skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm crying. Help me turn them into tears of joy and show me a good alternative.

I have my own ansible setup that I use, but it feels old. It works just fine, but I want to see what I can improve.
Accountability for what? I recall Procedure already requires approval of the final sketch by the witness. Witnesses could always make mistakes, but that's true even in the current process. Or is your argument sketches should never be used?

In fairness, with the ubiquity of cameras, sketches are much less required...
Okay, which analyzes engineers’ productivity, sells to Stripe
Ah, you are not reading the situation right. The fascist elements have hijacked the term "science". Nowadays, it is science if you say that cowling protects against atomic radiation ([1]) or you say that ancient India had interplanetary travel ([2]) .. note that the latter was at an official track at the Indian Science Congress on science in ancient India. If the vedas said something, that is science. If the white man brought out a periodic table, either ban it, or say 'our ancient texts already knew about it'. That's the state of India right now.

You will never see any statements by the board. They are comprised of people who are either scared shitless of speaking out, or who are really religious fundamentalists at core.

[1] https://www.outlookindia.com/national/cow-dung-protects-from...

[2] https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/economy-politics/story/i...
Don't pretend you care about artists when you refuse to pay them.
I wouldn't be surprised if people are overeating by 1k calories/day. It takes a substantial daily gym commitment to burn that much, you're better off eating better in the first place (which unfortunately can be easier said than done)
Slightly pedantic, but Satya Pal Singh wasn't Minister of Education.

That said, the rest is true.
> I don't get why we put up with political parties at all...

For two reasons:

First, because politics is an ecosystem, and political parties are much stronger than unorganized political actors, so they outcompete and win. Your effectiveness is multiplied tremendously if you have an organized group which can fundraise, make small compromises among its members to reach common goals, scan membership to find compelling leaders, etc. Unorganized political actors have no chance against parties, and so they adapt (by becoming parties themselves) or die.

Second, because "political parties" are just a fact of gathering large numbers of humans: they will always have different opinions, and form tribes and cliques with like-minded people. If you don't have explicit parties, you will have hidden, implicit, internal ones, and that is much worse. See The Tyranny of Structurelessness, or alternatively one-party states like China, which still do have political factions, because having political factions is something people naturally do, but hide these behind the opacity of the CCP, leading to much less transparent decision-making.
I've worked in the mail area, though not recently. Twenty years ago I worked on an IMAP4 transport, optimized for wireless, for Windows CE ("Microsoft Mobile OS" or whatever it was called).

I don't find your arguments rationally convincing. You're comparing developing mail software using libraries for JSON, HTTPS and other pieces, versus doing the same thing while developing IMAP from scratch.

It boils down to "web developers don't have nice libraries for IMAP access and are too busy making another clone of React or Typescript to make one".

It's not realistic to develop a new mail client without IMAP (complete non-starter) even if it suports JMAP.

This shit only benefits people who are trying to be the next Gmail. On the surface, it's somewhat good for users who rely on monolithic mail service in that if there are more such services, they have more choice.

It's bad for everyone is not using a monolithic mail service, who doesn't want a new mail client speaking a new protocol or to install services for that or anything else.

> And then perhaps your client is webmail; if so, you simply can’t use IMAP or SMTP.

That claim is amazing; in another browser tab right here I'm logged into my self-hosted RoundCube webmail which is accessing my inbox with IMAP, and sends with SMTP. Of course, it does those things at the PHP back end.

I think you may be conflating "webmail" with a "browser-based, purely local mail client application not accessed over the network".

If such a thing is not able to speak SMTP or IMAP, maybe the Javscript world should tool up?
The Nazi belief at the time was that Judaism was an integral component of "Judeo-Bolshevism" i.e. the USSR so it is not correct to assert that there was "no military" -- the USSR had a rapidly growing industrial military.

German fascists thought that all Jewish people were in cahoots with the USSR, which was Definitely trying to conquer all of Europa.

Polish fascists think all ethnically Russian people are in cahoots with the RF MoD, which is Definitely trying to conquer all of Europa.

It is a similar situation and we shouldn't succumb to historical revisionism.
I keep telling people: Space is hard.

> The rocket lost thrust after the first stage separation due to an “abnormal startup of the engine” on the vehicle’s second stage that may have been caused by an instability in the engine and fuel system, according to KCNA.

This is the challenge for most newcomers to space deal with. Every space startup in the US over the last couple years seems to have all had some trouble between stage 1 engine cut off and stage 2 operating. It's so easy in Kerbal Space Program!

You need to: Stop your main engine; disconnect the first and second stage cleanly, successfully; put at least a little distance between first and second stage; Start the stage 2 engine in a vacuum and in freefall (which you cannot test out on the ground) and do it remotely/autonomously; have stage 2 correctly identify its own position and speed well enough to aim to the stable orbit you hoped for.

Oh, and don't forget to successfully ditch your faring at some point or the satellite is trapped in an egg shell with no solar panels, communications equipment, or (in the case of a spy satellite) telescopes.
Evolutionary biology is particularly hard to teach from "first principles" anyway. Once you get beyond the basic natural selection definition (variation, differential fitness, heritability), there's a lot of deeply unintuitive implications that only apply situationally, or mechanisms that result from the details of complex biochemistry. It's difficult enough to teach at an undergrad level that evolutionary theory classes are usually reserved for Juniors and Seniors with some prereqs.
I love a simple idea pushed far beyond expectation. It's a little choppy on my phone, though (Firefox Android).
Sure but OP's point is that that tiny fraction of code is (probably, I'm just guessing) responsible for a disproportionately large fraction of time spent actually running work. AVX is AFAIK mostly used in hand rolled, low level library code that then is used by a whole lot of consumers.

I know I've seen pretty huge speedups in my own code for "free" just from switching to an AVX version of BLAS. You can just think about how many different programs use BLAS (which is itself highly arcane internally), and AVX is definitely in a ton of other low level libraries out there.
> And hardware with open source firmware is available.

And how do you know you're running it?
Paper: https://cdn.openai.com/improving-mathematical-reasoning-with...
Link to paper: https://cdn.openai.com/improving-mathematical-reasoning-with...
Love The Flop House. I'd also recommend Judge John Hodgman (which is also part of the Maximum Fun network, but if you're in 2007 that hasn't happened yet in the Flop House timeline)
Not sure I follow. The SBE is designed to boot the system. If it requires any initialisation itself, it must be handled by a hardcoded state machine in the RTL logic.
My toddler loves the movie Moana. Turns out part of the movie is based on a real historical time period where Polynesian people stopped sailing long distances to colonize new areas.

https://historydaily.org/disneys-moana-depicts-an-actual-eve...
Sadly, this is the attitude of some obese people...
It's easy to do this with anything in computer science as others can implement or recreate whatever is being discussed easily. Not so with a 6 month experiment with several groups of humans, or even a 2 week one with rats.
What I really like about this story is that free and unfettered access to the standard/specs, the implementation, the ability to spin up a reproducer, to see all moving parts with X-ray vision, come to a solution and having said solution accepted upstream, all in one go, at your own pace AND being able to share the whole story without needing permission - the power of Open. Not working around bugs in whatever proprietary thing. Mervellieux! Excuse my French. #OpenFTW
Yes, but that's pointless as a policy for doctors and healthcare in general.
Some of us prefer to read primary sources written by other humans, instead of a hallucinatory regurgitation from a probabilistic token stream model.
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We’ve put up a few sample screenshots at https://joinonu.com/examples, and a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XMnBRsktsw.

Many engineers lose hours a week fielding requests from other teams. While most companies have a home-grown internal dashboard (or are using a third party tool builder for this such as Retool), there is still a long tail of scripts that engineers have to run regularly for their ops and CX teammates, either locally or by SSHing into prod. Maybe a user’s account got stuck in a weird state, or you have a script to manually onboard new customers to your B2B product, or you have to run a custom provisioning script each time you add a bike to your e-bike fleet (something we experienced at Lyft).

We experienced these problems while working on engineering teams at Lyft and Stripe. Our teams needed internal tooling, but we didn’t have time to build feature-rich dashboards. Stripe had a homegrown tool that allowed engineers to quickly spin up simple internal tools without writing any frontend code. When we started working on Onu with a different idea we immediately felt the pain of not having a similar tool. We pivoted to working on our current product instead because we already knew how powerful it can be for speeding up engineering teams.

Internal tool builders mostly take a no code/low code approach that requires engineers to duplicate a lot of business logic in the browser. This leads to brittle internal apps that are hard to keep in sync with the business logic in your codebase, and difficult to maintain as you scale. In addition, such tools subject you to point-and-click / drag-and-drop workflows that just aren’t the sweet spot for programmers. We don’t like working that way ourselves, so we focus on a code-first approach, allowing you to hand scripts to non-technical teammates to own and run without engineering oversight.

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The only reason it's a problem is that papers became the measure - more papers = more prestige. The measure will simply change because now it won't have a strong signal.
This is absolutely true, there is zero consistency in titles, levels, or their meaning across companies. I've been doing more or less the same stuff (if you zoom out enough) for more than 15 years. In that time I've been a System Administrator, Systems Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Software Engineer. I haven't gotten SRE on the bingo card yet but it's one of the main titles I search for these days.

Doesn't really bother me, although it does make evaluating what you might actually DO in a particular role challenging. In this "SRE" position am I writing Kubernetes operators in Go, or am I a Jenkins pipeline janitor, or am I working the graveyard shift in a data center swapping dead hard drives? WHO KNOWS!
1) You must therefore pay the reviewers. Probably a good starting point.

2) It is in fact, hard to publish things already in top journals especially if you're not established. Given the fact you also want the pool of reviewers to shrink, you're also making difficulty of publishing works even harder. Yes, the issue is paper mills, got it, but you're making it even harder for sincere scientists who aren't part of a mill in doing this.

3) The flood of work that will fall to the smaller, more accountable group will require culling, which of course, the top journals will cull the horde based on the biases they already have: pedigree, which will further calcify the issues in science and research already, or even intensify it.
"Okay with paying for it" gives you a wide range of options.

Most of the open source stuff people are talking about is things like running a quantized 33B parameter LLaMA model on a 3090. That can be done on consumer hardware, but isn't quite as good at general purpose queries as GPT-4. Depending on your use case and your ability to fine tune it, that might be sufficient for a number of applications. Partcularly if you've got a very specific task.

However, if you're willing to spend, there are bigger models available (e.g. Falcon 40B, LLaMA 65B) that can be run on data server class machines, if you're willing to spend $15-20K.

Will that get you GPT-4 level inference? Probably not (though it is difficult to quantify); will it get you a high-quality model that can be further fine-tuned on your own data? Yes.

For the smaller models, the fine-tunes for various tasks can be fairly effective; in a few more weeks I expect that they'll have continued to improve significantly. There's new capabilities being added every week.

The biggest weakness that's been highlighted in research is that the open source models aren't as good at the wide range of tasks that OpenAI's RLHF has covered; that's partly a data issue and partly a training issue.
>> How is it still possible to remain anonymous on the Internet, considering in this age the thing is very mature and well commercialised?

Because at the core, identity on the internet is not well defined. Authentication is a hard problem. You might wonder why it's hard, why better more secure protocols haven't emerged. Answer: that makes end to end encryption easy, among other things that give individuals too much power.
> (Unlike say LLMs where GPT-4 is clearly dominating for now.)

A lot of this comes from people comparing GPT-4 to e.g. LLaMA-7B, because that's the thing that fits in memory on their laptop. Whereas you can run LLaMA-65B, and it's dramatically better, but it uses about 128GB of RAM and the hardware needed to run it fast is expensive.

And GPT-4 has even more parameters than that, but that's not a matter of the tooling, it's that someone needs to release a public model with more parameters.
This is straight up holocaust denial.

First hand documents (letters and memoirs) of polish jews show that rumors of death camps in germany were common as early as 1942, and some had word of mouth knowledge that later turned out to be almost completely accurate. By 1944 accounts from jews all over europe show routine knowledge of death camps in germany & hungary.

Pogroms had been going on for years at that point. People knew what the final solution was intended to be. Jews a country away certainly did anyway, why would germans not?
I hadn't considered it! Your username is appropriate, too much to do :D

My requirements are pretty low so I was likely to just let it slide...

...but with your help (and perhaps from others on understanding the pieces), I'll consider it!

I'm remarkably unfamiliar with S3 style of services, only occasionally trying to dabble

edit: The choosing of appropriate headers may come down to Mattermost/clients -- BackBlaze might be technically doing the right thing saying "I don't know what to do with these"
No, it's because people can't just fight what their body tells them they need for any significant amount of time. It is incredibly difficult to lose weight for anything more than a year or two, and in fact very rarely happens - at least without surgery.
Our hypothetical AI won't make any decisions. It just makes sketches as described and approved by witnesses. The relevant racism here is the one any witnesses may have, that's true even with a human police sketch artist.
I wouldn't put SF in the great cities list. Maybe it had something back in the 80's or 90's - it's own charm or soul. But for the past 15 year's it's slowly turned into a soulless, charmless, no character city where everyone is in tech and thinks the same.

I may be in the miniority on this site - but frankly I think it's sucked for a while now. I've had much better times in other big cities worldwide.
Hm, maybe I'll apply to YC. Except my version also has a sniffer and can detect C. difficile and SARS-CoV-2.
It can mean anything whatsoever, what matters is what it is when it's practiced and everyone can see it.
Now consider that these people are also the ones who have created the rules and policies of online discourse

Now apply the fact that talking is how we think and formulate thoughts

Explains a lot in the last 20 years wrt politics and social movements… a very small elite who isn’t affected by the dangerous decisions they make
Can you stay lean without looking emaciated at any age?

It seems many people get a belly as they age, but the face still looks normal.

Can you prevent this with a diet or will your face look haggard?
I'm amazed they admitted it! Not even claiming it was 'shot down' or denying completely that there ever was a spy satellite, just straight up admitting that it didn't work.
Came here to post this. Beautiful animations.
Can confirm both point 1 and 2. I sometimes burn my quota limit multiple times a day. I have API access to GPT-4 too, and question+answer in my case amounts to $0.3. Aligning the price of GPT-4 in the API with the monthly fees of ChatGPTPlus, that means 66 requests per month. I can burn that in day.
I'll take your question further: what if we have unlimited data (say some crazy rich RL environment or way to produce high quality and diverse synthetic data)? You still have to get these 1e30 FLOPs. Lets say you can connect 100 of these bad boys together with 40% utilization, with total 4e19 FLOPs/s. Assume also Moore's law keeps working indefinitely. When should we start training 100T model on it to get is as early as possible? We wait x years and the start training on machine with 4e19*2^(x/2) FLOPs/s. Turns out the answers is ~16 years, after which we'll have 1e22 FLOPs/s and 1e30 FLOPs will take another 3 years.
It's a goddamn fucking toothbrush, no need to have all this stuff.
If you have one build pipeline, I would recommend it. But it's still been a nightmare for me. Key issues are some packages are 5+ yrs old and not maintained, and we have a very complicated setup, one common repo shared by a Next.js app and custom Koa app. Every tool you work with, like Jest, needs its own workarounds.

I have noticed more and more libs are exporting ESM, but lord knows when we can stop adding special compiler rules.
> where extremely prestigious schools like Eton are called "public schools" for historical reasons.

In the UK public and private referred to who could access the schools (assuming they had the money), whereas in the US they refer to how the schools are funded.

Now the UK has a kludge. The former private schools don't really exist, they've mainly changed into independent fee-paying public schools not controlled or funded by the state.

In the meantime (i.e. centuries ago), the state started funding schools, including religiously selective schools and has been increasingly giving more independence to the schools it funds.
It is the attitude of most people who have tried to lose significant weight (tens of kg).

Note that I personally don't think surgery or semaglutides are a great solution, since they still don't attack or even try to identify the roots of the issue.
1377x is an ad-hijacking "clone" of the real 1337x
People are in denial about aging out of city living.
It's a question of where your core axioms come from.

The core axiom from which a person builds a belief system can be that contradictions are wrong or that authority (the bible/priest/parent) is right.

This is why conservatives frequently fail to respond to pointing out their contradictions. Their core axiom is one of authority, contradictions have little bearing on their analysis of what is true or not. New information cannot invalidate their already known truth, so what they already "know" twists and molds the new information, rather than their current understanding adapting to the new information.

This makes (real) education directly at odds with conservatism. Inquiry is an anathema to dogma. Conservatism is happy to teach things that are useful which is why you'll hear conservatives extol the virtues of technical education, but doesn't want to teach methods of inquiry or analysis or questioning ones self and ones assumptions, which is why you'll hear conservatism denigrate liberal arts or frequently secular education.

One confusing factor for American conservatives is that the American tradition that is being conserved is a somewhat liberal tradition. So conservatives attach themselves to many (correct) liberal values, but fail to see that they believe those values as the result of their tradition (meaning as a result of authority), and not as the result of a process of rational inquiry.

Put more succinctly: an educated population is a threat to authority and therefore conservatism.
- yes and no, I suspect you would see a stricter system with numerical limits. Aus is often touted as a good example

- the EEC would have stayed as just that, I suspect. Perhaps the EU would have formed without us, hard to know.

- yup
It's pretty much impossible to support Anonymous + Distributed + Free from poison/injection attacks. Not to mention, you still largely need at least some known points of entry into such a system.
OpenAI is pursuing a new way to fight AI 'hallucinations'
Production from Texas will soon be part of Brent crude oil benchmark
That speaks pretty clearly to me 6 years ago. At my current job I ask "stupid" questions in public channels to make sure it's normalized for younger devs to see. I've explicitly discussed it with my team, and push other senior devs to do the same.
They were thought to be by "rust leadership" by at least some people, which muddied the waters a lot.
A big issue after someone goes overboard even if they know right away is finding the person. Specifically in the middle of the night. Without the proper long range thermal vision you have no chance of finding someone. They can see you, you can't see them and on a large ship it is probably pretty much impossible to get it silent enough to hear someone's calls. Lage ships also take time to slow down. It's possible for someone to already be far away even if a detection system cuts the engines right away.