skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We aren't sure, but the speculation is that in the process of training, GPT-3 found that the best strategy to correctly predicting the continuation of arithmetic expressions was to figure out the rules of basic arithmetic and encode them in some portion of its neural network, then apply them whenever the prompt suggested to do so.

I strongly disagree. GPT-3 has 100% accuracy on 2-digit addition, 80% on 3-digit addition, 25% on 4-digit addition and 9% on 5-digit addition. If it could indeed "understand arithmetic" the increase in number of digits should not affect its accuracy.

My perspective as an ML practitioner is that the cool part of GPT-3 is storing information effectively and it is able to decode queries easier than before to get the information that is required. Yet with things like arithmetic, the most efficient way would be to understand the rules of addition but the internal structure is too rigid to encode those rules atm.
Bloomberg could choose to start earning back some trust at their leisure by retracting the article.

They haven't; they still stand by it. Since they consider the rest of their output just as trustworthy as that article, I'll take them at their word.
The latter two would be more universally true in a consulting context, correct? Could be that managers at consulting firms have to manage their clients a lot more than a team normally would, so the extra managerial bandwidth could be dedicated to maintaining that relationship.
Thanks, I'm a big fan of FM Synth music. Hoping to one day do some experimentation with the chip myself if I can find the time.
Tesla hiring in Shanghai as production ramps up
Isn't this statement incorrect?
"Isolates are far more lightweight than containers ... Containers effectively run a virtual machine, and there’s a lot of overhead associated with them"

Everything I have read suggests containers (being based on CGroups) add virtually no overhead at all (in the vicinity of 1% at worse from memory).
The CDC could publish a single, authoritative dataset, accompanied by spreadsheet-like UI's, sensible and informative charts, with useful filtering. I would think that would be part of their mandate, to inform the public.
Well, it does sound like a very useful service.

I wonder how they could have gone that far off the rails. Maybe they got taken over by investors, or acquired.
I've talked to some neuroscience friends and was interested to learn that lucid dreaming hasn't been studied much if at all in lab conditions. I welcome such research and hope more people get inspired to study deeper.
According to reddit comments he was not a good leader https://old.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/hz0ynt/intel_makes_c...
I like how the entire map on that page is dark red. Somehow 0-1% seems like too low a range for the scale there. Maybe just needs to be rebalanced by someone.
Welcome, IBM. Seriously. (1981)
A Beginner's Explanation of Bitcoin from Anthony Pompliano
What makes it harder is that many of these exhaust systems are used off road only, on dedicated track bikes. You can get a street legal supersport bike for $10-15k new, and with bikes that powerful, changing from a street legal to performance optimized exhaust can make a significant difference. But these supersports are also often used on the streets, just like you see people driving Lamborghinis and Ferraris on the streets (but not often because fast cars are very expensive). Just another thing which makes legislation harder.
In Today's World, Countries should be grateful to a company when they employ people. There is no lack of highly skilled workforce in entire world. US with it's abysmal education system should be grateful to intel that it attracts semi conductor industry talents from all over the world which maintains US's hegemony in the world. If intel doesn't employ them, they would start companies like TSMC in their countries, hell if US didn't discriminate against Asians in 1980s maybe TSMC wouldn't even exist in the first place. Benefits that US provides to companies is way less than benefits companies provide to US.
"ignorance is causing people to take offense when none was intended and instead of trying to educate people we can instead just make a greater effort to not offend them"
Focus App – Project Management Software
Focus is a startup that is focused on providing tools to help companies and teams work efficiently resulting in increased productivity and performance.

Focus is a team management software that helps companies to focus on what matters most. The Focus app will provide access to tools that will allow groups to align teams, priortize tasks, focus on objectives, and staying organized.
I assume this is related to the other Google post today[1], wherein the moderators are accused of gaslighting their customers instead of responding appropriately.

Not sure of the context here, so I'll let better informed voices prevail, I guess.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23969442
Genuinely surprised to hear that any of those apps ever supported payments in the first place. Not that this excuses sunsetting a feature that people depended on (It's The Google Way!), but...
you can't search every workstation

I've seen a case where every employee who touched a certain project had to turn over their workstation's hard drive (just the drive) to a forensic company who would document and remove anything related to that project. They ended up failing to delete a bunch of stuff anyway.
> Longer duration battery storage is going to be very hard to make work financially since the capital costs are spread across far fewer charge/discharge cycles.

The same argument could be applied to solar panels (25 year warranty) or fibre optic cables. But as so many solar panels are required they will be producing them for decades before the market is saturated. Of course after decades the old ones have indeed started dying, so it isn't an issue.
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#1 and 2 are generally correct. Personally, I would remove the quote "nothing about assets, liabilities or equity". Accounting is "all about" those accounts.

#3 couple edits:
Change "the equity goes down by $1000" to "either equity or liabilities will increase by $1000". Equity will either remain the same or increase when a business obtains $1000 out of thin air.

Change "the loan account goes down by $1000" to "the loan account goes UP by $1000". Obtaining a loan will increase cash/increase liability accounts.

#4 is correct.
This YT video covers this issue. Lot of politics and power struggles in Intel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nsX9nUFIBc
I clicked the "Learn how to send money to friends" link and the first step is to "Open the Google Pay app"

You lost me right there Google. I already have your Gmail app to send money and now you are taking functionality away from it and making me download another of your apps.
Don't forget Spectre and Meltdown.
> What's wrong with fixing inconsistencies?

Nothing, if you can convince the entire user base to do it at the same time. If you decide to unilaterally fix inconsistencies, you've just made it impossible to understand what anyone is saying without additional metadata saying which version you're using.

And if you start telling learners that your "fixed" version is all there is, hiding the actual standard that most of the world uses, you are basically lying to them and setting them up to fail.
Didn't know you could in the first place.
That really hasn’t been my experience when working alongside sales people at the companies I’ve worked for.

I definitely wouldn’t call any of them sales droids. Usually they’re just given really tough goals and quotas to hit.

And while none of the salespeople I’ve worked with would book unsolicited appointments, I could see it happening at companies who don’t have a very mature sales org and just throw their account managers to the sharks and expect them to make it rain.

From experience, I suspect that most salespeople who resort to invasive tactics really don’t expect everybody to be excited about their product. They are just desperately trying to keep their heads above water to avoid getting fired - a very human, non droid like thing to do.

That doesn’t excuse it, of course.
I heard similar from a retired pilot in about 1994.
The US is so loud! I don’t know if it’s true but one of my theories is that a lot of US cities consist of uninterrupted grids, and noise from a much larger area than in cities with messily organized roads like those in Tokyo where I live now, ends up being audible at any given place. In Manhattan you can hear sirens from like 30 streets away - but here, walk 5 minutes from the biggest stations and intersections and it’s dead silent.

Also, I noticed when I was living in Shanghai that it has gotten pretty silent there too with the dominance of electric vehicles, which has made places like the French Concession a pleasure to stroll in.
A friend came from a very large family. I asked him how his parents coped. He said once you get beyond the first number of kids, it basically runs itself.

The first kid requires X attention. The second kid adds 0.7X. Then the third is like 0.3X, for a total of 2X. As you have more kids, the older ones can look after the younger ones. The amount of work actually goes down. You are basically the supervisor / police.
> Proton irradiation-decelerated intergranular corrosion

This is specifically proton irradiation as opposed to neutron.

It doesn't appear to come for free.
YMMV, but I personally think that's a reasonable level of intrusion. I'd prefer less; but for the convenience of "auto-populated calendar events", I'm willing to swallow a little unobtrusive upselling for a very justifiable assumption ("person who is travelling _probably_ wants a hotel").
I likely wouldn't survive. I would've been confident in the ship, and the crew's countenance.

The ship sank very slowly at first. No reason for panic, if things are just still. I would've known about watertight doors, and how ships haven't really sunk from iceberg incidents.

Plus, there's a wireless on board, and we're in a busy shipping lane. Plenty of time to get help. Plenty of lifeboats, too. We can offload people onto another ship and row back for more.

Hey! Look, lights right over there. I can almost make out portholes. They can get over here if things get ugly.

The list to port seems to be the big problem. They'll just use the bilge tanks, maybe. I barely perceive the downward list, since the ship is so long, and we're up so high. (I guess I'm in first or second class.)

The officers are so calm. Things are orderly. Capt. Smith seems calm. The band is playing. Damn it, let's get this pumped out and be on our way!

Some time passes, suddenly the ship feels like it's lurching down, perceptively. Wait!!! I run up to the front of the ship, and see water coming over the bow! Hell! The crew didn't give us any indications things were this bad.

I look behind me. Lifeboats are almost gone. Everyone else notices what's suddenly happening. It's 2:00 a.m. We're sinking. Suddenly we feel the list downward, the port list being gone.

Wait! Where'd that light go? Weren't they coming?

It's too late. The crowds are surrounding the last lifeboats. I panic and run aft.
Plan Bay Area 2050 Blueprint
The thinking isn't that long-term, it's focused on the next 2-6 quarters. Plenty of people got rich off of plundering Hewlett-Packard; to the point there's no meat left on that carcass aside from garbage printers.

Ironically enough, the test equipment division (what I would call the actual successors of the company) have been through 2 restructurings (HP->Agilent->Keysight). Almost as though having cutting-edge engineering & R&D will have the side-effect of making good products. Shame that costs money though.
Which is why your numbers look wrong, because if there's 1 teacher for every 30 students and also 1 teacher dying for every 30 student deaths, that implies the risk of death for the two groups is equivalent.

My broader point, though, is that life requires calculated risk and tradeoffs. If the standard is "no child should ever experience a teacher dying from corona", and we WFH until that risk becomes <1/adult/year, then we're disregarding things like kids committing suicide due to isolation, health issues left untreated due to the pandemic, domestic violence etc. School is a literal lifeline for many children, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds.
...might have been prevented with self-flying...
Ah okay thanks a ton! I think that clears it up. So basically:

- The idea is that every source/destination ("node") of funds keeps their own account for every node they deal with. And every transaction ("directed edge") necessarily needs to be tracked by both accounts in an equal and opposite manner.

- This is mainly only useful for businesses, as they generally have multiple sources of income (and/or multiple creditors) and need to be able to explain/track them. (At least as far I can see, I don't really see much of a point in doing this for the average person.)
I wonder whether disposable credit cards protect against this.

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-protect-yourself-online-...
its interesting how Intel and TSMC all use ASML EUV and maybe some of machines from the same vendor like LAM research.

TSMC make it work while Intel struggle. craft is real.
Not all Americans, just a very passionate, vocal subset of Americans
Blog Post: Quarkus with Panache
Any sort of mid-to-large e-commerce company will have a large back-office ERP system (e.g. SAP, Oracle Financials, etc.) that needs to correctly account for data coming from the user-facing transactional systems (i.e. the website or mobile apps). How the transactional data from your runtime systems (usually stored in a relational DB) is accounted for in these ERP systems is tricky and can have big implications if not done correctly.
Some occupations - usually professions such as medicine and engineering - seem to have a relatively strong ethical tradition. Perhaps it comes from the self-regulatory aspect of being a member of a profession. These ethics courses in software education are an attempt to move towards that goal. I think ultimately you can’t bootstrap ethics into a population unless that population feels like they owe something to one another. The computing field is just too broad for that.
What Is the Weird Black Cube on the Sun in This New NASA Image?
"Columnar Memory Formats"

Maybe I'm just getting old, but back when we had to melt our own sand to build a computer, we called these things arrays.
Minerva: A New College Admissions Process
It takes a special kind of scientist to want to create a simultaneous irradiation/corrosion facility. Especially with fluorine salts.

I'd love to see all the paperwork and planning that preceded the work :).
First US Phase III trial for Covid-19 vaccine begins
AMD's only beating Intel with a process node advantage. Whether or not AMD would continue to outperform Intel at a more similar component size is still speculation, but they have not in recent years.
30 years of family videos in an AI archive
Garmin’s four-day service meltdown was caused by ransomware
Interesting that the censorship is so effective that we only have one good source, according to you. That's not exactly encouraging...
At the end of the discussion section, there is some evidence presented that this self-healing effect occurs under neutron irradiation as well, though the exact implications for fast reactor materials seem unclear.

Makes sense, the basic mechanism seems to be mediated by increased interstitial diffusion. Shouldn’t really matter if it’s protons or neutrons that are generating those interstitials

Edit: on re-reading, it doesn’t seem that they’ve actually performed any neutron irradiation experiments
I won't go into personal specifics, but I'm mid-career. I've been through a few companies, and made it as high up as C-suite in a smaller company, and director-level in a bigger company, before finding I prefer senior IC, tech lead, advanced development, or research roles.

Of the companies I've been to, most were highly-tech focused (and pretty elite teams), but one was a large, distinctly non-tech company (with mainframes, even, and not the modern types, running legacy algorithms). I ran a small skunkworks team there.

I can't give great statistics, aside from saying that at the tech companies, people tended to fall into the category of older is better. Senior engineers were senior.

At the non-tech company, people tended to fall into the category of older is obsolete. The tech team was there for the paycheck. They worked 9-to-5, maintained a healthy work-life balance, and kept fairly boring systems running. The work they did was really outside of the company's core competency. It just needed to be done, and someone needed to do it. If layoffs ever came, I'm not quite sure who would hire them, though. It was culture shock for me. It wasn't specific to this one company either, but to the industry (we had pretty close contacts with both collaborators and competitors). This company was industry-leading, actually.
Investors don't get to see trade secrets. They obviously restored some backups even if they paid random via a reputation laundering company.
So if Antifa was the militant wing of the German Communist Party in the 1930s [1] and it is they who weaponised race to use black people as shieldmoms in insurrection against the west, why does tech tolerate obscenities such as Django project banner [2]?

As far as I can see, only the FSF and Ubuntu hasn't pushed this. They haven't coralled folk under the pretense of "hey fellow white people" when they're not white. They don't run organisations such as Revolution Systems. They don't shame good folk and cast them out for dissent.

Our leaders seem to consent or even encourage our software being politicised subjecting it to a group-think leadership comprimised by those who would cancel others with dishonesty and buzzwords rather than rebuttal.

Regardless of happy spaces ingroup dogmas that don't mix are a massive issue so I do not blame China for attempting to resolve a situation. It makes me suspicious the media which at this stage is on its knees push this story, self-preservation?

Only 1 in 5 muslims in the UK are in full time work [3], we have large parallel societies now and this fact alone terrorises the national conscience and damages trust. Our government is scared to tackle the issue and sits on reports of a subtle genocides of our peoples [4]. ~30,000 bairns sexually assaulted or raped but there are claims this number is north of 500,000.

It cannot be racial prejudice. London is majority non-native and Birmingham (that gave Siemens his break) joins it next year. It seems more akin to a Jizra.

I'm convinced I am in a simulation now. As one who values critical thinking and Stoicism I cannot believe that everyone is OK playing along with this.

I have lost respect for so many that I looked up to. What on earth is Bill Gates upto? [5]

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/trumps-antifa-accusations-spark-debate...

[2] https://www.djangoproject.com/

[3] https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/10/06/20-percent...

[4] https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300239

[5] https://twitter.com/jonkirbysthlm/status/1287735860688019458...
Maybe the smaller targets were already tried but didn't make the news
I would have thought my GW-M5610-1ER would be the better watch, with GShock and solar (Love the watch). But perhaps too expensive.
Perl 6 is now Raku. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku_(programming_language)
Romantic relationships are supposed to be for equals. This article is clearly not a relationship targeted at equals.
I don't want to live in a country where the government prosecutes victims of crimes instead doing its primary duty of national defense against foreign attackers.
TSMC's feature size improvements are shown by chips being released from the latest fab (and with pretty good yields, too, apparently, as AMD just released the XT series of higher clocked chips). AMD's designs are good because Zen+ was better than Zen, and Zen 2 is better than Zen+. Some of the gains may be from die shrink, but if die shrinking was all you needed to do, TSMC would license a z80, drop it on their latest process and call it a day.
Living in Japan, I became accustomed to using numbers for up to around 10,000 yen ($100USD) due to interactions at the stores and around town, but when I would hear the price of a car (1,000,000+ yen or 100 myriad yen) or a house, it would just confuse me and not register at all. It’s all just based on your personal experience, I think.
Quarantine plus test is SOP in many places including Singapore and Victoria (Australia), but everybody seems to be sticking to the 14-day rule.
You confirmed it was actually possible to send money in Gmail? Because I, and some other people who replied here, were unaware it was even possible.
Reminds me of the old joke about the ideal company is having one person to turn on a factory and then place a logo on it, while engineering and everything else is outsourced.
Equity accounts are confusing.
> sales trends,

Not sure about this... Intel is still the big player here. They has nearly ~50% more revenue in just Q2 for their datacenter segment alone as AMD did for all of 2019 in total (for all segments, they dont break out datacenter revenue). That's not to say there aren't things to be positive about AMD for (there are!), but money talks, and money is still buying Intel.

> market sentiment

If you mean stock market, I guess? Personally, I think buying a company with a P/E ratio of 166 is insane.
I have switched to Outlook.com for my main private business email and protonmail for emailing friends.

Will back out of Google slowly over the next 5 years. The countdown has started.
I don't disagree that Intel failed to make competitive modem chips but that's not their proverbial bread and butter.

Instead it was making x86 chips that, while Qualcomm's Snapdragon lineup held a virtual monopoly in mobile space, it's a very much apples and oranges comparison - thermal envelopes, performance targets, size, use cases, etc.

In hindsight perhaps it's unsurprising this hire didn't pan out and unfortunately it may have torpedoed Intel's short term competitiveness.
It didn't make a lasting revenue stream for Intel, and Apple didn't take the ex-qualcomm exec with the business.
What are you talking about? Your employer shouldn't have access to your private activities in the first place. Just because you are out of office and you send a company email doesn't make it private.
Cut more costs.
It's crazy to think that airplanes fly by wire over a cloud computing service.
Anecdote, but when I was an intern back in college I had a single designated mentor but his job mostly consisted of getting me to be more confident and ask fewer questions when I could spend more time researching solutions myself.

My code was also subject to in-person code reviews by several engineers which was extremely valuable as it made me more comfortable with the whole team. This allowed me to become comfortable enough to ask other members of the team questions, freeing my mentor from being overwhelmed by me.

It was very much a "takes a village" approach and was an extremely valuable experience. Again, though, there was also a lot of emphasis on not wasting too much of any one person's time. Mostly because the team was a bit too happy to help me out for several hours instead of doing their own (much higher priority) work.
Just an hour ago I read an article from a psychotherapist that dealt somewhat about changing careers. I think the gist of it was some people might have to learn how to deal with disappoing their snobby parents and strangers when taking a step back to evaluate different potential careers, including those that pay substantially less, in order to find a more exciting career that, overall, adds more value to your life despite not outwardly looking impressive to strangers. Something to think about?

https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/what-should-tr...