skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what’s interesting to me here is that you note that some names are inappropriate to use, because of the cultural context surrounding them:

> Obviously you don't name something in programming 'pimp' / 'bitch', or even more extreme I suppose: 'white_guard' / 'n_____', that's obviously childish, unwarranted, and just for the sake of provocation.

These are all words with literal meanings that could theoretically apply to some aspect of some system. But you admit that these words are inappropriate to use, presumably because of the additional connotation and cultural context that comes along with them.

Is it so difficult to imagine that other words, words that you do not personally have the cultural context to find offensive, could feel the same way to other people who have lived through different experiences?

I am glad that you realized that it’s theoretically possible that the bias in our language of associating blackness with evil or badness might be something that affects people. I think it’s easy to say something like, “oh it’s never been about skin color, don’t be so touchy” when you’ve never had that language constantly around you while society is also actively telling you that you are worth less because you are black. But if you’re a black child being bullied in school for your skin color, that language might take on shades of meaning that seem much more sinister.
Right but my point is they only did that for two years, instead of five.
Wow that was awesome and super easy. Thanks for the tip, didn't know iOS Safari had an API for content blocking, I will need to explore that more.
There is a strong chance that the technology to create digital beings will be available before human society is able to integrate and adjust to the current generation of AI.

So what may happen is that the way that AI really gets integrated is by actually replacing human beings who largely die off.
Original article: https://sofiaglobe.com/2020/06/10/archaeology-thracian-pit-s...
For me I think the reason I can't do a thorough job on my own code is down to a combination of two reasons:

1) Testing my own code is boring. I keep thinking about what it should do and then taking shortcuts where I don't test every possible circumstance because I believe I can infer what will happen in one case from another.

2) Testing my own code is time I'm not spending working on the next bit of code in my queue. At a certain point I start feeling like I should just be working on the next thing
Here is an interesting point for discussion that I hope others may chime in on. What is the difference between being a night owl and experiencing jet lag? With enough discipline, one can recover from jet lag in a matter of days. Why then do some people believe themselves condemned to be a night owl or early bird?
I agree with the notion that artificial intelligence is a graph of smaller problems, as is human perception.

The problem is a question of informational density. Biological systems are computationally very dense. Far more dense than the 4nm transistor fabrication available today, and with a far larger volume of size.

Consequentially, the computational capability of most AI systems is far lower than its biological equivalent. And as you find in most information finite discretization problems - the lower density information system will alias against the higher information system.

So, that means you will have a hierarchy/pipeline of computational stages - each aliasing reality. Eventually, you will find that your parameterization of each perceptual stage has a strange property. The size of each subsequent layer is important... but the relative computational space of each subsequent stage is even more important. Because mismatched stages results in nothing but numerical interference and noise.

And I think that is where we are today. The IQ of a krill shrimp.
too bad, apple needs more of an open-source presence. Where better to get it than their employees working on unrelated ideas on their own time.
> Chances are, the average Joe (pun intended) will not make a better cup than Nespresso, at least based on this…

I suspect people consider espresso-based beverages more premium because they tend to be made on the spot, and also because the mass market has been trained to think like that.

Filter coffee probably reminds people of diner coffee, or something lower-end.

I'd personally take filter coffee anytime, preferably using beans that aren't roasted too dark. It's so much easier to drink.
Isn't uBlock Origin an extension?
> Mac revenue today represents only 10% of total sales; in 2006, it was 38%

Wait... what?

The Mac was only 38% of Apple's revenue in 2006?
It's not quite as bad as the cell phone case, since the exact visibility of users to satellites and ground stations to satellites is completely predictable, since the ground stations don't move, and the satellites move in fairly stable orbits.

In the cell phone case, you really have no idea when someone is about to go behind a building or something and have to switch cells.

All of the relative dopplers are also known ahead of time, so the transmitter should be able to change frequencies on a preplanned schedule without needing much time for resynchronization.
I don't understand why people favor Snap or Flatpak to Appimage, which looks to be the simplest of the three. Would anyone mind sharing their experiences?
I don’t think the switch is about Apple providing better performance, thermal efficiency or anything like that. I think it’s simply cost control. Consumer Intel chips haven’t improved much better in a long time but they still command an enormous profit margin. And since Apple controls the compiler toolchain along with the OS and much of the other hardware, it can make the switch without the consumers it cares about the most noticing.
That's probably it, the CFO. I've mostly been sold on Jeremy Corbyn's ideas on worker cooperatives. I like open source based economies, they seem to encourage innovation and are fairly similar.

The concept of hedge fund is completely fine as well. Messy conglomerates though! Ughh it's like a code refactor gone wrong 90% of the time. I guess I like my naive capitalism of build a product, sell, make money and keep everyone happy.
I asked this question if it really was Machine Learning last time this was posted and I don't think it was (Feel free to correct me)

It's - http://sequencer.org/

Pseudo-code - http://sequencer.org/static/images/image1.png

I find it much more exciting than ML because it's both real and seems to be a simple online service for scientists, which is pretty cool.

A video on it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN-N7l5spmE
If facts and truth are "indefensible", then you're the problem.

This is why leftists and other zealots have brought us into the post fact world.

Sorry, facts don't care about your feelings.
Most definitely insane and probably well dressed.
There are satellite laser interlinks in orbit right now.
It's calculable: just hire a driver.
This is so great. I've considered it many times. Do these people offer help with administrative tasks as well? Sites like upwork and taskrabbit haven't really delivered. (edit: looks like you're in Redmond. I'm in Seattle, so local tips are welcome)

I spent the last two years mulling over hiring an assistant, and told a friend I had $1000/mo for this in a heartbeat. Got in a fender bender without insurance (I could afford it, just never got the paperwork together), and my friend pointed out that had I gotten the assistant, they would have paid for themselves merely by mitigating the cost of that one incident.

I can totally relate to how this seemingly absurd expense is an absolute no-brainer for people like us.
Bucky Fuller had the idea to just connect the world's electricity grids together. He called it "World Grid" I think.
or you can install in your user directory, current cli of flatpak ask you for this and you can set the default install option for the user directory also
Yeah, Amazon's compensation structure is really bad compared to other FAANG companies. Perks are worse (pre-Covid-19, at least). And most people seem to think work-life balance and company culture is worse.

On the other hand, AMZN stock has done much better than Facebook, Google, Apple over the last five years, so at least they have that.
>There has been next to ZERO progress towards genuine AGI

I mean, really? In the most pessimistic evaluation of ML research, we still know which techniques and paradigms won't work for AGI. That's not zero progress. Nobody is expecting this to happen overnight.
This reminds me of a story from Steven Levitt.

He published Freakonomics together with Stephen Dubner then went back into academia while Dubner went down the podcaster route.

15 years later, Dubner has reached millions of people with his work and Levitt recently started a podcast and soft quit academia after realizing that one of his best papers after years of research and hard work got 3 citations. He assumes fewer than 20 people will ever read that work.
I really hope Catalyst is a dead end and only exists because they somehow started working on it before realizing SwiftUI was the way forward. I've yet to see a Catalyst app that does not feel like a quickly hacked beta.
Solar produces only during the day, but wind is at any hour. And these days, the idea of massive over-provisioning is being discussed to overcome the intermittent problem since solar/wind keeps getting cheaper and cheaper. The idea is simple, how to overcome the cloudy winter day issue? Simply overbuild a lot of solar/wind so it can still provide enough on a winter day. Then during summer, shutoff the excess power generation.

But what a waste of potential to do that! All that overbuilt power generation, simply turned off during summer. Batteries don't help here, it would store it, but then the question of what to do with it is still here.

If society goes the route of massive overbuilding solar/wind, then there's an opportunity to do something with effectively free power during summer. But it's ONLY during summer, so it needs to be something valuable that can also act as a energy storage.

Carbon fuel is perfect for this. Millions of ICE cars exist and are still being produced. Long distance airplanes will be carbon fuel based for a long time. And so many other uses. I think another option is water. Water can also be seen as a valuable resource that acts as energy storage. Use the excess summer power to fill up a near empty dam with desalinated water? Sounds like a perfect fit for regions like southern California or Arizona.
> I quickly had the impression that the grinder is the most important piece of kit needed, but from my research the electric burr grinders <300$ were hot garbage that produce very uneven coffee grounds, resulting in a very hard to control brew.

The Baratza Encore is $139 on Amazon, and should be sufficient for pourovers of any kind.
It's mind boggling. The entire premise of being "sandboxed" means unable to escape the box and access the rest of the system. By that, one would think a Flatpak or any similar package would keep itself contained to the user's home directory, so that even if it broke out of the sandbox its path of destruction would be contained to the user's files (still not a great thing but not system-owning).
Same with MOOCs I think. It's too bad most of them are so bad they are not worth taking, but the ones that are good (e.g. Andrew Ng's machine learning MOOC) are having insane impact even though most people don't finish them.
> x264 and x265 are not hardware accelerated, either.

Huh, TIL.

Though I would also sort of want to know where x264 and x265 were a year in, tbf.
Amazon is my dream company. FB/Google are social media & ad nonsense. They rejected me though.
> Contrary to popular belief, the shell does not sit between programs and the terminal.

Perhaps it should?
If companies, including movie companies, don't want their content getting out for free then don't mass market it. Stop advertising it. Don't sell it in every retail store in America and put out displays with the characters. Don't create billboards. Otherwise these companies are trying to psychologically manipulate you and your kids and pay for something before seeing it usually with negative messages about how alcohol, affairs and violence will somehow make your life better and more exciting.
Sleeping on a hard surface may cause issues with your back muscles, like knots, so I'd recommend researching this before trying it.

Back muscle includes fascia (overlapping layers) that can develop adhesions.
Aside from security updates being delivered between late and never if they are ever compromised 1/3 of users will be effected in the first hour and 100% effected within 24 hours even if on the 25th hour they discover it and take it down.

In the old school situation distributions would still be between days to weeks deciding to pull in a new version released through normal channels.
This is actually very scary to me. This means that many papers citation list is not a result of a thorough literature search but rather the authors recalling papers they might have read or seen on social media. This is dangerous in that if there were papers from before The Tweet era that actually found that part of your research protocol was bad, they would not be found.

An example of this is the rat maze study that Feynman cites.

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

That last thing we need is clickbait science.
Yes, but uBlock and can do everything IDCAC can do, and more, so there's no point in having both installed.
The iPod already represented significant revenue in 2006.
Blue Mountain and Kona sound like gimmicks to me. You should try a V60 pourover using a Geisha bean [1], preferably done by a barista who's really into pourovers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geisha_(coffee)
> Are you booking your cars at a rate negotiated by your employer?

Yes. But I believe I get the same prices on my personal account.

> I don't see anything about discounts in the Emerald Club benefits section.

This may be why. I'm Emerald Executive -- my employer has negotiated Executive tier for every employee. I also have the same tier on my personal account through my credit card.

I don't rent cars in NYC (that's one place where rentals are inadvisable -- NYC is hostile to driving). But just priced out DSM for you 7/11 - 7/17. For Economy and Compact = $152/week base, $219 total with fess included. Midsize = $157/week base, $226 total with fees included.

(Someone else with Executive membership but without a company negotiated rate, please verify.)

With Executive level membership, I can get a midsize and pick any vehicle from the Executive aisle. This can be anything from an SUV to a lower-end luxury car. This is why National is amazing.

> How can someone be loyal to any company whose pricing model is "the absolute most we think we can get out of you, personally"?

It's differential pricing as a result of yield management [1]. You can hate on it but it's part of the reason the economics even works for certain classes of goods and services. Without it, large swaths of services in the hospitality industry (hotels, airlines, etc.) would not be accessible to the masses or be profitable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_management
I was actually referring to the cases where something is deemed right _because_ it is a constitutional right.
Sure but what if you only care about cookie warnings and use site that are supported by ads?
I don't understand why you are arguing these points at me. I didn't say anything about whites. Unarmed Asians being killed less by police and Asians being capable of racism doesn't mean Asian Americans are privileged lol. What are you trying to say bro? Just come out and say it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action

Anyway, Asians did not succeed from a position of privilege. They succeeded in spite of everything the American voter (largely white) voted for to keep them down.
If the money they need to spend is less than that 2%, why WOULDN'T they spend the money?
So you mean government involvement in tech both didn’t serve its intended purpose and its an annoyance to the end user? I would have never guessed....
> "That would be an incredibly stupid and unequivocally false thing to suggest because the odds are actually stacked against Asians, and they must work harder than most other people to achieve the same thing."

As an Asian, I don't agree with that. Many Asians emigrated from Asia with very little possessions and started their lives in Western countries in conditions as bad or worse than the poorest native born, including a significant language barrier and, yes, racism in their newly adopted homelands. Yet, by and large, they have built successful lives.

I'd describe the statement as incredibly accurate and unequivocally true.
> ML is already starting to change society.

It already has—look at how much companies try to shunt you through a robot before you speak to a human despite their being mostly useless compared to humans. It’s clear this revolution we both see happening will come with horribly kafkaesque failures that will take 30 years to “discover” so we in the tech industry can “learn our lesson”.

Hell you can already see this with the use of fraud detection rather than implementing basic secure transactions on credit cards. The direction we’re headed in is clearer than ever: technology does not lead to better products but rather larger scale consumption of lower quality.
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idk, the thing Google has been doing lately where they suddenly render a block of ads under your mouse as you're clicking on a result seems like the kind of thing an AI would do to increase ad clicks
Kashmir’s new status could bring West Bank-like demographic change (2019)
I assume they are using non-linear to mean non-continuous, which implies that there can be large, hard-to-understand changes in behavior when the input is changed only a small amount.
North America. Where are stop signs not hexagonal?
You would think it would be. Strange that they don't mention that.
The overhead of hiring people. The overhead of managing an extra team. The overhead of extra QA. The overhead of triaging extra bugs.

There are a lot of costs associated with backwards compatibility with very little payoff if it doesn't mean a lot to the bottom line.
I don't think this is going to be productive if you ignore the vast psychological research that shows this is not about intelligence or capability like you keep trying to argue and I have never said. This is not about a misunderstanding of language or "misassociation". This is about the very nature of humans.

> and now you're wanting me or "us" to stop using the words coddling, triggering, and anger

It's ironic this followed by accusing me of a straw man while doing that quite liberally to what I said. I said nothing of the words, I am referring to your line of argument. Those words are simply the typical ones that are often signifiers of the same argument which people have had to waste time on again and again instead of addressing the actual issue here, which I mentioned at length at this post and the parent but you didn't address at all.
>posted by an AI
I hope.
I think you are misreading something. I am arguing against the suggestion that Asians have unearned privilege which allowed them to become successful in America.
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No. I don't use any of amazon services except for BookDepository, it's the only reliable international online bookstore that ships to my country.
I'm still not sure what successful AI implementations there have been. Stuff like Amazon/Spotify recommendations seem sensible. Is there anything else out there that is impressive?
I did that for most of my 20’s as I did not have the space or money for a proper bed, and my back never hurt. In fact I remember staying in a hotel room for a night when I was about 25 and I woke up in the middle of the night with my back in terrible pain. Slept the rest of the night on the hotel room floor, and I felt a lot better.
Oh, I checked, they're octagonal xD
It doesn't have to be properly known; to me it doesn't matter how rare it is. A single instance of the latter case is enough for me to find an alternative if one is available.
I've found appimages to be a bit of a pain in the past because they're portable, so you need to have a place to put them
A bit off topic, but I can't resist.

This idea was made into a game:

https://kebabgames.itch.io/marginalia-hero

Search for versions on various platforms.
Personally, I like the soundtrack on the mobile version, though it can get a bit repetitive after a while.
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Autocomplete on emails which allows me to tab over for common statements. But I agree - the places where AI has improved business can be counted on with one hand, and each finger is extremely thin.
good to see i'm not the only one, i had the exact same epiphany about the whitelist/blacklist thing a few weeks ago.
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24 hours nobody cares because 99.9% of the world doesn't know what zfs is and the 0.1% that does never meant nor took any offense.

I can't think of any good reason not to do this but I also can't think of a reason to care.
I wonder if rougher later was because of the engines more directly attached to ... well, posteriors.
Reference counting is a form of garbage collection [1]. Any automatic memory management is garbage collection. There is in fact a continuum of memory management strategies between full reference counting on one end and full stop-the-world mark/sweep on the other.

Malloc heuristics also mean that it is not true that everything is 100% deterministic at runtime. It's easy to forget that malloc is simply an abstraction like any other. When do free memory blocks get reshuffled between threads in a thread-caching malloc? When does unused memory get returned to the OS? These are all things that cannot be predicted. Even retain and release are not 100% deterministic, as they can and will be optimized away by the compiler.

[1]: https://www.memorymanagement.org/glossary/g.html#term-garbag...
Of all the times for this to be happening. Now is not the time for this.
More liquids smoother
There some pretty interesting, weirdly specific subjects in there:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-57883-5

Also some cool stuff related to some projects I'm working on. Unfortunately I find most textbooks involve a ton of mathematics and notation I'm not familiar with.
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