skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His analysis is riddled with such fallacies. The other huge one is a conflation of the general with the specific, i.e.:

> the vast majority of the time, when a public-company chief executive officer complains that short sellers are sabotaging his company, he is talking nonsense

Sure, but we're not talking about the vast majority. We're talking about the most heavily shorted stock on a US exchange, and the one which entrenched players are most interested in seeing fail. Tesla is an outlier in myriad ways; deriving assumptions from the median makes no sense at all.
Mass killings under communist regimes - best estimates are 65 to 165 million people in 100 years

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communis...
Mac users never had that problem and MacOS didn't have a central app store for decades
The reply comes across as you recommending AA instead of what the parent comment recommends. Hence the downvotes.
> So much Python development is trying snippets of code in a REPL as you introspect live objects, then once they're right pasting them into the IDE.

This approach to development might be a lot rarer than you think – I've never seen anyone do it frequently. For tiniest snippets ("If I want to split there and then use that suffix--how do I need to index? Let's check in the REPL real quick" or "What did that stdlib function return again? [Because that's of course not documented, why would anyone need to know that, after all]" and stuff like "I have this list of tuples like that, now, how do I need to zip/unpack/star that stuff such that I get a list of X instead. Let's try in the REPL with [(1,2), (3,4)]!"), sure, for "actual code" that's going somewhere... nope.
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The thing Goldeneye really brought was massive popularity.

(More copies of Goldeneye sold in 1998 than Quake sales for 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999 combined...almost 2x.)

It also became a benchmark for console shooters, good multiplayer or get out.
2006 is already 12 years ago and those kind of laws are very recent.
Super slow here too. switched back to classic until they force me too. Really can't understand google on this. They hurt the product so badly and it create an opportunity for customers to consider leaving.
The video link looks like it would show a demo (which it should) but actually it just contains marketing fluff.
I think there are 2 issues at play here.

The first one, the article touched on obliquely:

> Back in those days of high adventure hosts were far more than mere pets, they were golden temples where crusaders came to worship speaking prayers of code.
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> Today, servers aren't even cattle, servers are insects connected over fast networks. Centralization is not only possible now, it's economical, it's practical, ...

"Back in those days" users were administrators of one sort or another because that was the barrier to entry. But administrating systems sucks, even if it's just a PC. The rise of server-less is just another testament to this: being able to outsource the boring, tricky bits to experts is great as long as the principle-agent problem doesn't rear its head too often.

The second issue is that distributed (I suppose some people might call them federated) identity systems don't work very well. Look at the vast gulf between the spam problem on Facebook and the spam problem with email.

If you've signed up with a centralized identity system, it's pretty convenient to use a bunch of services synced up with that identity: all of the social media stuff is probably the tip of the iceberg.
Hi, I'm one of those people. Been in game development 11 years, now a lead developer for a project that I would buy and play as a gamer, doing exactly what I was dreaming of doing when I was around 7 years old. It's very grueling emotionally and takes a great toll, but I have no other big goals in life right now other than to do this right.
have to say that reading this comment made me nervous
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While one suspects that many of these coding bootcamp stories don't have happy endings, I'm not sure there's anything particularly extraordinary about enduring far less than ideal living conditions for some closed-ended period. Out of school I spent a fair bit of time in shipyards and on offshore drilling rigs which had minimal dorm-style accommodations. Which was fine at the time but certainly not something I would have wanted to do indefinitely.
> That's indeed the traditional rationale for MAD and the development of nerve gas, biological weapons, and hydrogen bombs. The problem with this argument is that anybody can use it, the argument appears just as sound to North Korea than to the US, and is leading to a world-wide stockpiling of dangerous technologies.

But that’s not what happened, right? I mean, it is if you stop reading history just before the first non-proliferation treaties began being implemented. This was almost half a century ago, though, so IMO it doesn’t make sense to stop reading at that point.
> Today, it's been democratised enough to allow your racist aunt to ramble on Facebook about how Obama is actually an alien born on Pluto, sent to America to destroy Christianity.

I was/am a liberal, competent tech worker. And the internet was just as racist and divisive in the 90s and the 00s as it is today and as it will be the next decade. And this is going to shock you, but us "liberal, competent tech workers", vociferously defended all speech. You might want to look up what liberal means. When entities wanted to stifle speech - whether it was hate speech, pornography, gay rights speech, you name it, us "liberal, competent tech workers" defended all of it. You can't have free speech while censoring some speech you disagree with.

But you are right. The problem with today's internet is the influx of a certain group of people. The childish leftists intent on pushing an agenda and censoring speech they disagree. Unfortunately, this group has gotten funding and corporate backing and are pushing censorship everywhere.

> We tend to worship democratising institutions without considering whether or not the people recieving these new powers are capable of handling them with the correct values, motivations, and competencies

Correct values? Who decides what correct values are? Christian fundamentalists? Leftists? It's amazing how our leftists anti-free speech rhetoric is so similar to the chinese, european, saudi and russian anti free speech rhetoric.

"Xi said the internet must be “clean” and vulgar content must be resisted in the field of culture."

"“Uphold a clean and righteous internet space,” the Xinhua news agency cited Xi as saying."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-politics/chinas-xi-...

Censorship is the problem with the internet right now.
Part of what this reveals is the intimate relationship between querying and labeling. A query (in the SQL sense) is the human attempting to express a domain concept through a program. Here the queries have an imperative flavor (being written in Python). From the article for example, identifying causal relationships in text by searching for “due to” is a domain concept encoded as a weak heuristic.

This suggests that our query tools need to be more deeply integrated into human-in-the-loop machine learning workflows. For example, in my use case of analyzing TV news videos, let’s say I want to identify a panel of guests. I’ll come up with a query like “3 to 5 people on screen, whose pose suggests they are sitting, and they’re looking at each other.” While this query isn’t a perfect filter (precision nor recall), it will likely find a few positive examples. Then I can query “show me more scenes like this one,” and slowly build up a training set from my queries. Then I train a classifier, and inspect its results. Rinse and repeat.

Edit: also, I’m sure there’s a billion startups that do some variant of this for some domain, but I think we really need a better open source ecosystem around visualization and labeling of data for this workflow to be truly accessible in most domains.
Was GoldenEye the first FPS that could support 4-player versus on a single console?
In LA they pick up trash with trucks and a mechanical arm. This seems pretty hard on the trash cans. Mine tend to break in some way every 3-5 years.
Oh no no, bad code would be deployed all the time =) We just didn't notice it, because auto healing brought back the working site so quickly. Occasionally something would break design parameters and that would require a manual fix, but then that manual fix was added into auto healing...

It takes a good deal of design work to get a high level of resiliency, but it's completely within the realm of possibility. Most shops just don't dedicate the effort to it, because they're more worried about shipping new features, and this is understandable. Just different priorities.
From the iOS security guide PDF (https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide....):

>> "To protect the device from vulnerabilities in network processor firmware, network interfaces including Wi-Fi and baseband have limited access to application processor memory. When USB or SDIO is used to interface with the network processor, the network processor cannot initiate Direct Memory Access (DMA) transactions to the application processor. When PCIe is used, each network processor is on its own isolated PCIe bus. An IOMMU on each PCIe bus limits the network processor’s DMA access to pages of memory containing its network packets or control structures."
I wrote an importers for notebooks that laods and runs the cell based on keywords I'm the markdown.
I'm surprised by the amount of text on the older ads — many are full page articles with a picture, some have detailed machine specifications, etc.
Guidance? No. Infrared detectors? Yes.
Sure, it's possible to work without the patches. Equally it's possible to make modifications to code that was generated by a Perl script - or even to modify binary code directly without having the source at all (I've seen it done). The salient question is: what is the preferred form for making modifications to the work? And certainly I'd always want to have the patch history available when working on a codebase.
> Our eyes are no that different from cameras

Our eyes are plenty different. One above all they are driven by the neurons behind to scan the scene as the brain tries to figure out the details whereas neural network take whatever feed the camera captures passively.

See for example an owl head movements as it’s triangulating a prey’s distance.

There’s a lot more going on than just the vision part like a cascade of neural structures and not just a big uniform net, with region dedicated to detecting edges and understanding depth separated from and feeding into the classification region.

And we have structures to pick up differences from one scene to another somewhere, and dedicated neurons that react to changeand movement in a scene independently from the brain classification

Oh and it is also apparent that some superstructure does innate detection and supercedes learning, i.e. tests say mammals scared by serpents even if they were never exposed to one, while the same doesn’t happen with spiders, hinting serpent detection and fear is hardwired and not learned. Or ar least learned by evolution and not brain neurons’ plasticity.
>>This is a narrative that you will believe in that can be analyzed and rejected purely on the internal logic of it.

Feel free to, since you elected not to I will simply dismiss this claim

> If you get to know these people, listen to their stories, what they have to say about society's problems, as the people whose literal careers are to deal with them, the explanation of systemic failure rings more and more hollow.

That is neither required, or ideal in looking at the actual problems. the Inherent bias their outlook makes any opinions they have on the solutions suspect in the first place. Plus police are not trained researcher nor are likely to understand the root cause of the social problems that stretch back generations as such would likely propose the same "solutions" that have failed for those same generations. Such as increased prison terms for offenders, more draconian surveillance, decrease accountability in policing (some times called "giving police more unilateral authority at the street level). etc etc ad nauseam

For example most police officers when polled support the War on Drugs and oppose efforts to legalize narcotics, even though in every objective analysis of the facts the War on Drugs as a objective failure on every front,
> Less people with a strong sense of words / communication?

Fewer.

Sorry, too easy. :)
I found this most exciting:

> While Jupyter notebooks have traditionally been a humans-only entrypoint into a program, researchers and companies alike are increasingly using notebooks for automation.

It's part of a slow journey back the power of the Lispms and the Smalltalk environments.
> Over time, I expect editors like VSCode to edit Jupyter notebooks natively.

Please, please, please. Given the rising importance of interactive programming, I really think it deserves more than a extension to give us a seamless experience.
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New “direct laser writing” set-ups, however, cost about as
much as a high-quality industrial 3D printer, and allow for
printing at the scale of hundreds of nanometers (hundred
to thousand time thinner than a human hair), opening up
possibilities for scientists to experiment with structural
coloration.

That sounds like some really exciting stuff right there.
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Why do you say "even today"?

Socially, the US is almost hilariously authoritarian, we aren't at any sort of interesting benchmark when it comes to respect for personal freedom.

(The US Constitution is well written enough that our system has less and less blatant hypocrisy when it comes to personal freedoms, but that's different than broader society actually respecting personal freedom)
The point is the exact same job won't come up with higher pay and shorter hours; the jobs I like and have been doing for 30 hours really do involve passion+ and a huge lever arm. Crazy, sure, but I've been doing it for 30 years.

> I find start up culture really weird, you have seemingly smart people willing to sacrifice their lives to build something like Pinterest (no disrespect to Pinterest but it is what it is, a social network, not putting men on the moon)... your years 20-30 should be be some of your best years, don’t waste them living in a closet.

I also find it weird -- building Pinterest doesn't seem interesting, and these days (last 15 years) most of the startups are just retail shops that happen to be online. Yawn. The companies I've enjoyed starting and working for have been deeply tech oriented and actually have tried to, or managed to, have significant visible, technical effect on the world. But really, working at Apple in the late 70s/early 80s++ would have been fun, crazy, long hours, huge esprit de corps, and yes, shared housing. But don't you think it would have been worth it?

The dot com boom brought all sorts of carpetbaggers who merely wanted the money, and they changed things for the worse. Though most of them ended up in SF (used to be you lived in SF and worked in Silicon Valley, so the morning traffic jam was leaving the city, not entering it). Though we do have plenty of douchebags down here, the great thing is the SF is like a douchebag magnet. It's paved over most of the craziness of SF replacing it with blandness, but at least it acts as a honeypot for the benefit of the rest of us. This poor kid is simply one of the victims.

+ the real kind, not the "let's make a corporate mission" kind. When you actually want to live in the world where your product is ubiquitous and you only work with people who like their jobs. Crazy to work with people who don't like their jobs, and no amount of money would make that kind of life (working with people who don't like what they do) worth living for me.

++ this example is well before my time; I just picked it because everybody would know it
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> massless spin-2 field

>> To get antigravity, you need to find a way to have negative energy without it making the vacuum unstable.

> Agreed. And as far as we know that is not possible.

Which part are you agreeing to?

Spin-2 essentially means that like charges attract and unlike charges repel. Matter with the opposite gravitational charge from all the matter (incl. antimatter) in the universe we know about could have segregated in the early universe. Opposite-gravitational-charge matter (incl. antimatter) is unobserved, but not in-principle unobservable.

Vacuum instability doesn't arise since m_i stays the same as m_g changes sign under gravitational charge changes.
I think the main reason decentralization lost is not due to technology, but trust and network effect. Like we will deposit hard earned money in a bigger bank which has less chances of failure, even if internally it might not be safe and they will need our help to bail them out. More and more people deposit the money the bigger the bank.

Like in real world we are responsible to support monopoly and large centralized companies, it's the same we did with internet and internet companies.
You need a Z-machine interpreter, like frotz
They should stop trying to find "the reason" for bigger brains. In evolution the answer is that everything is in play at once. If socializing requires a bigger brain, it's in play. If the environment requires a bigger brain, that's in play. If teaching complex behaviors to the next generation is important, that's in play. The answer is that all these things probably contributed to larger brains.
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> What about centralized but libre servers and clients, and run by the EFF and FSF

I can't say much about the project right now. But something will land middle to late next year that has this in mind.
I'm not sure that this is at all true. Maybe I'm using too broad a definition of IoT, but most people I know have some kind of IoT device. Admittedly, my direct friends are probably representative of a specific group, but...

My apartment a few years ago (wasn't a luxury place) came with a Nest thermostat. My parents have a Nest thermostat as well as a smart lock. My sister has a smart toothbrush. My friend uses Tile to keep track of a couple of her grandmother's important things. I went all in on Phillips Hue across my house, as well as a bunch of other things. It's not all sunshine and rainbows, but it's been a net positive.

HomeKit (and any Android equivalents) have brought this stuff pretty mainstream, and in a mostly-just-works way.

This stuff is everywhere.
Imagine a world without mandatory college diplomas
I suppose it's possible to read it as declaring an absolute and exhaustive definition of "harm" to include "murder" and absolutely nothing else. But that feels like A) a reach and B) a deliberately uncharitable one at that.

The more charitable and more likely reading is poking fun at a CEO's hatred of people who bet against the CEO's company. Perhaps try re-reading that way?
Plus Goldeneye had the advantage of not being entirely brown.
Right. The correct term is "freemium".
At any given moment in time, some company's stock will be the most shorted in the exchange. Do you have genuine evidence that Tesla shorts are really qualitatively different from other former "most shorted" title holders?
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I agree. The solution to massive technological threats is mutual entanglement by treaties and international laws that limit or prohibit the development of dangerous technologies. That's my point.
If you have a problem get help. That said, AA was started by a group that had no idea about physiology of addiction but definitely understood ‘God’... It gets tons of support and money from private and government and its completely unchecked and its validity remains untested next to other methods. AA has a 13% 7 year success rate, which is pretty dismal. There are better ways to treat addiction. To be honest I don’t know of them because AA sucked all the air out of the room.

I also personally don’t like it that, anytime someone demonstrates they have an a very functional understanding of drinking and their intake and can control its many facets through a multitude of different means indicating that they are in no way under some spell of blind addiction, people are still so quick and judgemental to assume they have a problem, a disease, an addition that they aren’t handling and should get help from a group of people who really don’t know what they are doing with regard to the psychology of addiction.

Something no one will ever tell you is, most people go through a period of heavy drinking at some point in their lives and will miraculously let up on consumption all on their own without the help of a 12 step group.
You're reading a different wikipedia than I am. Or describing what you hope it could be?

The Wikipedia I read is a collection of sentence fragments that sometimes contradict each other before the period, and the sentences often contradict each other within the paragraph. Then, that confused mix is filtered through an army of agenda based editors.

The example of this that killed the joy I found in wikipedia was the Hookah page. My friends and I were smoking a lot of hookah in college, so I decided I wanted to learn more about it. The wikipdeia page was incredibly pro-hookah, and cited various stores that sold hookah equipment. When I researched it fully, I found the WHO did a study that showed hookah smoke contains a tremendous amount of tar, users hold the smoke in their lungs longer, absorbing more tar, and the 'shisha' (tobacco) is actually burned- not "roasted," which is the word hookah promonets use to dissemble.

It was completely impossible to get that information onto the page, despite learning tons of wiki culture and really working at it for months.

After that I noticed the same thing on a huge quantity of pages. Writing and organizing information is hard. It can't be done well by an unfocused committee of people, even if they care. Add in self-interested saboteurs, and you've got a recipe for disaster.
> Advertisers cannot create demand out of thin air - they can only find out what (certain) people want, and present messaging that says, "X fills your existing want because of Y

Sure it can. Not only can advertising generate demand where there is none, it can also change people's opinions.

A prime example of this is the lobster. It was considered a sea roach that nobody ate. It was primarily used as fertilizer or food for prisoners and slaves. Advertising turned a sea roach into a luxury item.

There are plenty of examples of this. Take rockefeller. The guy went from being the most hated man in america into a lovable "philanthropist" with a well funded PR campaign in the early 1900s. He and the ad firm he hired revolutionized opinion making.
This. Kept scrolling down, wondering when I was going to see this comment. Related to language, too. You don't need complex language in groups of social primates for survival. When you see it in nature, like in birds and whales, it's about finding a mate.
Could you tell us what happened when you refused consent at the border?
It's just synecdoche.
Working on the working demo as well...

I was sure folks would want to have a feel of the product. That is why I have added a section on my landing page called "Accio Play" which takes you to a vanilla hosted version of Accio that you can play around with. I thought that would be much better than a video demo of the product.
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