skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a quote by Feynman on the topic: “You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!”

I believe what you're getting at is the Ludic Fallacy, which could probably apply here. That said, whether it's a fallacy in the science or in the reporting, it's hard to say. I have a degree in statistics, and I'd say I spent half the time learning stats, and half the time learning to use language precisely to avoid overgeneralizing stats.

There's a really great TED talk about how even very educated people get it wrong when talking about stats: https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_donnelly_shows_how_stats_foo...
Exactly this. I don't understand why people are giving up on quality and bend over for guys like Tim Cook who push down worse quality products consistently. They need to realise that wireless audio is just not there for all the use cases (leave the jack alone) and instead of faster processors we need bigger storage.
I know we're both just joking, but unfortunately due to SNI headers and load balancers, memorizing ipv6 addresses doesn't necessarily get you the right site.

The DNS system has also managed to make ip addresses less stable over time.
Or that she hired ghost writers is just a desperate attempt to shift responsibility. She probably won't publish much under her real name, but I guess she will continue under aliases.
You might want to play around with the spacing (there seems to be a lot more white space than necessary) and the color scheme--the black, blue, and white don't work very well together as it is.vOther than that the content is pretty good.
Certainly you have something to say photographically. Keep seeking. Recall that the big names are all remembered for a tiny fraction of their work. Ansel Adams is remembered for approximately 40 photographs, out of a lifetime of art images and countless advertising photos from his commercial business that paid the bills. Weston, Eisenstadt, Cartier-Bresson, Karsh, we remember them for a fraction of their output.

As you point out, social media rewards what people want to hear/see, not whatever it is you have to say. Mastery of craft should serve articulating the message, and the message must come from within, not serve someone else’s utility function.
I can't see how it's anywhere near as weird as an alien spacecraft. Interesting article though.
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RT has Black Panther as their #1 movie of all time. The fact is, people have learned to inherently train themselves to use certain review websites. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/

My current rules - Anything over an 8 on imbd is a must watch if over a year old. If a comedy/action movie over a 7 is fine. For less than a year old I read reviews, and decide how invested I am in watching it. Fantastic Beasts 2 tanked, but I watched it anyway and enjoyed it.
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Not releasing the model seems to me to be entirely a PR stunt, and has made me lose a lot of respect for OpenAI.
Please have a look to the default screen of Outlook and iTunes. Which has more functionality showed into your face that you never use.
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Talking to a former colleague that way just makes you seem like a very unpleasant person.
I would hope that even if there would be fewer people hired in some areas, there would be a number of higher wage positions created - automated robot herder/field mechanic or the like. The issue is that our current economic conventions don't have (or explictly create) allowances for people to individually or systematically shift to whole new professions within their lifetimes.

It's understandable, before the pace of change was slower, save for maybe a few transition times historically, and people could basically work in a field for their lives, maybe their children would pick up new lines of work. But change is much faster now - and we're sort of built for economic allowances to people for the slower pace.
Thank you! It doesn't seem to have digitalocean, but still very useful!
The thing you are not considering here is that in this world of censorship you now need a 'Ministry of Truth.' Let's consider Google and the NYTimes. The NYTimes was one of the loudest cheerleaders for the war in Iraq. They unquestionably ran stories advocating and spreading our likely fabricated "evidence" even though a critical examination would likely have revealed some serious questions, but they chose either not to investigate or not to ask those questions. They, years after the fact, wrote an article condemning their own lack of scrutiny [1]. But did they really learn anything? They returned to the exact same pattern of unquestioning cheerleading for war in Syria, and I predict we'll likely see something similar should our actions in Venezuela culminate in yet another invasion.

Google is a massive multinational corporation that profits by harvesting and exploiting personal individual on people. They have shown an eagerness to expand their operations to countries such as China. They planned to launch a censored search engine and were happy to agree to record and track individuals by tying their search to their phone number. Such behavior would enable convenient tracking and 'correction' by Chinese officials if they so desired. Among the list of terms they included in their prototype for China was literally "human rights." [2]. A company literally censoring information on "human rights" is like something out of bad dystopia fiction. This should not be reality - but it is.

I'm sure you see the point I'm making. By claiming that the average person is too stupid to be allowed to access whatever information they would like, you are implicitly asking somebody to be the gatekeeper of truth who decides true vs false, right vs wrong. But nobody is capable, let alone deserving, of this right. And the most ironic thing of all is that the typical gate keepers of truth that people would nominate are some of the worst actors in society that certainly have caused unimaginably more harm than all the total sum consequences of all the absurdity spread by individuals. And that's because when individuals spread fake stuff around, they might fool a few people but it mostly goes without notice. By contrast when the current gatekeepers spread misinformation, hundreds of thousands of people die at cost of literally trillions of dollars.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-th...

[2] - https://theintercept.com/2018/12/01/google-china-censorship-...
It's a perfectly valid question regardless of your opinion on the matter. Don't police other people's comments. Parent is adding to the convo; you are not by trying to shut them down.
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> For the record, the Bitcoin blockchain has never been hacked.

Not sure it was a direct hack on the blockchain itself as it was more an fuck up on the software itself, but there is the time 184,467,440,737.09551616 bitcoins were created. ;-)

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident
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My fiancée found most of the photographers we evaluated for our wedding through instagram. I think her friends have done the same.
The problem with this scheme is that it is weirdly selective; only people who can get jobs can benefit. What about the mentally or physically disabled? What about felons, who often face a significantly smaller job market? What about people who are outed from a shrinking industry but are too "overqualified" to be hired at lower levels in other industries?
Oh, interesting, yes this is "mauritius" in Spanish a not so common name. I didn't know this, thank you for pointing it out. I guess that list is recent as mauricio.com and mauricio.co belongs to regular people and are currently working.

Do you happen to have a link to said list? A quick googling returned nothing relevant for me.
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Legal responsibility... Fines and such, regardless, if the EU leadership has their way...

And as with any legal situation, talk to a lawyer, it's worth the money.
They weakened status well before the joint agreement. Yet right after Tiananmen Square, and after the joint agreement, they managed to rapidly dream up a selection of 50k families, so they were also far from powerless to act without Deng Xiaoping's approval. Thousands of HKers were leaving after Tiananmen, to anywhere that would take them, so it's not like it would have deprived China of those citizens after 97 handover.
So, McKinsey is becoming another Deloitte!!
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Looks really cool. From a quick look, it seems to be for writing analyzers and optimizers on your code. It supports Fortran, C, C++, OpenMP, UPC, and PHP.
Everything important is open sourced already.

The article cites replication as important and then paradoxically argues for releasing the model in lieu of replicating the training and verifying the result.

This is the AI equivalent of a pharmaceutical company releasing all their research and patents and then taking heat for not providing reagents and doing the organic synthesis for everyone too.
In Oumuamua defense, it hasn't seen this much of Sun to be impressed or inflicted by its thermal power. 25. kilometers. per. second. It went in and out before Sun could do its damage.

However, the idea of a porous surface like a snowflake or sponge or something doesn't add up because of exact speed it travels. Even if this is just ice/dust composite, with that kind of speed, it would be disintegrated by having its surface polished with cosmic energy long before it could reach 25km/s.

I hope we won't see another one. This one was so close to Earth it wasn't funny. And traveled so quick we wouldn't have time to call all family members to tell them we love them. Its nothing like meteor; even big one would just drop flat on earth, raise all dust for next 30,000 years, throw us back into stone age or close to extinction and some form of human life looking nothing like we do today would argue 250,000 years from now what caused the first human near-extinction. No. You're talking about razor-sharp thin and lightweight object traveling with insane speed. Upon impact, it would either penetrate Earth surface exploding inside the core, like any hollow bullet does, or it would cut Earth in half like a high power laser and deform itself on way out. Either way this wouldn't be your near extinction experience. This would be like all of sudden Earth spliced in half and both parts going away, while you are either being drown with oceans hundreds feet of water tall due to lack of gravity, or crushed by weight of same ocean who happened to froze in the upper atmosphere, caught some gravity and smashed on the top of you. I don't want to even think about super hot lava thrown everywhere without gravity it would be like spraying venom from a giant snake.

I have no idea how something like that would look like when Earth split in two, and no movies of that kind of extinction has ever been done. But something tells me it would be far from an easy death and I would rather carry on suicide pill in my tooth like they did during WW2, rather than witness such literal Hell on Earth.
So, an interstellar dust bunny.

I wonder if it will find a resting place in some dark corner of the universe, maybe behind a black hole somewhere just out of our sight clinging tenuously to the outstretched arm of some far-off spiral galaxy and resisting every effort to slurp it back into the vacuum.
I see what you're getting at. My (similarly hand wavey) perspective is that constructions using category theory end up defining natural numbers as categories of sets with cardinality n. What I was really getting at is, how do you define your relation for the category in such a way that isn't pathological ("n is the category of sets with cardinality n except all such sets containing n")?

Alternatively, what are you selecting as the objects for your category if not sets of a given cardinality?

To be clear, I consider a lot of discussion about the foundations of set theory (and paradoxes thereof) to be pretty navel-gazey.
You've had a really poor response from the HN community here. Barely a single comment even attempts to speak to your question! HN is normally pretty good at resisting Sturgeon's Law, but not today.

muzani isn't asking to be talked out of working more hours, everyone.

Anyway, my suggestion: it sounds like you work alone. Maybe try working with other people, for a day or two per week. (I don't know if that's compatible with your line of work, or if you'd consider taking on a different one.) The camaraderie may help you make a habit of it.

Also, a formal commitment to turn up each week is likely to work much better for you than a take-it-or-leave-it arrangement.
As I wrote up-thread, Jason Miller's `htm` library seems to be a very nice alternative to JSX that does not require a build step:

https://github.com/developit/htm
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Well, if he's the sole maintainer and they don't replace him, falling apart is inevitable. Software dies when its dependencies do and that doesn't imply low quality.
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100% agree with the trigger being the hard part, and with wanting the observer robot. I know there are partial solutions (RescueTime is a big one) which watch your text editor, or watch your web browser, or suck in meeting data from your calendar, but I've never really been that happy with them.

The further complicating wrinkle for me personally is that I work at a robotics company, so I spend a bunch of time at ssh terminals to remote machines (robots, shared VMs, etc) where it is neither practical nor desirable to install vim plugins hooked up to my personal time tracking setup.

So I'd love for the observer to be able to be able to also watch my remote shell sessions and record things like which file paths I'm editing and commands I'm invoking, from which I could fairly easily construct rules about which general problem area I'm working in.
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That's a good point. And you're right, I don't believe there is anything like a Chinese Wall in consulting. But I still don't think that they would risk their reputation on very risky collusion.

If there were evidence that there was insider trading on behalf of the hedge fund, it would probably result in one of the largest SEC fine in recent years. It would be a massive blow to their reputation. I tend to believe (maybe naively) that firms act in their own best interest and that McKinsey wouldn't dare do something as egregious as collude with their hedge fund.

I know I probably have more faith in the financial services industry than most of HN, but McKinsey is a reputable firm with good people and I don't believe that in a million years (will that might be an overstatement) they would do anything like what the NYT is suggesting.
Certainly the 1712 Newcomen engine exploded the amount of available coal, because water could now be pumped from mines.
An axiom is simply something made up.

At the end of the day, all of our Mathematics rests on foundations that are made up.

It's difficult to say what the empty set is. Because it isn't really anything at all.
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That does look like descriptions of ball lightning. I wonder if the mechanism is similar.
>should be put up for auction rather than being first-come-first-served.

Have you by chance heard of the Coase Theorem in economics? Which states that given that property rights are well defined and transaction costs relatively low, initial distribution of the property rights will not affect the efficiency of the final outcome reached. In other words, if a given company is given the rights to something and some other company would value that thing more, we do not have a problem, they will negotiate to the efficient outcome on their own by trade.
no, it's because charity is capricious and people shouldn't have to depend on one person's whim to fund causes.
The post made me physically uncomfortable, and I can't immediately put my finger on exactly why, so you aren't alone.
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This is the best publicity they could ever have and it didn't cost them a penny.

There's probably 10 year olds in their bedrooms light years ahead of these guys, certainly from we've seen it's definitely nothing to write home about, but it's all about the marketing and hype, convincing the mass media they've invented the next Terminator.
Everytime I see large digital systems, the deterministic nature fades and it starts looking probabilistic, noisy .. continuous
I was lucky enough to be in the audience for this, and have long wondered (and generally believed) if the questions at https://youtu.be/6nKfFHuouzA?t=2025 lead to reserved instances. The timing was right (reserved instances appeared in early 2009 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-ec2-reserved-ins...).

Jeff ruminates on the problem a bit, and you can all but see the model come out by the time Jeff finishes answering the followup question :-)

That he thinks it would be interesting to a "subset of users" is kind of amusing :-)
Not sure why you're being downvoted, but perhaps lack of empathy? For people dependent on Youtube for their income, it's not easy (or perhaps even possible) to just diversify so you aren't dependent on Google.

Your advice is good tho. Diversify as much as possible so that any one company can't ruin your life.
Your comment made me smile.
I don't find the author's reasoning in the related article[1] that its not a solar sail very convincing. I am not an astrophysicist, but, the author plainly admits that the measurements are within expected bounds of a solar sail.

Instead, the argument is surrounding the psychology of the hypothetical creators of said solar sail, or plausible ways we missed some data. Since we are just speculating at this point, who am I to say?

But to answer some specific criticisms:

- Perhaps the brightness/darkness cycles were the sail turning on and off as a mechanism to control velocity

- Perhaps the 25km/s speed being a crawl for interstellar travel was because it was meant to slow down while passing through our solar system. Either so we might notice it, or so it can collect data while here a bit better.

I am having a hard time understanding how rare an event this space-foam-fractal theory is predicting, but if it's extremely rare a solar sail seems a completely reasonable hypothesis still.

1. https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/is-oumuamua-an-interstellar-sp...
I have a problem with these articles often not because I disagree in principle that knowledge workers need to lose autonomy and become mere pawns of management, but because the authors so often argue something like: Our job is so different and special from manual labor that we deserve special privileges and respect.

All workers deserve autonomy and respect, should resist work "speed ups" at management's insistence, and should demand sane working conditions. We should show a united front across all sectors, not try to claim that our job is special.
I've never worked at a place with unlimited PTO. I don't know. This is me asking :P

Only ever worked at UK companies where we get 5.6 weeks PTO as standard. Never had a request denied as long as I've given 2 weeks notice of a long'un
It's a wildly inefficient turbine; but better designs of turbines are very practical. Including a design Tesla originated that's remarkably similar, functionally, to the Aeoliphile. These too are not necessarily closed cycle. Getting the steam back saves a little energy 'cause the water you're boiling is hotter to start with, but that's a small saving compared to the energy cost to change the phase of water.

The biggest problem with the Aeoliphile was just that it was a poor implementation, a lousy first prototype. Or to put that same case conversely, the real drawback was that there was no sufficiently cheap source of energy (even peat) back then. So there was no obvious reason to mount the learning curve.
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One of my favorites was "Vorlesungsverzeichnis" (lecture directory/course catalog).

Vorlesung = lecture

- Lesung = a reading (like a book reading)/lesson

- add "Vor" ("before" as in "in front of [a group]") and it becomes Lecture

Verzeichnis = directory

- Zeichnis = symbol, signal, reference, sign

- add "Ver" (hard to really explain what it does) and it becomes directory, index, register, list
Which has the unfortunate property that it isn't assured to terminate. Although I believe that discard-and-reattempt strategy is used in real-life RNG libraries if you ask for a random integer in an awkward interval.
The difference is a pharmaceutical company is for-profit, while OpenAI's (a non-profit) mission (https://openai.com/about/) is "to build safe AGI, and ensure AGI's benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible." (emphasis mine)
There are legitimate criticisms you can levy against set theory, but I'm starting to lose you here. I'm not really following your point anymore - this seems like arguing about whether or not mathematics is invented or discovered.

Are you trying to argue coming up with new definitions isn't worthwhile if the axioms don't have a foundation in reality? If so, why? If not, what are you saying?
I checked out a few, the prices are excessive imo, $11,011.00
What are the hypothetical requirements of a craft/probe which could be sent to chase after this object? Could we build something very small but extremely fast perform a fly-by? It kills me to think we've been visited by a mystery I'll never get the answer to in my lifetime.
If you've never read Andrew Grover's "Only The Paranoid Survive" I highly recommend it. It really appears that Apple has reached an inflection point where they need to fix the core product design lifecycle. I think it's very possible that the C-level execs and the board of directors don't realize the pressing issues from the outside.

Sure, the typical software engineer isn't their target demographic. But I would argue that tech-oriented users should be the bellwether for key issues related to performance and usability since as a demographic they tend to do things that will identify the flaws of your product.
He has done great work and so would not say it is not very useful since that is subjective.

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While this seems very nice, I'm a bit disappointed to see that it seems focused only on C, Fortran and PHP. Since it seems that ROSE operates directly on ASTs, I see no reason why the project couldn't be language-agnostic if given appropriate information about the AST to be processed.

(Of course, as this project was originally started for the DOE's purposes, it seems that it might just be a matter of simplicity)
Fans of The Expanse have known what it is all along...