skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me guess, the US Marine Core?
>I would be impressed if Zuck and Sheryl decided to spend a day per year doing this job. I suspect that as a billionaire and the CXO of one of the largest companies of the world, you can get disconnected from the details.

Considering that Mark Zuckerbeg enjoys personally using a stun gun on a goat then slicing it's throat[1], and spent a year similarly personally killing any animals he ate. After his day of undercover b may enjoy the work and declare the complaints baseless.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/twitter-ceo-says-mark-zuckerberg-on...
this is great, bookmarked it. a news feed of research about the topics i care about it would be awesome. so nice to see progress instead of depressing news articles.
That only works if days are the same length, no?
Elon Musk Faces U.S. Contempt Claim for Violating SEC Accord
Nikon released a lens in 1984 that offered transmission and correction from UV to IR -- from ultraviolet, through visible light, to infrared (near IR, not heat).

http://www.company7.com/nikon/lens/0105f4.5uv.html

This product was originally announced in 1984 as the Nikon 105mm f/4.5 UV-Micro-Nikkor, and from September 1985 it was marketed as the Nikon UV-Nikkor, then the lens sold then for $2,200.00 USD, then about half the cost of a full sized car.
For most of them (not Spectre v1) hardware fixes are easy, just adding some extra bits to cache or BTB tags. Problem is it's whack-a-mole.
To use the test set explicitly for evaluation is a deadly sin. When found out, you'd face serious damage to your reputation (Like Baidu did a few years ago). [1] What the decreasing performance results on the remade CIFAR-10 test set shows, is probably more akin to a subtle form of overfitting (Due to these datasets being around for a long time, the good results get published, and the bad results discarded, leading to a feedback loop). [2] It is also possible the original test set was closer in distribution to the train set, than the remade one. The ranks stay too consistent for test set evaluation cheating.

I also think the "do not trust saliency maps" is too strongly worded. The authors of that paper used adversarial techniques to change the saliency maps. Not just random noise or slight variation, but carefully crafted noise to attack saliency feature importance maps.

> For example, while it would be nice to have a CNN identify a spot on an MRI image as a malignant cancer-causing tumor, these results should not be trusted if they are based on fragile interpretation methods.

Interpretation methods are as fragile as the deep learning model itself, which is susceptible to adversarial images too. If you allow for scenario's with adversarial images, not only should you not trust the interpretation methods, but also the predictions themselves, destroying any pragmatic value left. It is hard to imagine a realistic threat scenario where MRI's are altered by an adversary, _before_ they are fed into a CNN. When such a scenario is realistic, all bets are off. It is much like blaming Google Chrome exposing passwords during an evil maid attack (when someone has access to your computer, they can do all sorts of nasty stuff, it is nearly impossible to guard against this). [3]

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/538111/why-and-how-baidu-...

[2] http://hunch.net/?p=22

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/07/google-ch...

EDIT: meta(I liked the article. I do not want to argue it is wrong. It is difficult for me to start a thread without finding the one or two things to nitpick at, or to expand upon a point, but this article was already very resourceful)
Would that be the quick keynote excerpt? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F61GtueelP4

Or their IoT talk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7oqSTmrfVc
Can the SEC really do this given the content of this tweet? Surely they can’t seek approval for every tweet about Tesla? What if he says he’s driving home from “the Tesla factory”. Does this count as a breach if he didn’t seek approval?
it's understandable to want such a commonly-shared standard, but that's not necessary (i'd even contend it's not desirable, for a robust and resiliant society).

we already codify ideas, test them, rank them, and modify or discard them through academic, religious, political, commercial, and social organizations. it's a dynamic system, not a (slowly-built) static one.

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice". - MLK Jr. (paraphrasing theodore parker apparently, which i just learned =)
I don't see a denial in that bug report - they're just saying that they don't have an actionable repro, and don't know how to get one.
SpaceX’s first Starship engine suffers “expected” damage during Raptor test fire
If you are wondering "why drop support for the 386?," the diff for the removal of 386 support from the Linux kernel is a good read:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

tl;dr atomic instructions XADD and CMPXCHG, and serious bugs in many 386 CPUs. Also BSWAP was added in the 486 and speeds some things up a lot.
As I see it, TLDR is: we needed a lot of people, cheap, and mega-contractor-shops is the only way to get the headcount, cheap. We also wrote nice contracts that require them to treat workers well, so if they don't, it's clearly not our fault. Also, we hired somebody who will be responsible for dealing with such things. So everything is going fine, except rare exceptions which we take very seriously. Thank you for providing feedback, it was very valuable for us.
That does seem to be a common occurrence when there is a sufficiently large number of people. I work for a large Fortune 150 company. At least once a year a new department is created that duplicates what my department has been doing for 15 years. Inevitably someone who knows of us tells the other group and they get in touch with us to find out what we actually do. I can't tell you how many meetings I've been in where the other group finds out that we already do 100% of what they've been tasked to do. They always look at each other with expressions of confused disbelief, wondering what they are supposed to do now. Sometimes they find some niche (on occasion we've thrown them some scraps of things we used to do that we no longer have any interest in pursuing), usually they are quickly dissolved. The worst was a group that had existed for more than a year and had already spent millions of dollars, only to be dissolved as soon as higher ups found out they existed and were trying (unwittingly) to duplicate our mature solution.
You sound even-handed.
They are going to do a scientific study to try and confirm their return from extinction. The last such study lasted thirteen years and yielded zero sightings.
>1. I honestly don't know it as well as I think. This is a hard pill to swallow, but most of the time it's the reason why we struggle to explain things in clear terms.

This is extremely true. Students often fall into the trap that they know something just because they can follow along when a teacher is doing it. But following is not the same as understanding and learning.

>3. I haven't given it enough thought before trying to explain it.

I think this is one of the main reasons we have trouble with explanations. We understand the subject but that doesn't mean we can explain it in terms that newbies can understand. Some of the worst teachers are the experts that have been doing something for a long time. Once they understand something it's hard to see why everyone should not but they don't realize that they've gained much of their understanding over years.

Also, keep it simple. Reddit has the, "Explain it like I'm five" group so just follow that advice. Your subject will let you know if you are being too basic and you can adjust as needed.

My advice is to plan the explanation before you try it, minimize jargon, keep it simple and make sure you know what you are talking about.
Can independent researchers not afford $6?

That’s what 512 GPUs for 1.5 minutes costs on EC2, using spot P2.16xl with 16GPUs each. The price would be $12 if you had to use on-demand instances.

It does start to add up — if you wanted to do 2 runs per hour, 8 hours a day, 250 days per year (ie, a “full work year”), it would cost $48k. (And you’d have done 4000 such experiments.)

All of this is to say, I think you might be exaggerating this as the “death of independent researchers”.

A single card can still do meaningful inference on a model trained this way, and can do useful prototyping before you deploy your fanout for a few minutes and $20.
Yes, take for instance: "2.) When your amygdala is active, you can’t have empathy for others"

Leo provides no source for it, and most importantly it sounds like an overly simple model ("your amygdala takes over, and you can't feel any empathy until it's no longer active"), and overly simple models tend to be very wrong when we're trying to describe such complex mechanisms as that of our brains.

Taking research papers and drawing conclusions and interpretations without formal training, in an authoritative manner, can lead to a lot of inaccurate beliefs about the world that people might carry to their grave because they think they're backed by science.
Yesod[1] is pretty cool.

[1] https://www.yesodweb.com/
According to the filing posted by another user, the first one.
zeptime's correct. lit-html places markers in the HTML where the expressions are. Then it renders the HTML once, and updates the expressions directly. That's how it avoids a full re-render and avoids building am in-memory VDOM and doing any diffing.
If you take a dive on PubMed, you'll see that indeed, sunlight exposure appears to be inversely correlated with all-cause mortality.

Why? It is not known, but even when controlling for physical exercise, Vitamin D status, and other factors, the correlation still holds. Some authors suggest other chemicals produced by sunlight, not only Vitamin F, might be involved.
I think of concepts like "barriers to entry" or "differentiators" or "channels" or "positioning". These words all have important meanings and implementations which can impact whether a business succeeds or fails. They can all drive strategy. These aren't things one learns by studying philosophy. And, yes, understanding those things can lead to "out of the box" thinking relative to others who lack such insight.
I figured I'd see Quinn's name mentioned in the comments. He had a good Twitter thread a bit ago about the easiest things you can do to lower your bill:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1091041507342086144.html (original Twitter link: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1091041507342086144)
You can't use random people because of privacy concerns - enforcing NDA on random gig contractors would be impossible.
Maybe it would help to define "intolerant?" For example, I don't believe racists shouldn't be harmed for their beliefs, but I think their beliefs should be called out as harmful and immoral at every opportunity. That is what I mean by "intolerant." Do you have a different idea?
T430 owner here. Even if it's a Ivy Bridge CPU, the machine works amazingly well. I love it.

In maintenance terms It's almost a desktop. I have replaced the dual core cpu for a quad core, double the RAM, switch the hdd for an SSD, get a better battery, remove the CD drive for a 2nd caddy, added a 5GHz wi-fi card, and still have the possibility to upgrade to a IPS Panel, backlight keyboard and other gimmicks. All with a phillips screwdriver, and official lenovo guide and my thumbs.

And don't make me start talking about linux support, it's basically MacOS plug and play (in Windows you have to install a Lenovo App for the drivers).

With all the upgrades I guess you can make the case, that will all that money, I could buy a better laptop. But I don't know, there is something charming about using the same machine for a long time, and have little improvements over time, with little to no downtime and re-learning workflows.

Makes me sad, that when the time comes to replace the machine, I will not be able to repair it or upgrade as much.
'Twas No Post, But Poetry (At 300 Baud)
It should support that through Sieve (filters, basically). If you want to redirect a whole domain, that's a routing level function.
Oregon expected to enact first state-wide rent control law
Also finally they soldered the memory to the board and didn't leave a free slot, see the spec:
https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/ThinkPad%2...
When I was in Japan, most of the bigger stores played one song, their 30ish second long theme, on repeat. It's been 15 years and I can still remember Bic Camera's, Yodobashi Camera's, and Geo's.
Facilities doesn't allow plants Everything needs to to dull, uniform and gray.
I think America lacks a long term vision and a strong central government to plow on.

Yes the project will take 10 years more than it was scheduled and cost 200% extra but so what? A week after the railway is in use everyone will have forgotten about all those issues. A good railway system lasts a hundred years.
Santa Fe author’s treasure hunt claims a fourth victim
Google vs. Oracle Filings Thus Far
> The problem with Vit D3 supplement is that you don’t absorb most of it.

That's not a problem. You just need to take more to compensate.

> even the molecule itself is not the same as the one your organism produces.

What
The order was to get approval for tweets that would have "material consequences for investors", so presumably just mentioning Tesla as part of his day to day routine would be fine.

But honestly, its not like its that hard to just not tweet about Tesla.
I think we are getting mixed up in this thread over multiple senses of the term "trust". One sense is PKI. Ajedi32 is referring to a different type of trust.

Everyone who uses .com must trust the authority for .com, because that registry's name servers are what delegate control of all domain names in the TLD. Every time you resolve a domain name like "example.com", you are relying on the name servers for ".com" to serve correct information.

If the registry was malicious (or if an attacker compromised it), then the registry could easily seize control of any domain name -- it could rescind the delegation and publish whatever DNS records it chooses, including the DNS records necessary to obtain a domain-validated certificate.

It is correct to say that we "trust" TLD authorities because they can do these malicious things, but they commit to behave in a certain way. We trust TLD authorities in the same way that we trust certificate authorities only to issue certificates following a certain process. Both of these actors are capable of fraudulently obtaining certificates: the CA can mis-issue a certificate directly, whereas the TLD can seize a domain's DNS and trivially procure a domain validated certificate (from a legitimate CA).

This is what I believe Ajedi32 means when referring to "trust anchor" (using the term informally). DNSSEC is not adding new trusted entities, but is rather adding PKI around an existing trust relationships: a child DNS zone (e.g. example.com) always needs to trust its parent zone (e.g. the .com TLD). In the PKI sense, I agree that it would be adding new trust anchors, but those trust anchors would simply model preexisting trust relationships that don't use PKI.

On that note, we also need to trust the Internet root name servers that point to the name servers for the TLDs.
Also note: research on vitamin D has suggested that it’s not vitamin D that provides the benefits often touted, but the fact that you are outside getting exercise.
The thing is what would happen if they respond yoy he growing demand and build more housing ? If the economy of the city slows down even a little bit it will be hit hard with bad debt. Companies are currently mushrooming in Berlin. Keeping rents affordable could in fact help the people and help create more companies there.
> Almost anything XML is over-engineered.

I hear this a lot, but I feel that with many XML protocols (including WebDAV), if you reformatted them as JSON, people today would think they were pretty reasonable. XML was just the popular style back in the 90s / early 2000s.
Its about tweeting material information or disinformation about the company.

If he's saying he's driving home from the Tesla factory, that isn't material information. Him tweeting that Tesla is going to make 500k vehicles is material information and needs to be vetted by the agreed upon process per the settlement.
> the things that a child could produce in BASIC weren't "interesting"

That's just not true. For I/O you had keyboard input, screen output, and maybe file I/O. 3 basic things that pretty much all programs used. Most commercial programs were 80x25 text mode with 16 color attributes. If you could learn to read scancodes from the keyboard, write text to the screen, and save/load files, (along with a few fundamental ideas like loops and conditionals) you could do almost anything that a commercial program did. With just that basic knowledge of a few simple things.

It was simple because it was direct, there weren't 72 layers of abstraction and UI libraries that you had to know before you could even begin. You could also do pixel graphics, and again it was pretty simple - just set the screen mode and go with DRAW, LINE, CIRCLE, POKE etc. Again, no layers of indirection or libraries or window managers or canvases or DrawableObjectFactoryManagerFactoryInterfaces needed.

One of the problems of modern attempts to recreate that feel is just that there is so much between the programmer and the hardware and it's so much more complex. Back then, we had single-user, single-process systems with direct access to simple hardware. Everything you needed to do was either a built-in part of the language or a BIOS/OS interrupt that you could call just as easily. It's hard to recreate that on a multi-user multitasking system with indirect access to more complicated hardware and countless layers of software between the programmer and the machine and BIOS/OS interrupts. Sure you can do more powerful stuff now, but it's not as interesting.
Musk and his lawyers agreed to the terms of the settlement.

The only reason he had to settle in the first place was because he tweeted false, market-moving information via twitter. Maybe Elon should have considered the consequences then.

Why didn’t he just hand over his twitter password to a social media manager and stop tweeting once he lost millions of dollars over the last tweet?
> I don't think I've ever seen a laptop without one, and I used laptops back in the early/mid 90's.

Were you using PowerBooks? Touchpads were unusual in laptops until about 2000, when things started going downhill. All of the 1990s laptops I used that I can remember (IBM, Toshiba, Compaq) had superior pointing devices: trackpoint or trackballs.
The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes
Elon specified that this Twitter account is a place to find official Tesla announcements. He could have said it was his private opinions but once he said it was official hes bound by those rules
He should really have a public relations spokesman/spokeswoman for this type of messages... Especially since this same situation already happened.
They modernized the gas pumps at our local Speedway by adding video players. Instead of news like I've seen in California they play endless commercials and the volume is loud.

I remember stopping one time when it was twenty below zero this winter, no one was at the pumps and the same commercial was playing and not a single pump's sound was in sync with another. I felt like I was in a movie about a dystopian future.
Surely the SEC has something better to do than attack someone for tweeting.
Tesla formally said in 2013 that Musk's personal Twitter account was one of the ways "we announce material information to the public about our company, products and services and other issues."

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000119312513...

For additional information, please follow Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s Twitter accounts: twitter.com/elonmusk and twitter.com/TeslaMotors
As a supporter of living in a world of sane money, I’d like to see Reuter’s publish an article with a similar title like — “Evidence for gold standard as superior form of money hits 'gold standard': scientists”
The difference is that Asia has had intense centralized agricultural economies for something like 6,000+ years while (north/west) Europe was primarily pastoral until around the Roman empire.
It's only for tweets that are "materially relevant" to Tesla's investors. I don't know if the CEO visiting the factory qualifies as relevant to investors, but any comments about production rates certainly would, since ramping up production seems to be one of Tesla's biggest struggles. The fact that he said something untrue about production rates (overstating previous predictions by 25%) certainly doesn't help.
This is really a no-brainer. The music annoys me as a regular customer. The choice of music can also be peculiar - country and western in London...?
Citing parental freedom, Arizona lawmakers move ahead with anti-vaccine bills
Companies don't hire specialists to refactor code that they're abandoning.

Companies do hire specialists to port code that they're not abandoning.

Dead companies don't hire anyone at all.

"Zombie" companies can still have big revenues and they can and do pay consultants to do things like port old applications. Again, there have been entire companies based on such activity. I've made money from such companies.

You don't work on rotten code because nobody does

I was a consultant for a language vendor for 5 years, then continued working in that niche for another 5. My sample size in this context is in the many dozens at least. There's a lot of code I'd call "rotten" out there that people still work on.

I didn't say anything to denigrate maintenance programmers.

Good. I'm sure I've met a number of them who are probably better coders then either of us when they're half asleep.
The Battle for the Future of Stonehenge
Take two parts physics, four parts advocacy science, and two hundred parts advocacy journalism, and what do you get?

In Christian circles, you get creation science.

It's cute when climate scientists pretend their work is on the level of finding the Higgs boson. Advocate science is garbage.
Well one of the wonderful things about the current meat alternatives is they are relatively easy to make at home from a few basic plant ingredients that are really quite easy to say, yeah, thats fine, and the end product tastes good.

Its when you get into the territory of that "natural flavor" ingredient listing that things get really weird in food. Think la croix soda. Freakish, really unnatural flavor, almost salty even, but somehow they have two things listed. Water, Natural Flavor.

People don't seem to bat an eye at that, but having seen firsthand beverage formulation work (not la croix) its a pretty odd thing. Dozens of small glass vials with oil extracts with intense fragrances of orange, lemon, lime, cherry, etc. Even among one of those, there might be dozens of variants, each a different oil from the plant that produces that orange smell.

How carcinogenic are these things? Do they have any poor side effects? Why aren't they listed individually? Have there been studies on each one?

Its like the FDA caters to large companies not wishing to share beverage and food formulations, despite a cancer epidemic.
His tweet would be more like “I am driving home from factory that is still open at 20:00 and all workers are there”, when it closed at 18:30. Moreover, given his history I am absolutely seeing why a single tweet is enough to start a litigation against him.
What happens with software is the opposite: it forever remains in pristine condition; it's the environment that changes.

Exactly. If you replicate the old environment in an emulator, the old code runs just fine.
Interesting, according to CIA World Fact book, Railways:

USA: 293,564 km

EU: 230,548 km

China: 124,000 km

Edit to add: With the EU, however, having an area of about 4.5 m km^2, while USA and China have about 10 m km^2 each.