skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're implicitly assuming it can be made right. That seems doubtful.

I would agree with this. The best you can hope for is to try and engineer society such that the progress enjoyed by white people historically in this nation is enjoyed by other ethnic/social groups as well. There will never be a consensus on what is "made right" and "fair". And there is good reason to focus on black folks instead of all poor people - black folks are disproportionately poor, and they are because our systems of governance tried to keep them that way.

Affirmative action in college admissions was an OK way to start - but doesn't address other underlying issues. For example: Redlined districts still are majority black and poor, and the way public schools are funded means their K-12 schools generally suck. Education is of course one of the major ways to improve generational wealth, especially in today's information economy. Another way to improve generational wealth is enabling home ownership. This was another thing which prevented black folks from attaining generational wealth - people wouldn't give them loans to buy homes, sometimes even if they were buying in redlined districts. There are still property titles in the US which contain "racial covenants" which basically say "you can't sell or rent this property to a black person", although this is not enforceable any more.

I think we'll get there. It may take another few hundred years. I had a surprisingly frank discussion with a Burundian cab driver in Amsterdam about it once (we were stuck in traffic and just shooting the bull). Over time, people just mix and the past is dulled, lines are blurred and it's all sort of whatever. He drove cabs all over Europe and people don't care about the color of his skin or where he came from. It's... A bit different in the US he's found.

Coming back to poor people - we can and should help all of them too. We can do more than one thing at a time.
Again, I would submit that nobody really believes this. Look at your own family. Do you all live in the same neighborhood with strong neighborhood-supported familial bonds? Probably not. Even when I lived back home my mom lived in one neighborhood, my brother another, my friends in different local munis. Today I live in another state to be near my wife's family, but the closest family member is a 20-minute drive from where we bought our house!

Modern people are spread out all over the regions they occupy.

It really seems like on this one topic people accept arguments on behalf of other people that they know with perfect clarity make zero sense when they try to apply them to their own lives.
After publishing the essay "Time to build", A16Z made substantial investments in crypto and him and his wife went full NIMBY when it came to building housing in Atherton (their hometown). So I wouldn't call that a seminal essay unless it is meant sarcastically.
You are making it sound like alcohol - where the warning is no amount of alcohol is safe.

Sugar is a naturally occurring substance and is totally safe for consumption. However, purified added sugar is bad for you because in nature you cannot find a fruit that contains that many sugars per gram.
I wish something like Lamport's TLA+ (https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.html) was supported in modern language compilers - perhaps with annotations/macros and a mini formal DSL.
Pretty much every company has been shown to have fake status pages at this point.
I wish Linda Yaccarino the best of luck. Not because I have any doubt about her overall ability, competence, intellect, etc. but rather because I suspect she's been placed in an untenable situation. Being "CEO" but having Elon in a position to still make arbitrary decisions which could easily undermine her efforts, is... suboptimal.
Pretty strong working and decision.
That's `git` :)

GitHub is also for looking up fixed issues and stuff.
This is basically the policy of all the free email providers at this point. Protonmail switched to a year inactivity recently but I think they were flirting with 4 months or something for a bit!
Yes, but your explaination helped me to better understand the other types of tensors in a way I can 'grok' it - as opposed to trying to be at the level of some google quant or whatever with ML understandings of weights.

It helped my put my own internal visualizations to the understanding.

and I had a weird peripheral memory on this from a thought I had whilst driving in 1999 where I was thinking of tensors in this way, but I didnt know what I was just daydreaming about... but apparently, it was einsteins tensors coupled with information theory - and while to me it was a pedestrians take on the premise - it turns out that that day dream was correct!

And it all ties back to when I was ten years old and meditating on the Mind of God -- It all tied into one another - and you gave me some cord to pull these experiences together with understanding which I havent had in 40 years... so that was nice. Thanks.

Anyone else recall daydreams from their past where their later understanding was confurmed, even though you were just "daydreaming at the time"?
How large were your employers? If you have Enterprise support, you definitely get one or more TAMs dedicated to helping your company.

If you are a smaller organization, you may be able to request an SA.

My personal experience is from when companies pay for consulting hours from ProServe.

At the n-2 company I referred to above, the only thing we got from AWS is a BAA and we had an outside consulting company and compliance auditors. I was just learning AWS then.
At this point I don't trust self-owned status pages at all - those crowd-sourced ones where users report issues are much faster to respond to outages that may never even go reported by status pages.
Yes, "We've" figured out the dangers of PFAS just now, but when companies started producing them back over 50 years ago, company 3M knew it (to say the least) wasn't good.

I'm pretty sure the scientists who dealt with these chemicals even warned against using it, but some higher ups still let it pass
If you're releasing open source models but not profiting from them, how are you competing with OAI. I don't think that's a violation of ToS.
Andreeseen first says AI is the most transformative technology since fire:

> If I’m right about that and that’s how this is going to play out, then this is the most important technological advance with the most positive benefits, basically, of anything we’ve done probably since, I don’t know, something like fire, this could be the really big one.

And then, when existential risk is mentioned, saying that AIs are "math and code" and "you're completely capable of understanding what it is":

> The thing is, what we’re dealing with here is something that you’re completely capable of understanding what it is. What it is it’s math and code. You can buy many textbooks that will explain the math and code to you, they’re all being updated right now to incorporate the transformer algorithm, there’s books already out on the market.

How can a technology be as transformative as fire, and simultaneously have implications that are easy to understand in the moment?

And for someone in Andreessen's position, who is positioned to profit enormously from unrestrained AI growth, what could explain this dissonance except for motivated reasoning?
And it seems like loading HN is even slower
The OP's only other reddit post says that they want to start a corporation to avoid associating their name with the game, which is a pretty big red flag to me.

"I've been developing a game for a while now, and am near ready to release it on Steam. I'd prefer it not to be associated with my name (as in I'd prefer people googling my name and future employers being unable to find out i developed this game )."
That would be -vE, or you have to escape the pipe symbols.
Down for me as well, Operation Timed Out errors on all attempted SSH connections
If they used AI to rebuild their system and migrated it Azure, I bet they would stop having all the problems.
Yep, and when money comes into play when you're supposed to meet SLAs, you certainly don't want it being automatic.
The authors chose to summarize their data using the mean, and that highlights the variance.

Using the Geometric Mean or the Median with the time measurements from that table would have highlighted the middle value, like this:

JS 7.25
TS 7.80

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
That's where you just do a Tell HN: with no link then
Putting your status page on a separate domain for availability reasons: good

Not updating that status page when the core domain goes down: less good
Can't read issues and PR comments though (^_^)
Gorilla-CLI: LLMs for CLI including K8s/AWS/GCP/Azure/sed and 1500 APIs
Even the status page isn’t loading for me currently
Possibly, but sometimes with failures this bad you can't get to the page to update it.
From GitHub - Incident On 2023-06-29: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/gqx5l06jjxhp?u=ry1xb4...
No it doesn't. The amount of false alarm alerts you can get with internet based monitoring is more than 0. You could have a BGP route break things for one ISP your monitoring happens to use. You could have a failover event happening where it takes 30 seconds for everything to converge. I have multiple monitors on my app at 1 minute intervals from different vendors and ALWAYS a user will email us within 5 seconds of an issue. It's not realistic for a company to have automatic status updates trigger things without a person manually reviewing them because too many things can go wrong on the automatic status update to cause panic.
Substack Faces Fresh Competition in the Newsletter Wars
Top Most Dangerous Software Bugs You Should Know About
Sadly, Thunderbird is becoming (or has become) a non-option in companies that use Outlook365/Microsoft365. Microsoft seems to have been quite effective in disabling IMAP and SMTP as a default in these tenants and scaring companies that even with OAuth2, these are insecure and not as safe as sticking with Outlook as the client.

Companies (actually the information security teams) may be taking shortcuts based on Microsoft’s recommendations to reduce their work while imposing a huge cost on every worker.

It used to be that companies were locked in with Windows and MS Office. But there were some alternative options for those. IMO, now companies are heavily locked in to Microsoft by subscribing to Microsoft365. There is no migrating out or exit path for this. They just have to suffer through whatever Microsoft puts them through.
Status page updated showing all red
https://www.githubstatus.com/
Except that the country wasn't built on that labor. It was built on agriculture and industrialization, mostly in non-slave states.

And most of cotton generated by slaves went to Britain, whose textile mills also captured most of the profits off of that industry. Should the USA therefore demand reparations from Britain?

But we could go the other route, and tax the descendants of the slave owners. Unfortunately, the largest and most easily identifiable group of descendants of slave owners are blacks themselves! (You can thank a common practice of raping slaves for a lot of that.)

The best solution that we ever came up with for this mess was school busing. Since we got rid of it, the black-white income gap has been rising. But nobody wants to talk about it. Instead, let's focus on the token gesture of affirmative action, which never made a difference in the lives of most blacks. And which tainted the success of blacks whose success was not because of affirmative action.
Status page is red now, it probably only checks once every couple minutes.
Out of curiosity, from someone who has never worked with non-euclidean geometry, what does it mean for a path to be curved in non-Euclidean space? My outsider understanding of curvature is that the inside of a curve is shorter than the outside of the curve, whereas a line has the same length on either side (assuming we give these curves and lines some thickness). But, if the shortest path can be curved, what do we mean by curved?
Looms weren't trained unwillingly by the people they replaced. You're thinking about outsourcing.
Unknown unknowns means you can have catastrophic system failures that automated alerts don't detect.
Everytime github goes down, and my push/pull is rejected, I immediately assume they’ve discovered I’m incompetent and fired me. And I’m the head of engineering at my company.
Status page just flipped:

Investigating - We are currently experiencing an outage of GitHub products and are investigating.
Jun 29, 2023 - 17:52 UTC
Looks like they finally updated the second status page to show the outage.
Looks like they've updated it now.
https://www.githubstatus.com/

Just flipped to red.

See here: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/gqx5l06jjxhp

>Investigating - We are currently experiencing an outage of GitHub products and are investigating.

>Jun 29, 2023 - 17:52 UTC
I am using uBlock origin, Privacy Badger as well as a PiHole for my personal use.

That's not always an option for a given work environment, however.
> Any suggested reading on this topic for laypeople?

Carlo Rovelli is a bona fide theoretical physicist, very involved in the development of Quantum Loop Gravity (one of the attempted approaches to bridge GR and QM). Turns out he is also a good pop-sci writer, so I would begin there. His book "The Order of Time" deals with the nature of time, which is not about the nature of space, but then again reading it you see that the mental gimnastics are similar.

I also found useful contributions from regular contributors at /r/cosmology (thank you /u/jazzwhizz) but it's less straightforward and alas, Reddit has its own issues.
I'm less likely to get into one in the first place, because I can actually see out of the damn car.
Makes little sense as being unemployed for medium-long term also doesn't look nice in a job interview.

The watch basically says: I had a good job that paid well.
The quickest way to see what Internet thinks of the news
You broke it.
I worked for several years in the ad tech space. Display ads on the open web are...something else. IMO, second price auctions don't work well in the online ad world.

In the real world, you know:

(1) all bids are submitted before being reviewed

(2) the highest bidder is actually going to pay the second price, and there's some friction in the form of a buyer's premium that makes it cost inefficient to immediately resell the item

Neither of these hold in the ad space.

Re (1), if you're trafficking ads through GAM, Google gets a chance to see the highest bid before deciding to commit to a bid.

Re (2), a publisher can insert fake line items that dynamically activate on a per-impression level. The goal of the fake line item is to be a stalking horse to artificially inflate the second-highest bid so that the second-price auction is effectively a first-price auction. If the publisher accidentally bids too high and wins the auction, they can just run the auction again.
Journalists should invest in journalism startups, particularly now
And for an overall activity summary:

Years: 16
Start year: 2007
End year: 2023
Total Stories: 178882
Distinct Sites: 52642
Distinct Submitters: 43648

Year Stories Points ( mean ) Comments ( mean ) Sites Submitters
---- ------- ------ --------- -------- --------- ----- ----------
2007 9382 92264 ( 9.83 ) 61207 ( 6.52 ) 2644 1163
2008 10980 294775 ( 26.85 ) 186339 ( 16.97 ) 3458 2021
2009 10950 608603 ( 55.58 ) 303962 ( 27.76 ) 4157 3017
2010 10950 1062763 ( 97.06 ) 491718 ( 44.91 ) 4397 3987
2011 10949 1657004 ( 151.34 ) 632724 ( 57.79 ) 4830 4889
2012 10980 1829402 ( 166.61 ) 778634 ( 70.91 ) 5047 5537
2013 10950 2132819 ( 194.78 ) 998387 ( 91.18 ) 5250 5975
2014 10905 2057628 ( 188.69 ) 916438 ( 84.04 ) 5338 5920
2015 10950 2001269 ( 182.76 ) 845719 ( 77.23 ) 5301 5313
2016 10977 2521394 ( 229.70 ) 1137575 ( 103.63 ) 5238 5341
2017 10950 2776064 ( 253.52 ) 1259899 ( 115.06 ) 5236 5274
2018 10950 2762928 ( 252.32 ) 1262654 ( 115.31 ) 4986 5038
2019 10950 3051011 ( 278.63 ) 1447141 ( 132.16 ) 5302 5123
2020 10980 3338150 ( 304.02 ) 1734703 ( 157.99 ) 5938 5564
2021 10950 3376829 ( 308.39 ) 1859933 ( 169.86 ) 6178 5339
2022 10950 3308025 ( 302.10 ) 1986265 ( 181.39 ) 6446 5443
2023 5160 1555335 ( 301.42 ) 879401 ( 170.43 ) 3253 2851

Data through 2023-6-21.
I grew up in India, where they have taken "affirmative action" to the logical extreme: there are explicit quotas in admissions, jobs, etc. You can have up to 50% (if not more) seats in a college reserved for somebody or the other from some historically marginalized/discriminated classes. As a result, you have situations where somebody from a marginalize class scores, say, 30 in the entrance exam and still gets in, whereas somebody from the "general" class scores 90 and still doesn't get in.

Where I'm going with this is: this remedy (affirmative action) is a terrible one; because once it is in place, it is impossible to get rid of (notwithstanding today's USSC decision, which was caused by a unique confluence of factors which resulted in a court dominated by conservatives). No political party will want to touch it in the future, and if at all, politicians will fall over each other trying to add more and more reservation for their voting blocks.

IMHO, the solution to historical discrimination is not to lower the standards of admission, but to raise the standards of applicants. Inner city schools are terribly lacking in quality teachers, resources, facilities, etc. and that's where the fix should start. Make inner city schools so good that white families will lie about their residential status to get their kids into those schools. This, of course, requires hard work on the part of politicians, so instead, they choose the easy way out: let's just lower the standards.
Status page is fully red now.
https://downdetector.com/status/github/ is a far more reliable source - it's just powered by user reports and often will show issues long before the status page ever receives an update.
> Along the way, we’ve learned some useful lessons on how to build these kinds of applications, which we’ve formulated in terms of patterns.

* Use a text template to enrich a prompt with context and structure
* Tell the LLM to respond in a structured data format
* Stream the response to the UI so users can monitor progress
* Capture and add relevant context information to subsequent action
* Allow direct conversation with the LLM within a context.
* Tell LLM to generate intermediate results while answering
* Provide affordances for the user to have a back-and-forth interaction with the co-pilot
* Combine LLM with other information sources to access data beyond the LLM's training set
That's the thing with experts. They always tell you not to do things https://www.space.com/12028-private-rocket-launch-spacex-saf...

The year is 2011, an expert has said that SpaceX's Falcon rocket is unsafe. This happens repeatedly. In 2019, will SpaceX's planned Crew Dragon safely transport astronauts?
There are dangers with radio signals. People have been cooked to death by radio before. If you want to have more bandwidth so people can watch videos on their phones etc, you need to have higher frequency. Higher frequency needs to be higher power. You don't want to fry your customer so you can't crank the power too high, so they have to make more base stations.

There is the trade off. The higher the power the fewer the base stations. You don't want to make it so high that it will cause harm, but you also don't want to spend more money installing base stations. So there should obviously be a study done on how much power we can push into living tissue from 5G sites before it causes harm to the tissue. But there isn't such a study. And that's the real crime.

There could be potential harm but we're not looking into it _because there could be potential harm_. Such a finding would really upset the whole 5G rollout. Now anyone near 5G is unwittingly involved in the experiment to find out if it does or does not cause harm. Wonder how many years before we know the results. Wonder if people with financial interests would want to let that info out. But mostly I wonder what the harms might present themselves as.
Use the downtime to purchase a Yubikey/FIDO2.
If you wanted to see the effect of memory allocations then you could use boosts intrusive unordered_set implementation

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_82_0/doc/html/boost/intrusi...

It doesn't own the underlying memory, so you can preallocate your nodes
There's two platforms. Two. Windows and MacOS. Let's not pretend there's dozens. Why does one have to jump through hoops for two simple platforms? Just write the UI code twice. It's not rocket science really.

Same goes for Android/iOS.
It's down! https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/1674475870931808256?...
> ultra super conservatively cautious.

This has nothing to do with politics.

This has everything to do with CYA, the issue is AI trained with copyrighted material is a huge gray area and they don’t want to be in the gray area. That’s rational and has zero to do with “conservative”.

This is likely not set in stone and after the copyright laws and courts catch up and decide what to do, Valve will likely go back and update their policies accordingly.
they just updated it, now its all red
Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new category for them
One problem with second price auctions is their lack of what is known as "credibility". Google has both the incentive and opportunity to lie to the highest bidder about what the second-highest bid was, so they can charge more.

They never literally did this, but ended up doing some convoluted scheme involving subsidies and rebates that, according to a recent lawsuit, amounted to something equivalent.

First price auctions don't have that problem -- you know exactly what you should pay if you win.
GitHub Status Incident (2023-06-29)
Who would panic? If nobody notices it's out because it's not, then nobody is going to be checking the status page. And if they do see the status page showing red while it's up, it's not like they're going to be unhappy about their SLA being met.

Maybe you want human confirmation on historic figures, but the live thing might as well be live.
> So, the reader will be under the impression that it will cause cancer, which is pretty dubious, all while obesity for which sugary drinks are partially responsible is a very real cancer risk.

Saying it's "partially responsible" in essence is ridiculous, though, when it's also a critical nutrient we eat in virtually every food. Aspartame is not. It's the sheer volume of sugar ingested that's the issue.
GitHub pages are down too, although funnily enough https://pages.github.com is up
Imagine the same argument but swap race for gender.

Why are you trying to get women into medicine? Just to help the historically disadvantaged? Why don't you just let poor people in and not care about their gender?

Nowadays, you could probably get away with that because everyone has got over the whole "women's brains are too small and their wombs too big for logical thought to even be possible" idea. But when the (highly successful) affirmative action for women was brought in, that was still a major part of American culture that it was designed to work around.

Similarly with the race thing. The US fought a big civil war about whether people with dark skin were livestock or people and the losing side didn't actually change their mind just because they lost. So they needed laws to address that.
Racial discrimination is racial discrimination no matter how you try to sugar coat it.