skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
#3, the company going out of its way to avoid firing you if you get their trust. They don’t ignore incompetence but they are willing to be flexible. The extra feeling of security is generally nice especially when company fortunes go up and down. They have also supported a shift in my job responsibilities toward more of a development focus, despite that being outside my original job description, and have overlooked some strange behavior on my part (not filing certain reports, avoiding certain customer interactions, etc), without needing a real explanation (the real explanation would require going into my mental heath history which is something I’d rather avoid).
Thinking itself is work. When you're thinking too much, anything that's not "thinking too much" causes context switching, which is a hard task on its own. Human brain cannot multitask, so you can't work while you're already doing a lot of mental work. The trick is to do things that are fun (which, for some people is doing creative work) such as playing games, taking a shower or whatever makes you relaxed. Once that chain of thoughts is broken, you can start working again.

Telling this from my personal experience, because I can't go from overthinking about my business to designing a database model or fix an issue. I need to take a mindless break, like showering or making coffee, or just grabbing a teaspoon of ice cream from the freezer. Those few moments work as a transition point for me to get back to work, and become productive.
> The sensors in the iron lets it shut off and not burn your house down.

Isn't leaving it in the stand the best way to not burn your house down? I can't say I've ever left an iron heated up and also touching something flammable.
They are uploading videos of dismembering innocent female family members because the competing factions are trying to outdo each-other in brutality to take the upper hand.

One from last month shocked...
> To replace GPG, you want age and minisign.

Much as I think age is a promising project, it isn't ready to replace gpg yet. It doesn't have a production ready release yet, it doesn't have an agent, and it doesn't have support for hardware keys (ex. Yubikey) yet.
I imagine there will be all sorts of uses out of the ordinary for things like this. Study insects in the wild. Rescue missions in destroyed buildings. Land on a window and voyeur. Go into Area 51 see what is happening. Murder by poison in the night. AI trained software these bugs roaming the crops AI reporting back weeds pests and health of the plants, sewer exploration, bug races for entertainment, just to run a bug up your sisters leg and video it to Youtube. I could go on so let us hope these come available for all of us not just spooks.
As a remain voter, I'm not best to advocate for the strengths of leave. As I'm sure you're aware, debate between remain and leave is difficult. Characterising sovereignty concerns as "passport colour change" won't start the conversation on the right path, however.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29607906-why-vote-leave was a good book for understanding some benefits of Leave.

Please don't discredit the positions or the book solely from my my hazy memory of the book, but here goes:

* EU is a weakening trade bloc, so we're better off out of the customs union, and making trade deals that work for UK, rather than that work for the EU (example: cheaper tomatoes from Africa, that the EU will not make, since it'll make Spain/Italy worse off)

* UK's voting patterns within EU was anomolous: UK voted against policies far more than other countries anyway.

* UK public seems to have a max acceptable rate of immigration, and we may prefer more selective immigration policies (e.g. target the high skilled workers in India, China, Australia)

Those are meant to pique your interest in the book. I don't think starting a debate on HN will be productive, at least because I barely remember the book.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23819964
get rid of at least the pennies, nickles and dimes (because the dimes are just too small)
Yep, right on. Remember Feynman also said 'there's plenty of room left at bottom'.
Judging from this rando laundromat youtuber I saw a few months back, that's basically a closed circular coin economy: you put bills in the money changer, then coins in the washers and dryers. The owner then takes the coins out of the machines and puts them back in the money changer. In that scenario, bills are what enter and leave the laundromat.

But in a regional coin shortage, someone with spare time might just choose to loot the coin machine, and gum up the internal coin economy. Banks are apparently offering an extra 5 percent on coins: https://www.kctv5.com/a-bank-is-paying-people-to-bring-in-th...

This does remind me of the stories a few years back about credit card churners buying coins from the us mint in bulk for the cash back, then depositing at the bank before the bills came due.
The people here reading GPT-3's output and dismissing it as "not really understanding anything" or "pushing symbols without conscious intent" because of minor slips in coherence have remarkably high standards for understanding. On a high school essay prompt, GPT-3 produces more accurate and more coherent output than 90% of high school students. If the commenters' standards were actually used consistently, they would also apply to almost all human beings.

Another interestingly common objection is "we think in terms of meaningful semantics, but GPT-3 only calculates meaningless coefficients". This is a category error masquerading as an argument, equivalent to saying "I have moral worth because I'm made of cells, but you don't because you're only made of quarks." Cells and quarks are just two different-level descriptions of precisely the same thing. Understanding in your brain can be reduced to the calculation of "meaningless" coefficients just as surely as cells can be reduced to quarks.
Chomsky was arguing that probability is useless for defining and studying grammaticality.

I'm not so sure. GPT-2 says

log P("Colorless green thoughts sleep furiously.") = -53.64797019958496

log P("Furiously sleep thoughts green colorless.") = -65.46656107902527

The ungrammatical one is lower probability. But those are famous sentences, and probably present in the training data, so let's try

log P("Colorless blue ideas hibernate angrily.") = -60.12953460030258

log P("Angrily hibernate ideas blue colorless.") = -70.02637100033462
This is the end result of all of our environmental and labor laws.
Not everyone. I personally have not touched cash in 15 years or so. I really haven’t had any need to. In all that time I haven’t had a single experience where card was not accepted.
Yeah, being able to get my data back out is a hard requirement for me too. It's one of the things that put me off of OneNote.

A few years ago I wrote a few python scripts to export the Notes.app database to html and bear formats. I haven't really maintained them (although I still run it in a cronjob for backups), but I put them up on github in case it was useful to someone.

https://github.com/dunhamsteve/notesutils
Yes, but with varying pace. Let's hope it doesn't get even faster.
Not much as cultural appropriation but I consider it disrespectful to Hinduism that people don't acknowledge the origins with respect. This is not just about westerners but most Indians even Hindus do the same. Stripping Hinduism of all its good parts but vociferously pinning all the bad parts on it even if they have had strong social moorings. Even Govt of India has to say it is not religious to appease to the sentiments of Muslims and Christians.

To simplify, Yoga means union (with the existence) and the word has sacred/divine connotations. So using it for all sorts of things like say naked yoga etc and disregarding the sanskrit name for the yogasanas and calling it things like downward dog pose etc is uncomfortable. Hopefully the yogasana practicioners will get curious and go deeper into the philosophy and mindset of the Hindu philosophy.

If anyone wants the full Yoga experience I recommend organisations like ISHA Yoga Foundation.

Btw regarding open source software comparisons, people either want to force the original repo into drastically changing the rules of contribution or instead of forking it and acknowledging the original project they just want to copy it with same name but do their own thing (for eg mindfulness vs meditation)
This is basically why I deleted my Facebook account, which was the one social network that I was really ever on. I was checking it non stop, but there wad never anything good. It was a huge time suck.

I'd read news of how Facebook keeps people addicted or how they try out psychological experiments on its users which left me uneasy. Finally, when the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke and revealed that Facebook sells access to your personal messages, thst was the final straw. The biggest problem with deleting your account is that your contacts assume that you just deleted them and think that you're mad at them or something. It can have a real world impact. But I've been way happier texting friends and family and talking with them directly. It's been so much healthier than leaving "likes" on wall posts. I'm never returning to social media.
A lot of low level drug dealers take Venmo
> How is the cobalt getting mixed with the stuff mined from the ground?

So the term "fallout" is actually a pretty piece of propaganda. While a lot of it did or does indeed "fall out", there's still a lot of radioactivity in the air and on the surface from those nuclear tests in the form of fine particulate. It's in the fine dust all around you as 100nm and smaller particles, dancing around the air through Brownian motion. It's all over everything all of the time. It's in the water and the ocean. Nanograms here and there and everywhere. Not enough to really cause you health problems anymore, but plenty enough to increase the background radiation of the entire surface of the planet by a tiny amount.

How it gets into the steel is through the actual blasting of oxygen into the steel - hundreds of cubic meters of oxygen are used per ton of steel made, concentrating those tiny particulates into the steel they're going into and dissolving them throughout the melt, which is precisely why using ultrapure oxygen and vacuum processes could be used to make lower background steel today... if there was high enough demand to justify the absurd cost of that kind of handling. Fortunately though, there was plenty of steel made before the 1940s, and the demand is not all that high since it's usually used as a shielding material and not as large structural elements. As long as they don't remelt it, or do so in a high vacuum reformer, the metal can retain its low background nature.

Intermediate-lived gamma-emitting isotopes (cobalt-60, strontium-90, cesium-137, and so on) are the particular problem children of nuclear fallout in steel making. The cesium and strontium are largely removed by the same processes as steel is made in the first place - they're simply reactive enough to bond with the silicon and carbon and aluminum impurities being removed and will happily exclude the majority of themselves as part of the slag. So while they do contribute to the background, they're not the main problem. Cobalt, on the other hand, is right next to iron on the periodic table and its happy to stay stuck to the iron, even through rounds of recrystallization. Once the cobalt is in the steel, it's in there until it decays away to nickel over the next century or so. (This is also why it's much less of a problem now than it was even 20 years ago; the halflife of cobalt-60 is about 5 years, which means much of it from the nuclear testing is already gone - most of what remains is from nuclear reactor releases and neutron activation products.)

The more sensitive your instrument needs to be, the more radioactive contamination wrecks your instrument, which is already why physics experiments have to go to extreme lengths to keep everything clean of dust and debris, and are often located underground or underwater to avoid exposure to cosmic rays and atmospheric muons decaying. But the even higher sensitivity experiments like dark matter searches and measurements of cosmic background radiation have little choice but to reach for low background steels and lead as shielding material.
I'm not sure what you mean. In Rust, you can write:

match msg {
pattern1 => action1,
pattern2 => action2,
_ => {} // silently ignore
}
> once any person has merged, the rest of the team is subject to any issues in their code.

Put another way, problems are more likely to be found before release.

Actual example: Plenty of times things have passed code review on my previous teams, and only after merging to trunk and being forced to use the changes have the other devs encountered problems that needed to be dealt with.

It does slow down the other dev, but unless it was something really obvious the two of them would typically pair on it until everything was good.
You’re correct generically but what I’m referring to in this particular article is a rhetorical feedback loop. The basic structure of the argument is as follows:

1. Genocide occurred

2. Serbs created cultural trope around genocide denialism (bad)

3. American response to coronavirus is like 2

The article presents a very thoughtful analysis of an atrocity that occurred followed by a collective denial, but it falls completely short in presenting a parallel to American culture / current events (point 3). This is where the feedback loop comes into play.

The author asserts that our pandemic response is similar to a genocide, but he doesn’t establish _how_, which would actually be the most crucial detail if this were a good-faith argument and not an emotional appeal wrapped as intellect porn. Without establishing _how_, it is left to the reader to fill in the details. What exactly about the situation in America is like genocide in Bosnia? In order to do piece this together, the reader must assume the conclusion (3) as a premise and work backwards.

The piece falls entirely flat because it starts as a passionate and well-presented takedown of consensus reality underpinned by mass denialism, and ends with a metaphor that can only hold true if the reader adopts a particular consensus reality. It’s left as a challenge to the reader to fill in a reality that supports the author’s comparison to genocide. Our virtue is at stake because we all agree that genocide is bad. But that’s not a real argument.
Ha! Guess I was overthinking it.
While I wish I have more will power to actually stay away from my phone, especially at bedtime, the second best solution I found useful is to set timers for addictive apps. If I use up the allotted time for an app, it will be disabled for the rest of the day. Also there is Focus mode on Android that disables distracting apps while working.
> Stop feeling like you have to be an informed and empowered member of society at all times on all issues.

This probably isn’t entirely the point you were trying to make with that sentence, but I feel like reading a book about an issue instead of trying to inform yourself through doomscrolling social media will actually do more to being an informed and empowered person.
I sorta disagree with the order in which things are taught. I don't particularly like that likelihood is taught before regression, when there's a really easy (and intuitive!) reason to learn it.

I like the way that I was taught when I took biostats in graduate school. We fist covered t-test and ANOVA as a way to intuitively compare differences among groups. From that, we then generalized our approach, and learned that linear regression is a generalized form, which happens to have a closed form solution. From linear regression, we then learned about logistic regression and odds ratios, and about the log-link formulation. But drats! We don't have a closed form solution to calculating our Betas. But we can estimate a good set of them using likelihood!

Statistics is often fraught with nuance, and I think the more we can convince to do more thinking about what we're trying to accomplish with a statistical analysis and how to prove it should have more emphasis over just "lets just make an alphabet soup out of our slide decks!". That's not to say you shouldn't have mathematical rigor, but mathematical rigor without an intuitive understanding is potentially giving the impression that more complex analysis == better analysis.
Blog posts, absolutely. That was the main form of each press release and article, actually.

Social media requires a lot more smaller and frequent effort which I honestly haven't been able to keep up with to say whether or not it's worthwhile.

Videos, though, are much harder because they take a long time to produce, relatively speaking. They also aren't visually engaging for the subject matter in my case.
This is good insight. You can take the next step and apply it consciously to your work when you are not tired.
access to mass transit?
For me, the fun of The Onion is almost entirely in the headline. That is where the creativity and the laugh is, maybe there and in the first sentence or so. The rest of the piece tends to be predictable from that, so GPT-3 could do that part. Coming up with the beginning is another matter, so the writers' jobs are safe for now.
Which point are you making?

* It’s illegal and therefore people shouldn’t do it.

* It’s illegal because people shouldn’t do it.

* It’s illegal which raises the cost of doing it.

* Other?
The best example of this is Torpenhow Hill in Cumbria, England. Torr, penn, and howe all mean “hill” in different languages.
I once ran 2 miles in under 15 minutes while completely detrained (I did have past cross country and track experience) because that was how long I had until the last T left Copley station and I had no money for a cab. Fear is a powerful motivator.
It is still amazing at what it is and could be used to generate boilerplate code. For many writing tasks, it can come up with a good starting point. For programming tasks maybe someone can write a translator for python to C++ or even assembly. It can also come up with basic designs which can be a useful starting point and as long as people don't see it as a replacement for them we will be fine.
It's something pretty unique to ML research. The goal posts keep moving whenever an advancement is made. Every time ML achieves something that was considered impossible X years ago, people look at it and say, actually, that's nothing special, the real challenge is <new goalpost>.

I'm pretty sure even as we cross into AGI, people will react the same way. And only then will some stop and realize that we just wrote off our own intelligence as nothing special, a parlour trick.
I'm not going to get clickbaited. Sorry, that headline deserves a boycott.
On a core level, why are you trying to create an AGI?

Anyone who has thought seriously about the emergence of AGI equates the chance that AGI causes a human extinction level event ~20%, if not greater.

Various discussion groups I am a part of now see anyone who is developing AGI to be equivalent to developing a stockpile of nuclear warheads in your basement that you're not sure won't immediately shoot off on completion.

As an open question. If one believes that
1. We do not know how to control an AGI
2. AGI has a very credible chance to cause a human level extinction event
3. We do not know what this chance or percentage is
4. We can identify who is actively working to create an AGI

Why should we not immediately arrest people who are working on an "AGI-future" and try them for crimes against humanity? Certainly, In my nuclear warhead example, I would immediately be arrested by the government of the country I am currently living in the moment they discovered this.
Either you live in Scandinavia, or you aren’t sufficiently tipping coat check, valet, bellhops, delivery runners, et c.

Cash is also essential for grease/bribes.
"Why is your camera covered with all these little furrows?"

"Oh, it is insect worn."
Not anymore since many got sued a few years ago for being inaccurate or simply costing too much to maintain. Your bank should provide coin sleeves for free, though rolling them manually can be a hassle.

See here for more info: https://www.mybanktracker.com/news/coin-counting-machines-ba...
I think the more interesting result (and more relevant to Chomsky's point) would be to work in the other direction. If you instead produce a list of sentences with similar log probabilities you will see that it contains a mix of grammatical and ungrammatical utterances. This implies something more is needed to distinguish them.
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It is in fact just a joke. New grads write shitty code (I certainly did when I started at Google) and after a few months of attentive reviews they write good clean code. It feels like hazing a bit at first because all us arrogant ivy league types graduate thinking we're geniuses and then it turns out, no, we can't even do the equivalent of fetching coffee correctly and have to be handheld through it. But afterwards people joke about it the way they joke about any other shared experience.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll make it more obvious. I've deleted it for you and replied to your email as well.

Thanks for giving Histre a try.
> It always helped me to do an absolute basic concepts course on a new technology I learn.

Totally agree. I remember reading a CSS book on kindle in Aruba many years back. I find I really need to deep dive into something to understand it. Because at that point, I was like, I can code in everything, I really need to understand what the heck this CSS is doing. Thank goodness for flex box now, saves so much manually work. I code a lot in Vue with Vuetify, so <v-layout row wrap><v-flex shrink>this</v-flex><v-flex grow>that</v-flex></v-layout> is magical.
How much did she burn on transportation to turn in the coins
Nope, this is wishful thinking along with the lines "that allowing China to flaunt WTO rules and prosper will help it to be democratic."

Counter-points

- China doesn't want to sensor innovation, but control it.

- Chinese companies and people have access to the latest innovation in all fields as most of the stuff is assembled there.

- China reverse-engineers these innovations of West and float the market with competition which are many a times subsidized by Communist Party.

- Censorship of individuals does not matter as long as Chinese companies have access to latest innovation which they can reverse engineer.
One of the earliest science fiction books was written by a 1660s duchess (2016)
They want to relocate not for the freedom and democracy, but for the advantages they can take out of it. If you actually get into the Chinese community, you can hear many of them happily bloat about how well they do in a free society, while criticising thngs being “too free” when the freedom causes them trouble. Freedom is good, as long as I get all the benefits and none of the responsibilities, is basically the mentality.

Source: I am Taiwanese. We get way too many of these people.
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is this a another hack? i think we will need scam fact check like news fact check :)
I've tried so many options for note taking but I can never find a good solution that fits all my needs. I find writing things down helps with comprehension and retention, but using a physical notebook has its limitations when you want to reference images or snippets found online.

In the end I landed on OneNote, but I find it to be slow for larger notebooks, and it doesn't have an intuititive method of linking different notes from different sections for easy reference. However I like the handwriting recognition far better than Apple variants, and I felt like with apps like Notion I spent more time customizing and grokking the app than actually taking notes.
It's mostly for automated alerts/notices so that you do in fact ping back with the correct ticket/issue which is traceable in whatever CRM they use.