specialized solution could do it better or cheaper, it might not matter if the generalized solution does it well enough. A sufficiently powerful generalized solution can erase entire product categories and industries. Think of how many different devices and services were replaced by a single device we now all carry around in our pocket. Some industries just need to pivot slightly, others need to pivot hard, but it’s really hard to predict ahead of time.
A thin atmosphere like mars can make it worse. The actual amount of braking you get is a bit unpredictable, and the size of the aerodynamic surfaces you need to make a significant impact can use up quite a bit of your mass budget (example: despite the size of the Perseverance/Curiosity parachutes, they still needed a sky-crane for final touchdown).
This is incredibly misleading. The actual study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

Buried deep in the limitations section:

> evaluators did not assess the chatbot responses for accuracy or fabricated information

Repeat:

> EVALUATORS DID NOT ASSESS THE CHATBOT RESPONSES FOR ACCURACY OR FABRICATED INFORMATION
It works more or less like it did before. The media is mostly histrionics, as usual.
That’s sorta my point: diagnosing well studied diseases and providing precise treatment is different from speculating causes for rare diseases.

Who knows, OP could be a paint sniffer and that’s their root issue. Brainstorming these things requires creativity and even hallucination. But that’s not what doctors do.
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> A great teacher should be treated at the same level of prestige as a great researcher. Make influence merit based based on contribution to the university on its most important mission: teaching students.

The problem is that while research quality can be measured to a certain extent (in a flawed way that brings problems, like all the publish-or-perish culture, but it can be done); measuring teaching quality, even crudely, is an unsolved problem.

If you measure by academic grades or pass/fail rates, you are just incentivizing easy exams and easy courses, typically not the best for learning.

If you ask students, they will also be biased by the difficulty of the course, apart from other possible biases (gender, etc.).

If you measure student employability, your metrics will be more correlated to discipline than to actual teaching quality, and you can't rate individual teachers/courses that way anyway.

If you count "achievements" like acknowledging teachers for taking training courses, etc., people will just do that to improve their metrics without necessarily improving teaching quality.

There just doesn't seem to be a good solution.

I am a professor in a metrics-obsessed academic system and to be honest, research metrics are gamed by some but at least if you're good you're going to be fine. Teaching metrics are pure noise, and I say this as someone who hasn't had any problem with them (in fact I've reached full professorship).
You can optimize that: feed SD a sketch, get a finished painting as a result.

It works surprisingly well.
GPT Test-Driven-Development (Gptdd)
This is not a bill about cooking efficiency. It’s about health.

Asbestos outperforms plaster in burn tests.
Just because we’ve never seen him doesn’t mean he hasn’t at some point quietly summoned a curse on us
It's with the context of OpenAI's blog post in mind and the usage of their word "AGI" stoking the general public's imagination. https://futurism.com/experts-slam-openais-meaningless-new-pr...

The inference being that the use of the term in the research paper is thus nonsensical, and OpenAI's claims within their blog post are outrageous.
There is a reason it is called “climate change”, not “global warming”. We are poking a big system we don’t understand, and are sure something bad will happen, just not exactly what.

In this scenario (which seems to be playing out), the ice caps rapidly melt, dumping cold water into global ocean currents, causing them to stall out for a thousand years or so.

Those currents cool the equator and warm the temperate zones. Without them, the habitable (without indoor heating/cooling) fraction of the planet drops by some large percentage.
Not the onion?
The Death of First Republic?
Replace Rails with Laravel and you get the same problem: the recommended patterns make it easy to get started but eventually work against you when things start getting big and busy.