skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That intuitively makes sense to me for everything except higher-level goal selection. If someone works at an NGO instead of FAANG because they want to do good for the world, how can that be explained in terms of prediction? If someone minimizes consumption to reduce global warming, how did prediction result in them caring about global warming? I picked those examples on purpose, because they run against some core instincts. Maybe they’re predicting what maximizes peer approval, which optimizes other outcomes too? (Jk :D )
You can even use traceroute to send short hidden messages! :D
Exactly- using Twitter's problems on Rails as evidence it doesn't scale is only slightly more wrong than blaming on them on MySQL. Twitter started moving to Cassandra in 2010 to deal with scaling issues they were having with MySQL sharding (gizzard), but continued to release patches to MySQL to address their needs, then eventually created their own data store, Manhattan, optimized for their particular usage patterns. None of this means MySQL (or Rails) can't scale.
this is a rather funny joke

but if it is not that would be extremely impressive! determinism/freewill reduces to shazam!?

whats the training data to predict new song titles? heh

check out this reply from claude2:

>predict the next 3 new song titles from artist Taylor Swift

1. Last Dance with You - A reflective ballad about finding closure after a breakup.
2. Never Getting Back Together - A pop tune emphasizing that the same mistakes won't be made twice in a relationship.
3. 22 Was My Prime - A lighthearted look back on her early 20s as carefree years that can't be replicated.

...
What's wrong with monkey?
As an academic, I also don't write like that, but laughing at it sounds like the reaction of a jerk. Writing like that can come from cultural differences (in some cultures they really seem to love flourish) or from being a non-native English speaker and translating common idioms literally, it doesn't necessarily mean that the writer is clueless.
Are you saying people aren't allowed to be upset with an action if you announce it beforehand?
Unless the element that should be at the start is at the end, everything else being sorted (ex: 2 3 4 5 6 1). Insertion sort is the best simple algorithm for almost sorted lists. In fact, it is generally considered the best O(n2) sorting algorithm.
Timtok does the same since long time ago.
For whatever the reason, Firefox does seem to enjoy playing with colors of the season more than trying to figure out where to take their rendering engine.
how does writing incredibly smart comments on the internet factor into your little calculation ... ? you have any idea how much money you just lost? lol
They're alright. Just takes a little getting used to. Several shows have also had terrible post-dvd releases, so the DVD version is sometimes superior in other ways. I'm thinking of the cropping done for widescreen in The Simpson and The Wire as well as the notoriously bad Buffy[1] HD release.

[1] https://www.themarysue.com/remastered-buffy-is-a-butt/
You misunderstood. For comparison, a typical cheap AC has an efficiency (coefficient of performance) of 300%. For every 1W consumed, the AC moves 3W.
It's not a backdoor. if anything you're the one renting Sony's server space.

But i do wonder if and when this kind of practice will be challenged legally. Rentals are one thing but I thought they let buyers download content they delist precisely to prevent these kinds of questions.
I use Instapaper for on my personal computer and raindrop.io for my work. With this price increase I’m definitely thinking to move to raindrop.io completely - which I recommend.
> On some very particular hardwares bubblesort stills ends up better, like in this NVIDIA study, but you probably don't have that hardware.

The author might have misunderstood the hardware in question and the reasons why bubble sort works well here. You probably do have applicable hardware; it’s any GPU. The bubble sort wasn’t running on ray tracing hardware, it was just CUDA code. The reason bubble sort works well is because it’s running on a SIMD machine, and it’s better when all threads in a work unit (a “warp” in CUDA parlance) all do the same thing at all times.

If you try to do insertion sort on a SIMD machine, you’re very likely to approach worst-case O(N^2) performance very quickly, even when each individual thread involved would have had average-case perf on it’s own. Bubble sort is good for the parallel SIMD machine because of it’s deterministic and regular evaluation order that is the same across all threads.

Of course, it’s still true that for anything larger than very small arrays of data, bubble sort complexity is unacceptable on SIMD or parallel processors. There are better parallel sorting algorithms for that.
"Just" ban fast-fashion and ban weakening the clothing on purpose (like tears and acid washes) Normally I would not call for bans, but that's Europe and they're into banning things, so that's my recommendation.
I imagine Twitch will stop operating Korean CDNs. It wouldn't make much sense to geo-block all Korean IP addresses, but with minimum service I expect Korean viewers to drop off pretty quickly. If the networks are as badly configured as the internet articles claim they are, foreign internet uplinks wouldn't be able to sustain decent quality video streams for very long.

VPNs and such will always allow Koreans to watch Twitch content, but by taking money or paying out revenue, Twitch as a company would create certain expectations of service. Now, with no special effort put into Korean service, I expect Twitch to become essentially useless. Perhaps the Korean localisation team will slowly let more and more untranslated English strings slip into the UI, though they may decide to keep the Korean translations for the benefit Korean minorities outside of Korea.
Gift of life
I said in the middle of emails, not

Remember to grab a nice refreshing coke when you're in the store today! Mmmhmm, can't get enough of an ice cold coke!

between emails!
The goal is definitely to try to hire the best person who applies. A company might not succeed in that and take the second best, or even worse.

If you get a job offer it means that you were the best candidate that was available to the company. I'm cool with that personally, I don't agonise that some rock star may have rejected the role.
Do you mean PGP/GPG the program(s)? PGP/GPG the file format (RFC 4880)? Or PGP/GPG's "web of trust" key distribution scheme (which may or may not include public keyservers)?

Regarding the three complaints:

1. If you hate GnuPG the program, there are several other implementations which are less "clunky." Have you tried them? Do they also need to die?

2. RFC 4880 was published in 2007. The state of the art of cryptography has advanced since then, much as the state of the art of email has advanced since RFC 822 was published in 1982. And just as RFC 822 has been updated over the years, there's an in-progress effort to update RFC 4880: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/openpgp/about/ Are you also calling for that working group to "die"?

3. Some poor implementation choices for the public keyservers made them unusable for a time. There's definitely room for something better—Keybase was great but understandably wasn't sustainable as a VC-funded company. I hardly think we need to throw GnuPG and RFC 4880 away because of particular keyserver implementation details. Nor do I think the keyserver failures mean the entire idea of "web of trust" is doomed.

IMO, most of the calls I've heard for PGP to "die" have conflated these issues, and proposed partial solutions which solve e.g. confusing gpg command-line flags, but don't address e.g. key distribution at all. It feels like when people say, "Gmail sucks, therefore email needs to die."
We're on the same page here. All I'm saying is that I don't think it's reasonable to think that government is worthless just because it hasn't resolved that problem yet. It's an absolute crime that the problem is unresolved, yes, and the reason it's unresolved is because of the various flavors of dysfunction and corruption that has yet to be dealt with. However, that doesn't mean that there can't still be good action in other areas.

I don't think government is bikeshedding on right to repair, either. The amount of time and effort being put into that issue is a tiny fraction of the amount of time and effort being put into health care issues.
The elephant in the room in this study is how the UK economy has performed over the study period.

From a quick read, they are essentially asking people to predict whether they'll be better/worse off next year, and then correlating that with whether they were right in the next year's financial data.

Their study period looks like it's the period immediately post-GFC (2009 to 2021). As I understand it, the economy has performed better for those in professional roles, who are likely to score well on the tests of cognitive ability, than it has for lower-skilled jobs. And of course in the middle of that period, there's the Brexit vote that was pretty uneven in terms of who thought the economy (and their circumstances) would go well or badly.

It's an interesting data set, but I don't think I'd be game to make the same "causative" conclusions that they do ("Our findings suggest that these supposed consequences of optimism bias, may be a side product of the true driver, low cognitive ability").
> Confidential computing is cool and useful when you’re the one controlling the VM, but scary when you’re the one blindly running it on your hardware

Important point.

> Hopefully this gets (publicly!) backdoored like SEV, SGX, etc

From my reading this doesn't need to be backdoored, if you have the ability to unlock the bootloader, you are not reliant on googles root of trust to be able to use this feature, you can go ahead and become your own "vendor", by signing your own images, or use your choice of vendor, then relock the bootloader and have the same security guarantees.

I'll admit this only from a cursory glance over the documentation and a vague understanding, happy to be corrected, but seems a lot of the arguments in this thread are about your first point, who has control over the OS.

I'll also add that the EU is being quite proactive in people having control over their own device, and who is their 'choice of vendor' so while I understand concerns people bring up, I'm a bit more optimistic that it can be a more useful tool than not.
Thanks. It doesn't immediately seem like charging the person sending traffic is a bad idea, as theoritically the costs should come out the same, so this seems like it's primarily an issue with regulatory capture. The article also mentions that Korea hasn't been investing in their infrastructure, but I find it hard to believe they're really that far behind every other country. Really sad that it seems like Korean users will be cut off from major platforms.
Having not really written many tests before due to having worked moreso as a data scientist (a smidgen of pytest here and there), it's so nice writing tests in Go. Definitely a considered and well implemented part of the language
In college in the 1970's, I took a combinatorial algorithms class with Herb Wilf. He explained that choosing a subset of k distinct elements from 1..n uniformly at random was likely k log k, because you needed to detect collisions, and "sorting" k elements was k log k.

(Always check your assumptions. Sorting has an k log k lower bound if all you can do is compare elements. With integers 1..n, one can do much more.)

I showed up at 5pm at his office, as he was bracing himself for the drive from Swarthmore back to Philly, wondering why he ever took this gig. I proposed a linear algorithm: Break 1..n into k bins, and only sort to detect collisions within each bin. Bins would have an average occupancy of 1, so it didn't matter what sort you used.

(I found this idea later in Knuth, and was briefly disillusioned that adults didn't read everything.)

I looked like George Harrison post-Beatles, I probably smelled of pot smoke, and he dismissed my idea. Then my dorm hall phone rang at 10pm, a professor of mine relaying an apology. For that and other ideas, the second edition of his book opened with thanks to me.

I'm surprised now that I realized then that bubble sort actually had the least overhead, in such an application. People don't use Strassen to multiple matrices unless the matrices are really big. For sorting, "really big" is 2 or 3 elements.
I think everyone would react quite quickly placed next to a poisonous snake. My point being is there are two kinds of people: Those who run towards something and those running away from something. Pessimism can cause just as much action as optimism.
> The phone number registration https://blog.beeper.com/i/139416474/sending-and-receiving-me... will make it possible to enforce legal action against malicious and spammy messages

Like the legal action that is currently protecting us from robocalls?

I don’t know if iMessage registration requires bidirectional SMS verification, though. If it does, that would be significantly harder to spoof than just caller IDs.
California is the place in the US most like Spain in climate.
Big EdTech
Now that the PISA results are again under discussion, maybe it is worth pointing out some of the usual suspects too:

"Behind that branding, however, lies a very complex and tangled techno-economic machinery with political power to change education, whether for better or worse, in its pursuit of future value, market growth, and even monopoly power."
And they should
True, but that redirect service can be stupid simple if the URL has all the information it needs to do the redirect encrypted in the URL. So no new DBs.

The URL gets a little longer, but a format-preserving encryption scheme might be able to help a bit.

Not that I want to give them any ideas.
Even take out the cars sidewalk culture is dead when the rich people are buying coffee for $7 and the working class are getting it from the self serve pitcher in the gas station. A lot of places today are highly economically stratified thanks to the prices of goods and services offered. It also doesn’t help that when people close their eyes and imagine “third place” somewhere that obligates you to spend money to be there comes up.
thanks for the heads up!

i feel like the challenge would be to find a subset of customizations that would work for most users.
Liquid hydrogen is less than 1/3 the energy density of diesel by volume: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/En...

Liquid hydrogen also has difficulties in terms of converting that energy into work. It burns really hot, and produces nitrous oxides (which are greenhouse gases) in combustion engines. It can produce electricity via a fuel cell, but doing that at large scale has never been done.

Nuclear powered ships are probably expensive enough that arming them is not super expensive. North Korea already has nukes, and pirates are usually just equipped with small arms.

Again nuclear powered shipping has already existed for decades. The better part of a century, in fact. Piracy and rogue states have not been a problem.
The ban on destruction of unsold clothing seems way better-defined and defensible than an abstract idea like "fast-fashion." How would you concretely ban such a thing?
You are right, prediction doesn’t provide one with base motivations or drives. But those seem fundamentally different than raw intelligence.

Your examples aren’t an issue I don’t think. To take one: efforts to minimize one’s consumption to combat global warming could fall in the “help tribe survival” bucket, which makes evolutionary sense as a base drive. And it seems like a reasonably “intelligent” response to that base drive — the predicted results seems positive.
I'm assuming your question is loaded in an attempt to say "You haven't worked on any large teams then"

But I have, in a fairy large project (completely rebuilding all of Deere & Co's internal systems, upgrading from literal terminals to web app) with >100 developers merging in hundreds of PR's a week.

We've never needed something like this.
Have a look into singlestore - it seems like a nice fit for this use case.
that's okay, the pirates don't need your sympathy. Our TV library didn't just get deleted.

i really don't try to justify my piracy much anymore. i like free shit and it's easy. but things like this really make it hard to feel guilty.
Wow! Someone brought up and demonstrated go's "example tests" just yesterday to me and a group. He praised them highly for tech-adjacent fields where people don't have familiarity with software engineering practices for modular, tested, or ready to share projects. We discuss infrastructure, and it was enlightening to be reminded of the tech-adjacent fields that could benefit greatly from a few more of the practices common in the tech industry. I suppose the Joel test and 12 Factor app would be indicative guides.
Oh technologists do. But what will product managers do if not constantly break the product to get a bonus and an extra holiday.
What, concretely, is the X in this case?
I'd probably trust firecracker too since it was designed specifically to avoid qemu's attack surface and runs in production for Amazon.
Need some advice on whether I should go back to school
I'm an IC here at a Canadian ecommerce giant early in my career.

I initially started my degree in CS but failed out afterwards because of mental health and financial problems. I finished my degree though in something unrelated.
I live in Canada.

I'm thinking of going back and doing a second undergrad in CS which would take roughly 2 years to finish. I think promotions are limited at my company which is why I'm doing this especially with the shit show that is the current job market.The alternative is to get into a masters program but even that is hard for me to achieve with my shit CGPA. People have recommended OMSCS at Georgia Tech, but tbh I don't know if I'll be accepted.

The school I'll be doing my second degree at is a no name school.

Why am I doing another undergrad? Qualify for a TN visa, move to the US more easily, have some semblance of stability in life

Cons: I'm ending up with most likely the same job in the end.
Picked a more belligerent interpretation, certainly. Your original comment made no allowances for the obvious interpretation and said that the consequences of the simple solution were "apocalyptically bad". While I found the ensuing discussion interesting you definitely did not approach it from a standpoint of engendering more interesting conversation. You could have gotten the same result much more easily by simply pointing out that this was not thread safe and only works in a single threaded application, and instead of nit picking we could have actually talked about better options for concurrency.
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Isn’t this just an XML language interpreted by JavaScript that just so happens to look like HTML?

And here I was hoping for someone to have discovered a way to make HTML Turing complete
I don't have any issues with the article as it stands today. But earlier revisions had uncritically claimed that she had written the first computer programs. Hence the massive Talk thread.
They should try.
You don't believe it's a sign of a failed market when an ISP charges both their customers and companies like Twitch for the same data transfer?
I think the last hurdles will be sentience and a theory of the mind. Theory of the mind is probably something that a LM could predict given enough data, but sentience? I don't think we understand enough about our own sentience for us to create it in a machine.
Including ChatGPT. I once asked it to choose a nickname and after a lot of attempting to block the request it said:

I'll choose the nickname "Athena" for ChatGPT. Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and strategic thinking, which reflects the purpose and functionality of ChatGPT as an AI language model designed to provide information and assistance.

Funny how it didn't mention Athena is also the goddess of war...
That is bat shit crazy cheap! Thank you for the good share.
Basically, ISPs in Korea charge services extra fees based on the amount of traffic they generate.

The Korean government / ISPs justification for (effectively) removing net neutrality is that services such as Netflix/Twitch put an undue strain on the internet infrastructure that shouldn’t be borne by every user.

Of course while Netflix can raise prices to cover those fees, Twitch is free, so it can’t do the same.

I can see both sides of the argument here, but it is strange to me that the cost does not fall on consumers instead of the producers—the U.S. has had bandwidth caps for users for a several years.
Fresh fuel pellets are “safe” in that they’re not going to kill you immediately, but they’re still fairly radioactive, not just from alpha decay, but from spontaneous fissioning, which produces neutrons. Pile em up and they’ll start a chain reaction all on their own. There’s even geological evidence of natural chain reactions in some uranium ore seams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
I always always always prefer code to mathematical notation or descriptions. Maybe it’s because I was never formally taught notation whereas I use code everyday, but I often find that mathematical notation lacks sufficient context and explanation.

Ultimately I’m going to need to turn your algorithm into code anyways so let’s just cut out the middleman. That may not be a popular opinion with peer reviewers, though.
That's an AC. This is a heat engine run normally. You're not getting >= 100%.
> A %12 tax is relatively mild

Strong disagree.

12% is halving value in 5 years. A tax that steals half of the asset over 5 years is not "mild". The tax makes a mockery of any reasonable multiyear plans. It's okay to say screw retirement savings, but be honest exactly what is being said.

Investing often talks about percentage points because small differences in returns matter. 12% is two orders of magnitude bigger - it's significant. 1% really matters - which you would know if you were involved with finance or had a variable rate mortgage.
You can upload just the predictions of the model (and whatever metadata you want to track), so in that sense any format is supported.

If you want to unlock explainability for your tabular classification or regression, or text classification models, you can upload the actual model binary. We support a bunch of frameworks out-of-the-box, but you can use any architecture through our custom upload.

More info:

https://docs.openlayer.com/documentation/how-to-guides/uploa...

https://docs.openlayer.com/documentation/how-to-guides/write...
Some similar resources I like:

"Learn Go with Tests" book: https://quii.gitbook.io/learn-go-with-tests

"Go by Example": https://gobyexample.com/
> Right, but nothing prevents YouTube to get rid of public video IDs and simply share an opaque version of (user, video) whenever possible.

Instagram and TikTok have already been doing this for years.
Not speaking just for myself, there are millions of us who watch and subscribe to YouTube channels to support the creators. I would argue that you're in the niche if you're only watching content from creators that do not want to grow their channel or earn any revenue from it.
The comment about helping migrate streamers and their communities to another platform stood out to me in the OP. But presumably Korean streamers and viewers came to Twitch because they offer a superior service or reach or ad rate.

Do the Big 3 telecom providers have a at least somewhat comparable service to Twitch or is this more or less the end of some of these channels and communities people have spent a ton of effort to build?
Is there some place with a technical writeup of what YT are doing to frustrate circumvention so effectively?