skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many philosophers are confused. Free will is a solved problem (we have free will regardless of the metaphysical premise, unless you're using a weird definition of free will, and even I can prove it for any given metaphysical premise), yet they're still working on it.

If somebody links "free will" to "determinism", they're very confused about what free will is.

There are a lot of philosophers doing genuinely useful work, but so much of the field is pre-occupied with trivial (and non-trivial) variations of the "if a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound?" koan.
What about masterpiece, master's degree, skill mastery, etc? Seems like an complete ban on the word is the intended outcome.
Absolutely. Let them live and die without sanitation, water and electricity.
But we can in fact have a conversation about whether we should murder 10 people for no reason, it might even make an interesting discussion on ethics and moral philosophy.

We can agree to conduct adversarial studies with flat-earthers and examine the evidence together.

All of this is possible as long as everyone is discussing in good faith and open to the possibility that they might be wrong. That should be the only requirement, rather than fixed boundaries for what's acceptable to discuss.
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This is not my actual viewpoint but for arguments sake: a realist would argue that Kissinger’s responsibility was to the citizens of the USA only, not to anyone else in the world. If he thought he could make the USA more powerful by killing foreigners, then he should. Any foreigner’s life is less valuable than America, even if they are innocent. He acted according to his responsibilities. Not holding him accountable should be seen as a failure of the federal government, and possibly the international community. If the government wants their leaders to also follow a moral code, they could do so with a few laws and would stop shielding people from international prosecution. But the government shows that they are okay with people like Kissinger because he produced good results for the country (most of the time).

This is similar to people that claim a company’s responsibility is to maximize shareholder value, and if do that by polluting, operating sweatshops, or treating employees unfairly, then they should. It should be seen as a failure of the regulatory system if they are allowed to get away with it.

I’m not in agreement with the argument I just made, but I understand that people who have an “America first/only” mentality can overlook some pretty bad things. I don’t think that war crimes are a prerequisite for being an effective statesman, but I would say that war crimes might be tolerable for leaders trying to project strength. Other countries are less likely to call a bluff if the lives of innocent people aren’t a an effective shield.
When I'm logged in, it looks like this: https://twitter.com/SQLCadavre/status/1279039797395435527?s=...
Agreed. Further, in most instances master/slave terminology is quite misleading with the master and slave doing similar work and commonly the master doing even more work. Leader/follower and primary/replica are much better terminology from a purely technical perspective. Its a plus that we also get to remove these two awful words.
It has matplotlib support: https://guietta.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html#matpl...

or were you thinking of something else?
I'd also be in favor of getting rid of parking minimums in cities and just about everywhere else - an enormous benefit to car, oil and construction companies that just degrades the environment.
I live in Europe! My house is not old for the area, and there's millenia of documented history for this spot. It used to be an observatory!

But it's still interesting - on a personal level - to think about the lives of the people who built it.
The Tragic Tale of How NASA's X-34 Space Planes Ended Up in Someone's Backyard
I'm not saying I agree with it - but metaphors matter. It's easy to imagine certain design patterns being associated with offensive stereotypes. How much do we have to extend 'master' and 'slave' before the metaphor crosses a line? The introduction of a 'boat' class or a 'chain' class? Of course the underlying technology isn't offensive but we're attaching our human social context to it.

At least no one has a problem with the underlying patterns themselves! That would be a doozy.
Absolutely not, Leader and Follower implies at least somewhat of a choice on the side of the Follower. Master and Slave exactly describe the way IT systems work, the Slave has no choice but to follow the instructions of the Master. Having the Slave not execute the exact instructions it was given would be a massive problem.
Who actually considers it offensive? Have you ever worked with a software engineer who ever mentioned it offending them?
More important than this change of terminology, I think it's good that Twitter decided to donate ten million dollars to NGOs fighting slavery around the world (it's still prevalent, especially in Africa and Asia)

https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/data/maps/#prevalenc...
I feel like the blog post should be read in line with how it was probably written: informal, personal and somewhat sarcastic, with a bitter note because he chose one major and now it turns out people value something else instead. Hence the title "the final stage of grief". I did not get the impression that the author thinks machine learning is stupid or that he knows everything about it.
Do these people realize we're all still slaves of the State via taxation (among other things)?
Thanks, here is another such channel Mr.Teslonian - https://www.youtube.com/user/MrTeslonian.

The common theme behind these good maker videos seems to be -

•Low quality camera (at least not Hollywood grade RED cameras), but I do wish they shoot in 1080p60.

•Shot by themselves/Tripod.

•Not edited extensively.

•No Intro/Outro.

•Often not monetised (Although I wish they get monetary benefits for their effort), so videos are short as there's no pressure to artificially inflate content over 10 mins for Ads.

In summary, it's like they are struck with YouTube of 2005.

Mr.Teslonian experimented with several mask designs, he made one with coffee filter[1] and I was able to reproduce the same with qualitative filter[2].

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLTmrnRHQkk

[2]https://abishekmuthian.com/diy-qualitative-filter-face-mask/
Keep in mind, anyone who seriously took this idea and ran with it...

Was swiftly put to death.
Barclays was just borrowing some resources from Internet Archive. What's the big deal?
Anyone able to suggest a free approach to pull up GPS coordinates based on an address search for an OSM/leaflet.js based app?
They aren't doing as badly as a number of other countries and never needed a lockdown. I would call that a relative success.

Looking ta their graphs is interesting, they seem to be having a second wave in terms of new cases, but seem to have peaked with deaths.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

Regarding antibodies, the original SARS (which is the closest related virus) antibodies lasted around 3 years on average, with some people testing positive 17 years later. Doctors are expecting this to be similar, but time will tell.
> by the same people who initiated the Modelica effort

Thanks for pointing this out, I hadn't realized! I knew they were somehow involved in the Modelica community but not that they initiated it.
An API would be amazing, I'd much rather be pulling new releases than getting newsletters :)
Aren't most of us descendants of slaves?
Why go through the hard effort of making real change happen, when the masses are appeased by token gestures that solve 0 problems people actually face?
Portal MMO
Portal MMO is an innovative project on the video game market. The website acts as a social networking site for fans of multiplayer and online games. Importantly, the editorial staff also remembers about browser games, whose market is constantly being developed.

Portal MMO provides regular news and information, as well as video game reviews that are of interest to players. Everyone can find on the site representatives of the genre of games that interest him. An important element of the site is the creation of a video game ranking that includes not only the latest hits, but also niche games, independent productions and more.

The collection of games is called the online gaming encyclopedia, which includes multiplayer productions, multiplatform games and browser games. The latter genre is definitely interesting, because it has a huge crowd of fans around the world and regularly provides innovative ideas for the game. The site is constantly expanding its collection of games from various genres and platforms, including mobile and internet games.

Each game in the encyclopedia also belongs to the rankings of its genre. Players can rate games in three categories - graphics, gameplay and storyline, which affects the position of the game in the ranking. It can therefore be said that the entire collection is co-created by fans and players. The games also take part in duels where the players votes decide the winner.
What's next? Ban "atomic operation", because some developers may be Japanese? Maybe ban Germans altogather, because what do you know, maybe someone's grandad got killed in the WWII?
These virtue signaling actions are absurd and, what's worse, scary. So happily inching towrads thoughtcrime.
How was the manager a good manager here?

They didn't "sense" anything, they just asked you to show them some stats on a dashboard. They didn't approach the person for an explanation or conversation.

This manager totally removed the human from the person struggling with their job. That makes them a good robot.
Fine tuning GPT-3 is one of the biggest challenges, because it's behind an API. The weights aren't available to researchers, so we can't make it do anything it doesn't already do.

But, that's fair. It's OpenAI's weights; they can keep them locked up if they want to. What caught my attention, though, is that supposedly OpenAI is working on a way to support fine-tuning.

If you think about the logistics of that, it's a very interesting challenge. The situation is this: 240GB of weights, as a webservice. Each fine-tuning session results in another copy of 240GB. So it clearly doesn't scale -- 1TB per 4 users isn't exactly efficient.

Except, not quite. You can solve this by adding additional layers, which you then fine-tune. So the base model is 240GB or whatever, and the extra layers morph the output to do what you want. Think of it as a GPT-3 with a GPT-2 1.5B stuck on the end of it.

It's a neat idea, because theoretically you'd get two models out of it: you can "break off" the end of the fine-tuned model, and you end up with the original model. So it would be very modular.

Are there other models that you can "break apart" to get different sub-models? Sort of like adding slots that give a model different capabilities.
Leader and follower are pretty easy drop ins for most contexts.
Does this mean BDSM Master/slave kink is also cancelled? Or is there newspeak for that as well?
Democratizing Automation
I think it will as long as people can download it, have their own copy, re-upload and share it peer-to-peer.

I think the single most important thing is to make sure to have many copies around the world and not just to rely on one or a few (even if they are well protected and properly conserved).
Not technically, legally.
Seems like quite the strawman. A 1200 sq ft, or even 2000 sq ft home is not even close to a "McMansion", and a few miles from the urban core is not "the boonies."
Jon Stewart on how paying interns made The Daily Show better
What about 'robot' and 'bot'? The word robot means 'slave worker'.

How about payment providers supporting Mastercard? Maybe we ought to stop accepting Mastercard payment, unless they rebrand to Equalitycard.
Terminology is not misleading because everyone knows what it means in this context.
A guide to R – the pandemic’s misunderstood metric
I'm sorry you've had such a bad experience with apartments. I find that if you pay extra for a new building in a neighborhood with a higher median age, there's really not much nuisance. I live in a small studio and I never hear or smell my neighbors.

I don't think anyone is talking about banning detached SFHs here; they merely want to remove the ban on building literally anything else. SFHs are quite popular, and whatever happens, I'm sure there will still be a market for them.
IMO if you take your own argument to its logical conclusion, you can see that it falls apart easily. If someone launched a project in 2020 where you “lynch” a process to remove it and engage in “gassing” a connection pool to close all connections, then it’s blatantly obvious why such terms are problematic, despite the terms only being slightly removed from master/slave.
A software engineer who would find it offensive is most likely the literal minority of a company.
If you can think of a trans person who would be interested in having such a discussion with Stock, letter.wiki doesn't gatekeep signups.
Humanity has been killing and enslaving each other for time immemorial, so I'd wager at some point, most civilizations were enslaved to some extent. Maybe recency plays into this, but it's been abolished in the US for a fair few generations now...
“Soon.”

Really.
Perhaps twitter should replace these signifiers with "boss" and "employee" .
Their is no leadership vacuum, it has been pushed down to the state and local level so that localities can deal with the situation in a way that best fits. New York City and Montana need different solutions. Whether you agree with their policies, it seems Newsom, Cuomo, De Santis and Abbott have definitely been engaged as leaders.
Not op but I'm still in favor of getting rid of subsidies for suburbs - they distort the market to benefit mostly wealthy homeowners to begin with.
> We have html..

The origins of AsciiDoc is informative. AsciiDoc is a lightweight successor to the XML DocBook format used originally to write O'Reilly computer books/manuals. Both DocBook and ePub XML add semantic elements required to describe book structure.

The Lightweight Markup Languages arose to avoid the tagsoup that is not author/writer friendly. There is a place for readable/writable content that is free of GUI editor requirements. I was once told that there is a right tool for every job.
Oh yes, MBR is “raw” but oh so very good. It is difficult to describe, Bach meets Chiptunes meets Metal? “CONFIG.SYS” [1] from “ C : \ >CHKDSK /F” is probably my favourite from his early work.

[1]: https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/track/config-sys

Do dig up his “WAREZ” too, his album of remixes, that are not on Bandcamp – the Doom remix is to die for.
Related to the "Every Mathematician Has Only a Few Tricks" point, there is a Mathoverflow question https://mathoverflow.net/questions/363119/every-mathematicia... that tries to list all of those tricks, which is pretty interesting.
What a creative way to virtue signal. This way you don’t have to do anything that has any positive impact for any single person. But you can tell all your white friends about it.

People need to read a history book. ‘Master’ has nothing to do with ‘slavery.’ ‘Slavery’ has a long history going back thousands of years. No race has any particular right to be offended. Romans had slaves of every color.

And if you are a person who gets upset when you see the word “master” you need to seriously consider becoming an adult.
oh those fond memories

looked up 'State of the Art' and it's there too (!!!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89wq5EoXy-0
This attack could have been used to gain access to any Azure account.

If you knew that Microsoft would pay you a couple thousand for this and the black market would offer hundreds of thousands of dollars. It could influence a decision to not report the vulnerability to the developer.
The terms are gross and by no means necessary, but changing them also does not do anything to improve anyone's life. It's an empty, performative gesture unless accompanied by a lot of bigger structural and organizational changes at Twitter. You can't just "tada, we fixed racism."
yes. because we need them all in database to provide those services.

plus, how would we be able to do any ethnic cleansing without list of undesirables.
That's awesome!

But how did they resist the urge to make it sing "On the road again"?
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What about killing a process? What about a parent process killing it's children?! Does context not matter any more?
Show HN: League of Legends Class Co-Occurrence in Official Champion Data
I rely on Openstreetmap instead of Google Maps for a few things. Most notably, Google extremely de-emphasizes rail infrastructure (except in Japan). In addition, Openstreetmap also does a better job of laying out political boundaries for more minor polities than Google.
Aha, I didn't see that. Nice!
Deeplearning.ai regularly posts new courses that are of pretty good quality. I did the AI for medicine courses recently.
innovator's dilemma Got me interested in the science of running technical businesses.
Thanks, was actually looking for good devops courses the other day.
Perks to offer your remote employees
A debt purchase and unemployment are very different things.

Unemployment is money given away to another. It's a permanent giveaway.

A debt purchase is either money that was given to you, that you're now returning (Treasury securities) or money that you're giving to others which will be returned (corporate bonds). It's not a giveaway at all - the net exchange is $0.

These cannot be compared as equivalent.

The tax reduction changes the way loss is calculated to better capture the reality of the economy falling apart in one year, letting losses be deducted from income generated in past years. There's a tax savings, but it's reflective of real loss incurred by business.
To the cynics: how would you feel about this change if your great grand parents were slaves, lived in shackles and got whipped regularly and called the person whipping them “master”?
> What is the purpose of removing those words? Is it like pretending these relationships don't exist?

I wonder about this too. Slavery still exists in various forms. Does removing the word from software make us feel like we're making progress towards removing slavery, while there are better ways to use our time/money to fight it?

Last time I was in this discussion, I ended up donating to antislavery.org, so who knows; maybe it brings focus to the cause.

I'm pretty neutral about removing the word from software, though. I don't really think it changes the dial much in any direction.
>"master" and "slave" is a specific type of relationship that computers don't have with one another. "leader" and "follower" are a better analogy in most cases

I don't understand how computers have a leader/follower relationship either.
Black hole. Gravity lens. Perception...
1. People ask HN where they can find a replacement for their objectively great rationality discussion club in which they can discuss solutions to the issues of the day.
2. HN commenters point out that the objectively great rationality discussion club wasn't that great, or all that rational.
3. People say "so what, what's the harm in having a crappy social discussion club, it's not like we're killing anyone."
This is a terrible argument and you know it. Stop it.
Re: The social distancing, not seeing anyone, working from home situation. My brother told me: "I've been training for this my whole life!"
I remember some similar discussions when I worked in logistics consulting for a while. The data source was a mess, like a mess. Data was even included as screenshots of spreadsheets in other spreadsheets.

Some math PhD was in charge of that modelling. Without any domain knowledge concerning the data (logistics, consumption, maintenance) and thus unable to properly interpret the raw data to begin with. Most of the time was spent on writing some Python scripts to analyze the raw data, still full of errors. And build predictive models on top of that mess. Kind of formed my view of data science, unfairly so.
> Frankly, I find it disturbing how attached so many developers are so attached to the master and slave terminology.

I was about to write that too. I'm not quite sure if I find the change necessary - but who am I to raise my word against it. I'm a white guy, it is obvious why master/slave has negative connotations and that's enough for me to let them decide.

I just listened to a podcast about "whiteness studies" maybe that enforced my opinion on this - but why would I - a white guy - would want to criticize this discussion. Be open, be welcome, accept diversity is a main rule in many projects. Why would I not want to change something that others consider harmful(especially something as simple as wording)
Wireless Technology Could Help Climate-Proof the Internet
IDK, the ones I use are enough for that recipe, there's plenty stuff to give taste. You can get that in Spain too but it's just much more volume and weight and I walk my groceries to home.

There's one broth brand, Aneto, that actually tastes quite good. I see they even have an english website: https://www.caldoaneto.com/en/caldos/caldos-basicos-en/
It's healthcare, nothing makes sense.

A trained ape reading a script for insurance enrollment is handling "sensitive" data, but your prescription history is sold in real-time to data brokers.
I don't understand why there's so much pushback against the moves to remove terminology like master/slave from IT.

It makes people uncomfortable and it's such a small change.

And it's just software, go use sed or whatever to rename it.

Why be disingenuous and say stuff like "oh I guess racism is solved now!" Or "GitHub changing the default branch name for new projects is going to break everyone's CI-CD pipelines!"?