skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think this is only really true for themselves, but even then short-term vs long-term biases affect decision making.

I can't think of a decent example of governments effectively avoiding a problem beforehand, curious if you have any for comparison though. I'm used to seeing governments either blindly ignorant of problems before they happen, or unwilling to act until something breaks and it becomes a talking point for elections.

> This is not a small qualifier.

We're in total agreement there. It shouldn't be a needed qualifier at all, but our education system is junk and we have collectively leaned into trusting experts rather than informed consent.
> You'd be surprised. Mine did, and in the region I'm from, did many, too. In fact, the modern invention of a nuclear family is more brittle than some want to accept.

I get it. Some families fail. People get really angry about that, and I understand why. That doesn't mean it will never succeed (and frankly, a failed family is imho, in quite a few ways, still better than no family at all).

I'm pretty damn sure the "mass families", or however you want to call it, so big that kids only really had other kids as parents, that came before were a LOT worse than a nuclear family.

My main point is that there's a strong motivation to keep a family going. And that is a huge part of what keeps me stable. I think it's a necessary part of keeping me stable.
It’s just society hasn’t realized they continue to teach the equivalent of creationism to biology when giving legitimacy to Marx and collectivism for economics.

It’s absolutely infuriating and frankly disgusting.
Fairphone 4.
It'd be fairly easy to modify Java so that the primitives, including null, behave more like objects. And certainly, Java has inched that direction.

It doesn't solve anything fundamental though. You could make null.toString() return "null", but in most cases that will just be a bug. You're missing a null check or failed to initialize something.
Agreed. Ive had friends and family that have gone through the process. They need to double if not triple the number of students and match positions. Which puts pressure on the current staff for training. But having an industry where working 70+ hours a week on the regular isn't sustainable. Issue is the culture in my view currently selects for individuals that are good in those environments.
Ontario reveals details of cellphone ban in schools
This doesn't work if the failures are correlated and very often happen to a certain group of people.

Imagine if the system was flawed and assigned all tickets with an unrecognized license plate to NULL or 000000. THe owner of that specific plate would have to spend their entire life contesting tickets.

A less extreme case of this would be a badly-trained model that always detects certain kinds of cars as occupying bus lanes, even if they're parked legally. If you're in the tiny minority that has one of those, you can't park anywhere without getting a ticket which you must contest.

If those cars end up statistically more likely to be owned by the poor / black / homeless, now the local government has a scandal on their hands.
Personal computing paves the way for personal library science
Not sure why this was downvoted. It's true that ccache and build parallelization (e.g. icecream) can grease the wheels enough that builds are no longer a dev cycle bottleneck.

What the article is about, though, is changing the source code so that it is intrinsically faster to compile. At some point you say "this program isn't complicated, why does it take so long to compile?" Then you start looking at unnecessary includes, transitive includes, forward declarations, excessive inlining, etc.
https://youtu.be/nxG0WAwwrGk?si=bfZBZFiKA5EVLgsQ
The paper [0] regarding the Arduino inplementation mentions their MCU runs at 16Mhz, and they are also running the inference on 28x28 images.

This projects MCU runs at 48Mhz and is infering 16x16 images.

So, 3x less pixels, at 4x the Mhz. 7000 / 12 = 583ms. Versus 13.5ms, a 43x speed increase. Does seem high, depending maybe on differences between the AVR and RISC-V hardware and ISA. (Eg, might there be a RAM bottleneck on the AVR chip?)

[0] https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2105/2105.02953.pdf
It gives you the ability to treat nulls as something-to-fix.

In a team without Optionals, every time you touch a null that you didn't expect, you have to decide "Is this deliberately null, or was it a mistake?" Without that knowledge, you don't know whether your code should assert against the null, or allow it to pass through as a valid value.

With Optionals, it becomes much simpler to cut through that nonsense. A null is a bug and you fix it (with the exception of json at the boundaries of your system, etc.) If you do find a value where you change your mind about its nullability, changing it to/from Optional will give you compile errors in exactly those other parts of the code that you now have to check/change.
I don't find this very convincing.
The causal effect could also be the other way around: people whose mental health or well-being was better for other reasons (less stressed, wealthier) had more free time or resources to think about and plan healthier dietary choices and the budget to afford better food options.
I can't tell if this is satire. If so, good one. If not - you should think about what at least what the second order effects would be here
Honestly it would be good for AI if it left California.

California has too much regulatory burden and taxation.
Anyone have a link to a less biased explanation of the bill? I can't take this one too seriously when it baselessly claims people will be charged with thought crimes.
Who knows how exactly that word looks. Might be Features from word which it is badly emulating.
It can't be true!

Why not? One sentinel for every man, woman, and child in Zion. That sounds exactly like the thinking of a machine to me.
> He was looking for $160 billion to make up for what he argued Ukraine would have gained from joining the Eurasian Customs Union

That's disingenuous. He was looking to offset the damage caused by Russia's trade restrictions done in retaliation for considering or signing the agreement. The Reuters article mentions this:

> Next year Ukraine will have to cover foreign debt payments of $8 billion, according to its finance ministry. It was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, partly because Moscow was blocking sales of Ukrainian-produced meat, cheese and some confectionery, and scrapping duty-free quotas on steel pipes. Some officials said the restrictions showed what life would be like if Ukraine signed the EU agreement.

Also, three months before the summit in which it was supposed to be signed, Russia essentially stopped all imports from Ukraine[0] but resumed them after the agreement failed[1]

[0] https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/economic/164137.html

[1] https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/economic/182691.html
You know, rather that making something you could just look at the literal decades of legal history here. People have been contesting camera tickets since the 20th century and the article specifically notes that they retain the video footage long enough to cover the adjudication period where someone has the right to challenge the ticket and would have access to the recording for that purpose.

Where I live, every ticket arrives with a link to view the video. This has lead to really telling moments where people have ranted about the “trap” and some even share the videos, which reliably show them rolling through stop signs or red lights.
That would, but unless each line in your .env file is prefixed with "export", those env vars won't get passed into any subprocesses you run.
cars led to the creation of CHP and the expansion of US police authority, then that spread even more afar.

People should not be allowed to drive unsupervised. I am anti surveillance and anti cop. There is no safe world with unsupervised driving. And so we as a society traded some of our rights, acknowledging this new dangerous tool but choosing its convenience even though this led to whole new police departments, policies, etc.

Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, and even drivers know that the way people drive is a serious problem.

I don’t want the cameras either, but to get rid of those you have to get rid of cars.
you can click one of the ML-selected categories at the top of your homepage to tell it what you'd like to see today
You'd need to `set -a` or pass the `-a` as a flag to have them auto-exported though, so:

sh -ac '. ./.env; ./prog'

Also if you use the `.` builtin it's a good idea to specify the path with a slash in it, so that `.` doesn't search $PATH first.
In principle I think students would be better off without cell phones. In practice, the schools boards are going for lazy quick wins instead of addressing real problems with education.

Now teachers get to be mall cops watching to see if a student has a phone instead of educating.
but you said to test the 500 owners, how would an infected owner effect the cats behavior?
There isn't really anything fundamental. A heavier car has more momentum but it can also be fitted with larger tires with more contact area and the force of gravity pressing it into the road provides increased traction in proportion to mass.

Cars aren't built to meet the theoretical limits of physics, they're built with trade offs against cost and other factors, so in practice things like stopping distance are less related to weight and more related to how much you prioritize it over the competing trade offs. A heavier car with the same stopping distance might cost more, but then there are people willing to pay for that.
Is this a reverse sort?
How does the layman consumer inspect/assess the quality/safety of other drugs or really any other substance that they ingest?
Why not read the bill itself? https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...

It's not that big
An LLM will probably be able to do most of what human minds can do like reason, predict, hypothesize, research, and even get hooked up to other systems to: Visualize, smell, taste, balance, and even direct the movement of limbs, but an LLM can't and won't ever be able to: Feel pain, bliss, anger, sadness, can't feel positive/negative, can't eat/drink, be hungry, feel fatigued, get excited, enjoy things, dislike things, contemplate, meditate, feel warm or cold (though it can detect it), can't feel dizzy (though it can know when it's off balance) - any action where having an experience is a necessary part of what it's doing and the output of it, an LLM is not sufficient to deliver on and never will be.

To compare to a brain, the LLM is like the prefrontal cortex or language and decision network in the outermost layer, but we would still need the amygdala in that metaphor - emotional drives, urges, episodic first-person memories, and experiential components that accompany the language and complete it with personhood.

For raw sensations and tactiles we might need that innermost brain stem - which is probably more chemistry than computation - for the "lights to be on". For example, some jobs will require not just language intelligence, and not just personhood, but for the light behind the images and feelings in the sensations, so that it feels (and would be) alive.
It's an element of deterrence. If you and your enemy are rattling your nukes at each other, and you know for a fact that their command and control apparatus is going to be concentrated in a particular bunker, you might be tempted to see if you can strike that bunker and "win" the exchange with a decapitation strike. Conversely if you know that as soon as the nukes started rattling they launched a plane that can coordinate responses to whatever you do no matter how many bombs you drop on their country, then you will need to destroy all of their forces comprehensively and your path to "victory" looks much worse.
I think lots of times this is the essence of agism: that old dogs can't learn new tricks etc. I'm not sure path dependence needs to be as strong as it is, but it often is because society disallows it.
This is also why we have actually meaningful consumer protections in place.
I’m an encyclopedia lover who works on a variety of applied math problems as part of $dayjob at a national lab.

I thought the book might be fun to browse around in, so I purchased it. I knew the companion book (…to Mathematics) had a very good reputation.

It didn’t work for me…long story short is, the articles were written at too high a level of sophistication to serve as an introduction for a curious outsider. It was more of what someone in a nearby field might want to get up to speed on what is known, when their background in “that kind of thing” is already quite strong.

I was surprised for various reasons - I know Higham’s technical work, enjoy his blog, and I have a decent math background. (Of course, he’s the editor, not the author - it’s an enormous book.)

Ah, well. Not every shoe has to fit.
Made a PDF with the missing page: https://gwern.net/doc/cs/security/1949-bradley.pdf
Maybe insurance should cover if an obese person is already walking 10000 steps per day for a year and not able to lose weight.
>Where in that stack is the biggest loss of performance

Exclusively the minds of developers and the stance of management.

It is of course possible to built responsive, high quality and performance websites. But that is hard, much, much harder than to make something work, which maybe takes a few seconds to load, sometimes doesn't work quite right and can be a bit tedious to use.
It depends on the location, my local automated speed camera process involves getting a human-approved ticket in the mail that includes the photos.
Why is this not a genetic algorithm? Genetic evolution does not require crossover.
Fixing C source code from the internet using cake static analyzer
Cake is a open source compiler and static analyzer in development. (Not production quality yet.)

This video shows how cake can help programmers to create safe code just fixing warnings.

https://youtu.be/X5tmkF16UMQ

We copy paste code then we add pragma safety enable

This enables two features ownership and nullable checks. Ownership will check if the fclose is called for instance, also checks double free etc, while nullable checks will check for de-referencing null pointers.

New qualifiers _Opt and _Owner are used but they can be empty macros, allowing the same code to be compiled without cake.
Until it's pros themselves responding to out-of-hour VAR shocks, and doing it outside hours. Not that it doesn't already happen, but its a matter of degree.
Slow down there, California.

Florida is growing too fast as it is.
Compare with dotenvx - https://github.com/dotenvx/dotenvx
This is my current tool of choice.
Other nations holding us debt is a natural result of both the trade deficit and the USD being the world reserve currency. There is nothing really special or sinister about china holding US bonds.
...because those are normally proprietary documents.

ARM, for example, put a tonne of effort into decoupling their ISA specification from their implementations, and guard this document.

You're seeing how the sausage is made.
I think revised American heart association guidelines to be more specific and recommend walking 8-10k steps per day would probably do more benefit than a lot of pharmaceutical therapies.
Can you give me an example of effective consumer protection?
And of course the TRS-80 and clones such as the Dick Smith System-80 that we had in Australia and New Zealand. Lots of good memories programing with EDTASM. I only had a cassette drive so if my code went wrong I usually had to hit reset and reload EDTASM and my code again from tape.
I'm familiar. Completely transformed New York City in the 1990s for the better.

But I'm not suggesting that every law is good. If a law is not enforceable or not a net positive for the community, change it or get rid of it. But don't enforce it inconsistently, and don't apply it to certain people and not others depending on the whims of the police and the district attorneys and their personal predilections and politics.
This is exactly what's being proposed - quoting the article, "Once a recording is made, it will be submitted to L.A. Department of Transportation where a human will assess whether a ticket should be issued."

In any case, neither the camera company nor the bus company have any authority to issue tickets, all they can do is submit complaints+evidence to the appropriate institution.
There is an unfortunate tunnel vision focus on renewables when the real goal should be deep decarbonization. The reason is obvious when you realize that people of a certain generation (who are in power now) don't like nuclear energy because 'nuclear' was the bogeyman while they were growing up. They are dragging the rest of us down with them into an era of unstable and unreliable power at huge expense.
Exploring the Impact of Mindless Media Exposure
Do we really though?

Web developers do of course, but I've hardly touched web development myself. Web interfaces etc., are a choice, but I think it's driven by commercial needs-- a desire for subscription revenue instead of one-time sales, etc.

Much of the modern cloud-based or half-online world is quite unnatural from a user perspective, and where there is no need for monetisation-- for example with OpenOffice, the software can expected to remain a desktop application.
No need to imagine, there's a reason Adderall, Vyvanse, and just about any amphetamine are banned in Japan.
People may not know that you are the creator of Chimera Linux.

There does seem to be a lot of BSD influence over Chimera with the BSD userland, Clang / LLVM toolchain, lack of glibc, and cports.

Regardless of the inspiration, the design choices in Chimera are great. Being able to standardize on things like Pipewire and Wayland without legacy. Working to bring the functionality of systemd without the monolith is great too. I hope Turnstile catches on.
How to Judge a Book by Its Cover
I’ve got a bunch of razer stuff across two desktops - 1 set of speakers, one headset, two mousepads, two mice, three keyboards (upgrade, not broken), and 3 mice (the scroll wheel on one ended up sketchy but otherwise it was working). Overall my experience has been positive from a reliability standpoint.
You did have to provide proof! you were assumed guilty until you proved yourself innocent by using the evidence that the state themselves already had, but didn’t present as proof of the infringement.
I really hate the repetition from separating out header and definition files so I've been writing my whole codebase headers only.

I feel like this kills my compile time but I'm not sure how to fix it. Precompiled headers?
No, it was not taken as a given, it was an example of a very common product that digital image sensors enabled. I could have chosen e.g. digital cinema cameras, but they would not nearly have the same profound effect as cell phone cameras have had on society.
But has it had long-term studies as a weight-loss drug instead of a diabetes treatment? The results might be different.
One of the features of OS/2 was it could act as a terminal controller. One day people started having problems with their terminals. Response times were getting slower and slower and finally they ground to a halt.

From across the cube farm there was an "oh no" Turns out that our co-worker didn't attach to the dev system, he attached to the production environment. As users detached sessions and reconnected, they connected to his desktop. As his desktop got more and more sessions, they got slower and slower.

Lucky for him it was only our building, the main phone center wasn't involved.

Still think of you buddy, one of my favorite "back in the day" stories.
What do Buddhists think about autism?
It seems obvious how you could make it slow. Just naively iterate over the entire series of objects looking up the name for each.

This is the obvious low effort, low complexity solution. Of course you could make it fast, but that would take time and effort for a feature most people won't notice.
Briefly:

- Developers must assess whether their AI models have hazardous capabilities before training them. They must also be capable of promptly shutting down the model if safety concerns arise.

- Developers must annually certify compliance with safety requirements. They must report any AI safety incidents to a newly created Frontier Model Division within the Department of Technology.

- Cluster Operation Regulation: OOpolicies to assess whether customers intend to use the cluster for deploying AI models. Violations may lead to civil penalties.

- A new division within the Department of Technology will review developer certifications, release summarized findings, and may assess related fees.

- The Department of Technology will establish a public cloud computing cluster named CalCompute, focusing on safe and secure deployment of large-scale AI models and promoting equitable innovation.
You can now turn on end-to-end encryption on Messenger, and it sounds like they're making that the default option:

https://about.fb.com/news/2023/12/default-end-to-end-encrypt...
In many places going over what you can store might put you over emission quotas and you would have to shut down anyway. I'm familiar with one incident at large DC which had fuel left and could easily get more, but only had few hours before they were required to shut down by EPA.
each link was displayed with a number next to it in parentheses.[1] type the number to go to the link.
[1]https://line-mode.cern.ch/www/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
The bill doesn't give special treatment to "EA" models, so what does it matter whether projects are tied to EA or whether EAs are good stewards? Either it's a good law or it isn't.

At a glance it looks like it's not going to affect AI projects that are basically consumers of existing models, which is most projects.
With a good IDE configured to break on nullability errors, @Nonnull and @Nullable can also be used to replace the C# system in practice (not the same, but close enough). Unfortunately, this requires coordination from different team members and external dependencies rather than standard language features.
Google Docs is pretty efficient. It loads incredibly fast and you never have to manually update it. But, it clear has limits… 30MB Word files.
Realistically, none of those things have happened in a way that puts a dent in ever climbing obesity rates. I think it’s time we celebrate the pharmaceuticals and pay up. This is one of those times where technology might solve a social problem.
I don't know. My experience is that as you get older, you're constantly evaluated against what could have been, and experiences that in youth would have been seen positively become discounted or, strangely, even held against you.

It often feels as if a second chance at a certain point in life requires more than a change in yourself; it requires an even bigger change than earlier, once over to make the real change, and twice over to convince others or overcome their biases. Either that or the luck of finding someone who understands second chances and is willing to give them.
you bring up a good point. when work is very challenging then i get exhausted and need to take a break. however, i don't see that as a threat to the flow state because i see no point in trying to keep the flow at that point. i need a break anyways. so i don't see it as an interruption but more like having reached my limits. i have been wracking my brain over this piece of code and i don't understand whats wrong. then it's time to take a step back, take a break, do something else and look at the problem again with a fresh mind tomorrow.
I took it the opposite way (that it implied they do make decisions based on that info) but I guess it could be interpreted either way.
Does anyone ever feel like they can enter too much of a flow state where you can solve a programming problem or an equation and not even consciously know what you just did and how it works
Can humans see ultraviolet light?
Can you please elaborate with some examples ?
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