skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot be of help here but I'd say that your concept of curvature is too informal, but more formal maths can deal with it, take a look at the wikipedia page for "Geodesic", the maths are way above my head but the diagrams are cool :D
> And I’m the head of engineering at my company.

Haha! Happy to see impostor syndrome goes all the way to the top of the hierarchy.
You are missing out. As a former data engineer/current SRE, I spend my entire day with VSCode/Python/Notebooks/CoPilot banging out python code - but whenever I need to do a complex analysis of a semistructured text file in < 60 seconds, awk is my twitch reflex tool. It can trivially do state transition based on patterns in the file, as well as populate hashes from one file and use them in analysis of the next file in just a few characters.

Awk's claim to fame in my world is that it's cognitive activation energy for anyone who has taken the 3-4 hours to learn the language from start to finish (and that's the awesome thing about the language - it really is about 3 hours of concentrated attention) - is essentially nil. You see a bunch of ugly not really structured text 500 MB files that you can't pull into pandas, or easily parse into python dicts? No problem - awk will tear through them for you and get the information you want in < 60 seconds, including the time you took to write your (almostl always single line) of code.

That's Awk's sweet spot.
Engineers, well companies, created an entire industry without any regards for how that might affect artists... again.

Musicians are still being screwed over because engineers wanted change how music is distributed. The goals are noble enough, just as with the music, but large corporations inserted themselves in the middle to capitalize on the work of the artists. I can't fault artists teaming up with lawyers again in an attempt to be paid for their work. It's didn't really work out for the music industry, but hey, what can they do?

As engineer we clearly aren't on the side of the artists, we help companies in the middle, not the artists. When developers created ChatGPT, or Stable Diffusion, did anyone of the developers insist on building in licens tracking, to ensure that only work in the public domain or under appropriate licenses was used, or at least tracked?

We're once again trying to build a new industry, but we don't care how that might affect others. It's dumb, it's not like there wasn't enough publicly available material, it's just that it's cheaper to ignore licensing.
I think the argument here is that once you've already filtered down to qualified candidates by primary criteria, then you can lottery off the rest instead of performing a secondary sort.
This looks all too similar to ESG: Taking arbitrary and subjective values and turning them into supposedly objective numbers.
yes, seems to be a network issue, not a service issue
I'm pretty sure if I e-mailed my sales rep right now they would tell me that Azure Dev Ops doesn't have these problems.
And no one is trying to take that away from you. You are using it as a tool, and intend to pay someone to create the final version, or do it yourself.

The issue people have is when you just use a dataset trained on someone else's work and pass it off as your own, and in the case of Steam games, most likely profit from it.
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Working link:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/29/opinions/covid-mask-hospitals...
Github status page doesn't even load for me ... "We're having a really bad day, the unicorns have taken over"
How frequent were these incidents before the Microsoft acquisition, compared to now?
What sounds very weird to me, is that I doubt Valve is verifying the copyright for all the graphics and text you submit. Why would they reject something because "it looks AI generated"? The potential for legal hazard is probably less on these re-mashed works than on purely copy-pasted content.
I'm in-experienced with Rust. So bit subjective.

F# uses algebraic types, and compiler can do pretty extensive type checking.
I understand Rust also does this, it just seemed like Rust allows some options that make it not as complete. But, I'm not expert on Rust.
I'm able to reach on 192.30.252.0/22.
I bought an Office 2007 Pro DVD on Ebay last year and it works great on Win 10.
I actually wasn't familiar with CXL, I'll check it out. Thanks!
its all down currently
Man, getty images is sitting on a goldmine opportunity to get into AI here. They have enough images to train something quite useful!
It works for me at the moment
> This whole thing seems like a way to possibly save a trivial amount of money in exchange for an increased likelihood of Really Bad Things happening to you.

Historically, as a XXI century society, we tend to adopt solutions like this (AirBnB, Uber, “you are the product” platforms, blindly accepting ToS, etc).

I don’t mean to be a nihilist, I just wanted to point out that this nothing new and that this is a trend. Hopefully there will be a way to balance this like the other examples, even if a little.
Fire is a such a fitting example, it made me chuckle.
Advocates for a new admissions system at TJHSST proposed a merit lottery. Conservative advocates called it racist

This is an uncharitable interpretation. AIUI part of the motivation for overhauling the admissions system was precisely to reduce the proportion of Asian Americans admitted, in order to satisfy some diversity goal set at the state level.

So, even if the new admissions system wasn't racist on its face, it was introduced for the purpose of racial balancing.
China’s banning our tech companies and they’re regulating the shit out of their own. They do a lot of shit we shouldn’t but they’re dead on that tech companies should serve society instead of the other way around
Yeah I can't take Marc Andreessen seriously any more after that incident, no matter how hard I try. He wrote that surreal letter objecting to building multifamily/affordable housing, claiming it would immensely reduce the property value of his walled mansion in Atherton. It just reeked of pettiness and hypocrisy.
Being up on the localhost interface doesn't count!
Not down for me accessing from Hong Kong. I suspect this is a regional outage.
Yeah, with billions of cell phone users humankind is practically dead now....
The Hawaiian Islands are sort of an interesting case. Island hopping is short for jets (and a lot of people don't really like flying small props). But they're really too far apart for a ferry service between the major islands; it was tried at one point but went out of business.
Since nobody can work, I'll just leave this here: "I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit! I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail."
And just when I was about to get into flow state...
Kind of a complicated question, but not necessarily, gender (or sex I guess) does impact ability in many sports.

I say complicated because it's not just about the number of people employed, but also how much they're paid, whether or not there are separate leagues, what about the coaching staff, etc.

It's fine to think of pro sports as one of the very few professions where you're performing so close to the human limit that biology actually becomes a factor. It's not just gender, for example short people won't be equally represented in many sports, which does not need to be true for almost any other job.
for some reason www.githubstatus.com works while githubstatus.com doesn't
The thing about putting terrorists in an analogy is it distorts the intent of the analogy in unexpected ways, so you lose what you're trying to convey.

The framework that I'm coming from is that work/talent/etc must be rewarded in a predictable manner in order for kids to have the motivation to perform and succeed. If the system gets unpredictable, kids will be demotivated and not compete in the system anymore. As in, if it's a lottery and my classmate who does worse than me gets into a better college than me, this isn't a fair competition so why try studying, I'll go into sports or something where the best person under the competitive framework wins.

You argue that if the system is too predictable then too many undesirable people might succeed. Which might or might not be true, it's pure speculation. We're talking about high achieving students who want to get into good colleges; no need to compare them to terrorists. Purely test based systems work in plenty of other countries without the college graduates collapsing society.
I’m in US east coast with a dev box in Helsinki. My dev box can still hit github.com, but I can’t at home.
I hate the new outlook more than the old outlook. The insider beta version of the desktop version sometimes doesn’t render properly and search is painful to use, granted the new version is missing million features from the desktop version so I use both.

I use the web version when I need only my “online” inbox, to check email and answer quickly, like a first parse including flagging, categorizing, and replying quickly. Because hotkey shortcut combos are different or non-existent and access to local mailbox PST files is not available I use the desktop version for the archiving, filing, and eventual researching and answering with attachments, etc.

I make extensive use of categories and the search folders feature of the desktop version and I made my workflow into just two archive folders INBOX and SENT where every single message that was saved is properly categorized.

The new outlook cannot access my archive and it’s also horrible at search, like it’s desktop brethren.

Finally, I use Outlook because it is m365 and mandated by IT.

For personal email I use Gmail and mailspring.
Well, there is Owl [1], which I have mentioned before. Of course, it is the old "chase the rabbit" game we know since the 2000s -- MS365 is just a faster moving target than Exchange on MS Windows Server.

So far the devs have kept up well, I can count the instances I had to fall back to OWA on one hand over the last year. And I use it daily within my company.

[1] https://addons.thunderbird.net/en/thunderbird/addon/owl-for-...
A single outlier is enough to distort the TS and JS "mean" Time difference.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36524073
That is funnily.
fake and not automated are pretty different
So you believe that in every industry where men have less than 50% representation (also college admissions), they are being discriminated against, because our goal should be 50/50?
looking on the bright side, at least we'll get an interesting post-mortem to read in a day or two.
To all the "same" and "not for me" posters: the very least you could add is a location
What IP does it resolve to in Helsinki?
The problem with MAD is that its not MAD anymore. Given missile defense systems and hypersonic missiles it has actually become unclear whether the destruction will be mutual. Each side may believe that their tech can both penetrate the enemy and successfully defend.

Game theory shows us that war should only occur because of these unknowns (each side believes they will win). Thus given this new tech and the uncertainty on both sides, MAD is arguably weaker than ever before.
He is also missing the point, perhaps intentionally. Of course we can understand how the learning algorithms work, since these are code written by us. But not how the models work, since these are written by the learning algorithms, as they churn through the vast training data. At billions of parameters, models are black boxes.
Why restrict it to black people? Then you have to get into defining black and not black?

Instead, just offer free college to everyone.
Yes. Can't even pull ;(
Call me crazy, but AI will not be as transformative as the hype claims it will be. We’ll get plenty of AI enabled tools that will help us do our jobs better/faster, but they’re not going to do the jobs for us.
1. There seems to be some suggestion that X

2. ???

3. In no world can I imagine ¬X
We have "accredited investors" whose wealth and sophistication makes them able to take financial risks in unregulated markets where scams would destroy naive investors. I think it's perfectly reasonable to say that any billionaire entering a dangerous situation can have or access whatever experts on risk mitigation they want. I have no sympathy towards the "cannot vet the safety" argument.

If it was regular tourists who save up for a once in a lifetime experience, I would feel differently.
You seem to have taken my comment personally. There's a lot of options between eating red meat and being vegan that don't consist of "eating hot dogs all day every day".

To my point, the FAQ you linked has the question about whether eating fish or poultry is better to which their answer is : "The cancer risks associated with consumption of poultry and fish were not evaluated."

As I remember the announcement it was "meat", though it's totally possible it was "red meat" and I just remembered it wrong. Though I specifically tried to find more information about why they classified it as such, and which studies they relied on, and there was no information to be had, certainly not the FAQ you linked. The only thing they had was about a two sentence announcement declaring it as a carcinogen.
>The Higgs mechanism affects electrons, not quarks

It effects both. The LHC produces Higgs particles through the annihilation of top-antitop pairs, which works because the top quark couples strongly to the Higgs field.
If money/resources were no object, is it actually possible to store 10 years worth of food for, let's say, a single person?

I'd imagine almost everything, even perfectly stored would spoil by that timeframe.
From my experience, GitHub is the best out there when it comes to updating their status page.
i.e. break it into IT infrastructure, logistics, marketplace, and manufacturing. I'd also break out payments. Amazon can stay just as it is, but it needs to be multiple companies negotiating the best deals with each other.
I noticed Github's OIDC token changed about a half an hour ago. Security incident?
Really? Why?

That's so disappointing.
Everything you mention seems orthogonal to whether a coding evaluation is given as take-home or live.

I’m glad to have a vigorous discussion about code I wrote during my own time. Go ahead and create a standard rubric that covers the project itself and the follow-up discussion. This is what I’ve done when hiring. It’s great because it demonstrates the employer knows what they’re looking for from the role, and that the team has sufficient experience to conduct a conversation in the relevant domains.

When I hear there’s a minimal number of interviews, and the main one is an intense live leetcoding session, I tell them I have no interest but if anything changes on their end I’ll be glad to provide sample work and have a discussion about it. The problem is these live sessions are extremely draining to prep for, provide no gain for the candidate (unlike writing code that can be retained), and they reveal practically nothing about the company.
My team ran some code that crushed our Github actions very shortly before this outage. Nervous laughter around the office that it was us.
Did the USA ever even get AMZN paying their income tax, or is AMZN still stowing trillions offshore? Or am I confusing AAPL with AMZN? Hell they're probably both doing it.
github.com for me returns 140.82.121.3 which routes fine in the uk, returning from

lb-140-82-121-3-fra.github.com

which from the distance and name I would assume is a frankfurt based load balancer. I get there from BT -> Zayo

I can reach that IP from Washington too, but github returns 140.82.114.3 and 140.82.114.4 from DNS at 1.1.1.1 on a Level3 handoff in Washington

Spot checks around the place show the first returned IP as pingable across the world

Bangkok, Dhaka, Jakarta - 20.205.243.166

Seoul - 20.200.245.247

Nairobi - 20.87.225.212

Kabul, Dakar, Amman, Amman, Cairo - 140.82.121.3

Moscow, Riga, Istanbul - 140.82.121.4

Miami - 140.82.114.3
Cannot use oauth2 in algoexpert :/
Can't access any of my company's repos via the website
You’re not alone.
With no standardized tests and ChatGPT what’s going to become of the college essay as a tool? I think admissions interviews are more likely.
I think the same thing every time my credentials to our issue tracker expires and I have to log in again.

I am the lead dev on two projects.
In fact the O-rings were never working as designed in the first place and NASA (but not necessarily those astronauts personally) knew it from the start. This was recognized early on in the program before the Shuttle ever flew. Those SRB joints were originally meant to have two O-rings as redundancy. But in testing they found that the first O-ring was being extruded, pushed past where it was meant to be into the joint and some hot gases were getting past it, meaning the second O-ring was no longer redundant. It was then determined that 'This is Fine'; instead of changing the design they changed the designation of the second o-ring to acknowledge that it was no longer redundant. They flew with that arrangement even though they already knew the primary O-rings didn't function correctly.
> were considered as good guys right after ww2.

That’s mostly true but it was a marriage of convenience and did not last long. Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech was in March, 1946, only a year after the war ended.

Relations were getting frosty much earlier and Churchill’s opposition to communism long predated the war.

‘I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between Communism and Nazi-ism, I would choose Communism.’ April 1937.

https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1946-1963-el...

https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour-extras....
>2) It's a pretty random process if you get in or not. The level of noise in admissions is huge.

So the person that got into Stanford by writing #BlackLivesMastter 100 times was just a coincidence?
You guys have wallets? Seems like the only possession you’d really need to do anything useful is your phone.
Top most dangerous software bugs
> Create and support plebian race-based factions and pit them against one another so they can't fight the elites.

So pretty much the opposite of class warfare?

Class warfare would be warfare between classes. What you're describing is racial warfare intentionally engineered to avoid class warfare.
EU here. Actions are failing to run. Rest is kinda ok.
He was also on the Lex Fridman podcast a week ago. Seems like he's doing something of a roadshow related to AI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hxeDjAxvJ8
Yep, I only leaf blow on the sidewalks and concrete paths that get some extra grass leaking over when I mow the adjacent areas.

New thing I'm trying this year is to pull garden weeds and toss them on top of the grass right before a mow as a two-bird-with-one-stone compost in place free grass fertilizer.
“The proof is in the pudding” if we’re sticking with idioms. Where the evidence of systemic racism is a lack of wealth, discriminate on wealth. Where the evidence is family structure, discriminate on family structure. Address disadvantage by addressing disadvantage, not by a racial proxy.

In programmer terms, racial affirmative action is a very lossy hash of reality, which leaves a lot of room for injustice both in terms of who it helps and who it doesn’t.
They literally said "ah yes let's change our iconic industry standard UI that everyone has been familiar with for 20+ years to a terrible standalone desktop version of the Outlook Web App"
githubstatus.com disagrees. Heres the specific incident: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/gqx5l06jjxhp

I think I'll believe them when they say it's down, no offense.
I feel sympathy for all the engs at companies I've implemented CI/CD based on Gh Actions in recent years. It's not like I didn't tell them that Github showed to be somewhat unreliable in the recent years and in contrast to their claim "it's just the build pipeline, not the product" I think it is a horrible incident if you're not able to deploy to production and have barely any ad-hoc backup.

I'm always evangelizing Argo or Flux and some self-hosted Gitlab or gitea, but seems like they all prefer to throw their money at Github as of now.
To edit them, change them, move them, duplicate them, ...

Pretty much anything except delete them. My initial thought was that clicking would edit them.
...is another word for sealed-bid second-price auction, to save you a click
Privacy to the weak and transparency to the powerful cannot be achieved while companies put the poorer in these positions of lower price if you agree to be surveilled. How do we fix this?
Well, I was ready to pay at least the $10/mo for Apple News+, but then I saw during the trial that everything still had ads, so I didn't.
I can’t believe anyone would stay in an AirBnB after all the reports of hidden cameras. For me personally, it’s not worth the risk even if the risk is minimal.

Plus, all the cleaning fees and other things people have mentioned.

Also, it seems like some hosts are not a good fit to be in the AirBnB business. The hosts that are super paranoid about every guest or what is happening in their home - and are the type to use cameras or stop by unannounced, etc. It’s like an Uber driver who is ultra protective of their car. They shouldn’t be in the Uber business. There is a balance and some just aren’t suited to be an AirBnB hosts.
Tbh I think it depends where you work. In 1999, if you worked at a Java shop making accounting software or whatever, it wasn't a talents/creative industry.

Same thing now days, but replace Java/accounting with React/CRUD. The rockstar code ninja 10x mentality of 2009 is maybe gone for good, but I see more crazy coders doing rockstar level stuff now than ever before. Asahi Linus and alyssa rosenzweig being great examples from the Asahi project, but these people are all over.

People talk about the complexity of the infrastructure making it impossible to do everything yourself, but in my experience is exactly the opposite. The degree of abstration, automation, and high-level tools means that you kinda can do everything without knowing too much.
LLM inference is GPU bound and VRAM bound. Given quantization however, 2x3090 or 4090 (48GB) is enough VRAM to load 65B quantized llama derivatives (30-40GB). With exllama you can get maybe 20-30 tok/s with dual 4090s on ~1200W. With an M2 Ultra maybe 10 tok/s on ~178W.

(I don't have these devices but have been researching LLM inference performance in the interest of buying a machine for them.)

Advantage goes to M2 Ultra if you ever might need more than 48GB VRAM. I think it's unlikely nvidia is going to release a significantly higher VRAM consumer card anytime soon, since that's what their A100s are for.
Azure Strikes Again!
The cups are usually 3/4 full of ice to start with, heh
Yeah I don't see too much issue in using generative art for more trivial things, like some banner art to sit atop a blogpost or something. Placeholders also seem like a really good application, particularly for cases where the randomization might expose issues that real users would face. I wouldn't have spent money on these things anyway.

Direct incorporation of generative art into a commercial product is much more murky.