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I think as long as no government funding is involved, people sho0uld be free to worship whoever they want and read whatever they want and flock around posters of whatever topic they want.

If government money is being distributed, things become more interesting. But I don't think everybody is entitled to a career funded by tax payer money. So it should probably remain "cut throat" to get a good job based on government money. Whether governments have the best criteria for handing out money is another question (number of papers published might not be the best metric).
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As somebody without the domain knowledge, I thought the article did a great job of making it clear what the flywheel is doing (though of course it could be misleading in some way and I wouldn't know). I'm honestly a little confused as to the nature of your objection about which object is described in the context of the other.
I will never understand why people think it's easier to use the same language across every domain.
To my eye, the only thing that's unique here software wise is that it uses Python rather than a more typical embedded language like C. A lot of keyboards (including my Ergodox EZ) use QMK, which doesn't require a Windows-based rigamarole to flash; there are at least 2 open source apps that'll do it on OSX.
Insensitive to anyone who has a moderate amount of understanding of machine learning and social empathy.

You can't plug your ears and say "it's just your training set" as a response to unfairness in ML algorithms. Real life is biased. Any real life data in our world is going to be biased. If you train algorithms on this data, they will cement any existing divides in society. So, with the understanding that researchers need to be more circumspect about ML algorithms than worrying about just the training data, consider that the upsampling algorithm in question only worked for white people because they fed it a huge amount of white faces. Claiming "it's just the training data" is one of those "well yes, but actually no" situations where ML researchers tend to miss the broader picture of how ML algorithms are used in real life, and just makes Yann look ignorant.
Ultimately, much of this argument feels pedantic. Yes, people are giving oversimplified descriptions of what's going on when they say dopamine is "addictive." That's because it's easier to describe than incentive salience - but ultimately, the end result is what they care about. It's the behavioral conditioning that people are upset about, which is experimentally proven to be both effective and intentionally leveraged by many industries with great "success."

I do agree with his statement that we need to talk more about the complex reasons for that behavior on top of behavioral conditioning, and that people caught in those cycles can and should leverage the means that we have at our disposal to undo that conditioning when it is harmful to them (with professional help as needed). But I think it is absolutely valid to talk about how behavioral conditioning is intentionally leveraged in the design of many products we use, in casinos, etc. And that it is not something that people can or do consciously notice.

Before people can help themselves, they need to even realize there is a problem in the first place, and that is one of the dangerous things about behavioral conditioning. Conditioning is the very mechanism by which we learn new behaviors that become integrated into our life: and as such, it is very easy for a person to fall prey to operant conditioning and for it to just feel like "life as normal," even when the patterns in your life have actually changed dramatically.

In particular, I think it's important for us to be aware of behavioral conditioning as an intentional design choice of the products we use and the entertainment we engage in. The more we are consciously aware of it, the more we can develop the sort of meta-cognition that allows us to notice when we fall into patterns of conditioning that are harming us more than helping us. (note that you can also be conditioned to engage in behaviors that are helpful too! So being aware of what you are conditioning yourself for is as important as whether/when you are being conditioned)
You should try to add some "hover" css property to understand that those squares are buttons.

Took a while specially with the rainbow one.
Is this a new phenomenon?

Max Planck had this famous quote:

> A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. . . . An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.
BTW, the actual VST3 plugin interface only consists of a couple of header files. I didn't have to compile a single .cpp file from the VST3 SDK. So the actual API is pretty light-weight, but it's quasi hidden inside this humongous SDK. It's both funny and sad.
Just watched the trailer for season 1.

Whoever posted this has my eternal gratitude! That show was not on my radar before. Fingers crossed.

Any other suggestions?
Don't Panic: Better, Fewer, Syntax Errors for LR Parsers
> Well, let's take those stone tablets that Mozes brought down from the mountain.

Yeah, that's one of those obvious examples I was thinking of before, but upon reflection I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense to view this as a link in the evolution of ethics and morality into religion. No one is going to follow a ceremonial law as intricate as the one in the Torah unless they already believe in a god or gods.[1]

The utility of religion for control goes almost without saying, but this is a different matter than explaining the religious impulse: control is asserted from the outside, but faith happens from the inside. If it were purely a matter of covering civil laws with a patina of divine approval, the ceremonial aspects of the Torah make little sense. Hammurabi, for example, doesn't bother with them, despite claiming divine authority for handing down his rules.

[1] As an aside, the Old Testament can be read as a failed experiment in establishing monotheistic worship to Israel. If Moses intended to consolidate his authority, or his family's authority, by identifying their ancient god with Yahweh, it's hard to argue that he succeeded.
Presumably actually working in a prison camp is actually exhausting.
Next-gen games may cost $70. It’s overdue, but also worrisome
I don’t get the name Brave, for a browser whose supposed purpose is hiding data and keeping private. That should be called fucking Coward.

A brave browser for brave people would be one that pushes out as much data as possible, silently clicks every ad, allows all kinds of fingerprints and cookies.
I'm of the mind that everyone shows up to campus. About two weeks go by, covid spreading like wildfire the entire time, and then the admins are forced to send everyone back home as case counts skyrocket. Thoughts?
Would you say the issues are more "rhizomatic"? ;)
I think it's one of the best argument against.

It was at least 5 years ago when I started to notice businesses "A/B testing themselves to death"

— "It makes no common sense, but increases sales,"

and then it does until it doesn't, and you are left with no idea what your client actually wants, and no idea how to get out of that "A/B tested to absurdity" situation
I've heard of "build, ship, learn and repeat" - so something along those lines.
Generally you don’t do it by yourself
I can throw out a couple of ideas. First, learning one language really well versus learning two languages really well -- that's an easy sell. Second, code reuse. If you think on it some, I am sure more ideas will come to you.
Something I've wanted for a while is an option to have two different physical keyboards connected to the one machine, with different keymaps. In my particular case, most of the time I want to type in English, but I also sometimes wish to type in Hebrew. I find typing on my keyboard with English keycaps very clunky, especially when trying to add vowel pointing to letters.

There are solutions out there, but they all amount to hacks; what I think I really want is for the second keyboard to not have a keymap at all, but instead to transmit unicode code points, but there isn't a standard way to do that.

Anyway, this project looks cool: I'd really like to buy a hackable keyboard that lets me work on customisation without having to deal with everything else (especially building it from components.)
Maybe there shouldn't be an assumption that only a 50/50 proportion is just, but there also shouldn't be an assumption that our current ratio is just fine and not indicative of any problems. I'd note that in the 80s the gender ratio for CS was around 40% women, and that it then began to decline while other STEM fields saw a continued rise. Right now the physical sciences have twice the rate of female participation than CS. Heck, at my college (University of Rochester) while our CS program had maybe 30% women, the Math program was over 50%. Is there some fundamental difference in interest between pure mathematics and computer science that I'm missing? I'd also note the high number of women in CS who report discrimination or harassment.
I once attempted to make my own Marmite by boiling up the slurry remaining from a batch of home-brewed beer. The experiment was not a success.
Didn’t Microsoft essentially pay people to use Bing at the start with their “2 Microsoft reward points per search” policy? I feel like I remember doing that for about a week.
The west has a fragility problem.
The Truth Behind the Lemonade IPO
Yea, I forgot about Ingram MicroD. They took 50%, and when it came time to get paid,

“We don’t cut checks on Tuesday, only on Monday”

“Oh I know what she said about cutting checks on Monday, but Sarah is out till Thursday”

“Oh, Sarah is back but we only cut checks on Mondays”

“I don’t know who told you we cut checks on Monday, we only do that on Friday. Sarah? Sarah doesn’t work here any more”
this is the answer to why so many things are the way they are. Those with enough money to make something not be a problem, don't tend to even think about it again after writing the check/swiping the card.
>Does personal responsibility matter at all anymore?

As a white person I'm not worried about the police pointing guns at me when walking home with my kids in a nice neighborhood. My middle class black colleague had that happen to them. Not sure what else they could have done with their "personal responsibility" to avoid that other than bleaching their skin I guess.
I'm super curious why you were optimistic about AGI in the first place?

it seem to me that a majority of the performance gains in ML are a result of using better hardware to run brute-force statistics with larger more complex models but the algorithms themselves have been improving at a nominal rate.
Your skepticism is very healthy, especially in this arena. With video codecs, information theory is ultimately the devil you must answer to at the end of the day. No amount of patents, specifications or algorithmic fantasy can get you away from fundamental constraints.

It seems like the major trade-off being taken right now is along lines of using more memory to buffer additional frames. This can help you in certain scenarios, but in the general case, you cannot ever hope that a prior frame of video has any bearing on future frames of video. It is just exceedingly likely that most frames of video look much like prior frames. So, you can certainly play this game to a point, but you will quickly find yourself on the other end of the bell curve.

You can also play games with ML, but I argue that you are going even further from the fundamental "truth" of your source data with this kind of technique, even if it appears to be a better aesthetic result in isolation of any other concern.

There are also lots of one-off edge cases that have always been impossible to address with any interframe video compression scheme. Just look at the slowmo guys on youtube dump confetti on a 4K camera. No algorithm except for the dumbest intraframe techniques (i.e. JPEG) can faithfully reproduce scenes with information this dense, and usually at the expense of dramatic bandwidth increases.

Bandwidth is cheap and ubiquitous. I say we just use the algorithms that are the fastest and most efficient for our devices. We aren't in 2010 sucking 3G or edge through a straw anymore. Most people can get 20+mbps in their smartphones in decently-populated areas.
It doesn't work like that though. You can't ignore the diminishing value of money.
In essence they cut out adtech middlemen who rake up to 70% of the ad revenue for themselves to run the real-time bidding which underpins tracking-based ads, and sold less effective content based ads but, by taking the revenue all for themselves, ended up way ahead.
Cyberpunk 2077 – 'The Gig' Official Trailer [video]
Quite. $ yay -S edex-ui-git (wait quite a while!) click on entry on menu item.

It looks amazing and will be trotted out at the next available opportunity. Luckily I have a fair bit of CPU in this laptop because that and Teams take their toll. Fan: take the strain ...
Thelios Major from System76.

64GB memory
8 GB GeForce RTX 2070 Super with 2560 CUDA Cores
A couple of NVME SSDs.

I install Centos as the OS. Setup, including Nvidia drivers was very easy.

Probably could be built from components cheaper, but I appreciated just making an order and having a box show up later.

My past machines have been Thinkpads, then six years with a Macbook Pro that I wiped and installed Debian on. I made the move back to desktops for a variety of work-related reasons.
We were discussing good vs evil, though, not "strong light makes things white". Sure, there are probably some basic properties that make white a likely choice for purity - after all, you see dirt stains on white clothing much better than on dark clothing.

I don't know what you mean by "judging people by appearances", how is that relevant? I haven't read the bible, I personally ma not a Christian. I just grew up in Christian culture. And infosec presumably also predominantly developed in that culture, as it was dominating the Western world for wuite a while.

I don't think the bible says brides should be dressed in white, nevertheless it seems to be a common Christian tradition.

So no, it was not "picked out of nowhere", after all Christian religion was what has defined good and evil for hundreds of years now, in the world in which infosec developed.
I believe that's an issue of manufacturing efficiency vs. corporate efficiency. Toyota invented "lean manufacturing", but that doesn't mean that their biz dev, marketing department, etc isn't massively inefficient. I'm not saying they are, just that the two are orthogonal.
Are those different? If I chop up a video file into chunks, I'm streaming it, and if I save a stream I have a file. With a buffer, I would expect the sizes involved to be identical. (Although without a buffer I'd expect streaming to be worse)
Yup. Although they will know what makes them happy more than crowdsourced answers on HN
That's a misrepresentation of the content and you're pretending he wrote that. It didn't say "women are more privileged", it said "I'm a man, but I've never received any benefit just because (most of) our presidents / businessmen are men".

Please leave that kind of behavior on reddit and Twitter.
Eric Weinstein has a theory that it's caused by the embedded growth obligations in our institutions.

I'm not sure it's the answer, but I think there is something seriously amiss with our institutions that causes them to all have a similar set of self silencing momentum. The amount of corruption that has been exposed in institutions over the last 20 years that has gone largely ignored in traditional media and inside this institutions themselves is staggering. Every time we hear institution X has a problem with Y, the story quietly disappears and there is no institutional change enacted.

https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/eric-weinstein-intelle...
This looks amazing - and for folks like me with a Kobo, it instantly lead me to https://github.com/koreader/koreader.
Brave on Android still includes phone model in the user agent string which is terrible for privacy. There's been an open GitHub issue for over a year at this point, I think. It doesn't appear to be a priority to fix, despite being a massive low hanging fruit for improved privacy.
Show HN: OpenAgain – UK hospitality sector tool to support NHS Test and Trace
>What evidence do you have that "police, prosecutors and juries will go after black people more harshly and more often"?

Talking to middle class black people, most have stories of police harassment which my white middle class friends do not.
The pool of lives of a whole state is large enough. Where some large companies benefit is having younger workers who are in a higher socioeconomic class, which usually means healthier and therefore less expensive.

Checkout code DD of box 12 on your W-2 and compare to the same metal level plan for your state here:

https://www.kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/average-ma...

I’ve compared it with a few different people working in Fortune 100 companies and it’s almost the same.
Not quite. The semantic web focuses on normalizing all data into a single ontology, which is great for computers but does nothing to standardize the user interface side of accessing data. Needless to say, it also hasn't gotten far.
poor compensation is normally a factor that filters out guys more than women because of societal (and partner) expectations.
The problem is not toxisity itself. That's but a symptom. It's:

1. People getting into positions for the wrong reasons (diversity hires),
2. No one has any kind of backbone any more... victim culture and molycoddling shows it's ugly face,
3. Real smart people that don't' want to content with stupid getting rightfully angry with their subpar collegues who are desperatly trying to being somewhat relevant.

Let's face it... scientists are most of the time not people persons. Most smart people don't care for your snowflake persona getting hurt by the truth. It's basically impossible to do antying in an environment that treats microaggressions as anything else but the completely infantile bullshit that they are.

GROW A FUCKING SPINE AND GROW THE FUCK UP WHINERS.
But then you have to wait for the stock market prediction to come true. Instead, since you already know your temporal password for the year, the proof would be immediately available.
That is not at all the argument they are making, as far as I can tell.
I've been looking for an "out of the box" MacOS-friendly mechanical keyboard for a while now. So far, the recent Keychron keyboards seems to be the only real contender, and unfortunately from all reports they are just to tall and cause wrist pain.

This seems like it would be a great alternative where you could have a Mac configuration - with media keys - mapped pretty easily with a custom keycap set (unless I'm misunderstanding?).
>Besides, the keyboard is powerful enough to run Python, will also be able to run C/C++, Rust, Go (TinyGo) and JavaScript (JerryScript). The hardware is also optimized for power efficiency.

from https://makerdiary.com/blogs/mechanical-keyboards/the-story-...
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From what I can tell from a cursory look at some popular tv show torrents, everything 1080p and below is still h.264, with everything above that running on h.265
man, growing up in brooklyn during certain long power outages. i loved it. no tv's. playing cards with my family or going outside to sit on a porch alongside everyone else. candles lit up everywhere. beautiful times
>> In one of my main application areas, viz. graph classification, almost none of the papers holds up (with respected to the reported performance gains) if subjected to a thorough experimental setup.

Could you give an example? Just being curious :)
It's not only incarcerating them it's ripping the organs out of their still living bodies to give to more wealthy factions of society.
I'm pretty sure that Sandi has identified as female in the past, but in case this has changed or I'm simply wrong, would you mind pointing me to a reference?
We use digital devices for distraction from our anxieties when what we need is calm. I recommend something compelling, work-related, and thoroughly analog: get a really nice engineering notebook and give yourself permission to write all over it. Close the lid of the laptop when you do this, and put the phone aside. Write one paragraph that describes the problem you're working on, or draw a diagram. Allot ten minutes to this. You can afford to go dark for ten minutes. No one will notice. Pay close attention to the physical act of creation. This focus on a single thing is a gift you give yourself; turn to it selfishly. It feels like you're slacking off, to ignore the screens and do just one thing, to doodle in a notebook instead of being available on chat. Indulge yourself in this and banish the feelings of guilt that come from tuning out all of the people who need your attention. All of them can wait ten minutes.

I find this practice is easier to engage in than meditation, but it brings some of the same benefits. It quiets the squirrel-in-a-wheel spinning of your thoughts and takes the edge off the need to engage with whatever is distracting you. It's important to do this during work hours, especially at first, because taking time out from what you see as your free time is a lot harder.