skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started working during the build up to the dot com boom at a small company. It was exciting and I threw myself into the work. Unfortunately, the company ended up going under and I scrambled to find the next gig. I kept chugging along making decent money (for the time) but was extremely bored. It started to feel like I was forced to sit in an office for 8 hours a day and do nothing (of value). I felt part of the problem was that I had transitioned away from coding to managing and missed the technical challenge of work.

I decided the best way to stop managing and go back to the hard technical challenges was to do a PhD. I was fortunate enough to financially have the option to quit working. I was 36 at the time.

Going back to do a PhD was great. I especially enjoyed the first 4 years where I was learning a ton of new stuff, meeting new people and going to conferences. I picked the subject, AI, based on what I had always been interested in. It was great to work fulltime on a subject that I found very interesting. It helped that I didn't care about the money or career prospects. The last two years of the PhD were a bit more difficult and I felt pressure to get the dissertation done, but it wasn't too bad.

After finishing I decided that the lifestyle required to pursue an academic career wasn't for me and ended up moving to a city my wife and I enjoyed and taking a job at a FAANG company. I've been there ever since making good money. I've been able to stay engaged with difficult technical problems. Unfortunately, although I find the problems technically interesting to solve, they aren't really addressing issues that I feel passionate about.

Now I'm starting to reach the point of thinking about quitting again. I'm currently more inclined to switch projects at the same company or retire rather than go to a startup or another FAANG company. A large non software focused company isn't that appealing because it seems like I would become part of a cost center. Working for another FAANG company feels like a sideways move and a startup seems like it would be a giant hit to the work life balance. I'm mainly planning on saving enough to not _have_ to work.

I see a lot of colleagues who started working around the same time I did and who ended up at a FAANG company and are now quitting to retire | startup | passion job. I feel very fortunate to be working in a field that I enjoy, for a company that pays me enough that I'll be able to retire relatively early.
I'm not sure it's specific to "debuggers" or "CRUD", I've noticed a lot of developers are just uninterested in advancing their tooling, they don't use IDEs, they don't learn keyboard shortcuts, they don't try to understand build tools. Just just build simple habits and stick to them without stretching themselves to things that might multiply their productivity.
You can control promil level.
Is dozens of papers per day how academics work? Holy crap.
Yes we really need to invest heavily in exploring geoengineering solutions while we still have time. Those solutions may have major trade offs, but the sooner we have an idea of what those are, the better. But I think the reality is that we're going to need geoengineering to either reverse or delay off some of the worst effects of climate changes.

Meanwhile we still need to reduce emissions as much as we can.
What is the significance of the 218%?

My understanding is that in non-medicare expansion states, subsidies start at 100% fpl (below that and you have to get on Medicaid) all the way up to 400% of fpl reducing to nothing but the time you hit 400%.

In Medicare expansion states, subsidies start at 134% of fpl.
> Build and configure the machine better.

It's a stretch to categorize that as a cyborg player. You might as well categorize any chess program as a cyborg player because a human had to program and train it.

The key difference between cyborg/centaur/advanced chess and plain old computer chess is whether there is a human in the loop making the move decisions. My argument is that having a human in the loop will result in a worse player.
Wonder if the Falkland Islands are labeled Malvinas on Google Maps when viewed in Argentina.
Doubt =/= dismissal
I much dislike not being able to turn freshness off. Things I used to be able to search for get buried under recent nonsense. Google has lost its way organizing the words information. Constantly having to set date filters still doesnt do the same as "return the best results regardless of age."
"Because there is a better poet" has seldom been an impediment to a young poet inflicting their works on the world.

I am worried about the ability of an AI to generate an infinite number of Dresden Files or Cosmere books on demand, because I already drop everything when a new one comes out and read without sleeping until I am finished.
Perhaps it's more nuanced than peers v. parents. For example, it can be:

Bad kids -> your good kid

but also

Bad parents/trauma -> one child with a dominant personality -> outsized influence on peer group -> your kid.

All that said, if I had a kid I'd spend every penny to segregate him/her with other kids away from average dodos. I had a terrible experience as a kid surrounded by imbeciles and bullies, which changed after I went to a better school.
My path started with my wife coming to me with a unique gold-mine of a video game idea, so I started learning C# and Unity. Quickly realized that I needed and wanted to learn more programming, so started OSSU and did the Python course. Had a kid, then decided to fast track to get a decent paying job, and so switched to ODIN project. Have learned web (HTML/JS/CSS) and am learning Ruby/Rails stuff there. Have done some PHP + API integration work on the side for my local fixed wireless ISP, the owner of which is a good friend and former boss of mine.
> Alpha Zero has proved this by smashing Stockfish every time it plays it.

Google played Alpha Zero vs Stockfish under their own conditions. I think this was a mistake to stay in the labs by themselves.

I think Google would have benefited from participating in WCCC 2019 for example, where Johnny (1200x core cluster) won the day.

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Its a completely different field when you're actually competing against someone else. Google did some impressive things in the lab for sure, but they have NOT actually stepped into the competitive ring yet.

I'm sure AlphaZero is good, and probably would make a good showing at one of these contests. But you're putting the cart before the horse here.

EDIT: Maybe MCTS + Neural Nets truly is the superior way of preparing board game knowledge? If so, the next step is building out the opening-database and to start looking for holes where AlphaZero loses. It wasn't a complete blowout: AlphaZero lost some games to Stockfish. Why did AlphaZero lose in those games? Is there a set of opening moves that will lead AlphaZero down that losing path in a true competitive setting?

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EDIT: Case in point: Google did NOT incorporate randomness into AlphaZero's algorithm. It always chose the best move it believed in, this leads it prone to opening database attacks. See how the competitive mindset already messed AlphaZero's careful laboratory preparation up already?

Sure, AlphaZero 2.0 might have programmed randomness added to it, if this were a true competitive environment. But that's how cyborg chess evolves: I point out a weakness in the program, exploit it in a game, and then Google goes back to their labs to make something better next year.
Hey -- weirdly, the "koalas may go extinct" comment is being made by Forbes magazine itself! Here's the chain: The current article is by Michael Shellenberger. It references a tweet by Bill McKibben. Bill's tweet directly quotes a Forbes article by Forbes writer Trevor Nace.
Mostly not from fossil sources though.
Not being a champion, I don't mind keeping playing against other humans for fun.

The problem is, online there is no guarantee your opponent isn't using a computer to cheat. So I guess the only way to play for fun is to go to a face to face club, if one exists.
The syntactic structure of both "code" snippets seems equally clear (or maybe "uncertain in the same ways") to me, though my understanding might be a bit off if the author has biased the comparison by following generally accepted use of whitespace with one language and not the other.

This looks like another instance of slapping a pseudo-scientific veneer on top of conclusions driven more by untrained gut feeling in order to pretend one's subjective impressions are firmly grounded in objective reality. It's like the phrenology of programming languages.
Running competitions are pointless.
Isn't this entrapment? [0]

If so, any self-respecting judge should have allowed the students to stay or at least refund their money back plus some more...

[0] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/entrapment-basics-33...
I was an early user of Google too, and I don't remember the search results being any better than AltaVista (the dominant search engine at the time) or any of its other competitors.

Google was just fast and ad-free, unlike AltaVista, which was ad-infested and slow. That was the attraction for myself and the other people I knew who used it.
Young people in U.S. dying at high rates
How to annotate code? I've once in a while wanted some tool to annotate code as I explain it to new developers, or as I explore code I'm unfamiliar with, without having to write comments directly in the source code. The closest I've found to do this is bookmarks in IntelliJ using the name of the bookmark as the annotation.
I agree. Why does everything ask for phone numbers these days? What's next, a picture of my government ID?
It's interesting they suggest the higher the timeframe, the noisier the time series, when to my understanding the opposite is typically found -- the lower timeframes exhibit a more random walk and the higher timeframes exhibit trending behavior.
Join the Home-Growing Cannabis Automation Movement
That Uplifting Tweet You Just Shared? A Russian Troll Sent It
More Americans Say They Weigh 200 Lbs. Or More This Decade
Thanks for your suggestions, I agree. In the privacy policy on the site I do state that "information will not be provided under any circumstances to any parties other than when compelled by law." Logs are rotated daily and deleted after 7 days.

I'll do some more research on the legal issues you've mentioned above too.
What if they have a tracking tracker buster?
So what you're stating is, the owners seem to carry most of the liability.
I'm well aware of the recourse available.

It's still not much fun having to go through all of one's subscriptions and saved payment methods, and it costs us all in the aggregate. Repeatedly compromised cards can get your bank to consider you too much of a risk, as well.

The solution is quite simple: require contactless payments be accepted at the pump.
Pretty clearly a 6.
We're not in disagreement. The displacement of Crimean Tartars was not immediate. Then later, the deportation of them under Stalin and Beria to the Soviet *stans (which was terrible and horrifying). After the fall of the USSR, a large number of the Tartars returned to Crimea (I once had an interesting conversation with one on a flight who now lives in the US).
If we don't lock in the difficult to start climate mitigation efforts in 10 years, then yes, the world as we know it will locked in the opposite way for change in irreversible in our lifetime ways. For one spending to realign infrastructure will cost massive amounts, crop yields will be lower than before due to extreme weather this will be locked in in 10 years if we don't act.
Robinhood pulls bank charter application
Horses are part of a not that long list of mammals that do sweat almost all over their body. That is indeed one of the reasons why they are competitive with humans at running long distances.
I also found this to be a weird statement. Chess AI has been beating world champions since... 1996? Yet championship chess tournaments are alive and well, and I don’t recall any players “retiring” in 1996.
I believe they were all independent for at least a short time between WW1 and WW2.
I was tempted to try the new Gnome out, but your comment feels like the ecosystem around is full of drama and ego; I'll pass, I'm a pro, I have no time for this.
I have the impression that at least the training phase of alphago needs much resources to achieve superior results, though it would be nice to see some "exact" numbers. IMO combined limit for runtime+training energy would be the best way to keep things interesting.
Surely against MailGun TOS?
I 2nd OneNote. I used it extensively in college. You can migrate in chapters of a pdf textbook, OCR the text, and then highlight and annotate to your hearts content. It supports hyperlinking, which I used to make an interlinked glossary that spanned textbooks. You can 'print' any document/webpage to onenote as well as take screencaps. I still use win+shift+s to clip portions of the screen.
> silicon based computation is better than neurotransmitter based computation

The fundamental difference is not computation, but self replication. We are self replicators, and in our multiplication we evolve and adapt. Death is an integral part of self replication, we understand it fear it because our main purpose is to live.

An AI might not have these notions if it was only trained to do a simple task. But if it was a part of a population that was under evolution (using genetic algorithms), then it might have notions of life and death and fear its demise.

AlphaGo, by the way, used genetic programming to evolve a series of agents, this approach is quite effective. It just takes a ton of computation, just like nature had to spend a lot of time evolving us.
"Peer groups are the dominant influence on a child’s personality and development, full stop."

I think this is way overstated, but aside from that, who is it that chooses where to raise kids and hence, what type of peer groups will be available to those kids?
That might be true, but hacking without explicit consent is a good way to get fired with potential jail time.
Its a shame that professionalism and showing personality are so at odds all over the place, from papers to the workplace. For the most part, professional has aligned with formal. It's clear why, but still sad :(
I'm not sure if the argument you heard before is the same, but I'll try to clarify my angle.

For me, religion would be defined as something like "what any number of people generally do and expect themselves and each other to do, because of what they choose to believe, often with rather limited unambiguous evidence (i.e. in spite of the given evidence's allowance for vastly different interpretations)".

OC seems to indicate that they believe "typical" religions are not particularly concerned with finding things out-- that believers will simply chalk up natural mysteries as "something God does/did". Then those belief systems are seen as obviously inferior frameworks for describing reality-- such would not need to be studied or even recognized except as "somebody else's thing", and OC is satisfied with their current understanding of them. This has too much in common with those empty "explanations" for natural phenomena. At least, it's too easy.

Disregarding some explanations about the foundation of reality without knowing or needing to know the details, is also OC doing (or not doing) something because of what they believe, is also part of OC's private religion, by my loose definition above.

There is at least one traditional religion that also heavily promotes seeking overall correctness of information (in particular, it demands honesty), always gaining wisdom/knowledge/understanding, and always maintaining humility with a healthy grasp on one's limitations and ignorance. Anyone who "knows" that "religions aren't like that" might never find out. I hope they eventually have a crisis of faith.

"It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings."
No, I don't agree. Here's what I want:

Entity visits a website. The website logs whatever they want, subject to GDPR-style rules. They never send the full logs to a third party, and never send individual information, anonymized or not, without a specific business reason that benefits the entity.

Entity creates an account on the website. Now the website gets to display a privacy policy that conforms to GDPR-style rules, and creates the account only with explicit informed consent from the entity. The website specifically notes the jurisdiction in which they operate and the contact method for complaints, inquiries, deletions, and so forth.

No central processing systems, no unified trackers, no cross-site data analysis.
The article says that they received millions in tuition payments from these students so it sounds likely the program is at least partially self funding. In which case, this is a great use of government money.
This is PR mumbo jumbo. The hype machine for alphaGo is strong.
>>>The fact an AI can express itself through music is sure as hell not gonna stop me from also expressing myself.

I think this is the key; if you're making music for your own reasons, no AI (or Mozart) would stop you. But if you're trying to make money at it, or desperately want listeners, you may eventually be on the "losing" side.
That doesn't seem correct. Moreover a student has no means to determine if a University has no teachers, other than verifying relevant Government databases.

According to the article:
Department of Homeland Security had said on its website that the university was legitimate. An accreditation agency that was working with the U.S. on its sting operation also listed the university as legitimate.
The CO2 exhaled by humans was already in the air when they inhaled. Conflating that with CO2 actively created from industrial processes is disingenuous at best.
I don’t think so. AI is a tool. It doesn’t make any sense to say “a screwdriver can now screw things in better than a person” anymore than saying an “AI can diagnose better than any doctor”. The doctors use AI just like a mechanic uses a screw driver.
Currently running this on my XPS 13. Works beautifully and honestly battery life is insane. _Much_ better even than just 19.04. It's easily on par with my 2015 MBP. I'm getting almost a week out of a charge using it for a few hours a day running just Chrome, PyCharm, and Signal most of the time.
Certainly, anyone who scored in the top 10% on the SAT shouldn't get loan forgiveness....
> And then, when noone could challenge him, technology emerged that would allow him to continue being challenged and improving his chess game.

That technology's name? Vladimir Kramnik.

At the time DeepBlue beat Kasparov, Kasparov was honestly still probably better than the computer. He just had a bad match. That was basically demonstrated by his and Kramnik's matches against presumably better computers (than DeepBlue) in the early-to-mid 2000s, which ended in draws. But Kramnik was also a strong competitor to Kasparov in the late 1990s into the 2000s.
So much this. The problem is mostly that this requires executive buy in, and clear explanation of the cost shift associated. Then, even after executive buy in, you have to guard against CISSP "windows on everything" saboteurs who know the C-speak better than you do, not to mention the people who want a vendor product for everything instead of just using industry standard FOSS tooling. To me, there is a lot of market opportunity here, but the MBA side is behind and so the implementation is lagging.

This is why I think one of the key things is in stack standardization (choose best in class foss tools that match requirements, for example, I personally have a gpl or gpl compat requirement), and stack size reduction (which means you don't need every fancy sounding tool that you hear about, make sure the use case is justified first).

People have such a stockholm syndrome relationship with MS (and proprietary sw in general) it's absolutely sickening. For example, I think educational institutions should be teaching and using FOSS first.

Some will whine about no one using linux or not knowing how, and one response I use is "you had to learn how to use windows too, and even it changes things up, just look at 7 to 8/10, so why not learn to use gnu/linux and free yourself from MS?"
It fully depends on your income. The poster above said "with subsidies".

With a family of 4, you would get some for of subsidy all the way up to about $100k mAGI.

One important thing to note about that modified adjusted gross income number is there are a few things you can control about it. Like contributions to retirement accounts and college funds will reduce your agi.
Imagine that they learned a few things working on Unity and they applied them to improve Gnome Shell.
I assure you, plenty of musicians have sun-sized ego's
This is a v1 of our analyzer, but it's already doing a lot of things to mimic a real user (like using a real browser, moving the mouse, scrolling, etc.).
This looks like its all svg lines. If so could also be interesting for pen plotters.
People who write these headlines are not English majors for the most part; consequently they come up with headlines that are often not quite right.

The original headline is:
"This lettuce is so local, they grow it in the supermarket."

That wording is pretty much optimal. But the person who wrote the HN headline decided to remove "This". Now the wording is suboptimal. A native speaker would be likely, if he were going to remove the "This" to also remove the "is":

"Lettuce so local, they grow it in the supermarket."
You can always tune it one way or another with the optimization level (-O0, -Og, -O3, ...) But I agree. That doesn't really help when you need to debug release binaries, which are understandably at maximum optimization levels.

gcc is actually pretty good at preserving debuggability through optimizations. clang? Not so much.
Really? That's the first time I've ever heard someone say that. What is it about Kotlin you don't like?
Good point, assuming some extent of collapse is crucial, and the question is if different perplexities due to tokenization can happen in principle. You are right that in "Alice" vs. "A|lice" example we get the same perplexity after re-normalization, I can't come up with an example where it would be different right now.
"Google's nascent potential. Google's best talent, including Page & Brin, wouldn't have stayed around for long."

What made Page & Brin Google's best talent?
Actually you can ignore economy.

tl;dr; Futurama was right: nuclear winter cancels global warming

1. At high humidity max temperatures humans can survive for more than 30 minutes are not that high.

2. During a heatwave (peak 46C at ~50% humidity) in India 30% of Ahmedabad all cause mortality was connected to temperatures https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4024996/

3. Temperature increase is not going to be the same across the globe. Many models predict with a 2C global avg temp increase a 4C increase of average temperatures in India and Pakistan with peak temperatures during heat waves going up by as much as 10C.

4. That temperature increase pushes conditions beyond what most people can acclimatize to. In large areas of India, Pakistan and China (among other places) physical labor and maybe even survival without access to cooling will not be possible for as much as 20-60 days per year.

5. A significant chunk of 3.9B people living in India, Pakistan and China will be displaced with nowhere to go. All 3 countries have nuclear weapons to make sure they have somewhere to go :P
Which will all be blacklisted as will the subnets within which your IPs sit and then your hosting provider or ISP will terminate service.
Obvious solution is to switch the competition to programming. Build and train a neural network with some limitations compute, memory, time, and see whose program wins at go.

A simple go engine can be as simple as 540 lines of pure python without any external libraries: https://github.com/pasky/michi
The point is: what if the tool becomes so great that practically anybody can use it? Anybody could be that "filter" and "be" a great musician.