jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
To be honest, 'anatomically correct humans' were doing that to one another anyway. To treat Neanderthal like that, was actually to treat them as really human. Just like everybody else.
Ever since my company moved our office to another state (upped my commute to 30 minutes both ways), and put us in a horrible open office design, I've been pushing hard to get to work from home. FINALLY it happened, and I never want to go back. With the success we've had WFH in the last 2 years, I think leadership is finally listening.

Happy employees are better employees.
Downside: favicons don't have alt attributes; this would impair accessibility.
This is a lovely little article that speaks of the unscalability of distributed transactions. However, to my great surprise, Google is apparently putting distributed transactions in the Spanner project, the next generation of BigTable.

See Jeff Dean's talk here:

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/10/17/JeffDeanDesignLe...
>shared drives, word documents, excel documents, externally received word/excel, Lotus Notes, Exchange, etc.

All can be virtualized. You'd be surprised how many large companies are (legally) running Office and productivity applications on say, a Citrix server, and already treating full blown (expensive) windows clients like "dumb terminals"

The difference can be imperceptible, even to someone whose tech savvy. (Local desktop icons, no noticeable decline in performance, etc)
> This comes with downsides around dicking around with trying to jam every part of the computation into the type system (not unlike C++ template meta programming)

doing this my whole career has completely, 100% percent been an upside. This removes literally entire classes of bugs. Every time I've moved some check from run-time to compile-time I ended up finding so many cases that were subtly broken and that the compiler will now catch perfectly, until the end of time. I don't understand how it is sane to accept bugs that are automatically preventable.
I'm working to make it so that there's basically no real API for the vocabulary at all, you just use a little widget on the site to specify exactly the relevant functionality your app supports, and how the word realizes that, with nice visual linkages. LE will then pull that info into the logical formalism. No API needed, just some clicks.

Ideally, it should be so simple that I can make a 2 minute video of it and by the end, you'll think "well that was obvious", as opposed to "ugh now I have to learn type theory? ffs"

I did a dopey little sketch on of the idea, fwiw https://twitter.com/psygnisfive/status/558287230662615040
Julia Sweeney on astrology - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVjturKoFsg

(The background is she just found out she was actually born 3 months after her parents told her she was born - they lied to get her to start school a year earlier.)
The C64 did this (pretty much). It had a rarely used realtime clock function in the CIA 6526 (Complex Interface Adapter) chips. You could power the C64 off just 5VDC for most purposes (or a voltage roughly in that region - I experimented with running mine off both a 4.5V and 9V batteries; it was surprisely robust against abuse from people like me who preferred physical experimentation to actually reading up on what'd be advisable to subject it to), but if you didn't provide an AC source on the right pin too, the realtime clock and the user port wouldn't work as they should.
http://www.gog.com have many of the greats from the last few decades and a growing selection of newer stuff, with no DRM.
Cannot wait for this to be paired with Azure Machine Learning. The results will be quite interesting, methinks.
That makes very little sense. You shouldn't start a company unless you have a very strong idea, evidence that it makes sense, capital etc.
I feel my comment tracks extremely well with the sections you cite and that it takes some mental gymnastics to read exactly the link you provided and then act like my comments somehow don’t track. The original criticisms were about failure of source data for large models (eg reddit for GPT) to account for fast shifts in social activism language specifically.

The other major problematic section is on energy use and unqualified comparison of units of large model training with carbon emissions of other activities (with no attempt to account for societal value of ML model research or training, nor economies of scale as training technology democratizes it and makes it cheaper). It is similar to the incredibly specious diatribes from Stephen Diehl lately balking at the raw energy numbers of Bitcoin mining, as if those numbers mean anything or relate to any conclusions on their own.

I wrote up a lot more of my thoughts on Gebru’s bad article when it was first leaked. Here’s that comment:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25314824

I also feel you are very commonly involved in lengthy downvote / flagging threads with disingenuous takes on others’ comments and deliberate unwillingness to apply charitable takes or avoid taking things out of context. I am sure from your POV you don’t feel that way and I’m not asking anyone to agree with my assessment; I have zero goal of citing things to back it up. I am just going to preemptively drop off from replying to you any further.
There is some flaws and limitations to the AI story, but we already have self-improving thought germs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE3j_RHkqJc
American police kill a lot more people than our OECD peers do, but again, it is worth noting that overall gun violence is higher is the US. US police killings are 3.5X that of Canada, and the US gun homicides are 6.5X that of Canada.

>it would be unreasonably deferential to cops to presume that they have no part in the problem, especially with so many high-profile anecdotes of cops escalating or using force unnecessarily.

I think that the cops are one cog in a poorly designed machine, and in my opinion, not the most impactful one. Changing police policy is necessary, but not sufficient change to reduce police violence. We live in a relative police state, and it is convenient to place the bulk of the blame the replaceable enforcers opposed the system of laws and policies which perpetuate violent crime and violent police. Only changes to the latter will result in lasting change. To tie in the Canada comparison, The US also has 6.5X the incarceration rate.

>it would be unreasonably deferential to cops to presume that they have no part in the problem, especially with so many high-profile anecdotes of cops escalating or using force unnecessarily. If using violence is traumatic, then doesn't a lot of the blame for that trauma fall onto the same people who decide to use it unnecessarily, and onto the same people that have willingly adopted a warrior mentality

There are some cases where there is obvious misbehavior by officers and they should be held accountable for their actions, although I think this effect is overstated by focusing on the most outrageous examples. Most often, my understanding is that police shooters are acting in accordance with police training and policy to use lethal force when they perceive lethal threat from others. In these cases, think much of the "blame" falls on the policing institutions. The question becomes if a different policy exists would result in fewer unnecessary civilian deaths, with minimal increase in officer deaths. Perhaps there are win-win solutions where both death rates are reduced by avoiding dangerous scenarios entirely (e.g. avoiding unnecessary no-knock raids).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
It’s not a viable offline training machine but this thing flies with data munging. I have the 16gb version and pandas data frames that are 40gb or so load from csvs in two minutes with type inference for example. So long as you can use Google Collab it’s an excellent deep leaning laptop where it counts.
Its good to see Singularity getting more mainstream coverage. I think Singularity is inevitable, but I don't agree with Kurzweil's timeline or the fact that he is the face of Singularity. I understand that he wants to live forever but that doesn't mean he has to sell over-optimistic theories.

Maybe people who takes his over-optimistic predictions seriously will work harder to drive innovation?
Exactly.

Peter F. Hamilton explores this in "The Reality Dysfunction".

Although it's Sci-Fi and a space-opera it's it illustrates the problem pretty well.
Vendor isn't spelled with a u in any english-speaking country.
Yudkowsky's quantum physics sequence addresses this question.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/

It's long and hard to understand, but easier to understand than other explanations of quantum physics.

You can skip right to the answer, though you may not accept it without having understood the background.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/qx/timeless_identity/

>If you can see the moments of now braided into time, the causal dependencies of future states on past states, the high-level pattern of synapses and the internal narrative as a computation within it - if you can viscerally dispel the classical hallucination of a little billiard ball that is you, and see your nows strung out in the river that never flows - then you can see that signing up for cryonics, being vitrified in liquid nitrogen when you die, and having your brain nanotechnologically reconstructed fifty years later, is actually less of a change than going to sleep, dreaming, and forgetting your dreams when you wake up.
http://silverbackapp.com/
It's just like A/B bucket tests on websites.
Thanks for the insight on Nick Wade. He appears to have been quite let down that there isn't a 1:1 mapping between genes and specific disease outcomes. No evolutionary biologist would be remotely surprised by this.

The startling fact that he fails to observe is that genes are only part of the picture. Every gene is expressed in a variety of environments and at each level (DNA, the cell, the tissue, organ, organism, etc.) environmental impacts are significant.

I'm very excited about the potential of 23andme to offer a significant leap forward in this sort of statistical work that can tease out more environmental factors b/c of the elaborate surveys they have created under 23andwe.

Of course, these are not going to all be publishable quality at first, but the important thing is to start to understand (and respect) what is going on.
> When I said "a heap big enough to require multiple pages", I actually meant it.

Did you? Your math that follows seems to indicate otherwise.

> Hence, I was referring to the size of the heap he used for his test: 8MB (1M records, 512 elements per page, 1954 pages allocated in memory).

I don't understand. I demonstrated that a heap with only 2048 records requires multiple 4 KB pages. Are you perhaps confusing KB with MB?

> Indeed. If you fixed your 8MB heap in memory, you would lose that 8MB of pages for other uses. I guess it's a trade-off then...is it better to use 8MB of RAM on a system with gigabytes of main memory, or to re-write fundamental data structures for worst-case timing of operations that occur once per minute?

The knowledge you seem especially to lack here is that Poul's software, Varnish, is designed to operate in conditions where swap is being used. It's irrelevant how many gigabytes of main memory are available: Varnish will use it all, and let the operating system decide which VM pages should be evicted to disk and which should remain resident in memory. His software lives at high VM pressure by design, so every page his index/heap requires in memory is a page of cached content that Varnish will not be able to deliver quickly. He doesn't just pay that cost when the heap runs once per minute, but also when the heap's pages are paged out again, and pages which would otherwise have remained resident in memory are brought back into memory.
I guarantee you that on average the population of somewhere like Peru is doing better now than 50 years ago.
I agree. When the tools get in the way it is very difficult to learn.
Thank you
Very appreciated
IME, the strengths were primarily that it was Java+. However, the Java-heavy organizations that might most benefit from it tended to also be the most averse to change. Changing "that much" for "only" incremental change wasn't worth the risk for risk-averse companies. The companies that weren't risk averse tended to try it, but also go outside the JVM altogether when appropriate. So... in a way it was too good at just being a more useful Java, but that wasn't enough for Java-heavy shops.
I'm confused...

Sniff test:

World pop: ~ 7,000,000,000
1%: ~ 70,000,000

Population of the US ~ 300,000,000
Median income in the US ~ $50,000

So you can come up with well over 70 million people in the US with incomes greater than $50,000. How then can the global top 1% cut off be $35k?
Interactive version: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1502a/zoomable/
I'm especially impressed by the time scaling. Back when I fiddled around with physics collision/physics libraries years ago (ODE), have a fixed timestep was a fundamental design decision and changing that led to weird and unpredictable behaviour.

Things have come quite a long way :)

Edit: still has problems with squishiness of stacked solid objects though :\
Isnt Fairness Doctrine in direct opposition against free speech?
You can have up to 100 people in a room. You have unlimited rooms. We're also building a broadcast feature so that you can talk/announce across rooms.

We've not given flexibility on the spatial audio radius yet. It could be interesting!
this is not the experience i have in a large san francisco based company. i think these things are distractions and retarded waste of time. however i am not representative of others who view this involvement as critical to working at the company. or even a reason to apply in the first place. it’s important for hiring and engagement. it has a real impact on people. so you have to be involved or your risk losing a good employee / candidate who falls in this category
It also improved the field of view for the display — you can view the display from an oblique angle and it looks great.

This could get annoying in public places, where you don't want people looking at your phone.
@anamax Did you try to run a scam in the real estate bubble? You probably didn't. Therefore the regulations worked.

The reality is that with absolutely no regulation, there is an incentive to do lots of hanky panky. With regulation, you take away the incentive to the casual 'crook', or 'opportunity taker'.

However, no amount of regulation will prevent the most hard-nosed of crooks. Just like no amount of security will stop the most hardcore hacker/burglar.

With regards to the mortgage crisis, there were financial incentives to skirt regulation. People respond directly to incentives, so it is no surprise that happened.
Yes, mobile ads were discussed during the Android keynote.
If you look at the results in the link I posted, you'll see that Play ends up being 6 times the speed of Rails. I know about JRuby and have used it much, but that sort of speed improvement can't be ignored, especially considering how close Play comes to making Java beautiful...
And, in some rare cases, you find the mental fortitude to embrace your inner psychopath and bend the world to your will. You find a way to cast aside morality, while at the same time convincing the rest of the world that you haven't. You do, or do not find happiness by doing this, but you know that you would have never been happy by not trying.

http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/psychopath.htm
I hope you can make it work. I am nowhere near the path to saving enough to retire soon. Although I'm still holding onto the hope that I could build my own path start enjoying programming again with the BS and pointless stress removed.

To make that work though, I'm done with the interview circus. It's been such a distraction over the past 3-4 years, that if I wasn't prepping for interviews or staying up to date with the waste of knowledge that they test for in tech interviews, I could've built a successful business already. Now I'm choosing to focus my time there.
I think the point was that there basically is no fully technical solution. Regulation has to come from the society in question.

Granted, I'm holding out hope that someone surprises us with a technical solution. I just don't have high hopes there.
I don’t know much about industry but it seems to me there are two ways to look at ML. First is you learn some of optimization, stats, math, parallel computing, numerical methods. The second is that you learn a hell of a lot about fiddling with different network architectures and applying things to specific problems. I wonder whether the first (more fundamental) approach doesn’t have different prospects. At least in this case it can lead to career paths like a national lab.
They're quite similar to slide rules in that respect. Learning how to use one gives you an intuitive grasp of the operations you might otherwise miss (or not see as clearly), but there are far better tools for doing the actual computation.
Watch the new private group that controls .org revoke their right to this domain.
> We'd still run into problems even if they did: the line feed is a valid UTF-8 character and is one of the characters with special meaning in many programs.

They could ban new line from file names too. See this proposal: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=251
> Your link is a scanned paper article

Which is formatted properly and has references cited correctly. It is organized and precise.

It would be better if you found the real PDF. What is NOT OK is to link to the back of a manual that is a reformatted version that is already not a primary reference.

When I said "JUNK" that is exactly the kind of sloppiness I'm talking about.
> Operating systems do not enforce valid UTF-8 on filenames.

macOS does. In fact, it goes a step farther and normalizes filenames (NFD).

I'm not aware of any serious problems this has caused. It turns out that -- to a reasonable approximation -- nobody actually writes software which puts arbitrary binary data in filenames.
"The average lifespan of a discontinued Google product is 4 years and 1 month."

"The average lifespan of a DISCONTINUED Google product..."

Note this does not mean the average lifespan of a Google product is 4 years. There numbers do not include products which have NOT been killed.
You're living post-scarcity. Let's hope everyone will be able to, at some point.
> Or maybe there is a way to create ML models that produces output which only someone with the correct (private) key can understand.

Yes, that's what the blog post describes how to do.
Given that I'm very far removed from these events, I don't think it's my place to make strong judgements about what is and isn't justified in what has obviously been a very long and bitter conflict.

That being said, I don't think the PKK explicitly uses these past offenses to justify their continued activity in the conflict. My understanding is that they continue fighting because the Turkish Kurds still lack any meaningful political representation, they oppose Erdogan's push towards Islamic national identity, and because the Turkish State continues to carry out military strikes against Kurdish targets outside Turkey's borders.

I'm by no means an authority on this topic so feel free to correct me if I've made any incorrect statements. It sounds like you're much close to this conflict than I am, in which case my heart goes out to you in wishing for a peaceful resolution to all of this.
Probably just the CC, based on your use cases listed.

The use of Open Flint is interesting here, since it isn't tied to any major digital retailer. Amazon prime video won't work over Chromecast because, well, Amazon Prime competes with Google Play.

It's too bad that Flint is coming to the game this late - it would have been great if they had been there at the beginning of the market and became more of a standard.
Always experiment with pricing. It's easy to misprice ewares optimally by a magnitude of 2.
I got a FireTV stick as well, and I am having a lot of fun hacking it.

You can sideload most Android apps including Chrome, Firefox and XBMC/Kodi without rooting.

You can also install an AirPlay app and use it as an AirPlay receiver.
http://techreport.com/news/27619/intel-compute-stick-is-a-14... $149
They don't sell data, they sell access to fine grained slices of their users.

"You want to advertise to 65 year old white people[1] in QAnon so you can pedal a very specific kind of fear? No problem."

"You want to buy access to black women under 30? We gotcha!"

That is what Facebook does which Apple doesn't.

[1] I know FB doesn't actually allow targeting based on race anymore. They do allow targeting based on interests though which can easily amount to the same thing.
I wish I had thought it that way when I was in my thirties.
If you don't know how to do it. Don't fake it.
> This time we believe it was acceptable because our political views here in HN, mostly are aligned with the ones of folks running social platform

There's different types of acceptable that get confused (for some people they may be equivalent, but the problem is that they fail to recognize that for other people they are distinct, and also that they fail to realize that making them equivalent is the essence of totalitarian control), specifically:

“Is it right that the private actor makes this decision?”

vs.

“Is it right that the private actor is free to make this decision?”

Twitter has made several curation decisions I thought were not acceptable in the first sense, because my political views are not aligned with Twitter's, such as deciding to lift the rules applicable to most participants from those that met a new leadership position test in response to widespread complaints about Trump’s routine violations early in its term.

But I don't find those decisions unacceptable in the second sense because I believe in freedom.of speech and the press, which exactly means that Twitter ought to be free to decide on what content it will carry, including whether and how to take the social position of the source of the content into account.
I'm at a $MEGACORP and actively work to reduce meetings as much as possible. I've found there to be far less need for meetings as my colleagues are more experienced than those at startups. I can trust them to execute, make smart decisions and escalate if need be. Startups tend to require a lot more hand holding (and therefore more meetings).
It's not "a random thing on the internet". The Vitamin D correlation has been observed early in the pandemic. Most people are generally deficient and should supplement either way.
I think that's what adds to the humor.
I absolutely thought this was clubhouse.io until I had a closer look at the screenshots. I have no idea what this other clubhouse app is. Confusing indeed.