jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have to concur in a comment here because this TED talk was so mind blowing for me I feel I need to write down my opinions about it somewhere. The way this guy talks about mushrooms is extremely earnest and its clear he's both incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about his field. It's almost as though he can't get the information out of his mouth and into the crowd fast enough, and what's more is that he speaks like he has discovered and is revealing for the first time the world's most incredible secrets - which in a way he is. It's not over dramatic, just genuine and awesome. Watch this video!
1) In the event of a true national emergency the President would order action to be taken without a law in place. Ex: Posse Commitatus, the military can not be used for policing but past Presidents have regularly violated this law. If the cause is mildly just enough, the resources will not be invested to punish them.

2) There has been ZERO concrete examples given of situations that would necessitate use of this new power and why. The Patriot Act was a response to terrorism yet has been used exclusively to investigate money laundering for organized crime. Because this is also a law against an unspecific fear and not against a highly specified vulnerability, what this law will actually be used for is anyone's guess and, like the patriot act, its true use will be invented much later.

3) This IS the authoritarian Great Firewall. Giving the president the power to kill parts of the internet is the SAME THING as allowing executive branch agencies to arbitrarily filter specific content.

4) Coercing ISPs to install traffic-control gateways controlled by the executive branch is the legitimization of domestic spying.

5) It's an unnecessary expansion of the department of Homeland Security to include a cyberwarfare branch. The Department of Homeland Security is quite possibly the most wasteful branch of our government. Homeland Security contracts have been some of the worst of the worst of pork-barrel spending.

6) Lieberman is a tool.
Always liked Thomas Barnett's talk on the Pentagon's new map for peace. Interesting ideas. Delivers with some humor.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/thomas_barnett_draws_a_new...
Filmaster (http://filmaster.com) has an open source movie recommendation engine based on the ideas developed during the Netflix contest. It's documented at the Filmaster wiki: http://filmaster.org and its source is freely available at bitbucket. Worth a try.
I think the problem is that the software model is being used in other industries. Not just in production (e.g. Tesla "move fast and break things" on things that are life/death, or merely very expensive) but also in valuation: Tesla, WeWork, and a ton of others are/were valued as technology companies even if they are clearly not.

When this happen you start getting comically bad results (see: all the summon feature failures on Twitter) and catastrophic valuation corrections (see: almost all the recent "technology" IPOs).

The whole VC market seems to be built on this built-in assumption that everything will be able to scale and have the margin of software companies, even when it is obvious that it is impossible. I am not sure why there is such a gap between reality and VC/investors in general, but it's probably going to seem obvious in retrospect.
Or how about we keep taking trains that already have sleeper cars in them?

Is each individual transporting herself in a massive land-yacht truly the future of cities? I sure hope not.
For ConvNets, the memory use of the models themselves is pretty modest. For example, even with 0.5B parameters, with FP32, weights+gradients+momentum should use just 6GB (unless your framework sucks, or you have extra overhead from distributed training) So, if your model is twice smaller, you'll only save 3GB. If your VRAM is 32GB, saving 3GB won't let you use a much bigger batch size. On the other hand, the absence of batch norm can actually lead to memory savings proportional to batch size.
That's a question I asked myself a few times.

The fundamental part of a blockchain is that each block signs the previous block, making it very difficult to rewrite history. And it is exactly what git does.

We could implement a cryptocurrency on a git repository. Just commit and push 'I am X, here is the proof, send Y gitcoins to Z' whenever you want to do that.

The only thing git is lacking compared to say, bitcoin, is a builtin way to select the "origin" repository. In most git-based projects, there is a global consensus on a central location. In bitcoin, it is automatically selected based on who wasted to most computing power on a pointless cryptography problem.
Law of unintended consequences say that, that will lead into even more cops hiding things under the rug for their colleagues, since a mistake can end that persons future life.
I read that the precursor was using an animal and there is a way to make it artificially (which was not approved by the FDA so far).

I just wish governments were focusing on helping in ramping up manufacturing instead of using the current crisis for stealing as much money as possible (which is happening in my country).
Khan Academy is essentially built around preparing students for College Board exams such as the SAT and AP. The College Board is even one of Khan Academy's key supporters
this is easy to chuck together in a few days, literally, from pre-existing components found on the internet.

* litex (choose any one of the available cores)

* richard herveille's excellent rgb_ttl / VGA HDL
https://github.com/RoaLogic/vga_lcd

* some sort of "sprite" graphics would do
https://hackaday.com/2014/08/15/sprite-graphics-accelerator-...

the real question is: would anyone bother to give you the money to make such a project, and the question before that is: can you tell a sufficiently compelling story to get customers - real customers with money - to write you a Letter of Intent that you can show to investors?

if the answer to either of those questions is "no" then, with many apologies for pointing this out, it's a waste of your time unless you happen to have some other reason for doing the work - basically one with zero expectation up-front of turning it into a successful commercial product.

now, here's the thing: even if you were successful in that effort, it's so trivial (Richard Herveille's RGB/TTL HDL sits as a peripheral on the Wishbone Bus) that it's like... why are you doing this again?

the real effort is the 3D part - Vulkan compliance, Texture Opcodes, Vulkan Image format conversion opcodes (YUV2RGB, 8888 to 1555 etc. etc.), SIN/COS/ATAN2, Dot Product, Cross Product, Vector Normalisation, Z-Buffers and so on.
That depends on your timeframe, acceptance of risk, liquidity needs, and the other usual suspects. I will reevaluate my decision in about 6 months, so I'm happy to keep it in cash for now (earning bupkis, but very low risk and easily used to buy in again).
The little guy who bought puts when the stock was at 400 did okay.
The advantage of seed backup + hierarchical deterministic keys is greatly underapreciated.
> Go ahead, find an approach to morality that leads to a healthy 30yo getting vaccinated while a 70+ does not

If the 30 year old is employed in a position with many unavoidable close contacts, the expected number of lives, life-years, or QALYs saved by vaccinating them can be much higher than the 70 year old, if the latter has few unavoidable close contacts.
I would like to push against the notion that expressing ableist beliefs, as long as they don't affect the actual person who is a target of the ableism, doesn't deserve calling out. These sorts of expressions of opinions interact broadly with the community as a signal of acceptable and unacceptable ways to view people. Expressing this sort of callous willingness to imply someone one doesn't know all that well is dangerous simply because they have behaved some way differently also has the secondary effect of exampling that members of the community here are willing to describe strangers as dangerous if they don't conform to expected behaviors. This signals to nondangerous, different people that they are in danger of being labeled as dangerous, which is stressful for folks who just want to talk popcorn intellectual subject matters on an orange site.

It's similar to eg. why lgbtqia+ people have distinct memories about feeling unsafe in communities where "smear the queer" is a recess schoolyard game.
Whatever. My brother and I are both autists and its our favorite term, because it's funny. I gauge the general level of respect from the context.
You got that backwards. Not having kids requires a lot of rational thinking.
Having kids merely requires drunk sex without anyone being aware of the consequences.
I get the first part of your plan, but do you have some sources for the second part?

How is that foundation exploiting the first step, in practice?
I think HN does have a direct commercial interest - provide a community for YCombinator companies to promote to and hire from. YCombinator companies have access to special post types no one else has access to. Additionally there’s a paid moderation team to keep post (check out /pool) and comment quality high.
If you think my comment was oversimplified, couldn't the same be said of your original comment?

I don't think what my comment was saying was about an edge case. Many things kids want to do before they are ready are dangerous
The honor system isn't the problem, it's the total lack of any effective enforcement of it.

In other cities (and countries) you can be fined and/or detained for skipping your fare; in Seattle (according to the article at least) the situation seems to be more "pay your fare or I will chastise you a second time."
The premise that we can have a community focused on above-average-quality conversation on the internet? Yeah, people question that daily. Thankfully, dang is here to keep us in line.
Yes, the title seems to be misleading. At this point, it's pure conjecture. Basically, some people (at least) are no longer getting emails from his campain. It's unclear if they've just stopped sending them or they've been suspended, or sombody accidentally broke something.

It appears the one mentioned account disabling is an unrelated Trump venture.
This is probably why a lot of companies like to use closed source solutions. I have mainly been using SQL Server and there is a lot of consultants who knows how it works. In a few years I think there will be more database products with good support from 3rd parties but currently it is hard to know what to choose.
David Deustch in his book "The Beginning of Infinity" claims the 'existential force' is the emergence of a culture of criticism that recognizes the need for good explanations. The catch is these types of cultures have only sprung up occasionally in the history of humanity, with the vast time between made up of periods of stagnation.
Keep in mind that OTA television is using MPEG-2 instead of the more advanced H.264 video codec - roughly double the bitrate for the same quality.

As well, OTA is somewhat inefficient with duplicated frames, as all 1080i content is broadcast at 1080i60, whereas Netflix can encode content to the original frame rate (i.e. 1080p24).
They haven't said 'yes' until they've wired the money.
I guess you use tabs :)
Your hypothesis is incorrect, or at least not justified by the data. The whole field of human nutrition actually is in a very bad place. Most of what we think we know comes from low quality observational studies which don't rate well on the evidence based medicine scale.

By all means let's continue research. But people generally shouldn't rely upon most of it when making dietary choices. A better approach is to conduct your own n=1 informal experiments and determine empirically what works best for you.
>the smoke-free world, Milov writes, is ‘a harsh and stigmatising one’, where ‘the death of a smoker can be met with the thought – sometimes tactlessly expressed aloud – “What did he expect?”’ It would be hard to find a question more revealing of the neoliberal worldview, which makes responsible self-maintenance a near sacred duty, as well as the fullest expression of citizenship.

Tobacco use and age are the only reasons you can charge someone more for health insurance in the United States, not binge drinking, not obesity, not extreme sports, reckless driving, nor getting arrested for violent crimes. That society believes "self-maintenance" a duty is completely contradicted by the obesity epidemic (which now causes more death than smoking) and the response to it. No, to me it seems there is something very particular about anti-tobacco sentiment that is not applied to other types of self-destructive behavior.
>I don't think people like doing these bullshit jobs, they do them to survive. Give people UBI and they'll simply quit their telemarketing, soulless middle management, ad tech job

I think you're forgetting half the equation...with the possible exception of telemarketing, those jobs go quite a bit beyond mere survival in terms of pay.

People will still take those kinds of jobs because the value they get from pay. And that's fine.

People value their free time and that's fine too. But I think it's not realistic to think that people in general value their free time so much that if they have enough for survival that they wouldn't take jobs that exchange hard currency for that time.

What some combination of UBI/Basic Needs welfare will do, though, is prevent survival from weighing down that choice so people will demand more hard currency than they actually value that time without the infinite value sink of avoiding pain or death.

I know plenty of well off people that don't have to worry too much about affording to survive who spend a lot of time working hard and it's perfectly rational considering that they consider themselves better off with the trade.
I'm not arguing against using an existing format, BTW, just seems like a weird mixture here.

I can't help but think s-expressions would have been a better choice.
And what most people seem to forget is that the vast bulk of the UBI money is immediately spent on local goods and services so it quite likely generates a lot of local economic activity.
It doesn't because memory is shared, clock is shared. Some of the tougher challenges in DS don't reside in this situation.
From their wikipedia page [0]:

>Yandex is a Russian Dutch-domiciled multinational corporation providing Internet-related products and services, including transportation, search and information services, eCommerce, navigation, mobile applications, and online advertising.

>The firm is registered in Schiphol, the Netherlands as a naamloze vennootschap (Dutch public limited company), but the company founders and most of the team members are located in Russia.

So yes, technically the company is registered outside of Russia (Netherlands, not Switzerland like you claimed), but their HQ and heavy majority of their workforce and the founders are located in Moscow. I would definitely count it as a Russian company.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex
how can they promote bitcoin

and on other hand play the censorship card

the amount of propaganda from the USA and the big tech companies is infuriating to be honest

we are heading towards a very very bad and unhealthily long and dark road if you ask me
I seldom buy stuff I see in ads (or anything really) but I recall one case where targeted ads actually helped me.

I was looking to buy an item but the store had so many options that I got completely overwhelmed with choice paralysis. Afterwards I started getting ads from said store in chunks of three items. It made it possible to evaluate things in peace over time since I was only exposed with a few options at a time in my regular feeds. I finally ended up buying one of those options.

Maybe it's more of a problem of choice paralysis but the fact that the options naturally and slowly showed up when I wasn't actively looking made it much easier.
Android has always had a file manager and doesn't hide the filesystem from tools like adb. You still can't access the OS files and app private storage but when you download a file you can actually choose where to save it :)

IOS hides it a lot more. There wasn't even a file manager until they introduced one with iPadOS.
You're really missing the point here. This is clearly a proof of concept for conditioning GPT-3-like model output in other ways, that need not have anything to do with notions of harm, offense or even data leakage. It's the first step towards turning these large language models into reinforcement learning systems (the whole "red team" setup is just another agent/critic pair) that can actually address real world problems.
You could just check for yourself if it's important. I do.
One thing that I could use in a number of places is a cheap smartphone app that can ocr digital meters. In particular, a very simple calculation could predict a water leak from the digital display on a water meter.
I actually started a trial of Deezer a couple days ago. So far, I'm pretty satisfied with it. I'm going to be moving my Spotify family plan over to it soon.
I was pleasantly surprised at the ability to just transfer all my Spotify favorites automatically, too. You'd think they'd advertise that ability more prominently, given that's probably a big thing holding many existing customers back.
Thats a good way to lose half your games
These patterns may also be very nasty for the one that ends up trying to convince you to stay.

It's not unusual to have compensation for a team or a business unit based off signups. That's a ride on Easy Street when a company's surfing on a wave of marketing, word of mouth and general growth.

When maturing, that ride becomes harder. Some orgs work cancellations into a negative part of compensation, while the bonus for the initial sign-up has already been paid out to the last incumbent in the role/team, or perhaps the now business head when they did your job.

Negative compensation models. Companies that end up running such models are no longer learning organisations. I hope Udacity isn't one. If they are, just remember the person trying to persuade you to stay is not sitting in a particularly nice place
How does this matter? You still have to pay these DoD contractors to implement the OSS stuff. It won't implement itself.

License fees are a rounding error compared to the cost of personnel.
In terms of short term economics it's probably easier to stick with what you know. Without knowing the scope of the project it's hard to comment on whether other technologies would be more beneficial in the longer term
How do I cleanly express single digit minutes?

The format string "4 minutes after 12", is unique, but it's not clear that I could turn "34" into "4". Similar for the hour (12 is now 2).

That would also break the "Print this exact time in the format you're currently using" method of creating a compatible time format string.
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Yet another manifestation of the tech worker shortage we keep hearing about...
I just recently had this problem while working with Hugo, a Go static site generator.

Suffice to say, it was not intuitive at all. I had to look at the support forums to learn about this Go eccentricity.

I can't say that I hate it. I could probably get used to it.
Notaz recently made it possible to use the DSP of the Pandora in his PS1 emulator, giving another 10-20% boost in most games, by letting the DSP handle the audio part of the emulation.

Notaz did also handle the Starcraft port for the Open Pandora, without sources (binary translation : http://pandoralive.info/?p=3089). Impressive stuff.
Heh. If you think "only runs in a VM" and "toy" are synonyms, you need a history lesson.

Back in the 1960s, one of the hot new things from IBM (you know, the company that wins on Jeopardy) was VM/CMS. VM is a VM, hence the imaginative name, and CMS stood for Conversational Monitor System, originally Cambridge Monitor System, for reasons I'll let you figure out.

Conversational meant "has a command line", as opposed to batch, which you might have heard of. CMS was, all told, somewhere between pond scum and MS-DOS on the complexity scale: it provided some APIs for applications, but didn't handle memory protection, multitasking, multiple users, or security policy. A mainframe running CMS on the bare metal would have been a really expensive version of a PC from twenty or so years later; obviously, you can only justify doing that in a Serious University.

However, it was convenient and user-friendly back before the term was coined, when that meant "not seeing raw machine code unless you asked for it", so the gag was to run multiple instances of CMS as guests under VM, which provided everything CMS didn't. Every user got their own copy of the OS, and the single physical mainframe was turned into dozens or hundreds of virtual mainframes by VM.

My punchline: As the decades wore on, CMS was never modified to take newer hardware into account. Why would it be? It never ran on the bare metal. VM gained emulation functionality, CMS grew to depend on that, and now CMS is effectively an appendage of VM, a friendly face to the thing which does all the hard work. You know, like marketing, or upper management.
Xamarin is a good option. You can also write your logic & rendering code in C++, which you should be able to share across those platforms.
I'd split it to create a diverse portfolio of investments, some high risk high return, some low risk but long term. If I couldn't get a return exceeding the cost I'm paying on the mortgage, I'd put the cash into the mortgage to lower my outgoings, then take the difference and invest that instead.

The rationale behind that approach is that you'll save money by not paying interest, the amount you save is largely dependent on what you owe and the interest you're paying, but you're probably paying more mortgage interest than what you'd get out of most savings.

I'd also buy some precious metals (Gold, Silver etc.) and a safe. Not a gold bug, but it'd be good to fall back on if I need the funds, plus it will appreciate over time.
I've sort of left off, but I'm thinking of picking it up again. What's a demo server is up at www.emergencevector.com.

My contact information is in my HN profile (my username at g mail) if you want to chat more.
Have we tried not bringing up race for unrelated reasons like articles about WeWork though? That might help a bit.
Now I am wondering how much of this number is minecraft servers... :)
I tend to use HN as a way to hone my writing skill. I'll play with length, wording, style, etc. The karma count gives me a bit of feedback on how well I've done, and comments back to me will further hone my writing.

So, for me at least, HN provides a fertile place to be productive, but mostly as a place to play around and sharpen my skill.
It's like what you learned with the i386 was much more inline with a trade school level of learning vs the more theoretical learning of a university. you learned the down and dirty and was immediately able to do something with it. it didn't teach you the hows & whys and blah blah. it's that 30,000' view vs 10'000' view vs down in the trenches view. sometimes you need all of the views, but some tasks don't always need the 30,000' theoretical lesson
Furthermore:

"At the end of the day, Ice Lake SP is a success. Performance is up, and performance per watt is up. I'm sure if we were able to test Intel's acceleration enhancements more thoroughly, we would be able to corroborate some of the results and hype that Intel wants to generate around its product. But even as a success, it’s not a traditional competitive success. The generational improvements are there and they are large, and as long as Intel is the market share leader, this should translate into upgraded systems and deployments throughout the enterprise industry. Intel is still in a tough competitive situation overall with the high quality the rest of the market is enabling."