skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Citation needed. The key to the industrial revolution was trivializing the human work so as to take as many human errors out as possible and to systematize everything. I wouldn't call that type of process "teaching quality".
Nobody can catch up to the chat devs.
Formal proof of what? That it has no bugs? Ha!

You can formally prove that it doesn't have certain kinds of bugs. And that's good! But it also is an enormous amount of work. And so, even for life-critical software, the vast majority is not formally proven, because we want more software than we can afford to formally prove.
The Israeli govt can and should halt establishing new settlements or expanding existing settlements, especially when expansion is zero-sum with further displacement (e.g. Hebron). It can also enforce the criminality of extrajudicial settler violence.

Agreed any real solutions are a nonstarter in current situation, but a lack of imagination or will about how to move forward just further normalizes the illegality of it all.
Why should they? Why can't the Palestinians stay where they are? Or even better, return to their lands from which they were dispossessed? That would be the real way to support them.
I agree with you! It's hard to change curricula because there are so many competing interests. CS is an evolving field and things like machine learning have burst onto the stage, clamoring for attention. There is also an age-old debate about whether CS departments are trade schools, math departments, or science. Personally I think software engineering skills are paramount for 90% of graduates. How do we fit this into a full curriculum? What gets the axe? Unclear.
I feel like this a great point. As an American, I’m not labeled as any particular religion. I honestly wish there were no labels at all. I would much rather look at things as right and wrong based on the specific situation.

The goal, in my opinion, is division. Without it, they have nothing.

Peace above all!
I said nothing about a firewall. I use firewalls everywhere. I use NAT. What I don't use is IPv6.
Really? What alternative is there for archival quality backups with better $/gb?
This book was a blogpost extended 100x too long.

It’s ok, but if you can read the title you get every point made in the book.

The author must be very handsome or something.
If my friends hadn’t had such vividly bad experiences with the compiler class, I might not have taken the distributed computing class that was one of the other options to fulfill that category.

It’s not the most defining class of my undergrad years, but it was pretty damned close.

The fact that most people designing systems don’t know this material inspires a mix of anger and existential dread.
This is great. Their hard work is paying off. Not to mention that many of them are BIPOC unlike in past generations in which all of the richest families were white.
I wrote a similar article: https://uptointerpretation.com/posts/art-school-for-programm.... I'd love to see schools that put programming first and foremost, that taught it with the respect that it deserves. There's this idea that programming is not worthy of a course of study, that programmers need to learn computer science and not programming. I disagree. It's a discipline unto itself and learning computer science to learn programming is really ineffective.
Tyrannosaur's last meal was two baby dinosaurs
One answer is these media efforts. Isreal works hard to draw attention to its conflicts, and to try to turn that attention into support.

I'd note the Ukranians worked very hard to draw attention to their war as well, and they were quite successful at that.
Saying this as a person that typically doesn't care at all about these things: you can't possibly compare Hitler to Bin Laden. The first is definitely worse - and I am sorry for people who lost family or friends in 9/11. But he was way worse. The guy started a world war, he literally killed dozens of millions of civilians and made life shi*ier for everyone on this planet. What he and his crew did to people, to society, and everything else - books have been written so that we hopefully, as humanity, won't repeat again.
This would have been early 2014 (I think). If you want to see the interface in question, it's this one: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/d3b5b43984f43c68608886dc72...

There was a green version as well. I don't really remember why I didn't have a green graphic that I could pull the correct values from. I just recall going across the hall to talk about a Green version of the graphic and with the designer we changed the value in the SVG code instead of Illustrator (Or whatever program he was using.)

As for "Why walk across the hall?", there are times when going to someone's desk to discuss a situation is faster and more effective than an email or a chat.
SARS-CoV-1 had different transmission characteristics. It was most infectious when patients were sick. Since SARS-CoV-2 is transmissible already during the incubation period, its spread is much more difficult to control.
Weights seem available at https://huggingface.co/togethercomputer/StripedHyena-Nous-7B....
The context for "safe haven" is the end of WW2. Most of America's Jews can date their arrival in the US before then; one of the most common windows is 1870 through 1920.
Truly, the psychopath torturing animals with live current in public is the man to emulate!
The first runaway "AIs", so to speak, may be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waqf which are like an early Islamic version of the modern trust.

These Waqfs grew so large that at times, they controlled a significant fraction of the economy of various Islamic countries. Many functions like social welfare programs were completely funded by these entities. One of the reasons Waqfs gradually declined is that they threatened the authority of governments in the same region.

1600s Europeans were worried enough about this (runaway legal entities caused by interest-bearing trusts) that they invented the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities

There are certain US states which do not have the Rule Against Perpetuities, so it's possible that even in the absence of modern AI, we would have seen the resurgence of Waqf-style runaway perpetual autonomous corporations.
Yeah, I can imagine that, and I've used sigma types to carry it out (`Subtype`s in particular, or perhaps custom structures). Why does the proof in the sigma type have to be constructive?

Certainly this is the road to "dependently typed hell" and it's good to avoid mingling proofs with data if you can, but avoiding the law of the excluded middle doesn't make any of that any easier.

This is also a bit of a distraction since what I really mean regarding TCS is that in my experience is that they do not see the proofs themselves as being objects-with-properties. They're perfectly happy with non-constructive reasoning to support constructions. I am looking to be convinced that constructive logic is worth it, but this mathematician hasn't seen anything compelling beyond work on foundations themselves.

Regarding mathlib, could you say what in particular you're talking about, since it's not ringing a bell, and I follow the changelogs.
>Further to that, it's often informative to figure out what makes a company money. The highest paid software development roles tend to be doing things that are closer to revenue, on average.

yeah. Who are those trillion dollar businesses and what do they rely on?

- Apple: Probably the better example here since they focus a lot on user-facing value. But I'm sure they have their own deals, B2B market in certain industries, R&D, and ads to take into account

- Microsoft: a dominant software house in nearly every aspect of the industry. But I wager most of their money comes not from users but other businesses. Virtually every other companies uses Windows, Word, and those that don't may still use Azure for servers.

- Alphabet: ads. Need I say more? Users aren't the audience, they are the selling point to other companies.

- Amazon: a big user facing market, but again similar to Microsoft. The real money is b2b servers.

- Nvidia: Again, user facing products but the real selling point is to companies that need their hardware. In this case, a good 80% of general computing manufacturers.

- Meta: Ads ans selling user data once again

- Tesla: CEO politics aside, it's probably the 2nd best example. Split bewteen a user facing product that disrupted an industry and becoming a standard for fuel in the industry they disrupted. There's also some tangential products that shouldn't be underestimated, but overall a lot of value seems to come from serving the user.

General lesson here is that b2b and ads are the real money makers. if you're one level removed that financial value drops immensely (but not necessarily to infeasible levels, far from it).
CMU constantly reevaluates its MSE program with input from many different angles. I've participated here and I think we're trying hard to balance important foundational knowledge with practical skills of the day. I don't think we over-emphasize UML or any one particular silver bullet in our program.
Introduction to Measurement Theory
True. I think in this case it's because of the texture of the bricks. It looks like they were wrapped in cloth or something. This seems a common texture in many AI-generated images.
It's not that common sense. The railway is responsible for its customers, and a lot more bad stuff can happen with people walking on the tracks than in stuck in cars. Getting cold and hungry is not the same as injury or worse.

The tracks may still be in use by other trains, it fact it may be how help and alternative transport arrive.
Title says "genetic material". Is not the same as gene
> If every minute is vital to finishing a feature on time, then the act of writing tests will always block progress of the project

So you will deliver that feature, it will fail for your customers, and you will be in panic-mode trying to fix it on live systems. Seriously, that's going to happen.

Finishing a feature must always include at least some minimal time for testing. That testing needs to be done by someone not involved in the development. Developers sometimes misunderstand requirements (or think they "know better") and they will test what they implemented, not what the requirements actually say.
China has allowed a huge amount of anti-semitism to surge on its social networks and media recently. They are not coming from an Abrahamic religion. It’s more than that.

Meanwhile the Islamic world has ok’d (in the UN and other forums) China to literally create concentration camps to sterilize and erase the Uygur culture and Islamic religion.

Things are not so straightforward.
They make archival grade dvds, I just got some,

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What's the more correct way?
In addition to the other answers, there is the perennial and depressing one: Software bugs haven't killed enough people in a suitably visible/dramatic way to be regulated that heavily.
I'm pretty much sure that Tesla employees will revolt if its board tries to oust Elon. That doesn't necessarily mean that Elon is not a toxic leader.
Israel spends a lot of money on this in the United States and does have impact on our laws and freedoms.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/05/0...
We already have a mechanism to prevent such meddling - a constitution. The authority of the government should be confined to the small box required to maintain liberal order. Limiting power is the best way to minimize corruption. The power of the government being allowed to grow without limit is what led to that power becoming susceptible to capture.

This was successful for centuries, but the constitutional protections of this order eventually eroded. Were they stronger and more explicit (say there was no general welfare clause), we could well be living in such a liberal order today.
But then people would just have continued to use their old hardware for many, many years, saving money and resources. Luckily that horrible future with diminished revenue for the PC industry was averted. /s
This from the paper's abstract: Finally, we control for whale movement and present several pieces of evidence suggesting that the observed patterns are not artifacts, but are actively controlled by sperm whales. We also show that the two coda vowels (the a-vowel and i-vowel) are actively exchanged by sperm whales in dialogues. The uncovered spectral properties suggest that codas are highly compositional, more informative, and more complex than previously thought.

This from the article: “If our findings are correct, it means that the communication of sperm whales is much more complex and can carry more information than previously thought,” the researchers concluded.

The researchers here make two observations, the whales intentionally use specific forms in their songs and the specific forms are sequenced differently but intentionally. For biologists this is significant because it differs from a common form of "singing" or "calls" that each have a specific meaning but they are not internally variegated like these calls are. What the researchers propose (or hypothesize) is that this intentional and varied voicing within a "song" suggests the whales are exchanging much more detailed information than "threat" or "help" or "food here" etc.
It’s funny because people pooping on Ayn Rand is such a cliche. I know it’s not a perfect signal but I’ve never encountered a smart person knee-jerk reacting to any mention of Rand.

Also, this is poor advice as this book is so big and the paper so thin it is absolutely horrible as toilet paper.
No.

Godel means that we can't have an algorithmic box that we put a program into and out comes a true/false statement of halting.

Nothing is stopping you from writing the proof manually for each program that you want to prove properties for.

ALSO, you can write sub-turing complete programs. Those are allowed to have automated halting proofs (see idris et al).
Do you breathe air?
Are you capable of making noises, intelligible or not?

Welcome aboard!

I kid...or do I?
And that is how you stand to the bully man child that Elon Musk is.

Together workers are strong.
I'm glad to pay cash for quality software. What I'm not willing to do is subscribe.

Charge me a fair price for your efforts, but don't expect me to send you a monthly payment for as long as I own your software. That's a non-starter.
It's very unfair to say that the reaction to this is because of "the Jews" and not because a close US ally who has much of the support of its military and intelligence apparatus at its disposal is doing this.
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Two ideas:

1. It was surprising to me that Hamas believed that filming and publishing their atrocities was a good idea. And more surprising that the response hasn't been a bigger backlash.

2. That makes me think that despite the fact that both parts think that infowar is necessary, the real war is fought on the ground, with weapons, bullets and bombs. Not with protests, declarations and tweets.

Neither Israel nor the Palestinians' supporters in the West give a fuck.
If you're specifically referring to CMU's compilers course, feel free to follow up with me offline.
It doesn’t automatically. But it can’t happen until the occupation ends. And ultimately Hamas gained prominence precisely because of the occupation which destroyed all other groups with any influence.
SEO heist?
> If it works within specs it is bug free.

No, it's functional. If it has bugs, it's not bug-free. By definition.
Check out this paper:

https://leandojo.org/

People have already trained models to assist suggestion tactics. They then linked it up to ChatGPT to interactively solve proofs.

In this scenario, ChatGPT asks the model for tactic suggestions, applies it to the proof and uses the feedback from Lean to then proceed with the next step.

FYI, The programmatic interface to Lean was written by an OpenAI employee who was on the Lean team a few years ago.

Also, check out Lean’s roadmap. They aspire to position Lean to becoming a target for LLMs because it has been designed for verification from the ground up.

As math and compsci nerds contribute to mathlib, all of those proofs are also building up a huge corpus that will likely be leveraged for both verification and optimization.

If AI can make verification a lot easier, then we’re likely going to see verification change programming similarly to the way it changed electronics.
Almost all my applications are Qt; I have a new ThinkPad with an AMD 7840U and, yes, everything Just Works. Linux will always require more tinkering than Windows or Mac, and this machine didn't Just Work for the first two months that I had it as the BIOS needed updates and the Linux kernel needed them too, but I'm golden now.
A codified law is "mostly posturing"?
You know it is in overdrive when the ICC thinks about investigating the IOF for war crimes and Netanyahu says the ICC is anti-Semitic.

https://www.euronews.com/2021/02/06/israel-netanyahu-denounc...

If Israel has its way, even thinking about Gaza as a concentration camp would be anti-Semitic.

"anti-Semitic" has been thrown around so much that it has lost its value. A red balloon, a walrus, or a nice cup of tea can be anti-Semitic nowadays.
I think your interpretation is wrong.

OP stated: "If anything the skew within the platforms is to prioritize pro-palestinian views".

They're explicitly stating that they believe pro-palestinian views are prioritized.
Not a hot take, I think you're right. If it was scaled up to 70b, I think it would be better than Llama 2 70b. Maybe if it was then scaled up to 180b and turned into a MoE it would be better than GPT-4.
>There's no good reason to think that humans are capable of finding proofs that are hard to find algorithmically

That’s really all I was trying to say, not sure why I’m getting downvoted
> But that doesn't excuse the murder of thousands of civilians in collective retribution for the murder of a few dozen.

1,200 Israelis were killed, not "a few dozen". 250 were kidnapped and held hostage, of those about 130 are still being held.

Second, Israel isn't "murdering" civilians in collective retribution. It's fighting a war against a neighboring "government" that has just invaded it, slaughtered thousands of its citizens, and has promised to do it again and again.

Many civilians are dying in this war, which is a horrible tragedy, and is unfortunately true of every war, which is one reason wars are so terrible. But it's hard to say this war isn't justified given the promises of Hamas.
No sorry, I was speaking in the general case not about CMU. This was ages ago and elsewhere. It was clear the prof got caught flat footed.

It was practically an elective and these days I hope it’s required.
Your comment is entirely regurgitated Israeli propaganda that has been repeatedly debunked.

I'll be as polite as I can about this, and take it one step at a time.

> Okay - then what should be Israel's response?

The world has been clear about this. Stop killing civilians and treat Palestinians as humans with rights.

> what they are doing is the bare minimum with the minimum casualties from the options they have.

That's not remotely true. Human rights groups and genocide experts around the world are screaming at world leaders to take action. Schools and refugee camps and humanitarian corridors and civil infrastructure and entire residential blocks are being vaporized without warning.

> Hamas is Gaza's government

The last election was in 2006, so this talking point is real stale.

> Hamas has intertwined the civilian and the military infrastructure.

The only proof that has been offered of that has been incredibly shoddily made, as if daring people to believe it.

> Hamas has made sure that the civilian Palestinians will suffer if you target Hamas.

That doesn't excuse war crimes, and it's highly fucked up to think that it does somehow.

> And it was Hamas that made sure with organized rape, torture and atrocities on Oct 7 that it can't be overlooked or forgiven.

The only evidence of organized rape that I've seen presented turned out to be a 10 year old photo of Kurdish women [0]. Torture? No evidence. By atrocities, do you mean the debunked beheaded babies? Or the debunked babies in oven claim? The debunked pregnant women cut open claim?

What Hamas did was atrocious, killing civilians and kidnapping people. So why embellish so devilishly? Only to excuse genocide, and grab land.

> Here is a good rule of thumb - if you are going to stir shit - stick to just killing. Don't livestream torture and rape, so diplomacy will have something to work with.

Again with the claims of "livestreamed torture and rape", which no one has actually seen.

You know who can be documented to have tortured and raped people in the last couple decades? Israel and the US. On many, many occasions. But in your view, at least they're smart enough not to livestream it - they only took photos.

0 - https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1724688009293873502
"One participant even suggested that they appeal to the university’s 'woke' aversion to exposing students to uncomfortable ideas. The participant drafted a sample letter claiming that Tlaib’s appearance threatened ASU’s 'commitment to a safe and inclusive environment.' The following day, ASU officially canceled the Tlaib event, citing 'procedural issues.'"
> This distinction is meaningless.

Only if you subscribe to the most naive grade-school model of democracy. A government isn't actually the will of the people made manifest; it's an organization made up of people, processes, and constraints. Just like a corporation isn't actually the will of the shareholders made manifest.

> The motivations of the "structured entity" is defined by the nebulous collective will of the population.

Once again, this is an absurdly naive view of how governments function. There is a voting mechanism in place which usually does a sort of OK job of keeping the government's behavior in line with the population's preferences, but this breaks down all the time and even in equilibrium doesn't work very well.

I suggest reading Bueno de Mesquita's _The Logic of Political Survival_ if you're interested in developing a realistic model for how government behavior emerges.
I remember my literature teacher describing it as a romantic fantasy and that helped quite a bit.

It’s not meant to be realistic as it’s Rand’s belief system. It’s like complaining that Plato’s Cave isn’t realistic or something.

It’s nowhere near Mein Kampf and it’s a bit offensive to equate this with Hitler (or Ready Player Two).
It would only be a successful reproductive strategy if some external actor decided to propagate the plants that were putting something not useful to the seeds into the fruit.
Please go and look at the ethnic makeup of Israel. It’s not an ethnostate. And even if it were there’s many that are supported by the west that are ethnostates. That’s not a reason to not support someone.
Yitzhak Rabin had some good ideas, but extremist factions in Israel (now led by Netanyahu) killed him off.
If I'm Israel as long as Hamas controls Gaza I would support a blockade. If Hamas formally accepts a 2 state solution then I would change my opinion, but as it stands now the Israeli government has a responsibility to protect its citizen which to mean means limiting the ability of Hamas to acquire weapons.
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> few…would have had strong opinions about it or been able to tell you much

That’s simply incorrect. Extensive news coverage of the flareups I referred to led to the subject matter becoming a common topic of conversation and public interest. Heck, I remember there being conversations and debates about it among kids in my school’s cafeteria, and that was in a part of the US where at the time way less than 1% of the population was Jewish or Muslim.
There’s plenty of video of what’s happening in Yemen. I’m sure there’s video out there in Sudan, and many other places as well. The world just cares a whole lot less.