skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>From where you look at it, there is no "top-level" controller or exec.

”Real systems have no top."

Read that quote somewhere quite a while ago. :)

Searched just now and found:

https://softwarequotes.com/author/bertrand-meyer

which has the quote.
They dock to resupply. What other boats are you talking about?
Why not just ask the user if they are willing for a battery intensive task to be performed?

Worst case, api should return 3 states: Draining, Charging, Charging & Full
But… why does it lag? Shouldn’t this be trivial enough to be instant?
Then congratulations, you're able to ~~excel~~ exfil more data.

We live in an imperfect world and solve problems as best we can.
Yes, it uses scraping. The algorithms used are very general in order to make it work on any website.
The same is true for CSPRNG. Same seed -> same output.
Both of these don’t strike me as benign
Google outlawing dynamic code in Web Extensions/mv3 is a travesty of high order. There's no place I want to be able to be more alive than my agents. Yet my agents must all be dead. For shame, ye villains.

https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/139

This post definitely was quite a technical explanation. The opening framing, to me, means the world.
Article says something about a €250k real estate investment being the only requirement.

So, buy a house -> welcome.
Cashless Sucks
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Let's dive: a tour of sync.Pool internals
Formation-Flying Interferometry in Geocentric Orbits
The tech we encounter thrives mainly on hype and rapid turnover. Just as Wall Street thrives on hype and the "Boom, Bust and Bailout" cycle. (1)

As long as fast-talking entrepreneurs can bag large amounts of money on hype-based startups, not that there's anything wrong with that if they grow up and do something good, then we will IMO see 100 products with artificially induced "need" for every genuine blessing to mankind, such as improved medical care, and most of those will be for outrageous profits (2).

The only way, it seems to me, to channel technology into universal good is to have better people, in the sense of choosing to do better things with their lives than build empires, next year's "new and improved" auto or phone, or yet another tech -- scratch that --- advertising platform, (3) or WeChat clone. Oh, or computer assistant (AI) to replace real people (yuck, people)

It's always a choice. There are desperate needs for climate mitigation (since infinite growth and insane concentration of wealth are about to wreck the planet), disease treatment and prevention, or anything at all to help seniors, our "throw-away" people. Low tech is all that's needed in many cases, "but there's not enough money in it."

(1) After I typed this, I found that Ted Kaufman, successor to Joe Biden in the senate and who once oversaw the TARP program, delivered a speech with this same title.

https://exhibitions.lib.udel.edu/kaufman/home/22-months/fina...

(2) Bernie wants to know why pharmaceutical prices are so high.

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-chairman-...

(3) Jeff Hammerbacher story.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/why-this-tech-bubble-is-diff...
Their userprofile screams contrarian/clown/joker; I wouldn't take this bait, you'll be the fish and they'll enjoy it too much
> So basically you're telling me that if I can visually see a consistency that does not show up in their statistical test, then they aren't running an appropriate statistical test on what I'm seeing.

Either they're not doing the right statistics, or it's a "consistency" that is much more likely to show up randomly than you naively expect, and the study needs to be repeated or enhanced.

Sometimes you can see a pattern that's just a figment of chance. See also: numerology, jelly bean xkcd
I implemented Q Learning in University. Only very basic, sort of like the Mario style Q-Learning. It's quite intuitive, as a concept.

You do need to know the expected outputs - positive rewards and negative.
We really do. Especially as we age, maintaining a large amount of lean muscle is essential for metabolic health and preventing disabling injuries.

https://gabriellereece.com/muscle-as-the-cornerstone-of-long...

https://peterattiamd.com/outlive/
That's crazy they were able to raise money and would accept payments without having the cruise ship purchase locked down.

Like I can understand if there turned it to be unforeseen mechanical problems and necessary repairs hadn't been budgeted for.

What I can't understand is how the company selling the ship turned around and decided to sell it to someone else for more money.

EDIT: I read the article again more closely. Seems like it was actually their investment money that fell through, so they couldn't afford the ship. So the ship got sold elsewhere. Which, yikes -- you really want to guarantee you've raised that money first, before you start taking people's payments.

No matter where the problem occurred, it seems horribly incompetent.
The best way to differentiate DK from autocorrection is motive. Low performance people will focus on motives that reinforce the perception of their competence, for example preferring code style over code delivery because while both may be arguably important one requires less effort and risk to attain.

There is research to qualify this out of Stanford. People will shift motives to attain complements and the types of compliments received will dictate the challenges they are willing to accept. When a compliment is specific to an action and measurable people will strive for continuously more challenging tasks to continually receive specific compliments. When compliments are generic and directed to the person they will tend to preference progressively less challenging tasks so that they continue to shine relative to the attempted effort. The differences in behavior produces a natural Dunning-Kruger effect wherein people seeking less qualified activities are more likely to over estimate their potential and degree of success.

This also statistically verified in research that correlates predictions to confidence. The more confidence a person is in their predictions, such as political talk radio hosts, the less accurate their predictions tend to be.
I’ve always freely expressed my thoughts, but that’s just a personal anecdote from one data synthesis process to another. YMMV. : )
And they block rooted phones
Of course not, which is why I explicitly mentioned Europe.

The people in the colonies (displaced slaves as well as French settlers) were very far from being equal to those in Europe, which is hardly specific to France though.
Then copyright comes in to play. You should have been taught how to avoid plagiarism in school. Use those techniques to reimplement. These techniques involve more than just using synonyms and rephrasing.
> that cannot use NIST cryptography

Do you mean as a matter of Donenfeld's engineering decisions (that those algorithms are unavailable in WireGuard)?
infinite upvotes
The US is a successful country: try to invade us and see :) Or try to outspend us :)
This is pretty reasonable, I think, but can it be applied to GPU code?

The fundamental challenge of CSPRNGs is that they tend to have high latency and each thread produces a lot of randomness at once, while typically you only need a little bit at a time. So either you throw away the extra bits, effectively wasting ALU, or you keep them around in storage somewhere, which is expensive as well.

I would love to see a CSPRNG that is designed to leverage subgroup/wave ops. (Hmm, now that I think about it, perhaps ChaCha can be spread reasonably across 4 lanes? That would give 4 dwords per thread and potentially cut latency quite a bit, much better tradeoff overall for most GPU applications)
Bitcoin $645? Yeah, That's Reasonable (2013)
It wasn’t just the US. The energy crisis seems to have had extraordinary long tail effects. Everything was stagnating in the 70s and then we end up with Reagan, Thatcher, Gorbachev, etc.

It might just be that the structure and productivity of the post war economies, a lot of them heavily focused on manufacturing, had just become increasingly unprofitable?
>There's probably damn good reasons the investors flaked out.

The article mentions the ship they were previously going to use was decided to be "too small" but was also derided as allegedly unseaworthy. I'm sure the investors know more red flags than we do.
There is a theory that GPT-4's secret sauce is a combination of commissioned high quality training data (which they don't really hide) and an unknown implementation of Mixture-of-Experts [1].

No proof, of course, as the other comments have said, they won't share. The Open AI name is still ironic. I've also still not seen another successful attempt of MoE by any other company, which you would expect to if it was true.

[1] https://hkaift.com/the-next-llms-development-mixture-of-expe...
It is wild that PKD and UKLG both went to Berkeley HS at the same time (though UKLG has said that neither she nor any of her friends had any memory of him).
More specifically: it is aimed at read-only web. YouTube videos can be downloaded with yt-dlp. There probably is something for downloading spreadsheets into CSV, but nothing to interact.
I mean, over three months is annoying but it's faster than any process a court would follow.

And presumably the delay is related to getting their down payment on the ship back? Or other down payments made to various contractors?
Aren't the diagonals also being built? Primarily, if I recall correctly, by reusing existing passenger rails corridors and connecting their services instead of terminating them at the main stations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Central_Diameters
Why not? Measuring your video player's battery usage could be used to improve its performance.

For a performance measurement library, the use is obvious.
I believe it's because it is heavily massaged. On two fronts:

1) By engineers, who employ tricks on the input, and perhaps the output. The input especially. So, when you type into ChatGPT, that input gets parsed using non-LLM techniques and/or heuristics, etc. This is primarily to get the semantics right. Non-LLM techniques can actually be pretty powerful, but the synergy of non-LLM and LLM is incredible.

2) By human farms, who essentially "upvote" and/or add corrections to ChatGPT results, and feed this back into the system. See OpenAI Kenyan workers (I believe the Kenyan workers, on paper, were for "moderation", but nothing stops them from also upvoting/correcting).
So true. I didn't- Just felt like pointing out the irony.
For what it’s worth, I didn’t have much trouble switching from “git add -p” for changes I want now to “git stash -p” for changes I want later.
lol, maybe :)
I was surprised by the figure from the original article, imho that's the strongest rebuttal: perceived ability grows strictly mononotonically with actual ability, no sign of the famous non-monotonic U-curve. Yeah, the slope is less than one, and it grows a bit faster from the second to the third quartile than from the first to the second, but none of that changes the fact that people tend to slot themselves correctly. The chart is interesting in that it confirms that everyone perceives themselves to be slightly above average in terms of ability, which of course can't be true in practice. But what it also shows is that when they think they'll be below or above that (false) baseline, they're actually correct about it. So pretty much the exact opposite of what the Dunning-Kruger effect claims.
Ah, that's neat. Why is the offset necessary?
http://csundergrad.science.uoit.ca/courses/sim-and-modeling-...
PKD’s books didn’t generally sell all that well during his life. In those days the sfbc picked up everything. And most of his books were OP when he died. I can remember having to scrounge around for them.
I think the issue here is a confusion about what "bias" means. If they are self-assessing at random, then the high performers will all underestimate themselves, but this is not a bias towards underestimation as they are choosing randomly.

That said, the chart from D-K seems to show a different bias and line up roughly with what you would expect. Someone with no knowledge assumes they are average skill and hence inflates their position, someone who is very good doesn't want to rate themselves the best because they assume others know as much as they do. The assumption underlying both groups is that you are normal and others are similar to you.

I hypothesise that most people think they're average, which is something you could easily test by asking them to rate how well they think the average person would do on a test and comparing it to that individual's test score. I'm almost certain that high performers will overestimate the average, and low performers underestimate it.
"The Jakarta Method."
Like many quirks in English, we can blame the French:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/bowls#etymonline_v_32538

Boule is the modern French name for a likely similar game (I don't play either). And of course the Italians have bocce.
Sky Kid 8D
As long as these f*** i**s don't plausibly explain to me at what point we're supposed to stop with demographic and economic growth it's just a lot of hogwash, misguided at best.

We're living on a finite planet with finite resources; our collective metabolism has been producing greenhouse gases at exponentially increasing levels for the past 200 years and shows no signs of slowing down, even though the population growth has somewhat slowed down.

There's nothing, nothing in the books that tells us that even when populations should start to shrink globally, they won't go on to continue increasing their GHG outputs, for the simple reason that there are still sizable demographics who will want to attain a higher level of living i.e. a higher level of industrial products consumption.

A massively decreasing global population is one of the key factors for a livable future. Another one is stopping to believe that electric cars are doing any good or that we'll ever be able to 'just' suck the CO2 out of the air and dispose of it underground. A third inevitable step must be a reduction of energy and product consumption on part of those who are responsible for major parts of the global figures; that would include many people in the West.
LLMs are especially fit for teaching students to formulate good questions. As LLMs have an endless patience, bad and boring questions anymore won't exist anymore.
> "the downward trend started with [among others] younger people drinking less".

Millennials And Gen Zs are also more anxious and stressed than previous generations.
I mean, one thing people miss/forget is that we still don't have any LLM with the estimated compute budget of 4 that has failed to match it. Palm, Claude etc are all lower.

If Gemini fails to at least match 4 then we can start speculating on a secret sauce.
To the list of favorite audiobooks, I'd add:

A Short History of Nearly Everything

This was not rereading for me. I still haven't "read" the book, but I don't need to.

The Sun Also Rises: this one I'd read. Maybe a book written in the first person is easier to narrate?
Nope. Those are permanently part of the internet now, even if the reason for their existence goes away.
I just generated a reading comprehension story about 2 pokemon characters along with multiple-choice questions. This is pretty amazing for helping my kind WANT to read something.
They postponed + changed the departure city twice.

New CEO said they'd still go and that they'd bought a ship

The CEO quit.

CEO told people they'll cancel

New CEO said sorry for "the inconvenience"

COO made sure people understood what he meant.

Blames the middle east (could've just blamed COVID for that matter).

Now there are two spinoffs. One by CEO, one by another employee.
Because analytic collection is often ridiculous. The YouTube video player should use the standard video player, but they want to shove all their nonsense on top of it
It was marketed everywhere as a cruise for digital nomads (+ tax savings!)
A lot of those are people movers in airports and whatever <2km long.

The list once you exclude that basically consists of

* France, which wanted a niche technology to export and maintain supply domination over

* China, Japan, and Korea, trying to replicate it

* Quebec, which often looks to France for planning inspiration

* Mexico and Chile, which were recipients of French development assistance that included using French suppliers
You realize the patent you’re referring to was a design patent, not a utility patent? They are very different, the former only covers look and feel, not method.
Elon has a similar take on the importance of fertility. Both him and TFA focus on the upside of more humans and not the downside. For every human capable of advancing science, or even just engineering in one of the increasingly specialized industries, there will be a hundred humans who cannot. And this ratio only gets worse as we go.

Those who cannot will have to work in the shrinking market for manual labor or non-innovative white collar work. As scientific progress accelerates, the number of these jobs goes to zero.

Just attacking the problem with quantity of scientific minds creates a byproduct of excess suffering in the form of "waste" humans. Losers of the same genetic lottery that is creating the precious scientific minds that we can't get enough of.
DB in its present state isn’t a very good advertisement for the virtues of passenger rail to be honest.
It comes down to the idea that web apps could behave more natively, yet most people are not trained to think of websites as hostile by default. I agree with you mostly.
We also have 8 or so tables set aside for one. These have a special book stand so that one can read a book if one wants to.
You can select like 500 at a time or something and hit delete. I did this recently. You can have this done in 20-30 minutes if you set your mind to it.
"Various famous/historical individuals have been known to sleep for 4 hours or less across human history, these include:[75][76][12][77][78][79]

* Barack Obama

* Donald Trump

* Thomas Alva Edison

* Mozart

* Martha Stewart

* Elon Musk

* Jim Cramer

* Margaret Thatcher

* Nikola Tesla

* Tom Ford

* Kelly Ripa"

LMAO what a list!
A lot of his early short stories were pretty new wavish. He did, after all claim that Damon Knight grew him from a bean.
There are also the Translohr systems which are not metros and not trams but a kind of guided bus that intentionally kinda looks like a tram.
Most nutrition science is bunk. We know you shouldn't consume too many calories. We know you need a certain minimum amount of micronutrients and essential amino acids. Nothing else really meets modern evidence based medicine criteria. If there are actual benefits from eating or avoiding certain foods then the effect sizes appear to be much smaller than other lifestyle factors like sleep, exercise, stress, and substance abuse.

As a practical matter a more productive approach is to (mostly) ignore the science and conduct informal n=1 experiments. Try adding or removing certain foods for a few months and see how that impacts your athletic performance and subjective well being.
I was able to install the app to buy rolls of tickets (actually heavily discounted on the app vs in person) and use the app via NFC to pay. Never had to deal with paper tickets outside of the airport.
The article presents an interesting case study, but it's unclear how generalizable it is from a single example.

One idea the author suggests is that tax agencies will grow to take up roughly 1 percent because 1 percent of the budget is so negligible. The U.S. provides an interesting contrast. In 1955, the IRS was 0.08 percent of GDP [0] [2]. In 2008, it was 0.093 percent of GDP [0] [1]. So it's much lower, but also has remained fairly steady between 1955 and 2008. Looking ahead, the new IRS budget is around $20 billion, which is 0.072 percent of GDP [0]. To pick another example, the Canadian Revenue Service was about 0.2 percent of GDP in 2018 [3] [4].

One other assumption is that the Australian Tax Office does the same, at least when normalized to GDP. I'm not sure that's true, but investigating that would take more time.

[0] https://taxfoundation.org/blog/irs-budget-increase-technolog...
[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYGDP
[2] https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/budget-united-states-gov... See page 1000
Back in the day it was "best practices" to serve images on a website over http, not https, because decrypting an image-sized binary could take minutes on a 68030.
At an internship long ago, my boss instructed me to always add a few extra to the auto incremented order ID so customers couldn’t guess how business was going if they happen to order stuff quickly in a row.
I've always had reservations about the Big Bang since it was promoted by a priest. Fred Hoyle had lots more credibility in my opinion.

That said, I doubt that I'll spend $200 of my retirement money to crowdfund fusion. I hope that getting the piano tuned costs less than that.
Sure, but then it's somewhat up to luck precisely what properties you get. This variation might me manageable if you design enough redundancy into the design, but by necessity you will need more margins than if you used a more controlled material.
The High Stakes of Low Quality
Actually, about half of RER Bs are express lines which go straight from CDG to Gare du Nord without any stop. They include a large luggage storage area at floor level, in the middle of the car. When you are at the CDG station, check if your train is going to be an express train or if it will stop at all the local stations before you jump in!
Why does Nepal not count as one?