skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I noticed this myself when running over warning signs that were obvious in hindsight. Haven’t found a way to fully avoid this without becoming overly suspicious and slow down decisions.

When I was in the military the military has courses that I think subtly teach you to do this. You learn a bunch of academic stuff, then they go through some what I would call dry run exercises, then finally you're put in an immersive exercise. They do this with things like combat and medical trauma that often require making the right decisions at the right time and considering counter-decisions or seeing consequences into the future. Anecdotally when my base was attacked I almost saw myself performing actions that I'd rehearsed. Of course, situations changed rapidly and at times I let myself have a moment of awe in what I was in, but then it was back to doing things I knew.

In this way, I think speedy, correct decision making is the result of familiarity. Also yes, I'd like to sleep on a bed of baby octopuses carrying me through the sea.
I've worked on the software side of airline ticketing. I would bet any amount of money's that they were lying. Not just AirFrance, every airline.

They also drag their feet on paying their software contractors. The company I worked for also had a digital adslvertising agency department. There were multiple times we had to threaten to pause all their Google and Facebook advertising campaigns until they paid. One time we actually had to do that, we had an email that payment was sent about 10 minutes later.
Yeah, I’ll absolutely take the delay over exhausted crew.

It’s just, the airline never tells you why the flight is delayed, it’s just ‘delay’, and you tend to assume incompetence instead of anything else.
If we had stronger consumer protection laws, corporations wouldn't be able to hide behind all these obstacles they themselves create to generate profit.

The default should be "customer gets the refund" and the corporation needs to prove the refund should not happen.

Imagine being able to do a one step dispute with a consumer protection agency. The business in question would have 30 days to challenge in small claims court in the local jurisdiction. Consumer gets a letter in the mail about the determination with no effort beyond the initial dispute.

No underfunding the customer service phone lines, hoping to wear down the consumer. No hiding behind a self constructed obstacle course.

The corporate entity can run through a ninja warrior obstacle course to deny a refund.
It's an AES-based mode, so it only has the AES message block (and, implicitly, the key) to work with, and some of the bits in the message block need to hold the CTR counter. The problem is that leaves an uncomfortably low margin of random bits.
but the source lender is the US government, which is awful at adjusting to market economics, and would likely require legislation to slow(?) down lending. How would you convince these populists to support this (not very sneaky) legislation?
There’s also the possibility that they weren’t seeing lots of ongoing usage of existing fine tuned models e.g. users tuning, running some batch of inputs, then abandoning the fine tuned weights.
I haven't read what Caplan has written, but whenever I read or talk to people advocating against public education in America (note: I'm not in America), it's always been a thinly veiled pretext for Bible education for school kids i.e if you can homeschool your kids, then you can teach the the Bible. If you send them to a public school, you can't.
No.

This is middle class taxing. There's never enough rich people to fund these kind of initiatives, and specially not in Spain.
Is the argument for a small counter that nobody serious will treat it as a significant diversification component or reliable source of entropy, especially in a streaming mode? It's a counter whose function is necesesarily finite and predictable (and reversible?), if not explicitly linear. Intuitively, any substitutions or convolutions derived from it would weaken subsequent operations, no?
That's exactly what I'm thinking right now.
Totally minor but this website does not show anything in lockdown mode on the iPhone.
Have you ever loaded up a bag with stuff that you didn't want anymore, just to see if they would give you cash for them?
Didn’t say that. I think that grad students are reasonably paid a small salary to be able to live modestly on, so that more students can be taken into programs. Requiring a living wage to the tune of $50k/yr at UC Berkeley as the standard is not reasonable as a matter of spending university $ wisely, or as a matter of what the role of grad school is.
I can tell you about the test in Spain: Ultimately it's actually testing what you learned in school, vs the SAT's IQ + Vocab proxy. Since it asks for so much, in practice it's testing for the quality of your school too, as if your classmates in high school were bad enough, or your teacher cared little about covering the material, you might not have even covered some of the questions. So in practice, some schools averaged extremely good results in some subjects even for the worst students, while in others the very best always scored badly: Imagine in the foreign language test, one school might have a teacher that could actually communicate well in English, while others didn't.

Another fun part is that it limits how much a motivated high school can do regarding unfair grading: In my year, the average grades in high school and the grades in the University test, while relatively correlated, had some very big outliers.

Do note that in Spain, more than a matter of which university you'll go to, it's also a matter of which major you'll be allowed to study. In general, high paying, low unemployment majors are basically unachievable by someone that tested badly, or had bad high school grades. So it's not a matter if you are going to the right university, but whether you can study anything you care about at all. I had friends that liked computer science, but were C students, so they had no prayer of studying CS. And also note that, even after you get into college, chances of flunking out are very high. About 15% of students are expelled every year from that CS program, to which you have to add the ones that drop out voluntarily.

So more than sorting people into colleges, there's a whole lot of sorting into just getting a useful degree in a timely fashion.
You’re correct. The Constitution calls treaties part of the “Supreme law of the land”, which has apparently been interpreted to be equivalent to federal law. I stand corrected.
I've been using Logseq for a few months and am loving it. Its model is pretty different from Evernote, and in ways I think are superior. The heart of is the daily journal, and you can tag each lump (which they call a block) with hashtags. You can also create pages, of course, but I find myself doing that less and less.
A lot of authors are deeply problematic. That doesn't mean you can't like their work unless a) their problematic views are baked into their work or b) they profit off their work and use that profit as a platform for their horrible views. Neither is the case here.
The decisions seem rushed, not borne out of consensus, and not well thought out
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> Díaz graduated with a licentiate degree in Law from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC),[5][6] and later earned three post-graduate degrees. Upon concluding her studies, she commenced working as a paralegal for a law firm. Later, she registered as an attorney at law and opened her own law firm, which specialised in labour law.[5]
Rabbits, Digital Sailors
I've said this elsewhere in the thread, but I really deeply enjoyed Nova. It's got a really unique, special feel to it I can't explain.
The thing that is most difficult for people to understand is that this drastically increases risks in the long tails of climate events and you only need two or three of those to significantly destabilize human society.

We have an ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine where one of the largest grain exporters is blockaded. This year's record-hot summer in Argentina halved crop yields. If you were to combine just one or two more events like these in a year you have a substantial price increase in staple foods, which is known to trigger massive geopolitical events with impacts that last years.

Systems are resilient until enough of the foundation is chipped away, then they collapse suddenly. We are really toying with our destinies in a way few people are truly aware of.
Flatpaks have some startup time penalty, but it's an order of magnitude better than Snaps. They also have way better disk usage characteristics per installed package than Snaps do (they scale better).

You can use them side-by-side on the same system. Install a dozen of each and take some measurements.
I've had no problems with Nvidia Linux drivers themselves in the last 15 years or so. Yes, they don't play well with the rest of the ecosystem. Using Optimus laptops was a nightmare but you could still get hardware acceleration if you needed it, with performance on par with Windows. ATI on the other hand is a choose your own adventure kind of a deal.
The phrase used to be "starving grad student", maybe now it's not a jest anymore, and it falls flat ...
It is beyond sad how everyone seems to just accept that college is job training now.

Of course, it’s a logical response because the neoliberal university saddles students with far too much debt. 90% of what an American university does today is useless waste. Most classes are taught by starving grad students and adjuncts. Running the courses themselves are a rounding error on budgets. Administrators are robbing the kids blind. Education is an afterthought at many institutions.

You don’t have to look very far for ways out of this crisis. Look to European universities and their four-figure semester tuition bills, even for foreigners. Look at community colleges, which don’t have dorms, lazy rivers, hundreds of parasitic administrators who do nothing, or Kafkaesque admissions processes. Look at how much more affordable online courses are, from highly respected public universities, when you excise all the useless overhead.
Relational? DbVisualizer
I'd love to see more discussion on the assertion that Google is the only real competitor to Nvidia. I get the angle, but it still feels weird to think of them as competitors. Really odd to think of with how Google appears to be struggling with their AI story at the moment.

It also wouldn't hurt if Google showed anywhere near the discipline that Nvidia has shown over the years. About the only thing Nvidia has done to upset anyone, is to not have open source drivers. Even there, though, many folks are far happier with their closed drivers than they are many of the open alternatives.
I miss the company "ATI".
I thought years ago Lego had a desktop program that let you build things with virtual bricks.
Since I can't edit my original message anymore:

I think we can probably exclude malice (from the agent at least), like many commenters pointed out. It is, however, infuriatingly shady for AirFrance to not address these issues. Doubly so because at the end of the day it benefits them.

Many many customers aren't tech savvy, won't place a call, will pay the fees, or downright abandon trying to get their money back because of how difficult AirFrance (and other airlines) make the process. And at what point should _not_ fixing these issues be labeled "malice"?
> But instead AMD has just followed Nvidia into making slow, uncompetitive GPUs at high prices.

I'm curious: do you use GPUs? It's hard to take this claim seriously. Yes NVIDIA GPUs are expensive, but I don't think we live in the same matrix when you claim that their GPUs are slow and uncompetitive... Unless you have an alternative in mind, in which case I'm all ears.
Democracy isn't perfect, but checking out is the quickest route to ensuring your interests are only minimally represented. True at all levels of democratic organization.
It wasn't piracy that killed it*

Major typo correction since I can't edit that post now.
When the Nintendo Switch is one of your failures, life must be pretty good. :D
The Secret Service does the bidding of Amazon too? Who haven't they bought?
> FMV games were something that looked like the future to a little kid but once you played them they were awful.

I still think Wing Commander 3 was an amazing game, to this day. (The 10 minute waits to launch a mission on my Pentium was ridiculous though)
The current model is already destructive and most of the market is managed by artificial agents. Schwab will give you a roboadvisor to manage your retirement account so AI is already managing large chunks of the financial markets. Letting AI manage not just the financial aspects but things like farmland is an obvious extension of the same principle and since AIs can notice more patterns it's going to become basically a necessity because global warming is going to make large parts of existing farmlands unmanageable. Floods and droughts are becoming more common and humans are very bad at figuring out the weather so there will be an AI agent monitoring weather patterns and allocating seeds to various plots of land to maximize yields.

Bill Gates has bought up a bunch of farmland and I am certain he will use AI to manage them because manual allocation will be too inefficient[1].

1: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a425435...
Sure, but I'd rather live in paradise than burn my house. In that sense nothing's a big deal, but it is for me. I believe we all deserve good lives.

The best adaptation to burning your house is the rational thought "Perhaps I should not burn my house". :)

It dreads me to think we so much lost contact with living well that many don't care anymore. I think the first step in the journey would be to stop the destructive culture of desperate consumerism, greed, consumption, overwork and ill-being. Maybe that's something we should be prioritizing alongside climate change, as a species. Living well in our homes, and as a community.
Maybe I'm missing something (I only did a quick read) but aren't you explicitly telling the model to re-explore low density regions of the action space? Essentially turning of the exploration (and turning down exploitation) with a weighting towards low density regions?

As not an RL person (I'm in generative), have people not re-increased the exploration variable after the model has been initially trained? It seems natural to vary that ee trade-off.
When did they finally get rid of the green screens?
reducing money flowing into higher education industry would reduce overall education levels of the population. I don’t think you really want the population to be less educated. Go see what life is like in places with lower levels of education. College is expensive for those people. You don’t want that.
SeatGuru isn't perfect but it'll be right more often than not with the seat dimensions, especially on popular routes.

Realistically I think airlines have figured out that they're mostly competing on price, not seat quality. Very few people price out flights and then choose the one that's $20 more expensive based on what the seats are like.
Remember how Shopify is still processing hundreds of millions of transactions in Ruby on Rails without an issue currently?
Well the old joke is that it was easier to make Unix user friendly than to make windows work.
Interesting point, but I think it's not quite right. It's the fault of men thinking there's still a stigma against being gay. (Or perhaps feeling that there is.)
It's not like they built the app in one day.

Anecdotally, many are trying the app, realizing it's half baked (for various reasons), and dropping it right then and there. They only tried it because they were curious and now they know.

You only get one chance to make a first impression.

Meta is a 730 billion dollar company so seems like they should be able to do better.
How does this differ from existing approaches that just follow the entropy?
Working is moot. Their Linux support is the worst among all GPU makers.
What's the end game for Twitter here? This is so pathetic. Unlikely to do anything but promote Threads.
It definitely depends on your needs. FreeBSD absolutely does support production workloads. Netflix as you mentioned, WhatsApp (Meta), and several ISPs and hosting providers make use of it.

Any competent Linux sysadmin could learn to admin a BSD in no time. The FreeBSD handbook and the man pages are excellent. In my opinion they are far better quality than their Linux equivalents.

You also won't have any issues if your server runs on an open source stack such as Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Java (OpenJDK), NodeJS, etc.

You're absolutely right about FreeBSD not having first party commercial support. If you need that, you're basically stuck with RHEL, SUSE, Ubuntu, or Oracle.
But the meaning does change based on the parent tag. <p> is not allowed to be nested, just like <li> and many other elements. Those are rules anyone writing markup has to remember, whether XML or not. Allowing <li> to close the previous <li> is a natural extension of that rule, and strikes a good balance between the rigor of XML and brevity of Markdown, whose context rules I find to be both less consistent and incredibly difficult to remember. (Can a list contain a list? Does ^ superscript a whole line or just a word? What elements can contain a table?)
It’s not a “random pip”. The maintainer is a well-known open source developer (one of the creators of Django and Datasette). It’s also a very small codebase – not many places for malicious code to hide.
You're essentially saying "They haven't had an outage yet, so they don't need redundancy". I hope you realize how bad of an idea that is.

Also calling them an armchair QB? Very mature. Their comment is more correct than yours.
Been using LXC for years via Proxmox. Just dipping my toes into docker to explore ways to distribute CPU bound workloads. Quite different and different use cases. I do like how the docker files provide a rock solid definition of the environment, that should come in very handy in the future when I have completely forgotten how something works and need to update it. I usually put a config.txt in the root of my LXC containers for a similar purpose, but the Dockerfiles are more explicit. I like to hotpatch my code and I hate complicated built processes, so I don't see going all in with Docker, but it is quite an elegant way to package an application. I always had the impression that it was overly complex, but after actually trying it I am surprised by all the things I like.

My original intention was to deploy a Gaussian Process Regression model built with PyMC on AWS Lambda. I need to build and run a few thousand of these each morning. Building the Docker image was fun and it worked great, but AWS Lambda was extremely disappointing. Even when configured with 10GB of RAM, it was pretty slow and running my predictions would cost hundreds of dollars per day. I can spin up a 128 core bare metal EPYC server on vultr for an hour at a cost of $8 that can finish the job faster. That's still more expensive than I had envisioned so if anyone can suggest any smaller providers that can run CPU bound workloads in ephemeral docker containers, let me know.
I thought it was the opposite, with Fred Brooks championing “build one to throw away” until software processes had developed to a more flexible, iterative model. But that’s because usually there is no trustworthy spec, and in this case, they can observe a working web browser in the wild to get requirements nailed down.
AF also tried to pull the codeshare thing with me once. Didn't want to go around in circles with customer service and found it easier to initiate litigation. AF then hired a big law firm to defend the tiny case.

A week before a scheduled court hearing their lawyer calls me to negotiate. I tell her there is nothing to negotiate about, and she agrees. We chat for an hour anyway which was surely billed to her client AF. I receive full payment two days later.

Haven't booked an AF flight since.
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Never attribute to incompetence that which can be attributed to apathy.
Reality is corporations are made of people, just like you. In fact you may know someone who works for a corporation.
This is surely bait. Human extinction and 'not a big deal' in the same comment? Am I misunderstanding?
Checking out and moving to an environment that represents your interests well is a way to see that your interests are met, though.
It’s about trust - not publicity. Trust is hard to earn back once broken, and there will be multiple offerings eventually.

For example, AWS was one of the first cloud providers. Now there are alternatives, but I still pick AWS because I trust them not to break my dependencies way more than, say, Google
> Pay for RHEL or use Debian

In this climate, that is a solid philosophy
You can try https://osschat.io/ for some open source project.
My mental picture for the next 20 years is that climate change will get catastrophically bad but advanced AI will solve everything with autonomous global carbon sequestration chemical factories.
Do Facebook and Instagram not have search?

I don't really understand what you're getting at here. I don't see how indexing is a "special sauce"; Facebook has a larger network size than Twitter does and as far as I can tell it indexes all of its posts. What major social sites other than Tumblr/Mastodon don't have functioning search?
No, this is why you should be a professional. Swearing doesn’t belong in your employers codebase, it’s tasteless, looks bad, and may age very, very poorly.
Daily 2-meter Air Temperature
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/

If you look specifically at Northern and Southern hemisphere temperatures it seems that the SH and more specifically Antarctica are where the spike is occurring.
I’m not from America at all.
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It seems to me that Nvidia has largely abandoned the consumer market in order to chase the seemingly-bottomless demand for AI hype. While AMD is more than happy to stay in their lane, continue making record profits on their same market, and not waste billions trying to catch up on 10 years of CUDA development. By the time they have anything remotely comparable, the AI grift will be over just like crypto. Tech grifts only have a 1-3 year cycle these days.
Does that rhyme in Turkish? I’m curious now if it has a certain “beat” when it’s spoken that sort of helps it persist as an idea in the language (at least that seems to). Sort of a short form poetry.
Rayman was available for the Saturn, heck that game was available for the Jaguar. The Saturn arguably got the best port also.
Was just going to say I’ve been looking at heat pumps myself and I can’t imagine what the quoted heat pump was that it would cost that much more.
> Is it obviously false or something?

Yes. Doesn't "a bunch of them went off and got private sector jobs instead, limiting the size of the undergrad population" sound extremely implausible to you? As if graduate students can control enrollment.

The comment sounds like a political hit piece, with no evidence provided. And Scott Walker was a major union buster who spurred massive protests at the Wisconsin State Capitol in 2011 and a recall election (which Walker unfortunately won).

The University of Wisconsin Teaching Assistants Association is one of the oldest student unions in the nation. It's hardly a "disaster".