skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought Karpathy's contribution to the presentation was an excellent technical summary of what Tesla is trying to do. It clarified a lot of things for me what they're doing with Autopilot. Up until a few days ago my attempts at scrutinizing autopilot have been limited to little snippets of information here and there, rumours, and guesswork.

Bullshitting and wankery doesn't come naturally to Karpathy so the few spots where he was under pressure to do as much stood out like a sore thumb.
Boycotts rarely work. We'd be better off raising awareness of Facebook's misdeeds and using that to awareness to build a grass roots campaign for policy change. In parallel with that, we should be having a discussion about what sort of legislation would be most effective at curtailing Facebook's (and everyone else's) bad behaviour.
If you could tell me even one application of this technology outside of cryptocurrency, I'd genuinely be interested.
> the US turns a net profit by fending off the Somali pirates

citation needed. Given that the US military spends more than every other national military on earth combined those must be some damn profitable pirates.
What they actually wanted: a WordPress theme
This is an incredibly personal issue, who cares? You’ve made the internet harder for yourself to use...
As a little kid in the 1960's I asked my dad where margarine came from and after the explanation I was yeah not eating that stuff.
Could this work? Just run an exchange and become long cash and short bitcoin, or acquire an exchange that is long cash and short bitcoin. Liquidate the exchange and everyone is even.

It's gotta be doable with the amount of exchanges that we've seen that are short both!
I think you're conflating two different things.

The people at Google who contribute too, and champion open source are probably not the ones who are making the decisions that we see as "evil."

Google is competing for top talent engineering, and Googles commitment to open source boils down to a company perk meant to attract and retain top engineers.

Google is a advertising company. Everything else they do is in service of that.
Seven Standards: 1. Internal Code
Something sounds off about that. Never mind enough lard to keep it solid at room temp, there's usually no added fat in ice cream. Just what's in the cream/milk. I'd expect it to taste/feel wrong and don't see how it could be cheaper.
Are there resources for making a quine that improve the development process or is it exactly as insanely tedious as it looks? Because this looks pretty impressive.
Lazy cross platform development will always fall: no solution will do the work of having to think of how your software will look on other platforms. With a bit of work, though, you can minimize this duplicate effort.
Its their choice to avoid pork. Its not somehow noble to deny yourself something healthy and delicious just because others do.
in many places isp's have a monopoly whereas with vpn's you can always move to another. im with you with tor but it is slow.
Not to knock IG, but any entity, especially a governmental branch, should be the canonical source for what they produce. It’s fine to use services like IG, but when it goes away or people stop using it (hello, MySpace) you’re left with link rot. By all means, get it out there, but don’t hand over the pink slip with the valet key.
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." -George Orwell, 1984

"Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology -- where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!" -Apple, 1984

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever. - George Orwell, 1984

"I’m still in boot camp." - Steve Jobs, 1985
Quite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo&feature=youtu.be
Anecdotal, but I don’t think many non-tech users have used a flash drive in the last couple years.
> OTOH, if an incoming string doesn't have a NUL byte your program will crash/corrupt memory/worse.

how are linked lists different? if the last node contains garbage for its next pointer, the outcome will be exactly the same. it's a bit more rare to encounter an "unterminated" linked list, but I've seen it happen plenty of times deserializing a linked list from disk or if the programmer just forgot to initialize the pointer. c strings basically are linked lists with an implicit next pointer.
Boy I wish there were more quirky workstations available these days.
> Where cash is still a better alternative.

I suspect not too many drug dealers or gun runners want to wait around 20 mins staring at their phone (with a traceable internet connection) for 2 confirmations before declaring the deal "done"...
>Hell, even if someone saw a B-2 today they'd probably think it's alien.

They'd probably think they're living in the matrix and several pixels of sky are glitching.
> Subtyping is set theory, and sets are obviously more fundamental than arithmetic! :D

In case this wasn't clear, the "arithmetic" in question is being performed on sets (or types). For example, for sum types, the number of inhabitants of the type is the sum of the inhabitants of the components. All three of addition, multiplication and subtyping are operations on sets (types). So this was a strange thing to say.

> Simplicity is a virtue because it lowers the cognitive load of a language. I don't know if mapping something to arithmetic tells us something actually profound about the productivity of a language feature, even if it gives me a little shiver of delight when I think about it.

My real point is this: if you are deciding to build a language, as far as I'm concerned, it is very strange to add multiplication (why don't structs count as multiplication? I would say they do), then not add addition and instead add something much more complicated than addition. It just doesn't make any sense. It's not about the "productivity" (how do we measure this?) of the feature, it's about it not making any sense to do this! You add multiplication, you add addition, that's really all there is to it. I don't know, I guess I'm just repeating myself now and you won't find it convincing, but to me it's like trying to defend Roman numerals after being shown the Arabic system.

> You must have an uncharitable view of those people if you presume that all of them are making a choice that goes against their own self-interest to be happy productive programmers.

I don't think so at all. It's not really a fair choice; people choose languages in order to build things, and it's easier to build things in languages that other people are using. The full range of options is not obvious to every programmer (does the average webdev even know about ML?), and most of the time there are more important concerns than whether your language has a nice theory behind it.
That line is standard in S-1s.
[1] https://www.quora.com/Is-it-standard-to-say-you-may-never-ac...
Generally, it matters more than you’d think. People can get subconsciously used to things (often in ways they cannot vocalize) and may feel that your software is “off”.
Do you think there's any chance to get my hands on the common development board/reference design/SDK that I'm sure most of the KaiOS phones are based on? (spreadtrum?)

I tried to find one of the $7 USD KaiOS phones when I was in Indonesia a couple of weeks ago. Seems they aren't actually for sale yet. Tried several Alfamart stores and a phone mall.
The book’s title implies Muslim immigration is the death of Europe, that’s pretty xenophobic.

He refuses to call Tommy Robinson a racist, that’s pretty racist.

If there’s ever an argument and race is a component, you’re not going to find him on the right side. He tip-toes around explicit racist statements on purpose but when looked at broadly I think he’s pretty clearly helping racist causes, I don’t think it’s an accident, and I don’t think he minds.

Frankly it’s a bit telling that the only other comparable group to jihadi terrorists you can think about are Mexican. You should read some criticism of Murray, read some left media. I think you’d be surprised that it’s not all the PC nonsense that Murray and co complain about.
How easy is it for physicists to mistake their models for reality? Equations are ways of representing reality. They are not reality. They are literally abstractions. Yes, it's another way of seeing and thinking about a thing, but it is not the thing... at all. Like a description of 4d space. Isn't a thing in reality, it is an abstraction. The only things that are not abstractions WRT time are movement and matter. Period. When ever you start freezeframing and creating integrations (4d view of time), then you've crossed into the world of the abstract and the non-existent.
"Fake it tll you make it" was also a saying to counteract the impostor syndrome telling themselves that 'theyre worthless, cant do anything, know nothing, etc'

Bullshitters never really followed this. It's the Trump game. Keep talking, making stuff up, while moving faster in the direction you want. And it's too hard to keep up, so implicitly people believe portions of it.
One of the biggest high-profile product launches of the 90's was for the margarine brand "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!", which launched with a huge ad campaign featuring the then-faddishly-popular male model Fabio.
Do these phones run WhatsApp? I feel like that would be extremely important for KaiOS to have any meaningful success with its target market.
> which is why people tend to default to making web apps (or hybrid solutions using frameworks like React Native) rather than native apps

Not sure why people keep making the claim that native is dying. More and more people are doing their computing on their smartphones and the vast majority of the top 100 apps on both iOS and Android are built in Objective-C/Swift/Java/Kotlin. It seems to me like the main people pushing the whole web app/PWA renaissance are web developers who resent the fact that the web is dying.
I read somewhere that Steve Jobs would figure out if a person was good or not by talking to the person's coworkers and saying the person sucks. If they vehemently denied it and stood up for the person, that was a sign the person was good. If they didn't, the person might indeed suck.

sooo... if the rest of the team posted a statement and people resigned...
This is said a lot, very confidently, yet I wonder. Water, gas, and power are basically microtransactions on this model, for many people. Most people don't worry about mental accounting when they turn the tap. How sure are we really that this isn't just something that hasn't worked on a large scale for information yet?
Can't help but feel that their focus on moving all operation insights into gitlab itself will not be as successful as they want it to be (as far as I read, their goal was to replace their operations and monitoring tools with gitlab itself[1]). I've worked with the ultimate edition for a year and the kubernetes integration is nowhere close to the insight you would get from google, amazon or azure in terms of insight and integration with ops-land. I wish all these hours were spent on improving the developer lifecycle instead.

I can understand how their huge success of "built-in CI" quickly leads to "built-in XYZ", but competing with github that lets other companies solve developer/ci problems via marketplace (and now CI via their new terraform actions) may lead to loosing market-leader [my take on their product] position for a code/test/review/merge ecosystem.

[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/10/01/gitlab-product-vision/
> A lot of this is being fixed with CSS4

CSS4 won't have nesting. SCSS isn't going away as long as nesting isn't a thing in native css.

(Also css variables are awful to use. Honestly, CSS-WG should have just copied most of scss's syntax)
Blockchain in general is way too broadly prescribed. The "how" blockchain solves a particular medical system problem is very important to consider. Many sources are selling the idea but not discussing tradeoffs.
And if the value of all long-term assets goes down by 50%, your 50% payout will buy just as much as it did before.
Hey, congrats on the new release!

Not sure if this is the right place to shed some light on my issue, but my repo is in the process of being deleted for over a month now [0]

Basically I made some mistakes in that repo and didn't know how to rectify them, so I decided to delete it and then make it again. However the deletion process got stuck it seems.

[0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support-forum/issues/4413
Yeah but butt in seat time is important! Once had a job where I was working 10am to 4pm with an hour lunch. Was fine for a long time until the company management became more OCD about their bean-counting and I got a new toxic "yes man/ass kisser to management" boss.

Suddenly my work hours were an issue. They started hard enforcing a department-wide policy where if you weren't seen at your desk, you're assumed to be not working. Under the threat of being fired, I was forced to sit at work from 9am to 7pm. I suspect managers also had "monitors" assigned to keep a watch over employees like me and hours we were at our desks.

It was a massive waste of my time as I was now spending a additional 20 hours a week at the office to do the same amount of work as before.
A data driven exploration of Myers briggs might make a good article.
In other research news, finding shows strong correlation that sunlight brightens up a room /s
I always wonder... Would you take a job if you heard 20-40% of people who accepted the job were fired within the first month?

If an organization was good at firing fast, would people be willing to take a job there? Would you be able to truly assess an engineer within a month in a way you wouldn't in an hour?

The first two weeks are usually a wash. But you might be able to get more signal in that second two weeks?

Does that same equation hold true if it's contract to hire? Would you take such a job?
OpenPH: Persistent Homology Computation with GPUs
By performing a self-promotional stunt?

This isn't solving problems, it's riding the AI wave - and claiming the capability - while leveraging the work of others, without attribution. I mean they even use the damn program in their promotional video.

I'd be much more liable to support a "We AI and you can too!" than some cynical marketing activation.
> That cryptocurrencies have different risks than other kinds of financial technologies?

These are known risks that have regulations that significantly reduce the chance of them happening in regulated currency markets and banks.

Cryptos took the Wild West approach due to... something... and somehow think that the scams that people have used in the past with banks will not be used again with crypto.

SURPRISE!!!
It's worth noting, that despite being blocked out in the diet list in the research, the state of red meat is still not firm [0]. There seems to be a body of evidence that naturally fed ruminants are very good sources of nutrition for people. It's worth noting said nutrition profile does change DRAMATICALLY when they're fed unnatural sources (grain/feed) over natural sources.

If you don't eat meat because you don't want to for whatever reason, but there is a LOT of bias in food research.

In general, avoid refined sugars, avoid refined seed oils, avoid other refined/processed foods... increase intake of less processed (even if cooked) foods, and try to eat fattier fish 3-4 times a week.

https://chriskresser.com/does-red-meat-cause-inflammation/
Yep agreed!
Skimming through this I've come to some conclusions:-

A reliable banking partner is prerequisite to run a fiat-crypto exchange. Loss of banking partner is fatal to an exchange, and should immediately trigger a wind-down. On the flip-side, the banking partner should in good faith, continue to process withdrawals until the wind-down is complete. Bitfinex's refusal to wind-down after the Wells Fargo decision is irresponsible. Wells Fargo's decision to immediately stop processing withdrawals without a grace period is bad faith.

Reliable banking relationships are difficult to maintain if you are not in the same jurisdiction with said bank. If you want to process USD, you have to be in the US. Multiple fiat-currency crypto exchanges are not sustainable due to this dynamic.

I see a sustainable status-quo as fiat-exchanges becoming single-jurisdiction, single fiat-base. Ironically, just like most banks.
DNS -> https://handshake.org
Just by joining the zeronet[1], you get most of the functions you can get the clearnet in decentralized form:
Forum,
Blog,
Social Network,
Search Engine,
Wiki,
Mailing,
Chats,
e.t.c.

[1] https://zeronet.io
Lol republicans are racist. /s

Can this meme stop?
It's not impressive. They didn't even build the tool, they just snagged the code from GitHub, said "This is AI!!!!" and without attributing it to the builder. It's cynical marketing ploy.
Working as an engineer in a traditional japanese tech company(大企業), I can say that 996 is not a norm here. In fact at my workplace, working on two consecutive weekends is prohibited. A significant fraction follow 995 though.
4000 years old and it's already the Fifth Dynasty. In another professional life I was a classicist, and I thought I dealt with old stuff there, but Egypt is just so impossibly ancient it makes the Greeks look like a bunch of Johnny Come Latelies. Deep time...
Apple's shocking three pronged approach to empowering their users.
Thanks for listening! We're all big fans of GitLab overall. Good to know you guys are working on filling the feature gap there.
Same way you find anything: by searching for it, liking things that are similar to what you're looking for, and following any boards and/or people who have things close to what you're looking for. Warning: Pinterest's recommendation engine is generally quite good, but once you've shown an interest in something, it's hard to get it to stop recommending similar things. So you might want to use different accounts for certain subjects.
It's never happened to me personally, but a friend that managed a team of email content developers took more than six months to fire an employee who literally didn't know HTML. PIP after PIP, meeting after meeting, a union rep getting involved, etc.

The reward is not having to work with that person. Probably not a good enough reward to justify the downsides, but still a reward.
That is seriously cool!
I do wonder (and I'm not accusing you specifically) how much people conflate their own productivity with the team's productivity. a particular engineer's productivity is undoubtedly harmed by interruptions, but you can indirectly accomplish a lot just by unblocking several junior engineers in an afternoon. I'm fortunate to work at a company where senior/lead devs get part of the credit when they facilitate someone else's work.
312k total compensation (not just salary, but stock and bonuses also) is not uncommon at FAANG and unicorn startups for senior people. The cost to the company is higher than that due to benefits, office space, and other HR costs.

I don't know much about what recruiters earn, but for a senior engineer that is not crazy.
Steve Blank has covered this issue well in his Secret History of Silicon Valley

https://steveblank.com/tag/world-war-ii/
> It's literally designed to be forked and used in whatever way the user/developer sees fit. You can't just unrealistically hope that a large company won't exploit it in whatever way they can.

You could GPL it...
Well the project is partly funded by Google so all the tracking is a feature.
Not really a distinction. Both would be considered UFOs.
At least in a decent pyramid scheme you have the chance to have your own recruits. In academia, the pyramid is much flatter.
Happens all the time. There are like 10 sub categories of Prime delivery....
The only time I've ever taken Myers Briggs was during a team-building retreat for being a college residence hall advisor. It was just a "for fun" thing, like doing the trust fall exercise. For the director to say she judged Angwin for refusing to do Myers Briggs is as comical and absurd to me as whining that Angwin was scared to do the trust fall, or didn't like playing icebreaker bingo.
We're still at the beginnings of veganism as a diet craze (though the motivations for it go beyond health). Give it time.
>Adrenaline?

Likely cortisol as well. Cortisol is the bane of modern society. We evolved to benefit from short intense bursts of cortisol and adrenaline, but our health suffers tremendously from extended elevated levels. And practically everything in the way we have structured society maximizes cortisol levels, especially in the workplace. It's particularly destructive to cognitive abilities, which is why I hope that maybe it might eventually get some attention and be consciously avoided. It would benefit productivity as well as benefit the health and happiness of nearly everyone.
The Evolution of Males and Females
It is a bit of catch-22 IMHO, for some. If you're very experienced it is just as easy to roll your own (although others may not onboard as quickly compared to well known libraries). If you're not very experienced then if you try to roll your own it may wind up being a mess. I'm in the middle and once I understand a library well I know its limitations and use its components as they were intended where I won't have to customize them too much, and roll my own components for the rest. This largely sidesteps the issues I used to have of wrestling with UI frameworks. I hope that helps.
None of those people are very bullish for free speech unfortunately.
It does matter how the best AI chip performs irrespective of efficiency.

Because self driving cars are a multi-year journey and those platforms will likely become more efficient.
Saturated fat is bad for health. This is established science and your comment is science denial.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
The only way anyone could assume control of the account as collateral is by knowing the private key. If the funds are not transferred to another wallet, then both parties now have knowledge of the private key. As such, the entity providing the loan has to trust that Satoshi will not move the funds. That would be an insane risk to take.
I'm not positive about that, and would currently direct you to some alternating explanations.
Low entropy systems are likely to transition into high entropy systems, and the reverse is unlikely to occur. It is largely a statistical argument; low entropy states are by definition less likely to occur by chance than high entropy states.

(You might then ask why we care what happens 'by chance'; the answer is either that physics is fundamentally unpredictable, or that the scale of the universe so large that the influence of the whole on any particular subsystem must necessarily be modeled with noise.)
Grocery is going in two directions: aldi and then Whole Foods/HyVee.

Short order meal prep is where the real money is.. the UK specifically London is a prime example.
It's not meant to be a provocation or an insult. It's just interesting to see how ingrained American exceptionalism is in our psyches. So much so that we are almost willingly blind to how far behind we've fallen.

Also, the media and conversations towards China haven't been less than provocative. Your stance of China being more visible because they now have more impact is accurate. It's more humble, more like a true winner, a true sport who was number 1 for many years but accepts there's another game in town.

But unfortunately, we're seeing more catty behavior than mature winner behavior
How about being humble, accepting and competing to regain number 1 without being catty high schooler about it?