skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like self-driving cars, it's not enough to outsmart AI on one move, it's necessary to outsmart on AI with positive expected value over all the moves you are confident enough to weight in on.
> Not necessarily, but they correlate very strongly. It's the rich countries that tend to have strong labor protections, mandatory pension schemes, high healthcare costs, etc.

Obviously they correlate. The question is whether such labor regulations run ahead of labor productivity and inadvertently price labor out of the global market place. It's certainly not a given that labor regulations are proportional.

If it's not proportional, you either need to roll back some of those regulations or enact protectionist measures (tariffs, etc.) to enable fair competition.

It's not just labor regulations either. Environmental regulations also play a role. While I agree with having environmental regulations, if they are too stringent, then the result is that resource extraction moves countries without any protections.

> Some of them don't, but overall, developed countries have moved on to higher value-added sectors.

Those "left behind" could be a fairly large number. Democratic societies need to balance the interests of all of their citizens.

> Moving large numbers of American workers into things like mass hand-assembly of smartphones would not make economic sense.

If those large numbers of Americans are otherwise unemployed, or even working in low-skill service jobs, then moving them into smartphone manufacturing absolutely makes sense.

> Government could much more strongly redistribute the overall gains from world trade to those who lose out to trade. That would make a lot of sense, though it would go against the right-wing economic thinking that has dominated American politics since Reagan.

We are already redistributing to those who lose out on trade. I don't think more redistribution is what they want. My impression is that they would rather have jobs. Indeed, it makes much more economic (and psychological) sense to have as much of your population engaged in productive occupations as possible.
We're specifically talking about somebody who came from Google, so whether that's a lot to an average person is irrelevant. Somebody making that at Google would be very inexperienced, and the fact that they left to work for much less at another company probably indicates they were struggling at Google. So this person is by no means an accurate representation of a typical Google SWE.
Cheatsheet source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_factor_productivity#cite...

For the adventurous/curious:

https://www.bls.gov/dpr/faqs.htm

http://www.helsinki.fi/iehc2006/papers2/Warr.pdf [PDF]

https://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/36161/frontmatter/9781... [PDF]
Here's an article from last April about thousands of non-crash car fires in a population of 6 million cars: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47782247
> At least everyone can stop hating on Gnome now.

Meh, I won't. Gnome 3.34 might be faster, but you can't reasonably expect that to last across the future releases. Gnome developers have a week established tradition of fucking up their users.

I'll keep my simple life on Xfce.
Exactly. Egypt is a great case study. I’m not too privy on recent events but the protests that spun from Facebook proves exactly that. There was some change at least for a little while...

HK is another example of how technology has helped shed light which led to protests.
Prepare for Vue 3
http://napkinlaf.sourceforge.net/ has some pictures. It's actually good for mockups, since users don't assume the feature is done when they see it.
Do not apologize :)
Eh, the threat of global nuclear war annihilating humanity hung over everyone since the 50's, though it never came to pass, and worrying about it was useless.
tl;dr: if you call computer programs “software robots”, Bloomberg will think you’re a genius.
As a data point.. Mailinator lets you point ANY domain to it (for free). Email sent there will go into the public Mailinator system.

https://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/01/your-own-private-mai...
Why is this so exciting, lol
Yeah - that's what I tend to hear from almost everyone. "I did all of my meeting people years ago."

Well, I'm happy that that worked for you.
Also, LZ beats it out for longer strings, but not by much for strings in the target range (~5000 characters).
cat foo | bar

is useless use of cat, since it’s equivalent to

< foo bar

which is both shorter and starts one less process. Why do you think that “cat” makes it “easier to author pipelines”?
PicnicHealth (YC S14) hiring in SF to help patients manage their medical records
Does Rook give you the equivalent of EBS root volumes for your nodes then? Is that the function you have it providing? Does it offer something beyond using local host storage and minio?

I ask because I've generally been confused about the use case for Rook despite having read the "what is Rook?" paragraph many times on the project home page. My assumption is that it lets you build your own internal cloud provider. Is that correct?
Is it sobering to realize that you will never multiply 12-digit numbers as well as a $0.99 calculator?
We all need to pay the bills, as you noted.

It's difficult to hold down a job and re-skill yourself at the same time. It's more difficult as one gets older. It's even more difficult if you're burnt out.

Once you get done with re-skilling, the question still remains: how are you going to get someone to hire you?
Meanwhile, Gnome still can't manage to display a desktop wallpaper when running at 4k resolution and 200% scaling.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1175

Kind of hard to get excited about perf improvements when relatively basic functionality manages to be broken for at least 7+ months and counting.
People don't like the familiar that much. See the popularity of food trucks. Part of that is our restaurant culture (and food regulations) has made for very few "small" operations, and it raises the risk to try things (because well, once you're in a restaurant you can only have that food). If you go to asia there will be food courts in malls with 20, 30 stalls each with a different person cooking different food, all with big photos. PLUS all the big restaurants. We get... panda express and taco bell. On every corner. Its almost dystopian.
For MySQL there are better ways to do this:
https://mysql.wisborg.dk/2018/08/10/innodb-progress-informat...

The article is MariaDB specific.
Beautiful site. Can I ask how you made it?

I see some mention of a Tailwind template for the landing page, but how did you do the secondary pages and the admin interface? The blog?

Also, I see some mention of Vue. Did you do the admin interface differently than the main site?
Not all meetings are a waste though. Meetings get a bad rap, but a meeting where the result means you don’t waste 2 days coding the wrong thing is a very productive meeting. I do think meetings should be minimal and efficient though and not just talking shops. 3 person meetings are the sweet spot for that. 10 person team meetings are dreadful, but ok if it’s just a quick status report sort of thing.
While We Worry About Honeybees, Other Pollinators Are Disappearing
Go to clubs, do drugs, etc. i’ve met tons of people at festivals or clubs or whatever. Another option is to talk to homeless people, almost all of them love talking to people. Being treated like trash constantly creates a deep sense of isolation. Moreover, talking to homeless people is really interesting, I’ve learned a lot from them. Some of the most memorable and impactful conversations I’ve ever had has been with the homeless. Also, volunteering or even just hanging out at shelters has been very interesting.
Alaska maybe. :-/
My buddy worked at a health insurance company where a 6 person team essentially copied and pasted columns from 1 excel spreadsheet into another, 40 hours per week each, all year long. They were all middle aged or older people and had done basically the same thing for over a decade.

So he wrote a VB script where you could drag the first excel sheet onto it, and it popped out the second one! No need to manually copy and paste all day long.

No one ever used it and they became extremely angry at him, and eventually he quit as all his coworkers in the department saw him as "taking away jobs". Now he does VB and SQL work for a travel company.
I agree that the privacynotincluded site should have a broader set of standards but I really commend them for investing resources into tackling the truth of the huge amount of surveillance built in to a lot of these products these days. Hopefully they can improve the UI in future as it is a bit confusing. However the main takeaway at the bottom should be understood:

"Facebook has a history of betraying users' privacy and trust. They've faced record fines for this and have been caught hiding privacy breaches from their users. This is the starting point for bringing a device with an AI-powered smart camera and always listening microphone that is sending data back to Facebook regularly. They also say they do human review of audio snippets unless you chose (and take the time to figure out how) to opt out. The question comes down to, does Facebook have your best interests at heart when it collects all the data this device is capable (*fixed typo) of collecting on you. In the past--from Cambridge Analytic and beyond--the answer to that question has way too often been, NO."
Ketamine may help treat alcoholism by weakening memory
Here's something that will shock you: this story is false.

Based on comments so far most people, even those defending Tesla, accepted the false premise that NHTSA decided to investigate Tesla on its own.

That's not what happened.

Originally the author claimed NHTSA launched "investigation" into Tesla.

NHTSA contacted LATIMES and said this is "defect petition", not an investigation, so he reluctantly changed it to "probe" because he "doesn't want to argue over definition of words".

Here's the proof: https://twitter.com/russ1mitchell/status/1190352973013995520

https://twitter.com/VGrinshpun/status/1191187292288929792 is a longer expose of how biased and misleading this article is.

The short of it is: someone complain to NHTSA and they are bound by the law to investigate the complaints, hence the "defect petition" (i.e. someone petitioned NHTSA claiming that Tesla's are defective) even if they don't believe any of it. Hence request of relevant documents from Tesla.

For context: Russ Mitchell, the author of this article, is a full-on Tesla hater.

If you read his LA Times articles you'll see an extreme anti-Tesla bias.

His tweeter feed is almost a daily stream of retweeting anti-Tesla news, making anti-Tesla comments.

That LA Times allows this guy to report on Tesla is just mind-boggling.
Most of the stuff I see on tv is nonsense. Missing person 2,000 miles away. The weather in Canada. Police shootout 1,000 miles away. None of this stuff has any bearing on my life at all. I just watch c-span now.
> Go does not have openings.

There are 381 opening moves in Go, but really only 96 because of symmetry. 96 (opening moves) x 380 responses x 379 x 378 x 377 == ~2 Trillion positions after 5 ply.

These 2-trillion positions will easily fit in a 16TB hard drive for $400. That's 8-bytes per position, so you probably can get there with more symmetries and some compression applied.

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You're thinking too much like a human. There's no Go-openings in the age of Human-Go. But in the age of Cyborg-Go where 16TB hard drives are allowed, we can begin to exhaustively build openings.

We even have a super-human AI that can automatically, and algorithmically, explore this opening book. We can build AWS-instances with V100 Tensor cores to use neural-nets to explore all of these positions now.

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> If you have alpha-go play itself a thousand times, it is unlikely that by move 10 you will wind up with the same board position twice.

Alpha-Go doesn't seem to implement much randomness at all into the moves it plays. The source of randomness is in time-controls (AlphaGo may choose MoveX before 30 seconds of analysis, or MoveY after 30 seconds of analysis), but this is a fairly constrained number of moves.

Play alphaGo by itself a thousand times, at precisely the same time MCTS-controls (say: 1-million nodes visited in the MCTS tree), and it will probably play the same game 1000 times in a row.

This makes AlphaGo extremely prone to opening database "attacks". Which is why I am using opening books as an easy example for how to beat a particular AlphaGo network. At least, until AlphaGo updates its algorithm for more random play.

If the goal is "Beat AlphaGo" in a game, then the opening book construction is far, far simpler. Even with random elements (ex: AlphaGo picks randomly from the top 10 best positions it generates), that is far more constrained than a full 381 x 380 x 379 x ... style opening book.
> Come on, none of us are really "human" anymore since the advent of cell phones.

We've been cyborgs much longer than that! Writing is a very old auxiliary memory mechanism.

See also: Truth of Fact, Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang - http://archive.is/oYo0l
This is why I am going to drive my 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee until it explodes. The dash is wonderfully analog, with knobs and buttons and just the right amount of lighting. One day, I am going to start a business that specializes in ripping out new car technology and replacing it with quality analog components.

The simple issue I have with all of car technology is that most of it does not solve a problem I have. These days, we build shit not because it would be useful, but just because we can. And then businesses shove their products down your throat whether you want it or not. I don't know which car site on was on the other day, but they had a giant feature callout on the page for animated light sequences on the headlights and taillights, saying the car would "greet you" and say "goodbye" when you unlocked or locked the car.

I don't need my car to communicate with me like it's the fucking mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I want my vehicle to be a reliable but mostly unremarkable tool. We've got decades of engineering brain power and marketing know-how in play to bring a car to market, and car companies are trying to sell us on light beam sequences. I want off this planet.

And I find it funny that manufacturers are making screens look like phones and tablets. They float above or in front of the dash in the same way your phone would be positioned with a holder. I'd much rather have a great analog interior, with a strong magnet mount for my phone when I need it. With a simple bluetooth connection, you'd be good to go.

What about safety? I'd argue the added "safety" technology is just an illusion. The indicator lights on the dash and in the sideview mirrors whenever you're "too close" to a car or object are super distracting. As soon as you get up on the interstate, your eyes start twitching uncontrollably side to side in response to the side view proximity lights. "No officer, I haven't been drinking, my nystagmus is a side effect of driving my brand new car." And, even though everyone has backup screens these days, people still can't parallel park or get out of a grocery store parking without restarting the process no less than 10 times.

I also don't need to talk to my car. "Alexa, ask Jeep how much gas is left in my car." I bet you'd know if you didn't have to tap three times on a screen to see your fuel gauge.

I really don't know who these new vehicles are designed for. "Alexa, ask Jeep to accelerate and drive us off that cliff."
Cherry picking positive news is literally no different than what you're accusing the mainstream news of doing. It's just the other direction.

I'm glad diseases are being stamped out in Africa. Here in America the anti-vax movement is bringing them back, and I have friends shelling out hundreds of dollars for generic epipens that cost pennies to make.

Automating naivety with an algorithm doesn't change what it is.
> Intel set their embargo date to a day before AMD's embargo date, so early Intel reviews can't include numbers against AMD's next generation CPUs. (That would violate AMD's embargo.)

Yeah I got that, but does "early intel reviews" really mean "reviews done in the first day"? Does anyone even care about waiting a day? Is it such a mad rush to push reviews online?

I guess intel could also use it themselves in their marketing "look, 10980XE is faster as AMD" (even though that's only true for 1 day) and that I agree would be a little shady. But for reviewers and tech sites? Just wait a week if you want to compare? If your clicks go down because you wait 48h with a review to make it properly, that sounds like a serious problem...

> LTT could have waited a day to release their review, but chose not to;

To make a review is cool. You can just finish it with "Spec and perf comparison will follow in 3 days". You don't necessarily need to include bar charts comparing Intel to anything AMD just because you make a review.
> the hard problem of consciousness

does not involve any observable consequences. It can be completely ignored, if we don't go for mind uploading.
> I quit reading media, and eliminated all social media from my life, and I've never been happier.

Staggering numbers of people are dying from opioid overdoses, many of them from opiates that doctors were incentivized to push onto their patients by drug companies, or that were illegally distributed from pharmacies who looked the other way when there were enough pills going out the door to kill the entire population of the town they were in. It's bad enough that someone might even finally be held criminally liable for it.

It isn't the media's fault that any of that happened, and it's largely because of media attention that anyone is being held accountable for it. Blaming the media for accurately reporting on the state of the world is always the last refuge of the person who's run out of real arguments.

The argument from people who would rather not engage with the state of the world for a long time has been that anyone who complains about the state of the world is just watching the news too much, because "the data" always show that the world is getting inexorably better, all the time. That was always a specious argument, and now that life expectancy in America has been declining for three years in a row, that argument should finally be laid to rest entirely. But here you're reviving it, by blaming the decrease in life expectancy itself on the media. It's very innovative! But it's just as wrong.
Oh please. You have an axe and you want to grind it. You can make professional level music with a few hundred dollars of software. Less than the cost of a smartphone, and everyone has one of those. The same can be said of visual arts. Last I checked writing was free. So was the public library, and your property taxes pay for parks and other things.

If you're "not doing things" because you think only the wealthy can, then you are the problem.
Paying for retirees is solvable by simply aggressively taxing the billionaires.

You can't eat money. The problem is not financial, it is economic. Ignoring the few durable things that can be stockpiled, the money retirees spend, whether it comes from savings or taxes can only be spent on goods and services produced at the time the money is spent, by the labor force available then. The smaller this labor force, the higher the wages, the less purchasing power money has. Retirement saving becomes a positional good, it's not enough to save enough, you have to save more than the other retirees, because you're all competing for the same scarce resource: labor.

If that doesn't make sense, try thinking about it from a purely physical point of view. Retirees need physical goods and personal services (e.g. nursing). Both of these require humans to produce. The fewer producing people there are (young and middle age adults), compared to consuming people (retirees) the less there is per person, regardless of who you tax or how.
Thanks, that is good reference. It makes sense that Zip would beat out JSON for longer strings. Just as another point of comparison, how about encodeURIComponent(gzip(input))?
There are more than purely-internal personality factors that cause suicides. Hell, even personality is influenced by what you grow up in and experience daily. If we're making a society that makes more people kill themselves than in the past, we're fucking up.

Is it "entitlement" to not want to live in a world where the culture and stimuli aren't so negative? How do you think kids would entitle themeselves, anway? The world they grow up in is the world we create. So if the kids are fucked, we done fucked them up.

It's not a fact of nature, either. My generation had it pretty easy, and I'm assuming yours did too, since the US had been a pretty idyllic environment for several decades there post-WWII for most demographics. But hey, kids today have iPads, who cares if they're far more lonely and fed a constraint stream of depressing stimuli!
Sprinting is a weird sport. I think it exists because running is a natural human skill that many people care about beyond running contests, because they can't thrive with complete dependence on machines for locomotion. In most people's lives, there are times where the ability to run actually matters.

But the ability to play Go never matters outside of playing Go, and we know who is the best at playing Go.
Or maybe (not so) current hardware is insanely fast, and windows really slow: Just to see if it could work I tried to install linux on a Chuwi Hi8 (windows/android atom based chiinesium tablet. Not enough space for windows now and really ancient android) Ubuntu was so slow, by the time I finally managed to begin copying files to the disk, the tablet ran out of battery. (And the thing eat more power than its charger can provide)

(as for the result of the experiment: it can work, but the amount of work needed was way beyond what I was ready to invest. And not exactly stable)
I think it's valuable for Apple to have a mapping product, and having that product invites governments to interfere. I think it's safe to say you're politically neutral when you just do what governments tell you to do.

Two governments not agreeing with each other is a problem for them to work out amongst themselves. Apple just has to maintain a system that allows them to stay in compliance with every government's view at once, and appear to be doing that. (I can type the Hong Kong flag on my iPhone, after all.) That's not politics, that's just self-preservation.

I think what people really want are for corporations to advocate for the political views that they happen to agree with. I was like that up until the whole NBA/China, Apple/China, and Blizzard/China controversy. After being deeply upset for a while, I came to terms with the fact that Fortune 500 companies are not going to be the guiding force towards a better world. They are just going to play basketball or make phones or make computer games. And I'm OK with that. Not thrilled, but I accept it.
Chess is a very different story than Go.

When computers became able to beat humans, the tradeoff was that computers were better tactically and humans better positionally. Therefore a human computer pair with the ultimate decision up to the human is able to be a better combination of positional and tactical than either alone. This is why Cyborg chess works so well.

But in Go, AlphaGo is simply better at everything. It is better both positionally and tactically. It can't always explain why the move is right, but adding human intuition on top of the computer only detracts from the quality of play.
Thank you sugar and fast food industries.
Yes, I've been doing that increasingly (and taking photos) or using an iPad + pencil -- tbh hand-drawn + photos is just faster.

But sometimes photos or exported illustrations don't work e.g. when someone else (remote) needs an editable copy.
Does anyone know of any events happening to celebrate his life?