skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve heard it has less system resources, but the Synapse compatibility needs to be maintained. One of the bigger runaway issues tho becomes storage as the protocol requires replicating the entire chat/attachment history of all users for all of their DMs & chatrooms which I’ve read caused a lot of folks to shutdown their servers either because Postgres bloated up or hosting all the static content got too costly. This model makes sense when folks treat chatrooms like a permanent log, but if you treat it more like IRC, there would be no requirement for replication beyond a couple of messages for a new user to see the current topic to participate (while also covering the case that searching these chatrooms is a pain & much of their discussions should have moved to forums/mailing lists).
One of the best articles on this subject - Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think by Common Cog. Good overview of Goodhart's effects and particulary effective practice of fighting it at Amazon from "Working Backwards" book.

https://commoncog.com/goodharts-law-not-useful/
Only very very loosely, so on balance, I would have to say "no".

The point of Taos was not network transparency, or clusters, or any of that.

The USP of Taos was platform-neutral binaries, translated on the fly to native format as they were loaded from disk. Full native performance on every platform from a single binary file, with the loader/translator embedded into the OS itself.

[Aside:
It ended up very small compared to native OSes so it could be used as a runtime as well. It was so efficient that it could convert Java bytecode to its own format and convert that to native code and still outperform the JVM... for a while.
]

Something akin to Java, but the JVM is an addon that you install on a different OS, and there's no "native" OS*. Apps aren't native and don't look or feel like native.

Plan 9 has nothing like this; Plan 9 is UNIX 2.0 with networking and GUI right there in the kernel. Binaries are written in C and compiled to the native CPU; no portability.

Amoeba OS I've never seen but I think it was much the same.

Inferno is Plan 9 2.0, which is to say, it is UNIX 3.0. C is banished, native binaries are banished. A runtime VM, Dis, is embedded in the kernel. Binaries are written in Limbo and compiled to Dis. The same binary runs everywhere, like Taos, but it's not translated as such: there is a bytecode interpreter at a low level.

[Aside #2:
It ended up very small compared to native OSes so it could be used as a runtime as well. It was so efficient that it was competitive with the JVM, and so was offered as a rival, but still with its own format that could outperform the JVM... for a while.
]

[Aside #3:

Note the very similar asides 1 & 2. That's deliberate. Both fell into the same trap. Both failed and I think this was a contributing factor.
]

[Aside #4:
Java fell into the same trap and failed to compete with Javascript embedded right into the HTML renderer itself.
]

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* Yes I know about SavaJE etc. Not directly relevant, and all flopped.
> You can’t ask for $10 to post a bounty though!

Especially when the bounty system isn't even theirs... It's just algora.io
The answer is in the question. They chose this model so that Python calculations would run in the Microsoft cloud, operating on data that resides in the Microsoft cloud. When your code runs on the cloud, they get paid. When your data lives in their cloud, they get paid.
What about the steering wheel argument?
Yeah, I'd be less inquisitive about price and more asking the other vets to "level with you on the risks".

And the risks may be acceptable, especially if it comes down to "dog continues to live with ever increasing pain" vs "99% chance of pain free vs 1% chance of peacefully passes away on the operating table".
I’m glad that RISC-V SBCs are starting to become usable.
Hibernatable WebSockets API for Cloudflare Durable Objects
Even if you compile the script to a binary? I've used them at some pretty security minded places and never got nailed for it
Finally the Resolver One dream is coming true, just 15 or 16 years late.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6EV2jiKRfc
I also believe they will increase congestion in cities since when occupants switch from drivers to riders, they are less affected by the costs of road congestion (congested roads may mean riders get to their destinations slower, but because they are no longer driving, people may make extra trips where previously they would say "I don't want to make that trip now because driving during rush hour is too stressful").

But the public will face negative externalities of greater congestion (noise, pollution, slower travel times for busses & walking).

Without congestion pricing and right of ways for bikes, walking, and transit, automated taxis seem like a way to double down on a space inefficient mode of travel.
I think KL divergence is best understood through the lens of variational inference. Inference in the Bayesian regime is a balancing act between best explaining the data and “keeping it simple”, by staying close to the prior. KL divergence is the (only) divergence measure that places just the right amount of weight on the prior to make variational inference proper Bayesian inference. I’ve written about it here: http://www.openias.org/variational-coin-toss
For someone working outside IT but who has coding skills, it's great. My previous work computers have been tightly controlled by IT and installing libreoffice on them wouldn't have been permitted.
> we never ask folks to pay to share bounties

But you do take a steep cut 19% + 4% (Stripe)

"Never" is also not really true as you do charge $50/bounty for sharing "private bounties"
A New Role for Werner Herzog: The Voice of A.I. Poetry
the vast majority of workers do not internalize empathy for their company. They are there for the paycheck. You can either thrash against the entirety of the human race and demand that people lie to your face about how much they care about the company's goals, or you can create a system which takes advantage of the self-serving nature of your employees so that their goals align with your own
Because Python, with the required numerical analysis libraries is a pain to setup, and there are a ton of ways for it to get messed up.

Doing everything in the cloud massively simplifies deployment and support.
Thanks a lot for the error reporting, it helps me a lot !
You and the person responding to you are both right. If you don't know Ellen Ullman or Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its discontents, it's kind of sideways.

He does mention Ellen and says

> The book is a memoir about her life

but never explicitly connects the title of the article to the title of the book or explains this is a review of that specific book (though that section is titled "Review.")

So I understand your confusion. I put "Ellen Ullman" in google and that quickly got me to Goodreads.com and seeing a list of her books, including this title. A little mystery left for us to solve. But the author could've also chosen to do a better job of explaining what they were doing here!
For the handful of dullards like me:
KPI = Key Performance Indicator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_indicator
https://archive.ph/zZzc6
It's a useful way of measuring how different two probability distributions are. If F and G are distributions, Kl(F||G) is non-negative real number which is larger if F and G are less similar.

In a lot of statistical estimation procedures, you have some kind of "current estimate" distribution which has nice properties and some kind of "true distribution" which you'd like to use your nice distribution to approximate. It's then common to create a system which manipulates the parameters of your current estimate distribution to minimize the KL-divergence with the true distribution.

A relatively simple example of this is fitting a Gaussian mixture model. If you look up how that process is derived you'll see it depends centrally on minimizing the KL-divergence between two distributions.

There are other ways to measure the difference between two probability distributions, but the KL-divergence has some nice properties. It shows up as the answer to lots of well-motivated questions around statistical inference (Neyman-Pearson testing, information geometry, Bayesian inference, entropy) and it has a form which is somewhat amenable to algebraic manipulation.

In some sense it's popular because it keeps showing up and working. People recognize its form, consider it relatively simple, and find it meaningful to talk about. It's common enough that you might even begin considering a problem by asking if you can minimize the KL-divergence between your estimate and some goal just knowing that outright it will likely lead to a successful solution to your problem.
I don't disagree that the tech community is unprepared to deal with these subjects, but this sort of comment is really not helpful. It's fine to be critical, but at least share some links [1] or give a hint as to where you think most commenters go wrong. Otherwise, this comment merely adds negativity to an important discussion.

[1] Lots of good articles here at SEP, although they can be a bit technical: https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=consciou...
Why is that? It's a fully public taxi service that will probably be heavily marketed in Fisherman's Wharf/Pier 39.
People have used the same justification for invasion since the time of the Roman republic. Let us not take justifications for imperialism at face value
The new science of meditation
I wish Libreoffice would have smelled the coffee long time ago. In principle scripting using Python is possible but exceedingly cumbersome/ugly and there seems to be no roadmap to improve on this.

The same warning applies to the linux desktop and all its apps more generally. Increasingly proprietary platforms will be rolling out advanced "AI" functionality extensions to classic apps that are cloud based, many of them via a Python API.

Its a pity that the various strands of the open source universe are so siloed. The potential of the sum being more than the parts is squandered.
But also the USA, probably.

If you look past the tech bubble economies where the "new money" owners are, and into the world of physical assets, what you find is a constellation of families concentrating wealth, swirling around the central families of the 21st Century -- the Waltons, the Mars family, the Kochs, and so on down -- a power series of family wealth that has ordinary investors in the long tail.

The USA is easily distracted by the vibrancy of the market-driven tech economy, and hoodwinked into ignoring the astonishing growth of private equity controlled by inherited wealth.
Hawaii has the fewest plates (14).

Three are things that won't exist elsewhere in the US: Polynesian Voyaging Society, Haleakalā National Park, and Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.

There's the standard plate, of course.

And there are ten kinds of veteran plates: Purple Heart, Pearl Harbor Survivor, Combat Veteran, Korea Veteran, World War II Veteran, (generic) Veteran, Persian Gulf Veteran, Gold Star Family, Vietnam Veteran - Motorcycle, Vietnam Veteran.

So it has to be some sort of veteran, but searching for "Korea", "Gulf", "Vietnam" makes me think it's not veterans of any specific war.
Ilya is wrong, hallucinations is not a bug, it’s a feature and it can’t be fixed with RLHF.
The counter-saying to that is "not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts."
Great post. I feel the same. I look at the heroics done to make the linux Intel and AMD drivers work, and it seems like the current nvidia driver is far simpler. Eg, a binary blob with native wrappers. The only time it breaks is when the wrappers are stale; eg the kernel APIs that it depends on have changed. I run current, and I've only had an issue around the driver failing to compile or run correctly a handful of times in 2 decades, which is saying a lot for an out-of-tree driver.
I think I'm one onanistic "article about engineers (from an engineer)" away from completely losing it
Someone needs to save the Internet Archives from the lawyers and I have an idea
Still no dice. :( As a follicly challenged male, I am squarely in your target audience, too.
I did consulting for a decade at dozens of mega co. Oh the things one sees!
>What about things like "Stuck on XYZ because no one fixes it because it doesn't show any good metrics and management doesn't care about it.

I'm confused by your comment. How did you decide this was something worthy of fixing if it "doesn't show any good metrics"? If you can't quantify the issue in any manner, how do you determine it's worth doing?
No, it has only input. Divergence from reality (insofar as it can be centered) is a hallmark of human thought as well, so perhaps the models are simply performing.
I only discovered Powershell recently, and it's impressed me how "batteries-included" it is. Like, I can access the GitHub API, download the latest release of a program, and decompress it, with progress indicators shown throughout, all without importing a library. At times, it feels more Pythonic than Python.

But jeez, the syntax. There's a lot to say, but the worst is that I'm never sure where I need to place parentheses. By making brackets in function calls optional, it just makes you end up writing Lisp-like code when the arguments are also function calls or arrays. You are forced to write parenthesized function calls anyways when invoking .NET commands, so they might as well make it universal instead of this chimerical compromise. It's a similar story with quotation marks around strings.

But it speaks to the strengths of the language that I still enjoy writing it anyways.
Why? Rarely do they annoy me and frequently the people playing in places such as airports or hospitals are fairly good.
Here is the thing, in a high-trust environment, KPIs work fine too. In fact, almost everything work on that condition.

But modern organizations are quick to destroy trust on any whim.
Check out 'quake mode' of Windows Terminal
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It's reasonable to call minimising the training loss function the "objective" of the LLM, I think (said loss functions are often called objective functions, after all), though we must careful that the overloading such term in an anthropomorphic fashion. Whether "producing clear and coherent text" is a good characterisation of a "predict the next token" loss function is another question though. I would say it probably isn't, but it's a resonable hypotheses to say that the nature of the training is why the output tends to bias towards plausible but incorrect text as opposed to some variation of "I don't know".
He was indeed :-) But I suspect more people could recognise his charming unassuming face than remember his actual name.
The meta analysis you’re citing covered children up to age 12, with a mean age of 35 months. Again, this study isn’t saying that all screen time is bad, just that it’s not good for babies (i.e younger than the 1-2 year olds you are sharing anecdotes for).

Even the AAP allows for screen time after age 2. I’m not sure why people are bringing up irrelevant arguments instead of engaging with the article itself.
Hallucinates is a misnomer when used with LLMs. The more precise word, if we use neurology terms for LLM processes, is confabulate.
edited my comment above for clarity - I didn't mean literally CallMethod, I meant that normally Powershell uses 'shell' syntax where parameters are separated by spaces

Do-Something withthisfile.txt -AdditionalParam 23

But if you're calling a .NET method you switch to C# syntax with brackets and commas:

$str.Trim('-')

I mean thats kindof obvious but its one of the many things that makes Powershell's learning curve a little steeper. But hey we can always just google it which is par for the course anyway nowadays
I think the key point is the event horizon, or effective boundary, is relative to the observer. From the earth there’s a point beyond which we can never observe, even if we left today at the speed of light. However for a planet at that point everything looks “the same” to them - except the earth is at their boundary. The boundaries here aren’t absolute - they’re only relative to the observer.
This remind me about realcsh which is same concept.
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/realcsh.c.1...
The package provides realksh which provide shell inside kernel.
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/realksh.c.8...
This is why you should switch up criteria you give bonuses by on a bi-annual basis. People who game your system only get 6 months of time to enjoy it. You’re left with people who can game every metric or people who are just so good they look good no matter what metric you pick. The first group is hard to deal with, but they would be hard to deal with anyways.
Developing the module functions with Revise.jl inside vscode and do REPL like things inside jupyterlab makes a pretty good workflow for me. And everytime I try some cpp REPL I end up using more Julia instead.
From my limited experience they seem to have shifted to OKRs, which are pretty much the same thing with a different name, at least for the companies I've worked for. I hate it just as much.

Currently two of my OKRs for this quarter based on what I thought a project was going to be and have since discovered I was wrong, so they don't actually matter and I'll have limited opportunity to achieve them. Great, so now they get a fun data point can point to in order to give me a smaller bonus next year.
I also like ncdu. https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
It's definitely not great for visual clarity but I kinda like it, it has that old school open source vibe where it's just a bunch of different people hacking on stuff they feel like hacking on
But your site can be broken at different sizes even without breakpoints. From a QA perspective with manual testing, there's no difference whether or not developers have used breakpoints, the question is whether the application is working for the users' screen sizes. And, as the article points out, they are myriad.

To test that the responsiveness works everywhere, the easiest thing is to probably go to the "responsive" tool in the browser's devtools, which opens the page in a little subwindow inside the main browser window, and then you can resize the subwindow freely to check a range of different sizes (rather than just an explicit set of them).
KPIs are great for self-accountability. They give you a clear goal to track toward and a measurable read on your progress both during and after.

As an oversight measure, they fail for the same reasons as every other oversight measure.

Hire people you can trust, give them skin in the game, and then trust them. If you exclusively interact with me via the carrot and stick, I will recognize the lack of trust and respond with an equal lack of trust.
>Is there some reason you can't report on performance improvements and bug fixes?

Exactly. What does "performance improvement" even mean if you aren't measuring performance before and after?
Tldr guy has heart attack when playing hockey and is dead for a few hours. Video is simply footage of the event at the game. Nothing else really.
You basically proved my point: maybe you don't "dislike" them, but you are looking at their space program through an emotional lens of how you "feel" about them, not based on their actual technical merit.

It's an easy trap to fall into, but a dangerous one. We've also seen it manifested in the war prognosticating ("they're a bunch of drunks who will run out of missiles soon!"). Well, apparently there are some sober ones.
Frontend: React.js + simple CSS.
Backend: Python Flask

I made the models on google colab and once done I add them on the backend

Hope it helps :)
Microsoft/Activision: new Ubisoft cloud streaming deal to get UK CMA approval
It seems like you're saying it will always have a bias, and one bias is as good as another. But while there may be nothing necessarily immoral about bias existing in general, but there certainly can be something immoral about applying a bias in particular.

People aren't specifically focused on the ones you dismiss as "hot button" because of their popularity, they are hot button because those biases powerfully shape the world we live in. It is immoral to reproduce them, and it is morally necessary to choose not to.
There was a recent incident with the first printing of the Book of Common Prayer (the Church of England's official prayer book) after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

The BCP includes both references to the current monarch, and to Queen Elizabeth I who ordered it to be compiled. Unfortunately someone at the publisher didn't realize this, and did a find and replace of (among other things) "King" for "Queen" and "Charles" for "Elizabeth", resulting in a page that referred to "Our Sovereign Lord CHARLES, by the grace of God, of England, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith.”
Yeah, it was irc or icq something, like 15 years ago :)
Who has said metric-gamers would be so obvious? "Add more KPIs" - yea, only benefits the metric-gamers actually. The regular workers would be more annoyed and distracted. Do we focus on the sprint and tasks in it? Or do we focus on 10 new KPIs?
I like this approach with a graph. In the past I’ve run into people ignoring text bullets about the “boring” development wins.
Yeah you’re right thanks for the correction. I’d rephrase to say among those three categories cumulatively most Americans own very little.
> don't forget to add bypass caps. Just get a sack of ceramic 100nF capacitors and sprinkle them between plus and ground on the power rails next to wherever tou put active components (chips, etc)

100 years ago when I did my EE undergrad, one big project for a class was to build a very basic 8088 system that would read a boot instruction and then write/read a memory address, with verification via logic analyzer. I painstakingly assembled that thing on my breadboard and noted that it only worked one out of every 10-15 attempts. Adding some decoupling capacitors solved the problem. I wish I had a camera back then. I meticulously cut, bent, arranged, and otherwise made the thing look beautiful as part of the effort.
The titled and numbered paragraphs also give me chatgpt vibes
Does it support sharding?
Four billionaire techno-oligarchs–Are creating an alternate, autocratic reality
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Jorge Luis Borges
Guitar is probably the sweet spot between portability, versatility, and probability of stumbling upon the instrument somewhere.
Know of any similar alternatives to admob?
The sports team is an interesting case. Many fans (I know the details for MLB, being a fan myself, but the same is true of other sports) feel, essentially, that teams have optimized the wrong KPI: pressure to win has made them emphasize pitching to the point where there is very nearly a pitching change every inning in most games. Meanwhile offense values home run hitters more than ever. The result is more competitive teams but less entertaining games: much of the drama of the game is close plays on fielded balls, while managers, scouts, players, and back office analysts are doing whatever they can to avoid plays like that.

Yes, the team can make the playoffs, but ultimately baseball is an entertainment product -- the goal should be for the games to be fun to watch!
You have to do something in developing countries , certainly for them, but also for you.

People have the deep need to feel that their actions have consequential outcomes for themselves and others.

With the centralization of food , water and energy production no such feedback exists anymore

It’s time to go back to Mama Africa.

I am personally burned out too and am considering starting an aerial firefighting company.

Some of the birds are really cheap if you have the guts to fly them and they double as crop planes, plus a certain structure exists to finance their purchase so you don’t have to put up too much capital