skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Distillation would not meaningfully help make a model more transparent or explainable.

I imagine you're thinking about bottle necking on a really tight latent space. This would require a different architecture which would be more difficult to train and would probably suffer in accuracy.

Often it's better to re-frame the training as a multi-targeted problem with an explanation component.
Here is one exploration of commit graph drawing: https://pvigier.github.io/2019/05/06/commit-graph-drawing-al...

discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21079643
Isn't one of the big issues with asset forfeiture that the police are able to do it without actually charging you with anything? Instead they charge the asset itself.
Also Kickstarter, who is dealing with an internal unionization fight that's pitting the employees against each other.
Yes, the 2nd Circuit's decision is persuasive authority for other circuits. However, that's not what the article claims. The article claims that SCOTUS ruled when it, in fact, did not.
1) Yes, it's a giant company that does many things.

2) The thread is about the majority political position of its employees. This is entire separate from the actions as a corporation.

3) Many of things Google does that people think are "right-wing" have nothing to do with left-vs-right at all.
how did I miss this? which terminal?
After seeing the horror that was conditionals and flow control in Ant's build.xml format, I don't see anything based on a text file format working well...
The original builder felt strongly enough about the oak beams to plant replacements. The restorers, or whoever hired them, did not. Perhaps they knew that 500 years in the future there would be better alternatives and were not as locked into the original design as the first builder was.

Not all such decisions are short-sighted.

Edit: I think it's been shown elsewhere that it is not the date that you launch the next probe that is important, but the speed at which it travels.
Hell, we are reading an article about a commerce company Jeff Bezos owns from a news company that Jeff Bezos personally owns.
Would be cool if a social network was priced like taxes. If you make more money, you pay more. Don't know what kind of arrangement could conceivably create that system though.
With launch costs plummeting it may be possible to launch a bigass booster and give an interstellar probe a real kick even without a magical planetary alignment.

The question then becomes: what instruments would you put on this that would tell us something the Voyager probes have not? What is your mission beyond "making something go even further away from us"?
> What I want is a decentralized Reddit not under the control of advertising needs

Isn't this basically what Disqus was trying to do? There were a lot of these. I think moderation ended up being a huge problem that none solved.

> Reddit redesign has been bad for quality content

I've had the opposite experience. I only started browsing reddit after advertisers forced them to purge the most toxic users/content from the site. I think it's reddit's right to do either -- purge or not purge -- but I'm not interested in the old reddit.

The redesign is bad, but I'm not really a power user, so it's not a deal-breaker for me. You can always just use old.reddit.com anyway, right?
I think that's actually pretty common with Lasik, since the "recovery" time to clear vision is so short.

Other kinds of surgeries have longer recovery times, so they're kinda forced to do them one eye at at time.
Agreed, at least for large lithium-ion batteries. I pretty much buy Anker exclusively for those.
It's certainly true iMessage isn't monetised today, but it doesn't mean it couldn't be in the future. If China is anything to go by, people do everything on their IM app.

Lock in - how many people are locked into Apple because of iMessage? I think it's just an ancillary service to most people, with WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, or WeChat in China being their main IM app. The longer this is the case, the less relevant iMessage becomes.
I've always felt that this is USDA Prime bullshit.

Einstein wasn't wasted away his years at the patent office.

Also you could say that the greatest minds of the 20th century all engaged in coming up with bigger and bigger explosions for the military.

And so on.
I'm not sure anything is stopping him from going back to normal school to socialize while studying the non-STEM subjects that everyone needs to do anyway? He could hang out with friends while doing that.
Not under the thumb of a $200 million Chinese investment..
Supply and demand.

There are a limited number of engineers and the companies who need them actually have to fill those roles in a reasonable amount of time to be able to get things done and stay competitive. This puts pressure on the companies to make the contracts more equal.

There are an (effectively) infinite number of young musicians dying for the chance to “make it big”, and the music companies don’t have the same kind of pressure to constantly have to keep filling seats to get work done. They can take their time and pick and choose however they want. This allows them to write the contracts more in their favor.
That is a great suggestion IMHO. ASTs are pretty amazing but they're not a cure for everyone.

In the case above, I'm referring to my spouse. Her entire family has this problem - dry eye, frequent / continuous corneal erosions - setting in by their mid-late thirties. These are the people who end up wearing sleeping goggles, ointment, taping their lids shut, etc. It's not a lack of tear production, it's poor corneal basement layer adhesion for some undiagnosed reason and, probably, eyelids drifting open during sleep.
Except if they're a leftist, liberal type, of course. Or even an adherent of a "preferred" or "protected" religion. These get to say racist, sexist, homophobic things all day long, and none of their fellow activists would bat an eye.
Ammunition sales don't usually have those requirements. In most states you can buy it online just as easily as a case of beer.

But yes, you are correct.
Where did you read about the 64G option? The ones in the post max out at 32G.
I wish I could bold this comment and pin it to the top.

It's absolutely a false dichotomy to assert that there can either be creativity or there can be constraints.

As a game developer, I look no further than the numerous game jams with artificial constraints as evidence that creativity can flourish within the confines of constraints. One might even argue that creativity is given constructive direction by way of constraints.
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indeed it is the same thing, I think it is

looks like it's a joke in the vein of turing complete PowerPoint but way more hardcore
One of my first jobs out of college was for a digital agency. Shortly after I started we were bought by a very large ad agency and it was shocking how casual alcohol and drug use were at our parent company. Luckily we were insulated enough that it didn't permeant our culture until after I left.
Has your life or career been negatively impacted by any of this?

Because as near as I can tell you're repeating a propagandistic narrative that is intended to keep normal conservatives aligned with white nationalists and other bigots. The idea being that somehow liberals are attacking all of you, so that you'll be more bothered by the liberal attacks than by the fact that you're actively supporting white nationalist leaders.
I think you’re giving the commenter you’re responding to too hard of a time. From what I understand, all he’s saying is let’s tackle two problems at the same time. Let’s address the systemic problem but since that naturally takes a long time, let’s also work on personal accountability and meet at the “perfect” end where we excel at both. I agree with his/her take that it seems that with each passing generation, there seems to be less and less independence in addressing personal issues (even if they stem from systemic issues). At the end of the day, whether society helps or not, you are the only person that cares about your wellbeing the most. Let’s just do both simultaneously is all I’m saying.
There are only two genders: Male, and Political.

There are only two races: White, and Political.
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No, I haven't. I'm not a retailer.
> combined with people not knowing what "experiment" means in the context of Chrome.

Yes, because it's not communicated at all to non-technical users that this stuff is happening at all.
What led to the decision to not contribute enhancements to the k8s cluster autoscaler? Seems like a lot of the features would be useful and in scope of the cluster autoscaler...
> Google and most SV companies are somewhere between left to far-left.

1) Completely contradicts what you said earlier above

2) How? When does it stop being people and start being a corp? Aren't the decisions made by employees?

3) So? You just linked 'diversity' to left and far-left, isn't that the same thing that started this side thread? How is that site linked with activism or left politics? You mentioned a "pretty clear" connection.
Because having to deal with glasses/contacts is a small but annoying life problem.
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There already is a decentralized Reddit where subreddits are called websites and anyone can start one and run it as they please.

What Reddit and similar sites bring to the table is a single pool of authenticated users. Once a user is logged into Reddit, posting on different subreddits is frictionless. Even with oauth and the like, it is hard to replicate that with a distributed set of sites.
I'm not sure if it's necessarily big projects but the proving difficult theorems today has often involved the construction of huge "machinery", whole branch of math, that then get applied to simple-to-state-but-difficult-to-prove theorems, the example being Wiles using modular form theories to prove Fermet's last theorem.

And this situation comes because all (or the great majority) of the easy theorems have been proved for most established branches of math.

This also means great discoveries are coming at a later age for mathematicians, as simply getting up to speed in complex fields takes years.

All of this implies it would be hard to have another Von Neumann today.
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Carta's CEO gives a breakdown of all the primary and secondary capital in all of their previous funding rounds.
How would you go about creating something like that?
> Previously someone mentioned the idea of a $1/mo. social network.

Dalton Caldwell currently chief of admissions at YC, tried exactly this at App.net a couple of years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Caldwell
If you see work as a finite chore to be done in order to feed the economic meter, working less in a well defined role may be preferred. If you see it as an infinite game to master the outcome of your own life, doing more can be beneficial.
I've been buying used copies of the paperbacks my kids need for school from discoverbooks.com

they often have notes, highlighting, and dogears -- perfect for our use-case
I tried the keyboard today at a Best Buy after using my Pixelbook at home, and after trying the new Surface Laptop keyboards in a different section of the store. While I think the new MBP keyboard is an improvement over the odd feel of the butterfly keyboards, I think the Surface and Pixelbook keyboards are better. Both the Surface and Pixelbook have snappier feedback while the MBP felt a bit mushier and "thunkier". In any case, the new MBP is good enough which is all that matters if you've been waiting for the light at the end of butterfly tunnel.
Oh, absolutely, and being a former tech worker in the advertising industry, I'm intimately familiar with that line of thinking. When you're trying to inspire the workers, it works (I used it), but now I hate it for the dishonesty of the framing. That's also why it'll take very unique circumstances for me to ever go back to that industry.
I simply didn’t want my car impounded while I was cuffed and put in the back of a police car.

These were my undergrad years and I was in a different state studying (loosely defined). And there’s always a permanent record (short of expungement).

“The background check for the job shows you were arrested; can you please explain?...”

Honestly I don’t know how long stuff like that sticks around. And I’m also glad I never had to find out. It can be a funny story with a framed letter saying there’s no longer a warrant for my arrest. No Rick Perry mugshot pic circulating Facebook...
1. being successful and famous are not the same thing

2. being famous at an early age is probably correlated with wanting to be as far away from the public eye as possible as an adult, if any other options are there.

But also, I was in one of those articles (a long time ago and am now an Old in internet time), so AMA, I guess.
Okay, fair point, that's an interpretation that occurred to me after posting the comment, but I'm not really familiar with any high profile case. Has FB sent away anyone? Or G? Due to leaks about real talk I mean. (And I guess the answer must be some sort of yes, after all they are huge organizations and the culture of taking responsibility via looking-for-new-challenges is a rather Western thing, so maybe I'm just too far from it.)
You "suicide" everyone with the credibility and potential motivation to expose you, and you use your board-level blackmail influence at numerous publicly traded compaines to establish narratives that associate your political opponents with your own crimes, I think.
One of the reasons that reddit can avoid 'blog spam' is because as a centralized service, they can control user registration and take measures to prevent bots from signing up for thousands of accounts and upvoting their spam.

How would this be prevented in a decentralized system? Spammers would join the network, create thousands of bots, and upvote all their spam.
Not creepy at all..?
The UI changes take a few days to roll out completely. Even though it's just a label change, we always do slow, safe, rollouts. :)
To your point, the left's treatment of Trudeau's blackface is an interesting case study.
I haven’t had a bank account for the last 8 years. How long do you expect they will wait for me to get a bank account? What about people who banks won’t work with?

I disagree with this notion that users are “free riders”. Users bring content to these platforms. Without users, the platforms themselves are absolutely useless.
Pointing out the inherent privilege-preserving effects of discouraging challenge to the status quo is not adding an incendiary meaning. It's lifting a latent consequence to the level of manifest evidence.

This understandably makes some people uncomfortable. It challenges beliefs, it challenges self-worth, it challenges value systems, it challenges worldviews.

None of these invalidate the underlying concept that sheltering today's winners from any challenge, complaint, or criticism, is inherently repressive to those outside that class.
I use Zotero for references but keep the files in a separate organized directory structure, where the filenames match the citation key in Zotero. Each approach has its own advantages and disadvantages.

The largest advantage of the directories is speed. I don't need to wait for Zotero to launch, and Zotero has gotten much clunkier over the years. (I think they need to do an entire rewrite at this point.) I also have some bash aliases to, for example, open a PDF file I have in my reference folder given only the citation key.

Zotero is better for annotations, and other information associated with a citation. I make very heavy use of the related documents pane. I also often put citations in multiple folders in Zotero. That's a bit more complicated in the directories as I need to add links and then maintain the links. (I have a few shell scripts to help with the creation and maintenance of the links.)

Zotero also makes generating bibliographies in different formats easy. I normally use BibLaTeX format, but a journal I'm submitting some things to requires BibTeX. The conversion was dead simple in Zotero. If you manually curate your bibliography file then this would be a pain.

Also, I have many citations in Zotero where I don't have a copy of the document. Not all documents have DOIs, and not all documents have been digitized. I use Zotero extensively when visiting the library so I can keep track of which documents to scan.
"White men ain't shit in tech" => no action taken despite being technically a CoC violation
One thing I'm murky on with Pulumi is around how to execute proper blue/green or canary deployments with a GitOps approach. Any insights?
> At my current age (54) the benefits are likely to be temporary at best, so it's just not worth the risk. Eyesight is not something to gamble with.

Also, if you're that old, it might mean an instant need for reading glasses (if you don't already have them).

Being nearsighed is like permanently wearing a pair of reading glasses. Given how much of my day is taken up reading vs. using distance vision, part of me regrets getting my eyes corrected to 20:20.
I can think of Terry Tao which was mentioned today in another thread. He was a child genius and is now a world famous mathematician.
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No. My child and my wife scored as Profoundly gifted, going to a gifted school and I myself went through gifted schools as well. I'm very familiar with this.
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> I took an alternative and left home, educated myself, and turned myself into a halfway decent contributor to society. I really think the US still has a lot of ability to reward those who go after it even if that means becoming a carpenter and saving for 30 years to retire early.

> I understand our society is not ideal, but I just think those problems are going to take generations to fix. Why not take care of yourself and do your best to fix your own shit.

This is survivor bias. There are tons of people trying hard and working to be in a place where they can find an "alternative" to take, but are faced with structural impediments like under-resourced schools, poor family and community support structures, and incentive systems that encourage short term survival and gratification decisions over long term preparation.

The existence of some people who don't strive for personal progress doesn't absolve us of the obligation to improve opportunites for those who do strive - and that begins from early childhood. Severe hardship is not a virtue we should be imposing on people to test their mettle.

After all, very wealthy people don't remove support from their children if those children don't "make shit happen". In fact, they usually pour more resources into those children in order to motivate them (from drug treatment programs, to therapists, coaches, ...), and if that still doesn't work, they still provide for them financially.
Fine, I'll bite.

Is idea that expecting you not to berate your coworkers about your pet political issue is erasure?

If so, then yes. I'm not willing to work with anyone who doesn't assume that I'm interacting with them on a good-faith basis by default.

If your only tool for examining the motivations of outsider-groups is bigotry and bias, then all you will find is bigotry and bias.
Poor visual acuity is a significant, life-affecting symptom, and neither glasses nor contacts are full-time, all-conditions-suitable corrective measures.
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What about Aether : https://getaether.net/?
Current Intel chipsets and CPUs cannot initialize the system without the ME. You can disable all the applications running on the ME, but it is required to bring up the system.
Just read this today: https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/the-unparalleled-genius-...
I wrote a thing a few years back about how auftragstaktik and related ideas fit into everyday organizational life: https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2013/03/how-winners-win-john-boyd...
If this legal theory is correct and upheld, possession of data will be pretty important. So all those data you licensed for one reason or another might be able to be used to train.

I think the logic makes sense because imagine if humans were prevented from getting ideas from watching movies. It seems similar to not letting AI watch every movie ever and learn.
I was also told in 15 to 20 years i might need glasses again (late 50's, early 60's). I am cool with that.

I once had contacts, they did work OK. My issues were that i suck at putting things in my eye. I never got comfortable putting them in, i know that is a personal issue not the fault of the contacts. Also my contacts had to be weighted for some reason (i cannot recall why), and if my eye got dry they would shift and things would become blurry and i had to use eye drops or tear up (didn't happen a lot, but enough to annoy me). Plus i still needed a set of glasses.

Kind of off topic, my other half, she was making fun of my reading glasses, one day she was struggling to read something and i slapped them on her face and her response was OMG. I laughed, went to take them off her and lets just say i had to go buy myself a new pair (she confiscated them). It is interesting that people think readers are only for older people or you need a prescription, she wishes she would of gotten a pair 5 years ago.
I wish Anker sold direct on their site (and shipped to Canada) because searching for Anker products on Amazon almost invariably turns up a sponsored, cheap knock off and an "Amazon Basics" product as the #1 and #2 results. I can't imagine they're happy about that either.
What would a perfect solution look like, and what would it be worth?
I mean, you might not like them but they are among the highest grossing movies of all time.
This was a mostly political problem with Congress kicking the can down the road for 20 years. According to the article they've restarted production although a bit slower than they wanted.

Of course you can't stockpile radioactive materials for too long. Their very nature limits their shelf life. So constant production is necessary if you want to use it on missions.
Ad company cancels all hands meeting. Why is this news?
Among my friends (and many other people), social networking with people I know in real life has been replaced by chat apps and SMS.

If I want to share news, I do it via group chat. I think this is common.

For those who want social news in their particular ideological bubble, there's reddit. For those who want a news reader, there are many news apps. And for those who want to interact with strangers, there's Twitter.

I'd love to support this, but I just can't think of a use-case for my life.
Terry Tao turned out well - but he's just one of many.

I know one guy that finished his Bsc in math by age 17, and got accepted to Cambridge - he's a rich fund manager today. Didn't really contribute to science, but interests change with time.
Obviously nothing is absolute, that doesn't make anything contradictory.

The majority political stance is left/far-left. The company is massive and sometimes will do things people consider right-wing, but usually those things are not actually "right-wing" but just normal behavior of a giant corporation seeking to maximize profit and shareholder value.

Corporations and capitalism are not antithetical to left-wing politics.
I’ve been using https://gath.io to organize events. All you need is an email to create an event, and as far as I can tell, you can give it a fake email. It’s only used to send you the edit link (also displayed when you create the event). Same thing to RSVP, although it doesn’t share the link to remove yourself except by email, to my knowledge. They’ve just introduced groups, so setting up events for a group of friends is really easy. Bonus is that it’s open source and the person who maintains it has been really responsive to requests.