skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll admit that I engage in recreation when I could be advancing humanity. Even my job does little to advance humanity compared to other jobs I could take if I was willing to make some personal sacrifices. But I don't, I'm selfish, and the best reason I can give why is that I too have things I desire which others are not willing to sacrifice to provide for me, thus I have to prioritize myself.

I find most people work this way. A few are true saints, a few are pure evil, the rest are selfish with varying degrees of outcome.

One could even say that the resources spent on saving this baby could be better spent on saving far more others, and that prioritizing a single person over a group is a selfish action.

So are you really doing the best you can do?
Green AI
Being in Arm's position sucks now.

Would they not be so enthusiastic about sanctions, Chinese would've been way more cautious jumping on RISC-V boat.

Now instead of having RISC-V as one off research projects, which would have probably died off silently, now they are all treated as survival essential projects.
I really like those "no reversing" clauses.

Because they are worth less than the bits used to write them in Poland - only the "distribute derivative works" would be enforceable because that would be blatant copyright violation
Boomy's EULA [0] is a fairly easy read that covers the business side of things.

> In consideration of free use of Boomy, any arrangement, sound recording, composition, and/or musical work accessed through the use of the Boomy platform, shall be the property of Boomy Corporation as a work-made-for-hire.

> The user may not edit, remix, or create derivative works of the song outside of the Boomy application without purchasing ownership.

> The user may not distribute the song to streaming services without purchasing ownership.

> The user is permitted to purchase the ownership from Boomy for a fee outlined in the Library section of the Boomy app.

[0] https://boomy.com/eula
Let me clear up. The problem isn't breaking the law with the DUI. It's violating the court order. A judge can impose any set of rules (read that right ANY), and you get tossed back in jail for doing that. Not drinking just happens to be a common one. But you say, "I'm over 21, it's legal." Now it's not, because the judge told you not to. What about accessing a computer? He can put that in there. Using a cell phone. "But that's an undue burden." Do you honestly think that matters?
There is no concept of free speech in the EU; you can be sued for calling someone stupid, etc.
iconfonts and unicode icons are two different things. unicode icons are the built in icons that renders correctly (but with slight variations) on any modern device, iconfonts are basically your own icons set as a font, hopefully using Private Use Areas for the codepoints.
How exactly is exchanging cryptos with other cryptos conducive to money laundering?

I can tell you why you want to avoid KYC: It's really annoying for the users and it's labor-intensive for the company.
One way or another, we can't really know.

But I believe people have an unalienable right to tell their version of a story.

As far as these story go, this is one is very civil (and doesn't name the people that are accused of destroying a career and a life).

What I don't really understand is what this comment brings to the table. Why try to cast aspersions on an otherwise mild testimony, the truth of which is pretty much unknowable without further details?

What if the person is 100% right?
Modern Script Loading
You have levels to guide HR in making compensation decisions relative to the rest of the market. For example, Google might set their target at 105% of the top range of the market in order to retain the best employees. 105% of a fresh graduate's salary is very different from the same rate for a top-of-field industry recognized veteran. Even in those cases, that's a guide so exceptions are made as merited.

And no, I don't work at Google :)
It's not limited to javascript: http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post4428_unfathomable-bugs...
I'm the author of the article. Thanks for the hug of death! Currently on the phone with my hosting provider. A friend will help me move to Netlify later.

If you did manage to read the article and enjoyed it, I write a weekly newsletter with stuff like that. Will actually send the next one in a few hours:
https://nesslabs.com/newsletter
PSA: Don't eat magnets more than one at a time.
> I could care less about some factory shell in China.

Images of equipment installed GF3 in China.

https://i.redd.it/lzgtskpyubc31.jpg
Yes of course it's not simple. But there are papers about the topic, for example https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6b3f and https://www.pnas.org/content/104/16/6550

From these papers it looks like deforestation has overall a cooling effect, especially in the arctic.
Or maybe it is a testament to how high our standards are that the expectation is that we should essentially never have to restart things.

I can't say that my car has ever gone 149 hours without a "reboot" of some kind or another.
Burying it is a waste. Using it as a construction material also displaces concrete and steel, leading to further remissions reductions.
I agree. I feel like we (USA) are forcing China on a path that will make them more competitive long term.
You're proving my point. It's not taken seriously enough, even by huge companies with lots of resources.
She has written many very interesting posts. Also one about "The One".
Couldn't you look at the road and landmarks while you drive, to learn the geography?
> Our standards as developers & testers have gotten pretty low.

It's just an unsolved problem. No one never knew how to write complex robust software. Even with memory-safe languages. Even with advanced type systems, generative tests, immutability and advanced concurrency primitives.

And it's not a discipline problem.
Does that mean I can grow olives and oranges in Scotland without a greenhouse now?
Later reporting seemed to move away from that claim. The official government report didn't mention the "lone IT guy" at all that I could see.
My point is - configuration takes time. Having a dev loop to gain velocity is necessary, as is having to deploy. I believe MVP's flouting 1 week figures aren't going that far. Maybe showing it off during a presentation. I'm assuming a public demo with a backend where you can share the URL, register/login, etc.

Te output having to land somewhere. (More than half?) the time pushing dist/ files to a static host won't cut it, even for an MVP. From the beginning, the quickstart tools and workflow become a burden. Cases vary widely, here's mine:

With create-react-app, I don't want to use the included index.html / default dev-server config. I'd be using django-webpack-loader to load the webpack entrypoints. That requires webpack-bundle-tracker [1]

In my case, it'd also involve compiling via webpack, collecting static files and pushing them to S3.

[1] To be fair, you could use https://github.com/timarney/react-app-rewired to add it.
China is going to be key here.

It's not just a normal market - China may see this as essential to its ability to develop its technology. It's Made in Chine 2025 policy.

That's taken on new urgency as the west has started cutting China off from western tech - so it may be normal companies wanting some insurance in case intel / arm cut them off (trade disputes etc) AND the govt itself wanting to product its industrial base from cutoff during trade disputes.
It matters for the comparison to a financial product. It if is a mandatory term of employment, it isn't comparable to a financial product.
I think that's one of the eventual purposes of MIR (by both optimising Rust upstream from the LLVM IR generation and having a much simpler language to generate IR for), but I don't know if there's been work towards that yet.
Huh? It seems every second company that has a website now tries to be a financial middleman, not even counting the cryptocoins. Open an account with McBank to pay for your burger! Oy, we now have a bazillion of customers' dollars on our hands, that we get to hold for five minutes each. Better invest them in the meantime, I guess.

Anyway, the quotes in the articles are so vague that they have no chance or regulating anything.
You’ve accidentally repurposed a meme regarding LEGO blocks. Easily googled. Why not paste one of those in under the quote instead of removing it?

Here’s a mental model to add (if it’s not already there): In any heterogeneous population, some people have no sense of humor. Ignore.
To clarify, the mutation of my son is not inherited, it is a new mutation, which most likely occured in my sperm cells. Not having an interest in romance is but one of the least symptoms he has. I only took it as an example. His social emotional development age is somewhere between 3 and 5 years. He can use a computer and loves watching children programs on YouTube. He has an above average autobiographical memory especially with respect to people who were with him. Most of the time, he knows who has been introduced to whom. He immediately notices when someone is missing who should be there. Very remarkable, because in general people are not good at this, especially not for groups over twenty people.
Except that fusion reactor have a bunch of advantages over all fission designs, including breeder and molten core Thorium, that you conveniently ignore.

The big one is: ramp up time is measured in minutes not days. This is a perfect addition to a grid that gets a large fraction of it's power from (somewhat) variable renewable energy.

The next big one is: There is no proliferation risk. No spent fuel that contains isotopes suitable for building fission bombs. And now legitimate reason for uranium enrichment to process your own fresh fuel. In other words there is no reason not to give this technology to North Korea or Iran.

The third important one: No radioactive waste that needs to be contained long term. The main "ash" is helium-4 which is not radioactive. The neutron flux will activate parts of the reactor vessel, but the halflifes are generally below a century. General rule of thumb is that things need to be contained 10 halflifes. Humanity has demonstrated successfully that we can build buildings that last 1000 years. This is a big contrast to the waste from fission plants that needs to be contained at least 100000 years, longer than we have had buildings.
That alone would probably be okay if they weren't so quick to bend to pressure from a handful of squeaky wheels who happen to think of themselves as competitors to YouTube. ;- )
Climate veto, a bone of contention at Ceta
But intervening on a test result makes you look suspicious and opens you to narrative about motivation.
That and the power envelope
If you innovate without filing patents, your innovation does not count?
The web-site shows an empty page at this moment.
Using https://web.archive.org/web/20190725120100/https://nesslabs....:

The article is a list of 30 items in the category "mental model" bracketed by some high-level opinions. Included on the list are:

- areas of research ("game theory")

- broad motivational factors ("incentive"

- basic business terms ("margin of safety")

In other words, I wouldn't consider many of these things to be mental models.

Furthermore, the article offers no examples of the "great power" of mental models.

Unfortunately, this article isn't unique in mental model discussions. Most of them follow the same pattern.

To future authors: the world doesn't need yet another recapitulation of a list from Wikipedia on mental models.

Instead, try taking an item on the list and doing something surprising or unique with it.

If it seems like an anti-pattern ("tribalism"), show how useful it can be to the reader. If it's vague ("signaling theory"), give down-to-earth examples illustrating how to use its principles in daily life. If it seems like something that "mental gymnasts" would do all the time ("backward chaining"), expose its pitfalls.

Or, try to develop a good definition of the term "mental model." I see it used far too frequently with a citation to some other source. The author does this, but the quote doesn't clear up much. The definition on Wikipedia is just plain vague and may explain why these lists tend to include things that don't seem to be actual mental models but rather fields of study.
>..but isn't the recourse that society has agreed-upon the very same lawsuit that is going on?
>Is this not adequate?

Humans are emotional and social beings, and we do not (nor should we want to) live in a society in which the proceedings of law, when found to be appropriate to remedy some social offense, become the only permitted form of public expression relative to it.

It's perfectly reasonable to find Elon Musk to be an objectionable person in the public sphere, regardless of the legality of his actions. Those are two different axes, and human beings don't live on only one.

>Wouldn't it be more "woke" to fix the aforementioned avenue of recourse, if not?

I don't know what "woke," is supposed to imply. I'm assuming (from the typical context of such things) that it's supposed to be a glib disparagement of something related to identity politics, which seems odd and inappropriate.
I wonder if most of what we are doing is being done for political purposes? Sort of, just to look good and get more votes. And if so, you kind of have to admit that from that perspective, the calculation works out even if China surges ahead even faster.

(In fact, you might even be able to use that surge, to do more grandstanding, to get more votes.)

Not saying this is 100% what's going on, but it's undoubtedly a factor in the equation here.
For one, RISC-V is fully open hardware unlike x86, amd64, arm and other architectures. More adoption is always a good thing.
The real world is crazy. The amount of bullying, stalking and attacks I've gotten after getting a series of promotions in a rotten workplace with a few bad apples is unbelievable.

If I knew better, I'd have paid attention to the above comment.
I cant explain it, but

> Kellogg’s secret research to make cereal taste better

to me, this sounds negative

> Tesla’s secret battery program

to me this does not sound negative.
Niagara region uses small wind turbines to turnover the really cold air at ground level that gets « stuck » at crop level with warmer upper air.

Helicopters are a more expensive way of doing this.
it seems that the US financial regulations are 1 big mess of patches. (For an uninformed outsider like me). For example are onion futures are made illegal, The Pattern day trading rule seems strange, gift cards etc. it seems problematic that there is a need for creating very specific regulations when it’s about financial services. This seems way too specific to be able to uphold and cause uncertainty for startups. It is not possible to create a more broad regulations?
The author mentions their Aspergers; which means the content of those emails, such as comments like 'stupid,' could be seen as coded discrimination. In nearly all of Europe, intellectual disabilities are a topic of non-discrimination legislation.

Ignoring the legal arm-chairing; universities and colleges retaining staff who discriminate students based on intellectual disabilities could face down some bad PR.
Not really all that surprising. i3 is Coffee Lake, i9 is Skylake. Even clock-for-clock, the process possibly improved enough for a slight IPC advantage to the i3.

The 2% here is heavily weighted on single-core performance and the results are IMHO what one would expect from these two parts (the moment more than four cores are in a test, the i9 wins by a mile).

Also, the Reddit link posted seems to be all about a whole different side of the discussion (the calculation changes at userbenchmark, AMD/Intel favoring, etc).
The link as I understand it is climate change causing crop failures and push up the price of food. That sounds plausible.

No conflict has a single cause, just a bunch of factors. It isn't about scapegoating, if you don't understand the cause how can you fix it.

And it's not about morality either. Finding the causes of something is an amoral process. What you choose to do with that information can be informed by morality though.
That just gets you into a Catch-22... being seen suing previous employers and supervisors will make it even harder to get hired in that field, and possibly any other as well.

If the person in question is not really unpleasant (and I don't know that they are not, but let's take it as given for a moment), my suggestion would be doing some strong networking. If you interact with people at conferences and are clearly not a bad person, then it's easier to defend yourself against the accusations by pointing out their variance with actual experience. In a perfect world, yeah, that work should not be necessary, but nobody's accused the world of being perfect in a long time.

(Ironically, if you pull this off and manage to build a new reputation on your own, then you might actually be able to safely sue.)
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Just because standardization isn't finished doesn't mean they won't go ahead an build the closest thing to the current consensus they can manage.
There is a downvote button, but you need some minimum karma for it to be available to you.

I can understand why it might be confusing if there's no downvote arrow visible!
Does it matter if it's fake or not? Is it useful is what should kind I think. A famous person having said something - outside their field especially - is a poor proxy for evaluating the thing itself.
I'm not actually a big fan of Instagram. Its format restrictions and mobile-only upload may be contributing to it having more interesting content for the moment, but I'm convinced Facebook could achieve a more interesting feed by changing the algorithm as well.

I don't mind terribly if there are a few sponsored posts in any of my social media feeds. I suspect the acceptable rate is somewhere around one per five original content posts.
For sure. Third party countries may also decide less risk in buying from China (ie, China less likely to cut them off because of real or perceived issues).
> being seen suing previous employers and supervisors will make it even harder to get hired in that field, and possibly any other as well.

If you win enough in damages then you don't need to worry too much about earning in the future.

No idea how likely that is, particularly after paying attorneys' fees.
It's already too late.

The generally accepted climate models are watered down versions that were acceptable to big business and politicians, it gave them the wiggle room to pass the buck. "We still have time, someone else can fix it later."

The thawing of the permafrost will release massive amounts of CO2, and methane, as well as nitrous oxide, way more than what was expected. The thawing of the permafrost will continue to drive warming, causing more permafrost the thaw, not to mention the burning of that thawed permafrost. The earth and climate are already locked into a positive feedback loop and nothing short of a super volcano or a large meteor strike will interrupt the loop.

What humans have set into motion can't be slowed or stopped by any human activity, all we can do is be witness to what's happening. Our hubris, which got us here in the first place, will continue to drive our belief that we can fix this.
Europe heatwave breaks more temperature records
ITER is far behind that growth curve because its cost is beyond what a university or national research lab is filling to fund. To unlike a lot of other projects before it, it is this massively political beast. Involving politician by itself introduces at least a decade of delay.

The triple product is the correct figure of merit and JT-60U did great there. But it was a plasma experiment and did not have the shielding that is necessary to run it with D-T fuel that produces a lot of neutron during fusion. But we know a lot more about neutron fielding than we know about magnetically confined fusion. Improving the plasma handling and the triple product is much harder than adding shielding.
good. I don't want someone to update the software and next day send it in a commercial flight.
Before 2013 in the UK, not even truth was enough of a defense. Truths that caused harm (even justifiable harm) were still actionable.

In Austria it's still illegal to make true comments that offend religion sensibilities.
If visits expire after 30 min, why not rotate the salt every 30 min? Keep current and previous salt, update as needed.

I would have more faith in privacy, if you didn't store the salt in the DB or permanent storage. If you manage to statically load-balance the users (e.g. hash site, ip, user-agent, don't forget site), the hash could be in-memory only. Sessions would break on server restart, but that's more of a feature.

To move thing further, you might not even need to store the hashes in the DB. Keep them in server memory only and (real-time) update aggregate data in DB.
so when they do these sponsored filters, say the taco bell one? I wonder what metadata they send to taco bell saying hey look all these people used the your filter.. I mean I doubt it's just a number, taco bell would want some uniqueness? If would be nice if snapchat published the metadata fields so users can see what they expose by using sponsor filters n such? This is my basic understanding though I don't know that much abotu snapchat
I appreciate you're trying to wind it down so I'll try to get to the point, but there's a lot to unpack here.

I'm not evaluating these models on whether they are AGI, I am evaluating them on what they tell us about AGI in the future. They show that even tiny models, some 10000x to 1000000x times smaller than what I think are the comparable measures in the human brain, trained with incredibly simple single-pass methods, manage to extract semirobust and semantically meaningful structure from raw data, are able to operate on this data in semisophisticated ways, and do so vastly better than their size-comparable biological controls. I'm not looking for the human, I'm looking for small scale proofs of concepts of the principles we have good reasons to expect are required for AGI.

The curve fitting meme[1] has gotten popular recently, but it's no more accurate than calling Firefox ‘just symbols on the head of a tape’. Yes, at some level these systems reduce to hugely-dimensional mathematical curves, but the intuitions this brings are pretty much all wrong. I believe this meme has gained popularity due to adversarial examples, but those are typically misinterpreted[2]. If you can take a system trained to predict English text, prime it (not train it) with translations, and get nontrivial quality French-English translations, dismissing it as ‘just’ curve fitting is ‘just’ the noncentral fallacy.

Fundamental to this risk evaluation is the ‘simplicity and the naivete of the methods used in producing them’. That simple systems, at tiny scales, with only inexact analogies to the brain, based on research younger than the people working on it, is solving major blockers in what good heuristics predict AGI needs is a major indicator about the non-implausibility of AGI. AGI skeptics have their own heuristics instead, with reasons those heuristics should be hard, but when you calibrate with the only existence proof we have of AGI development—human evolution—, those heuristics are clearly and overtly bad heuristics that would have failed to trigger. Thus we should ignore them.

[1] Similar comments on ‘the same approaches in 1999’, another meme only true at the barest of surface levels. Scale up 1999 models and you get poor results.

[2] See http://gradientscience.org/adv/. I don't agree with everything they say, since I think the issue relates more to the NN's structure encoding the wrong priors, but that's an aside.
Author here. Feels good to be one chapter closer to the end. Only six more to go!