skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They recommend different versions of books I’ve read. They recommend two different versions of Lord of the Rings (one of my favorite books), but I guess they don’t know these are the same book.

This is failure mode of recommendations is so common and so catastrophically useless that I do not understand how it has not been solved.

I'm into photography, so every now and then I buy a lens from Amazon. Immediately after I do, every Amazon ad banner on every website in the world switches to advertising that specific lens, for like the next month (I guess until I buy something else).

Lenses are very specific, expensive, and singular. There is almost no reason to ever have two of the same lens. The day after I buy a lens, it is practically the least likely product in the world that I will buy.

Show me anything but that. I mean, actually, don't. I like this failure mode because it makes it easy to tune out the ads. If they showed me related gear (perhaps filters that fit the lens), I might get suckered into spending more.

But, seriously, how is this not fixed?
This is incorrectly being downvoted. The parent absolutely has a point, given GP's choice of words ("you can't seem to figure out how to read a book now...")
- join Peace Corps and work entirely in Korean in a rural health center for two years with minimal English. Or that's how one used to do it. Stressful but effective.

- as with all foreign language speakers, the rules are subtly different for outsiders. Just copying native speakers can result in unpleasantness. In Korean, non-Koreans who "misuse" "panmal" (the blunt, informal speech level) by closely imitating friends can come across unintentionally as thuggish. There as elsewhere foreigners are held to higher standards.
> WFH shifts most of the burden onto management. Managers should put 120-150% of effort in planning, communication, documentation and checking.

I don't understand the connection between the first and second statements. Can you clarify? How does WFH put more burden on management?
So, he’s a little pompous.

The woke movement is about power. It’s like “Anonymous” with better PR/public perception (good initial purpose, then it becomes a nom-de-guerre that anyone can take up)

People who choose to perform its language claim it’s about racial or gender outcomes. “Saints” lead the way in pursuing meaningful change, “believers” follow them.

Then, when “sociopaths” figure out how to use the blessed language to for _personal_ (or in-group) power grabs (and destory livelihoods in the process), one should call the followers “useful idiots”.

I see Uncle Bob doing a poor job of sympathetically articulating potential (or realized) issues with the moment*. And using words that aren’t from the right tribal dictionary. But I see respondents avoiding substantive responses and trying to tar and feather him for word choice. Cardinal Richelou’ing him.

> If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [1]

Your claim is bold and your proof is lacking.

You won't be spared because you agree (or claim to). I hope your performative martyrdom here satisfies you, because your imagined allies Do. Not. Care.

People acting like bad NLP software. Finding banned words instead of constructing parse trees.

Thank you for being clear about the backing of your claims. I find them thin.

This response is hardly site-guidelines worthy. Sorry.

[1]: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu#disputed
9/11: Ten Years Later
People used it very sparingly. It's not at all different from working in an open plan office. If anything it's better, as you can drop off from the call if you don't want to be disturbed. No such luxury in the office. And of course this only works with Google's usual "family sized" teams of 5-7 people.
That the call to be judgmental is OP's personal construction that he/she is trying to ascribe to others who likely do not share that trait.
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No. Instead, I demand that y'all become better educated. Be less racist, less sexist, and less religious. It's not hard, other than that there's reading and thinking required.

We are some of the most powerful engineers on the planet, and we have extreme ethical obligations as a result. We don't get to abdicate our ethical reasoning just because we enter the realm of politics. Indeed, it is more important, not less, that we focus on improving our ethical attitudes.
It's really not luxurious. 6000 euros brand new.
Also on Reuters: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-arm-holdings-m-a-nvidia/nv...
It would be interesting to see where that is the case, for all countries. Is it decided per city, county or state in the US?
If I invited a dozen guests to a party at my house and half of them objected to having #7 on the guest list because he's a shitbag, it would not bother me one bit to have him disinvited.

If, on the other hand, I myself were disinvited in such a manner, my first thought would be to reassess my recent behavior rather than suing the house owner.
https://archive.is/12VZ4
Really appreciate your time looking into this and apologies, missed your original post. You got the answeres right. Re 2 - it shouldn't be that hard to add, since everything is just data. It is however partially covered by the retry property on each step.
Will read through your additional comments and will respond tomorrow (busy day, plus it's midnight here in Europe)!
Cheers
Miro
> This gives you the ability to vote for B while appearing to vote for A.

Sure, as long as you're fine with whatever retribution the guy you sold your vote to chooses to take.
Sure. But the question was: why doesn't MOND get more love? And the answer is: because it doesn't actually solve the problem. Nothing solves the problem at the moment. That's what makes this such a juicy mystery.
I think the biggest mistake people not used to WFH make is they drop too much of their routine. Of course I am not talking about the commute but I refer to simple events from taking a shower each morning to dressing for work. All these rituals are important and should only be discarded where its not viable.

I even make sure to my favorite fast food breakfast once a week and coffee twice a week. Fortunately for me that is but a ten minute drive one way to the closest place to fill that requirement but it fulfills the ritual.

One item to remember to add in to that time and money savings of your commute, you safety and security has gone up as well
I think the point of MOND is that it explains a higher proportion of galaxies with a single parameter than something where you have to pick a parameter for each galaxy strictly from observation.

Key to note that this doesn't mean it's right. But one wonders why there isn't more skepticism about conventional dark matter theories.

Like what if I said "there isn't global warming, there's just a mysterious unobservable dark thermal input adjustment that we have to apply to every month's reading to make our models work out". You'd say that I was crazy.
thats good to know, i wonder if there are some differences between older and newer inceneration facilities...

when i lived near the ocean in kawasaki there was always some black fine-grained soot that would slowly build up over the year on a veranda, and wondered if it wasnt the nearby incinerators...
I've noticed the a similar thing working with game console devkits. I can get most of my work done remotely, but due to the streaming/latency required it feels slower. I feel like for certain performance-sensitive tasks I'd need a special day in front of the hardware to test things.
I draw mine like a capital H minus the lower left segment and I gave up trying to get it to recognize it. It kept coming up 7 or 9
More precisely, it doesn't have a string type.
As an EE I know what you're talking about. But office won't be an option until November 4th. /s
It really depends on what you mean by general purpose.

At work we use Elixir for web and data ingestion, and I could have used Ruby for web but Ruby is considerably behind for data stuff.

Elixir is fine for one-off scripts, Ruby and Python may be a bit more convenient, but overall they are all too heavy to distribute compared to languages like Go and Rust.

Elixir is also used for high-end embedded and there is the whole distributed programming bits, which is quite specific to its platform, and more complicated to setup in almost all other places.

So overall it does provide some nice coverage across a couple areas although it lacks on other ones (GUIs, ML, etc).
Wouldn't be that suprising if he got death threads and got scared.
Not the OP, but my apartment building has three different types of trash containers in the yard; there's one for glass; there's one for paper, plastic and aluminum cans together (I presume because those can be separated automatically somehow), and the third is for general household waste. The garbage collection fees are based on the volume of the general waste, collecting the sorted "recyclable"(it's not necessarily recycled) trash is subsidized to be free.

There's the fourth type of trash that we sort out which is things like batteries and electronics waste; these shall not be put in household waste but should be disposed in 'centralised' containers which are located at e.g. supermarkets.
Not a motorhead, was the defacto V8 from GM the "small block"?
A Woman Taking over TikTok at the Toughest Time
This is a very interesting question!

I guess the usefulness of anonymity depends on the situation in the country. For instance in Armenia we do not have absentee ballots just for that reason. And before the 2018 revolution there was large percentage of bought/intimidated vote in all elections. There was a recording how owner of a supermarket chain held a meeting of all employees demanding from them a list of the ids and names of their relatives with promises to vote for him. With this kind of tactic their party ended up taking 68%, as many people were afraid that they could be found if they try to vote not the way they have promised.

Another thing to consider is that filling absentee ballots is a much more complex endeavor, than standing at the booth and making sure people vote the right way.

But in general i think in the situations when secret ballot can actually change the election result, there are much larger problems in the society, which secret ballot won't help to solve.

For instance in Rome secret ballot was introduced only at 139 BC and arguably made the following period of social troubles worse. After all every vote is a dry-run for a civil war, to see who would win without going into war, and it is useful only if it convinces both sides that war is not worth it. But if someone can't even openly say how he have voted, how he can hope to protect the result of his vote? So i think in Rome it ended up causing the civil war.
One of the core beliefs I have for understanding the world is that equality is an unstable equilibrium.

Imagine an almost perfectly balanced democracy where everyone has nearly equal agency and power. At some point, maybe at the political level of brownian motion, someone will have a tiny edge. They will naturally use that bit of extra power to garner a little more power. Because the most useful thing to with a little extra power is always to capture some more.

Compound that over many iterations and your democracy is dead.

Thus, I believe that all systems of equality and democracy need active, constant recalibration to maintain fairness. There is no perfectly written constitution that you can set in motion like clockwork and have it run flawlessly forever. There is no static equilibrium, but you can have dynamic equilibrium. Constant vigilance.
My team has a similar tool. So, everyone is in the room, muted and no-volume. So, if someone needs my attention they can send a bell but when my audio is off its only a visual bell, so it won't interrupt the deep work. And one can always exit the channel if needed - which is shown in status, so folks know your DND or not available.

But, one can monitor the channel so it behaves like a water cooler too. And up-scales to video and screen share super fast. (Faster than other tools) It's really quite flexible.

We've been using this pattern for about 60 months. We all (6 humans) seem to like it OK.
Yes,right, every country other than US should ban Facebook
I think it's a natural reaction after Einstein. The whole physics world was certain about this Aether thing, and it turned out to be wrong and much more beautifully solved by plain geometry. "Dark matter", taken at surface level, sounds like going down the exact same rabbit hole.

There's a fundamental difference though. With dark matter, the evidence of the stuff is much more direct and precise. We can determine the shape and concentration of it. Aether on the other hand was a hand-wavy metaphysical concept from the beginning. There was never any experimental evidence that aether was a real thing; it was just a concept invented to patch up the inherent inconsistencies in electromagnetic theory near the speed of light.
I've seen people looking for extremely specific books get stuck

At least some number of writers seem to get started by wanting to read a book that doesn't exist, so they decide to write it themselves.
But if you have to do everything yourself, check everything in the world yourself, defend yourself, why on earth do you need government at all?

I think those people rightfully expect that from the government, because no one can be aware of every single thing.
Sometimes one just needs to say thank you.
There won't be a lawsuit. There was never intended to be a lawsuit. There are no grounds for a lawsuit! This is all about getting exposure and perhaps channeling wallets towards his Patreon (or SubscribeStar, or whatever platform is en vogue with the bob martins right now).
It's not quite a secret, you can see yourself if you look closely enough.
In Finland in 2019, 625000 used cars were sold vs. 114200 new car registrations. I believe these include both private and company cars, though.

This would be 85% used cars, 15% new cars.

The average age of a bought used car was 13.3 years.

https://www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/uutta-dataa-kaytetyn-auto...
Making time an unsigned 32 would break any code that computes a difference of times.
It is entirely possible technically to decompose PLA. It is "poly-lactic acid" and is a fairly straightforward polymer to decompose down to lactic acid which naturally degrades. It is legitimate to describe it as "compostable" in that there are a variety of ways to destroy it, including enzymes but I think just high pressure steam will do it. Modern industrial composting processes will destroy it.

What's broken is that in places where municipal compost isn't both commonly used and capable of handling the modern process this stuff gets chucked in compost that's capable of nothing more than food scraps or thrown in the recycling where it ruins the entire batch. Compost that can't handle more than food scraps is super common, it's much cheaper and easier to set up than an industrial system. I've seen people chuck this compostable plastic into home compost bins -- that's just not how it works.

These containers should not exist anywhere that a city does not have an existing commonly used compost system capable of handling them. Until then this stuff needs to be understood to be trash. It is not recyclable under any circumstances, it's too hard to sort out and throw away.

There's very few places that this does more good than harm.
on a somewhat related note, I've always wished for something like `explicit` that prevents assigning different typedefs for the same underlying type to each other. like suppose I have two types, WorldVec (vector in worldspace) and ViewVec (vector in view/sceenspace). under the hood they are both typedefs for float[3], so I can freely assign them back and forth. but any vector operation that mixes the types would almost always be a bug, since they are in different spaces. would be cool to get this functionality out of the humble typedef.
Ah, thanks for that article, it might come in handy :)

I thought about doing it this way, but was rather planning to do it slightly differently, by building the right modulator (at, what was it? 2600 bauds? it should be pretty doable to bit-bang using an arduino, or the RPI's GPIO. Maybe even with a digital output, though I'm thinking of using a DAC. Or hell, if using a raspberrypi, why not the audio or video output?

Another option is to bypass the motherboard and use the CRT + keyboard. A friend of mine plans to do just that, and I saw someone post this link on your blog: http://www.cfp-radio.com/realisations/rea48/minitel-01.html

Well, that's for the plans... It's pretty unlikely I'll start this project before 6 months, as I have a lot on my plate :/
The fact that you think your own (presumably leftist and antitheist) political ideology is the only “ethical” choice is an indicator that you are the closed-minded one.
I initially thought this would be about "humans" learning to summarize longer texts in a smart way. It's a topic dear to my heart; in fact, I even launched a little side project a few years back, called MNMN [0], with the aim of providing summarization of interesting articles or discussions on the web. I started with my own itch to scratch: Hacker News homepage, which I religiously read pretty much every day.

Here's an example of how the Hacker News home page would be summarized: [1].

Instead, this "learning to summarize" article is about another interesting topic, which is how you teach an AI (GPT-2 and GPT-3) how to summarize text. It's also - bear with me - something dear to my heart, as I used to teach compilers at a CS course in an Italian university in 2004-2006, and I developed an interest for languages in general (not just computer ones).

This one below is the central point of the article, and it is indeed a crucial part of having success with an AI (note: LM stands for Language Model):

> IMO there are two almost unrelated ideas going on in OpenAI’s preference learning work.

> First, the idea of collecting binary preference annotations on LM samples, and (in some way) tuning the LM so its samples are better aligned with the preferences.

> Second, a specific method for tuning the sampling behavior of LMs to maximize an (arbitrary) score function defined over entire samples.

We are, IMHO, at the cusp of a true revolution in linguistics. Can't wait to see what happens in the coming 18-24 months. I expect to be blown away on at least a few fronts.

[0]: https://github.com/simonebrunozzi/MNMN

[1]: https://github.com/simonebrunozzi/MNMN/blob/master/Weekly-Su...
Boston. New York. San Francisco (inner).
I probably lack the imagination and there's probably a lot I don't know. Because it's not all adding up for me.

Let's say the US decides to use some new UScoin cryptocurrency. And that as part of that network all transactions are taxed automatically and it goes into the US governments wallet.

Now let's say everyone can create a UScoin wallet or not. But in the US, any company is regulated such that it must pay its employees in US coins, and any company must only accept payment in UScoin or otherwise convert it to UScoin.

So what's different with the status quo? Except that maybe we no longer need to waste paper?

In fact, it seems a cryptocurrency would be way easier to apply regulations and monitor, since the coin code itself could guarantee all transactions are taxed and kept track off.

You could even have it that each wallet must be associated with an SSN, and if not, the wallet coin's could be automatically taken from the wallet by the network.

Where's as today, you need to have audit mechanisms to find cheaters, with crypto it could all be guaranteed.

As I understand, currently the Bitcoin network and others have implemented relax regulations on their transactions and provide anonymity and all that. But this is only true as countries have allowed the use of the currencies. If a country wanted to ban it? How hard would that be?

And even if say you couldn't ban it, you'd still have the problem people have today. When you transfer US dollars into Bitcoin and back, this is where they can track you. This seem like it be true as well if transferring some UScoin in/out. In fact again, I think such a UScoin would make it even easier to monitor than current cash money.
I've never quite understood why Robert Martin carries so much currency in the software development world. That whole portion of industry group-think -- what to call it? consulting-revenue-oriented-dev-culture? you know, the agile/xp/enterprise software/oop-cum-fp-design-pattern "flavor of the month while pretending to be profound" thing -- had noble intentions but feels like a huge left turn in retrospect. Fortunately that crowd is taken less and less seriously as software progresses toward something more reminiscent of traditional engineering; the next generation of the sort seems to be piling into the "data science" world.

Given his views on software-related things, it's not particularly surprising to me that his approach toward a dis-invitation is... provocative, designed to go viral by tapping into certain aspects of a certain subset of dev culture, and not particularly well thought out.
The more likely explanation is that your teenagers have some public transportation available, so they can go somewhere if they want to.

Public transportation was non existent for the parent 30 years ago. If you look at cities all around the world, most tubes and overground lines were constructed in the past few decades.
Disclaimer, I'm not an astronomer.

I think that is a mischaracterization; IIRC, MOND fits the overwhelming balance of galaxies with a single parameter, and there are only a handful of exceptions (probably around in the hundreds or so?) out of all of the galaxies.

also:
MOND doesn't explain intergalactic movement, or the clumpiness of the universe. But there's ALSO no good reason to believe that that "LCDM dark matter" does either, because by the "curve-fitting nature" of LCDM it could literally explain anything. If all of the oxygen in my room went to the northeast corner of my room and suffocated me, you could come up with a dark matter field that explained that phenomenon. As a scientist, that worries me. Also doesn't mean that LCDM is wrong.
I really like the concept, but isn’t €6K a bit expensive for this? If seen as a substitute for e-mopeds, it’s 4-6 times more expensive.
Yes Arkus Duntov created the small block at GM, having previously created hemi heads for flathead Fords, amazing Belgian/Russian jewish innovator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Arkus-Duntov
If curious see also

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11789182

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7019673
"C is finished if it doesn't address the buffer overflow problem"

You should keep making this prediction ... one day you might be right! :)
...I really don't want to sound entitled, but while you're at it, could you please only keep the old CLI for compatibility purposes and come up with something that can actually be used? GPG's command line is second only to the one of openssl. And maybe git. It would really help adoption if usability was improved. Having an API instead of just CLI might also help (doesn't Enigmail just run the binary?)
Yea, thanks! I heard it once on a tour of DC. A bit more history I learned today from here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-p...
If you'd take a look at my comment history about one page back you'd know I'm not your enemy.

All I'm saying is, that with this attitude, you're doing nothing but frustrate yourself. The general HN user base is very resistant to being talked to like that.
You are arguing semantics