skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're missing the point. That game doesn't teach you anything about survival nor does it aim to, I think. It's more like a book about the people who go through some hardship, you read about how they cope and maybe learn a lesson applicable in everyday life. That is the point with some narrative literature in the first place.
> Video lectures are separately planned/recorded to be shorter duration "modules", which decreases the depth and sometimes also results in entire topics being cut out

I think it depends on the course. I’m currently following "Fundamentals of Statistics" (https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:MITx+18.6501x+2T20...), and it’s clearly a recording of an IRL course. Same with "Introduction to Biology", and the whole Quantum Mechanics serie.
Claiming that there's anything new going on here is a cheap rhetorical trick.

We're seeing the complaints of people who have lost control over what's acceptable. The people who would've wanted to come for the communists or the homosexuals are now on the wrong end of the prevailing winds, and whether that's "better" or "worse" depends on one's own beliefs on those issues... but it's not so much a societal change as just a window that has moved.

There are books that make convincing arguments that "heresy"-based reactions are ultimately detrimental - such as The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind from a few decades ago, decrying the lack of reason in the American church from an inside perspective - but that example also shows the answer to the "what are the consequences?" question: you get a *very effectively motivated" political constituency.
I've never heard "sweets," so you might want to qualify that with a US region.
Many robot competitions include a simulation league, where people who don't want to buy physical hardware can compete with a simulation of it.

And being simulated means you never have a flat battery, and you can single-step your control code without hitting into something :)
The market is contorted by secret algorithms promoting some news over other news, banning of people and ideas, etc.
Unless you're moving your boat every couple of weeks you're likely to be paying mooring fees, though, and many places in London mooring fees for a boat with ~20m^2 living space costs more than I pay for a mortgage (in London) for five times that.

(though many of the available moorings will be in expensive areas where mortgages certainly would be much higher than mine)
Hilarious that the top comment exemplifies the problem. It seems few today are still able to engage with ideas directly, always trying to filter them through some, any, lens to discredit the ones they don’t like. Sometimes it’s attacking the speaker, sometimes their associations, sometimes the tweets they have “liked.” If all else fails, seek out language in the text itself for unfalsifiable “dog whistles” that allow the affixing of a label. Whatever allows one to shield their eyes, ignore the argument made, and secure the moral high ground.
HTTP/2 perf in .NET 5 is 300% faster than 3.1 in important scenarios
This article is also interesting

"The Amish Horse-Drawn Buggy Is More Tech-Forward Than You Think:
The tech inside this 19th-century conveyance isn't stuck in the 19th century."
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-technology/a24666/...
Nobody does that -- it makes absolutely no business sense to a service provider. If you want your $50 million back, you buy insurance. :-)

The best you can get from vendors/service providers are SLAs, where damages are meant to be mildly punitive (amount x number of affected customers can add up and hurt the provider.)
100% agree. I’ve been saying that the two topics that need to be learned early in life are accounting and statistics.
Completely disagree. And I think Joe Rogan's podcast is the perfect example of how the market is suggesting exactly what you replied to.

"Normal Americans" don't read the NYT anymore, or WSJ, or the Post, they listen to Joe Rogan on Spotify and Youtube. There's virtually no limit to who Joe will have on his show, and while he's not a remarkable interviewer, he brings the often vital opinions of his guests on all sides of many issues, and he asks sincere questions for hours on end.
World Carrot Museum
To the extent that a service avoids yak shaving, definitely that value can be quantified. How do I know it won’t cause yak shaving though?
This looks like a lot of work. How will Openbase make money?
No, but people who post the same logical fallacies again and again (almost like they're getting them off a list somewhere) and never address the actual argument probably are.

It's like pointing out that POC living at higher latitudes likely need Vitamin D supplements because the sunlight isn't intense enough for darker skin to produce enough Vitamin D naturally, because that's how melanin works. Then someone jumps in, down-votes you, calls you racist, and points out that white people need vitamin D supplements too. The rules of logic say those are bad/non-arguments, not me. Once or twice is an unintelligent person. A consistent long-term pattern makes it likely some variety of shill/troll/plant, or Chinese intelligence in the case of China-related articles.
There is a lot of space in-between complete censorship and freedom to be curious. If we were already at complete censorship, she would have been silenced already. Issuing a warning about the trend while we're on the ride towards censorship does not mean there is no trend. That is what she is doing here. She is raising the alarm.

If we had to wait to hear an alarm until silencing was the only possibility, there wouldn't be an alarm anymore.
> Tesla goofed from the beginning by calling tech like "Autosteer" and "Traffic Assisted Cruise Control" under the moniker "Autopilot"

I am not accusing you specifically of using weak language, but let's call a spade a spade: it's not a "goof," it's a dangerous and deceptive business practice. It's one that Elon Musk is directly responsible for and directly encouraged with misleading statements where he deliberately exaggerated the capabilities of Autopilot. It's a disgrace and one of many many many reasons why Tesla needs to outright fire Musk. There are too many good people at Tesla, who don't deserve his selfish and irresponsible leadership.

To the people pointing out that airplane autopilots work similarly to Tesla Autopilot: the problem is not the foolish Tesla owners have never flows a plane before. The problem is that in the public mind, they "know" that "autopilot" means "totally autonomous" and they "know" that the computer-car-spaceship supergenius Elon Musk has been hyping his self-driving tech.

It is true that highly knowledgeable people know that Musk is an idiot conman, that "autopilot" is a very limited set of features, and so on - and that none of these things detract from the fact that Tesla makes a good car. But Tesla fans shouldn't invent ridiculous exonerations. Tesla has a responsibility for the safety of its users and they failed. Fans (along with the EU and US) need to hold the company accountable.
The story seems accurate.
>what's the motivation for each car to do its own self-driving computation in busy metropolitan areas?

There are a few reasons I can think of. 1) latency - the same argument against data center approach 2) security - we can't trust other computers as once a hardware is owned by somewhere the security battle is lost 3) unnecessary and insufficient - there are human drivers and there are cases when there is no other self-driving car around.
Founder of Puppet on bootstrapping, burnout, and babies
I wonder if there's a way to move the footnotes to the bottom of a section when the display is narrow...
I agree. It is laziness on the part of the educators. There is a trend in education where they try and make things “relevant” to today’s generation. In the process the actual material is lost.
I think there are definitely some points in her essay that ring true. But the author engaging in behavior only 2 years ago that she is condemning today is certainly a valid and relevant criticism.
yes that's about what I feel. The led animation was made I assume to indicate direction but the location of the light already gives you this.. and the blink is a better signal/noise. So the animated LED is both worse AND redundant information.
There's a whole website there that includes images of the sketches, lots of photos, and large blocks of explanatory text. If you only watched the video you're missing out.
Society Centered-Design
I've found this font to be the easiest on my eyes in recent memory. Kudos to whoever decided to use it here.
Good idea. I did not think of that.
>since attacking the site via scripts served by CDN would leave behind evidence.

It won't leave behind much evidence if you're only doing it for targeted attacks. I doubt NSA will burn such a valuable resource like cloudflare to do mass scale injections.
I have never hired a cleaner, but I imagine there are also people who are uncomfortable having strangers in their house and handling their things.

I have also heard about people getting cleaners who initially do a good job, but whose work quality degrades over time. You wouldn't have that problem with a robot.
>it would be VERY hard to convince me that they have done it at the same level of concerted effort.

What exactly would it take to convince you of that?
I believe you are overestimating the average and below average person. Shakespeare is unapproachable to many people simple due to the language used.
It is the same thing as google, amazon or microsoft - they are all centralizing the internet.

I have written a mitming proxy that is capable of blocking by ASN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)), beside blocking domains and other things we are used from the times of proxomitron. I have once tryed to block all 3 companies to see what will happen.

Nothing worked any more. From CDNs breaking pages of those rare occurances where they werent hosted on some cloud owned by those 3 companies. Even duckduckgo wasnt accessible anymore.

The funny thing was that yandex and baidu were still working flawlessly.

Welcome to dark ages of internet, we blew it. Instead of beeing capable of surviving third world war (as it was designed for) it is now in hands of 3 companies out of pure lazyness, lack of knowlidge and greed.

(I will release the proxy in next 2-3 months)
> Your employees, service providers and others can be required to provide information without informing you. In extreme cases, agents will pose as utility, security or building management.

...and homeomorphic encryption would stop all of those attacks. Presuming it's a homeomorphically-encrypted substrate for an autonomous agent, making its own "evaluations" of the data it can perceive from the outside world (ala a smart contract with access to an oracle) rather than simply trusting data from the insecure domain that happens to be signed with the right key.

This is also, y'know, the security architecture that allows nuclear submarines to avoid being subverted by an enemy nation that has temporarily gained control of the White House. The sub's commander needs to know not only that they've received the order, but also that the world really looks like one where such an order would be legitimately given. The isolated secure agent, speaking to an insecure principal, needs not only proof of their credentials, but also needs to independently verify their claims about the state of the world. (And, if they can do that, the system is often architected such that the principal won't even communicate in the moment, but instead has just left flowchart-like orders in advance, involving various dead-man's-switch timers and so forth.)
nothing of value was lost
It's truly telling that the most upvoted comment is one working to discredit the writer, rather than taking what's being said at face value.
I run one of the AIS stations that contributes to this. Of course, "RUN" is a bit of an overstatement, the little rPi unit basically just sits there unattended and feeds data received into the system without much need for any attention from me.

I am in the process of adding an uplink from my AIS650 on my boat to also send data received while underway, but need to finish up some other projects first.

I do not have much use for the commercial data side of this, but looking at past routes of various pleasure craft going to or from places I want to go can be informative for planning routes.
I feel like you may be getting upset, which I am sorry for.

I am mentioning my credentials because I have been complaining about people not distinguishing between psychologists and psychiatrists for many, many years. I am a little triggered by such comparisons.

The human psyche (incidentally not a word you ever hear in psychology (and potentially psychiatry) classes) is large, and psychologist and psychiatrists focus on very different things.

Like it's fine if you don't see a difference between the two subjects, but others do as they are very, very different.

I guess the closest analogy would be if I called you (a mathematician by training, i assume) a statistician.

Many people might not see the difference between the two roles, but I am relatively confident that you would.
But you have to talk to a human to cancel too! Checkmate!
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You're assuming "both sides" have an equally valid point of view. Tom Cotton's racist op-ed and COVID denialism are two current examples where one side is definitely wrong. Bari believes there shouldn't be consequences for saying dangerously wrong things.
You sound reasonable from your comment :) hahaha

I think it's great to challenge people, and honestly a candidates reaction to a hard question is probably one of the best indicators.
I know this is probably meant in jest, but in my experience dealing with Apple enterprise dev program for the last 3 years, its probably easier to just incorporate a new LLC and use that if you get stuck somewhere in the process. Probably cheaper too if you value your time.
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but I don't think GitHub has a monopoly. Git was created to be decentralized, so every developer has a "backup" of sorts on their own machine.

If GitHub is truely hostile to you, taking your business elsewhere (or hosting it yourself) shouldn't be too much of a roadblock for people with sponsors like OP.
Eh, nobody likes a hypocrite.
> I think people are over-indexing on fatalities

I totally agree. The death rate is about all I hear about but it's only one part of the risk. For every death there are many people who experience terrible health complications, many of which are long lasting and maybe even permanent.
> widely considered important by -- everyone

I'm not sure this is nearly as universal as you think, even on here.
I agree she was a proponent but the cancel culture has finally come for her and she has figured it out, so she isn't wrong here. It will be interesting to see if anything changes later

The most important thing is how this affects your perception of the nyt

Edit hacker News wont let me post anymore right now but the question is if she is right here or not. She doesn't owe you anything just like you dont owe her anything.
Chinese companies like Tencent/Alibaba would try to crush any competitor that's not part of its ecosystem/ doesn't have a stake in.

Any Bytedance related links were prohibited in WeChat, for example.
No, I did actually submit the full title, but it was truncated to "that needs to make a comeback" (I just omitted "in 2020" as it wouldn't fit). I see one of the admins has changed the title to remove the "needs to make a comeback" bit entirely.
No, I came to my conclusion by putting away $100 every month for 40 years. $48000 is put in, $114000 is present at the end with a (historically unprecedented low) 4% overall return. Exactly the same amount of money is put away in the last 25 years as in the first 25 years.

The shift in risk should be accompanied by changes to the portfolio mix, of course.
ARM assembly and GNU assembly for ARM are subtly different in terms of syntax. I think the labels and indenting is different but everything else is broadly the same. I can happily read either.
> About 40% of the America seems to still support Donald Trump, under most polls. It certainly isn't true that 40% of the media supports Donald Trump. As an external viewer, it's easy to imagine no-one was ever going to vote for Donald Trump, no-one ever supported him, and no-one supports him today, but that's clearly not reality.

You seem to be missing a substantial portion of American media. You just gotta know where to look. There are far more outlets than the ones that get shared on HN, and something like talk radio is gonna be a complete black hole to the group here.
I'll start caring more about this "silencing" once the NYT editorial board starts including viewpoints that are actually silenced in our society. Until then, it's just whining about no longer being free from criticism.
I'm not celebrating his loss.

I don't even think that he lost. I think it's most likely that he made a calculated win, and that easily manipulated people such as yourself are getting played.

It's telling, though, that you presume I'm celebrating. Your victim mentality shines strong. As does your eagerness to vilify those who perceive a situation differently than you.

It's almost as though you're not even the tiniest bit rational. That you're more of a cult member than anything else.
SoftBank Considering Selling ARM, Putting on Public Market
In this particular case the author argues from her particular experience in her workplace without providing any evidence, so I think it's pretty relevant to take such things into account because she might be exaggerating.

I'm not exactly inclined to take someone's purely personal criticisms at face value if they have engaged in the same behaviour.

For all we know she might be leaving on bad terms and is taking it out on her coworkers who may have a different story to tell.
> rather than taking what's being said at face value

Why should I be this credulous?
I definitely subscribe to some people who could be labelled that way, because I subscribe to interesting content. Most of my favorite YouTubers don't show their face at all, and a few show neither their face nor their voice. But, I am sure you can also find people who discriminate anyway, otherwise we wouldn't need to have conversations about discrimination.

But, there is a very different ethical and practical divide between a company implementing systematic discrimination and discrimination by individual users. This divide is large enough that most western nations have decided to draw their legislative lines there.
Late response: I had thought Sweden was changing this due to increased data about asymptomatic spread. The fact that they apparently aren't is quite discouraging...
Racking up death? The cdc latest estimatate the ifr to be only 0.65%.
Interesting idea - particularly for those that can manage it with their jobs. But then do you just keep paying everyone in public education for a whole year to take the year off, too?

Here in Seattle, the last 3 months of school the kids were enrolled in was a complete and utter joke. I have two kids, one in middle school and the other in elementary. When the kids got online to talk to teachers it was never about actual instruction, course work, etc. It was almost entirely kum-ba-yah sessions where the teachers would ask the kids what they were doing and how they were feeling. School was essentially put on hold. Grades were sent out and based mainly on the 1st half of the year.

The prospect of remote learning is very promising, but at least in 2020 there seems to be an utter lack in leadership or will to implement a quality product. It's a race to the bottom.

Skipping a year? Honestly, I think even if my kids wind up doing remote learning in the Fall they'll be going through the motions but intellectually skipping a year anyway. It's a mess.
I wonder if you could buy something big like an ex-Military Chinook or a Russian Mi-26, then kit it out and customize it like the van converters do?
I have a feeling that Kahan lived in a time where matrix inversion and eigenvalue computation was considered the new hotness, just like neural networks today.

It is very easy to build small invertible matrices that cannot be inverted with 32-bit floats, or even 64-bit floats, thus Kahan's insistence on very high precision floating points.

Edit: small invertible matrices
And according to [1] 125,117 patients were admitted to hospital based on 290,133 positive tests. So about 43% of UK people who test positive are being hospitalized. So that's really bad.

1: https://coronavirus-staging.data.gov.uk/
Why would you flag it without reading the article?
Microsoft Research: Studies in Pandemic Preparedness
The irony is inherent in the ideology. This is just one of many examples of that irony on full public display, cannibalizing itself.
Buying a boat was the worst financial decision I ever made in my life. I now own three of them.
I think you're missing my point.

First, I think "benign commercial interests" are not. At least not at that scale. Lobbying proves the point. Tech/media is not even the big example. Military industry, banking, mining and healthcare are all far more intertwined with government. Their most important activity is lobbying. That said, tech lobbying still pretty big and the combination of lobbying and controlling a media powerhouse is worse than just lobbying.

More importantly, Facebook (etc), being a massive media channel has lots of power and influence just by being facebook. Again, commercial interests aren't necessarily benign.

FB might tweak the feed to make sure covid-19 rumour mills or deliberate misinformation campaigns don't get out of hand. That might be a good decision (or not), but it isn't a benign decision. It demonstrates that commercial interests, feeds and such are not neutral. They are deliberate, opinionated and that opinion affects reality.

There are two questions that the tiktok case brings up: "how much power?" and "who's power." Zuck isn't as scary as Xi, hence the different response to tiktok. OTOH, Facebook have the same sort of power as tiktok, just a lot more of it.
So who is Apple then
Also, it's only cash transactions that are rounded. If you pay by debit or credit (which I would guess is the majority?) then it's still the exact amount and nothing has changed.
Or it backfires when people realize their newly purchased, expensive car doesn't do what they thought it could do. Tesla is not managing expectations well.
But everything else is not actually confidential... Confidentiality means limited visibility, when you process your data, the memory is in clear without this tech, or Intel SGX that offer confidentiality and integrity.
We can start with DNS ANY queries. Cloudflare lied their way through this whole process, with the claim that CF were just following standards, when in fact it was exactly the opposite: Not conforming to the standard while simultaneously pushing through draft changes to the standard in order to support CF's business decision. I'm a trusting guy, and took CF's claims of championing privacy to heart, but this move completely blew that out of the water. Nowadays, I genuinely wonder sometimes how long until someone blows the whistle and it turns out CF is building dossiers just like Google, and renting out access to governments and law enforcement and adtech, shoveling even more crap onto the pile.