skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not completely a waste of time. Animal research is extremely expensive in terms of time, man hours and money[1]. Whatever shortcut you can take to detect ineffective treatments before reaching this stage is arguably going to cost you more time and money than raising a colony of rats for testing your hypothesis out.

[1]: I own 4 (once 5) pet rats. They are only a small colony and, while I love them, I don't keep them at lab standards (for example, I don't a vet sleeping on the couch 24/7 in case of emergencies), yet, in a bad month, I could end up with spending 1000+$ for their health. Now, imagine that for the health standard of lab rats/mice and the numbers required for research.
> "Killing" has rarely singled out one specific ground of people and subjugated them for centuries

While the term holocaust mainly refers to what the Jews went through during WWII, slavery encompassed not just blacks, but many other races including whites. The problem here is that the "discussion" happening is extremely US centric, that non-Americans are either looking at it as absurd, or they've become so Americanized that they think it's correct, meaning they also have no proper critical thinking skills and are easily swayed.
You may want to read the dystopian book “The circle”, that reasoning is a part of the plot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circle_(Eggers_novel)

Spoiler: creating a public panopticon doesn’t necessarily results in a sane society
Your entire premise is built on a faulty foundation-- step 1 in your summary is an illegal act and treason. At the time of succession they were firmly aware the United States considered it as such. After the war, Texas v. White is the SCOTUS case that enshrined this position: unilateral secession is illegal.

After seceding those who were illegally occupying the land were the secessionists themselves. You cannot unilaterally seceded from the Union. Hundreds of thousands of my countrymen died in the Civil War to establish this principle; it is the law of the land and to imply otherwise is to dishonor their sacrifice.

No unilateral secession, period. That is what 350,000+ U.S. military personnel died for. If you believe it was legal for those folks to secede I suggest you renounce your U.S. citizenship and leave.
Yes, by now everyone knows they are being "secretly" tracked since it's been in the news for the last decade.

And yet privacy isn't a strong selling point for most people. It sounds like they have spoken and they don't give a damn about it.
Deliberate problem. Any JS can do it. Fix the browser.
This applied to languages.

https://xkcd.com/927/
If it is going to be utterly useless as easily as you claim, then it should be easy for the sixteen advertising agencies to prove that it will be utterly useless and that advertisers should push back against Apple and their new warning.
Thanks for your insight. I agree for a knowledge base, where you don’t want to persist all information, and precision is important. Most of my note generation tends toward writing down historical updates (project a is at stage b on date c) or recording minutes of a conversation (x person said y was ok to implement). Or perhaps I have this task to do and once it’s done I only need to know when it started and completed. There is no inherent ordering or importance to this note data until I need to recall it. That is the type of note I typically take, and many others too. It’s a different use case.
They certainly were doing this in the NYC area when tests were scarce and the dead were piling up. People were complaining about it without understanding the implications then, too.
Sounds like WhatsApp and/or your phone number connecting the dots.
I believe that Wikidata's Lexeme system is trying to fix that, is it not?
The most recent example is probably Crimea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Crimea#Declaration...
I agree with that sentiment, however...

In EU there are shows where TV crew is embedded in highway police (traffic police). They never let people off with a warning. I literally never seen it happen.

And in Europe in real life you have a chance to be caught for small infraction and receive waggle of the proverbial finger of the law.

So having all police live stream their cams might not only curb bad behavior of bad cops, but also good behavior of good cops.
Hello. Do you accept remote from Europe? I'm in Romania (UTC + 3).
Yes. You can’t produce a non-profit Coca-Cola.
It boils down to this for me:

> in the early days [of rocketry], everyone was a hobbyist

The more your company resembles "the early days of rocketry" the more it might make sense to select for hobbyist energy, and substantive side projects are a good signal of that.

But: Not all companies resemble or need to resemble the early days of rocketry. They ought to design their own filters based on their needs. Read some Hayek. A monoculture in hiring is undesirable and completely removing bias across all possible dimensions is impossible.

For all the talk of "diversity" (read: heterogeneity) in tech, there seems to be a strong cultural bias among engineers toward uniformity and cargo-culting (e.g. the doctrinaire obsession with best practices over first-principles thinking you see in some corners) and little appetite for actual heterogeneity.

The inefficiencies emerge when every tiny startup mimics FAANG or every mid-sized company mimics tiny startups, etc.
Yes, of course underpasses are the categorically better solution - if you can get the budget, which is often a hard problem. At least they have the positive side effect of speeding up road traffic significantly on busy crossings.
I think even your cell phone location data by IMEI is available for sale these days.
I don’t have any problem with a government provided free speech platform. It would be an interesting experiment. But how are you going to get Congress to fund something that will host racists and pornographers?
Perhaps you could point out what specifically you believe to be wrong, then?

The author very explicitly addresses the obvious flaw: all of these examples do, and must, increase total entropy. The point is that all of them produce reduced entropy structures, which is thermodynamically possible because none of them are closed systems.

The author is arguing that the overwhelming common assumption that a system is closed is problematic because it never actually holds.

An organism that is highly drought-adapted tends to not do as well as other organisms during a flood. We are similarly awash in energy: solar, chemical, nuclear, residual core heat, etc. It is worth considering if we are trying to overadapt to the wrong environment.
However you like. Presumably people invest in these tools for some reason.

Maybe "developer ergonomics survey results" is one definition of the goal is just for people to feel more in command of their area of work.
The Republicans will allow the racists, and the Democrats will allow the pornographers. Done and done.
This really interests me. Do you have any specific essays/references you could point me to? I've managed to find a couple things online, but I would appreciate any recommendations you have.
You forget that body cameras also record victims and bystanders.
"Bicycle-friendly rumble strips" (PDF): https://www.codot.gov/programs/research/pdfs/2001/bfrs.pdf/

May 2001, Colorado DOT research. There's a clear table 7, "bicyclist preference versus vehicle sound and vibration levels" but the conclusion is basically:

"There is no ideal solution. The motor vehicle tables are very nearly opposite the bicycle table for all configurations of rumble strips."
My subject is award-winning, hardcore strategy games rather than light entertainment. Most of the games are open source. You need to know linux command line to use the game package I've put together.

I thought Hacker News was a good place to post about this, but didn't get much interest when I tried https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23725254
>> All police body cam footage should be public.

Even if they're busting a brothel? Or arresting drunk drivers? Or breaking up a bar fight?

I get that people want transparency for "public servants" but I dont think people necessarily want transparency into regular peoples lives even if their actions are questionable. That leads to 24/7 suveilence under the poor argument of "if you have nothing to hide..."
I wrote a nn a while back and made some interesting projects with it. two things I wanted to do: transfer the matrix multiplications to the GPU and also implement convolution layers. if I ever got free time again I'll maybe do it.

thanks for sharing this, great content. made me think about old projects I have laying around.
I don't think I agree. I'm perfectly willing to have conversations with people who disagree strongly with me, if they're actually willing to have a conversation. The people I'm labeling as "partisans" are those who bash others with opposing views (or even views that are similar but not identical to their own) rather than having a conversation. Debate the idea, not the person; be charitable in your interpretation; etc.

Which is not to say that every space needs to be like this; disagreements are exhausting after all. But I think there need to be spaces where this kind of reasoned discussion is the norm if we're ever going to escape the tribalism in our society.

You're right in one sense: the people who disagree with me that communication and building bridges with people you disagree with is something to be valued... those people I'm pushing out, yes.
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I understand your point, and it is entirely possible that the accident would have played out exactly as it did even if the ATC performance was impeccable. However, ATC performance was not impeccable. The preliminary report indicates they did not follow established procedures. In my opinion, because the aircraft did not follow the published approach, landing clearance should not have been given. They weren't even talking to the tower controller, but to approach. Why weren't they switched over? Not enough time? They should have been told to go around. If the pilots still attempted to land then it is on them.

Please don't get me wrong. The pilots bear the majority of the responsibility. But it does not sound to me like ATC did their job properly, either.
They don’t have any way to access credit card data unless you have an Apple credit card. Even then, I don’t think Goldman Sachs share the data with them.
Isn’t the plan to temporarily prop up stocks by printing trillions of dollars, then blame it all on the opposing party in power when it inevitably comes crashing down?
Maybe this has been improved in the last 10 years but heap management imho is one of the not-great things about the JVM when I was using it. What is happening is quite invisible to sysadmins used to monitoring traditional unix processes. To them it looks like a giant memory hog, non-cooperative, when in reality the program might only be using a small % of what top is showing allocated to the process.

The original JVM philosophy seemed to be to cohost a bunch of stuff in one monolithic JVM process, rather than run a bunch of separate communicating processes. And in fact this "container" philosophy is what the original J2EE servers operated with.
Local comedy club plus shared friends.
While you're probably right apparently the tower didn't tell the pilots that they saw a fire/sparks on the plane when it hit the pavement. Not that the pilots were listening anyway.
Yes, once MLIR is more mature, we plan to have a backend for LFortran to also use MLIR.
> Sixteen marketing associations, some of which are backed by Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google, faulted Apple for not adhering to an ad-industry system for seeking user consent under European privacy rules. Apps will now need to ask for permission twice, increasing the risk users will refuse, the associations argued.

DuckerZ in the chat boys. Zero sympathy for ad networks, they're one of the largest channels for malware. We push adblock to all our devices as corporate policy.

The ad space needs more competitors. Currently it's Facebook for boomers, Google for everyone else, and also-rans. I'm fine with Apple forcing their way into this space since I trust them more than the other players.
Not that different from Android apps or Windows apps. Facebook also refers to them as apps so calling them "Facebook apps" is a pretty accurate description.
I really don't see what you are suggesting. Saying "oh my god" does not at all seem unusual or to suggest that the captain was overconfident or distracted or unfocused. It seems about as ordinary a detail as you could imagine. That is why it's such a strange thing to mention. You may as well have say the captain was wearing a uniform and hat for all the relevance I can grasp.
I replied and gave a few examples to the parent comment, if you're interested.
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There's a whole micro-cosm of 'tech-twitter' guru's of which this guy is one of them.

They spend their whole time selling shovels.
I spent about an hour trying to set up a TiddlyWiki for a Zettelkasten, but couldn't get it working. I was overwhelmed by the number of editors available. I now use Zettlr.

Is there a tutorial you used to help your set up?
The complete failure to understand enbies is, indeed, unfortunate.

I stand by my estimate that it gets a lot more right than it gets wrong, however.

My priors are based on conversations with a bunch of trans people; a mere assertion of "shocking ignorance" and "transphobia" largely leaves me thinking that you're so certain of your correctness you don't believe arguments need to even be made, which is not a position I can really rebut.

However, I shared the article, unfortunate parts and all, such that people can draw their own conclusions, and I'd continue to invite people to read and decide for themselves.
It's simple. You encrypt the data. Only the DA has the key. This also prevents the police from being able to use their own footage when trying to make a statement, a benefit the public doesn't have.

If the DA determines that a crime was likely committed, then they can decrypt the footage and review, otherwise it stays stored for a short period of time, then destroyed.
And as a non-American can someone explain the issue with the Aunt Jemima brand?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Jemima#Controversy

(For more information on the origins of the character, you can scroll up the page to the start of the "Character" section or just click this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Jemima#Character )
Hmm, I had a look at it and though I like the top layout, what's missing is automatically playing the next item. I can't just hit play, resume doing something else and when the occasional good song pops up add it to my favorites, a playlist or just open it in a new tab and play the whole album.

Maybe my way of discovering music isn't normal, but I think Soundcloud and Jamendo did it pretty well. I could have music playing for ages and keep adding to my favorites and playlists without actively having to know any artist.

Thanks for the link nonetheless.
> I wonder where the analogies work or where they fail. For instance, the importance of contrasts seem to illustrate the value of cultural differences (diversity) and raises concerns about a homogeneous world culture.

Why would a culturally diverse society be better than a homogeneous one? It always comes down to the details. Take a diverse set of cultures, remove the undesirable parts of each culture, and you're left with a less diverse but better set. Unless you think cultures can have no "undesirable" parts....
> When I say "I have a laptop in front of me," I am describing an understanding of something that is being experienced (sensed).

I would ascribe that to two factors a) you have a more immediate, interactive interface to the physical world than GPT does, which is limited to a textual proxy and b) GPT naturally is not a human-level intelligence, it is still of very limited complexity so its understanding more akin to that of a parrot trying to understand its owner's speech patterns. It can infer a tiny bit of semantics and mimic the rest. The ratio is a continuum.

> As for real world uses, social media spam and mass propaganda seems like the most obvious one.

fragments full sentence completion useful maybe.
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10676/ at 29:50

You can choose not to be asked by any app in the settings.
Maybe a lame answer, but it is my understanding that current ML models are based around neural networks, and NN can easily encode NAND gates which are universal, so they are already Turing-complete.
There are a number of NLP-tasks that aim to quantify understanding, e.g. textual entailment. No currently published model is even remotely close to human-level performance on all of these tasks.

As long as there are no ways to properly query models, it's hard to qualify their level of understanding. It would help immensely if we could ask models for rules as in "why was the object labelled 'a car'" (in case of image recognition) or directly query any grammatical rules discovered during the processing of language.

Especially in classification tasks, knowledge extraction (e.g. by outputting rules) would be so much more helpful than simply having an AI looking at a CT image and spit out "yep - that's a tumour, alright", while having radiologists scratch their heads as to why...
Does anyone more well-informed than I know if Apple's recent pivots spells a reduction in ad-based revenue for mobile developers?
What do you call a startup that raises Series C, then immediately kills itself?
Can you give me a more specific example?
None of the earlier ones sparked world wide protests, or even much in the way of nationwide protests. That's what he's talking about when he says he didn't predict it.
> Apple will give them a choice soon enough.

And hopefully one not reliant on so many dark patterns.

The OneTrust opt-outs are the worst (and don't even work! which must be against the california consumer privacy act).

On my iphone in safari: say I'm cooking dinner and go to epicurious.com. Greeted with the now-standard opt-out banner at the bottom.

1. Click the "Do not sell my advertising"

2. Greeted with a giant Conde Nast wall-of-text full screen modal

3. Scroll through it (wait, we're now reading long legalise terms-of-service just to opt-out now?)

4. In the middle of the wall of text, there's a toggle button for "Sell my Personal Information". Okay, lets forget about the 2012-era debate around UI ambiguity of toggle buttons and accept this UI dark pattern. Try to tap it.

5. I tap it, and it doesn't do anything.

You read that right -- the Conde Nast OneTrust-powered opt-out, if you go through all the steps to find it -- doesn't even work on mobile. They're shipping a broken UI. Maybe you need to do something obscure like tap-and-hold-then-drag-in-a-tiny-hitbox-that-doesn't-trigger-horizontal-page-scrolling or something. I haven't figured it out.

I assume it's companies like OneTrust or Conde Nast that are complaining Apple's presumably-more-straightforward opt-out carries a "high risk of user refusal." Looking at how user-hostile what they're shipping now shows you what they're really fighting is giving consumers an effective choice.
There's always /etc/systemd/resolved.conf in default installation/build.
> It’s well known playbook

The playbook is much more broad and is basically "we are privileged on our platform _and_ we unavoidably restrict the lesser privileged". Many don't like this (myself included) and many do. Simply put, where you reasonably can, choose the platform that has the restrictions you can accept or work around.
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Thank you for the most interesting response. I didn't think masons would find anything of interest on hacker news, but I'm glad to be proved otherwise.
No justification of it being one-sided has actually been given, merely assertions of that.

The conversation in question was, in fact, an expansion of an extended disagreement on twitter that got derailed by a bunch of gendercrits deciding to scream at Helen until she had to lock her account.

If you're curious as to the actual conversation, I'd suggest reading it on letter for yourself.
Don't forget IDE support (syntax highlighting and completion), debugging support, and last but not least marketing.
>There's no obvious new hardware category for Apple to pivot into

Was it obvious that AirPods would become a $4Bn revenue stream, or that Watch would take the lion’s share of the watch market despite having battery life of <1 day, or that Apple computer would move into regulator approved consumer heart monitoring?

Rumours of Apple TV and Apple Car and an Apple AR gadget have been around a long time.
If you were a TV fan, watching workday evenings, then indulging more at the weekends could carry you up to that the average.

People watch a lot of TV, it's the default entertainment. I recently (before lockdown) casually asked a colleague, someone I like and admire in their professional life, "Hey, what do you like to do when you're not at work?" After looking mildly anguished for a few moments, he eventually allowed that he enjoys watching the Formula 1 races. (i.e. a few hours at weekends, not every weekend) He was noticeably cool with me since - I'm worried the question, or rather the realisation that he couldn't answer it, offended him. I can't prove my colleague has the TV on for hours a day, but I'm pretty certain he does. If he was reading novels or doing crosswords or walking the dog, it would be a hobby. Putting the TV on until you're sleepy isn't.
Russia was founded by Vikings. At about the same time Britain was massively raided and invaded by Vikings, and, across the Channel, Normandy (where Wilhelm the Conqueror is coming from) was established by Vikings. Those Vikings may have known each other or even been relatives. So, now we know whom to blame for the major part of the more than millennium of European history afterwards. Though Viking age was clearly result of the global warming of the first millennium (that warming also destroyed the Roman Empire), thus it all just a result of that climate fluctuation back then.

Another example of putting blame through 2 millennia - Space Shuttle booster width as result of the Roman chariot width https://dwanethomas.com/roman-chariots-and-the-space-shuttle...
> ...this makes me hypothesize about a theoretical reason why cultural contrasts could be something to value. It suggests that energy can be "harvested" from flows across those cultural contrasts and that cultural contrasts require energy to maintain. I think it would produce net value because... Idk.

There is a reason to value diversity but it's as far from theoretical as you can get: billions of years of evolution have demonstrated that diversity is the only way for complex ecosystems (civilization, in our case) to exist on any significant timescale. Monocultures are dangerous because the second the environment changes enough, everything dies pretty much all at once instead of transitioning between a mix of cultures best suited to survive the change. I think there's a world of research to be done on how those principles apply to societies, which are driven more by artificial selection, but there's definitely a connection.
This is merely a “strategy credit”. Apple makes almost all of its money by people giving them money directly and them giving you stuff. They can afford to be privacy focused.

If you’re okay with cheap, unpolished products where you are constantly being tracked and getting advertised to, buy a Google product. If you want products where you give the company money and they give you stuff - buy Apple.
Fraudulent?