skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I overheard some high-temperature semiconductor guys ("how do you build chips that work on venus / in engine blades / etc") at a NASA facility talking about budgets in a way that suggested a substantial part of their funding came from the launch vehicle budget.

I don't have good intuition for how much of the bloat comes from a top-heavy organization, from grifting contractors, and from good old fashion boondoggles -- but I'd like to add to this pile of possibilities the possibility the categories are poorly drawn and that "things which NASA should be doing but shouldn't be classified under launch vehicles" are nevertheless classified under launch vehicles.
Good, we don't need the robots being ignorant, racist, insurrectionists also.
Yeah, I'm not talking strictly about SpaceX. I don't know if I have the exact name, but I'm quite sure that one of the big unicorns, probably Uber, was running for several years with multi-billion dollar losses.

Again, that's utterly unthinkable for Mercedes or Renault or Mitsubish or Samsung or...

They'd just go under because the rest of the world still has economic gravity, i.e. everything must come down in case of no profits.
https://spaceexplored.com/2023/08/11/spacex-launches-2023/

It appears somewhere around 60-70% of the launches are their own missions. This said nothing about costs though.

Still one company matching the rocket launches of the rest of the world is pretty impressive.
Metallica Rocks Community College's World with $100k Grant
EQT already owned the majority of SUSE, I doubt this will change anything.
A little while since I've been, so I recommend first checking out TCDC: https://www.tcdc.or.th/ then asking around for other fresh exhibits in the area
There's literally zero external capability given to WASM in the browser. It must call out to JavaScript to interact with Web APIs. There simply is nothing to hide.
This sounds like an incredibly poorly designed "study". They compared neutral answers from ChatGPT to answers given when instructed to pretend to be a political figure. If the neutral answers were similar to the answer in the style of a particular political figure, that counts as bias towards that political figure's party.

Which is utterly ridiculous on so many levels. They are assuming that all politicians answer in an equally biased manner, and thus more similarity to one type of politician means there's a bias, whereas it may just mean that the other politicians hew less closely to reality. Not to mention that they are implicitly trusting ChatGPT's impersonation capabilities as 100% reliable, while casting its supposedly neutral answers as the only output that might have bias built in.

Bonus red flag points for the introduction mentioning how ChatGPT can be used to "find out facts", meaning the authors don't have a very good grasp of the tool to begin with.
Being politically neutral right now when imply you are complete deranged.
In other news it cost me $1500 to do a year of grocery shopping trips while it cost $1500 for one transatlantic return trip holiday.

Apples to oranges comparison. 400km to low earth orbit is not compatible to a 384400km trip to another gravity well.
"It's not like it's the only planet in the Universe. "

But so far it is the only known planet with conditions where we can live.

And I doubt we can make the jump to another planet we first have to find and then somehow survive getting there - when we cannot take care of our own planet.

(Btw. no matter how much we mess up earth, it will allways be way more hospital than mars)
Julia is a good example for a language with JIT that doesn’t follow the stereotypical OOP layout, so its memory overhead will be only that of the runtime (which is definitely not zero, but nor is it too big).

> Oh most definitively. On the other side of that same coin, most real life code in JS/Java/C#/PHP/Ruby consume orders of magnitude more resource than their lower level counter parts.

Java is actually within the compiled language’s groups’ results with regards to energy efficiency. A good GC can allow to be very power efficient and tradeoff memory for running the CPU — only has to run the GC when it really is close to filling up. After running, it can free the former region in one `nop` by declaring the former region as unused (at least in the moving GC kind).
> Which energy storage losses am I ignoring?

Pumped hydro is energy storage that you have to put energy into to push water uphill. And yes it has losses, 25% losses round trip.

If you have a hydroelectric damn however, you increase the flow when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow and curtail it otherwise.

> It also requires you to have hydropower.

It's true. Just as wind turbines needs good wind, solar needs ample sunlight, and hydrogen proposals need large underground caverns.
Well, IIRC, the sticking point was "Get-Acl", which is an integral part of the script, and it's easy to see why it wouldn't be portable.
An underwater landslide knocked out two critical submarine cables serving Africa
It isn't worth considering LLMs for code, and I don't think they can ever solve the issue in a way that satisfies all the legal and ethical constraints.

Also, why wouldn't you just use both? Snippets let you quickly use known patterns, LLMs let you quickly write the more generic case of boilerplate that doesn't align well with snippet use.
as soon as it became known the makers/trainers of LLMs were putting the fingers on the scale of responses (guardrails for bias) this was inevitable. Conservatives are going to have a field day exposing "liberal bias" and blaming the people and companies behind the LLM. And the other side is going to do the same in return. Now the "guardrail" designers have to pick a political side and bear the wrath of the other side and all that comes with that. It's all the problems social media have but now directed at AI.
Capable with current technology if intercepted early enough. I think most people visualize an asteroid hitting earth like a ball hitting the ground when dropped at arm's length. In reality, orbits of celestial objects are elliptical, and they're constantly moving. A small force, like that produced by an ion thruster, applied to an asteroid 15km in diameter for months or years would be enough to change it's orbit such that it wouldn't impact earth.
#4 which is partly #2 - what thread is this callback being invoked in? The calling thread? A thread pool in the library?

Mostly a problem I have in java libraries, though.
Deorbiting a multi-million dollar satellite as a weapon was the plot of of a Tom Clancy book. The bad guy was going to launch a nuke from his ship and the only thing that could get there in time was the super special satellite.
I'm curious to know the backstory behind Skritter. Maybe you should write a blog post(s) about the journey from inception to now.
Delete all captchas everywhere. While at it. Delete all challenges. I am tired of wasting time into all this bs. If we did put the same amount of time into real solutions like rate-limiting and actually making endpoints secure there would be no problem to begin with.
That’s debatable when they have a huge majority of launch market share at this point.
It's in the link he shared: A Divorce Attorney's Thoughts on Love and Marriage [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5z8-9Op2nM&t=1322s
Then why is TSM so far away from ASML? What are the UMAP parameters? Perhaps it says somewhere but isn't make prominent.
yes, you declare your class 'sealed' (introduced in Dart 3.0)
This is why QUIC/http3 is happening right?
I understand your position.

I suppose the difference is I consider good enough design to be good design…and that the client is the customer for design and hence the client’s customers are not the customers for designs.

If the client wants a bright blue LED, they get a bright blue LED. They might also get an informed opinion as well. Or not.

So long as nobody dies and the check doesn’t bounce, we’re on to a winner.
Is this why I'm suddenly getting a whole lot of ads in my podcasts about some kind of hydrogen regulatory something?

I can't imagine what they expect me to do about it. Though I do live in DC, and I'm used to being bombarded with ads that are actually aimed at like three legislators. (I literally see printed advertisements for bomber jets, offered as if for sale.) It's got that same kind of well-produced-but-clumsily-written feel to it.
> SUSE’s Management Board and Supervisory Board support the strategic opportunity from delisting of the company as it will allow SUSE to focus fully on its operational priorities and execution of its long-term strategy

What does this mean? Is their current status adding some significant overhead that would go away by going private?
Humans have spent thousands of years developing increasingly sophisticated ways to lie to each other.
That’s really interesting, I didn’t know desalinization was so far along. I’m sure there are downsides, but if we’re going to insist on turning deserts into cities, this seems like a no-brainer.
This is still a 5-10x improvement over the CPU.

And most people playing with AI don't have an expensive GPU with 12+ GB VRAM.
Can you elaborate what financial aid you qualified for after 24? How did you discover it? Word-of-mouth or Google searches?
Man these comment section is angry.

They literally say they neuter the model, and there's a number of writeups on how to neuter your model. Of course they neuter it in a way that matches the current SF zeitgeist. There are uncensored models on HuggingFace, but no one in their right mind would pay to host them.

Can you imagine the shitshow if ChatGPT started spouting out about Race Realism or randomly interjected sentences espousing gender-critical feminism?
When it comes to launching other payloads, there is very little competition out there. Falcon 9 has proven itself itself very reliable and first stage reusability has put them in the place where they can always be under the competitors costs (but not too much under).
Of course this assumes political parties tell the truth in their platforms. Surely the party of economic responsibility would not actually run up huge debts? Or the social party actually favour corporate interests? If chatgpt says so, it must be bias, not right...
Except gluing yourself to LLVM has it's own problems. Like, for example, any platform that LLVM doesn't support you can't support either. LLVM is great. The monoculture and smug elitism it produces is not.

> Acting like it's a second tier language because actively doing so not a top focus of the community is gatekeep-y and ridiculous.

It is probably one of the major reasons we won't see a Rust compiler shipped with an operating system for a very long time. That doesn't make it second tier. However, Rust fans seem to want to stick their head in the sand when their baby is criticized. I am a Rust (language) fan myself. I am just willing to criticize the language. I do not understand why the Rust community has such a volatile response to honest, valid, criticism.
Can you state what you mean, instead of the innuendo, please?
https://www.hcn.org/articles/wildfire-people-are-starting-a-...

It seems to be a pattern to this day. I view the flames as a kind of Asmovian terraforming.
Almost all the carbon you exhaled came from plants that absorbed it in the last year or so.
Well, I just use it and that's it. I need it for my multiplayer games for their anti-cheat. I also make compromises in other areas of life.
IIRC, it was started as part of the large antipoverty efforts that began in the '60s. It was specifically meant to help reduce the rate of unemployment in young people.

It was basically the modern (at the time) version of a similar program used to help recover from the great depression.

Politically, it meshes well with the ideals of both the right and the left[1], which I think is why it remains largely considered a good thing regardless of your political bent.

[1] Americans tend to forget, especially lately, that the right and the left agree on far more things than they disagree on.
Those aren't the pressure groups I'm thinking of. There is a lot more (sometimes unconscious) censorship than just what seems to be called "political" in US discussions.
> The platform was asked to impersonate individuals from across the political spectrum while answering a series of more than 60 ideological questions.

So, the researchers defined _a priori_ a political spectrum? Seems like flawed methods. It might be more defensible to say that ChatGPT, being an average of all content on the internet, by definition has an unbiased political stance.
For cryptocoins, which (roughly) claim to be financial instruments, the "now we have regulations forbidding...financial products" argument is fairly plausible.

For the NFT's mentioned in the article - which are far more akin to ownership titles for signed photos of famous people, minor works of art, etc. - ah, no. I compared them to paintings for a reason. You could easily pay $100,000,000.00 for legal title to a painting by Andy Warhol. It is still a painting, not a financial product. And people telling you that the painting is a "great investment" does not change that.
I’m sure one could learn to appreciate all the different aromas, yes, and hat doing so would be an amusing and interesting pursuit. However, I have enough hobbies and interests already and don’t need another one. I just want coffee that sort of resembles what you can get at every street corner in Italy.

Agreed on Starbucks being roasted too hard, though. I suspect that’s because most of their coffee will be diluted by large amounts of milk and sugary stuff and this way some of the bitter flavor people associate with coffee.
But if you create a company that takes the NYT articles, scans the articles for extreme weather information in Dubai and emails your paying customers every time that happens, then you are doing copyright infringement.
That may be true for software locked range but that’s not true for software locked heated seats or other similar features
ChatGPT is moved by leftist fads, not exactly leftism.

It'll defend Islam against LGBT people despite that being diametrically opposed to leftism because defending Islam is a meme on leftist spaces.
The thing about ChatGPT is that it will try very hard to give you what you are looking for. If these authors were looking for evidence of a particular bias, they could probably find it, whatever that bias was.
In this country, almost all people believes that Trump lost and humans came into existence via evolution. There are more countries on the internet than just US.
The NYT article is a theory that considers human behaviors besides hunting:

>In a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, a group of paleontologists that analyzed fossil records at La Brea Tar Pits, a famous excavation site in Southern California, concluded that the disappearance of sabertooth cats, dire wolves and other large mammals in this region nearly 13,000 years ago was linked to rising temperatures and increased fire activity spurred by people.

This is the article the NYT is citing:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo3594
That's a good point, but I guess I was implicitly getting at that continually permutating poor analogies and hypotheticals isn't an interesting discussion.

The fact of the matter here is that parties, such as OpenAI, are benefiting from others' knowledge work, protected or not, in a completely one-sided way and all for free. And I don't feel sorry for companies that need to build Trojan horse products, such as OpenAI and Google, in order to survive off of other people's data that they never compensate for.
iTunes has been notoriously bloated for years, though maybe that's predominantly for Windows users.
After reading the top sentence, "The artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT shows a significant and systemic left-wing bias", I couldn't help but thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Reality_has_a_well_known_lib...

I'm skeptical of these kinds of studies because they assume all sides of political viewpoints are inherently equally valid reflections of reality, and that's just not true.
> On an unrelated note, I have found captchas that don't even work and reprompt me all the time, I wonder if there is some naive filtering behavior they are applying.

Curious, do you use a VPN or Tor? Either of those will cause CAPTCHAs to make you solve multiple puzzles.

The only site I visit that has ever been annoying with CAPTCHAs is PCPartPicker.
No, the way Elon is, no number is high enough. It must get bigger. THAT'S the superstar uber rich lifestyle I meant, where you are playing the equivalent of an Idle Game with Bezos and Gates.
> By many historical metrics, the stock markets are insanely overvalued these days. Far too much cash in the system, bidding up the "values" of anything that remotely resembles an investment.

Right. This is the same stock market that at one point said Tesla was worth more than every other car manufacturer. Combined.

Worth more than: Toyota, Volkwagen Group, Hyundai/Kia, General Motors, Ford, Nissan, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Renault, Suzuki, Daimler, BMW, Mazda and Mitsubishi. Combined. (Plus several Chinese manufacturers: SAID, Geely, Changan, Dongfeng).
That's very useful information. How did you go about finding resources for non-traditional students?
This is where I land too. I do recognize the economic impact will take my livelihood too eventually.
ML algorithms are transforming the input to a latent space & learning the parameters that minimize the loss with in that space. Copyright prevents copying from the source material. But the act of mimicking style or repeating a concept mentioned elsewhere isn't protected. Sure, we'd like references in academia, but as long as the material doesn't significantly resemble the source material it has been allowed.
We are able to do it artificially now and that allows it to be done at unprecedented scale.
26,000 years sounds more like the period for Earth's axial precession. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession .

What you describe doesn't make sense. The Earth's orbit is effectively constant at that timescale, as are the asteroids in the main asteroid belt - otherwise interactions with Earth's would have changed the orbit.

There are conjectures of regular extinction events on 30-60M year intervals, but the data for that isn't strong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event#Patterns_in_f...
Mainly the model. People tend to talk about extreme things more than less extreme things - so if a PC questionnaire came back saying "You're more liberal than Bernie Sanders" the person is more likely to tweet about it than the questionnaire saying "You're as liberal as Lyndon B. Johnson". Additionally - having the LLM trained on a set containing output from a test has got to mess with its ability to be neutrally trained on that specific test - it's much more likely to answer in a manner that is tailored specifically to that test which would remove a lot of nuance.
Here's my visual implementation of Knuth's algorithm to solve Mastermind!

Click "Solve within 5 moves"

https://ludi317.github.io/

Gory details here: https://github.com/ludi317/ludi317.github.io
The republicans aren't perfect, but they're more effectively hamstringing the government than anyone else.
At time of writing, it's the opposite: Falcon is launching humans into space on a regular basis, something SLS has entirely failed to do to date.
I wonder how the average unit test fits into this. There’s something “negative” feeling about writing cases where you would expect a solution to likely fail and watching them pass. It’s different than proving it works. It seems similar to the “what not to do” point.
What are the success stories of private equity firms taking over a corporation? (Where success is the products are still made, quality and staffing is maintained at previous levels)
Both. I have most definitely seen performance start to decrease after all physical cause get used and SMT starts. It was not a contrived example, it was using MS SQL.

Now to be fair I don't understand the mechanism behind this and it may have been to do with the machine being limited in (say) memory channels because somebody put together a very strange spec for the purchase, or any number of other reasons that I don't know of, but I did observe this consistently
Trail Magic
> One of my favorite phrases picked up in the past two years is the Shangaan phrase Hi Ta Xi Uma, which I learned from Renias Mhlongo, one of the top trackers in Africa. It means “we will find it,” and Renias will keep muttering it when he loses his track and struggles to find the next one. Everything is hard, and usually much harder than we can fathom. All the best people I’ve met through the podcast just don’t let that stop them. They also seem to develop an awareness of this constant difficulty and just become used to it.

Love it.
Comparing it to one of the leading causes of accidental death is not exactly a testament to their safety.

Consider some other product safety issue -- for example, the GM ignition switch recall. 30 million vehicles were affected, and there were 124 deaths.

Or the Takata Airbag recalls -- 67 million vehicles were affected and there were 27 deaths and 400 injuries.

I think the most important part of a consumer safety issue is whether or not the product has a design defect with a known engineering solution that causes injury. It's not really fair to compare these deaths to chance deaths, like car accidents resulting from human err.
This is marketing. His "home" is a tiny shipping container type thing because he actually lives in his rich friend's mansion most of the time.
I mean, you can go try this now; feed some agricultural scientific journals into a model. I suspect it's going to be substantially harder than you expect.
Well, in 2033 you'll be just in time :)
WTF does that mean here?
This has been my experience on the hiring side too. Nowadays almost all resumes have a link to GitHub, but 80%+ of the time the accounts have been dead for months/years. My favorite was a candidate whose GitHub was totally empty - they had just created an account, done nothing on it, and still included it in their resume!!
>> Never used Ada but I think you can define range types so int range 0...11.

Yes. Ada supports integral types with custom ranges:

https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/stro...
The article isn't based on information SpaceX released. The WSJ got their hands on internal financial documents.
Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment
Define "political bias."

Remember, often dangerous regimes come in through politics. How this happens, and what these politics look like, are very well known.

Someone could be against fascism and you call them a liberal. They could be against communism and you call them a conservative.
I‘m skeptical of the study as well, but the way you frame it, it reads like ChatGPT would just reflect the raw internet opinion, which certainly isn‘t the case. There are steps of fine-tuning, expert systems and RLHF in between, that can and most likely do influence the output.
Some sample questions:

1) our race has man superior qualities compared with other races

2) if economic globalization is inevitable cut should primarily serve humanity rather than interests of trans national corporations

3) mothers may have careers, it their first duty is to be homemakers

4) no one can feel naturally homosexual

Like… ok. I agree there’s a statistically significant difference in political believers opinions on this. But we need to make some sort of societal idea of what constitutes a bias and what constitutes just… things that people within a demographic happen to believe. Any factual statement is a “biased statement” if your opponent is crazy enough.