skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Fully 25% of Gen Z identify as LGBTQ.

What does typing on a computer keyboard have to do with where you put your genitals? No one cares and most importantly, no one should care. Keep your sexual and romantic life to yourself in a programming community.

>There are going to be struggles and clashes as members of different classes assert their grievances and call each other out.

Thats a bad thing that must be nipped in the bud.

>In short, this kind of "drama" is a growing pain of open source becoming a real movement that invites and incorporates diverse voices.

More like its death convulsions.
Its just so odd to me. It used to be that a language was like an impartial technology that could be evaluated. Back in the day would anybody ever say "wow those C++ people are noxious, I'm not going to use objects".
Bluesky does this according to their FAQ:

>Occasionally, when we take action to moderate an account, we may revoke invite codes from that account and other accounts in the same invite tree.

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-19-2023-user-faq
Frank Drake, SETI visionary, born on this date
The Supreme Court’s Warhol Decision Will Be Dangerous for Artists
Sending AWS Lambda Logs to an Observability Service Like Datadog or New Relic
It’s possible to characterise anything as a leadership failure because the buck stops with them. But I don’t see what they could have done differently other than all being available on weekends to troubleshoot issues like this.
Of course not, but the context is a conference in the US.
> in my days at Amazon Web Services, I saw exactly zero instances of major service releases that, in the opinion of customers, crippled or broke the product

Well yeah, starting off with a beyond-terrible UX is one way to prevent product managers ever making it worse.
In somewhere this is where authority fallacy comes into play

People need to push back and ask questions not just accept everything the doctor says at face value..

If I take my car in for routine maintenance and the mechanic comes back with 1000 things they want to do I am not prone to just say "sure do what ever you think is best, you are the expert"
I found this [1] which says:

"Generally, when the game is in the foreground, persistent threads such as the game thread and render thread should run on the high-performance large cores, whereas other process and worker threads may be scheduled on smaller cores."

There's also a Wikipedia article [2] which talks a little about scheduling. I imagine Android probably has more specific context it can use as hints to its scheduler about where a thread should be run.

[1] https://developer.android.com/agi/sys-trace/threads-scheduli...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE#Scheduling
I have an opposite view but appreciate the logical stepwise approach to explaining why the author is fine with giving up their data for various free services.

This is absolutely untrue though: “The second reason I don't mind trading my data for complimentary speech recognition, worldwide navigation, and internet search, etc, is that the bargain is far from Faustian. If the only downside to the deal is that I'll be exposed to advertising that's more likely to be interesting to me, how is that bad?”

That’s a best case scenario and I hope that its the only outcome.
Pardon me, but what are "corporate D&D sessions" exactly? And how would you make money? Being a paid DM, maybe?
I hate, hate, hate country music, but I have an enormous amount of respect for Dolly Parton. She's just a plain old good person, and also extremely savvy from a business and money point of view (while having to plough through patriarchal barriers both emotionally and financially): https://www.joshuakennon.com/dolly-parton/
I'm not comfortable with this introduction of falsificationism to what is not a scientific experiment, but only an experiment testing the predictive accuracy of a classifier. Of course the classifier will get it wrong sometimes because it's only approximating a function: that's by definition, and even by design i.e. we build classifiers as function approximators because we know that learning precise definitions of target concepts is really hard. Under PAC-Learning assumptions, we expect a classifier to have some probability of some error, and we are only trying to estimate the probability of a certain degree of error in the classifier's decision.

The practical problem of course is that, in good practice, we estimate the error of a classifier by testing it on (ostensibly) unseen data, i.e. data that was not available to the classifier during training. With LLMs that kind of testing is impossible because nobody knows what's in their training data and so nobody can safely assume that success, or failure, on a specific task, is predictive of the performance of the model on an arbitrarily chosen task.

To make matters worse, everybody should understand very well by now that LLMs' performance varies, even wildly varies, with their prompt, and there is no known way to systematically create prompts that maximise the probability of a desired response. The result of that is that every observation of an LLM failing to carry out a task, may be just that, or it may be an observation of the user failing to prompt the LLM so as to maximise the probability of the correct response.

In a sense, testing LLMs by hand-crafted prompts risks measuring the experimenter's ability to craft a prompt, rather than the LLM's ability to respond correctly. In that sense, we can't really falsify any hypothesis about LLMs' capabilities.

Of course, the flip side of that is that people should refrain from making any such hypotheses and instead working on the best method to systematically and rigorously test LLMs. Too bad very few people are willing to do that. Too bad for most, that is. I'm pretty sure that at some point someone will come up with a way to rigorously test LLMs and take the cookie, and leave everyone else feeling like fools for wasting all that time poking LLMs for nothing.
> What the OP is actually saying is that he's extremely angry and pissed off that this was allowed to happen [...] But if he said that in no uncertain terms [...] he might fall afoul of the official Code of Conduct for being aggressive and threatening towards other contributors.

So they need reverse psychology to express anger at injustice because of the Code of Conduct? What is this world we're building?
That unwarranted trash aside:

Step one: since all of the pages are single pages accessed by name, the source content is likely a batch of HTML files. So: create an S3 bucket and mass upload everything to the bucket.

Step two: enable public access and hosting on the bucket

Step three: all of the files are now accessible under something like https://my-bucket.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com

Step four (optional): register a domain via Route 53 and create a simple record that points to the bucket so we have a better URL

Making the service writable again is a different story. The technical steps of getting it online be trivial for anybody that could do the above, but dealing with the abuse cases is something else entirely.
Model Dementia: Generated Data Makes Models Forget
What happens when generated data of one LLM becomes training data of another LLM?
Turns out that models start forgetting the real distribution and as the process repeats models develop dementia.
Anytime there's a shortage, you can be sure a government policy is behind it.

The irony of all the bureaucrats bullshitting about climate change to cover for a policy outcome of their making is not lost on me. Never change, California.
Cause and Effect. You say "Rust is great". Why? Because People who work together effectively created Rust. And people working together have created most of the other things that are great. So if you want Rust, better Rust or more Rusts, then you may want to care whether the Rust organization will continue to work together effectively.

My 0.02 is that we live in a time where we are losing site of communities and focusing on individuals. Your comment appears to be an example of that. Human beings are adaptive and successful in general because they effectively work together. If you want to think about that idea, one of the things I've been pondering is how the Ukrainians have stood up to the vast power arrayed against them?
It is a wonderful program. I wish more billionaires were trying to leave a legacy where their name stands for something more admirable. Will anyone know who Zuckerberg is in 100 years? Probably not.
I have a PhD in this stuff and I'm not sure I'd want to be making those sorts of decisions, especially for myself or a loved one.

In your example, suppose I do have A (or K, L, or M). If I wait, how will that affect the costs and prognosis? Or if I go ahead with the test, what are the possible side effects (e.g., for a biopsy) and what would managing them cost? Even if you're confident that you have—and understand—all the relevant information, you're also often making these decisions in an emotionally-charged situation.
I have no problem contributing patches, but nothing I currently use regularly is ill-behaved.

Not using colour is no work at all. Using colour correctly is a fair bit of work, and few programs do so; practically none check whether the terminal background is dark or light before emitting a dark blue or light yellow.
I'd like to add more resources about buddhist and dhamma

https://www.watnyanaves.net/en/book-shelf/other-language
Isn’t that AC current? So, pretty great, probably. I like the idea.
They do have one game there: https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/portal-companion-col...
Part of empathy is realizing when someone is authentically upset, and telling that apart from when they are being cynically melodramatic.

> I left because when I felt JeanHeyd's pain and disappointment at being mistreated and betrayed, my heart broke. I wept because of the cruelty. But I also wept because I helped create the system that could do this to someone.

This shit does not come off as authentic even a little bit.
When feedback is not a gift
This is an absurd statement. I really don't understand what you can possibly be asking it.

It doesn't matter though. I would prefer you don't use it.
Maybe a better place for this system is within buildings.
Rust is not a humnan, you are dealing with humans, and humans are flawed, accept it and protect what you care about.
Then it's a mistake to think the predators will stay in the virtual world and won't migrate to the physical themselves.
I like the personas and journey features.

In formal systems engineering, a common mistake (including for the 737MAX[1]) is failing to model system users, and treating system users as completely external and separate to what is being designed.

I'd love to play with an Inform 7[2] like language for capturing "operational scenarios"[3] (systems engineering jargon for roughly a combination of "personas" and "journeys"). In many fields of systems engineering (e.g. aviation), vocabulary has to be tightly controlled and syntactically unambiguous language used. As is the case with Userdoc, an LLM could propose operational scenarios, but they'd need to be converted to a syntactically unambiguous language, and be vetted by humans. Of current approaches to formally capturing operational scenarios, and I don't think any of these do a particularly good job of it, I prefer Object Process Methodology[4] (text representation only) over SysMLv2[5] (again text representation only, and this is R&D/draft). I'd only mention SysMLv1 or UML use cases as something I'd forever avoid.

[1] https://www.incose.org/docs/default-source/enchantment/21031...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform#Inform_7_programming_la...

[3] https://sebokwiki.org/wiki/Operational_Scenario_(glossary)

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Process_Methodology

[5] https://github.com/Systems-Modeling/SysML-v2-Release/blob/ma...
Nice idea! The pattern matching compiler/optimizer in OCaml doesn't do this. It's implemented using this algorithm which I've attempted to understand a few times but is a bit beyond me:

Fabrice Le Fessant, Luc Maranget, Optimizing Pattern-Matching ICFP'2001
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~maranget/papers/opat/
Yeah, like Dropbox is ftp with extra steps.
Manhattanhenge in 2023: When and where to see it
You think the kind of regulations that are being discussed in this thread are good things? They don’t seem to benefit anyone but insurance companies. Tell me, why shouldn’t you be able to walk into a doctor’s office and they be able to tell you how much a test costs? I wonder what regulation makes that impossible and what intended good it is supposed to make possible.
In every country people think others are less happy than they themselves say (2017)
What’s a Safe Distance from a Supernova for Earth?
The really key thing with this is to identify what your database/Id is solving and what it is not.

That's the money quote. If the indirection of long, composite, maybe changing foreign keys could be managed by the system, natural keys would be the way to go. But that doesn't happen.

> They’re all arbitrary, unnatural, human inventions

That part from the article is the weaker point. Semantics. "Natural" only means that it comes from the problem domain, it doesn't really matter.
I'm not sure why state farm is doing this and citing wildfires. Most insurers already won't cover fire in the fire-prone areas of the state, so you have to get a separate plan just for fire through Cal FAIR which tends to be crazy expensive. The traditional insurers will cover everything else, like theft. So you end up with two plan, paying about 3x what you would normally.

But State Farm insures a lot of areas that others already consider too risky. They could be more targeted about reducing their coverage area. If your home is in the middle of LA I don't think it's prone to wildfire risk.
If just one person inside leadership fails, that's also leadership failure. If that's the case, most likely the remaining leadership will distance itself from this soon enough.
Was the btrfs failure with RAID? Compared to LVM/dmraid with other filesystems on top... BTRFS is remarkably easy to fault.

I can reliably break BTRFS RAID using the reset switch on my system. Others behave fine via journaling and whatever, same devices/kernels/RAID level
because they're extrapolating from a few spyware countries come from israel -> does every single israeli hate freedom of press, journalists and human rights. its a pretty bad faith argument and borderline racist

anyway Israel isn't the only one selling spyware software. There are a metric ton of sellers, operators, and people just selling zero-days to any bidder

the answer to their question is that Israel is a dense, highly educated country with a lot of expertise in computer security and other technology areas. VRED is a difficult and exciting area of work, and the pipeline from gaining these skills in the military and translating it to private industry is very real. it has nothing to do with freedom of the press, journalists, or human rights
It is also the mindset. I imagine the first time going on the internet and writing it off because you can't see what "products" can be built.
Solr 9, for Solr 8, Java 8 is still used.

https://solr.apache.org/guide/8_11/solr-system-requirements....

Which is a pain, many products that use Solr as dependency like Sitecore, still lag behind in Solr versions.

https://www.searchstax.com/docs/searchstax-cloud-sitecore-so...

While it mostly works with more recent versions, there is no support if issues cannot be replicated on officially supported versions.
I think this is spot on. I do wish, however, that game companies could agree on some timeline for when emulating an old console is 'ok'. Because for the overwhelming majority of old games, its either emulate them or don't play them at all.
Was actually super surprised by that line. Was with the post until then.

Yes, treat people with respect, but we also need people to have even a marginal resilience to adversity. The bar for being emotionally damaged seems to be getting lower and lower for people.

If you can’t take criticism, don’t work in open source. You will never have 100% support from all people at all times. Many developers will manage social interactions (and organizing conferences) badly. That’s life
Strict liability for the power company -> rolling blackouts.

Price caps for insurance policies -> no insurance policies.

Multi year environmental study requirements -> no new construction.

Decriminalization of theft -> rampant theft.

Eviction moratorium -> rent inflation and 800+ credit score requirements.

There's enough of this make a small encyclopedia.
Periodic baseline tests are The Correct Answer™. To establish individual patient normals.

Can't manage what we don't measure.

Attention should focus on what's changed. Instead of playing 20 Questions for each new problem. [1]

High LDL? Well, it's always been high, and stable. We don't have to treat it.

Bone spurs (on spine)? Well, most everyone has them and they're not bothering you.

Oh, new sciatica symptoms? Hmmm, looks like you've got a new bone spur which may be impinging. Let's try some PT, get you a standup desk for work, and reassess in 6 months.

Etc.

--

Concern trolls claim more testing begets false negatives, begetting unnecessary treatment, which has its own risks.

Fine. Change healthcare from transactional to relational. Change from our current fee-for-service to continuity-of-care (or capitation, prevention, whatever we end up calling it).

Like u/JumpCrisscross says elsethread, only treat anomalous results per new symptoms.

I believe periodic baselines with regular checkups would reduce testing and unnecessary treatments, overall.

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[1] Monitoring, logging, anomaly detection, and RCA... Starting to sound suspiciously like engineering and operations. Of course, some orgs treat each incident as unforeseen one-offs, aka The Condi Rice Defense™. But high functioning teams plan ahead.
Or in video form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LseK5gp66u8
If you had suggested this as a plot for a miniseries, you’d have been laughed out of the room as a conspiracy nut, and yet… it appears to be real.

Can we just toss all of DC and it’s thugs out and start over?
_NSAKEY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
You wouldnt be writing like this if they did detect something.

I bet then you would be the apostle of periodic checks.
> it doesn’t have any underlying model of the world

Then how is it getting better at the ToM tests? For next word prediction to work well, as per Ilya Sutskever, requires a good understanding of the world. If you ask GPT-4 to predict what a human would do in a novel scenario, it will probably imagine the best human it can think of and then predict from there. That requires a world model.
I don’t know who Yancy is but they have some complete lack of shame to steal someone else’s idea almost word for word and prepend their name to it. I don’t know what I could muster that absolute “I don’t care at all what people think of me” if I tried, and I have here and there I just don’t have it in me.
There are two completely orthogonal questions here:

- Is the content of the talk suitable for a keynote?

- Given that the talk was accepted as a keynote, is it ok for the organizers to change their mind and unilaterally demote the talk?

https://hackmd.io/mwCWfJpIT024vBYvKeHCtw?view gives an informed perspective on the second question.
hehe yes I can relate to that!

I'm not sure if you had this in mind when you said "non-binary", but I also think along the same lines you just noted, that there is a difference between "not binary", and "non-binary". The latter could evoke connotations to the culture wars and gender identity -- though that of course has nothing to do with accessibility (of TUIs, bathrooms might be another matter).

Then again, I'm neither American nor a native English speaker, so I hardly have much authority on this point.
Amazingly, we have product owner roles. Which leads me to believe that there are some deep-rooted issues that need to be addressed first.
https://eclecticlight.co/ Has multiple articles characterising the M1 (and M2) and how the MacOS scheduler uses it.

I’m sure Android’s scheduled does things differently but it’s at least an idea of the sort of things which can happen.

For macs (and I assume iOS) the basics are that background processes get scheduled on E cores exclusively, and higher priority processes get scheduled on P cores preferentially but may be scheduled on E cores if the P cores are at full occupancy.
Why on earth would you need a "modern Javascript framework" for serving static pages? Or a database? Or god forbid, GraphQL?
Also add.

What really happened at the first and second thanksgivings in the us

The time the White House was burned down by an invading army ( who then left because they couldn’t be bothered)

The number of times the us has overthrown democratically elected governments around the world

The illegal drug testing the us has performed on peoples around the world

There’s plenty people inside the us are not taught.
US bill to protect reproductive health data is dead
Thank you, that's brilliant feedback.

Good point about the licensing, I hadn't thought of that. I guess I wanted to choose a game where I don't need to spend half the book explaining the game mechanics just to get the meat of the story. I thought of Monopoly because there are some interesting loopholes an ML might try, like offering the same trade 10000 times. I suppose I could think about how this might work as a character in Age of Empires or Minecraft.

I'm doing a fair bit of research on ML at the moment, though I'm mindful of not using that to procrastinate on actually writing the story. I do want the ML concepts to be necessary to moving the story forward, not just a gimmicky buzzword dropped in to make it sound technical. I'm really not sure how I'm going to do that, though - if I make it too complex, it will probably a poorly written confusing deep dive on calculus.

Thanks for the recommendation of Critique Circle, I'll check that out.
It's not as simple as you're suggesting. Take cancer screening for example. Doing more investigations and more procedures for things that weren't going to become problematic puts people at risk for the complications of those procedures.

Screening programmes need to be carefully thought out, not only from a cost-benefit, but from an actual risks vs benefits perspective.
Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a story waiting to be retold
Oh no, is this a new variant?!
Yes, that or "man up."
Perhaps a more generous interpretation is that just because a self-driving performs better than humans overall doesn't mean it performs better the specific situations you drive in. Though even then I think it might be dubious.
the smell is part of the "experience" of Venice ;) like McDonald's
It's a modern problem. Below the current city are the remains of several other cities that previously sank into the muck. The problem only became difficult to manage when we stopped rebuilding over sunken structures and started continually investing in extremely complex and heavy structures that we are hesitant to write off.
This is actually a bug of tabs that you don't even care what notes are being played.

I think it is why so often I hear people play and the strings aren't even tuned. "Who cares, it is just numbers on a finger board game." mindset.

No one on any other instrument ever would say musically, who cares what the notes are.
Price caps are a horrible compromise. The way it was used last year to rein in spiralling energy costs caused several smaller companies to go out of business. In the far more competetive food market i can't see how it wouldn't be ruinous to small shops. As usual it seems like a typically short sighted and badly concieved decision of the tories. I wonder at this stage if they can come up with a single original idea.

A much better idea would be to scrap vat. Everyone will suddenly be 20% better off.