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Aren't you presuming that humanities have humanity and STEM/business graduates are somehow less moral? I suspect there is an insidious presumption behind your comment. Some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37097655

One effective but evil engineer in power could do a lot of damage. Hitler wanted to be an artist but couldn't get into university. Although if I'm going to use selection bias: some of our tech overlords seem morally repugnant.

I wonder if we could show that:

(1) humanities graduates have better morals, and

(2) that those graduates got those morals by going to university (versus had them as children - selection bias of those choosing to do humanities).

> when it comes to deciding _whether_ something needs to be built, _what_ to build

Can of worms: how to successfully teach people to be ethical. Certainly our churches seem to me to often fail: fail at the level of the individual (I have met enough arsehole Christians), and fail at the level of a society (a group of Christians deciding to do extremely unchristian things).
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This simply doesn't work without grinding, and grinding happens to be sufficient (whereas understanding is not).

You aren't just supposed to solve a problem (and can't think back to your college years, pull out your copy of CLRS, or whatever). You are supposed to rapidly pattern-match to a specific problem type, and implement. You only have 20-30 minutes (because the rest of the hour gets eaten up by small talk) and this includes testing. Anyone who thinks they can do this with just their knowledge of algorithms without any grinding is in for a shock.
If you're interested in this, there's also https://wasmgroundup.com/ currently in early access.

I've worked through the first couple of chapters and found it pretty well structured and helpful.
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I also rarely use them, but sometimes pointers (via virtual methods and factories) can reduce compile times a lot for components with a stable API but high complexity and churn of the internals. Do you have another way to handle that?
You're referring to the Civil Rights Era and LBJ's Great Society.

On the flip side, had we extended equal rights and opportunities from the drop, our GDP would have grown that much faster. IIRC > $1.5T per year.

In other words, not paying up front cost us more long term.
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Why would you want that? The whole point of a crisp is that it is... Well, crisp. What you are describing is, for want of a better term, a soggy.
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That statistic could be skewed by a high childhood mortality rate.
I wish there was something like a data sinkhole you could add to a car. That would be cool.
Yes, I don't have a link handy but I based it off the Phil Bagwell paper
No matter how shortsighted this comment is, I get the sentiment.
I'll eternally miss cool x11 gimmicks that could be added to any desktop like compiz, xpenguins, xsnow and xneko
This is such a great point!

Your pipelines should mostly be CI provider agnostic and runnable from anywhere, including your laptop during development.

If you ever need to change a CI provider, you just move your pipelines.

I'm definitely biased, I'm working at Garden[0] which allows you to do just that but it's mostly applicable for teams using Kubernetes. I paused at your comment because Garden has sometimes been called "a makefile for the cloud".

Whatever tooling you use, having portable pipelines that you can iterate on and debug from your laptop is the only sane approach imo.

[0] https://docs.garden.io/overview/use-cases#faster-simpler-and...
I'm talking about these. You serious?

https://imgur.com/NyhbDFC

We truly are lost.
In what way are doctors a monopoly?
Indeed there are lots of working poor in the USA. And if people had more of a stake in the economy when they are employed, they’d have more income to deal with changes in employment rather than ending up homeless.
Yes, absolutely! Lossy was one of my main inspirations in coding MAIM, and I would recommend their plugin highly: it sounds beautiful, although it is perhaps a bit less "accurate," since it does not use real MP3 encoders.
I found these notes very useful. They also contain a nice summary of how LLMs/transformers work. It doesn't help that people can't seem to help taking a concept that has been around for decades (kernel smoothing) and giving it a fancy new name (attention).

http://bactra.org/notebooks/nn-attention-and-transformers.ht...
@dang: this post is marked as flagged at the moment, but I don't think it should be? Except maybe for the editorialized title, but that doesn't seem super bad.
AudioLM was developed more than a year ago and was an "audio continuation" model which is basically what you describe. However it was not used for conversational purposes afaik. Maybe it just needed some RLHF tuning?

https://google-research.github.io/seanet/audiolm/examples/
The reddit open source code was basically this. The whole thing was open, including the scoring, but all the spam functions were just stubs that returned True or False as appropriate, without all the logic. Then we would override those functions with a private library that had all the spam logic.

I find your idea interesting about having a service that stores the links and comments (and presumably does spam controls too) but anyone can put their own scoring/sorting algo on it.
Vercel? It depends on what exactly you're hosting (eg whether it has a lot of serverless calls) but the free plan will get you pretty far. And it's cached behind a CDN. For a basic static site it has pretty good limits.

Vercel is basically a managed wrapper on top of other cloud services, including AWS and Cloudflare and various CDNs.

But it's much easier to use and doesn't require you to separately spin up a bunch of different accounts at different providers to get the same level of service.

Also the pro plan is $20 and gets you much more.

They are the owners of Next.js and my guess is their lower free and pro plans are loss leaders for their enterprise offerings. It's a great service for getting your project off the ground though. You can go from a repo to a hosted website in like 2 minutes.

I used to use Nearlyfreespeech.net before them for ultra cheap hosting, but Vercel is a much nicer platform overall.
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When you say "memorize" what do you mean?

You mean that they remember common patterns to solve problems? Or they memorize questions verbatim?
I think a more common situation for many people is having to use the laptop keyboard instead of an external keyboard, for example because you are traveling.
> Sure, from a security/privacy prospective it's good that any application can't see or interact with the content of other windows.

I got tired of hearing this so for my current desktop I went for something a bit special. I cannot log as root not "sudo" nor "su" on the desktop itself. So, from Xorg, it's not possible to have, for example, a terminal running stuff as root (so a bad actor that'd be in control of my Xorg --not something I'd like mind you-- wouldn't have an easy way to run everything he wants as root).

The way I set up is simple: I've got a laptop, without WiFi (well it has WiFi but all the drivers have been removed), on a separate LAN, that I use as my "root console". The only way to log in as root on my desktop is through SSH, from the laptop, by using a Yubikey: so I modified SSH to allow root login, but not with passwords.

That laptop doesn't have Internet access: it's only connected to the desktop.j

I also hardened the kernel running on the desktop a bit: non-root users can only see their own processes, stuff like that.

I don't know how secure it is but it was fun (and easy) to set up. I'm running that setup since eight months now: it's smooth sailing.

Besides that... I'm using X back since way before the XFree86/Xorg fork and I do actually use wmctrl and a few other tricks.

From TFA:

> The problem is that they took out many features the users depend on with no real replacement in sight.

This. I never understood the Wayland approach of telling their users, early on, "You don't want to take a screenshot of your entire screen". When I did.

I don't even know if all the Xorg features I'm using do or do not work nowadays with Wayland but I don't really care: I understood very early on that Wayland developers were actually hostile towards Xorg users.

> Xorg could have no development for another 10 years and still be more functional.

Ouch.
I have always felt that invite-only communities have weird vibes to them.

So have I. The most weird thing is nobody ever invites me :)

Still find it worth lurking for more esoteric content though.

More esoteric content than HN? I find a lot of alien topics here. My biggest complain about HN is not on that particular.
Like all modern claims, there's probably a kernel of truth. The "standard deviation" probably masks it. As with the whole world, one doesn't doubt the current population has succumbed to modernity. Similar health can be observed in physically active people with conservative consumption levels globally.
And to communicate truthfully about why things are being done in the way's they're done.

The in-orbit refueling with lots of Starship/SuperHeavy launches is to increase the payload capacity. That's partly needed due to limits imposed by the Gateway architecture (which are largely due to limits of the Orion capsule). But it's also, and IMO more importantly, due to the fact that a manned mission to Mars (which Artemis is supposed to develop technology for) will certainly need in-orbit refueling.

It's a more complex design than Apollo. Some of that is justified due to engineering goals of the eventual manned Mars mission, even though it is detrimental to the moon mission. Some is justified due to political expediency.

The public statements of the agencies involved have often omitted the real reasons for the decisions, and instead invented justifications expected to be more acceptable. They don't want to say "Orion & SLS are used because it's a jobs program" or "we're spending a lot of money & time now on an in-orbit refueling system a moon mission doesn't need because we got the budget for it and haven't gotten the Mars mission we hope to use it on funded yet".
It seems like you might have a misunderstanding of what "curated" means. To quote the dictionary: "selected, organized, and presented using professional or expert knowledge." A museum is curated not because someone guides you through it and talks about things, it's curated because someone specifically took the time and effort to decide what to put out on display and what to omit.
One of the underrated benefits of having hoards of haters, is that they'll work feverishly to find and yell about any and all of your flaws and weakness, for free.

Those who don't have any haters have to pay for that valuable information, and still end up left wondering if the feedback is too soft.
The point is that it objectively CAN compile to the right target. The capability is not broken.

It however DOESNT due to a configuration bug. Therefore it doesn’t have to make sense because it’s clearly not intentional.

your sentence saying “it can’t build” is therefore incorrect. It’s the distinction between the two capitalized words above.
Management won. We are replaceable widgets now.
If you ask politely on the IRC & share a bit about who you are it’s fairly likely someone will send you an invite. No guarantees though - the likelihood probably depends at least partially on how long it’s been since the last bunch of self-promoting spammers set up their own little invite ring after being invited in...
I wasn't judging the tools. I use several of them and with 0 complaints.

I'm judging the article for being incorrect about it's specific points and for focusing on a single tool while the alternatives also suffer from the exact same issues.
> Is it that last part that turns this into the "free market"?

No. "Having private companies do it" is not the same as "free market". Nor is "for profit".
> is a consequence of taxes, not UBI itself

A distinction without a difference imo. My point is that how you pay for it is what determines the impact on prices, but I think we’re basically rehashing demand-side vs. supply-side economics at this point.

> I already know I’m able to

You don’t decide the market rate by yourself. And I don’t think you’re properly accounting for how UBI impacts this in aggregate.
The audience of this paper are other researchers who already know the concept of attention, which was very well known already in the field. In such research papers, such things are never explained again, as all the researchers already know this or can read other sources, which are cited, but focus on the actual research questions. In this case, the research question was simply: Can we get away by just using attention and not using the LSTM anymore? Before that, everyone was using both together.

I think learning it following it more this historical development can be helpful. E.g. in this case here, learn the concept of attention, specifically cross attention first. And that is this paper: Bahdanau, Cho, Bengio, "Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate", 2014, https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0473

That paper introduces it. But even that is maybe quite dense, and to really grasp it, it helps to reimplement those things.

It's always dense, because those papers already have space constraints given by the conferences, max 9 pages or so. To get a better detailed overview, you can study the authors code, or other resources. There is a lot now about those topics, whole books, etc.
Nah, you have just gotten used to being lower functioning. Like an alcoholic who still thinks he can drive equally well after 5 beers. At least, almost all of the existing science points into this direction.

You aren't sleeping less because you need less. You have lost the ability to stay asleep for a healthy amount of time.
Amazing. And frustratingly light on details about this magical "MUSE loss" which seems to do a lot of the heavy lifting here, will have to read the paper to see how that works. Anyone have a tldr?
This needs a [citation needed] sort of flag.
Couldn't the library implement a conditional operation using the etag, retrying if it fails? That should solve the consistency guarantee.

Ofc its a different matter if you write to the same key in the same file. But that could be solved with special method that allows you to do a setOrUpdate on a key in the json and when retrying the update method is executed again (allowing you to do increments or add a new item to an array) while guaranteeing consistency.
That's ridiculous!
Just to clarify for anyone reading, this meets the FCC's requirements (ie, it's legal and the FCC won't do anything about it), but it generally is not allowed by the terms of use of the underlying wholesale carrier.

So, you should still report it to the sending carrier.

Background: Most larger, reputable US-based wholesale carriers have policies that are similar to the CTIA's guidelines for political campaigns: https://www.ctia.org/news/political-text-messaging-engaging-... . CTIA sets a much higher threshold, including opt-in permission.

This is a bit like the FCC's definition of email spam (a very low bar - what's legal) vs. a mainstream email service provider's terms of use (a much higher bar - what they permit you to send through them).
> And that has nothing to do with "what philosophy of mind you subscribe to",

There are definitely those that would reason "Using the tools and expertise available to us, this behaves indistinguishably from a human - therefore we should believe it is intelligent, like humans are".

It's not the same question, and Turing is clear that it's a surrogate question due to the ambiguity of the original question, but it's not unrelated either.
Oracle has an extremely generous free tier, as long as you register a credit card with them: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...

> All tenancies get the first 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month for free for VM instances using the VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape, which has an Arm processor. For Always Free tenancies, this is equivalent to 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of memory.

It's a bit sketchy since... well, Oracle, but you do get a decent machine. I've been using one for a while with no complaints.
“AI is a ticking time-bomb” seems to be the favorite phrase of people who seek regulatory capture of AI.
My 993 was a daily driver for a long time. The maintenance isn't bad at all -- honestly, over the nearly 20 years I had it, it was probably one of the most reliable cars I ever had, and the cost of ownership wasn't bad AT ALL.

Pre-993 generations were pretty spartan, that's true, but the 993 was reasonably comfy, had very good climate control, etc. (I mean, I live in Houston. Good AC is required.)
> …but this isn't the strongest argument to make for it.

i’m not sure i follow what you’re attempting to imply here. with a topic as vast and as important as society and higher education, there will be many important and necessary pieces to discuss—the gp to this comment that you dismiss is a great example.

i’m just not sure why you would dismiss it because it isnt The One Sole Strongest argument, particularly when it is an important piece to the larger discussion.
It is a standard. What do you expect?
But there are some or many Schemes that offer their own libs on top or below SRFI implementations, which then have readable names.
Thanks, I think swapping and controlling the GC would be a very useful feature.

In the game example I gave performance is important, but what's also important is consistency. Interactive apps rely on a steady framerate so what you want to avoid is accumulating garbage across multiple frames, then doing a single large collection pass.

In other words, it's better to do a bit of GC every frame than a bunch at once and risk stuttering.
Insurance companies aren't their own even worse cartel?
My bad, I forgot (and can't edit anymore..)
LLMs are _very_ good at translating the languages that I speak. They handle slang and colloquialisms very well, and have been surprisingly good at extracting very context-dependant meaning from the examples that I’ve tested.

They’re obviously not perfect, but this is a task that’s impossible to do perfectly. To translate some speech accurately you first have to decipher what the speaker was trying to say, and with most speech coming from human beings, it’s not always clear exactly what it is they’re trying to express, and that’s before you even address trying to translate it.
> that rewriting them is an absolute no-go

Rewriting and expecting 100% feature-parity (and bug-parity, since any bugs/inconsistencies are most likely relied upon by now) is realistically impossible.

However, new banking/insurance startups proved you can build this stuff from scratch using modern tooling, so the migration path would be to create your own "competitor" and then move your customers onto it.

The problem I see is that companies that still run these legacy systems also have a legacy culture fundamentally incompatible with what's needed to build and retain a competent engineering team. Hell, there's probably also a lot of deadweight whose jobs are to make up for the shortcomings of the legacy system and who'd have every incentive to sabotage the migration/rebuild project.
I want the maintainers to stop "enhancing" them. These tools don't do much, and they don't need to do more. That's the whole point.
> older people in traditional cultures with healthy physical activity and consumption levels continue to live long regardless

I agree with the point on physical activity, but the implication that traditional cultures have as long or longer lifespans is easily dismissed as inaccurate.
That's probably why it's a ghost town. As far as I'm concerned, they can kiss my backside.
at my company this is all very easy. there is no version control of any kind and also no automated testing. solves a lot of problems.
I'm curious about this part:

"a small team of junior engineers and a slew of contractors"

Do you think you'd feel the same way if you were managing, senior engineers (full time employees) instead?

I've sometimes seen people struggle with these situations not because of the demands of the job itself but because they have the wrong people in their team, and feel they have no way to correct the situation.
Looking how Russia still can’t make their own drones and needs to buy them from China and Iran - nah. They lost most of the potential inherited from USSR.

As for TLA - what’s wrong with asking questions? Especially when they might also provide you with a free legal advice wrt ITAR ;)
>could never dream of keeping any other technological revolution of the past contained

We do an imperfect job of keeping nukes, neurotoxins and bioweapons contained. Better to try to be cautious than just give up.
Github repo

https://github.com/harp-lab/gdlog
It benefits people who are rich enough to have ownership interests in the shitty insurer market.
No, how you pay for it doesn't change UBI's effect on pricing. UBI has exactly the effect I'm describing. Separately, a tax scheme may have a different, countervailing effect, regardless of whether or not it's related to UBI. That countervailing effect could arguably overcome UBI's positive pressure on prices, but it's a totally separate effect from a separate policy and even still your explanation of the mechanism looks totally incoherent.

Please explain how taxing high-income people into low-income housing doesn't increase the prices of traditionally low-income housing.
All of the issues you describe, which are all valid issues, are consequences of the lack of a free market. Medical expertise is not provided in a free market; doctors have to be licensed by the government. Consolidation of companies is due to the fact that there are economies of scale to be had when your company has to specialize in government contracting and lobbying (the consolidation of defense contractors over decades has happened for similar reasons). Doctors and nurses are stressed and overworked because their supply is limited (due to licensing, as above) and because limited time and tons of bureaucracy due to all the third party players involved (players that wouldn't even have a say in the process at all in a free market) gets in the way of caring for patients.