skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yann LeCun is right.

Spikes in silicon are perhaps the most power inefficient way to represent numbers. You dissipate power every time you change a wire from high voltage to low, or back again. Think about representing numbers up to 8 bit precision. With a spiking neural network, you need to charge and discharge the wire 128 times (expected value), assuming the numbers are uniformly distributed between 0-255. With a standard 8-bit representation, you need to charge and discharge a wire 4 times.

Every time people make analogies to biological systems, they seem to overlook the truth: we don’t know how to engineer biological systems. It’s true brains are amazing, but they are not built from silicon. Trying to emulate a crude model of a brain in silicon is like making an airplane flap its wings.
The kinds of things that the military would be doing on a cloud platform seem likely to occupy that middle ground.
It's not just Enterprise. Plenty of small businesses use Office 365 as well. They don't all have on-site IT staff, and they often don't have competent IT consultants who keep an eye on this stuff.
Teaching preschoolers and the early 1-2 grades is the hardest.

Imagine how are you going to make them understand abstract concepts when they have no idea about them.

They have very small attention span to what adults consider important things.
Can you please elaborate how does emphasizing gender difference help women in business?

Don't get me wrong I do believe it works, I am just curious about the psychology.
Yes, he could have trained a network to recognize them and return memorized values. It would not be nearly as obvious.

Solving this would require changing the contest so that it comes with algorithm and instructions only (no data files, entropy checks) and is trained by contest operators.
Say goodbye to politicians
Unfortunate that the definition of "empower women" is help them do whatever they please, even if it is self destructive... Which is what we're seeing everywhere today.
People in the USA own a lot of firearms and there are more firearm-related crimes and accidents in the USA compared to countries with low rates of firearm ownership.
It isn't a max of 2 stops. It's a max of 2 pickups and 2 stops. Also sometimes you end up taking detours for the pickups and stops, not to mention waiting for the people to show up. Happened to me. I think the bus got to my destination first.
South Africa has a proportional representation system for similar reasons - to recognise plurality. It has some significant downsides. It weakens the ties between a representative and a specific district / constituency. In exchange it strengthens the hands of party decision makers who are the final brokers of how seats are apportioned.

Having grown up in South Africa and having spent a reasonable amount of time in the USA, I admire the local civic mindedness of American communities and the accountability of the political representatives. I am also appalled by the partisanship. I worry that proportional representation could make it worse.
Why is option 3 the best choice? Doesn't that significantly increase the chances of accidents?
What population collapse? World population is still rising. US population is still rising.

Fewer humans would be a good thing for just about all the global human created problems. Far fewer humans would give a chance of sustainable numbers, sustainable industry and agriculture, remove the need to destroy habitats etc.
This was broadly the position of one of the most influential theorists in international relations (IR), Kenneth Waltz. His paper "The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Better” is a great read. [1]

From his conclusion: "Those who dread a world with more nuclear states do little more than assert that more is worse and claim without substantiation that new nuclear states will be less responsible and less capable of self-control than the old ones have been. They express fears that many felt when they imagined how a nuclear China would behave. Such fears have proved un-rounded as nuclear weapons have slowly spread. I have found many reasons for believ­ing that with more nuclear states the world will have a promising future."

[1]: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/waltz1.htm
Seems oddly sexiest, why? Obviously a MenMake version would be unacceptable but this is?
Or maybe we should fix the divide itself, given that the system has worked reasonably well during 200+ years, more than most Western democracies

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psych-unseen/201809/...

But a 2012 study by Stanford University political science professor Shanto Iyengar and colleagues offers another way of looking at this apparent split.2 It examined political polarization from a different angle — not from how Americans stand on policy issues, but from the perspective of “affect” — how they feel about those on the other side of the political fence. Drawing from survey data spanning several decades, the study found that the feelings of those who affiliate as Democrat or Republican towards members of the opposing party have become increasingly negative since the late '80s.

Another study published earlier this year by Texas Tech University professor Bryan McLaughlin provides additional insight regarding the contributing role of the media in the political polarization of the country.

Media, and social media, have a lot to answer for.

EDIT: here's a CNN political analyst joking about a conversation he made up.

https://twitter.com/joelockhart/status/1220064298925461505?s...

Vox doesn't even remotely address any possible role they must have had in furthering the divide. But sure they have solutions.
Good point, that's why we added analytics where we cluster the most common questions and show you the most common unanswered questions, so you can improve your help pages. There's also a (albeit rudimentary) human handover when the question can't be answered.
He was essentially abandoned and ignored by even the non-communist Allies.
How about another option: 1 country owns a WMD?
This is silly. The risk of outright nuclear warfare is probably the lowest it has ever been; no one wants a full-scale war and even states with massive ideological conflicts are still looking for ways to peacefully trade and deal with each other. The Cold War is over and if something like the Cuban Missile Crisis happened today, the responses would be far more measured.
There are clearly some things that are economically viable as a criminal enterprise, but I don't think tracking people for ad targeting purposes is one of those things.

Tracking only pays if you can track a huge number of people and sell ads to a huge number of advertisers. The profit per tracked user is too small to pay for running a criminal enterprise.

Moving to a different jurisdiction is impossible as your customers (the advertisers) and the sites/apps where ads are placed would still be breaking the law.
I for one appreciate modern medicine and the internet. I also practice hand tool woodworking as a hobby, and while it scratches an itch to be more physical and present I’m in no way a Luddite.
I read to my daughters all the time, but eventually one of them decided she disliked it (didn't like the pace) and the other is still preferring to listen to audio books while in college. It's an individual thing.

Also I think a lot of parents don't look forward to reading aloud.
I've only just recently started to appreciate how much emotions can utterly dominate our thinking. We believe we are rational creatures, but we have all these emotional mechanisms in our brain that kick in and do a hardware override of everything. For me the first step in getting better control of this is just to understand that it's happening.

I came to this realization from a fascinating book about anger[1]. The idea of this book is to explain how your brain activates anger so that you can deal with it better. Hopefully my explanation won't butcher the technical stuff too badly, but I believe the gist is that anger is a useful mechanism in your brain that is supposed to kick in when certain conditions are met and drive you toward taking action when you really need to.

As such, there's a part of your brain that's sitting around monitoring to figure out if any such conditions have been met. When it decides they have, then two things happen. One is that it sort of juices your brain with something that heightens alertness and focus. This boost gives you the mental energy to act. (Think of something kind of like an adrenaline rush.) The other is that it directs your attention to the issue. It does this over and over and over again until it is resolved. If you don't act (because of impulse control, lack of opportunity, or failure to decide how), it's like hitting a snooze button. You can put the thought out of your mind, but the alarm will go off again and bring it back.

So, in computer terms, there's a hardware control system here. It turns on and periodically generates a non-maskable interrupt which jumps you into a routine it provides. And it cranks up the CPU clock speed to the point of nearly overheating. And there is no instruction to just make it stop. The only way to shut it off is to change the conditions that enabled it.

Anyway, the point is that our thoughts exist within the framework of this system. Our brains are capable of rationality, but this framework can kick in and preempt that. And anger is just one of many systems!

Therefore, if you want to gain control of your thinking, you must gain control of your emotions. (Emotional regulation is supposed to be important to mental health, and after learning about this one emotion, I can see why.) Gaining control might be a misleading phrase here because you can't stop or eliminate them. Instead, your only choice is to learn how they work and how to manage them. You need to learn to work within the framework. Which takes practice and honing skills. If you don't, then you are just being led around blindly by them, leaving everything up to chance. Either you get a handle on them, or they control you. Or maybe I should say they do control you, and your only choice is to control how they control you.

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[1]: The book is called "Healing the Angry Brain: How Understanding the Way Your Brain Works Can Help You Control Anger and Aggression". See https://www.google.com/books/edition/Healing_the_Angry_Brain...
It's sexism. By excluding one gender and elevating another. That's how it works
Thank you, I used nodejs + mongodb for the back end and jquery for the front end.
I've also been haunted by this dilemma as well. For now I've settled on using https://getpocket.com although I worry how my data might be used.
So the doomsday clock went from being a metaphor for the probability of Nuclear War to being a metaphor for the end of the world in general?

This is a big sign that it has outlived its usefulness and the organization is trying to reinvent itself.
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How would you pull equity out of the house other than doing things like HELOC ? HELOCs have huge interest and doesn't make sense to take that money and reinvest unless you know how to play the risky games like options trading etc.
The more countries own WMD, the more likely it is that one will use them.
No realistic scenario involves only some states doing this while others don’t, though it’s worth pointing out that Maine and Nebraska are not winner-take-all.

You may find the national interstate popular vote compact interesting. [1] Basically each state in the compact pledges their delegates to the national vote winner, but only once enough states to guarantee the presidency have agreed to do so.

That said, currently it seems that any “popular vote” measure that takes away power from small states (like this one, or changing the senate or house) would disadvantage republicans, so it’s probably a nonstarter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
I'd love to see some actual statistics on this. This assumes that people knowingly do something dangerous and are choosing to ignore it because they think someone can just come and save them. I would argue that this is unlikely, unprepared people are unprepared in all aspects of it. Carrying a cellphone doens't mean they thought of it as some kind of security measurement. People just rarely go somewhere without it. They simply don't know any better.
There are multiple possible funding models for technology companies. VC is not the only way for “having money.”
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Less empire, more democracy.
Thank you, but I think dev.to is built with ruby.
Which is a massive sense in which it is not simple! For any non-native speakers, (I'm a native English speaker), tones were nearly impossible to master, and I still have a terrible grasp of them I think. It requires a complete rewiring of the way you speak language, sure, but it also requires a complete rewiring of how you hear it too!
The Allies and the USA knew all about the Holocaust thanks to this man but kept it a secret. Total farce of a narrative that American troops 'discovered' concentration camps when they went into Germany.
The US is not imperialistic, that's just a cute talking point.

That said I do agree we spend too much on our military. We should always spend more than any other nation to ensure dominance, but I'd imagine cutting the budget down would force efficiency and actually improve the military at this point.

However it seemed the person above was saying that militaries in general are bad or murderous which is very different from saying the budget just needs to be reduced.
This guy is badass. He went to auchswitz and escaped. Then did it again.
I fell like the article is overthinking it. If it’s contained to Wuhan it may affect the poor there more than any other group.

If it spreads beyond Wuhan it will affect the poor in Wuhan _and_ the poor in other cities.

One city’s poor vs many city’s poor. Gov. has to make a decision.
Some suggestions that can add up to fill every minute of the day:

- Learn to play an instrument.

- Make a side project.

- Read a book a month.

- Plan a trip to somewhere.

- Hang out with friends/family.

- Go run outside.

- Work out.

- Cook some really nice food.

- Imagine what you could achieve for the world in 10 years and try to work towards that slowly.

Most importantly, don't get stuck in you cellphone screen for any time at all.
Ugh. They are advocating IRV, which is probably the worst voting method except plurality.
Differing views I suppose. To me I look at the new type of weaponized technologies coming out of China (that we know about) such as hypersonic missiles able to defeat most conventional mission defenses. Then I look at the salary differences between “defense” work and adtech, and I worry that our best and brightest are not working on deterrents the same way our rivals are.

Combine that with a persistent stigma against working in defense and we have a recipe of losing our technology edge within the this century if not sooner. What will our rivals decide to do once that happens?
The impression that Emacs and Emacs Lisp are heavyweight comes from the 1980s. (Since then Emacs Lisp has gained the ability to talk to GTK+ and to the GUI toolkits native to Mac and Windows, but has bloated up very little otherwise.) Compared to for example 2020's Firefox or Chrome, 2020's Emacs Lisp is very lightweight.
>In my family if someone cheated they got called a cheater and suffered consequences.

You picked a random sample of ratio'd comments from a platform which is big on performative wokeness to strengthen your opinion, which still fails to explain how Pleskov managed to zugzwang his way into pulling off a Kobayashi Maru style move and the failure of the platform to monitor such abuses. Only time will tell, whether or not he has avoided being a part of the Dark Triad; without condoning his behaviour ─ what more can he do to atone for his sins?
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This doesn't work if you're just linking to some dynamic content. People will like the link and the link itself is static but the content provided by clicking it can change without notice.
You don’t really need a serious amount of computation even for tokamak feedback systems. The computers of the 90s are adequate. Most other confinement machines (magnetic or otherwise) don’t even need feedback. It’s just bog standard industrial automation/control.

We’ve been on the ball for optics for a long time now. Where computation really comes in handy is in simulation and optimization. Plasma physics is still a very unfinished field and computation is a very valuable tool in speeding up the theory <-> experiment loop.
Thank you very much, that's really the idea behind Women Make and it seems to be working pretty well so far.
Isn't the difference here that science has become a global institution, and far more complex than it was in any of those societies?
Just watch a season of Mystery Diagnosis if you want to lose faith in doctor prognoses. Most of the individuals end up figuring it out themselves and then finding a specialty doctor.

Main treatment program for a doctor: go home and see if it gets better
Very good point on the risks. I recommend immediately running, biking, or doing something else to warm your body up after getting out, especially if it's not a hot day. It only takes a couple minutes of running to warm up again, but if you stay still you can be shivering for an hour after.

I've also noticed that there are a few phases you go through. First there's the initial shock--that lasts a few minutes as you say. Then you adapt and it starts feeling good. But if you stay in for long enough, you can start feeling cold again in a deeper more full-body way that indicates your overall body temperature is decreasing. That's when you want to get out :)
Because casting votes online makes it easy to start voting market where you get perks for voting in desired direction.
No, but the majority of US foreign policy is.
Thought experiment: option 1 is chosen, and the world proceeds to spend the the next 50-100 years obsessing over whose WMDs, exactly, have any nonzero chances of ever, ever misfiring.

Humanity embarks on a top-down superoptimization campaign to perfect technology to the point that this question can be answered with ever-increasingly-higher levels of detail.

Follow-on: the question of whether the ensuing yak shaving causes us to realize the WMDs are unnecessary, or whether military-driven paperclip maximization accidentally wipes out humanity.
> In the nuclear realm, national leaders have ended or undermined several major arms control treaties and negotiations during the last year

> US-Russia cooperation on arms control and disarmament is all but nonexistent

Moving the clock is justified.

Russia is developing new hypersonic missiles and missiles with multiple warheads designed specifically to evade missile defense systems. The U.S. is deploying more of our (potentially now ineffective) missile defense systems in places where we had promised not to do so.

The Iran deal is dead. Nationalism is on the rise everywhere, and nuclear states like Pakistan, India, and China are not immune.

The world is at greater risk now than at any point since the Cold War.
Tones are simple (in the sense of being governed by linguistic rules), just foreign.
Probably illegal without congessional approval
I understand that the existing approach results in a worse and more expensive product, but doesn't this approach also allow agencies to focus their efforts on assuring the vendors of their critical infrastructure aren't comprimised by bad actors etc...?

(This isn't my area expertise, so I'm open to the idea of being super wrong)
It's natural that that comment was downvoted, since it's a step further into the generic, which is always a step down in quality when the topic is inflammatory. Consider how well the other commenters in the other subthreads have managed to stay related to the specific topic. The contrast is striking.

Generic tangents are ok when they're unpredictable. It's the predictable part that we're trying to avoid here, since it's bad for intellectual curiosity, however justified the indignation may be.
> Has anyone considered a hostile fork of .org?

There have been various attempts at alternative DNS root [1] by people unhappy with ICANN.

In the past, these attempts haven't been able to convince ISPs to point their users to the forked service - even if they mirror every existing domain free of charge.

And you don't just have to convince domain registrants and end users; you need to bring mailserver administrators and certificate authorities along too.

I'm not saying it's impossible - Google could force things unilaterally with a change to Chrome, for example - but history shows users are slow to vote with their feet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
30 year mortgage rates are around 3.65% this week. So if a buyer puts down 20%, that will be around $259k in interest over the life of the $400k loan, putting the total interest at half of what you said (~$760k total the life of the loan versus $1 million).

While certainly the US population is aging and slowing in growth rate, I have not seen any predictions for a population decline by 2050 or even 2100.

You are right that further urbanization is expected and buying outside of cities may not be a good investment.
Muscle contractions that likely mirror the effects of tension headaches.

I've noticed this occasionally when I take a really cold shower.
Last I checked, Torvalds wasn't getting billions of dollars from the DoD to install Linux on servers. That's a false comparison, and a lazy one at that.
This is really cool, I had no idea these exist and are somewhat affordable. For example: https://www.amazon.com/Resqlink-PLB-375-Personal-Locator-Buo...

I'm going to pick something like this up before my next Wyoming adventure.
Is there an objective case for why Azure is better than AWS?
Just make it a national holiday
Luc these both seem so close to what I have in mind, but neither are it. Thanks so much though - if nothing else they’re both great reads!
Is it really unusual or inefficient for the Department of Defense logistics chain to have lots of spare capacity all over the place w.r.t the Cisco chassis? Especially with global force projection, I'd expect there would be massive, unavoidable waste just to maintain operational capabilities, stretching into every corner of the industry.
Some countries are trending towards becoming doubleplusungood
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I know this adds nothing to the discussion, but the level of restraint and politeness in the parent comment caused me to pause and reflect a bit.
I don't know, it seems that recently there are people in control of nuclear arsenals that seem to have a desire to use them:
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/03/trump-asks-why-us-cant-use-n...
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I think this is one of the main reasons. I work in the US and big part of the team is located in India. It's very complicated to find time for meetings or if you need to reach out to someone from that team.
As a thought, not opinion:

The benefit of option 2 over option 3 is that in the case where just enough countries have WMDs so that if anyone drops a WMD someone will respond but no other countries do you also minimize the number of surfaces for mistakes/abuses.