skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I never understood why a "stylistic" choice requires separate characters.

I don’t think it’s a purely stylistic choice, there is actually semantics to it:

“ opening quotation mark, i.e.: starts the quote

” closing quotation mark, i.e.: ends the quote

You could otherwise make the same point about parenthesis: why not just |do this| instead (of this)?
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There are also easier ways of tracking humans via DNA - we're literally shedding genetic material with every step, on everything we touch. Skin flakes here, saliva there, etc.
> On the left however, the button for going to your albums is just the word “Albums” and a little arrow shape. Why those two different concepts on the same screen?

Clicking on "< Albums" could change the page completely. You navigate to another page. The buttons "Select" and "..." stay on the same page. I think it makes sense of using two distinct styles.
In these cases, yes they are very real and what was claimed in summary seemed to pass the smell test. I actually read the cases.
I think the key element there is "as elderly adults". I haven't read the book (tried, the Nadsat took effort) but the movie is one of my favorites. If the ending had Alex popping up from his bed shouting "I want to be good!" I would have filed the movie away as Spielbergian feelgood schlock (see also: AI).

I do think people change, but it happens slowly, not quickly. Kubrick's ending still leaves us with the ability to imagine an older, wiser, regretful Alex. But you can't credibly force that into his youth, and the movie is already 2 hours 15 mins.
Not 100M I guess, but this is fresh from today's arXiv:

"Infini-gram: Scaling Unbounded n-gram Language Models to a Trillion Tokens"

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.17377.pdf
> Who has China invaded?

Well, not whom but rather what large body of water.
That's exactly the "therapist vs. psychiatrist" divide mentioned in the article. If you want "academic," you aren't going to get it from people paid the same as “'mani-pedi or salon haircut' workers."
>Unfortunately, I cannot directly generate images. However, I can help you brainstorm and describe what [...]

thought this was going live globally?
I wonder if they're still sorting out the ramifications of the EU's new AI Act: https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/the-act/
I get good results through ChatGPT image generation but mostly disappointing when using DALL-E directly. Not sure if my prompt game is just sorely lacking or if there's something else being involved via ChatGPT.
Is there a language that is invulnerable to power side channel attacks? The idea seems nonsensical to me.

As far timing attacks, what about Go makes it more susceptible to timing side channels than any other language?
I don't know if he's gotten sloppier or just more verbose, but do find his later writings to be largely plodding and much less interesting than his earlier works. He pretty much lost me with The Baroque Cycle. Those books were a chore.

But I think that has to do with the clear change in his writing style, which has diverged from my personal tastes. So it's not a judgement call on his writing either way -- we've just grown apart.
Buttons without any visible frames

- do not provide optical lines to be aligned with other screen elements (look more chaotic on the screen)

- are visually more difficult to find on the screen (enhances stress, makes work mor tiresome)

- are more difficult to aim at with the mouse (requires more precise movement, error prone, leads to frustration)

- are more difficult to be identified a active element (violating rule of discoverability)

In many cases there is no good color choice either. Quite often you have dark grey on light grey or other combination low on contrast.

Things described in the article were part of fundamental knowledge in system ergonomics 20xrs ago. After "UI" or "UX" designers took over usability went downhill on many screen. Today the most elementary rule of good design is commonly ignored ("Form follows function").
> No, more just ~10+ years of familiarity with Gary's bullshit from the homebrew scene.

Ah, so because you have a grudge you think corporate servitude is good and showing people the story that lead to it (which could lead to them drawing different conclusions) is "whitewashing".
China is a military and economic supporter of Russia. Shipments of military-capable hardware expose a China-sized loophole in Western sanctions.
https://www.politico.eu/article/china-firms-russia-body-armo.... China defies sanctions to make Russia its biggest oil supplier in 2023
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-defies-sanctio...

China is the biggest importer of Iran's oil. Iran's oil exports reach 5-year high, with China as top buyer
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Commodities/Iran-s-.... Iran supports Houthi, and both with Iranian drones and Houthi missiles, are attacking US and European ships.
I have no idea why you would ask Google Bard about the financial position of the US government. The Treasury department publishes financial statements for public consumption just as law requires. Here you go: https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/reports-statements/financial...

The last reporting year is 2022 and assets were ~$4.9 trillion and liabilities ~$39 trillion.
The fact that TikTok is still allowed to run amok when the PRC has their hands all over it and also shows completely different content to Chinese users is the greatest irony and crime here
I keep seeing Astral Codex Ten posted here for a variety of topics, including science, politics and others. There is a tone of authority to a lot of the writing. I have to ask, what are these person’s qualifications? Are they employed and directly involved across all these subjects they cover?
Do you not think that AI has been doing quite a lot of "actually coming into existence" the past decade? Did we have computers 10 years ago that could beat the best humans at Go, generate photorealistic images or converse in natural language? Rather than the definition changing, the goalpost might be moving a little bit here.
Nice. Put that in resume and LinkedIn as well.
This article mentions nothing about twins being affected asymmetrically by schizophrenia. Any model of the disease needs to account for that.

Also, this gem: "You also can’t point to any individual lung cancer patient and say “smoking caused this person’s lung cancer”."

Article loses all credibility at that point. Lol.
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NTFS might have been rock reliable in Windows NT and perhaps also in Windows 2000.

When Windows XP has been launched, NTFS was certainly much less reliable. Even without being affected by any crashes or other anomalies, the free space on the NTFS partitions of early Windows XP computers would shrink steadily, without any apparent cause, requiring a reformatting/reinstallation after some time.

Early Windows XP was very buggy. While a computer with Windows XP did not require one or more reboots per day like one with Windows 98, failing to reboot it for more than a few days guaranteed a crash.

Only after installing several massive service packs in the following years, Windows XP has become reasonably stable.
Is it a head on collision? The first angle in the video makes it look like it is, but the second angle makes it clearer that its actually hitting from an angle. It seems to be close to a 45 degree angle, which is slightly closer to a real world scenario.
If you change a line of code without doing git-blame on it first you're doing it wrong.

I've been bitten by this many times - I change obvious bug, I'm about to commit the changes, I see the previous commit which introduced the "bug" on purpose and the attached JIRA task has perfectly good explanation for why my obvious change would have reintroduced some bug from 2 years ago :)
There is already socialcoder for non profits, which also provides project management and liaison. This thread would not do better than that service for non-profits, simply because it's more organized.
It's Scott Alexander of SSC. He's a clinical psychiatrist so he's extremely qualified on this one.

On other topics he is well-informed and thoughtful but speaks with less authority.
lol what are you taking about, arguing on the internet is the highest calling! :P
FBI director Wray just spoke about China's strategy.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/director-wrays-opening-sta...

> If or when China decides the time has come to strike, they’re not focused solely on political or military targets. We can see from where they position themselves, across civilian infrastructure, that low blows aren’t just a possibility in the event of a conflict. Low blows against civilians are part of China’s plan.
It's true that Markov chains are very limited in their capabilities. But one thing I love about them is that they are one of the simplest and most intuitive ways to write code that *learns* from input data.

If you're never written something that *learns*, try it out! Here's a very primitive one I wrote recently to explain the basic idea and explains it along the way.

https://github.com/unoti/markov-basics/blob/main/markov-basi...

This starts with generating US city names, and ends with generating text based on the Dungeons and Dragons DM guide.
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It’s legit and has been honed and refined for the past few years by the same Stanford PhD students (now graduated and working at CMU & Princeton).

The latest iteration has promising results for language but no one has yet trained and released a big (7B+) model to see how it scales.
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You can't ace an interview and then slack off if you can't ace an interview.

Interviews aren't perfect, but they can still be good filters.
For great commit messages, just browse the git history of the Linux kernel where this is the standard.

The first line always mentions the subsystem affected by the change, followed by a one-line imperative-mood summary of the change. Subsequently, three questions are answered in as much detail as possible:

1. What is the current behaviour?
2. What led to this change?
3. What is the new behaviour after applying this change?

Example:

"Currently, code does X. When running test case T, unexpected behaviour U was observed. This is because of reason R. Fix this by doing F."
It ain't Xenophobia; it's Facebook and Google throwing a Red Scare (and campaign contributions) to black-ball a company that is taking away from their advertising revenues at an exponential rate. Why can't the TikTok CEO call them out as being the anti-competitive bastards they are?

(Bonus points if he employs the humorous point that Silicon Valley can't tolerate being out-innovated by a Chinese company that didn't steal this idea from anyway but is simply making a more addictive product.)
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The share of power coming from coal power in China is declining. All expansion and then some is covered by clean energy nowadays.
black hole + money = happiness

So deep.
It's really cool to see more folks investing in and trying to support the OSS ecosystem. Hopefully some great contributors apply and receive the grant.

This also seems like a fairly good case for and use of a governance token. Given the noise AI generated CVE reports and even PR's generate, there is a case for a token being useful. I'm not sure that's TEA, but it's good to see folks giving it a shot regardless.
He covered this exhaustively in the previous post https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/some-unintuitive-properties...

Please actually read before snarking.
> it was able to completely exterminate life on Earth in only 18 months

"exterminate"

I think you misspelled "iterate"
Yeah, exactly. Even if you're doing perfectly fine things, compliance costs. If the revenue from Europe isn't worth it (or isn't worth it yet), well, Europe doesn't get access to whatever it is you're doing.
The research on that is pretty clear that it does alleviate congestion, the question is for how long. It can definitely take a while before that extra capacity is used up.
For me it was when one of my early combinations of Pegasus (might also have been unicorn or flying horse, the latter already being a duplicate of Pegasus) and water became hippocampus, but with the hippopotamus emoji ().

I'm sure it was fun for the creator, bit I'll stick with non - AI games for now.
> You’re arguing that poor neighborhoods should pricier or worse water and sewage

Nowhere did I make that claim. I'm simply saying that if a service costs differently to provide in different areas, then it's reasonable to expect different prices paid by the consumer. Of course, you can also make a valid argument that certain kinds of services should cost the same everywhere in the overwhelming interest of public benefit; kind of like how it costs one stamp to send a letter whether it goes from your house to the next house over, or from Florida to Alaska. But it doesn't mean that the former position is automatically unreasonable or discriminatory.

I'm also having a hard time understanding the proposition that internet access is more vital than food and transportation.
Look, my family's in a situation where the living prices are sucking us dry and nearly putting us in debt, all the jobs around here have so many candidates to pick from that we can't get any roles, and because we have no savings we can't afford to move. Maybe what you say can be true for some, but it's hard to survive here if you weren't already born into a privileged position.

I finally happen to be in interviews for a potential remote position now, but it took years to get here, it was not easy, and staying in high school for longer would not have helped.

Now, I'm still lucky to have access to computers. Try telling someone without that kind of access to just find a remote job if there are no local jobs in their area. All the education and skill in the world still might not help them if they don't have access to employment opportunities at all.
They also scale differently - Markov Chains scale exponentially with the size of the window, while transformers scale quadratically. So in fact transformers are really more exponentially more efficient, though without bound on resources their capabilities are a strict subset of that of Markov chain.
The source of the problem is the near-monopoly most ISPs have and the high barrier to entry for a new ISP wanting to enter the market. It makes it difficult for the market to self-regulate here.
It’s not a nerve. Using a poorly run company as an example of success is very bizarre.
> should not be obligated to adapt to a crazy person who is only willing to

Actually yes it should and that's why we have non-discriminatory laws
(the subject of the article) in the first place. In civilised
countries we do that in order to avoid what John Stuart-Mill called
the tyranny of the majority. But since you already see these
minorities as "crazy" I hold out scant hope for your love of other
people. I even think the US even has some constitutional basis for the
Protection of Minority Rights.
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We must have really pissed them off with bill C-18 :)
I've worked at nothing but small start-ups/re-starts for most of my career.

I do get how/why headcount needs to balloon; thankfully I've mostly worked at places where we kept things lean and mean. For me, things stop being fun once head count gets into the hundreds!
The desktop reminds me of TinyCore Linux, although bigger by 15-20 MB.

Fun fact: It was developed by Robert Shingledecker, who was previously the lead developer of Damn Small Linux.
I think the current QA process is a deliberate outcome. If you invest drastically less in testing and mark some hardware configs as unsupported, eventually these hardware configs break.

Like with anything, lack of care leads to degradation. The core functions remain for a while, but without support it's clear where this leads. Microsoft has no reason to be embarrassed or surprised, they chose the circumstances that made this happen!
ISPs are some of the biggest monopolists in the US market and bribe and lean on politicians to keep out competitors. Relative to other industries, they thus lean on the infrastructural status quo (and all the inequity baked into that) to make the most money at the lowest cost to themselves, so your argument doesn’t really track.
> SQL is the abstraction.

SQL is an abstraction in the same way any programming language is an abstraction, but that's beside the point. Within the programming language itself, some support abstraction better than others (and lots of different varieties; it's not well-ordered). SQL basically just doesn't.

> It's a high-level DSL

I agree, but tell that to the people who write the core logic of their entire application in Procedures: that's not very specific. They're using the wrong tool for the job.

> which saves you from the low-level details of an ORM.

This doesn't make sense. The abstraction that SQL is over is the low-level details of how the database query engine works, not an ORM. And an ORM is not "lower level" than SQL. An ORM is just a different abstraction, one that tries to fit more readily into your application language than building SQL strings does. Building SQL strings directly is awful. Get yourself an ORM that allows composition of queries using the abstraction tools available in your language.

It's wild to me that this idea is so controversial that I literally get downvoted for suggesting it, when it's very obviously way better if you try it (or even seriously think about it). It's just an example of how deeply religious database developers are. I don't think any other software engineering sub-discipline is as intolerant of disagreement as database developers.

> people default to thinking that ORMS must be an improvement over SQL

It's not a default judgement. It's 15 years of experience, and tasting the fruit of an ORM done really well. It's also the opinion of the original progenitors of the relational model: EF Codd, Chris Date, etc. (At least, that there vastly better relational abstractions than SQL.) To all you overly religious database developers: guys, your prophets didn't even like SQL!
Face swaps for images can be done with Photoshop within seconds. AI restrictions won't stop those and swapping faces in images existed for decades already.
An LLM is a Markov chain in the same sense that a cat is a tiger, technically true but it misses the qualia.
Apparently not anymore, since a more "fun" word exists for multiple users of a calculator
> Guardrails are intended to keep cars from careening off the road at critical areas, such as over bridges and waterways, near the edges of cliffs and ravines and over rocky terrain, where injury and death in an off-the-road crash are much more likely. ... “Guardrails are kind of a safety feature of last resort,” Brooks said.

From what I've observed this is wrong. Guardrails seem to be used semi haphazardly along roads in places where it wouldn't be the end of the world to go into the ditch. On a bridge, or a median, or elsewhere where going outside the road boundary could be particularly dangerous, they use much better reinforced walls.
Use Bing chat which is supposed to be v4 (for free).
Doesn't work for me either, I'm in the UK and I even got a notificatoin with the update today and when I click on the link it tells me I can create images now, but when I enter a new prompt it tells me:

> I can't create images yet so I'm not able to help you with that.

That is hugely disappointing. Don't tell me a feature if available now if you haven't managed to roll it out yet. Doesn't create a lot of trust in Google's engineering TBH.
"Multiplayer" seems like a weird term outside of video games, but I think it conveys multiple real-time concurrent users more than just "multi-user" would.
Freeway lanes fill up because drivers don't pay to use them. Free resources are always over consumed.

As long as Electricity is metered and billed, it will not have the same problem.
Who said anything about invasions? You could at least respond to the actual allegations made by the person you're responding to. There are perfectly good responses you could make to them rather than changing the subject.
One of the things that causes disparate impact is the fact that as little as 50 years ago, my white parents bought a house in a white neighborhood that my black coworker's parents were prohibited from buying by racist redlining policies.

Today, in 2023, my mother can do WFH consulting in her retirement in part because she can reliably run an HD low-latency video stream, because their neighborhood has fiber and cheap, high-bandwidth service. But my coworker's parents have hugely oversubscribed cable and no fiber options and can't make a video call out because they have negligible upload.

Removing the policy, even all these years later, doesn't change the fact that the policy still has a hugely disparate impact.

The red lines are still there in the exact same places, it's just not on an FHA insurance map denoted by "white" or "not white", it's on a fiber coverage map and says "fiber" or "no fiber".