skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello? The purpose of the classification is to keep the information secret. Do you seriously believe that printing the info on the front page is somehow not as indictment-worthy as keeping the documents stashed away?

The reality is that what Trump did by hiding the papers was much more consistent with the spirit of classification than what the NYT did with the Pentagon papers.
> Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. — AJP
Don't kid yourself, by now, Russia is a full-on fascist dictatorship. They don't let him say stuff like this because they have rules about freedom of speech or something, the let him say stuff like this because it is more useful to them that he retains some kind of credibility. It makes it more effective when he later tweets antisemitic caricatures about American Jews fueling the war in Ukraine.
No, GPT-3.5 API access is sufficient.

But yes, you need API access.
He did Slayer's first three records, Reign in Blood, South of Heaven and Seasons in The Abyss. All of them had distinctive drum sounds. Most of the early thrash metal records had pretty bad recordings, or the drums we hard to define. Not so with these records, the drums were very easy to hear in the mix with the rest of the heavy guitars.
Based on what though.

You could argue that many developers are a net-negative for society given that the industry wastes a lot of time building X idea in Y language for every combination of Y.
When you're in a typical salaried position, it's unlikely that you'll be able to extract more money out of your work proportional to the additional effort you put in.

So the question becomes: what else do you get out of it?

Sometimes that can be learning -- maybe go read stuff that's accessible to you but outside of your typical work area -- but in many jobs that's not really possible.
We Didn't Sell GitHub to Google
I dunno about 55 times more...

Earth escape velocity is 11.2 km/s or 25,000 mph in your preferred units.

And you don't have to go backwards relative to earths orbit and cancel it out, you can maintain earths' solar orbit and degrade it.

You only need enough energy to reach L1 and since human time scales are irrelevant you can do that as efficiently as you like. After you reach slightly past L1, the sun will do the rest of the work.

At closest approach, Mars is 54 million km away. L1 is typically 1.5 million km away. Even ignoring the fact that human timescales are irrelevant, it is a significantly easier journey.

You are probably thinking of speeds required to orbitally maneuver near the sun, as we typically do with instruments...

A trip straight into the sun is substantially easier than mars.
> But most people working a typical job (even in tech) are not in a position to care deeply about their work and its outcomes

Perhaps most people - after looking at their paystub - are acutely aware that their employer doesn't deeply care about them. In my experience, there is a direct link between how much effort I put in going above and beyond in my work and how much higher (or lower) than average my salary was - with an inverse experience multiplier. I put in lot's of unrewarded effort fresh out of school. I didn't know any better, and probably used work to fill up down-time
Welp, my boycott continues. Really all we can do, that and buy puts after the IPO
According to the readme, it's OpenAI: https://github.com/steven-tey/novel#tech-stack
>This is all fun and games until you burn out

Sure. Training for a marathon puts you at risk of injury. That doesn't mean that everyone who runs a marathon has an injury, or that everyone with ambitious running goals should go relax on the beach instead. Ultimately, there is no objective standpoint from which to say that people should choose different goals, because goals are based on personal subjective values.

>Even ancient Greeks already knew that modesty is the way to go.

Perfect example of the appeal to tradition fallacy.
Just because you've improved the accuracy of a price for something, that doesn't mean whatever you're doing to achieve this is a net benefit to society, right? Surely the idea that this logic doesn't follow isn't weird?

Is the idea that society gets a net benefit from price distortions like minimum wage, subsidies, taxes, etc. also "weird"? These also make it hard to discover the "right price" for goods, therefore it's... weird to have them?
Exploring the MIT Mathematics and EECS Curriculum Using Large Language Models
I think the biggest secret to success/happiness in today's zeitgeist of anti-work ideology is to do just the opposite – work your ass off to the absolute limit. Your brain isn't as weak as the society tells you. Entire state of life becomes awesome and fulfilling. People reward you, they appreciate you, you help them improve their lives, and there is no better feeling of gratitute than be helped by someone that works hard. Ignore society, especially Hackernews mentality. It's not healthy to read this forum where 99% of the comments are anti-work. In a meta way, HN is a great place for me to find what not to do.
I’ve been thinking about doing this myself. I think the problem is the business model. I was thinking of a transparent, share-based and community-owned model had potential.
The stats account for a 5s delay between deactivation and the accident. Meaning that crashes that happens in a 5s window after deactivation count as an FSD crash. Imo 5s is usually a lot in a crash situation.
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...

The first -- argument that is not an option-argument should be accepted as a delimiter indicating the end of options. Any following arguments should be treated as operands, even if they begin with the '-' character.
I'm a former professional librarian. Left the field in 1985, but have never heard of anyone anywhere paying for use of the dewey decimal system. OCLC services is a different issue. You're paying for their provision of cataloging for your collection.
yes, you are doing it wrong. drummer is not drumming from the audience perspective
The paper advances several lines of arguments. Environmental is one of them, it's used as a negative consequence of their purported scaling laws for training.

The paper explicitly says: """Important work by scholars at the University of Massachusetts Amherst allows us to understand the economic cost and carbon emissions implied by this computational burden. The answers are grim: Training such a model would cost US $100 billion and would produce as much carbon emissions as New York City does in a month. And if we estimate the computational burden of a 1 percent error rate, the results are considerably worse."""

(that paper was debunked by people who build and operate extremely large scale cloud machine learning systems).

Remember, Google already built and runs its TPU fleet continuously and the machines are almost always busy at at least 50% of their capacity, meaning the money is already being spent and the carbon (which is much smaller than their estimates) being spewed.

As for the rest of the paper, their arguments about the need to increase parameters to get better results are fairly simplistic, and filled with misleading information/untrue statements.

Basically, everything they claim in the article has been shown to be empirically not true. And the community is already grappling with the "too many parameters approach". The authors would have served the community far better by writing a less critical paper that focused on the opportunities to identify good approaches to parameter and compute reduction that don't affect performance. In looking at the main author's area of research, it looks like he is more of a economist/public policy wonk than DL expert, which I think negatively affects the quality of the paper.
“Inception” is frequently misunderstood to mean entering other people’s dreams or having multiple layers of dreams.

In the movie, they of course have the technology to do these things, but it’s usually used for “extraction”: stealing information and ideas from one’s subconscious by infiltrating their dreams.

“Inception”, as used in the movie, is just the opposite of “extraction”: to plant an idea in someone’s subconscious by infiltrating their dreams.

So while I think it’s a stretch, it’s not as bad as suggesting that people can commingle in dreams.
That is a worthless recommendation.

That's kind of like saying, even slaves have a choice. Death being the option available to all.
Let's not forget him being the head moderator of r/jailbait and several of the other more "problematic" subreddits.
You control statistical power and the error rate, and choose to accept a % of false results.
Certainly it is hard to make it gel on the money side.

From their frontpage:

> If 550 of Miraheze's 300,000+ users gave only £12 (16.35 USD) once a year, Miraheze would exceed its budget requirements.

So not for want of £6,600 / year, presumably?

Labour's of love like this can just burn you out. Building the right sustaining community is hard, but it also seems like they're too big to just fizzle out like this? A shame.
So much worse. Then the scabs/traitors boooo also goes for them.
He is only arguing against the idea that after a certain number of hours productivity becomes negative.
E.g. interest rate risk. Maybe I've sold a bunch of variable-rate bonds before. But now I am worried about interest rates rising. I can't call the bond for some reason (maybe not enough money, maybe some regulatory reason). So I buy an interest rate swap that pays out if interest rates rise.
Why do you compare with unemployment graph and not the wages if you want to prove that raising wages don't cause inflation? Not only the US had been paying additional unemployment benefits directly, there were also indirect money injections via PPP, student loan repayment moratorium, rent moratorium etc. Even now my mortgage bill comes with text along the lines of "if you are getting COVID assistance disregard this bill" so I imagine there are more of these programs and at least some of them are still in effect.
How myopic. Pull out one question from the exam and use it to try and dismiss the product of a relatively well-respected content producer.

Hacking with swift is one of maybe 4 really solid sources of material on swift and swiftui, many people have been helped tremendously by his work.
In Defense of Simple Electronics
I'll sign up for Tilde the second someone can name me a platform that has out-lasted reddit, without selling customer data, and without being federated

I've yet to hear an example, and I have a functioning memory, and not eager to keep repeating this same cycle.

It's like password managers. Every few years the current popular one has a misstep and everyone flocks to the next closed source, for-profit alternative. Meanwhile I've been using "pass" for over a decade. Do we think it took me longer to learn pass, or longer for folks to migrate hundreds of passwords multiple times?
Nah, the government can change the law. The obstacle to overcome would be the software quality. Today your driver is a hairball stuck with chewing gum to a point release of everything. In the case of a smallest change of anything it goes up in flames. That’s something harder to overcome by decree. Needs incentives in place.
The modern supply chains behave this way precisely because no such requirements exist.

It’s a typical facade argument you might hear from politicians when they parrot lobbiysts.
i do this. big heavy ide with project and debugger going full blast. I might want to just pop open a log quickly and cba to drag it into the IDE, np++ context menu done. more often tho, reading logs on a non-main dev machine/vm/test/field
>> Data should be a liability.

This is the crux of it, methinks. "Data is the new oil" has been a common refrain and as long as the externalities of poor security posture hygiene can be completely outsourced while these companies make mountains of cash by monetizing your every scrap of behavior, attention and information, this will only get worse as every entity seeks to hoard more information on you.

Keeping more data than absolutely necessary for critical business operations should be an existential threat for any entity. Those businesses built on this data ought to take Fort Knox level pains to secure it. Anything short of that and we will continue to exist in a society of deteriorating trust and social contract.
> then a twitter thread from a virologist debunking everything with a thread about how the lab leak theory is ridiculous

As someone who has followed this closely one thing I noticed is the disingenuousness of many of these virologists in their arguments.

Here is a list of disingenuousness points I always here:

1. "But it took almost a decade to find the origin of SARS" this is misleading since they are talking about ancestral origin (i.e. what bat it came from and how it evolved) but when people say no animal has been found they mean proximal origin i.e. what intermediate host infected patient zero. And for SARS1 they found that within months, MERS less than a year despite having less than 600 cases at the time.

2. "The lab is there because that's where the viruses are", now this one is more of a direct lie since it's just completely false, they just expect no one will check up on that claim.

3. "Mutating a virus leaves marks so we know it was not modified", this is false the technology to leave seamless edits has been around for a decade and is the standard practice. But there are many common locations they may insert a change typically in S1/S2 junction which surprise surprise SARS2 furin cleaveage site is located. It also happens to be where they proposed to insert furin cleaveage site's in the DEFUSE proposal.

4. "We do not have the technology to create a virus from scratch", this argument is a straw man since what people argue happened was SARS2 is a modified animal virus taken from field samples, and possibly enchanted through serial passaging in humanized mice models
Ah...

Sadly, there are people that will never criticize a company for having shitty working conditions. Instead, they'll just say "If they don't like it, get a job somewhere else!", and it doesn't matter what extreme you take it to. They will never question the shitty conditions.
Here's what Richard Hamming has to say on the subject:

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

"Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works ten percent more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity - it is very much like compound interest."

The payoff of working more is not linear.
For starters I don't buy brand new, the family car was a low mileage, well specced 18 month old car. I'm not concerned if we lose a bit more money on it than we would have spent on finance; we can afford it. I worked for a bank for some time and it left me very much averse to using credit if I don't need to - I saw some horror stories there of people who ended up with so much debt that they would never clear it. Here in the UK it's ludicrously easy to get crazy amounts of credit. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I like to own things outright.
The other car is my fun car (2018 BMW M3), I don't see myself selling anytime soon.
So much of business is about people and connections,
and hey, guess what Meta deals in? People and connections!
Not necessarily, if they can produce the crops more cheaply. Since each country ideally wants to secure it's own food supply, it's inevitable that many countries will find themselves subsidizing local production that would otherwise disappear in a competitive international market.

Additionally, hostile countries do not need to flood markets sustainably if the goal is simply to hollow out food production in the target country before taking more overtly hostile (i.e. military) actions.
This can easily be abused.
Thank you, i assume the fractions of people come from rounding off sig figs in the % figure and the true values are 2 people vs 23 people
Either a port that's compatible with USB-C charging but has otherwise different pins or electrical characteristics (just like how a USB-A port has 4 pins in USB 2 but 8 pins in USB 3, but is still compatible). Or you just add a second port.
Thank you, you're correct! Which makes it even worse.

That story is horrifying.. it creates a scenario where the slightest misunderstand could escalate things to a point of no return.
What if an LLM provides socially acceptable plausible deniability?

"Sorry I didn't see your important email; my AI assistant deleted it"
Then breach of contract or trade secret.
Using your phone feels strange too
Which phone was that?
> And I don't know exactly what to say to you except that, at the end of the day, with anything with network effects, you have to trust someone

I don't trust anyone running my Matrix, Kbin, Mastodon, or email servers. Well, they're me, and I guess I trust me. (My family trusts me too, I suppose)
I've seen parents fall into two camps when this dynamic arises in classes with a wide(r) spectrum of ability:

First group of parents are happy that kids are helping each other out, acting as "teacher aides" for their class peers, especially the parents of kids being helped because this dynamic drops the "teacher"-to-student ratio (i.e. slightly more individualized attention per student at the expense of the student teaching assistants).

Second group of parents acknowledge that student teaching assistants develop some form of leadership skills but aren't happy that the tradeoff seems to be at the expense of learning new knowledge that the teacher should, in theory, be imparting. Also, there's probably a limit where student teaching assistants might/can become bored teaching instead of learning if the dynamic continues on too long or across multiple classes.
There are lots of people that are not as productive. Fine. But it is the moral part that I have a problem with. They are morally proud that they don't contribute to the society.

"Don't be a burden on others" is one of the values I grew up with. Should be a universally good thing IMO.
Mining is not exactly a natural process. We can't dilute the toxic byproducts and putting them back where we got them, since that would require rebuilding the mountain. In cases of open mines, all that is left is a lake size hole where solid land once where.

What the mining industry do is to fence it up (including pools used for waste), put up a sign to warn people, and then let nature fill it up with water. The best we can hope for is that they did their research properly and made sure that it doesn't leak into the groundwater.

In the past there were people who tried diluting stuff like this by dumping it into the ocean, but that isn't the best idea.
This appears to have originally been reported back in ~march 2021, FYI.
> He's pushing back on the very specific claim that working fewer hours leads to higher productivity.

And rightfully so. Ask anyone who's been through the grind of a startup; for knowledge workers, pulling 80 hour weeks does get shit done faster than working 35 hour weeks. To say otherwise is wishful thinking.

But yes, he was responding specifically to a comment about his work ethic as described Masters of Doom. It's much different when you are working in a small team, on a project you're passionate about, which will make you an enormous amount of money if it succeeds.

Should you put in 80 hour weeks when you are FAANG employee #35,714? Probably not, unless you see some strategic career reason, i.e. project is public and high-profile which you can then leverage to get a job at a competitor for 50% raise, etc.

If you put in 80 hour weeks as FAANG employee #35,714, would you accomplish more? Absolutely. Would your personal life suffer? Absolutely.
There is a societal benefit that comes with individuals internalizing their own costs of risk. Treating society like it's in an economic womb while Mother Finance shields it from the world of worries rewards ignorance and in my opinion accelerates us toward the world depicted in Idiocracy.

It is nice as a purchaser of such securities that you can build things more quickly than usual and transfer worry to someone who is willing to be worried for you. However I don't believe the SEC financial highway patrol has enough cruisers or sophistication to pull over enough abusers to deter the disproportionate fraud that increasingly arcane financial instruments create.

The costs of a few bad actors building piles of money illegitimately do not show themselves immediately. They pop up slowly, in dark money investments in destabilizing elections, funding of war criminals, market manipulation, etc. The societal cost of a charlatan having several lifetimes worth of an honest person's influence are grave and not to be laughed off.
Thanks, I hadn't checked in quite a while!
the question is, when you "work" more, are you actually "working" more. I'm not advocating for either side, but I believe a few places that have moved to a shorter work week haven't seen lower productivity. Might be a sign that most people actually can't do ~40hrs of work per week.
> "Data is the new oil"

The common usage of this phrase isn't too inaccurate. Keep in mind what oil does to the environment, not just during spills but even in normal refining!
Yeah, I know, but the comment mentions Swift everywhere else, including in the name of the list being created in Reminders. The conflation of Swift and SwiftUI also shows up a few other times in the comments here.
I would love to buy an eBook version of it. That isn't the $75 Kindle version on Amazon.
That's really impressive. I destroyed a Sony phone a few years ago just going for a short swim in the sea.
More specifically, there are a bunch of efforts, but the Swift ecosystem doesn't seem too interested in this.

Even Apple can barely get it with SwiftUI being a dumpster fire on macOS.
Thanks. I checked out your site. Cool, unique design. And the back button works!
> Does it really matter what status folks come over with?

Yes, because it also matters if we're talking about residencies (shelter) or residents (people).

Numbers are arbitrary to keep things simple:

start, 100 population, 40 residencies.

2018: Add 10, of which 2 are temp

2019: Add 10, of which 9 are temp

Assume no population losses. What's your current (2019) population? It COULD be 120, but not necessarily. We know it's at least 109 (100+8+1 permanent) so lets look at what happened to the 11 temps specifically.

Keep in mind temporarily granted residency typically needs to be renewed yearly if not more frequently. If one is in country for Jan-Apr and a second in July-November, then you had a net population gain of 0, a gross gain of 2, and a median gain of 1, and could have required 1 or 2 residences to accommodate them. 0 - 2 technically but lets assume we're doing our best to shelter people.

Then the question is, until you know what the 2019's 9 temp residents are going to do, you can't really call them a net gain for the purposes of talking trends of population. You can however use them when talking housing supply, as regardless of how long they're staying, they will be there at SOME point, and while there, yeah, they need a place to stay.

TL;DR: For this threads context, probably better to think of temps as "pending" residents.