skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. I went to music school for trumpet where I learned:

- new scales I didn't know about

- new ways to play scales I did know

- new instruments which required relearning scales. If you're learning to be a music teacher this is often a big part of it
I get that people don't want to waste time, but you lose a lot from taking this attitude.

When I went to school we had a lot of kids who were only temporarily in the country. Their parents were diplomats or corporate expats. The government still made the kids learn the local language, with the predictable outcome that these kids had no motivation whatsoever to learn the language.

Now with the debate in America being the way it is, a lot of these kids would actually have had a place to go back to, if they only spoke the language.

Similarly with a lot of things you learn in education, most of them seem to be of no use, but it's only because you don't learn them properly they are of no use.
simulation -> production
It seems to me the author maximised his creative process by getting a machine to do the less creative bits.
Because it's a Python project (like most AI code) and distributing Python code in easily usable form is an absolute nightmare.
> quite reasonable

Maybe. I'd use the word 'compensatory'.

Using two apps to access half of my media each renders either one useless.
How about the Wall Street Journal? https://www.wsj.com/articles/activist-investor-calls-on-goog...

Or The Guardian? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/15/major-inv...

> “We are writing to express our view that the cost base of Alphabet is too high and management needs to take aggressive action,” TCI wrote in the letter, signed by managing director Christopher Hohn. “The company has too many employees and the cost per employee is too high.”
> How would you expect a larger car to adhere to the same emissions regulation as a smaller car?

I don't, never said that, don't create a strawman. SUVs are classified under small trucks instead of passenger vehicles for emissions regulations in the USA, that's the issue.

> When it's a company doing it to sell a product, it's a problem if there are no competitors. That's sort of why we have fairly stringent anti trust regulation.

No, it's a problem when a whole industry decides to skirt some inconvenient laws by using marketing tactics to slowly change consumers' perception of their product. That's what automakers in the USA did, sold an idea that SUVs are safer, that they are needed for families and so on because it was more convenient to not have to abide by stricter emissions regulations in their smaller cars. There's competition, and the competition is doing the same because it benefits the whole industry's profits. This form of collusion is impossible to prosecute, USA's laws infamously end up having lots of these holes for loopholes to poke through... How much of that is on purpose or just simple incompetence is left as an exercise to the reader.
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Have you ever done a substantial amount of remote work in order to get a real idea of its contrast against in-office?
I actually have the full path in my PS1, and it actually spans two lines with the second line being only “$ “.

The reality if my life is that I often work with long paths, and having the full path around saves me some pwd fairly often.
Another advantage: you get to keep the boat ;)
Yeah, AT Protocol being "funded" by one company (Bluesky PBLLC) and ActivityPub being indirectly "funded" by multiple companies + organizations, some of them being Nextcloud GmbH, Framasoft (PeerTube), Tumblr (Yahoo).

Seems based on that variable, ActivityPub has the benefit of being more widespread, but that tends to also make changes go through slower. ActivityPub being a specification maintained by W3C also make changes extra slow, but stable at least, while AT Protocol probably won't have any stability guarantees for a long time.
> Complexity can neither be created nor destroyed, only moved somewhere else.

I have to say that this short quote is not the whole story; for example it's ridiculously common for artificial complexity to be introduced into a system, like using microservices on a system that gets 1k users a day.

In which case, it is sometimes possible to remove complexity, because you are removing the artificial complexity that was added.
Big difference though, nobody needed Google Glass, Magic Leap, FB Metaverse, or the feature that adds a fart sound in a Tesla.

Almost anyone who needs transportation would use such taxis if they become affordable.
We're pattern matching machines, if you throw enough randomness at us we will find patterns anyway.

Probably because looking at evolution it's more helpful to see a predator that isn't there, than to miss a predator that is there. It intuitively makes sense that we would tilt towards false positives over false negatives in our perception. Since one has a higher cost attached than the other.

Which is why I find some of the discussion arround whether GPTs are intelligent interesting. I see the argument quite often that they merely match patterns and combine things. Which to me seems very much akin to us. They lack the ability to interact with the world and there is no feedback loop as of now, but it seems to me that there is something very human to the AI we programmed.
I think the advantage of the sqlite database is that you retain more context for any given command (e.g. what the current working directory was, ...) in a structured way (it is a database after all).

That stored context can then be used to query the database (e.g. filter the history to only show commands that were executed in the cwd).

These queries are the point of using sqlite, not anything security as far as I can tell.
Why do you assume this? Sam literally takes no salary or compensation of any kind from OpenAI because he thinks he has enough money.

Your bias is clouding your judgement.
Interesting. So ActivityPub could support that use case, but currently doesn't. Combined with the fact that getting changes through to the specification itself (maintained by W3C), I could understand not wanting to spend the energy and effort on trying to go that route, and instead come up with something different.

Thanks for sharing your article, lots of good points in there.
Do you expect to release models for other languages?
Agreed, Nixon was a moron, basically everything his administration did was truly awful. The war on drugs must end, the people put in jail for having or consuming the wrong plants must be released, and the US government should make amends with those people. Anyone still alive who provably participated in that should go to jail for the rest of their lives, ideally occupying the same cells as the people they unjustly locked away.

The process of repairing the damage that was done should include large payouts for unjustly taking away years of those people's lives, if nothing else. I'm not exactly holding my breath on these points, but if we take seriously the idea that the world should become more fair and just over time, we're going to have to square with the wrongs that were committed in the name of unjust laws.

In the post you are responding to, what you see is me acknowledging that, in order to answer the specific questions: "Is the US just as bad as China on this?" or "Is what China does to it's citizens in order to suppress wrong-think being unfairly criticized in light of what the US does to it's citizens in order to suppress drug use and generally be racist about it?"; one would require good data on just how many citizens are sent to jail for what should be trivial acts of speaking their mind or consuming weird plants, and that data is unlikely to be available or good data if it exists since both countries have rather large incentives to make sure it doesn't.

Please also note that I fully granted Akiselev's point that selective enforcement happens in the US even now. There should be genuine outrage over this until it is changed. However, I understand why people can't even keep up with the sheer scale of the bullshit modern governments get up to.
I thought about your comment a lot and here’s a way, way better illustration:

You are completely correct that we can formalize any Turing Machine as a FSM but! this _must_ include input. Again, this is just pure simulation as you state.

Again, we can write a _single_ Turing Machine program with a _single_ input baked in as an FSM and that input _must_ be finite. But that FSM is not capable of handling _any_ input like the the Turing Machine it is simulating. That’s kinda the big difference between Turing machines and machines of a lower class. Any FSM has limited input thus limited states, but a Turing Machine can run infinitely with finite input.

So, one can simulate the Turing Machine _with_ input using a FSM up to state N. But the actual Turing Machine can execute up to N+1 without having to hard-code any inputs and is capable of handling other inputs.

Again, your computer is a Turing Machine capable of accepting Turing Machines as input. We can hard-code any individual programs and make them into a physical computer chip — just as we did with our computers which can accept any input it can handle, limited only by its physical limitations. But these physical limitations are not an indicator of it being of a lower class because we can keep pushing those limitations back and still compute more of states of these programs.

Anyway, I’m glad you mentioned all of this because I went and pulled out my books.
Only in the wild west. There were other parts of the world that were civilized.
In some countries not necessarily. I’m based in Czech Republic and as a sole proprietor the most preferential way to do taxes (up to certain threshold) is to report the gross income and use a tax rule that assumes that it cost you 60% of gross revenue to get your income. In this case the lower income shown the better.
Water also rises as it gets hot, and cools off
It's actually true for one "AI" robot delivery company :D (they still have billions in valuation).

But Waymo has real tech, and real AI.
I group different kind of settings under particular files. My .bashrc has `source ~/.rc.d/pyenvrc`, `source ~/.rc.d/gitrc` and so on which can help to organize yourself if you have too many custom settings.

I also have a very tiny set of useful functions that I might occasionally use from some scripts. For example:

# Changes the current working directory to the running script.
cd_running_script_dir() {
cd "$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")"
}

# Display an error message and abort the running script.
#
# Arguments:
# $1: A string with error to be displayed before aborting.
abort() {
ERROR=$1

>&2 echo "${ERROR}"
kill $$
}

# Return a program's full path if exists or display an error
# message and abort script execution.
#
# Arguments:
# $1: A string with the program's name to be looked up.
get_program() {
PROGRAM_NAME=$1
PROGRAM_PATH=$(which "${PROGRAM_NAME}")

if [ -z "${PROGRAM_PATH}" ]; then
abort "Error - ${PROGRAM_NAME} is not installed."
fi

echo "${PROGRAM_PATH}"

unset PROGRAM_PATH
unset PROGRAM_NAME
}

Given the sort of subtle nature of sh that for example misplacing a whitespace or a character can render a whole script wrong, from time to time I add these snippets so I can entirely forget how to do some regular things by sourcing `~/.scripts/lib.sh`. It's also a great way to extend your sh knowledge and learn about customizing your environment.

Yes these are silly functions, but their main purpose is to make sh snippets more readable.

Because I don't like to always display the same wallpaper over and over again my .xinitrc contains:

"${HOME}/.scripts/set-random-background" &

which is:

#!/usr/bin/env sh

# Randomly sets a wallpaper from a directory containing images.
#
# Usage:
# ./set-random-background

# Adjust global settings accordingly.
WALLPAPERS_PATH="${HOME}/.scripts/assets/wallpapers"

set_random_background() {
FEH=$(get_program "feh")

if [ -d "${WALLPAPERS_PATH}" ]; then
WALLPAPER=$(ls "${WALLPAPERS_PATH}"/* | sort --random-sort | head -n1)

if [ -n "${WALLPAPER}" ]; then
${FEH} --no-fehbg --bg-center --bg-scale "${WALLPAPER}"
fi
fi
}

main() {
if [ -n "${BASH_LIB}" ]; then
. "${BASH_LIB}"

set_random_background
fi
}

main
Can we get this as an autocad addon?
I did the same, and found out that it's a great way to paint yourself in a corner. In this corner you can learn very complex pieces by practicing learning them from the sheet music, but on the other hand every new piece is an unique snowflake that you star learning from scratch, and it won't help at all with playing by ear, improvising or even much for playing from lead sheets. Yes, I was able to pass the exams by just knowing how scales work and coming up with fingerings on the fly, but in hindsight it wasn't the best idea.
The saying goes that if you're fooled twice, you're the one to be shamed. The world isn't a nice place filled with unicorns and fairy dust, unfortunately.
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Our machines _can_ compute any Turing-computable function, except only up to some finite point because we must exist in this reality. Our numbers are infinite, but we do not argue they are not because someone was not able to count up to 999999999999999999999999999!
If you get some time, try doing some napkin math on how many batteries you will need to actually do most of the work with wind and solar.

It is something you can work out a ballpark number for a given % of wind/solar and while not impossible it is really a big number. Way beyond what we will get out of actual chemical batteries by 2050, we need gigantic scale pump back hydro projects on top of that. Trillion dollar range. So Nuclear may be less daunting, expensive as it is.
Also, the argument "that if we don't do it our enemies will do it" is bogus. Biological weapons and chemical weapons have not proliferated and their use has been very rare. You might as well say "if we don't destroy them first they will destroy us, so we must immediately attack first" which gets you into Dr Strangelove territory. China did not expand their nuclear arsenal for decades, but now they have started building again. Why is that? It's because they saw the US and Russia doing it. So my counterargument is that if you build it, your enemies will also have to build it. Another counterargument is that if you build it, it will eventually find its way into your enemies hands. Russia's planes would not fly into Ukraine because Ukraine has old Russian air defense missiles. US Stinger missiles are in the hands of a lots of groups. In military strategy you have to plan to fight against your own weapons, because you have to assume the enemy has spies, or can just plain buy your weapons, or reverse engineer them. So if you build it, you have to assume your enemy will get it also.
This should actually be easy for anyone who practices scales in thirds.
I don't know what were the reasons in that situation, but getting the two sailors safe from an uncontrolled vessle is not an easiy task. At least you would have the smaller vessle hit the larger. Depends of course on the weather conditions at the time. Sending over a line is much easier.
Also, this would have meant abandoning the ship. Unless there is a present danger, it is easiest to tow the boat with the crew to the harbor.
How much can you earn creating content on Youtube?
I get this drift!

And I think a bit of cheating is healthy.

The late Mihai Patrascu (brilliant CS researcher for those who don't know), outspoken as he was, said data faking skills were essential to keeping his sanity in some courses. [1]

Cheating just means you're not satisfying some random persons bureaucratic needs of assigning a number to your performance. But such a one-dimensional measure cannot really capture anyone's potential.

For some reason few people ponder why people cheat and if the reasons perhaps are valid. Go to that party, if it helps you develop yourself!

[1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/mip/acad.html
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If they'd have used the "original" method, they wouldn't have any radio onboard either, so would never have gotten info about the sailing boat in distress. :)
Rails and python aren't a step up from PHP for webservers. Both are massive steps down in terms of real world performance. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21

Personally if I was "stepping up" from PHP and wasn't going to use something powerful (or didn't need all that power) I'd be stepping up into javascript and nextjs and stuff like that.
A one-or-two page document like an invoice would take a second or so on pdflatex, queueing might be overdoing it ...
They could just write loops and remember that repeating the variable name with ++ is part of loop syntax without knowing what it means. Almost like text-generating AI would do it (ducks).
Makes sense. I think it’s possible to add customizations that might accomplish your goal. Check out this guide to customizing the cocoa text system

https://web.archive.org/web/20220123004610/https://www.hcs.h...
I'm interested as well in finding out about being able to flash custom firmware.
Is there any other resources to follow?
Wow, that's interesting. So we can do vector arithmetic and the results make sense as a form of embedding/concept logic. Addition seems to work like "and" / set intersection. Subtraction works like set difference ("T\S", also literally written "T-S", i.e. "without"), which logically says "T, but not S", or in terms of predicate calculus, "T(x) & not S(x)".

Perhaps there is also some unitary vector operation which directly corresponds to negation (not Sally)? Perhaps multiplying the vector by -1? Or would (-1)S rather pick out "the opposite of Sally in conceptual space" instead of "not / anyone but, Sally"? And what about logical disjunction (union)? One could go further here, and ask whether there is an analog to logical quantifiers. Then there is of course the question whether there is anything in vector logic which would correspond to relations, binary predicates, like R(x, y), not just unitary ones, etc.

(Sorry for rambling, I'm thinking out loud here.)
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Microservices were a zero-interest rate phenomena that benefited no one but cloud service marketing teams.

As money becomes more expensive and as we inch further towards a massive economic crisis, companies that have allowed their R&D budget to bloat out of proportion with needlessly-distributed architectures are NGMI.
Fine tuning where you freeze the weights of a neural network has been used for a long time in computer vision. There are many variations of these methods.

More recently there are some good libraries that make them easier to use. For example PEFT, which implements LoRA and several other related methods.

https://huggingface.co/blog/peft
Remember that some post take more time to get a discussion. There is people here all round the world, so until 24 hours have passed, there is hope. Don't give up in less than 1 hour.
Supabase comes into mind....
Because a salt is an already-reacted substance. Molten sodium and molten sodium chloride are utterly different, for example.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cite.202000137

"In commercial CSP plants, almost exclusively a non-eutectic salt mixture of 60 wt % sodium nitrate and 40 wt % potassium nitrate is utilized. This mixture is commonly referred to as Solar Salt"
Unless you're using open strings for some effect then most transpositions should be isomorphic on a guitar. And if the open resonances matter a capo has you sorted.
Regardless of the merits of the material and its author, I think the primary site, if anything, should be used.

If you find this valuable/entertaining enough to read then read it at the original URL.

If you find the author vile and/or the material not worth the time, linking to a ripped off copy of it doesn't make things better.
> - ICs & seniors are required to host at least a weekly office hour to assist juniors or teach something of their choice.

When I was a junior engineer working in-person, I was learning from senior engineers multiple times a day, not just once a week.
I really wish there were a unified environment variable to enable colors for everything instead of having a separate one for everything or having to clutter your bashrc with a trillion aliases.
A Pixies song is accidentally turning off Google alarms
In a word, competition.
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What makes you think that TCI was the reason for the layoffs?
That’s a nav radar not a satellite antenna. It would be down right irresponsible (and probably illegal - I’m not really good with law concerning civilian ship) to sail a ship this size without one.

Restoration is good but there is no reason to put the crew in unnecessary danger.
That just makes it a tautology. It basically says “essential complexity exists”.
Let's address corruption throughout the whole of our government, not just the Supreme Court. Let's do so regardless of the political party the corrupt people belong to.
I know of a few companies around the uk, one is mythic beasts, a hosting company. Gitlab is also successful, canonical too. Thing is it doesnt matter. If a client needs me onsite to brainstorm then i dont mind it. But there needs to be a valid reason and not just because of an insecure managed’s lack of skill in using modern tech, or worse, to fill voids in people’s lives. Focused work is best done in a quiet place, and for some that’s their own home and their own office. Being surrounded by things you like and a setting you like makes you more productive.
Excellent point, just tried to create a new Google Account and it requires a phone number that can receive a text message so account is still open to SIM swap.
> However, if your work is about innovation and collaboration, then it's going to be more effective to spend time together.

Not convinced yet, at this point it just seems to be anecdotes, and pretty nebolous ones at that. I would be open to listen to this position if it was backed up by actual examples like "So we were working on Product X and team Y struggled with remote work in that and that way." Creativity/Innovation is not something fuzzy, but something very real that will result in deadlines not met, lower morale and so on - I will start to consider Altmans et al.'s position once I hear those non-fuzzy experiences. (As someone working in a small startup doing innovative products, and collaboration being crucial).
People had the same thoughts about cake mixes in the 40s. Oh you can just buy a cake mix? That's not cooking anymore444

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6wKaLQ66r8
I also encountered this with German folk speaking English and pronouncing "v" as "w" - "Let's meet up in the willage"

If they'd pronounced it "Let's meet up in the fillage" that would make sense as they'd be using the German pronunciation of "v", but I couldn't wrap my head around "willage".
Unfortunately, last I knew, saved games are valid only for the version of the game which creates them.
It's really fucked up that we can't disable secure boot on boards we've bought, and we have to hope their security is compromised instead. What would be the issue with requiring a very manual process to add my own CA to the board so I can load up whatever I want?

Ah, vendor lockin, got it.
Don't know about erasedups, but the other option just applies to consecutive repeats, so really only had to scan from the end until the first non-dup
Professional musician here. That would be trivial to do, even on my weaker instruments, and even with triplets.

Though just give me the tonic name, no need to call it five flats.

Edit to add: To be fair I'm about a decade further in my career than someone going to study music for the first time.
CPU firmware (microcode) is signed by Intel, so it would not be affected by this leak, only motherboard firmware.
But hunderds of thousands times more useful is the bridge than the house