skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also worked at Xerox. They were good at keeping their employees in the dark. Xerox believed in keeping as much information secret as possible, even from customers who needed (and were entitled to) technical information about the equipment they leased at exorbitant cost, like the 9700 laser printer (120 pages/min, two-sided in 1979).

They did such a great job of focusing on copiers, that they blew their lead in the major technologies of the century: GUI, mouse, laser printing, LAN.

Every new hire gets a copy of "The billions nobody wanted", the story of Chester Carlson, his invention of xerography, and how many companies turned him down. It's ironic that they repeated the same mistakes.
GPT-3 Is Amazing–and Overhyped
I've wanted to do this for a few years.
It's the second one.

Most of my previous traffic was from direct searches for the name of the software, so I think I'll try the social media approach - thanks!
He does explain it at around the 5:30 minute mark by saying that it is the aligned spin of the atoms within magnets that give them their peculiar strength.

I think that his leadup is an attempt to get a couple points across:

1) That we typically can explain things in terms of more basic or more 'fundamental' concepts. This does not work with magnetism since magnetism itself is a fundamental force. Attempts to explain via analogy should be avoided.

2) Even the spin explanation probably does more harm than good. A non-physicist will think of atoms spinning like a top, which is wrong and misleading.
IMO it’s more like a phone call where it rings, I answer and they can’t hear what I say back to the caller. They just play a user specific recording and then hang up.

In a context like this it feels like a two-way communication medium being abused for 1 way.
Then there's the "cargo.toml" file, which this doesn't cover.

"There's more than one place you have to write it."
These focus locus “chairs” work for me.

https://youtu.be/8R6ug5lgbFk
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Ok, but please don't post even more things that are devoid of substance.
We used to play 2-player liero over the school LAN. It was great because it'd fit a 3.5" floppy disk and was totally portable. It's real time worms, and apparently inspired Noita.

Though reading up apparently it didn't have LAN play, so maybe we just did splitscreen?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liero
It’s ok to change. It’ll evolve as you get more experience and exposure. It’s not that uncommon to change areas/advisors even a few years into a PhD.

I wanted to go into PL and compilers until I met the prof who later became my PhD advisor. He introduced me to HCI, which still let me dive into some PL topics too!
Sure, let’s point to a single, or two, case in one city in the US, in which case the DHS is being sued last I checked, to contrast a ground up system in the whole of China.

Just today, or yesterday, a respected prof got fired from Tsinghua for being critical of CCP and Xi in particular.
What did Thiel do that everyone here despised him so?

Is it because he’s a gay conservative?
I see subscription feed emails as you describe a bit different from a B2C/B2B email about an account or something specific to me that might require a dialog or reply should something need to be said.
Hmm, I think there's some confusion about my comment here. I'll use your reference to veganism as an example. Individual vegans can choose a diet which, for themselves, minimizes the harm caused by their choices. But at a larger-than-individual scale there are those who recognize that reducing meat consumption means addressing the reasons people eat meat, and that in turn means things like (but not limited to) developing meat alternative products that satiate people's cravings for meat. So, while veganism may be a good enough choice for yourself, it's unrealistic to not recognize the reasons why people don't choose it and to not keep those reasons in consideration when coming up with a strategy.
The ultimate troll entry for me on Snopes is:

> So how did this claim arise? In a 1993 PC Professional article, columnist Lisa Holst wrote about the ubiquitous lists of “facts” that were circulating via e-mail and how readily they were accepted as truthful by gullible recipients. To demonstrate her point, Holst offered her own made-up list of equally ridiculous “facts,” among which was the statistic cited above about the average person’s swallowing eight spiders per year, which she took from a collection of common misbeliefs printed in a 1954 book on insect folklore. In a delicious irony, Holst’s propagation of this false “fact” has spurred it into becoming one of the most widely-circulated bits of misinformation to be found on the Internet.

This is NOT in their "TroLL" section -- it is not clearly marked as being a fake fact.

See https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/swallow-spiders/ .

Yet if you do the homework -- other people have, and I have tried to reproduce it myself -- there is no such source. See https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/2094/is-a-write... for example.

This Snopes article cites a column reportedly called "Reading Is Believing" from a periodical called "PC Professional", page 71, date 7 January 1993. I was unable to find the existence of any such periodical although there is "PC professionnel", published in German, ISSN 0939-5822, whose archives seem to only be available in German libraries (and I have not reviewed those).

However, I was able to find in the Cornell University archives, a quarterly periodical called the Cornell Engineer, which carried a column by a student columnist dated April 1992 (Volume 56 number 2, page 24, column title "Stress and Strain", author Margot Anne-Stephanie Vigeant '94). That seems to predate the January 1993 citation given in the Snopes article, and the 1992 student-publication column text says in part

> My first topic for this issue is worries. I've decided that there are just too many well adjusted, un-paranoid people in this school (NOT), so I've decided to wreck their peace of mind by sharing a list of my favorite worries with them. These are the kind of things that just jump into your mind right before you're about to fall asleep - horrible little night gremlins whose goal it is to keep you up just a little bit longer. So here they are, hope you can sleep after this:

> The average person swallows eight spiders while sleeping, in their lifetime. What if all eight show up tonight?

Meanwhile the source that Snopes apparently made up, Lisa Birgit Holst, is an anagram for "This is a big troll".

It's just odd. Their debunking contains a pointless lie; there is a real citation available they chose not to use.
Life on the slippery Earth – Aztec moral philosophy has profound differences
It's like the Martin Fowler of business organization
I remember being slightly surprised when I learned that Friendly's was founded by Prestley Blake (not by someone named Friendly), but because he was an alumnus of and major donor to my high school, this fact sort of got drummed into me to the extent that I eventually considered it strange that other people didn't know who the founder was!

I think also remember that name change.
It's entertaining, but the tone and atmosphere are so anachronistic. I like historical fiction that gives more of a sense of the alienness of past societies.

Here's a translated quote from the novel 三国演义, per Wikipedia:

"Brothers are like limbs, wives and children are like clothing. Torn clothing can be repaired; how can broken limbs be mended?"
One expert predicted in mid-2014 [1] that a world-class Go AI was 10 years away. AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol 18 months later.

It's not 50 years, but it does illustrate just how fraught these predictions can be and how quickly the state of the art can advance beyond even an insider's well-calibrated expectations.

(To his credit the expert here immediately followed up his prediction with, "But I do not like to make predictions.")

[1] https://www.wired.com/2014/05/the-world-of-computer-go/
While there is some truth in what you say, many overseas Chinese get their news from Chinese sources even if they have access to better options. It creates a vicious cycle of cognitive dissonance.
You'd be surprised just at how much overlap there might be. I'm a parent, and I still have a nice collection of board books left over from toddlerhood.

Obnoxious is injecting 3-word snide comments when people want to have serious discussions about governance and corruption. If you have something serious to say, please contribute. I'm serious about that -- different points of view are good. If you don't have something to contribute, and you just want to make a douche of yourself, you can expect people to respond in kind.
Maybe nothing? “Search engines through training data” are already the state of the art, and have well documented and mocked failure cases.

Unless someone comes along with a more clever mechanism to pretend it’s learning like humans, you’re not looking at a path towards AGI in my opinion.
'Doomscrolling' breeds anxiety –  how to stop the cycle
"If a potential business partner gave him an answer he didn’t like, he would call them, angry, or take to Twitter to blast their replies."

Never deal with a person like this.
Not to pile on, but: I would urge you to completely delete all of those biographical details. They are not only irrelevant - they are a huge turnoff which destroys your credibility for what is otherwise a decent undergraduate-level blog post. The details about how brilliant you are make you seem both arrogant and deeply ignorant. Nobody cares about a dubious and meaningless "prediction" about automations or pandemics or whatever. Nobody thinks your prediction that MS would buy GitHub indicates a deeper understanding of typed languages and machine learning. None of it makes you look intelligent or prescient. It just makes you look like a foolish narcissist.
This is the kind of narrative I expect when the powers that be want to separate a part of a country. This is clearly an attempt to separate Russia from its Siberian wealth. For a textbook example of getting a part of a country via generating an independence movement see the history of Panama (former Colombia province).
This is like saying "stop making everything political." It's not even possible.

Everything is a statement, the lack of intention can be doubly so. There are entire utilitarian schools of thought in fashion just like there is in everything else.

Also fashion doesn't exist solely to please others! I wouldn't dismiss an entire massive industry as inane. Vanity is a big part of it like a lot of other things, but if you're making a conscious choice in what you wear... fashion is playing some small role.
There was a project to get some D code into the engine, did this get anywhere?
Hi there, I'm one of the study authors. Iron plays many roles and is needed for your body to function correctly, but we found people who had higher blood iron levels because of their genes were getting diseases earlier in life and had a shorter lifespan, on average.
But you were an ethnic minority too when you were in China right?

I never understood this line of thinking though - the way you describe it sounds like it was out of pure curiosity rather than racism. It's interesting seeing the difference of how people define racism based on who they are and where they grew up.

For example - racism in Australia can be seen through racial slurs and physical violence from the moment they start interacting with others (preschool) up to adulthood. Or it can come in many subvert forms in the professional workspace. Contrast this to where I hear of racial minorities coming into Asia who for the most part get treated at best above everyone and at worst out of curiosity (e.g. staring)
It was more from a perspective of return address. If you mail me something I can expect to mail you back at the return address. Imagine the return address on mail being “mail sent to this address will be sent back to you without being read”. Seems weird.

I hadn’t thought of regulation but more of it being a poor CX pattern that businesses shouldn’t do. It seems impolite and I was curious how others saw it. Thx!
> they literally spank my Weller styluses asses

The ass-end of the stylus is pretty obvious, but where's the appendage that the gun uses for spanking? Also, you may want to cut back on the psychedelics while soldering.
Carelessly making personal stuff available to interested parties was never a good idea in human history. You don't know who will see it in 10, 20, 50 years from now and what repercussions it might bring. So, hide your stuff by default and not based on your trust in the current administration or lack thereof.
No... just no.
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No, but it's to take in account where the high price (in certain poorly regulated geographies) is justified by the cost of research.
Here's one of the most important things I can think of that's pushing me back to China more and more each day:

I live in one of the major NA cities and I dont feel safe walking outside after dark (after 8pm).

I have a friend got robbed on knifepoint around 11pm this past March. The case hasn't been closed. Numerous friends' homes got broke in and stuff stolen and cases are all cold.

And I was almost hit by a left turning car on a quite street. The car sped away without checking if i'm ok.

Yes I miss getting my privacy striped away by all the CCTV cameras and feeling safe. I miss all the speed cameras and red light cameras. All the cameras that the existence of them having the deterrent effect for thieft and robberies and traffic violations.

I'm aware of the quote: Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Because I've been telling that to my friends before I left China and live in NA. But now I think Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs more often than that. (https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html#:~:text=Maslow'...)

Culturally I'm just used to a higher level of safety I guess. Japan, Singapore, Taiwan other than PRC are like that too. So it's more of an Asian thing.

And that heirarchy actually explain a lot why Chinese seems to be not on the same frequency with westerners on human right issues. Because I guess Chinese are still at a lower level of that hierarchy right now.
You mean in the same way that spam email and spam calls to mobile numbers where it might actually cost folks money to answer are illegal in the US? Yeah, those requirements are so effective.
Nobody will go bankrupt from going to the doctor, but no doctor will see you without cash-up-front. As a person coming from a western country with universal healthcare, it was very confronting navigating the Chinese hospital system. Every time we needed something we were first directed to an administrator who would take payment. eg, payment for initial consult, then payment for ultrasound, then payment for pharmacy services, etc.
According to this ZDNet article [0] 14% of Chinese internet users use a VPN daily. If you do the math that's roughly 7% of the Chinese population.

> We talk in person, during lunch or on dinner tables, in office. When we talk politics online we invent new words to avoid auto detection. The recent hot topic is this: ...
basically some guy got detained because he whistleblowed something food safety related. We talk politics, in ways you normally wont imagine. But not the politics you expect.

Right, so even to discuss local drama that doesn't even involve big politics you still have to use coded language and can get detained for it. That's not exactly an environment that fosters free spread of information.

> That's an interesting topic because most Chinese dont care

And that's the sad part. Chinese citizens are being detained often for years without any due process and people don't care. That's exactly what decades of government propaganda do to people. Not even going to mention the organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners which gets somewhat censored even in the Western media too. Most people in China (and the West) are simply unaware of it[1].

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/vpns-can-still-be-used-in-chin...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
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Yes, exactly the same way. European carriers are liable for those and nobody I know in Europe has a problem. American carriers have successfully convinced politicians and “libertarians” that they shouldn’t be expected to validate network access since not accepting money to deliver spam would reduce their profits by a trivial fraction.
Not very sure if OKR should replace the KPI in most of IT companies since OKR mostly aims at developers. I've experienced one company that request their employees to do OKR weekly and monthly. It actually helped a lot at the beginning coz everyone is curious and energized.

But after a few weeks, indolence came out because someone forgot to submit the OKR. And other members also do the same thing. Pretty much of a "broken window effect". The workload was very high, so OKR wasn't attached any importance. Or maybe we did it in a wrong way.

It doesn't mean that we might not have to align with OKR, but the method of implementing the OKR insistently and continuously should come first before it takes places.
Apparently the quality of the temperature control also matters quite a bit. It seems the TS100 has little problem in either of those departments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgrB5P-rDLw https://hackaday.com/2017/07/24/review-ts100-soldering-iron/ , especially if you use a 24V power supply. It's also embarrassingly cheap compared to the mid-spec soldering irons from prestige brands which it tends to match.
Its a 2 minute read, go see for yourself
Noteability

Audio synchronized with your typing, writing and drawing, plus WebDAV backstore and ability to drop PDFs and links into your notes. I think GoodNotes is a close second —need layers in Notability.
There’s a very good running joke on the show Childrens Hospital, which is about a children’s hospital: even though it is a hospital for children, it got its name from its founder, Dr. Arthur Childrens.
> They seem exactly like what you'd get when you throw huge amounts of compute power

I disagree with that.

The one/few shot ability of the model is much much better than what I would have imagined, and I know very few people in the field that saw GPT-3 and were like "yep, exactly what I thought".
Getting into the Habit of Reading
I think people should be impressed, but also recognize the distance from here to AGI. It clearly has some capabilities that are quite surprising, and is also clearly missing something fundamental relative to human understanding.

It is difficult to define AGI, and it is difficult to say what the remaining puzzle piece are, and so it's difficult to predict when it will happen. But I think the responsible thing is to treat near-term AGI as a real possibility, and prepare for it (this is the OpenAI charter we wrote two years ago: https://openai.com/charter/).

I do think what is clear is that we are, in the coming years, going to have very powerful tools that are not AGI but that still change a lot of new things. And that's great--we've been waiting long enough for a new tech platform.
Not sure about that. Notoriously, David Davis, arch-brexiter, didn’t realise the UK couldn’t negotiate separate trade deals with EU states until after the Brexit vote. A lot of them are just confused.
Counterpoint: regardless of what address is used, nobody can force a business to actually check and respond to emails. A no-reply address is at least a transparent statement that your response will go unaddressed.
What's a good online course that will help provide me a refresher on my maths?
> The effects of loci of interest on male and female lifespan are largely the same, although their effect on survival may be slightly stronger in middle age (40–60 years) compared to old age (>80 years).

This is interesting. I have a feeling that because there are many congenital cardiovascular and other congenital diseases that one usually succumbs to in the 40-60 range that is what we are seeing a stronger link to genes here. Unless a parents passes away before the age of 55 from a heart attack it's not considered hereditary.

I find it interesting when studied like this are performed. One of the best predictors of life expectancy in elderly individuals is grip strength; not because of the fact that one has a strong grip, but because a stronger grip means more muscle mass leading to longer life. When I see that iron levels are correlated to longer lifespans I wonder if there's something else going on. Many women, in particular, walk around with iron deficient anemia and don't realize their fatigue is because of their lack of iron. Anyway, I'm excited for this line of research to be further delineated.
Very nice, thanks. It's easy to take these things for granted.
If you’re sending millions of messages, you can include links for the most common actions (e.g. real, working unsubscribes).

If you can’t afford to pay people to deal with the remaining replies, you should be better at targeting people who actually want your messages.
> They are convinced that unit tests are unnecessary extra work for their project but they don’t realize they are losing time by having to manually test and research changes.

If people are finding tests unnecessary extra work, maybe they're right for their project.

Most jobs are just "ship feature asap, try not to break anything, repeat". Most managers don't care about code quality as much as speed of delivery. Most coders don't have much "skin in the game" and can always get another job when the project fails.

Writing tests is a sign that you know what you're building, you have a methodology for building it, and you have a commitment to keeping it working in the future. That's simply not the requirements for most programming work, and it can be a disservice to both the coders and the management to push for testing that won't help achieve the business goals. If a business needs to iterate fast and reliably, write tests. If a business needs to iterate fast and is ok with breaking things, skip the tests and have a rollback plan instead.
Slick is for querying traditional SQL RDBMSes, so it has to deal with a massive impedance mismatch compared to a greenfield project. I'd look at something like Facebook's Haxl (for querying GraphQL) for a fairer comparison IMO.
> The main idea is to give product teams real problems to solve, and then to give the teams the space to solve them.

First, there's a dearth of high quality engineers in the industry. They've been gobbled up by SV companies with large paychecks and promises of "fuck-you money" paydays. Everyone else gets developers in the range from above average to bad.

Product teams only work with high quality engineers across the entire product. Why? Because if they're shitty, there's no bound to creep of shit code, call it "shit creep" (see footnote 1)

How do you fix a shitty product team, other than replacing the entire team, or product with hopefully a better team?

Sure, feature teams are more limited in scope and their abilities, but they at least constrain the shittyness to a feature. If the feature needs to be replaced, the team can just be replaced, not the entire product.

(1) We've all had to deliver shit code from time to time. The thing is the good engineers know it's shit and refactor it as soon as they can.
"Too much" iron is by definition bad.