skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not disagreeing, but just to add on the other side of the coin: language can be a driver for thought and ideas. This might feel wishywashy without an example, but I usually feel that I need to reinterpret algebraic manipulation that I have done to understand what significance they have.

So in a way, I allowed myself to be a mechanical executer through the rules of algebra/calculus I've used, and then I re-engaged my intuition to understand what is happening.

It might even be my unwillingness to accept the mechanical approach purely that poses a big hindrance to fast tracking a lot of learning in this domain I have to do. Maybe I should just shut up and calculate as they say, but it's hard.

This just makes it all the more true that learning "languages" is the best way to become smarter. "Smarter" is a weird personal word here, but I'm at a loss for a better way to put it. What am going for is: languages can be an abstract lever that allows our limited cognitive potential to build culturally, which is distinct and will definitely interact with the knowledge ladder, but in a distinct way. "Languages" here are more general than just the textual/oral/syntactic, and am not talking about Russian/Arabic/French either.
I had same thought when I read that title , but again its NYTimes , we all know how they reacted to Mars program 2 years back.
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The thing about the original moon landing programme was that it had a great clarity of outcome and timeline.

What: Land a man on the moon and return him safely

When: Before the decade is out

That meant NASA could really focus and throw out everything that wasn't directly on that path.

Reusability - take too long, we'll build each craft from scratch.

Permanent mission - Too complicated, keep the missions very short.

Multi-launch architecture - Nope, too complicated again. Launch it all together.

Crew size? Two on the moon so they could help each other, one in the CM to aid in docking. Want a larger crew? Sorry, no. Three is the minimum so that's what you get.

Complicated re-entry vehicles? Nope. We know we can make ablative work.

What is NASA's manned programme for now? Maybe the Moon. When, who knows? Maybe Mars. What architecture, when, how, for how long? Who knows. Moon orbit? For what, when? who knows.

It's impossible to run a clear programme if you don't know what it's for!
Thanks for making this! It was widely recommended in my chemistry class last year, and the orbitals table especially came in handy.
"My anecdote trumps your data."
Great timing for this link, as I just found my e-reader in a random corner of my apartment after thinking I'd lost it while traveling! I'll be adding these to the reading queue.
I'd be really curious about his viewpoints on the current US political landscape, considering he experienced real, actual fascism and not the label everyone throws around willy-nilly trying to tar and feather each other. Personally, whenever I hear the terms racist or fascist thrown around, racism and fascism never actually enter my mind, or at least extremely rarely. I just think "Oh, another person who disagrees with someone else," because that's how the words are used in modern day politics. The words have lost their actual meaning to me due to their incorrect usage, and over saturation of their usage. You can only cry wolf so much.
What do you mean by "model behavior"? We have AI systems that can learn walking, running and other behavior with just trial and error, I would call that simple behavior.

Now here's a more advanced example to teach a virutal character how to flex in the gym: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kie4wjB1MCw

That's a bit more advanced than simple walking.

Here's a deployed AI to a real robot "crab":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMSNBLAfC7o

How about virtual characters learning to cooperate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmYKfU5O_NA
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Longtime vi/vim user. I've tried emacs over the years (as well as Atom). I can get work done but inevitably when I need to do some power editing, I drift back to what I know best. I'm sure that if an emacs user went the other way, they'd also drift back to emacs for the same reasons.

Basically, both (and other) environments are sufficient such that there isn't a killer feature on either side that would entice someone like me over the great divide for the duration. So for me, the editor wars are over.
But you do need to understand that they generate lift, and be able to mathematically describe something that generates lift. The Wright brothers wrote to the Smithsonian in 1899 and got back, among other things, workable equations for lift and drag.

I think people think back propagation is the metaphorical lift equation here and we just need a “manufacturing” advancement (ie, more compute and techniques for using it). We’re close to that (I personally feel like with poor evidence) but definitely not there yet (as evidenced by nobody publishing this). We cannot describe what is happening with modern architectures as fully as a lift equation predicts fixed wing flight, and so it is largely an intuition + trial and error, which is a slow unreliable way to make progress.
The first link is available by clicking Wide in the top right on Ptable.
The second is available by clicking the Orbitals tab on Ptable.
There are plenty of businesses whose goal is not mainly profit, but selling a good product/service. RSE and environmental issues are more and more important to businesses. Paying good salaries should come next. Profit for people already rich enough to invest should come last. That's the only way to get sustainable growth and a healthy society.
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Why would users of those file systems trust Dropbox not to just remove support again?
The whole idea of the Senate Launch System (SLS) is flawed from the start. When NASA has been at its finest, it has been on the edge of innovation. Think Apollo, Shuttle, ISS, all the Mars Landers, the Voyagers, Cassini, New Horizons, etc.

So why is NASA wasting billions to make a rocket, something we've known how to do reliability for more than 50 years? The reason is simple - politics. NASA is a political agency. They suffer from the same short-sighted, narrow focus thinking that a lot of other areas in policy live with. This is what hamstrings NASA the most, the constant change in directive, especially with regards to human spaceflight.

There are commercial alternatives that can already provide heavy lift capability, or at the very least are well positioned to take $1-3B and get one with even heavier capabilities flying. NASA is far too risk adverse these days to be building a rocket or a crew vehicle. They figured this out for commercial crew, why can't they figure it out for other architectures? Imagine NASA being able to cut the $2.5B/year line item that SLS has ballooned to and redirect that to other human spaceflight goals. Leaving commercial companies to build does not mean NASA is entirely removed from the process, for example ULA/SpaceX have been heavily reliant on knowledge transfer and oversight from NASA on their path towards commercial crew.

Honestly, having just graduated from a top aerospace/electrical engineering school and having experience in the industry myself, this is why you see the top talent going to places like SpaceX, Blue Origin, and a whole host of other commercial companies. These companies have a clear vision that NASA lacks. The NASA centers recent graduates gravitate towards are Caltech/JPL and APL/Goddard because they operate (almost) entirely independently from the rest of bureaucratic monster with serious research and a get-it-done attitude. A lot of the work at other facilities is farmed out to commercial companies, leaving a lot of NASA people in oversight/paperwork heavy jobs. This is not a blanket statement, but there is certainly a lot of "one technician doing the work and 5 engineers watching him" going on.

So if you follow the idea that NASA belongs at the forefront of research, what type of work do they do? Well, they are research heavy and build only the most advanced tech as a result. They research Mars and build rovers/architecture to further that research and get humans there. They conduct research on the ISS to further medicine for people back on Earth and learn about long term "0g" exposure. They research deepspace travel and build lunar gateways and architecture to support that. They build drones to go to Titan, build probes to fly by outer planets, etc. And then, they pay a commercial company to fly it for them (just because NASA did the bulk of the research that enables current rockets to be so successful does NOT mean they have to continue being the one making the rocket. Yes SLS has Boeing as a primary contractor, but the point is it's branded as a NASA rocket).
I'm pretty sure that snarky tone is standard in NY Times reporting and they'd have said the same thing if it was a US space launch.
In your system, your airline would be at a disadvantage when customers are comparison shopping on OTAs, because your displayed price is "price for a window/aisle seat" and your competitors would be displaying "price for a middle seat".
OpenAI Nonprofit’s initial funding commitment was to be consumed over many years!

When we started, we didn't know just how fast things would be moving (e.g. https://openai.com/blog/ai-and-compute/), and we've needed to scale much faster than planned when starting OpenAI.
You should also mention that their site / code is 100% open source. [1] You could run your own NeoCities if you so desired.

[1] - https://github.com/neocities
Wait... what is it now?

Oh no, I have to go take down a few videos...
Thanks for writing and posting this! I've been wanting to dive more into native gui development with clojure so this is right up my alley. Clojureverse and the Clojurians slack channel are great communities to post this work to as well if you haven't already.
> China apologists frequently cite the higher efficiency of the one party system compared to democracies hampered by due process.

In fact, China cannot even claim superiority in terms of economic growth, because their per capita GDP grows much slower than Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan for the same period during high growth (see the graph in [1]).

Hence the argument for higher efficiency is in fact misplaced, mostly based on her accumulated power largely due to huge population. But her population is aging quickly, and so will her productivity and growth.

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-state-driven-growth-mode...
And given most companies run managed browsers on managed systems, the user agent is going to collide too
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We don't store a cookie but, yes, the hash doesn't need the date item in it since it has the salt. We'll change that in the next release
Yes that is true, but it is the content from the 1% that is also degraded.But i do put the blame on tablets/phones. Kids have visibly lost the creativity they might have with a desktop computer (be it word processing / a spreadsheet/ photo editing or writing their first programs). And we as developers are also affected. It used to be that anyone could run P2P nodes for file sharing etc. This no longer happens, the P2P web is not taking off, and nothing of equivalent value has replaced it.
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> many of them are profitable

Until they aren't, and either they need to find way to cut costs or extract more value per-passenger.

> You don’t need to accept ridiculous things for that.

Then don't? What's stopping you from not flying with low-cost carriers?

I already avoid easyjet/ryanair, even if the tickets from some company like KLM/Aegean costs more than double.
> But do you suspect the methodology, the results, or the conclusion were "faked" or inaccurate?

Yes. As other commentators have noted, the methodology is terrible (counting a single immigrant cofounder as a "company founded by immigrants" even if the other 8 cofounders were all non-immigrants, counting a merged company as founded my immigrants if any of the companies that merged were founded by immigrants, even if those founders didn't have any role in the post merger world) and seems to have been chosen to give a specific conclusion.

Looking at the biases of the author usually gives a good heads up to these sorts of methodology problems.
I think one of the great potentials of commercial space exploration (and exploitation) is better long term focus (and stable leadership). Changing the mission every 4 or 8 years is not conducive with this stage of space exploration.
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I was wondering if anyone is using any interesting new dev tools at work? My company is pretty set in there ways with Jenkins, Datadog, etc. ... which is fine but thought there might be some interesting stuff I hadn't heard of. Curious to hear what people are liking
> At what point would you deem it a good idea to start working on AGI safety?

I don't know, but I'd say after a definition of "AGI" has been accepted that can be falsified against, and actually turn it into a scientific endeavour.

> The tricky thing with all of this is we have no idea what an appropriate timeline looks like.

We do. As things are it's undetermined, since we don't even know what's it's supposed to mean.

> So given all of that, wouldn't it make sense to start working on these problems now?

What problems? We can't even define the problems here with sufficient rigor. What's there to discuss?
Only chance this gets adopted in America (assuming it works as promised) is if airlines can upsell them as premium++ middle seats while cramming the premium+, premium, and sardine classes even further.
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One of the benefits of working remotely is that we can escape our local markets' pay scales. Working from anywhere shouldn't negatively affect one's value.
I looked it up, I get it, but this post and the site, are targeting English speaking.
the American analog of that would be "s__t rolls downhill". Every culture probably has a similar variant of this story.
Have you thought about using AI instead of parts of the government? There must be a lot of bits that can be automated. Do you think that an AI led government could remove the left/right divide that there is at the moment?
If everyone just filled in a huge form that told the AI what was important to them, this could be used to drive policy.
Not parent, but I'm looking into Syncthing (https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing & https://syncthing.net) and they document the issue and known workarounds to sharing from external SD-cards on Android: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/wiki/Frequent...
This looks good. One of your competitors charges about $4,000 per seat per year so this seems to be a good space. If you add the possibility of building user defined nodes with Python you’d have a solid product.
Indeed. This is one of the limitations to our approach. We're thinking of ways to workaround it. Please shout if you have any ideas ;)
>Why would it not be?

Because they did the same work?

>who is anyone to say that's not allowed?

I didn't say it's not allowed. I think it's poor business practice, and poor for society, incentivizing devs to stay in expensive areas instead of moving out to cheaper remote areas.

>If you forced them to be paid the same then one of them will not be working for you even if they want to; either because you can't afford to hire them both or the bay area engineer can't live on the salary.

That is speculation and I speculate you are wrong.
Looks great to me. Nice job shipping!
constraints help drive engineering decisions!
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FirefoxOS was eye opening when I picked up one of the cheap $40 ZTE phones they were promoting with it. It ran extremely well on the bottom of the barrel SOCs vs similarly spec'd android phones. I was sad to see it gone so quickly.
Delighted that this is one of the first comments! :)
The product was designed to make analytics easy. We found that the word Analytics is not easy to pronounce too. So we decided to make the word analytics easy too! But thanks for your comments, we will consider about it.
Interesting, I calculated the salary in the country I am right now, and pay is way above local pay - which is good. I earn more tho with a different company working remotely, but they don't discriminate based on location. Equal amount of effort, means equal amount of pay in their view.

My take aways from the blog post:
"if everyone is paid the same role-based salary, the company would not be able to hire as many team members" - obviously cheaper labour means more resources.

"If everyone is paid a standard salary, those who live in high-income areas would have less discretionary income when compared to their counterparts in lower-income communities." - that is the choice of those living in high income areas, and I don't see why those who make the financially sensible choice of living in a more affordable area should be penalised.

However, and this is quite important, given how high salaries at Gitlab are (based on the calculator), I see no issue with this kind of discrimination. I assumed the gap might be bigger. At the end of they day it has to be a win win situation. I will refrain from criticising this "issue" from now on as I don't see any ill intention in it. Keep up the good work!
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In my experience, most articles that advocate for a particular action or policy make unstated assumptions about metaphysics / ethics. I'm not sure economics or social-policy articles would be an exception.

For example: It's pretty uncontroversial to say that ${N} persons cross the Mexican-to-American border, not at official government checkpoints, annually.

It's slightly more controversial to claim that ${M} of them are doing so illegally, because matters of law are complicated and matters of judgment.

But when we get to actual policy decisions, we have competing concepts of what's good and worth attempting. For example, how do we balance competing concepts of justice? How do we balance justice and mercy? What's the proper balance for the U.S. government regarding protecting immigrants vs. current residents?

Personally, I haven't found any good, reasoned way to argue about those metaphysical issues. I have personal preferences, and I know which things rub me the wrong way more than others. But in the end it seems like a matter of taste, so I'm not even sure it's worth trying to persuade others.
The focal issue of this article is police brutality against protestors, and that's what the root commenter in this subthread was talking about with respect to France.
Just like the article reads like an ad-nouncement for Azure. I don't mind Azure or Microsoft, but that's what the PC was implying. Everyone has bikes (ai and all it's children) and they all want to sell it under the (sometimes implied) promise that it will get better over time.
I'm actually not that annoyed by kids doing age-appropriate things. I have a couple myself, and I was a child once-upon-a-time.

If I need to be comfortable, I upgrade to comfort economy. If I need to save money, I think about my cost saving and remind myself that these children (in Canada, at least) will grow up to pay for my health care.

The last thing I need is them growing up to think that old people are irritable and annoying to them!
Hey if it hurts Autodesk I'm for it.
I care less about what anyone thinks is likely and care more about the actual data.

My parents were immigrants. My mother raised kids while my dad had two jobs that paid minimum wage. My annual comp at my day job is > $400K. My older sibling is a medical doctor. My family certainly came from no privilege at all. The only advantage we had was my father getting the opportunity to immigrate to the US.

Saying that 45% is all “cream of the crop” is a pathetic level of mental gymnastics.
Please point out something legitimately wrong with those subreddits instead of just implying they're shitty by association with reddit. There are hard working people contributing great stuff and it just bothers me when people say stuff like this without pointing anything specific out. Just because there are terrible subreddits doesn't mean that all subreddits are terrible :(
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Compare the level of critique a study with a very disagreeable conclusion has (specifically a study whose conclusion is disagreeable to the majority of people regardless of political affiliation) compared to one which has an agreeable conclusion.

As someone else called it, these statistical slights of hand are selectively tolerated and are one reason that science, especially social sciences, have a lower level of trust than one would have initially assumed.
It is on our roadmap! We will continue adding more data sources in the following release.
OTM. The history of the Indian independence movement is a lot more complicated than the simple image of Ghandi and non-violence that most people receive through popular culture.
Of course it's false. You still see lots of armed people, usually criminal gangs, both regime sponsored and independent. However, legally they were prohibited several years ago, I remember this. On your second point, please read the other comments on the thread spawned by my comment, and you'll see why your point is false.

I don't claim to know how the world works, but I've seen and learned enough to understand the importance violence has in our society. In most developed nations we're sheltered from it because its application has been made incredibly efficient. However, we shouldn't be fooled to believe that it doesn't play an important role in maintaining our societies.
> Wouldn't there be no syntax highlighting?

Are there major IDEs that don't support language injections?
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Well I can see what s/he means: same as with an employer-employee relation, there is a certain power balance. They give you money, it would be bad for you to stop earning an income. Losing (or missing out on) an investor because of some nationalistic ideal about keeping China submissive to the USA...

And it doesn't seem so important when you look at your own, isolated case: anyone could have trained this neural net, it's not rocket science, what does it matter if we 'transfer' the python script that we used?

I can see their point, even if I think it's an overgeneralization and if I suspect every other country does the same (just that with China, we care about the human rights being violated there, or at least, that is my worry).
Reaching out to Vim because it needs a decent text editor.
He was not referring to H1B. If you have sufficient funds and want to start a business, there are alternative routes to the Green Card.
Is this a Facebook-specific problem, or are most Bay Area food service workers in a similar situation?
Wow, that's so great. This announcement, the one from Epic Games, and the release of v2.8. So many great news for Blender! That makes me really motivated to try out to create a project using it.
Emacs is a great editor construction kit. That’s its killer feature. If you like the vi bindings, etc, you build a great vi editor in Emacs, for example.

http://spacemacs.org/
Most definitely. Sometimes when I ride public transit, a fellow passenger will confide in me that some child is making an "inappropriate ruckus."

I usually reply with mild sarcasm, "Shame we both picked today to give our chauffeur the day off."

But for the most part, children being children are entertaining.