skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extracting short term profit isn’t hard, and that’s all these investment funds that operate on short time scales are looking to do.

There was an excellent book on the subject published this year called Our Lives in their Portfolios[^1].

[^1]: https://www.ft.com/content/7da72f9c-978b-41e7-8e4b-478818f74...
Who is cheering for 1 and not the other?

Megacorps should buy 1 of every book (if they want to train on it)
> As long as the content isn't illegal

Who decides what is "illegal"?
How can you introduce bias in ABCD e.g math tests?

>think including attributes such as grit, leadership, and talent across many areas such as writing, the various arts and many other fields is useful.

How do you measure leadership?

And prevent bias/preference from the examiner?
We accelerated the frequency of releases applying a microsite approach
How we accelerated the frequency of releases and the independence of the teams for the site Subito.it by applying a microsite approach
> The latter is what Red Hat seems to want: a broader ecosystem that competes with Debian on community, while allowing Red Hat to sell RHEL with an "original recipe" sticker.

This depends if SUSE will use stream as a base or not.
But Oracle and almalinux will probably base on it with their own patches / support.

> SUSE coming out with an announcement that effectively cannibalizes its existing enterprise distribution kind of makes Red Hat's move look risky, but perhaps not dumb after all.

They already have SUSE liberty linux, which includes support for RHEL and CentOS.
It is a problem largely created by granting them property rights instead of franchises or operating agreements. In a democracy we can never remove the risk of the next government messing it up, but as long as they grant time limited or restricted contracts the opportunity for reversal is there.

Which, incidentally, the cynic in me would suggest is the reason for why e.g. the water privatisation was done the way it was.

Compare to the train privatisation, where after the failure of Railtrack brought the infra itself back under government control, time limited franchises means that the government can at least regain control over time at low cost by simply ending the issuing of new franchises (and where the government have operated many franchises for various lengths of time due to outright failures of the franchise-holders to meet their obligations). You can even see it as allowing for shifting governments to change their mind without it becoming big all or nothing decisions (though the original franchise model is utterly messed up in how it aligns the incentives).

To be clear: I think the rail privatisation was also an utter disaster, but it's current incarnation is not nearly as bad with the water companies - largely, incidentally, because large early failures like with Railtrack ended up with the undoing of some of the worst parts of it. It's still shit, though.
They should be publicly owned but the money ring fensed and the prices rise depending on works needed. For example I think it would cost something like £100bn to sort out the sewerage system in the UK - we should just ask people what they want (continue as is or have higher bills) and charge people based on their assets an amount over say 5-10 years that covers it. So for rich people it might be several thousand £ per year and for poorer people a lot less. These sort of taxes that are needed can never be done currently so we continue pumping sewage into our waterways and seasides.
So the enterprise and commercial users do care?

Or perhaps they "don't give a flying fuck"?

This ommission of the negative really grinds my gears, and I couldn't care less about American Idiom when it literally changes the meaning of the words.
> Doesn't a dividend come from profits?

A dividend can be paid with money from any source, it's all money.

> And who will loan to you if your business plan is to exit scam?

Ambitious junior bankers. Or you get the government to guarantee your debt.
If you want your stolen mac to be usable, you are free to remote wipe it and unlock it…
And is usable for large libraries. Digikam halts everything to a freeze if you use more than a very little amount of pictures. If your program is a photo management software, you need to be able to index/search/manage 1TB+ of images with ease.
Not the person you replied to, but apparently Deezer is waaay nicer with paying out artists than Spotify/Apple music. It's apparently due to how revenue is distributed (paying per total minutes played vs share of user-minutes or something, I'm not very clear.) Essentially with Spotify the vrey popular Tailor Swifts get a much nicer payment whereas if you listen exclusively to indie artists on Deezer they actually see more of your money.

Fun fact, Deezer started off as a piracy website that grew big enough to turn legitimate when sued :)
Good datastructure, code looks quite clean for C.

Your API is missing some of the advantages relative to hash tables though. Because it's a tree, operations like union and difference of two instances can be sublinear in the size of the instances. E.g. union can copy subtrees when the other instance has empty at the corresponding position.

You're also missing a batch construction call, create a new tree out of N key/value pairs. That's much faster than inserting one at a time because you can sort the array up front and then create the tree without any temporary nodes.

The function pointers in the interface are probably difficult for the compiler to devirtualise. Changing that in C means macros or code generators though, does some damage to ease of use.

Thanks for sharing it
I can bloody well cancel on whatever I like unless it's a formal agreement. The realm of emojis and text chats do not have any business being in business. A contract is a contract, not an emoji.

What are the terms of the emoji? Both parties agreed to some set of conditions maybe, but the emoji's on the final message? Did one party agree to all the conditions, or just some of them?

There is no way in hell in my mind, that an emoji has any bearing on business dealings. This is just more bullshit corporate lawyer stuff. If their CEO thumbs up a "200% raise for all our employees laughing emoji" along with everyone else, it doesn't _mean_ that the CEO has approved of it, it's mean they've _seen_ it.

Guess we just have different opinions on this.
Would love to see that happen but no government can stop that train now. Too much money is required and they can't just seize the assets.
We do see this in Switzerland, Finland, etc. But this is due to a competent Department of Education, which simply doesn't exist in the UK. Infact the UK DoE isn't even just incompetent - it is quite clearly maliciously sabotaging education, there is no other logical conclusion for the farcical policies that are in use.
This is standard procedure for federal prison, they're already figuring in her good behavior reduction. If she loses that she will serve her whole sentence. Awful journalism at work here.
People literally died before it became Network Rail due to badly maintained infrastructure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railtrack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Rail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southall_rail_crash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladbroke_Grove_rail_crash

Edit: To be 100% clear the badly maintained infrastructure was the responsibility of a for profit private company at the point where people died.
Which was private under railtrack, but after a number of high profile crashes and failures was taken into public ownership again.

Railtrack made a lot of money by selling off land, and other assets, under invested and generally underperformed
Trains are a natural monopoly, that's why lassiez-faire policies don't work.
I think that you could genuinely make that argument though.
If you really need that old phone, use Firefox Mobile which has its own root store.

But good luck using it
Currently working on something similar for myself, this doesn't seem to fit my needs (benchmarking generations too rather than just classification). I only have a crude cosine similarity metric for accuracy for now. Also I'm using function calling rather than the normal completions.

I was hoping this would do something more interesting with multiple messages (if using a chat model) rather than just dumping the entire prompt in one message. The assistant lets you do stuff with examples.
SUSE liberty linux already existed for a while now, so it's nothing new.
No, the deploy mechanism is separate from a code deploy. The rules themselves can get very complex and are distributed in the same way
I don't think things are quite as dire as that. I have experience as a machine learning scientist, have actually never worked on the kinds of papers you're talking about, but have helped apply machine learning to scientific problems. First in a systems biology lab for tasks upstream of drug discovery, and then in industry for credit risk modeling. I've mostly just used classical machine learning or Bayesian machine learning models though.

My interest has always been in using machine learning as a tool to help understand some underlying phenomena, not in trying to push to the top of the leaderboard on benchmark datasets. I think this kind of attitude isn't uncommon in academic labs focused on doing real science, though the methods used aren't necessarily state of the art, and ML typically plays only a supporting role.

Curiously, I'm going to present at a conference later today and will give a toy example showing why those leaderboards are not necessarily reliable for distinguishing between the quality of different models.
Right now Threads is to Twitter as Google Plus was to Facebook. I can’t believe they released such a terrible app. I can’t see who I have followed and click on their names to see only the things they posted. Instead I get an endless page of idiotic posts that I care nothing about. I’ve spent more time block people than anything else on Threads. There are 5 or so people who I want to follow and don’t want to see anything else. This is impossible. I didn’t think it would be possible to make a version of Twitter that is much worse than the horrible Twitter app.
Why do we have to relearn this over and over and over?

It's such a waste of money which the right should be the ones complaining about.

Unregulated privatization does not work because privatization means optimize to the max which includes cutting corners in labor laws to the health the citizens.
The way my engineering professor put it was so: when even 5 minutes of off-time costs $5,000 of product you want to be sure your systems are stable.
dunno but for example you got more than one audio stack on linux so they should at least test both, with different hardwares, etc. Not sure flatpak would help here...
Scenario 1 - Decisions are based on the opinion of Mathew Lawrence and, by proxy, the editors at the economist.com.

Scenario 2 - Decisions are made by people shouting at each other.

Scenario 3 - Decisions involve a big review of some successful energy grids in other countries and starting with one that works really well as a baseline.

A big shouting match to decide what a successful energy grid looks like is a good idea. But fixed infrastructure is long-lasting and hard to replace - it would make sense to make the decision rationally rather than making political guesses at what might or might not work.
How the hell does microservices 'auto-heals' ? Do they autogenerate bug fixes and patch themselves ?
I find it astonishing Thames water were allowed to rack up billions in debt while paying huge dividends and compensation packages and they are about to go bankrupt.
You milk the captive market.
> With a profit motive, the utility is at least incentivised to deliver the service so that they can get paid.

No they are not! In Britain rail companies were bailed out during Covid.

Railways that had zero passengers reported profits and paid dividends!

> Look at what is happening with South Africa's power utility

South african society has various issues that are not applicable in UK/france/etc. Same goes for Russia. If suddenly French government does the kind fo shit Russian government does, half of Paris will be on fire before you can spell Baguette
>The 'stable version but we backport patches' mantra doesn't make any sense today.

Why, did dependability and enteprise long term stability needs go out of fashion?
> In the hands of such practitioners

I would call them cultists at this point.
What's brittle about BGP? There hasn't been a wide-scale BGP outage since 2019 when verizon did `import all; export all;`.

Facebook doesn't count, as it was limited to their network.
But tourism is a luxury, and people renting out apartments on airbnb is making that apartment unafordable for long-term rental for locals, who actually have to live there. Sure, you might like the cheaper option of an unregulated hotel, but the locals would prefer you to just go to a normal hotel, since that's what the hotels were built for. At some point, even the local governments will have to bend over for the will off the 'masses' (compared to a few individuals profiteering from this), because people who have nowhere to live are in the group of people who have "nothing to lose anymore", and as a politician, you don't want a critical mass of those.
I'll say the quiet part outloud. It doesn't work.
Military, Health, Social Services, Justice, Power Generation, and Regualtion are all things that at their core function should be done by the state at a cost to taxpayers (in a progressive way).
The private sector can make widgets and sell junk, as long as they can do it without harming people.

I know it seems simplistic, but generally the private market is full of corruption the poor can't really avoid. So they just end up victims to it.
Railway tracks aren't privitised and haven't been for 20 years. The trains running on them were - at least until covid broke everything

The problem is that the government let companies like Virgin off when they broke their contract, allowing them to bid high, take the profits, then walk away rather than fulfilling their contracted duties. Privatise the profits, socialise the losses.

Nethertheless there is tons of competition on transport in the UK

1) To get from Birmingham to London you can choose 3 different rail providers giving 3 different cost/value returns. Faster more frequent ones cost more.

2) On top of that you can also take a coach, hire a car, drive your own car, or of course not travel at all

3) Manchester to London you can fly, take the coach, drive (car hire or your own car), take three different trains ranging from £50 return and 3 hours to £180 return and 2 hours.

"Railway tracks" isn't where the competition is, transport is, and there's tons of competition. I remember I used to commute from a commuter town into Manchester. I could take the train during the peak, or I could take it off peak, or I could take the slower train from a different company, or I could drive, or I could take a commuter bus.

When it comes to the last mile of say BT, you used to have a monopoly, it would take months to get a replacement handset connected. Today though "a phone line" isn't what you want, internet is, and there are options

1) BT/Opeanreach connection (fibre or copper)

2) Non-BT fibre (in many cities)

3) Wireless ISPs

4) Satelite ISPs (Starlink/Oneweb or Geostationary)

Each has benefits and drawbacks

I would agree that the last mile of water and possibly electric provision shouldn't have been privitised. Treatment works though -- why not? There's no real limit on the number you can have.

When it comes to long distance electric again why not. There is a lot of money to be made transporting Electricity in Scotland and selling it to the south east. Let multiple companies do that.

The problem is planning permission and nimbyism means it's impossible to actually build new lines.
Do government unions not try to maximize their profits from the public or am I missing something?
Same thing happened in my country. Fortunately someone decided to create a cooperative and now I can avoid contributing to the profit margin of some private company
For completeness - Formal Algorithms for Transformers - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.09238.pdf

For accessibility - Let's Build GPT from Scratch, Andrej Karpathy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY

You can also read the PyTorch source code - https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/_modules/torch/nn/modules/tr...
> The assumptions that the 2030 date for increasing RSA key length were based on turned out to be invalid. A check of current capability confirms this. There seems to be no rational reason to increase RSA key sizes past 2048 starting in the year 2030. We don't have any reason to increase RSA key sizes at any time based on our current understanding.

Great to know my porn collection will be safe with 2048 bit RSA. :)
Didn't they say Google Takeout?
And safely here means non disruptive to established businesses. If they create a tool so powerful that it can replace entire professional classes, that would just mean people can bypass the employers and get their value directly from an API.

OpenAI needs to make sure they have a business model where they can charge enterprise fees and provide value to corporations, not directly to people. ChatGPT was merely a publicity stunt. I do believe they got scared of how much value people could derive independently from it tho, hence the "regulate this" pressure.
We need the dude who prosecuted Aaron Swartz here. This sucks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz
Cool for you. What about if you contribute to this one or open-source yours?
Those in the unions are the public.
100% this! I was bemoaning this earlier, I am using the S8 to do exactly the same as I did 6 years ago when I bought it but not only is it much slower than it was when I first bought it (for some reason) but various apps and integrations are already stopping support for Android 9 which is the latest version that Samsung have made available to the phone.

Only the other day, I got a message from Slack telling me their client won't support Android 9 any more, even though, like most apps, I still use the same features I always did.

Groan!
Exactly.
Many people seems to mistake "free market" with "anarchy".
Free market only works because there are anti-trust laws, anti-corruption laws, regulated lobbying. Otherwise, it is not a free market.
> shutting ticket offices

Why should I pay higher prices/taxes to keep ticket offices 90% of the country and increasing don't use open?

International Airlines finished moving to e-ticketing 15 years ago
Lmao they're just trying to sell their product.

Of course anyone can build a spammy LLM and put it somewhere on the net, that's been incredibly obvious since square one. Just like anyone can get enough fertiliser together and...

Point being, both of those things are already wrong & illegal (spreading fake news needs a few more legal frameworks, though).

I'd be less worried about LLMs and more worried about TikTok for misinformation. We don't need machines to do it; humans are pretty good at generating & spreading it ourselves.

Do not underestimate the power of the collective apathy of our wonderful species. People don't care that news/info might be fake in the same way that they don't care a funny ha ha TT video is scripted but presented as actually having happened. The Internet is rife with this culture now.
Opening markets != privatization. There's absolutely nothing wrong with breaking a state monopoly if that's possible, but that's not privatization.

The free market cultists pretending that these two things that are very different are equivalent is half of how we got into this mess, in fact.

Whilst participants in the utilites market will often complain that it's "not fair" that they have to compete with a state actor, they're often the best way of exerting market discipline on them.

This is particularly true in utilities space where private actors unhindered by state competition try to bamboozle their customers into giving them fat profit margins with stupidly complex bills. State run companies that provide a bare bones low profit service that matches what most people actually want inhibit this kind of market abuse.
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Sell off assets, get subsidies, understaff, rundown and don’t maintain equipment. Provide a shit service. When bankruptcy comes up you’ll be bailed out.
>The time (some years back now, it was a 5.10 patch and a 5.8 rpm) they mis-backported a perl patch to work around a bug in a deprecated CPAN module for one of their enterprise customers and in the process caused a 2x-30x slowdown of lots of other newer code (including the library that had replaced it in the majority of production environments by that point) was 'fun'.

That ONE time might have been fun, but with Arch, Ubuntu and so on, you get to have such fun times all the time.
True-ish.

But "2 + 2 = 3 is false" is not an argument for "2 + 2 = 5 is true".

(FWIW - I've seen arguments, in a broad range of periodicals, to the effect that the current generation of British politicians - if not the entire British ruling class - are dysfunctional sh*t, and the UK's future looks pretty bleak.)
Manager are for managing low skilled workers that need supervision and help. The idea that you hire "the best SWEs" and then you have to slap a manager to oversee them like they are burger flippers is ridiculous on its face.

SWEs might benefit from some help from experienced technical leadership - someone to consult, get feedback from etc. and from bureaucratic assistance (help get paperwork out of the way), but typically "SWE manager" position is akin to fast-food chain manager in a SWE shop.
Well, half their mother. And it’s not really all that unusual either. Bees are the same way. The males (called drones) are hatched from unfertilized eggs laid by the queen. They have no stinger and can do no work for the hive. Literally their only purpose is to find another queen and mate with her, and then they die. They are basically nothing more than sperm with wings. So much so that, when it’s not mating season, the worker bees will often kick the males out of the hive to starve to death to conserve resources.
So why not a private non-profit instead of government?
i always cringe when i see Singapore used as a comparison point with developed nations. it's a single city and has an authoritarian government. how is that at all an apples to apples comparison?
Blaming cookies for tracking people is like blaming a bullet for a murder. It's the trackers installed on pretty much every single website that are the thing that tracks people, using cookies of course. The Google analytics or Facebook pixels, to name the top two offenders.

I don't see how this relates to GDPR. Please explain.
Scam-as-a-service. People wanna run a grift AND they want the playbook ready for them. That's just... wow. I don't know why I'm surprised but I always assumed crypto scammers were at the very least building their own scams.
There are way more customers outside the unions that inside.
ASAN uses virtual shadow memory, have you looked into that?
BT (British Telecom) is perhaps a good example of where a UK company could have succeeded (more), but this quasi-privatisation-yet-public-commodity thing has held them back.

The current market cap of the company is around a 1/3rd of the value of its pension scheme. Any takeover would be under intense scrutiny from the regulator.

Thankfully when it comes to water, in Scotland we did not privatise, nor is our water metered. We also continued to build onshore wind farms, unlike in England where it was effectively banned.
Other way round. Railtrack was a private company on the FTSE. It killed people. Network Rail then took the rail infrastructure back in house.
Did SUSE coordinate this announcement With Oracle? Because they also announced similar thing yesterday https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-ope...
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