skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if you just... hope people don't read your citations. But as far as I could see from your citations you're not making sensible claims.

The first citation the article talks about her citing someone else's work about carbon footprint. So firstly, they're not her calculations - the paper is by Strubell[1]. Secondly, the paper absolutely does not assume the compute is running from jet fuel! It calculates the total energy to train a model and then uses US EPA data to show how much CO2 that would be in practice and then compares that to how much CO2 emissions a flight puts out. Honestly, I don't know where on earth you got this rubbish about running Google compute on jet fuel.

Secondly, you claim she isn't technical, she has a Masters in Electrical Engineering, a PhD in Computer Vision, and has had a fantastic career. Again in the actual link that you cite she is described as "technical co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team". I just don't know what you think you're doing citing things that directly contradict your claims.

If you think that Gebru is terrible, I would thoroughly recommend you talk about her less, because your attacks on her are so poor it lends her credibility. I'm fairly undecided on her - I literally don't know enough to judge, but your arguments are very poor.

[1]:https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02243
Debugging. If you don't know how your code is translated into CPU ops, you won't be able to recognize the clues that malfunctions almost always provide when code misbehaves. Translators, compilers, libraries, and new code routinely have bugs. Depending on a google search to pin down the source of your troubles often fails, and of course is of no help at all diagnosing your own bugs.

It also depends on your philosophy. I want to master my machine not be its servant.
I am just blind. They were linked in that post all along: http://aoe.heavengames.com/aoegallery/?occur=1&lang=en&cover...
Not without fine-tuning. The issue is that high-energy supersymmetry no longer removes the "ugly constants" of the standard model -- it just shifts them somewhere else. Disclaimer: not a physicist, but I learned a lot reading "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray".
My Brother multifunction has been without CYM inks for literally years, which was fine as I printed in only B&W. A recent system update has suddenly made it refuse to print anything, including B&W, because one or more color inks are empty, despite the black being 80% full.

Brother saw the money on the table and have decided to move towards the dark side.
How to reduce Snowflake costs: A five-point checklist
A watch that costs more than a new luxury car isn't going to revolutionize the entire industry.
Looks exactly like Grozny in 1995. As a child, I was told stories about Chechen atrocities that let to first Chechen war. I was led to believe that Chechens are wild, uncivilised, dangerous people who wanted to kill Russians in neighbouring regions. I was 7 years old, so I didn't question it.

After Russia's invasion in Ukraine and completely crazy propaganda which painted LGBT-friendly country with a Jewish president as literal Nazis I don't have any other choice but to confirm that Russia has been doing literal genocides in regions that wanted independence since 1995.
Tax exempt organizations such as nonprofits and churches are pretty famous for being difficult to hold accountable. There are some required public filings, but for the most part, a handpicked board, founder or president decides if they will enrich the mission or enrich themselves. Donors should know who they are giving money to, but most people just recognize a logo and give without thinking much about it.
I have my doubts about them opening up their own LLMs. But it wouldn’t surprise me to see them talking about what their m-chips can run onboard.

Although, it would be pretty cool to run Siri locally. And also if she didn’t suck
Until now, there hasn’t been any data around string theory whatsoever. It’s been a purely mathematical exercise without even a hint of a possible experiment to test it.

So walking away from string theory years ago, in my mind, would make you a mathematician.
Because 10s of millions of Europeans benefit from US services and making it easier for US services to operate benefits their citizens.
I like to think of it as similar to talking to the smartest person you know. You can constantly learn something new from this person, but they make mistakes just like anyone else does. Trust, but verify.
https://archive.is/HopP4
I think the worst part is that she could have done the work to change as a person, realize her narcissism, realize how to overcome that and perceive the world differently. Yet it won't matter. Her children will always be perceived this way. At least in the near term. I imagine by the time they are in their 20s they will have some kind of personality disorder as well.
They were already a demographic black hole (well below replacement birthrates). An entire generation of Ukrainian men are wounded or dead. Millions have left the country and are never coming back after finding new jobs, partners, etc. Their future is dire if they "win"; the whole situation is just cynical and sad.
I at one point spent a hundred bucks and bought a used JDSU DSAM 3300 cable testing meter. It's only rated for DOCSIS 3, but I can get some good info out of it about my local cable plant and figure out if it's my side or the outside plant.

Then they show up and use their shiny new Viavi (formerly JDSU) OneExpert... and see the same thing and fix their shit. ;)
> That's reasonable but it's a different notion of what a safe change is than I remember from using protobufs. I believe they just say adding or removing a required field isn't backward compatible.

Safe just means the old code and the new code can coexist (e.g., during a rollout), which requires compatibility in both directions. Not just backward compatibility.

This is true for Protocol Buffers as well, except they have no safe way to introduce or remove required fields, so they caution against using them.
The Discovery channel was truly amazing in the 90s. So was TLC. They used to show actual surgeries on TLC and explain what they were doing. And the History channel too was great.

They all had tons of great shows. I have a tough time seeing all the reality and alien conspiracy theory nonsense on there these days.
I think this is a sensible kind of warning for the average consumer (ie. not necessarily the tech savvy audience here) who may not realise the full implications of this app and how their data could be used.

For many this app may be their first exposure to using ChatGPT and the nature of it being an app that looks like any other chat app on your phone may lead some to incorrectly assume some degree of privacy over what they share.

The article is right also to point out that the OpenAI's anonymisation can only go so far if users unwittingly (or deliberately) enter personal deatils into the chat messages directly.
There should be a distinction between a work queue and a job scheduler. The work queue dispatches jobs but doesn't know enough to retry them while the scheduler decides what to retry.

In Rails land, I would opt for Backburner over the commercial choices because it uses beanstalkd. For anything requiring HA, I would look at some sort of queue using an ESB as a transport. Short of HA, shard for LB.
Running to a store to print definitely seem like a better deal than buying personal printers at this point. Since those printers are in fact being leased instead of being sold, might as well have them take up somebody else's space.
> Mantras like "methods should be shorter than 15 lines of code" or "classes should be small" turned out to be somewhat wrong.

Well, that's exactly what most of the books on the market teach, unfortunately. After years of programming I came to the same conclusion, too bad there aren't that many books on such topics such like cognitive load.
I think the far weirder part of this was the kernel-side handling of scrollbars
Population of a nation doesn't necessarily correspond to influence, though.
His particular brand of eccentricism probably made it very easy to deviate from standard business practices — who's going to bother arguing in favor of the status quo with dali?
You mean the lucky half that would survive.
That misses the whole point of this post. You may as well suggest using Zoom.
Pssshst... That model supports custom firmware...
How do you move “everything” to the EU including messages sent to US citizens? What if the messages are in a group of people in the US and the EU?
>>I loved my eee but I can't imagine going back to that platform these days

I really miss my old eeepc901 some days but I agree. Going back to those slow atom processors is really a nonstarter. But the size and form factor (with exception of the nonstandard screen aspect ratio) was just about the perfect 'take anywhere' laptop. I used Ubuntu on it and if I had to do it again in this day and age I'd try to see if I could make Ubuntu-Mate to work on it. Being able to set the font sizes and the icon sizes made that nonstandard screen aspect ratio work far better than it ever did in Windows XP.
"There's no way to rule honest men..."
Instrument to measure asteroid gravity tested for space
Flat lenses made of nanostructures transform tiny cameras and projectors
The case of the 12TB URE: explained and debunked (2020)
To clarify, I don’t feel guilty over my actions and didn’t stop complimenting out of virtue. I stopped to not cause potential harm, or even worse, to be labeled a racist and all the time they would take.

I also never suggest friend chicken for lunch. I love fried chicken. I make a pretty good friend chicken. I’m just too timid and over leveraged to risk having it perceived incorrectly.
Now that I've hit that part: yes yes yes they cracked the nut. :)

The addition of that game mechanic creates for the player a new type of puzzle in addition to the raw crafting puzzles: pattern recognition. Coming up on a jumble of nonsense, mentally parsing it out, and recognizing you have a template that can be applied to it is actually really fun (and even more exciting when you're doing it in realtime because some monster is bearing down on you).
To use another Spanish artist, it's like making the observation that Gaudi's work is very Gaudy.
Might not in general but in this case there is nothing greedy with just optimizing the process. Hell, arguably less time for menial stuff more time for art
Celery? Not knowing this was a post about software, I figured it was about the vegatable.

Can't wait until software naming reaches the same absurdity level as racehorse names.

/rant
In my 20s if I hit 3-4am awake, I'd often just not go to bed at all. This happened at least once or twice a month. Into my 40s, my regular go-to-bed time was around 2am.

Now I have my watch trying to get me to sleep from midnight to 7am every day.

Hopefully it's not too late...
The difference is that everybody agrees what the crime of the mob boss is, even if they can't prove it, whereas on Facebook people critique but there does not appear to be a consistent critique that makes sense to me.

Data privacy? That is definitely not what most people are talking about when they critique facebook. The free speech & misinformation lines of thought are directly in conflict.
This is how toxic middle management is born. Management is not seen as a skill of its own but as a title that obviously everyone should strive for.

Also, "acceptable"? By whom? Why should I care what they think? I want to be engineering software. If they don't like that, they can either deal with it or let me go. Good thing there's plenty of developer jobs as well as corporate bozos to take the coveted management positions.
It is supported and randomly enabled for ~50% of Safari 16 users, according to https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/pull/6664#issuecomment-14934...
> So you're saying passenger rail can never provide enough value to people to justify the constant influx of capital? Cool, thanks for making my point.

Can not, or more likely should not receive enough money from consumers to make for the constant influx of capital needed for it to remain as useful as possible. The main goal is to be as useful and practical as possible, not to make the most money possible - a fully business class with a spa and golden jacuzzi train might be profitable (like the Orient Express was as a luxury thing) but again, the goal of passenger rail is to be accessible and practical
to most people. If your only way of measuring productivity is financial profit, yeah, I see you can't understand that.

> You literally said that Japanese high speed rail is profitable. Why change tracks (pun unintended) when I point out the inaccuracy?

Because you elaborated on your definition of profitability (can't have received any money at all from a government, ever), which no infrastructure project from the past few decades really meets. In my view the Japanese rail system is profitable after some initial well needed help; and again, if you apply your own (bad) measurement stick to any infrastructure, you'll find that nothing is really profitable. As for your argument that rail is the least profitable, I'm fairly sure if you do the math you'll see that Japanese rail has been less unprofitable (has needed less subsidies and bailouts) than Japanese airlines over the same time.

> Yes, and out of those only railroads are the one which are never profitable, even after 10 decades of constant technological advancement.

Airlines literally need bailouts on a what, decade schedule? But sure, railroads are "never profitable" because they get subsidies and need continued improvement to get better.

> I'm not advocating for anything except not wasting taxpayer money on inefficient, unsustainable transportation.

How is rail not sustainable? It's the cleanest and environment friendly method of transportation by far, which is very sustainable.

> Classic cope when you can't attack the argument, just resort to insults.

I am attacking your argument, but that doesn't mean I can't dismiss your entire position as one of ignorance (which, again, doesn't mean I'm not trying to explain to you why you're wrong). I cannot take libertarians seriously, only someone profoundly privileged or ignorant can have such views on the world.
Don’t need any sources on this, as several US state officials, even Biden, stated they would do this if the US invaded Ukraine.

Biden even stated this in a press conference with Olaf Schulz standing next beside him [0], but again there were more US officials making similar statements.

You can wait for “official” proof, while I am sure US officials weren’t making practical jokes.

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[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4O8rGRLf8
Opportunity costs. The real debate has been whether it makes sense for string theory (whatever the prevailing definition is) to dominate funding for theoretical research of the "bridge". There are alternatives besides strings for the bridge, and there should be even more, in theory...
> USA who have been expanding NATO closer and closer to Russia's borders

It's not NATO that have been expanding. It's sovereign countries that wanted to join.

Why? Because they were afraid of exactly what happened to Ukraine.

This war proves them right.
Some of Siri runs locally now, much better for setting timers than it used to be.

But still way to much of

> Hey Siri, set a timer for 5 minutes

> I set your "Timer" alarm for 5:00 AM
In my experience reading hundreds of IRS 990 forms these number are not out of bounds for non-profits at their scale. Healthcare and university may skew the absolute numbers, but are similar.

Specifically a great executive will personally move the fundraising needle in organizations (+1-5% or more) and mediocre executive can cause losses/missed opportunities in the opposite direction of a similar magnitude. The conventional thinking is the relative fundraising impact of a great vs a good executive may 10x their total compensation, so it's probably worth trying to retain the best.

Anecdotally, I know of a not-for-profit COO who offended an NBA player killing the relationship. His successor COO repaired the relationship, ultimately resulting in multiple millions of new donations and a co-marketing agreement with the team. When the COO was hired there were rumblings because he'd negotiated +$50k over his predecessor.

With no equity and the poor optics of commission compensation or cash-bonuses, big severance packages are one of the few ways an organization can reward employees following years of great service.
> I find it fascinating that in the middle of a hype cycle here, where really central people to AI are saying we should be worried (Altman, Hinton etc.), there's still just outright animosity towards people who are actually interested in studying these problems.

Note that the abstract speculative future concerns Altman and Hinton are concerned with are very different from the immediate and present issues Gebru, her former Google colleague Margaret Mitchell (now at Huggingface), and others in the AI ethics space are raising.
To me a lateral join is the simplest construct you could have, like a for loop in a programming language.

For each row in my query so far, do this other thing.

Since I learned them, everything went from being a puzzle on its own, "I know what I want to do but how to express it in SQL" -- to simply being writing things out naturally..
You can be greedy in the same way companies can be greedy but providing poor value for the money in ways that aren’t obvious at the point of sale.

Ie: Selling counterfeit goods at the full cost of the actual product in question.
That sounds awesome. What's the link you meant to share? (I see the `[1]` but no link.)
We're a far ways off from replacing sprinkler logic with AI, you're kind of mashing together building code with home automation. Most homes don't have sprinkler systems unless they're in large buildings that mandate it, and in those cases they're never controlled by individual occupants but a centralized detection system. Building code lags behind consumer technology quite far, with good reason.
That particular hat is flipping a bit. Designing the game is a separate cost.

I played many a game that cost $20 and had thousands of hats so there’s many successful business plans that don’t involve free to play and then charging $5 for flipping a bit to enable my character to have a hat.
Can you point us to those channels?
One of the pieces of software I was most proud about was a data entry system for a P&C insurance company, the old policy subscription terminal-based system allowed for about 200 policies/hour by user, then they "upgraded" to a GUI that slowed them to about 20/hour and I built a desktop application that allowed them to go back to 200 policies/hour but with stuff like auto-filling, geolocation, error correction so the data quality was much higher.

I worked with the end users a lot to make sure the UI matched the workflow, iterated over several versions and it definitely paid off.
Those two views sound the same? Or am I an idiot?
I would perhaps suggest "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" is the most faked? It was created in 1831 I think. There are no extant prints of the original in existence. Just copies and copies of copies, uncounted 'fakes' everywhere.

And like a colossal game of telephone over the centuries, changes crept in until there are quite a few distinct prints purporting to be the most original.
That's my point: what experiments could be performed have been performed, and have failed.

Also, it is a massive weakness of the theory that it can be used to predict such varied values. This is a big part of why it is not exactly a scientific theory: it is not really falsifiable, since you can tweak it to predict any value you want. If we had the kind of particle accelerators needed to test high-energy supersymmetry, and if it failed again, it could be adjusted to predict higher-energy supersymmetry, and since the number line extends towards infinity, this would never stop.
Imperial County receives a lubricous allotment from the Colorado River, but it is a better use than most of the claims to this water. The Central Arizona project, for instance, requires a coal plant to pump water uphill into a (even hotter) desert. Much as golf in the desert is a wasteful use of resources, golf courses generally pay market rate for their water and don't require federal subsidies to turn a profit. This is more than you can say for a lot of Colorado River water.
Ehh, From the website name you might infer that they sell milk crates. It stands to reason that a company which sells milk crates has lots of ideas for things to do with milk crates. It also stands to reason that a company which sells milk crates wants you to buy said milk crates from them instead of, say, stealing them.
…by Sabine Hossenfelder.

I treat her like Jordan Peterson. Obviously smart, but also obviously bitter and if/when they have a valid point I’m sure someone else has said it in a less grating manner.
I second Hyperion and Neuromancer -- both are amazing book and a great representation of modern and classic sci-fi
That's true but from our perspective this state won't be reached anywhere in the universe -- so there can't be any singularity from our perspective?
Honestly, looking at the mechanics that go into my Brother color laser printer I’m surprised they go for the price they do. It seems fairly cheap, everything considered.
Japanese research tells us what colours of clothing are cooler in hot weather
We trained the AI on samples of writing from the internet, which includes a lot of fiction, which includes a lot of evil AIs. So, I’m surprised it doesn’t start producing evil sounding text as soon as it “finds out” that it is an AI.
A number-theoretic conjecture by ChatGPT
Right, and the problem with water rights seniority is that the amounts were allocated based on 16.5 million acre-feet per year when the modern average annual flow is 11 million acre-feet.
String theory like most of theoretical physics is just made up. Today our knowledge of atomic physics and the cosmos is no more improved little since 1945. There’s a lot of theories, but ultimately they just add up to different kinds of particles interacting in non-verifiable ways. If you look at the actual advancements it’s pretty laughable we’re sitting here saying “Hey look this theoretical thing called a black hole, that easily could just be some type of unknown radio telescope interference? It maybe might exist for a different reason than we thought!” Your layman’s understanding that a black hole is some kinda big suck-y thing in space is actually better then engineering an elaborate and probably incorrect theory.
It's about $40/month, but it's my personal server for everything else too. Hosts some web radio projects with liquidsoap and icecast, some generative audio experiments, and so on. It's still probably more server than I need.

Edit: remembered that wrong. It's $66/month. But I'm using an instance much larger than you'd need to just run jitsi.
You'll own nothing and be happy
I think I just responded too hastily. I am working in Go. There is file IO going on in addition to the calculation (which because of a NAS or whatever could also be network IO). As a practical matter I had never felt the need to offer cancellation or timeout for these use cases, but I probably should, so mea culpa.
My grocery bag contains 'radioactive materials' in the form of that bunch of bananas. Does this clickbait have any merit?
See response to sibling comment.
This is a very early stage study; at 175 data points over 35 patients, that's just 5 data points per person. Barely enough to make a convincing linear regression.
Frontier Remains as Sole Exaflop Machine and Retains Top Spot
Award for best understated comedy on this thread.
I don't need external validation for that claim. My experience in being correct and good outcomes are the support that I need.

The fact that you don't have access to that empiric information is just unfortunate, but ultimately nothing that makes a difference.