skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's a lot of flashcard time.

According to Anki, I'm averaging 10 minutes a day on my language vocabulary deck. It does happen in a series of short, 1-2 minute bursts when I'm sitting on the toilet or whatever.

To that end, another useful thing I've discovered: Reviewing flashcards (and, spaced repetition) is not a good way to learn. It's a good way to reinforce your memory of things you've already learned. The real learning happens when you make the flashcards. The time spent focused on each concept so that you can decide how to break it into a series of smaller factoids that are right-sized for a flashcard, and coming up with whatever mnemonic devices you'll be using to help you remember this concept, is where the learning happens, because that whole process involves a fair amount of turning it over in your head.

Meaning you really shouldn't ever use a pre-made deck. It may not seem like it at first, but it really is normally more efficient to make your own from scratch.
"The directors of such [joint-stock] companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.... Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company." - Adam Smith
It's very sad to see someone I highly respect say this. You're a champion calling out the bullshit in cryptocurrency, shame you can't do the same with large broken companies that literally hire psychologists to fuck with peoples minds and make them use the site more.

Not enough reach isn't an argument, Mastadon works fine, twitter is incredibly broken and evil, it encourages hottakes and bullshit.
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Now let's overlay this with heat maps that represent investment over time.
No. From TFA:

"First, by passing legislation that requires large tech platforms to be designated as “Platform Utilities” and broken apart from any participant on that platform.

Companies with an annual global revenue of $25 billion or more and that offer to the public an online marketplace, an exchange, or a platform for connecting third parties would be designated as “platform utilities.”

These companies would be prohibited from owning both the platform utility and any participants on that platform. Platform utilities would be required to meet a standard of fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory dealing with users. Platform utilities would not be allowed to transfer or share data with third parties."

Note the word 'tech platform.' TFA also goes on to illustrate that this effort is essentially identical to trust-busting that has occurred multiple times over the past century when a single company became so large that it distorted an entire market.
As a working-class northerner, I can see the case for the other two :).
What kind of machine learning is this (a flowchart)?
The same thing happened when China wanted to join the ISS[1] - the US Congress blocked this to avoid "tech transfer". Instead of being dejected and sad, China kickstarted its space station program, and are now collaborating with Europe.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_International_...
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If you're writing a space MMORPG, rendering some planets is the least of your challenges.
And why not just return the result instead of assigning it to something you eventually return?
There's no reason to think that the laws of physics are "perfectly" tuned for consciousness. This could be the universe where there's a trillion-to-one shot of its evolving, and we beat the odds.

The Anthropic Principle rightly points out that the question of "why does the universe support life" is fundamentally circular.
I'm actually working on a knowledge base / memory retention application. I'm not yet sure what I'll do for the "best UX", as I want to avoid UI work (not my area), so I expect I'll export to something like Mochi[1] or Anki.

Can you describe your format and processing a bit more? I'd like to have some understanding for potential future use cases. Eg, what are the sources (format/etc), and how would you envision them generating the Anki cards from them? Does your source currently have enough data to generate cards from? Or would someone need to go through and separate larger documents into Anki cards?

Appreciate any detail you can give :)

[1]: https://mochi.cards
The Chinese don't intend this for terrorists who are blowing up rice markets filled with women and children in Iraq, they intend this for journalists and protestors.
It is discussed briefly at the end, but I agree with you that it should have been given more prominence.
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I would replace "you're looking at the wrong flowchart" with "it's machine intelligence"
I feel I should point out that those two things are not mutually exclusive. RNNs are, after all, a mechanism for learning conditional probabilities.

I think the confusion comes from Google itself, who used the term "Statistical Machine Translation" (SMT) to refer to "Rule-based SMT". Both methods are statistical.
Also coincident with her seeing his grounds was here talking there with tenants, servants and relatives who spoke very highly of his character and generosity.
Indeed. I know it is hip to bash America, but as an European I'm not thrilled to see anyone else taking the crown. It quite literally could only get worse. Much, much worse.
As a non-american, I am reading this in awe. You obviously believe this is true. I would suggest there is a counterfactual quality here: Maybe you just do it better

I'm not by nature a conspiracy theorist. I don't think the grassy knoll is here. But, I do think that the US government propagandizes inside, and outside all the time and has done so continuously, since the birth of the modern communication era.

You write as if the Vietnam war just didn't happen. That routine abuses by US armed forces in the middle east just didn't happen. As if Snowden just didn't happen.

Maybe I missed the /s in this. Btw, if I got a whack from the site I wouldn't deny this may not be a useful discussion, but I really do mean it: I think this cannot be read, except as a counterfactual non-reality.
EU is US ally so they don't see a risk in terms of national security (not just security, but also sanctions etc) to invest.
E-mail and ip telephone migration to start... doesn't seem like a big deal but they have been with Microsoft for 20 years.
Wow near the end when Linus takes his daughters on stage in the middle of RMS' speech. That's next level. Probably not scripted but it comes off as so undermining.
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Same in Croatia.. keks = biscuit (singular)
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I mean, I'm not taking the blame away from him and this is a terrible look to be getting paid so much after a colossal screwup, but, in a company that size does the CEO really have any idea of the day to day or inner workings of the company? I worked at a much smaller company and it was pretty clear that they didn't.
An example of how it could happen is:
- the material universe is a simulation/mechanism that is taking place in a higher level universe with unknown properties.
- conscious processes are associated with that higher level.
- the "wetware" aspects of consciousness as neural software in the brain are not fundamental and/or are maintained as part of the simulation.
Americans imprison more people than China. Americans imprison and torture children at the border.
Lenovo and many other Chinese companies have been caught adding rootkits to their laptops, etc.
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Speaking of distrusting DarkMatter's CA, Id love to hear your opinion on the matter.
To put into perspective the EC issues multiple such statements per month. So many there's even a search engine. Active infringement cases against Germany currently 140, closed 2000 so far.

https://ec.europa.eu/atwork/applying-eu-law/infringements-pr...
Wouldn't China being the second largest economy in the world make it more interesting to make a second Tiananmen Square costly? Because democracy is very important for the stability of the West and having a powerful dictatorship steamroll a democratic movement while we just watch looks really bad for us and the credibility of our governments.

And, it also gives the West less credibility internationally. The US has been very clear that it was behind "one China, two systems" since the 80s a dramatic policy change would make every other country think "ok, so why should we expect that any treaty we or alliance we form with the US will hold?". If countries don't trust the West they stop working with the West and that reduces its power by orders of magnitude.
The argument against this is usually one return statement is preferred.
I don't know how anyone still uses Instagram. It was an amazing app pre-aquisition, and Facebook managed to completely destroy everything that was good about it
I actually browse Facebook just for the ads.
I used to get awful ads on Facebook and then I noticed that my wife had all these fun or interesting ads. Lots of meme-sized content, not just funny stuff but fun baking or crafting videos 30 seconds long. They all said something like “suggested based on posts you’ve interacted with.”

So, I waited and waited and eventually Facebook showed me an interesting ad instead of the non-stop barrage of Blue Apron clones. I interacted with the ad and overnight Facebook ads transformed into a better Reddit.
Tabs are the only correct option.
What I love most about this project is that it takes a subject that I've historically thought of as "magic" and plainly lays out the logic behind the curtains. I didn't study computer science in college but have become fascinated by it, and this book is an accessible, well-designed, and well-written resource on a dense and deep topic. Terrific work.
Surely you're aware that the 1953 coup d'etat overthrowing the democratically elected government in Iran, and installing the Shah in its place, and hence setting the stage for Khomeini later, was orchestrated by a certain country that you mention?
[Warning: attempt at taking joke seriously]

Surely if this were so, it would mean you'd see fewer mentions of spaced repetition over time, rather than more? (assuming your comment implies having seen more than usual recently)
My gut says this is related to forced updates and unwanted interface changes in current Microsoft products. It's been super annoying where I work, and staff are pretty upset.
GDPR allows you to stall people for at least a month, which is hardly "real time", and also to not disclose information which would affect the privacy of others.
Seems like spaced repetition works great for language learning and remembering new terms. I wonder how it could help to get better as a programmer. Any tips?
No they're not. All of the grocery stores are engaging in "white-labeling" - buying products from other manufacturers and putting their own label on them. It would maybe be a valid comparison if Price Chopper took in 50% of all grocery dollars spent in the US, saw what was popular, cloned those products in house and then used the top 80% of shelf space to prominently display their product, and moved the third party competitors to the very bottom shelf.

Additionally, Trader Joes ONLY sells white-labelled products, so it is even less applicable than your other examples.
As expected, here comes the whatsboutism the moment there is any comment about China.

Worrying about China and US are independent. One can be worried about one or the other or both.

I'm not worried about US because despite the current administration, it's a democracy where human rights and various freedoms are guaranteed by the Constitution.
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Don't think that's it. If they were really so worried, they'd just buy whatever concerned them so much.
> I want to create AI generated to use as soundtracks on videos - so there must be no question about royalties or copyright

> I want to be able to specify how long the music should go for.

> I want to be able to save the music.

Product question @andrewstuart - is it important to you that the changes in video scenes line up with the beat of the music?
"A possible 100 [b]illion dollar industry seems like a very stupid thing to ignore."

Even taking your optimistic numbers at face value, that's revenue, not profit. A 100 billion dollar industry with what I would conservatively estimate as having several trillion in costs is not something we can pursue.

I've got my own boutique genetic problems in my house (not quite a one-off in effect, but probably technically novel), so I've got skin in the game, but this is just wishful thinking. Even just funding all the known rare diseases is not something we can really afford, let alone dedicating millions to every one-off mutation. We aren't that rich.

I'm sympathetic to claims we ought to have enough for food and water and basic housing for everybody, but that does not translate into having enough to create custom bespoke medical research programs for everybody, or even a significant fraction of "everybody". If nothing else, food, water, and basic housing are widespread skills; fixing genetic errors would always bottleneck on the number of available people who can do it, which is never going to be as large as the number of people who can build some sort of house.
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Remember the original Dropbox post [1]? "You can do it with rsync!". The general public seem to want this. Companies just seem to do what people want. I guess those things are ease of use, zero friction, and minimum learning curve. To do all that in Linux for example, you have to invest in learning, which might not be what people want.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
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Well, then your response could be summed up as "there's really nothing to do here."
In which case, since the lab holds all the other cards, and shows no sign of changing course, the only valid recourse would be for the candidate to make this issue as visible as possible to all potential employers, including names and everything. Assuming that there is no consensus to be reached between her and the lab, let the other parties come to a conclusion after learning both sides.
After all, not saying anything about this to a potential employer, knowing what they will hear from the lab, would be kind of self-defeating in the literal sense, no?
Yea, in my (limited) experience Spaced Repetition can bring larger items into memory even if the card itself is not asking a big complex question. I think if you can phrase a question in such a way that to answer it you need to draw a larger model in your head you'll gain similar benefits to more traditional micro-spaced-repetition.

Eg, you could add cards to individually remember family members, or you could add a card to remember all of the family members of X household. The latter is more vague but I think still effectively pulls the dependencies (individual family members) into your mind.

This is speculation, so take it with a grain of salt.
It was because CERN lost their academic discount for MS licensing.

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-mum-cerns-planned-mi...
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This is not unique to government. Private Corporations are really, really good at wasting money as well.

Is there a realistic approach to this that doesn't require changing a fundamental aspect of humanity?
This is the code that backs the USDC stablecoin. This is a very powerful bit of open source technology.

More about fiat backed stablecoins here [1]

Centre whitepaper [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stablecoin#Fiat-backed
[2] https://www.centre.io/pdfs/centre-whitepaper.pdf
I agree that the way of unpleasantness matters.

But for your first example obviously that specific way did rub a lot of people the wrong way. Because you don't mind it, and you had time to get to know him past that, doesn't have to be the majority.

And yes, socially weird people don't surprise me as not fitting in faculty position. You'll eventually have to defend your team, look for opportunities, teach, mentor... You can't give a bad vibe right off with such proeminent roles, because ultimately they're very much based on relationships.

Surely there must be some room for those brilliant but weird people, in small institutions that don't need that much PR or something. And sure some people get to be Paul Erdös and be so dramatically brilliant and querky that the rest is overlooked. That's not true for the average joe.

My friends think I have no empathy (as some people probably think reading my comments!), but in a professional setting (mine being veterinarian, clearly it's not really fitting) "being myself" would do more harm than good, so I'm just playing the expected role, and things are fine, and even enjoyable. Choosing one's battles. I'd rather feel good in my job even if unauthentic.
This is why multi modal learning is often recommended (learn in different forms to not over optimise for one method).
But most HN users don't come here for general news. I think that's what he was trying to say.
Did you just invent webrings and RSS?
I'm waiting for some of these documents being made public. I am working for a government institution that is making much of the same moves. Would be nice to see what an immense IT undertaking like this comes up with.
When I worked there, they had 10k+ active user accounts and a wealth of systems integrated into Microsoft active directory. The nature of CERN also means that multiple institutes around the world will have to adapt their systems when CERN changes.
I mean, they list a pretty compelling reason from their point of view: Microsoft changed their licensing terms from academic to business licenses, which are more expensive.

I suspect they will discover over time that the fully loaded costs of switching are higher than the costs of the licenses, unless this is just a way of trying to leverage MS into giving them academic licenses again.
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People want that because all they know is the positive aspects that are advertised to them, not the negative aspects that are kept hidden and downplayed.
Have we learned nothing from Wikileaks? Quite the contrary! People with power rely on private/secret communications. And, without power, what is there to communicate, for what you say likely has no value.

I am reminded of Napoleon's dictum: "the secret of war lies in the communications". Sun Tzu would disagree as well, having well documented the value of secrets and spies.

"(private) knowledge is power."
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Who are allegedly blowing up rice markets filled with women and children in Iraq. Remember, there is no trial.

Also, according to the HRW article:

> The Chinese government is pitching the proposed change as merely an extension of the conditions of the existing practice of residential surveillance, or “soft arrest,” to suspects in state security, terrorism or major corruption cases. “Soft arrest” allows police to confine criminal suspects to their homes for up to six months without trial or due legal process.
This is nonsense whataboutism backed by...poor memory??

Also, just because there are concerns about Chinese back-doors does not mean the author is entirely unconcerned about US back-doors, nor does it even tangentially relate to his argument. (In fact, I think the author would agree that both are equally bad.)

At least, however, in the US there are enforceable State and Federal Constitutional protections for citizens and residents that limit the ability of the government to spy on its citizens. Even if these protections are not perfect (they are not) or sometimes abused (they are), they are objectively better than the clusterfk of privacy and rights violations the Chinese state inflicts on its citizens every day, with the consent and complicity of national technology firms.

It may not mean much if you're not a US Citizen (it shouldn't) but like it or not this is a new front of national security, and to "not get it" is to miss the point entirely.
Considering that this was announced by Alibaba Cloud, there's no need to worry about hardware backdoors since you probably won't be able to buy the chips anyway. If you are hosting something in their cloud, a backdoor is unnecessary, since the authorities can just come knocking on the front door if they need anything.
Very excited to buy the book once it's finished as well. I discovered the series after I stumbled upon Luxe during my Haxe development days.

*Off topic: Very excited for Luxe 1.0 and Wren as well.
I also suspect its the classic South/North Bias. The Watford and south mob simply cannot handle Geordie, or Scots.

Good that we both got there.
Who you recommend is a reflection on you. If the author is actually difficult to work with and a colleague asks you about the author, not giving an honest answer has negative consequences on your professional reputation.

It doesn't seem like malice to me, particularly since the author seems quite dislikeable based on their article.
Also, the paradox is that it doesn't matter one bit whether free will exists or not.

Because either it does and we are making conscious choices and everything that normally follows with that. Or it doesn't and everything we say, do, and think is predetermined.

However, if that's the case, then you are predetermined to be someone to be swayed by certain arguments. You are predetermined to either believe or not in free will. And you cannot change that. Because even if this convinces you one way or the other, I had no choice in typing it, and you had no choice in reading it. This was going to happen based on whatever determines things.

So free will not existing wouldn't change anything. Because some people are predetermined to believe that regardless of the reason, murderers should be punished.
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but I've been working on a spaced repetition app[0] recently that supports markdown for cards, as well as the ability to convert markdown notes into cards.

[0] https://mochi.cards
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My FB top-20 (viewed via web page, not app, which I don't use)
6 friends photos, 4 ad, 3 friends post, 3 marketplace listing, 3 memory (from friend’s feed), and 1 “Stories” widget???

<50% is new content from friends. 20% is ads. And 15% is marketplace (groups I can hide, I think). The value proposition isn't all that great.

There are two things keeping me on FB's main app - 1 - parents and other older relatives/friends - 2 - a small number of friends use it for event planning/invites.

Instagram is 100% friends posts (again, webpage, not app). When viewed through the app, Instagram is about 25% ads, with 2 "stories" widgets, and the rest is new content. Slightly better content/noise ratio, but the web page is better.
> Yet they do pay off in Rust because of my favourite Rust feature: the ability to refactor large-scale software without breaking anything

I think crater also deserves some credit here - given how much Rust source is in Cargo, it's very useful to be able to run a refactored compiler against all those packages and see which don't compile or start failing their unit tests.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/crater
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