skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Japan and South Korea acted like they didn't know was happening publicly (alarms etc) despite being informed of the launch publicly days before as reported in the media.

They may have known it was happening, but once the launch malfunctioned, they didn't know where it was going.
Could you elaborate ?
What is datasette ?

Is the Zeal code open source enough that one could change the backend by replacing a small number of data access subroutines?

I think all you would need to change is setter code, since getter code wouldn’t be part of the interface. I think Zeal doesn’t write back any data, right ?
Interesting. For me at least, it's 70-30 test-exam.

Would love to see if there is a regional dialectic difference or maybe some kind of a language shift in the past 15-20 years.
Maybe they're actually using GPT-3 but tell you it's GPT-4...
> then there is a moral responsibility to not do it.

If you want to regulate international trade along a sense of ‶moral responsibility″, you will hit a lot of walls; the main one being ‶whose definition of moral responsibility?″, and the second one being ‶geez, virtually no country actually fills my definition of morally responsible trade″.

Because if you cut out Ghana, good luck cutting out the whole of Africa, probably most of South America, quite a lot of EU countries, Russia, China, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, ...
You could easily fit a 1T parameter model on a MacBook if you radically altered the architecture of the AI system.

Consider something like a spiking neural network with weights & state stored on an SSD using lazy-evaluation as action potentials propagate. 4TB SSD = ~1 trillion 32-bit FP weights and potentials. There are MacBook options that support up to 8TB. The other advantage with SNN - Training & using are basically the same thing. You don't have to move any bytes around. They just get mutated in place over time.

The trick is to reorganize this damn thing so you don't have to access all of the parameters at the same time... You may also find the GPU becomes a problem in an approach that uses a latency-sensitive time domain and/or event-based execution. It gets to be pretty difficult to process hundreds of millions of serialized action potentials per second when your hot loop has to go outside of L1 and screw with GPU memory. GPU isn't that far away, but ~2 nanoseconds is a hell of a lot closer than 30-100+ nanoseconds.

Edit: fixed my crappy math above.
Body positivity will go down as one of the most destructive marketing campaigns of all time. It helped lock in big food and big pharma revenues and avoid scrutiny at the expense of people's health and amplified healthcare costs for everyone.
Above ranking does not make sense at all. Is CBSE is so low ranked, why is prevalent board in Indian and schools abroad which favors CBSE?

ICSE is more all round syllabus which makes sense but does not make it difficult or higher ranked than CBSE.
Developers lost ~$200 Billion to two-sided market monopoly in 2022.

[Apple's share] minus [cost of operating apple store] minus [profit apple would generate without monopoly] = monopoly profits
I have no idea tbh. I learned these a while ago (~7 years ago), and the materials I used then are heavily outdated and also I won't be able to remember what they were. I guess any intro course to deep learning should talk about these. Stanford ones used to be good. Maybe someone else can be more useful about it.
Yes this seems obvious to me too. The whole population just suddenly in the 1970's started eating more and exercising less? And we as a society have no idea what is causing it, and there seems to be no sense of urgency to find out.
Poland: Will Donald Tusk be barred from holding office?
"Although he also announced that he would ask the Constitutional Tribunal to examine the document, the move was seen by many as an empty gesture, considering the ruling party's influence on the Constitutional Tribunal."

"Poland's commissioner for human rights, Marcin Wiacek, is of the opinion that the constitution does not allow for the creation of such a body. 'In a democratic state governed by the rule of law, punishment is meted out by the courts for criminal offences. This body, however, is supposed to punish acts that were not necessarily illegal at the time,' he said, adding that an administrative body that mixes investigative powers with the administration of justice is not acceptable."

"The nine members of the commission would be selected by the parliament, and its chair would be appointed by the head of government. The commission would have the power to demand the release of any document and information — even secret documents and classified information."
Well, printing was going to be for instruction. And then radio. And TV. And the internet.

We're so instructed we've gotta wear ad-blockers.
tftarget: A Terraform ( plan – apply – destroy) target tool
Agreed. Information sparse, lays out almost nothing. One would do better by far to just go to /r/LocalLlama and sort all by Top.
Depends what you are after.

For public access, something like webDAV is probably the lowest hanging fruit.

However its still HTTP based, so not great for speed or partial writes.

HDFS is not worth the hassle, same goes for ceph, its a lot of work for slower worse performance than ZFS/pNFS.

If you want speed and posix, then something like GPFS from IBM is where to go, failing that, lustre, which you can get from AWS if you want to try it.
I remember when MKUltra was just some nutty idea passed around by, well, swivel-eyed loons. The idea that oil companies knew about climate change before the Summer of Love and we're ready to gaslight us for a few decades? Gibbering madness.

I don't really care if the people noticing (let's call them Noticers) if they blame aliens or the Knights Templar (to make a nod to Umberto Eco), they've picked up on something.
Note that TABLESAMPLE SYSTEM is not guaranteed to give you a uniform sample, as it samples blocks, whereas ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT samples uniformly distributed rows. Some database systems support TABLESAMPLE RESERVOIR to guarantee uniform sampling behavior.
Creative Cloud is less specialized now, not more. They were able to defend their margins because designers were used to specific workflows. As the interfaces become more general, that advantage will erode. Adobe is working on sophisticated chain of custody for DAM which won’t matter to the bill of CC users, even in enterprise.

The productivity gains are becoming permission-to-play. The money saved will go into hiring different kinds of people which will continue to pressure the software budget. It’s true CC is seen as necessary, but it’s still resented and there are always employees whose access to a subscription is marginal, providing some elasticity.
Just a scale on your smart toilet seat would do.
Just here to rant about 'S3 compliance' a little - I have no real awareness on the topic at hand.

Tangentially this is lamenting at the lack of choice

Last night I tried to set up BackBlaze (S3 'compatible') behind Mattermost.

This doesn't go very far when clients use/rely on headers that specifically mention vendorization

BackBlaze won't work with clients that try to send x-amz-sdk-checksum-algorithm, Mattermost taught me this

TLDR: S3 isn't always S3
Apple is obsessed with their lifestyle designation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfR_Jj4grZE

They publish ads and write all their copy with the intention of framing their products as anything other than a computer.
Yeah, that's the F# support for it. The interesting bit is that C# supports much nearly the same query syntax (`for item in something where item.IsInteresting select new { name = item.Name }`) and secretly supports just about any arbitrary Monad you want to write [1]. Just as C# also was one of the first languages to take something like F#'s async { } builder for async/await syntax, as a different Monad transformer (that C# also built to be duck-typable for any Monad that fits the right pattern).

LINQ and async/await alone can be heady "gateway drugs" in C# to learning functional programming fundamentals (including the deep, advanced fundamentals like Monads), and C# only seems to continue to pick up little bits of FP here and there over time.

There are definitely lots of reasons why even some of the biggest FP fans often think "C# is good enough" without needing to reach for F# in 2023. (Which is why the post here, and the comments above in this same thread lament that F#'s biggest problem is the shadow that C# casts.)

[1] Mark Seemann did an entire series of blog post on coding common Monads in both F# and C# and the C# code is very interesting at times: https://blog.ploeh.dk/archive/
You'd be surprised. One headache there is what did you tell study participants you would do with the data?

Did you say you'd keep it forever? Did you say 5 years? Who's in charge of making sure that this centralized repository isn't inappropriately holding and distributing data?

Funding organizations also have different requirements.

Then a script is only useful if paired with a set of libraries of a particular version, a specific compiler/interpreter, an OS, also there may be specialized hardware involved. Some of the languages used in science like SAS, Stata, SPSS, and Matlab, etc aren't free and open source so you can't always just bundle it.

And even data storage isn't trivial. For a recent small conference abstract I processed ~150GB of data. Hundreds (thousands? Tens of thousands?) of other papers have looked at that same data. You would really want some way to deduplicate that storage, but that introduces some additional complexity.

I do like this vision but I think it would be a major undertaking that would require a lot of well funded institutions coming together rather than any one in particular doing it on their own.
Deer also have a survival instinct that works against them. You will sometimes see a deer cross the road going one direction and think that they're safe, but then they will suddenly jump in front of you going the other direction. The reason is the deer had a fawn and they see you as a big predator. So they had the fawn hunker down on the other side of the road and then jump in front of your face to distract you into chasing them to increase the chance that the fawn can escape.

If you ever see a deer cross in front of you, especially with a fawn in tow, slow down and be prepared to slam on the brakes because they might be preparing to jump right into your path. These kinds of accidents are especially deadly because they don't hit the bumper, they tend to smash directly into the windscreen, sometimes breaking through and crushing the front seat passengers.
Holocaust is one thing, Nazi persecution is another thing.

Persecutions are a terrible thing — and Nazi persecution especially so — but it (and others) just fall short on the scale of atrocities, when being compared to the Holocaust.

Either you don't understand what exactly the Holocaust is, or you're spreading a modern version of Holocaust denial, where by "modern version" I mean not "this didn't happen" but "this did happen but so what".
The police already know those sketches are super fake lol. The point of those isn't to arrest the right person it's to have an excuse to hassle arrest or maybe kill a minority.
> The scarier thing should be the rewriting of the history section of CBSE.

That is the one I am looking forward to. Indian history today is freedom struggle - mughal empire - freedom struggle - mughal empire - gandhi - nehru - akbar. Is all.

Indian history is long overdue for a huge revamp. We need more balanced views of the independence movement. We need greater exposure to non-Delhi kingdoms that shaped the major parts of the country. We need history of the period between 1947 - 2000.

World history needs to be taught from a non-western lens too. India needs to learn about the East & Africa, just as much as the west. This is especially valid because Indians have closer historic ties to South East Asia and diaspora in places like Guyana, the Caribbean and Africa. With the advent of population genomics, we must include findings about Sub-continental pre-history that are more scientific than the idle musings of some 18th century white guy.

PS: good summary of the Indian educational system. As you correctly pointed out, western intuitions about education do not transfer well to the Indian system.
Seen how bad both those are doing and will do in the future I guess it's "progress".

But correction to my comment above: These become one global memory... how slow it is and how many corruptions they will have is unknown but holy hell...
This is essentially a tl;dr for the article, but phrased as if it's a rebuttal.

> The antilockdown movement exploited the legitimate anger of every­day people about elites ignoring the rules they set for the rest of us. These everyday people were then mobilized to fight for the rights of factory owners, logistics companies and other large corporations to murder their workers with a policy of “let ’er rip.”
that's a different search query. I did get that same result if I use your query instead. (I'm in the US)

edit: it's also for a "proxy" site. I don't really use torrents or follow TPB happenings and don't know how that is/isn't affiliated.
Neat, but only really relevant for rolling updates. This feature is a one-shot installer.
Linking to the site itself (especially when that’s what you searched for) isn’t the same as linking to a torrent to infringing content would be.
It's most likely already 'torn apart' by the impact and possibly explosion. A lot of parts will have sunk to the seafloor. And any analysis might be classified.

Also I'm sure they are able to obtain components from the west, their border with China is pretty porous.

But yeah I'm also interested to hear the outcome in case something does surface. Just wouldn't count on it.
> I like to imagine certain billion/trillion-dollar mega corps had a back-room say regarding things that they would really prefer OpenAI's models not be able to emit. Microsoft is a big stakeholder and they might not want to get sued... Liability could explain a lot of it.

I don't think it's any of these things.

OpenAI and the company I work for have a very similar problem: the workload shape and size for a query, isn't strictly determined by any analytically-derivable rule regarding any "query compile-time"-recognizable element of the query; but rather is determined by the shape of connected data found during initial steps of something that can be modelled as a graph search, done inside the query. Where, for efficiency, that search must be done "in-engine", fused to the rest of the query — rather than being separated out and done first on its own, such that its results could be legible to the "query planner."

This paradigm means that, for any arbitrary query you haven't seen before, you can't "predict spend" for that query — not just in the sense of charging the user, but also in the sense that you don't know how much capacity you'll have to reserve in order to be able to schedule the query and have it successfully run to completion.

Which means that sometimes, innocuous-looking queries come in, that totally bowl over your backend. They suck up all the resources you have, and run super-long, and maybe eventually spit out an answer (if they don't OOM the query-runner worker process first)... but often this answer takes so long that the user doesn't even want it any more. (Think: IDE autocomplete.) In fact, maybe the user got annoyed, and refreshed the app; and since you can't control exactly how people integrate with your API, maybe that refresh caused a second, third, Nth request for the same heavyweight query!

What do you do in this situation? Well, what we did, is to make a block-list of specific data-values for parameters of queries, that we have previously observed to cause our backend to fall over. Not because we don't want to serve these queries, but because we know we'll predictably fail to serve these queries within the constraints that would make them useful to anyone — so we may as well not spend the energy trying, to preserve query capacity for everyone else. (For us, one of those constraints is a literal time-limit: we're behind Cloudflare, and so if we take longer than 100s to respond to a [synchronous HTTP] API call, then Cloudflare disconnects and sends the client a 524 error.)

"A block-list of specific data-values for parameters of queries" probably won't work for OpenAI — but I imagine that if they trained a text-classifier AI on what input text would predictably result in timeout errors in their backend, they could probably achieve something similar.

In short: their query-planner probably has a spam filter.
Well, the camera already has decent long exposure capabilities.
Prints "<eye witness description of suspect> in <${art style}>"

Driven by a little knob selector.

Featuring 3 art styles:
1. Police sketch classic
2. Realistic photo
3. Manga character
Yes, it is ranting. They don't actually present any exploit for it. They are just saying "someone once found a way to exploit the firmware, therefore all firmware is vulnerable!" which is very lousy. There is no hint for example that this can be converted into a "persistent hiding-in firmware" backdoor anymore than any other regular Windows install. The fact that the software is distributed via WPBT is almost orthogonal to the vulnerability itself.
Systemic problems require systemic solutions. Until we confront that sugar is something that people can get addicted to we won't be dealing with the root of the problem.
This is not what the title makes it to seem, most of India believes science and education leads to success in life and for the country. If anything businesses will now make more money by teaching periodic tables and evolution in "coaching classes"
The applicability of historical precedent to unprecedented times is limited. You can quote me on that.
Well, in the parts of the country I was educated in we had exams, and I would consider the word to be a normal part of people's vocabulary
Thanks for the really detailed reply!

> The very first instructions executed by the SBE are from OTPROM...

How is the very first instruction executed by the SBE in an un-initialized state?
It's not body positivity that is driving the obesity epidemic. It started long before that movement existed. Body positivity is just a coping mechanism because we don't have anything better.
> The problem with AI generated images, in this context, is that they can be used to imitate the style of specific artists, meaning any unique talent and vision those artists have no longer has market value.

AI can generate an image "in the style of Banksy" but so can a thousand other artists who aren't Banksy, and their work product would have no more value than the AI's.

The way this makes you feel is about more than texture and shading:

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/contemporary-ar...

You might be able to get Stable Diffusion to generate something like that with a sufficiently detailed prompt, but then its uniqueness would come from the creative effort required in devising the prompt. It's not like you can just type "street art in the style of Banksy" and expect the output to make you feel something like that.
I have to wonder why these engineers are not paid millions of dollars per year. As a lowly backend dev this seems so much more impressive than my new API that retrieves something from a database...
Form has clearly been prioritized over function for this office design.
Got any proof for this wild claim?
Deers may not look dangerous because they are herbivorous and cute, but they are.

Good advice, and not something most people think about. As a general rule, all wild animals should be treated as dangerous and not cute and harmless. Even a baby squirrel will scratch the shit out of you. Cute little bunnies? Yeah, watch what happens when they're cornered and think they nothing left to lose. Experience says birds might be the one exception, though I've never tried to get close to an eagle. :-)

If it has claws, teeth, and doesn't live with me in my house, I treat it with a respectful distance until I have reason to believe otherwise, no matter how cute it might be.
It's too bad, because actually teaching the theory of evolution by natural selection seems appropriate. Of course actually teaching it also means teaching the unknowns like, to name just a few, why did life begin, why did the Cambrian explosion happen, why did sex evolve when it reduces many genes' chance of being passed on by about 50%, how does gradual mutation select for structures like eyes, and what causes mutation fixation to increase to a rate that can explain the current genetic diversity on the planet?

And of course for many people it's an emotional issue because they think it has some kind of religious significance. Interestingly, I see that kind of religious obsession from atheists as well as the, in my view, less intellectually sophisticated theists. Personally, being Catholic, I have no problem with the theory of evolution by natural selection. I think the open questions are interesting and like any theory describing something as complex as the entire biosphere there are going to be many difficulties and perhaps there is a better theory waiting to be discovered, but the notion that God might have effected creation gradually through natural processes that He established just isn't a problem for my faith.
What if he beat her to death with a moose hoof?
What was the feedback from the author when you told her that the extra clicks made it unusable ?
Weight loss surgeries are an incredible tool with great research to back them up. Until the recent invention of semaglutides, they were the only tool that works for doctor prescribed weight loss (telling people to eat right and diet doesn't help outcomes at all, its more or less a waste of time).
> Hear hear. There is, indeed, no such thing as running out of entropy in a modern PRNG's state.

Yes, of course. PRNG's are about producing random data from a seed. But /dev/random & /dev/urandom isn't just a PRNG.

> What we really want is to always have an RNG-seeded PRNG, and to always use the PRNG not the RNG.

Which is effectively what is going on with /dev/random & /dev/urandom
Let's be real, there are a lot of papers in AI right now because it's been hot, not just recently but for years. Still, no one is reading random papers from insert-unknown-group-here. People read papers from already established scientists who have pedigree. And, how did they become established? Because they actually published before arxiv.

In that sense, peer review should be an equalizer, because the only way to be read and cited then is to have the holy academic lineage, which is what would happen if we abolished peer-review as it exists in the current academic word we're in.
> Senior SRE Paul Shuvashish first noticed that these emails weren’t failing DKIM but SPF. [...] This pointed out a flaw in our application-level analysis system: we were assimilating DMARC errors – which can be either because of SPF or DKIM – to DKIM errors. So while the app was doing the right thing nevertheless – marking the email as spam – the insight it was collecting internally was misleading.

I don't agree with 'the app was doing the right thing' here: for DMARC alignment (a DMARC pass) you need SPF or DKIM alignment. One of the two is enough.

So an email from a domain with DMARC enabled that passes DKIM, but fails SPF should pass. The application should not have rejected the email based on SPF, when it was actually DKIM aligned.
20 minutes of running is negated by a single cookie. Exercise alone is an exceptionally difficult way to lose weight and telling people to just exercise more is not a systemic solution.
Next up: 2FA for your toothbrush
I'm calling shenanigans.

There are many education systems in India. There's a central one, but each state has its own.

Indians at every economic level (except maybe the very top) value STEM education above everything else.

I wish we'd learn to dial back the hysteria. I wish people weren't so damn trigger happy.