skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Cold War is an interesting example. We fought the Korean War relatively successfully, and we were left with the country split into a prosperous modern economy on one side and a paranoid (arguably justifiably so), insular dictatorship on the other. We lost the Vietnam War and the country is doing quite well. The Soviet Union itself fell without a direct war - ramping up spending to be able to fight a hot war was a major cause, yes, but so was the inevitable increasing spread of information.

And China now is far too powerful for us to even think about fighting a hot war against, yet if you shared the facts about it with anyone from half a century ago, they wouldn't have to think for more than a second before recognizing it as a dictatorship, a nationalist, supposedly-socialist single-party country with a cult of personality, suppression of rights in neighboring territories, and ongoing genocide. We're playing nice with them, because if we don't, we'll be annihilated.

If humans have immense capacity for evil, one of the best things we can do is limit how much damage their dark side can do. Lots of technology is great - communications technology so you can learn about the rest of the world, the ability to increase food production and provide clean water, healthcare, protection from the elements, transportation, and so forth. It's not clear to me that missiles are really the right tool.
Wow, that website is great. Thanks! It goes over learning/ schooling as well. I'd be interested to see how innovators are trying to solve the "10 mortal sins of schooling" or 50 bad habits learned at school.
Never Give up Let your inner Rockstar out
Google Manipulates Results on Barrington Declaration and Reverses?
Open letter to Activision regarding Call of Duty: Warzone's quality of service
Hey thanks, appreciate your comment. We sort of approached it from first principles i.e if we are going to be able to control length cutting at a high resolution then we need to capture hair near the base to know what hair you have captured. Then you need to straighten and apply slight tension to to able to cut it to the right length etc. And it formed from there. After the fact it's interesting how its quite similar to what a hairdresser does. Take a section of hair, cut it and move to the next. Haven't done testing on a wide range of hair types but yes that will likely be limited i.e if its to tight to run a comb through. We are implementing a new clipper mode that will auto adjust hair clippers heights as it moves, so should be able to handle blends on neck, but you are right, behind the ears is our achilles heel haha. I think the fact that it seems impossible is what keeps us interested :)
“Thirty minutes into your first video meeting in the morning, because of the concentration one needs to have on video, you're fatigued [says MS CEO].”

Sounds like he developed the ability to defocus during live meetings, sort of like learning by osmosis, but hasn’t learned, or doesn’t have the support systems via Teams to develop, the ability to defocus online. Managing the “giant floating head CEO” persona on video might make that hard to do, but most others don’t have that issue.

“In Nadella's case, he believes all those video meetings are merely transactional. The really inspired, creative work happens in casual conversations before and after meetings. Surely, at times, in bars, too.”

Or the Teams application isn’t sophisticated enough to allow employees to break down the glass wall and creatively interact with each other within the milieu of the MS microculture. Or we are just very early in the maturation of this sort of multipoint video technology.

Can’t tell whether the CEO or the author made the bar comment. It leaked from someone’s subconscious. Perhaps less time with Bill G. and more time with Bill W. is in order. No mention of opium dens, acid tests or bordellos...wimps.

“Stanford economics professor Nicholas Bloom believes working from home is, for many, a ‘productivity disaster.’... His current research is very different: ‘Most of the people I've been interviewing are working in their bedrooms or shared common rooms, with noise from their partners, family or roommates.’”.

Any published study based on those interviews might be a valuable read if he sampled approximately. Research by sound bite is not. Sounded at first in the press like Bloom was just a “golden Rolodex” academic flogging his one study in the Zeitgeist.

Finally, given the author’s continuous mention of being tired after one video meeting, perhaps someone should introduce him to mindfulness exercises or the wonders of caffeine. Sounds like a cry for help...
The problem with the lack of qualia argument is that qualia has no operationalizable, testable definition; it's something we have a fuzzy idea of based on individual experience and attribute to other entities based on similarity of behavior, but can't really with any authority say does or does not exist in anything (other than that an entity itself that experiences qualia can attribute it to themselves.)
> "What is really going on if you are making a decision is that your brain is running a calculation, and while it is doing that, you do not know what the outcome of the calculation will be. ... So, the impression of free will comes from our self-awareness, that we think about what to do, combined with our inability to predict the result of that thinking before we’re done."

What is the difference between "free will" and "the impression of free will"?

That is, what does "free will" have that "the impression of free will" does not?
I’ve ran rook for a couple of months in my test lab on virtual machines. Absolutely love it and has been super stable. Does anyone run this on bare metal in production? Running this as a hyper converge k8s setup sound like its easy to scale even if you colocate your own hardware in a dc. Which is way cheaper then cloud these days. Anyone with experience?
Actually no, that premise is completely wrong. Either you are a beacon of democracy and say you value human rights and that prevents you from supporting regimes like Saudi Arabia or you sell to whomever you like to because it's in your economic interest, but then don't pretend you're producing weapons for moral reasons.
> unless a critical mass of people actually use it there are lots of weird regressions.

Even 32-bit x86 has been having some of those weird regressions these past few years.
I am not a citizen, but pay taxes(not US). In most cases it's not the citizenship that matters for taxes, but person's fiscal residency and normally it's where you live more than 6 months in a year.

Of course, being a US citizen it's a little bit different, you have to declare and sometimes pay the taxes in different countries.
> Well, it's what the article does

Barely. I would have liked to know much more about the details of the experiment, but also why people were initially so skeptical, and what happened to make these people come around.
As an addendum, that professor I mentioned in the GP comment thought Asimov was obviously important, but not worthy of inclusion in the survey, given other great works (like Dune, Ender’s Game, Neuronancer, Left Hand of Darkness, ...).

I think Asimov’s “The Last Question”, like “They’re Made Out of Meat” are triumphs of short stories. With Asimov, character development is a weakness, but he’s still more than worthy of inclusion in the pantheon of great sci-fi writers.
LambdaConf 2015 – How to Learn Haskell in Less Than 5 Years Chris Allen
Yep. In fact, it feels to me as if you are softening things up quite a bit: sure, glorifying the military is something that every country (read as "government") tries to do, but I don't really know any modern example other than USA, where people actually buy this bullshit. Which is kinda surreal, because, let's be honest: there is absolutely nothing honourable about [strike]serving[/strike] working in the military. It's not even about being a murderer (which everyone working in the military definitely is), it's about signing up (explicitly giving the oath) to follow the orders of other murderers. So it's literally just selling any your moral principles for a quite handsome compensation (in the case of USA, anyway).

No, I'm not judging, maybe I would do it myself. I'm just refusing to pretend there's is anything honourable about that.
Small anecdote in the similar vein.

I gigged around Boston in the early 2000's playing guitar in various rock and metal bands, usually in front of 15-20 people. I had been using a 1960's Fender Bassman and changed out the tubes to some Sovtek ones. Sound guy at one of the clubs (who's had been around for 20+ years at that point and seen everything) noticed right away and asked why my amp sounded off. A little while later I bought one of the first Line 6 modeling amps and my first gig with it the same sound guy said "Ahh, you put the old tubes back in". I'm like, "Nope, totally different amp, and it's all digital.". He didn't believe me and while he was inspecting the amp kept saying "No, no, no. There's tubes in here I can smell them warming up".
Why is there not an ergonomic keyboard with trackball or some other cursor device built in, so I can use the cursor and mouse buttons without moving my hands out of place? I currently use (and love) am Advantage 2, but I would happily drop another $400 on an ergonomic keyboard with mouse.
Compared to all the other recent and present superpowers the US has actually used their weapons the most.
The context of this thread is audio processing, so having I2S (Inter-IC Sound, with DMA) on board is really valuable, as is having an additional core.

In my case, I can order a bundle of three esp8266 13.79€, or a bundle of three esp32 for 17.99€, both as the most lazy, fastest delivery option on Amazon. If you know that you don't need the extra features of the esp32, save yourself the 4.20€ (1.40€ per board) to keep the cost down. But if you're new to it and want to explore the possibilities of a modern µC, it would be a mistake to save in the wrong place.

Even consider getting a LOLIN32 Lite (three for 19.99€), since the width of the board is smaller than the normal esp32 and esp8266 dev boards, which then lets you use both sides of a breadboard to plug in cables. All the other boards are so wide, that on a normal breadboard you will have to decide which side of the board you want to have a row of externally accessible pins, and on the other side all the cables must be plugged in below the board (search for "LOLIN32 Lite width breadboard")

Saving on cost can also be a premature optimization.

> Or are you referring to hobbyists?

Any context that is not production. Development, Education, Hobby.
Covid-19 patient with no respiratory symptoms suffers brain damage
Nope, the space seems to be legitimately missing. Probably got eaten by OCR or whatever method of transcription they use.
I'd love to see some facts to backup these claims around "not allowed to", otherwise this is just armchair speculation. I get the premises of why these could be denied by regulating bodies, but as I'm writing a book relevant to the subject I'd like to see some sources.
What about Facebook buying Instagram and WhatsApp?
Maybe NJ/NY have different tax rates on gas?
Great points. Thank you.

Is something like this capable of being run as a distributed computing project, akin to something like folding at home?

Are there any obstacles that would make recreating a GPT-3 via a distributed system impossible...other than GPT-4 coming out before completion of such a system?
Ask HN: Google Maps mixed with Picasa content?
I looked with Google maps to places where I was used to bicycle when I was young, near Versailles in France.

While pocking through the various places on the map, I got a Google Maps URL [0] which displays something weird, it looks like an advertisement for a magician above a dark car.

But when one moves with Google Maps to this place [1] from some yards/meters away, there is no such picture, even more surprising not only there is no black car with a weird advertisement but a car parked nearby is replaced by a truck in the other Google Maps screen?

My wife pointed out that there is a Picasa icon in this Google Maps screen. Indeed the URL I got from Google, has another URL imbedded in it "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com" which is probably from Picasa or Google Photos cloud.

[0] https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.6850276,2.0047107,3a,75y,276.24h,1t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPl5KzRbCySD1-ptnqKmKhBEyHChaBX5AsClsGp!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPl5KzRbCySD1-ptnqKmKhBEyHChaBX5AsClsGp%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya160-ro-0-fo100!7i6080!8i3040

[1] https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.6848456,2.0040998,3a,75y,49.21h,58.05t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgGxIvqBLTLvR-PvYSYkNjw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
> If the only thing that should matter is skills, it wouldn't make sense in any realistic scenario that 75% of H1Bs are coming from a country with 15% of the population.

It would if that's where most of the people with both skills and the view that the US is a better place to sell them than where they currently live are.

Skills being the only thing that matter on the US side doesn't stop other factors from mattering on the other side.
When talking ICBM level, the primary difference between a weapon and a peaceful satellite launcher is the little bit that sits on the tip of the rocket - the payload. Early satellites were literally launched on ICBMs, and if memory serves me right, US military still repurposes ICBMs for launching its satellites.
Why aren't they kicked out? Why do people need green cards if they can stay?
FAT32 isn't often included these days in Linux FS benchmarks [0] but some older benchmarks [1] also show noticeable performance differences, especially when the workload is more meaningful than copy files. Lack of features does not imply efficient design. Caching was optional with Windows 98 and sometimes was turned off by default, depending on how the drive was formatted (partition type) and the IO driver (BIOS, LBA, OEM) loaded. The referenced Linux benchmarks probably limit the variability here since I think Linux tends to follow the same code paths, independent of the partition types.

BTW, Windows benchmarks tend to follow same pattern of FAT32 being slower than newer filesystems. [2][3][4]

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_us...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20010627181258/http://bulma.lug....

[2] https://www.flexense.com/fat32_exfat_ntfs_usb3_performance_c...

[3] https://www.sami-lehtinen.net/blog/exfat-fat32-ntfs-real-lif...

[4] https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-file-system-ntfs,31...
I'm excited for async module loading for web assembly.
Yes, SHARC is pretty widespread.

I'm not talking about the DSP though.

You need an ADC on the frontend and a DAC on the backend.
I have been following a 16:8 routine during lockdown and have found a modest weight loss, but there are loads of confounding factors - I find myself eating healthier, i have been running 5ish K each day etc.

That's all under the heading of "eating healthily and exercising". But looking for one specific item in a whole life change is looking at the wrong problem.

We are looking in the wrong place here - we live in an "obesogenic" world - rather than looking for a fix that helps us live with aisles in super markets stuffed with sugar and crisps, shouldn't we take those aisles away? A coffee shop does not need cakes, just good company. A fast food takeaway does not have to be fried.

It's not the fault of each of us as individuals that (so many) of us cannot resist what we are programmed to eat.

It's the fault of "us" as society - we talk about designing better cities, more walkable, more community - it one of those designs we also need is access to healthy food.

Nobel laureate Richard Thaler talks about a Libertarian Paternalism - i think we need to consider something like it.
Is there a non-intrusive (and hopefully inexpensive) imaging technique that can be used on a living population rather than depending on cadaver dissection? Doppler, ultrasound, or even modified consumer wrist reflective PPG (like in the Apple Watch) should be able to detect the median artery. I imagine nerves are harder to map.
> it's kind of weird how we managed to create a world where nearly everybody has a boss

It’s a feature. Cycles get rid of hierarchies and individual corruption.
Isn't this just the broken window fallacy though? Creating work is not a good thing in and of itself.
Samsung's Fold Phone Went from Laughable Gimmick to Serious Contender in a Year
That's because returns are not due to faulty products, they are due to people trying to exploit the system.

I have bought hundreds of items on Amazon and never had to send back any. I bought thousands, of different types, on other services and I only ever had to send back two and that due to the fact the seller sent a wrong item.

I always do at least a very quick research regarding the seller and the item so that probably helps.

But the 30% I can understand is due to people who never intend to buy the product or buy a bunch of them to send some back.

I can sort of understand it in some of the categories (for example clothes) but I also see a lot of people proclaiming how smart they are because they surf on the wave of products they never pay for.
The US, USSR, China, Japan, and Germany are all the superpowers from the past century, and they all got in some wars with each other, sometimes via client states. In the recent decades after Germany and Japan exited the scene, the wars have been relatively small.
Hitler success among germans is due to the high burden WWI winners imposed on germany. Other countries may have relieved pressure on germany and maybe Hitler may have been stopped before he became something among germans.

Don't give people a reason to litigate and they won't fight.

Try to consider that countries where there is a common level of wealth and welfare, have lower rates of criminality (i.e. Norway).

Have you ever thought how much money has been spent in "defense" (ironically any country had and has a "defense" ministry, even those countries who attack) during human history? Can you imagine what could have been done if that money had gone into peace research?

I know that when a war has been started then you have to fight but you can try to prevent it. So instead of working on missiles control system it's better if you work on diplomacy and software that provides wealth and knowledge to the people.

Remember: this world could be heaven if we want it to be. Do what you want to do to make it heaven or hell.
Good thing they don't mind flooding the market in Iraq, Syria, or Lebanon!
I'm going to be downvoted again, but what I'm trying to say is that Ergodox is to ergonomic keyboard what GraphQL is to REST.

There are some specific use case in which Ergodox is better but most of the time the best choice is to go with Kinesis.
Also possibly due to the fact that due to being so far away from the conflict and having a huge industrial economy with hundreds of millions of people, the US came out of WWII a lot stronger and more influential than they entered it. I think that was the moment the modern US was born.

The head of this new force and later the whole country, Eisenhower, even warned us that the military-industrial complex he leveraged was starting to become too powerful: https://youtu.be/uGd-rkPoGa4
> Auction, auction, auction

This is how labor was brought in from Africa not too long ago. I agree a market solution is probably the least unfair one. But, as a country, America should not make the same past, historical mistakes.
Conclusions: A-LCD (low carbohydrate diet) could exert a beneficial effect on depression and glycometabolism in patients with T2DM. We speculate that the role of a-LCD in improving depression in patients with T2DM may be associated with it stimulating the growth of SCFAs-producing bacteria, increasing SCFAs production and GPR43 activation, and further maintaining GLP-1 secretion. In future studies, the SCFAs and GPR43 activation should be further examined.
Your classifier is an energy-based model & you should treat it like one [pdf]
I feel like here and on Reddit:

* about 80% of people want minimal to no censorship by tech companies (google, fb, whoever). This is because tech companies can’t be trusted .

* about 80% of people demand immediate heavy censorship by tech companies since the negative impacts of climate denial, and other fake news is massive and you can’t trust the average moron not to believe whatever they read on fox.com (the earth is flat!)
Isn’t Searle’s argument based on the equally far-fetched axiom that a program could be written which (a) passes the Turing test, and (b) could be executed by a human using pencil and paper, with sufficient speed to not fail the Turing test?
Amazon also makes zero effort to inform people when they have listings for items and are not an authorized retailer, which invalidates warrantees and leaves consumers with no recourse if there is a manufacturing defect or other problem that would normally be taken care of without issue.
Yes (though the details are private).

All the deep learning libraries are Python wrappers around C/C++ (which then call into CUDA). If you call the C++ layers directly, you have control over the memory operations applied to your data. The biggest wins come from reducing the number of copies, reducing the number of transfers between CPU and GPU memory, and speeding up operations by moving them from the CPU to the GPU (or vice versa).

This is basically what the article does, but if you want to squeeze out all the performance, the Python layer is still an abstraction that gets in the way of directly choosing what happens to the memory.
Amazon has become an expensive place to shop for everyday items. I've found they typically don't have the best prices anymore and many of my tastes have changed over the years.

They are still super useful to find those hard to get parts that would typically be impossible to find locally or at least very expensive. Like a carburetor for a chainsaw or a part for an appliance, bearings for a hood fan motor, monitor arm, etc.

A lot of retailers have picked up their game when it comes to online shopping. Places like rockauto.com for auto parts are super competitive and offer a massive inventory (what a great acquisition it would be for AMZN to break into the auto parts sector). Newegg/MicroCenter for PC parts, Costco, etc.

But over all I can't remember the last time I had to return anything and my experience over the last 20 years has been a positive one.
A nice video showing some real world effects of non-ideal probes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zodpCuxwn_o
This is an unbelievably kind response. Nice job friend and thanks for working on a Saturday!!! :)
From my experience, I simply end up eating more after breaking the fast, so overall the same amount of calories a day (if not more).
YEAH, that...