skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would agree with most except Spring Security is not so simple due to its power and a number of changes over the releases. Trivial cases are simple to do but anything beyond that requires understanding the beast and that takes real effort. More complex cases are then again relatively easy.
I always thought that it was a bad decision that Windows tracked time as local time. IMO they got it wrong right from the get-go. It made more sense to me to track time in an unambiguous manner(*) like seconds since midnight January 1. 1970 GMT and then convert to whatever representation is convenient locally.

(*) I suppose this does not work as well on Mars. I suspect that the time on the various extra-planetary vehicles is tied to earth time but would not work so well if Mars were ever colonized.
I don’t think you can do that with a generator expression. You would have to write:

sum(1 for age in ages if age > 17)
> instead of "the excitement was good for everyone" they might realize these hoaxes harm scientific integrity.

Totally disagree. If anything, this whole episode (debacle?) reinforced the fact that science works and the process played out exactly how the scientific process should work:

1. First, the paper was originally posted on arxiv, meaning it was a pre-print and didn't go through any peer review. So the vast majority of comments I saw on it was "Wow, this would be really cool, if it turns out to be true."

2. Immediately many labs around the world started trying to replicate the results. And very quickly there were some negative results that came back.

3. The thing that I think is so cool is not only did negative results come back, but from TFA people now have a very good understanding of why the initial analysis was incorrect. That's great science.

One may argue that this was really a failure in media communication vs. the actual underlying science, but if anything it teaches appropriate skepticism, especially when a report is initially published, without peer review, without yet being replicated, that ends with the sentence "We believe that our new development will be a brand-new historical event that opens a new era for humankind."
"Technically, silicone could be considered part of the rubber family. But, if you define plastics widely, as we do, silicone is something of a hybrid between a synthetic rubber and a synthetic plastic polymer. Silicone can be used to make malleable rubber-like items, hard resins, and spreadable fluids.

We treat silicone as a plastic like any other, given that it has many plastic-like properties: flexibility, malleability, clarity, temperature resistance, water resistance."

It's a little misleading to just call silicone plastic with no disclaimers. That site is also called "life without plastic", so I'm not sure it's the most neutral source.
No, probably not. An EV car is approximately 1k gallons of gas in energy to produce. Of course there are also rare earth metals. But your claim is obviously untrue at the edge, where that car could be driving 24k miles/year at 12mpg, for 30 years, and the EV is charged by renewables. That’s an extra 60,000 gallons of gasoline to account for with just the production cost of an EV.
bruh that was fourteen years ago.
20 years ago I setup an anonymous FTP server just see what would happen. It lasted a few weeks before I had to shut it down but it was an interesting experiment in humanity. Certainly there may be a good way to provide a service like this but it needs an incredible amount of thought.

Some people just need to execute on an idea to learn. I don't quite get the pessimistic comments here. I don't really blame anonfiles for trying. It certainly provided a lot of experience and certainly opened their eyes on how difficult it is to offer a service like this. This experience will help them to build something better in the future even if the next thing they build has nothing to do with distributing files for anonymous users.
Buy Me a Chair: The wacky world of university endowments
Not yet. I was working up to it at my last job, but I was laid off. What I’d love to do is something like John Ousterhout’s software design class. He admits that he based the format on an English writing class. People would write code, then their classmates would read it and make comments and then they’d revise it. I’d love to give this a shot in the real world.

If you’re up for discussing this, I’d be happy to talk about it more. My email is on my profile.
Yeah honestly! But, if I had to guess, it’s probably built into whatever “microwave controller” SOC is mass manufactured.

The clock was an upsell long ago, but now that the whole device is a commodity product, and the clock is using parts already in the machine, I guess it’s just not worth removing.
Yes, when I wrote "which is basically the stack for each thread" I did mean the raw bytes of the stack. I see now that wasn't clear. I was writing on mobile and apologize for the confusion.

Unwinding then occurs later by walking through the stack memory, which is difficult to impossible unless either: a) the stack contains frame pointers; or b) you have unwind data. Without either of those the unwinder uses heuristics to guess at return addresses on the stack, but that's very unreliable and often leads the unwinder into a loop till it gives up.
Excellent look back at the history of CPAN here: https://github.com/neilb/history-of-cpan/blob/master/history...
Scroll down on the post, not the comments, and you'll see where the parent pulled their quote from, which you said you "don't see any of that written there," well, it's written there.
Applications (of arguable value) are limited for the current capabilities of the technology, and free alternatives like llama, vicuna and wizard are popping up. Will be interesting to see how OpenAI operates.
To expand on this, this is a report, of a report [1], of an unreferenced estimate based analysis [2], with daily cost estimates, presented with the confidence of "apparently", coming from elsewhere [3].

The original Analytics India Magazine article has things like "according to a user of X" and "But the financial numbers on this are still hazy.", which might hint at the lack of reference.

[1] https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/openai-may-go-b...

[2] No reference presented, in any of the articles, but from google: https://analyticsindiamag.com/openai-might-go-bankrupt-by-th....

[3] Seems the most reasonable of the bunch: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/the-inference-cost-of-search-...
Good read on the accuracy of radio controlled clocks: https://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/2429.pdf
You're playing with words to win an argument when the game is already over.

You want to claim no censorship happened because the TLAs with the monopoly on violence "only asked"? Ok. Cool. Still, after their shenanigans-which-are-for-sure-not-censorship, now fewer people trust science, medicine, government and media.

You claim it was the right decision in order to appease China? There was nothing to collaborate with them on, and if there was they didn't collaborate anyway, so no, I don't think it was the right decision even at the time.
The tone here on HN was very similar to the tone of a lot of credible physicists. Just because it turned out to be not superconducting doesn't mean that the people you are criticising were wrong to think what they thought given the available information at the time.
Did the solar industry ask for such trade protectionism instead of free trade?

Are industries with tariff subsidies competitive at international price points? Given domestic subsidy, will they be efficient enough to compete in international markets?

How do non- free-trade, non- fair-trade agreements affect other trade agreements?

Trade Protectionism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectionism
Mechanics of Running Blades
been playing that I'm the OS game and this comment brings joy
Try challenging climate science, even in a valid way, and see how popular it is on reddit or HN or twitter. Even my above comment now has a negative score which sort of proves my point.

note: i don't deny climate science but like any science there are ways to challenge it
They also have the best fee rates of payment processors for small businesses and craft show/ event venues. There is no cost unless you sell too.
> I don't think you need to pay for a domain, nor do you need internet access to renew the certificate. You could either just have the cert point to an IP, or you could have the domain resolve to something at the router level/ configure our DNS however you like so that it resolves to the other device.

If I use a custom root CA, I don't need a domain. However, then my local server will only be accessible on devices where I can install the custom CA, i.e. usually, my own devices only.

If I want the server accessible to other people, I need a cert from a real CA - and those are basically forbidden from granting certs for 192.168.* IPs or really anything that is not a properly registered internet domain:

https://www.globalsign.com/en/blog/certificates-for-internal...

> Or you can just disable the strict HTTPS settings, which this post addresses?

That as well works for my own device, but not for devices of other people.
Are you able to charge at home? Do you travel significantly farther than the US average of 40 miles per day?

It's possible to adopt EVs without needing to worry about hanging out at DC fast chargers regularly. DC Fast charging is necessary for road trips, but again, the average American drives 40 miles a day.
The original paper wasn't published, it was leaked
Yes, but prediction != compression, and intelligence != prediction! However, prediction can inform compression, but there's necessarily some framework needed to translate the information from prediction<->compression. Perhaps that is too nitpicky, but to me it's like thinking about raw materials (like raw food or whatnot) and how it ends up as a finished product (like cornbread. Corn farming is not cornbread, but there is a semi-clear family of paths from one to the other with its own set of optimizations, rules, and etc).

Again, that could be a bit nitpicky on my end depending on how one is viewing it.
Here’s a hole to throw bytes into! I’m going to turn my back so I don’t see you, but I’m responsible for what’s in this byte hole so pinky promise you won’t throw disgusting vile bytes into it!

The world, famous for its love of all things disgusting and vile:
Throws disgusting vile bytes into the hole.

Oh no! How could I have foreseen this?!

I’m sure they had good intentions, but I’m sorry, I would never make this, ever.
Doctors generally want the best outcome for their patients, but are heavily optimized for what they see most often.

If 90% of your patients come in sneezing and it's a flu for 30 years, then you generally give them advice for handling a flu and it works most of the time. But that also means you have a tenth of the experience handling the edge cases, at best.

Confounding variables make this a lot worse, like people having multiple symptoms, or not telling the doctor things because they felt dismissed before, or that they stopped seeing them because they gave actively harmful advice.

Having a lot of experience with doctors is what has convinced me medical training needs reform. Doctors actively ignore patients telling them objective factual reasons their advice is incorrect or harmful, and treat you as a hypochondriac for arguing.

I have stopped seeing a number of doctors over the years after they looked at my medical history and said "let's try X again", and when asked why, "just to see", when I have already tried X and two or three other medications in the same family as X, in the history (often from their own larger department, not something I provided), in the last 2 years.

I have stopped seeing doctors over me telling them that raising the dose of a medication made me much worse and having them then cut the visit short by leaving the office, saying they were late for something else, and telling me they were writing a script for double the dose as they left (and no, the drug in question did not have strange dose-response relationships like, say, Seroquel).

I have stopped seeing doctors over them insisting I just had a cold when I told them I was too exhausted to reliably walk two blocks to their office without an escort, every day for a week, not sleeping, and unable to keep any food down, without changing their mind, when I turned out to have pneumonia.

None of them were trying to be harmful.
How would that improve the abuse situation?
Hi holoway, I've been following your project for a couple of months now. How do you compare yourselves to upbound/crossplane?

IME crossplane has been a "much better terraform" and also borrows from some of tf's open source provider code. Seems to be one of the best IaC pattern for k8s centric shops.

Pros:
- adoption of k8s core engine, state mgmt

- model everything as a CRD, consistent definition pattern both infra and app

- open source

- great UI when layered with argoCD

- declarative

Cons:

- steep abstraction learning curve (for me anyway)

- docs lacked key context for newbs (also getting way better, big efforts here)

edit: formatting
It really is a strong lesson. Every language will shift and twist your mind and expand your horizon. You might hate your colleagues then though.
Multithreading for Dummies
> I genuinely can't imagine what will happen when Just Anybody could create a major motion picture or a AAA videogame, by themselves or with a few friends rather than a city-full of talent.

If I look at video games today, it seems like a necessary (but not sufficient) condition to be successful is to have a lot of money to make heavy marketing.

When consumers can't make a difference between the quality of a product (be it a piece of art or anything else, like a car or a browser), then what makes the difference is the brute force side of marketing: pay more to be more visible so you sell more.

I don't think it's a good thing. I prefer a world where those who have expertise in something are recognized as experts. What's the point of practicing 10h a day to be a musician if your neighbour can just pretend to be one with AI, and nobody will ever make a difference?
like running silkroad and mad that people started selling guns and drugs
first rule of psyops...
Really nice ideas here. The crucial advantage is having the storage+computation run as close as possible, which is a big advantage over a regular DB+app backend.

But I won't ever consider investing in it unless it's some form of open-source. It's too much of a risk to have a closed-source core.
That mirrors my first Linux/Unix experiences in the late 90s. Except for a short go at OpenBSD for firewalling between trying Redhat 5.0 and ending up on Debian.

Debian just felt so much more "right" to me than Redhat did back then, and I never really went back to the Redhat side of the fence. This was despite Debian having way less third party support for anything back then - it wasn't really until Ubuntu took off that Debian (by extension) felt secure. Up until then, I always had a nagging feeling that the Redhat ecosystem would completely take over, and I would yet again have picked/preferred the wrong horse in the technology world.

A big thank you to all the Debian devs/maintainers over the years.
A viable candidate in the general election who can also win primaries is a bit of a unicorn.
I think you're right. The 3% number must be ignoring repeat sampling bias. This is basically the same issue as P hacking or false positives and medical testing.

You have one confidence margin for a single single measurement and a different confidence margin if you make 1 million measurements.

Let's say you can measure marble diameters and your tool has a calibrated standard deviation of 1 mm.

If you pull one marble and measure it to be 10 mm larger than expected, you can calculate the chance you are wrong using only the standard deviation of your measurement tool.

However, if you pull 1 million marbles and measure one to be 10 mm larger than expected, you need to take into account the number of marbles you have measured.
A simple way would be to do some form of retrieval on those emails and add those back to the original prompt
> Do talented individuals just not want the job?

Correct. It's a job where you get very little done, you're constantly cutting ribbons and going to boring galas to fundraise, your life is put under a microscope, and the other side will investigate you and your family and maybe even try to throw you in jail.

Hard pass. No sane person wants the job.
A suggestion that's slightly different from the others. Because of all the emerging fields that are being considered with the new capabilities of near instant "quality" text/art production, there are also a lot of opportunities in areas that effectively did not exist a year ago. We rapidly went from "AI/ML will be really cool someday, yet its only good for chess" to "AI/ML is better than most non-specialists at really hard tasks."

Arguably, one of the best times to get involved. You may not want to fight about making the 99.9++% accurate system, yet a bunch of non-specialists were the first to extend some of these models, and actually apply them on non-toy problems.

There are also a lot of sites/guides/walkthroughs that did not exist 6 months ago where you can rapidly get a feel for "what can this actually do?" [1][2][3][4][5][6]

[1] https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1?text...

[2] https://rerenderai.com/

[3] https://open-assistant.io/chat

[4] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/07/so-you-want-to-build-your-...

[5] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/07/generative-ai-sp...

[6] https://www.convex.dev/ai-town
So the situation is that someone is in your home with their own device and you don't want them to click through the "HTTP" warning? Seems niche tbh but I can understand that I guess.
I always assumed it was pronounced "day-bian" until I heard the above story of how the name came to be.
Style attributes’ values being long doesnt make it any less html-like.
Give it some time. How long was it from the day iPhone was introduced until Uber?
If there's a way for the seller to take cash in payment, one completely rational explanation for what might be happening is money laundering.

> selling for awfully close to and sometimes more than the equivalent new. It made no sense ... but it was happening.
Yes, that's why I said "needs trials and replication". That small clinical study is useless for insurance companies and standard medical practice today. But it is very useful to point the way toward promising areas of further research, and for any pioneering risk-takers who might be willing to try.

That is, after all, how we learned that stomach ulcers are not psychosomatic (caused by "stress"), but rather by the bacterium H. Pylori. A doctor infected himself, got ulcers, and cured himself with antibiotics!
Where can we read about the responses?
Ha! I think we may be on the same page with Sutton, that and the misuse of the NFL theorem are the two disclaimers I put out the most. My most recent Sutton one was ~3 hours ago! (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37129921#37151192).

That's a really good point, and I stand corrected. I guess it is still very much stabbing around in the dark, just with some more information about the probability density function of good answers. Heck, even Terry Tao's post about how to solve problems shows very much a (refined) guess-and-check method, so I have quite little ground to stand on there.

Metric theory is fun, and one I'd like to learn a lot more about. I certainly have a lot to learn there.
ahh. I know the exact month and year as well. March 2004.
Well, I think you're a frog being boiled if you feel that way. My privacy is important to me.
This is part of why it works
My point is that they wouldn't want to buy it (or have focused much on building a competitive product) if it's only worth $50B.
The question to me is: will "consumers" still be able to make the difference between this "amazing piece of art that used generative AI" and the rest of the random outputs of generative AI?

If people can't make a difference, I believe you have just killed the domain (in the bad way).
Again, so easy to say. But there's no evidence that this is true.

Art and media have only increased in quantity over the years. When I consume some part of it, my enjoyment isn't any less. I still experience bliss and joy and get meaning from art in all the proportions I always have. And given how much people still deeply care about it all, so does everyone else.

The assertion that more of poetry means poetry becomes worthless hasn't got anything going for it.
Not LLM, just BERT, also did not actually outperform it.

source: https://kenschutte.com/gzip-knn-paper/
I agree this is not good!

Note that "slippery slope" is usually used to refer to a logical fallacy [1]. Maybe this is something that could "snowball out of control"? [2] I'm not sure what other phrases could be used.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowballing
Old people vote. They vote for old people. Young people don't vote. Fully half of Bidens primary votes were from 65+, that was enough for him to win.
Give a try to https://www.uxwizz.com, it has a free trial.

It has a visual A/B test editor, where you can edit text and create different variants of your copy, then you can see when the users convert, which copy did better.

https://i.snipboard.io/3W172P.jpg

The A/B test is still a new feature, but it's still really useful to test different copy, especially when you combine it with heatmaps or session recordings, so you can see exactly how visitors interacted with the different version.
It probably is from the perspective of an information theorist. Did you read any interesting articles on the connections between deep learning and information theory to come to this conclusion? I‘m highly interested in this space, but the influence of information theory on deep learning developments appears to be negligible.
So, in my IPv4.1 suggestion, every address you currently know would work perfectly fine.

But then so would AE1.224.78.BC2

Sure, a little harder to remember maybe, but adding nearly a billion times as many IP addresses would alleviate the strain on the internet, be backwards compatible with IPv4 (but not forwards compatible, so most interior/home networks would use either a NAT or have a software ipv4-4.1 bridge software)

It would also be much more similar to IPv6 which would ease transition to full IPv6 if the human race survives long enough to ever make the jump. IPv6 is just more hexadecimal after all.
Another meaning:

There are two classes of languages

* Interpreted, easy to learn, emphasize fast edit-debug cycles

* Compiled, harder to learn, more performant

Prototyping in python and rewriting in C++ or Rust is known as the "two language problem". Many of these efforts are trying to make the two language problem go away. Python -> Rust being the most in demand.

Note that both languages may be statically typed, functional etc.