skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a few, and one in particular was very useful in the long run. This was about 20 years ago, one of the first times I took mushrooms. It was at an "afterparty" and I had already been awake for at least 24 hours. Someone gave me a handful of mushrooms and I ate them. She came back an hour later and asked me if I felt anything yet. I didn't, so she gave me another handful and I ate them too. Typical newbie mistake--I began tripping very hard a few minutes later. Within some hours I think the psychedelic fireworks had subsided enough that I was no longer catatonic, but then the real internal drama began. I was with a bunch of other people in altered states, many of them complete strangers, physically exhausted but unable to sleep. What people would refer to as a "sketchy situation". I got very paranoid. No matter where I sat or what I did, I had the sensation that people were talking about me, and mostly in a not nice way. There were turntables and records, so I tried to DJ. The challenge was enjoyable, but I couldn't shake the feeling that everyone was complaining about it and making accusations. I confronted some of them and they denied it--here was where it became both scary and later educational--I had enough rational mind left to understand that they were telling the truth, in reality it was a party and people were mostly having a good time and having conversations amongst themselves NOT ABOUT ME. I knew it without a doubt to be true, but I could not control the paranoia. I would go back to DJing or whatever else I was doing and my mind would imagine the worst about whoever was near me. A little voice told me "this is what it's like to be crazy" and from there I spiraled into a delusion of "I'm not coming out of this. I've gone and broken my brain. This is how crazy people become crazy." At the same time a rational voice would tell me, nevermind that, you'll be fine once this wears off.

I could go on and on but the bottom line is that yes it did eventually wear off and I was fine, but left with a lasting, visceral sense of empathy for the plight of mentally ill people.
GPT-3 isn't a 10X improvement. (At least from everything we know so far.)
Did you read the comments from the guy that left facebook? It was like reading YouTube comments. People were flaming him from their professional accounts.
I'll push back on this. The quality of the read speech should be a higher concern than having parallel data. Unless OP's wife is a teacher or actor/voice actor, if LibriSpeech transcripts are boring, it will come out in the speech.

I think OP would ideally want the model to pick up on more natural intonation, instead of monotone dictation. Record everything from now on, as best you can with similar recording context, and hopefully that data will be enough to cover more natural nuances.
Apparently they have several benchmarks where they claim that decompression is faster than memcpy (!).

However, this is only the case because on several Intel x86_64 benchmarks they report memcpy performance between 5-10 GB/s, while even a basic DDR3 dual channel arch has 20 GB/s memory bandwidth, while a modern quad channel DDR4 can have 76.8 GB/s bandwidth, and of course there is no reason for memcpy to be substantially slower than memory bandwidth assuming it's properly implemented (AVX can separately read two and write one 256-bit per cycle = 128 GB/s memcpy at 4GHz).

Am I missing something or is this another case of "implausible claims = they screwed the benchmark = they are incompetent/malicious"?
>that we've landed on milking as much money out of

I take issues with your use of the word "we". If you asked them, 95% of people would say this should stop. In the past, economic and political leaders were drawn from the nation as a whole, and had a sense of loyalty and social obligation to their fellow countrymen, even if it meant leaving a few dollars on the table. Globalization and the increasing cultural and ethnic divide between the upper and lower classes in western countries has ended that fealty. May it soon return.
/me wipes the dust and sweat and blood off his face, and feels good about his efforts for a little while
Any leads to one in the bay area? I have several friends with access to one which is fine for one-off jobs, but I don't want to keep bugging them to have to use them regularly. I'd rather have some kind of pay-per-hour system where I can access the building and cutter directly and not feel bad about using it regularly, and without having to interrupt friends' work schedules.

Ideally it should be less than techshop's steep $170 a month since I really only need a laser cutter, and maybe for only about 3-5 hours a month.
I'm waiting for the pentagon plan for "nazis from the dark side of the moon advise the president on reelection messaging."
I don't think its specifically about having a one click wallpaper changer so much as having the ability to define and configure what happens when he clicks different UI elements. For HIM that means the wallpaper changes another user may want differing functionality.
> I didn't say best raw data. Lidar obviously produces better raw data on an individual basis. Tesla has more real-world driving data overall.

The "real-world driving data" is what I'm calling the "raw data" here, as it's the raw data from the standpoint of the (perceived) AI algorithms driving self-driving cars.

> Tesla is the only one going all-in on vision based self driving. That's the key thing that's going to get us to full self driving.

Why is it the key thing? Why should worsening the quality of your input data improve the results?
Before the pandemic hit, I had planned a trip to Europe that included a stop in Porto based almost entirely on enjoying this channel.
> his wife is an adult who can tell him if he guesses wrong

She can, but she might not. A lot of that depends on how he presents the idea to her -- it might seem like something that's important to him.
> bloodletting was a popular medical procedure up to 19th century

You know a funny story about this, is that bloodletting (phlebotomy) is the standard medical treatment for iron overload and hemochromatosis. A hereditary condition that affects as many as 1% of Northern Europeans.

Even for those without hereditary hemochromatosis, there's evidence of pernicious health impact from iron levels even on the high-end of normal.[1] Regular blood donors have much lower incidence rates of disease as varied from Alzheimers to colon cancer. This is especially true for those who are carriers of the hemochromatosis mutation, which is as much as 10% of Northern Europeans.

[1] http://nautil.us/issue/67/reboot/iron-is-the-new-cholesterol
Not bad for as a niche product Idea
Is this the endgame? System 76 Serwal – AMD and pop!_OS
Yeah, that's the one. Fake "controversy" playing on ignorance.
This is great info, thank you! Regarding SMART indicators, do you know if they're generally reliable? I seem to recall there have been drives (at least HDD, not sure about SSD) that didn't report correct numbers. In fact, I just checked and my current SSD doesn't report SMART data at all. Have they gotten better over the years?
Or they don't buy into an extremist interpretation of the second amendment which ignores the 'well-regulated militia' portion of the amendment. That interpretation was fringe until fairly recently; it took a lot of propaganda from gun manufacturers to convince people like you that their radical view was somehow standard.
> First, the precedent is not worth much as all it would say is when all libraries in the whole country are closed, they can give away books for free - how often do you see that happening?

You're assuming the country being closed is especially relevant. The point is rather that they had physical books and weren't physically lending them out, in which case they should be able to digitally lend them out. If you're not lending more copies than you have, how is that not a reasonable argument?

> typically a single case is hand-picked to serve as the exception to the rule taking great care to make it as palatable, appealing, and free of recriminations as possible and you take that to the courts.

It's a well-loved actual library that only wants to lend out its books, what more do you want?

And if they'd only lent out a single book, would that have gotten them into court? It had to be enough for the plaintiffs to care.

> some other website or organization should gamble their entire existence that isn’t worth as much as the Archive to get this precedent

Why? It has to be a real library. You would rather some other library take the risk, or that nobody ever do it?

> It’s not like the Archive doesn’t know what kind of people they are dealing with.

And that's the point. The people they're dealing with are the bullies and the Archive is supposed to back down? Somebody has to fight the fight.
I have fond memories of Hg/mercurial, and remember Bitbucket dropping support. Just seems strange in today's technolandscape to have anything as a single-sourced option. But clearly git did "win". Now wondering if that will generate a demand for those who don't like the monopoly to push something else. Guess the question is, what does a better version of "git" look like and does it have to be compatible to have a change to get off the ground?
Use a CSPRNG to produce the tokens and keep a list of the outputs. Select uniformly/randomly from this list for payouts.
WebPositive and/or Qupzilla/Falkon.
> When we think about revolutions, we envision acts of violence: the storming and overrunning of barricades

The Glorious Revolution, aka, the Bloodless Revolution.

The Revolutions of 1989, mostly bloodless in Europe except for Romania.

So ... perhaps this rhetoric is poisoning the well?

> isn't the only example of staffers at news organizations rising up against perceived deviations from the progressive orthodoxy and

Or, perhaps perceived deviations from decent and reasonable behavior?

> We've been here before — on college campuses in the late 1960s ... because they felt shamed by the moral purity, clarity, passion, and certainty of the young rebels. In all those respects, our newsroom revolutions are following the same script.

Or, perhaps because those protesters were, you know, right? That the US was engaged in illegal war in SE Asia, and that the curriculum was ideologically biased towards white European males?

> What new principles and ideals do the insurrectionists aim to institute?

Racial justice, for one.

> That news organizations need to be devoted to "the truth" rather than some spurious ideal of "objectivity."

The "objectivity" in most news today seems to be 1) what corporate America - owners of most of the news sources - does is right, 2) the goals and motives of government decisions must be respected and trusted, 3) ditto for the major political parties 4) journalists cannot say that someone is lying, even if they know it's a lie. Instead, the journalist must find someone else to say it's wrong, and cast a fake objectivity.

So perhaps the real issue is the phrase "spurious ideal".

> No one acknowledges the difficulty of achieving moral clarity.

Does the author of this editorial really think none of those people understand this? Just because people think one thing is morally clear - Black Lives Matter - doesn't mean they think all issues are morally clear.

> How many journalists have falsely testified that Cotton's op-ed advocated shooting protesters when it did no such thing?

I don't know. Now, how many did not, and reported it correctly?

> A serious news organization cannot exclude views championed by one of the country's two major political parties and held by more than 40 percent of the country's voters.

But should it give both parties equal footing and prestige? Even if one party lies out of its ass?
Google and Apple’s rules for virus tracking apps sow division among states
> Like all complex projects though, it needs sustained strong leadership.

On the contrary. The debt is there only because of the extreme centralization and your "strong leadership".

I don't know about you but I am 100% sure my share of public debt would be a pittance if I had say in how money got spent (and borrowed)

Decentralize and send leaders home. Let's see what happens with public debt.
One word of warning: we often get bored of reviewing the same drive several times, with a different vendor's sticker over the same turnkey solution built by the same ODM. So if you run across a decent price on a drive that hasn't been reviewed in-depth by someone you trust, it may be worth checking if it's basically equivalent to something that has been well reviewed. On Reddit, NewMaxx has been doing a great job of publicly aggregating information about SSDs: https://old.reddit.com/r/NewMaxx/comments/dhvrdm/ssd_guides_...

This is especially important if you're not in North America because the brands that are available and affordable locally aren't always the same as what's good here in the US. (And on rare occasions, a product sold in multiple regions will have different internals depending on the region.)
This article is way over my head right now. But I bookmarked it. Differentiable programming and probabilistic programming are among the things that motivated me to learn the language (still a beginner), aside from just brushing up and sharpening my math skills in a practical manner.

About that... One thing that I didn't expect but should have been obvious is that introductory content is often geared towards scientists/mathematicians rather than engineers, which makes sense given that this is the target audience.

They often explain the programming side and not the mathematical/scientific side. Which is fine, because they present the right vocabulary for me to explore from different sources.

This article seems to be very much engineering focused but there is a ton of vocabulary I'm not used to yet. I assume the reader is expected to have a solid understanding of the paradigm and at least a high level understanding of Zygote.
> The "right to not be observed" is not a natural right, nor should it be.

“Natural rights” are nothing more than a fancy way of dressing up one’s subjective preference for the way things ought to be as a universal truth, saying “X is not a natural right” already includes the same meaning as adding “nor should it be”.
A captive population is part of what creates an incentive to seek power through violence. If people have freedom of movement, it's much harder to subjugate them by holding land. Part of why ISIS was able to scale so effectively was by capturing economic output. If people were able to flee it might have a quenching effect.
Not the first such tests -- there was a trial in Boston in 2013, at a music festival on municipal property (City Hall plaza). https://digboston.com/boston-used-face-recognition-before-de...
Not a data scientist myself, but plenty of data scientists in a consultancy company that I used to work in said that they have to implement variants of a limited set of models over and over again, because they couldn't reuse code and infrastructure. The project contracts demanded that all IP created by the consultant is the property of the client. This even caused some of the data scientists to lose motivation, because the job wasn't challenging to them intellectually as it involved setting up the same stuff again and again. Very rarely would their actual expertise be needed in the job.

I am not sure if this particular service solves the problem for them in any way, but to my ear it sounds like there is a need for code and infrastructure reuse in the data scientists domain that is ripe for innovation.
Make sure to get recording of true honest laughter of hers too
I'd love to be able to change my mind, though.

Recording audio and then choosing not to use it later is fine.

Not recording it because I don't want it right now... maybe fine? maybe sad.
As far as healthy, it's actually surprising so many have pulled everyone into a travesty that is git.

Yes, it's fast, but it sucks at everything else ("suck" is a bit too hard, it's more that other tools are more pleasant to use).

Still,the question you pose is an interesting one. I am curious to hear from others who have ported their projects to use git? I.e. there are hundreds of programming languages, but git it is for SCM.

Is it because the investment in learning it is so high? Is it because there are multitude of hosting solutions where others are rare and few? I really wonder!
You should not be getting down voted.

I am an early career academic; there are some new non-profit open access journals that I would consider publishing in that cost ~$500 dollars to publish a paper. Everything is on arXix so I cannot justify the expense (perhaps if I was late in my career with lots of grant money I would help to support these journals..)
I've stopped putting any money/attention in organized sports quite some time ago, I was disgusted my money-first orientation of basically all of them and how everything was focused on sponsorships, promotions etc rather than actual effort. Morals often go down the toilet, like in cycling.

Anyway its infinitely better to focus on actually doing the sports rather than just watching them passively.

I make exceptions from time to time, but only for more or less marginal sports without big bucks. If folks do it mainly because they love it, then count me in. Climbing seemed for a long time doing just fine, but its also changing, and with introduction on olympics I may start skipping that one too.

All those that spend money on this are partially guilty... vote with your wallet and your time (which for ad business is money at the end).
Do you have evidence that the scale of this is as large as you say? If Walmart maintains facial recognition records, and so does Target, but they are kept in separate data vaults, that is not large scale. Each company is just making their own observations about their own property.

If the US federal government tracks facial recognition in all stores and public spaces in all states, well that is large scale.
Some devs prefer clear, flexible and performant/unambiguous code to 20 layers of abstraction.
thanks Samdung. Appreciate it, and any feedback once you try it.
Scientific elite revisited: Nobel laureates vs. others
Ya, that's not great - don't think the parent project of this post has gone off the rails though. More of an ecosystem problem.
The SQL your graphql implementation’s ORM middleware generates won’t optimize as well as hand-written SQL in many cases.

A decent system will provide the hooks you need to hand optimize certain cases somehow, but There are always limitations and hoops to jump through and additional complexity to manage. The extra layers that are meant to make your life easier are getting in the way instead. (May or may not still be worth it, but the point is, it’s not a foregone conclusion.)
Oh boy do I resonate with this. Thank you for sharing this!

I remember the first time I saw "Fountain" by Duchamps, which, for the uninitiated, is a urinal, on its side, signed and dated by the artist. For years, decades, I cast it aside in my mind as something silly, something artsy, something that wasn't for me. It was ugly, vulgar, and above all, obvious. For years, seeing replica after replica in modern and contemporary art museums, I continued to breeze past the installation, laughing quietly to myself like I knew something these art people didn't.

Then I had a similar situation happen. While continually saying "anyone could have done that" and "this isn't art" someone finally said to me "yes it is art, you didn't think of this, and without this, you lack the basis for many other contemporary forms of art." It then started to occur to me that this art was anything but obvious; if I so easily cast this aside as "not art," the simple fact of calling this art was a profound statement, one worth considering within its context. Maybe this piece of art had so much to teach me about perspective, context and expression that it was just too much to swallow for years.
Re: touchpad buttons, I recommend enabling two-finger tap for right click, and disabling bottom-right tap for right click.
You were probably more excited that you were arrogant, but your choice of words "I'm the master" implied an attitude that your abilities were unsurpassed, to which anyone would be incredulous. It was probably that perceived attitude of arrogance that the others were reacting to, not your actual skills as they were.

To claim mastery to a group of people who have no prior experience with you seems like a result of misreading the social environment. Whether that misreading is borne of arrogance or naivety is a separate thing.

Software development classes are themselves more about learning how to socially coordinate people to complete a project with ambiguous requirements, which depends far more on social and situational awareness than raw skill in a particular technical area. So if your takeaway years later was learning how to better communicate your abilities with a team of people, perhaps you learned exactly what was intended by that class.
We're working on a recorded demo.
For now, the tutorial section explains the workflow well (with screenshots).
Even Excel has (had?) a secret flight sim.
Years ago I can remember seeing an artist on Twitter hitting back against some critics in the comments, saying something like "I didn't ask for your criticism".

At the time, I didn't understand why they were posting their work online if they didn't want to be criticized. I thought they needed to get a thicker skin.

Now that I've started sharing my own work with others, I completely see where they're coming from. Having someone who makes nothing and shares nothing log on to tell you how you should have done things differently is unwanted and not at all useful. Show me you know what you're talking about first, and I'll reconsider.
Well, depends what he means with "your"; OP specifically, or an arbitrary person? Because I think we are getting dangerously close to shooting down useful criticism and discussion for fear of hurting someones feelings. It's obviously insensitive to say that OP is a bad person because he is doing one-on-ones, but it should be totally acceptable to say "this is weird (from my perspective), I can see several issues with this, I wouldn't personally do this, but you-do-you", and often "(from my perspective)" and "but you-do-you" parts are implied; their absence shouldn't necessarily be taken as proof of mocking.

(Disclaimer: I have no opinion on partner one-on-ones.)
The community has ported a bunch of native stuff and it still performs poorly.
There are political discussions and political discussions. We want one kind and not another. The site rules don't cease to apply when a topic becomes political—they apply more: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want a more in-depth explanation of how we approach the question of politics on HN, I've written about it many times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

Some good threads to start with might be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902396. Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869, which shows how far back political discussion goes on HN, as well as the argument about politics on HN.

If you or anyone takes a look at those past explanations and has a question that isn't answered there, I'd like to know what it is. But please make sure you've familiarized yourself with the material first, because if it's something simple like "just ban politics" or "just allow everything", I've answered many times already why it won't work.
True, but I don't think it's particularly useful to get so caught up in all the possible ways that your kindly-intentioned actions could go wrong that you need permission to even try to do kind things. That's just a form of social anxiety.

And it's particularly useless when your worries are about a situation which does not concern you and which you are almost completely ignorant about.