skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Diffing can be nice for code review - which some may like to do during a minute or two of free time - hence on mobile.
Turning the mathematics of vector calculus into simple pictures
It will absolutely not apply. GDPR has provisions both for archival AND for cases where the removal etc requests are deemed unreasonable.
Upgradability also lowers the total cost of ownership, as the upgraded parts become cheaper by the time you need them.
And yet this kind of problem is happening over and over and over again in real life, such as the automated risk assessments used in Florida deciding that black people are inherently more likely to be criminal than white people. https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
There's also the misconception that journalism is mostly about competent writing, which it is not; news writing has a particular structure, but more importantly, much of the work of a journalist is research and investigation (particularly, in cultivating and corroborating sources).
Is he doing this under the Facebook umbrella? Or departing? Or more-or-less retiring from regular obligations entirely?
Sure, many people do and those really aren’t a problem at all. Its the drive-by downvotes that are a problem. Maybe forcing you to leave the comment would be enough to mitigate the problem.
I mean it's more obscured but if you buy an Apple computer you are paying the MacOS tax, right?

They can call the OS free all they like, but clearly the OS adds value to their hardware. If, say, RedHat wanted to sell an OS to a person who uses an Apple computer are they not also asking that potential customer to pay the same kind of "double tax" referenced? It seems like it to me, Apple just sells the hardware too so they can play pricing games and pretend the OS is valueless while the hardware is what you're paying for.

Sure, it's different in that they're probably not doing anything illegal -- they're not leveraging their monopoly to force other vendors to give them money for nothing because they are the vendor, but it is awfully parallel if the question you're asking is "why isn't Linux desktop marketshare increasing?"

Does it not do just as much harm to their customer if they can't buy the hardware minus a real reasonable price for the OS because they're going to use Linux on it?

Again, I'm not suggesting they're illegally leveraging a monopoly because they are also the vendor of the hardware and one company bundling their hardware with their software is common. But I am suggesting that they're not a counterpoint to the idea that this kind of "double tax" is holding back Linux use. If anything, it's a small point in favor of the idea that the author might be on to something...

I'd personally argue more that for profit companies leveraging free software without paying for its development is the root cause of project decay and poorly funded free software projects. Granted this is by design, but it's pretty embarrassing for our style of capitalism that there's not any kind of recognition among MBAs that they might have an ethical obligation to donate to people who are doing work their entire business requires to operate.
One boring truth is that so far the most notable universal and true advance AI has made in medicine (at least in the US) is in NLP with dragon dictate.
Hume on induction in a nutshell.
Interesting.

I've never asked or answered a question on SO (I wouldn't dare!) because I can plainly see the horrorshow that is likely to come with doing that by reading other questions. Over time, I've come to simply ignoring SO for the most part.

I think I may check in from time to time to see if the place actually improves.
Audio books with genuinely good performances seem rare to me. There are a handful of voice actors that stand out, but many of the titles I've listened to have very flat delivery; the first sample in the original article has as much inflection as they do.
Got a warning about this link from two browsers.
Same for me. I would easily pay $100 to NOT have the TouchBar.
>Everything is rock-solid and just works. Hardware I couldn’t get working in Linux just works on a first try with OpenBSD.

I guess I live in different universe than the author.
Have you used Nike+ ? It's 2-4 day shipping, 30 day returns with wear and tear. It's fantastic.
Watch some videos of Luke Towan and then say that you're not enticed to start putting something together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxhZ7uE7glY
This is probably why they didn't publish any Resnet50 numbers in this post.
If I was a billionaire I would pay security experts to make sure my workspaces were secure, things like locking down USB ports and blocking video/audio inputs that aren’t used would be a completely expected part of that. Still rich with irony though.
Off topic, but can someone explain to my why their releases start this way:

> Cupertino, California — Apple today unveiled an all-new 16-inch MacBook Pro — the world’s best pro notebook

It’s on apple.com for fuck’s sake and if you don’t know that Apple is based in California, do you really care? Why do they write this stuff as if it’s some other entity writing about Apple as opposed to “today we are pleased to announce...”?
Remapping CapsLock+hjkl to arrows IS productive.(oh, and CapsLock+Space to Enter, too!)
"culture" doesnt mean prehistoric, since it could be seen as the collective activities of a particular time (ex 20th century pop culture. or another example is "canadian culture", which includes things like multiculturalism and universal healthcare. these things are much more recent than 1930!)
As someome who lost access to their TOTP 2FA device for ~3 months I can definitely relate to that. But SMS is still insecure and there are better ways of doing this.

For one, no one is forcing you to only have one TOTP device. You can scan that QR code as many times as you want. Have them on multiple devices.

Depending on your threat vectors, putting them into a password manager that supports it (like Bitwarden) might also be smart. Less secure than fully offline, but definitely better than SMS.

As for the backup codes - one big encrypted text file synced to the cloud of your choice should do the trick, but if you prefer the "scary men with guns" kind of security, safety deposit boxes were literally made to store this kind of stuff (bonus points for on-paper encryption).
It would have been very interesting if things could have worked out where OEMs refused to pay that MS tax and instead provided instructions on how to purchase and install your own operating system separately.
I had to stop for a second and look. I have a usb-c hub that outputs to gigabit and multiple usb 3.0 plugs.

A quick google search returns https://satechi.net/collections/usb-type-c/products/type-c-m... which isn't what I have, but it's more of the same.

My complaint about usb-c hubs, when I was looking for one a year ago is I couldn't find one that did 4k60, gigabit ethernet, and 2 or more usb 3.0 plugs. This has led me to plugging in two cables instead of one for years. If my monitor had a gigabit ethernet plug, I'd be set, because it outputs a bunch of usb (2) ports.
> Part of the difficulty in that question is that if everyone makes $100K, the purchasing power of $100K will drift pretty rapidly.

The economy is more complicated than that. Debt allows people to continue to purchase beyond their means and obviously there's massive debt in the economy right now. With higher salaries, prices could stay the same but there could be less debt.
The obvious answer is that it wasn't working until very recently.
I mean...it's not like we're getting a choice here. The technology is possible, therefore it will happen (and is now starting to happen).

Like so much else in life, we have to take the bad with the good, but not looking for good in it doesn't mean we're less likely to get the bad.
He said that he will work as a consulting partime CTO for Oculus and do GAI from home, sounded like non-Facebool work to me.
By how much? I understand that if instead of buying a laptop with the intention of replacing it with the then top-of-the-line model five years down the road I get one that I plan to outgrow in 2 years, I'll spend less money, but is that a relevant amount compared to the money you expect to make by using the computer?

The question is less whether the cost is lower, but whether it's lower enough to justify the extra work of upgrading.
How were you to send money?
I think semi-retiring. He's going to be "consulting [on Oculus]" while:

> I am going to be going about it “Victorian Gentleman Scientist” style, pursuing my inquiries from home, and drafting my son into the work.

Which to me reads like part time work on Oculus, part time work on this AGI project. If it is with Facebook it isn't at all clear from the post (plus I'd assume it would be accompanied by marketing copy in that situation).
not enough people are willing to say this out loud because the circus of incompetent voices is too loud

docker/k8s are total disasters
>Starting this week, I’m moving to a "Consulting CTO” position with Oculus.

I will still have a voice in the development work, but it will only be consuming a modest slice of my time.

As for what I am going to be doing with the rest of my time:
[...]
For the time being at least, I am going to be going about it “Victorian Gentleman Scientist” style, pursuing my inquiries from home, and drafting my son into the work.
Spoken by someone who truly knows the job :-)
Which ones? The Magic Mouse and Keyboards have lightning ports on them.
And to add on to your point, what makes a news organization successful is not just good writing, but good journalism, which comes from journalistic and beat experience – i.e. you couldn't produce a successful news org by hiring English PhDs.

The original commenter's thought process is as absurd as a layperson bragging they could just as easily produce a functioning website with production-ready code because they've learned how to write the <link> and <script> tags needed to include Bootstrap and jQuery. It's not the code itself that makes a tech company. Just as it is not just words strung together in paragraph form that makes a news org.
When they get rid of the touchbar that's when I'll upgrade from my 2013 MBP and not a day sooner.
Having listened to his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, I can't help but hear this message in my head with his distinct voice. But also, I think his brutal honesty and relentless work ethic will suit this problem domain.
The tradition of singing "happy birthday" isn't much older, but I would surely say it is part of our culture!
If anyone can initiate the singularity, it's John Carmack.
Huh? No I didn't. The claim was never the New York Times.

The register is competitive with the times, they compete for clicks on reddit/google news and so on. I expect the quality to start out more akin to the register (or really, more akin to Wired).
I 100% can hit the F-keys by feel. The important distinction is that I can feel for the button boundaries before I push; the fact that touches are always impactful, and it's impossible to add space between actions, prevents retraining that muscle memory to the touch bar's "global" actions (which might otherwise be feasible; like the difference between learning notes on a guitar vs a violin).
You could say the same about climate change.
It's a collective mistake, everybody knows about it, yet we can't fix it.

It's YOUR planet, why aren't YOU saving it?
As an earthling I've seen a lot of amazing nature everywhere on earth but a lot of it is left to wither. No one seem to be interested in taking care of it.

We are hopeless in long term thinking.
Here is a simple example. Everyone, including most children, agree pink is a girl colour. There are times and places in history where everyone, including children, agreed pink was a boy colour.

Society shapes children even before they can speak.
19th Century Economist Explained Why Air Travel Is So Bad (2017)
I think they've made a lot of progress with the "be nice" thing. A lot of the complaints in this thread I would have heartily agreed with 4-5 years ago, but they seem dated to me now. Maybe it's my perspective that's changed, that's always a possibility.

The database model has never seemed right to me, but I do think SO is making progress moving away from it. Ironically, I believe they will be better able to achieve the database goal once they let it be an emergent property of Q&A rather than grudgingly allowing Q&A to get the database.
Market cap has nothing to do with how much ads are worth, it is just how much people are willing to pay for Google stock.

Google's revenue from ads could be useful, though.
Theft is a worthwhile risk profile to consider. People should do backups. Perhaps they should use encrypted volumes for sensitive information, too.

This does not change the fact that removable storage (or even storage that's accessible post board-failure) provides an additional margin of risk mitigation against hardware failure. AND a convenient way of making bootable backups you can swap in the event of storage failure rather than taking the entire machine out. AND upgradability.

What's the advantage of soldering the SSD to the board?

(And personally, I've experienced boot failure hardware issues on two laptops, theft zero times.)
100% of the laptops will eventually break and stop working. A much smaller fraction will be stolen or lost.
It's a press release.
$10B won't be nearly enough to build level 4+ autonomous vehicle control software that will work in a wide variety of roads and weather. Probably too low by an order of magnitude or two.
> because behavioral targeting retained customers of all sized as opposed to just the bigger ones that do brand awareness campaigns, and that was due to measurable superior performance

Could you elaborate a bit more, particularly on the point about customer size? Are you referring to the fact that smaller companies couldn't run larger geo surveys to understand how their advertising impacted revenue?

This is fascinating stuff, thank you for sharing!
The idea is that press releases that look like articles make lazy journalists less critical. Because the phrasing is already very similar to the end result the journalist has to produce, the path of least resistance is to simply copy as much as possible. Lots of big comapanies do this nowadays.
Good journalism is extraordinarily important.

If you go read a few random article about a topic that you are an expert on, you will quickly realize that good journalism is not the norm.
Did anyone else find Jeff’s first sentence terribly unoriginal and somewhat wimpy?

“We live in a data-intensive, data-driven world!”

I know these blog posts are turned out fast, but especially for such a sensitive issue as a world awash in data that no one understands and no one - yet - controls...it seemed like it was “whistling past the graveyard”.
> What is wrong with downvotes?

Nothing is inherently wrong with them, but downvotes without an explanation are without value.
Kind of yes.

You can buy an upgradable computer specced to your current needs today and adapt it to your future needs as needed. You will pay less now because it doesn't need to be able to run now the OS that'll be available in 5 years and you probably will pay less for the capacity by then. The cost is the time you'll need to invest to make those upgrades: sourcing the parts, assembly, etc.

Upgradability is, in general, a good thing. In the case of these laptops, you buy them to the specs you'll need at the end of the machine's useful life, at the full current price.
Jeez, are entry-level devs really making 180k at Google?
I've seen it work, but I think the problem now is that the T2 chip is the disk controller, so without the T2 running you can't access the disk anyway.
It's a press release. These are conventions used in press releases: mentioning the location, using the third person, etc.
Digital Amnesia (2014) [video]
https://youtu.be/NdZxI3nFVJs

Documentary about digital and physical heritage loss. In relation to recent news from MS: https://youtu.be/W0ntAnqJ_7c
Great, AGI from the guy who brought DOOM to many. Do we ever learn?
Love it! When I was a kid, my dad my brother Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toys out of PVC-pipe. It started with a turtle headquarters, and then he made a car and airplane out of pipes. I didn't realize they were custom built until I was at least 5 years old.
Brave gives life back to the internet, like Daft Punk gave life back to music.
It's a recurring purchase, not a one-time thing. So each month/quarter/year, there's a decision whether to continue investing in each channel. (These decisions are often not made well, but that's another issue.)
I hope he'll go the hybrid symbolic and neural network way (causal and statistical), instead of just statistical.

AGI needs a type system...

I hope I'll achieve AGI before him but it's nice to know there's some real competition!
(because, reader, there are almost 0 researchers seriously trying to achieve AGI in a not totally bullshit way.
Only opencog and Cyc comes to mind).
Any summary? No time to really listen.
While I agree... performance is also an issue... Personally, I've been using the various Fractal Define series cases more often than not. Latest personal build is a Lian Li O11 Dynamic Razor Edition (frankly regret going RGB on a Linux box).
Great, so I need to take on an extra ~$100 USD to use a flash drive. Brilliant.
You can talk your way past it at AWS. Need a medallion signature guarantee (more intense form of notary) from a bank. It’s not easy but you can do that.

After that experience I switched to Authy, which does an encrypted cloud backup of your TOTP secrets.
I don't understand this argument. You could instead lament that "journalists are overpaid" or "software developers are underpaid" with ample evidence for either. Looking at medians or other aggregate stats doesn't prove much of anything.
From my own perspective, the Dutch are more similar to educated Americans than any other country in Europe, including UK. Kind of a midwest friendly vibe.
IIRC, it refers primarily to collecting and processing consumer information.
"Assume a perfect and impossible thing, which is not precisely defined enough to formally reason about, but which nevertheless by construction supports my point, and you'll see that I'm clearly correct."

"controls against...." doesn't mean anything here - you're using the language of modeling, and attempting to discuss a concrete issue, but not connecting the two. Is your goal just to get an accurate prediction based on the status quo? Congrats, you've got a model that still requires nuance and understanding in application.
Yeah, alright, because marketing and the higher-ups will be totally a-ok with all of those missed opportunities...not?

And what does the spam cost in terms of lost sales?

Especially isn't going to happen. The marketing team is honestly stupid if they don't do this. If a customer has purchased something, companies do everything they can to encourage a repeat purchase. Part of that is offering newsletters on updates for new products or sales.

You know how to encourage repeat business? By not spamming me. I've got a list of companies that continue to spam me that I'll refuse to patronize. I'd say the marketing team is honestly stupid if they annoy paying customers.

A recent example in my life was signing up for a warehouse club type membership. It's a company that's well known for treating their employees and customers well. I signed up online and went to the local store to complete the process. As I was completing the in-person part of the process the employee helping me kept pushing the store credit card (annoying but not a deal breaker). By the time I got home a couple hours later I'd gotten multiple emails from the company. No problem, right? Welp the server(s) handling the unsubscribe requests was offline. I could get the unsubscribe landing page but nothing else. Online chat support was a 10-15 minute wait. A phone call was similar. Eventually I found some corporate email addresses and fired off a few missives. End result? Someone in corporate support managed to unsubscribe me but I'm deciding between outright cancelling the membership or purchasing a few loss leaders and then cancelling the membership. How's that for a missed opportunity?

Another great example is Newegg. They had a promo a couple years ago that required me to sign up for their spam mailing list. I subscribed, used the discount, and unsubscribed after a constant barrage of irrelevant crap. They've also started allowing third-party sellers. As a result of both of those behaviors Newegg went from one of the first places I looked for computer components to one of the last just like that.

It's death by a thousand paper cuts really. If your company insists on opting me into more noise I'll shop elsewhere.
It would be interesting to include the great open databases of our time - Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, AllTrials, various national open data portals...
The idea that few people are smart enough to code well is probably the great myth of our field. When people say that, no doubt they're thinking of Febrice Ballard (and, human nature being what it is, assigning themselves to that same category). Spend some serious time as a consultant working with software developers in reality. Most of the day-to-day work of most software development shops is straightforward, trainable, and less complicated than a lot of other white collar jobs.

Every competent woodworker does stuff that is at least as intellectually challenging as routine software development. But you don't see a lot of people saying "few are smart enough to cut mortises and tenons".
(for context, long time windows user--but not for the past ~22 months. Started using macos in 2013. When my desktop died in early 2018, I rebuilt with nixos.)

Maybe this shades into what you mean by diy, but I don't think finding one is the biggest issue--it's the papercuts. More precisely, I don't think many of us using it daily can in good conscience recommend it to anyone we suspect can't handle the papercuts without our help.
BTW, I discovered a cool service recently: HTML pastebin, that supports math.

E.g. https://pste.eu/p/3B68.html
Great, Artificial General Intelligence - brought to you by Facebook! Connect with all your friends and loved ones - whether you want to or not!
Queens and Brooklyn can't get up to that level of density unless we build more transit lines. This is very difficult to do in NYC. Without additional lines, the city's road infrastructure would not be able to handle the additional traffic.

I think the author's point is to build more density along existing lines. Many stops in Queens and Brooklyn already have 3-5 storey development around them. Thus, build higher in those areas.

I agree that 3-5 storey development is a nice density for living in (I choose to myself). But practically speaking, spreading that zone wider in NYC, without any sort of transit plan, is not possible.

You might not like walking through it, but I think Long Island City is a success story for this model. Thousands of workers, who otherwise would've been driving up rent in Manhattan, decide to live near the LIC transit hub in high rises, and I think the city as a whole is better off because of it.