skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 from me. I really liked Fast.ai part 1 and can't speak highly enough of it! I plan to do part 2 in the near future once I have a bit more time on my hands.

The course is project oriented and quite concrete (focusing on practical/directly usable knowledge, before diving into impl details and math) so I liked it a lot more than anything I had tried before (courses on Coursera, studying on Kahn Academy).

Not only did I actually learn, the course gave me the skills and motivation needed to build my own toy project[0]!

@OP: Give Fast.ai's course (part 1)[1] a try. You'll train your own image classifier by the end of lesson 2. At that point you'll know if you like or dislike the course's style.

[0]: https://ml-hot-or-cold.projects.chrisjeakle.com/
[1]: https://course.fast.ai/
See below comment on structural holes. I completely agree with your assessment of the uncertainty here. But knowing that

1. Monoculture is dangerous

2. Diversity will be celebrated for good political reasons and

3. Unity in diversity is the classical notion of harmony and beauty

...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.

(Note, I might be biased on this entire topic simply because I hate Facebook and miss the highly diverse 90s web)
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Fortunately, my job doesn't require me to carry firearms, detain citizens or uphold laws.

Furthermore, when I was being paid by government grant money, we were accountable for every thing we did while being paid and every penny we spent. We were required to make regular reports and justify everything. It'd be nice to see even that level of accountability with policing.
If my desk was the outside and I was enforcing "laws" with possibly deadly force, I shouldn't have a say in if I like it or not: it (should) come(s) with the work.
I work for a large media comp and this is exactly the reason we don't give editors access to GTM (or even all developers), nor do we allow tools such as Optimizely intended for A/B testing, and we went away from letting them paste HTML into articles to include custom elements.

Unfortunately, we still have lots of 3rd party stuff in GTM, and technically any ad can run random js on our sites. Thats where most problems come from these days.

Editors still technically have the power to brick a given site through our old inhouse CMS which has no proper access control levels, hopefully not for long...
"Democrats are on board" doesn't seem to be substantiated by the article. The actual title is "an idea Democrats have praised," but even that is tenuous - all the article has is the chief revenue officer of the company making this system saying that Democrats and Republicans both have a use for the thing his company is selling, and one analyst at an NGO saying that it fits into previous "Democratic Party rhetoric. But that analyst also cautions, "It's hard to gauge where the Democratic Party is."

There's basically no reason to believe that Democrats currently support this system.
That's sarcasm isn't it? Your TV tracks you more than anything. Assuming it is a connected one.
Yes, I guess you can have the API to provide you the intermediate layer outputs, instead of the predictions. However, if you then want to finetune your own extra layers using these intermediate outputs as inputs, would the API be able to produce them fast enough for you to do the finetuning of your own layers in reasonable time? That's assuming the extra layers are located on your own servers. Or would OpenAI be willing to actually create the extra layers on their own machines and let you finetune those? In the second scenario, you would need to move your dataset to their servers.

Actually, since they used Azure cloud to train GPT-3, I don't see why they wouldn't just let you pay for spinning up Azure instances to train your extra layers, and connect those to the model.
Reporting standards have definitely been changing over a similar time period, but this alone may not be sufficient to explain the recent jump in cases:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/cdc-wants-stat...

Of course this obvious factor is not mentioned anywhere in the headline coverage of the case numbers, which says a lot.
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I looked at the Tweet (you know, it's also the article title) and it does no such thing - even referring to this as the Internet Archive CDN.

This is entirely a strawman you are burning down to make light of the fact that far from a stupid mistake, this is recklessness enabled by the joke of an "web development" industry. This stupidity is common practice and certainly no one in this thread seems even slightly inclined to clean it up.
Carmack posted (yesterday) an interesting thought on models like GPT-3:

"Big AI models like GPT-3 train on massive internet text dumps, but the data is assumed to be independent and identically distributed. Incorporating time information for a decade of data might allow them to start writing tomorrow's reddit or twitter trends."

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1278840413919551488
> I would propose that all content producing companies have to license their content to anyone who is willing to pay, at the "same" price (per user? per year? etc? this is something yet to be decided).

What economic problem are you trying to solve? These companies make an optional entertainment product. Why shouldn’t they be able to sell it to whoever they want? Especially today now that the Internet has destroyed any sort of market power based on distribution channels.
Here’s a YouTube video of the road in question. Pretty cool!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=E6Nl53bCC78
As far as I can tell from the article, there is only a single piece of functionality behind this prompt -- access to the device's unique advertising ID. So, I'm not sure it can get any more granular than that. Quite literally the only functionality it enables is tracking a device across installs or apps.
By making it harder to monetize ads? Ok.
>Would you like your employer to point a cam at your desk and have it recording at all times?

You can always... get another job. If you don't accept the surveillance that comes with your power to inflict violence with impunity, maybe you shouldn't be given the power in the first place.
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You might look through MIT Course 9 materials on OCW. https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/

MIT's Intro courses in this department have long been excellent and very neuroscience oriented.(The caveat is most of what's on OCW here is fairly old.)

There's also at least one course on edX https://www.edx.org/course/minds-and-machines although I don't know anything about it.
You have to open the link OP posted here and then click the top tweet for it to open, then you can scroll down. Without clicking it, you only see two tweets with no indication there's more.

I only see 4 photos at that point and have to click "11 more replies" to see more, but there's no indication that there's more before you "open" the first tweet.
Since you are the creator of the site, I just wanted to ask you to reconsider your position on anonymity. There are so many interesting ideas to be had, but bad actors could take quotes out of context and end up wiping out a twitter storm, or people could fear that this happens (or may happen, people have been canceled for things they said years ago) and so not use the site.

Anonymity has a bad rep, so we could just consider it the Chatham house rule online - you could require a real name account but only show letters under pseudonym.
Wow, in what way? Please explain. I have mostly used wikipedia for science/tech, followed by historical. I don't understand what you mean by it having a strong political bias? If it does, then you're referencing recent events?
Why you even getting ads in the first place? Never heard of uBlock Origins? Stop using Chrome, use Firefox. Then you can put safely Origins on both mobile and desktop for Firefox and never see any ads.
I think I expressed this opinion before on this forum, bit Google is just another corporation now. I practically expect it to bend the rules to serve its needs. Same is true for other companies with followings ( looking at you Tesla ).
When I say "I have a laptop in front of me," I am describing an understanding of something that is being experienced (sensed). If a Markov text generator outputs this text, it's just rearranging bits. I don't see any evidence that GPT-3 is doing anything more than rearranging bits in a much more elaborate way than a Markov text generator. The results kind of dazzle us, but being dazzled doesn't indicate anything in particular. I see something akin to a textual kaleidoscope toy, a generator of novel text that is syntactically valid and that produces odd cognitive sensations when read.

I maybe should have said sensed, not experienced, since experience also leads into much deeper philosophical discussions around the nature of mind and consciousness. I wasn't really going there, since I don't see anything in GPT-3 or any similar system that merits going there.

I also don't see any evidence that it is drawing any new conclusions or constructing any novel thoughts about anything. It's regurgitating similar results to pre-existing textual examples, re-arranging new ideas in new ways. If you don't think actual new ideas exist then this may be compelling, but if that's the case I have to ask: where did all the existing ideas come from then? Some creative mechanism must exist or nothing would exist, including this text.

The fact that the output often resembles pop Internet discourse says more about the mindlessness of "meme-think" than the GPT-3 model.

As for real world uses, social media spam and mass propaganda seems like the most obvious one. This thing seems like it would be a fantastic automated "meme warrior." Train it on a corpus of Qanon and set it to work "pilling" people.
That’s a good argument
He is proven wrong already. Just look at the fucking case numbers.

The irrational position based on deceit is yours.
User choice is always good. I’m sure Apple is doing this not out of the goodness of their heart, but it does give customers more control, which is a positive.
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i can't imagine how somebody could see the creative process in Mad Men and think that's something to be emulated. It's a bunch of privileged rich people (ad execs) coming up with ideas that they think are clever, and the only criteria for whether or not those ideas are good is if other privileged rich people (client company execs) agree.

There's no objective measures of success, just a bunch of people patting each other on the back because they all see the world the same way.
Well, my understanding is that there is no expectation of privacy if you’re using your employers equipment or network. I think it’s pretty clearly written on that offer letter when you sign the contract - or at least the ones I sampled. Not to mention the proliferation of CCTVs in almost all work places.

So to answer your question, yeah, I fully expect my employer to record what I am doing all the time and it’s a price that unfortunately I have to pay to survive in this digital world.
It is an interesting time to rethink art.

I would love a service where I could get an ultra-thin LCD, put it up, and have a subscription to art for display on the LCD within certain parameters perhaps with some personalization built in...

... bonus points for a matte screen that doesn't look too glossy and can give the illusion of canvas...
They are for sale from the TeX Users Group, https://tug.org/store/lucida/index.html, which helps out the group and gives you nice fonts also.
You're doing what midwits on here typically do — namely, manipulating words directly instead of translating words into a model (operationalizing terms), manipulating the model, and translating back to communicate. The logocentrism of the innumerate. It's boring.
Can we start talking about survivors? People with malaria are chronically sick and a drag on the health system, and we are only beginning to learn about the aftereffects of coronaplague. Reduced lung function seems to be common in patients who recovered from covid.
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Just this week marketing asked me to install another instance of GTM that was controlled by an outside ad agency. That was a hard no.
I didn’t realize there was more than one rumble strip design. Which one is most hated by cyclists, and why?
Forcing themselves into the identity business? By giving it away for free? What kind of business it that?

I guess it’s the same as trying to get in the ads business by making ads less valuable?
If I create a brand new Facebook profile, and I never tell Facebook my location (neither via my browser geolocation or profile info), however most of my Facebook friends that I chat with daily live in a town called Hackerville. I've never installed or used Instagram or Whatsapp.

Guess where Facebook thinks I'm living?

They can be pretty sure I either grow up or live in Hackerville.
+1 to the idea of having a few good math courses created by institutions. I think if I can save all that time on repetitive lecturing, it would make more time for discussion/experimentation based learning.

I’ve also wondered about why publicly funded institutions don’t publicly release their courses and other resources. When the COVID lockdown started, I naively hoped that we would get some more pure math courses since now universities are teaching remotely but haven’t really found any universities doing that. I’m tempted to reach out to my alma mater and ask if I can audit their pure math courses that they’re teaching remotely in the fall.

It definitely seems easier to find CS courses online than for pure math. Maybe because there’s a wider audience for that, I don’t quite know.
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This is reminiscent of the branching pattern seen in a plasma disc. (you know those things that are flat versions of plasma globes) As I understand it , emission from a plasma requires a high energy electron dropping to a lower energy with photon emission. The path of the 'collapsing energy' is linear - meaning each emission event triggers one nearby- unzipping a river of lower potential in a sea of high energy plasma. Interestingly, the directional changes of branching plasma seem to occur at sharp angles with relatively straight paths connecting the branch points.

With light however, the cascade of photons is fractured into separate rivers as bundles of photons are refracted continuously by the smoothly varying thickness of the bubble. Freezing the bubble might create crystals where the thickness is not smoothly varying so angular paths might be observed as the light jumps from one crystal to the next
That is still violating privacy laws in EU, potentially. You cannot even give a blanket agreement for "work related" because that does not hold under scrutiny due to simple employee mistakes. You would be collecting more data than agreed upon.
It's a Google backdoor for your team to add more tracking etc.

The important point is that it's a backdoor for marketing (and adtech) teams to get around developer/security requirements. At some point, someone on those teams gets frustrated that their one-line code requests (just load this script! add a gif banner here!) keep falling behind in the backlog. That happens in part because the product team often doesn't care about marketing, and sometimes because developers know that "just one more script!" paves the road to hell. At some point the third-party that's trying to get their business going through your business convinces the marketing team to add GTM, the marketing team says to the dev team "Hey we need GTM to implement THIS script". This time, because the other side has promised them $$$ in terms ROI, the marketing team pushes really hard for it, and eventually a product manager approves the request to get them off their back. The rest, as they say, is history (at retro time, multiple times down the road).
Of course I'm aware of the Fed. Do you think that the current market interventions are the best way to operate? In an ideal world, wouldn't the economy be much better off if it were able to sustain events like pandemics without interventions?

The guarantee by the Fed of asset prices will lead to more inequality as asset valuations are disconnected from their returns. Do we want this to happen? Same with the government interventions in zoning, is this what we want? It doesn't cost near as much to build a house or apartment as it is to find a place that you are allowed to. Do we want to continue to allow housing costs to be disconnected from what a house actually costs to produce?
Yeah, you can definitely think of it like that
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Well, there is no formal definition of "understanding" in the context of CS, AI, or machine learning so anyone can claim anything they like, with respect to the term.

For example, I have a thermos that keeps my coffee cold in the summer and hot in the winter. It u n d e r s t a n d s.
>Would you like your employer to point a cam at your desk and have it recording at all times?

I mean, many employers go as far in that direction as they legally can. See the recent thread here about "bossware."[0]

However, my employer can't seize my private property, lock me or my family in a cell, torture me or simply shoot me dead in the middle of the street in broad daylight and get away with it. Police can, and do, all of those things all the time.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23705495
I think this is not what I meant. Let me restate your point as I understand it with a more well known example.

Melt a piece of ice and it will turn into water. Cool it and it will turn back into ice. The bigger idea here is that, while it's highly improbable that heat is applied to ice, we can choose to apply heat to ice. (...)

When you are heating the ice, energy and entropy from the environment is stored in the ice. When you are freezing it, energy and entropy from the water is transferred away to the environment.

This is a different thing from what I was talking about.
I love the metaphor of a massively hyperlinked card. It reminds me a little of https://mochi.cards, which I've enjoyed spending time with.

But these things can only ever remain idle curiosities to me when they're closed source. We're talking about a knowledge graph that only really flexes itself with years of dedicated entry, roaming and combing through its interlinks for that electric flash of idea-sex.

Why should I commit to a company's knowledge box when I can't trust your team's bus factor? You're one human being, any number of calamities could befall you -- I have to assume Supernotes isn't wired to an open-source dead man's switch.

You're also an engine of capital beholden to its single truth: print more money at all costs. We've already seen apps like Roam jack up their price. Is there a ceiling you can guarantee me?
That the FBI agents were Black seems more like an allusion to desegregation, and Federal Government interventions in general.

If he had really wanted to do something he could have introduced a regular POC character.
> Yeah, basically a fun exercise in parsing/compiling/optimization.

Among other things, sure.

> OTOH what makes a language usable is literally everything else - package manager, IDE support, compile/parsing.

You have parsing/compiling in both categories. It's easier than ever to add IDE support for your homemade language, too, because of things like the LSP. Package management isn’t easy, but if you are building a specialized DSL and bundling the parts key to the domain, or if you are exposing a bridge to an existing ecosystem with strong library availability and decent package management, a language-specific package manager is probably not super important for usability.
Ask HN: How do you deploy code from master to prod?
Curious what other people do? I know there are a lot of options for CI/CD these days and I'm curious what's popular.
> My TV doesn't track me

Are you sure?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/18/you-wat...
Apple has been “more privacy friendly” for at least a decade.
I don't think the parent comment (or anyone for that matter) is advocating for the unauthorized public release of bodycam footage. I think his point is that as public servants with extraordinary power, the public interest trumps any personal expectations of privacy while on the job. As such, the public shouldn't tolerate "but privacy!" as an excuse from police officers not to have bodycams.
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Thank you so much, this is neat.
That would be Inalchuq (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inalchuq), the governor who killed Genghis Khan’s envoys who were there to make a trade deal and open relations. He suggested that the trade caravan were spies (which may have been correct) and got permission from the shah to kill them and take their goods. The shah repeated the same offense to the khan a second time when Genghis sent a second set of diplomats demanding that Inalchuq be punished or handed over.
> Programs and algorithms can only encode models (which are themselves imperfect) of what we already know.

The Game Of Life seems to contradict this claim. Also worth considering, computational physics and weather/climate simulations.

Scientists of all sorts already do learn new insights by creating simulated models of systems. The simulated systems will continue to get more accurate.
Hi, sorry, but “credibility” is the word you and GP want. “Credulity” has basically the opposite meaning. Sorry.
It was always easy to write your own language. Hard was making that language be a mature one with plenty of libraries for mundane tasks covering all needs people want. And harder was to make said language to be adopted and become mainstream.
You have a very disappointing standard for "proof":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/cdc-wants-stat...

https://google.com?q=ny+coronavirus+cases

By "the fucking case numbers", I assume you mean only those statistics which are spoon-fed by an industry that makes money scaring people into noticing advertisements.
> “Non-Bayesian” stats uses bias in the exact same way that Bayesian stats does

This is incorrect.

Bias has a very specific specific mathematical meaning in statistics--the difference between the expected value of the estimate (under the sampling distribution) and the true value. There are many examples of parameter estimates in classical statistics that have zero bias under that definition.

> Bayesian stats and frequentist stats are mathematically equivalent.

Also incorrect. Bayesian and frequentist methods focus on different conditional probabilities and can give very divergent results even in simple cases. See e.g. Lindley's paradox [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindley%27s%20paradox
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We are way past the argument that “free” => “no value to business”
Why is this a trademark infringement?! Because of the name?
https://www.wired.com/1999/10/volunteers/
"Everything changed in December of 1996, when AOL moved to a flat-rate pricing system: unlimited access for $19.95 a month. Gone were the profits from hours spent in chat. Worse, chatty members clogged AOL's servers and threatened to crash the system. Gone too were many of the volunteers. Without the hundreds of dollars worth of free hours, more than half left."
We should only believe in 100% privacy when this app is on F-Droid or a similar place.