skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's a service many things can happen.

Hacking aside... these are many ways in which it can go wrong:

- There can be an outage and you get locked out of your keys. You can have a connectivity issue to the service.

- The service can be discontinued or they could randomly terminate your account based on some automated system decision by mistake, sometimes with no right to appeal...

- They can change leadership and start mismanaging the service, or start selling your data like the services you use and such.

- They can start cutting corners and rushing unsafe things live.

- They can offshore all their development and reboot the team somewhere cheaper, at the expense of introducing defects during the transition.

- They can be ordered by a government to have a backdoor.

- There can be disgruntled employees, infiltrators, bad hires, malicious employees, etc...

And finally, they're a famous service that is known to have the keys to many other systems. This makes it very lucrative for a black hat to attempt to hack them. Even smart, dedicated people are not safe from 0day vulnerabilities that nobody know they exist.

Many things can go wrong. And what happens when they do? you can get locked out of essential services you need, or someone can ruin your life, force you to pay a ransom or even make you homeless if they wanted to.

Then, there are other aspects I don't like much. You can set a secure password, but then your browser will ask you to remember it. Some services allow you to skip MFA in a trusted computer... so then all your stuff is simply behind physical access to one of the trusted devices.

I don't know, it just doesn't feel right to me.

And by the way: I started by saying it's an opinion. It's an unpopular, provocative opinion, but I was honest enough to communicate it was indeed an opinion. I did not say it was a fact. Opinions are subjective, facts are not.
Thinking is the work - wherever or however you do it best.

Typing the code is an artifact of the work.

This is something that drives me nuts about interview questions where people want to “watch me think” - I don’t think sitting at my keyboard. I usually walk around the block or in my yard when thinking through the hard parts.
I actually do think there is a market for bite-sized chunks of video with a unifying storyline. There's a reason that all tv show episodes aren't just one long episode. So why not push the boundaries of that and break up a normal tv show episode into smaller ones?

It seems there are 3 different types of videos with decreasing segment (or episode) lengths: movies, tv shows, bite-sized shows. Each has its own place for user needs. I think sometimes people don't want to (or don't have time) watch a full movie, so they opt for a tv episode. Similarly, sometimes they don't want to watch a full tv episode.
GPLed programs are used by millions of people who don't "give anything back".
We need to fix our feedback loops
Just because you have technical chops, doesn't mean you're magically imbued with the ability to conjure up demand for sci-fi-tier products.

Commercialization isn't about how smart you are or how elegant your product is. It's about finding someone else's problem and convincing them to pay you to solve it.

This isn't a jab at Andrew (Coursera shows he has a very good head for commercialization), and this platform looks like a perfectly acceptable solution to a particular customer demand.

It's just a reminder that selling things can sometimes look boring to techies, because customers usually have boring problems.
I would definitely put TikTok much closer to Quibi/Youtube than to Twitter/Facebook. Maybe Instagram, but most people go to TikTok to consume media, not to conversations.
We tried this "subsidise nothing" approach in britain in the 1800, people had to pay for being in jail, and for being judged. There was no public police, investigation or fire service. It was miserable, corruption was massive, streets were dangerous, and whole towns burned to the ground. Penatly for the smallest crime was death, and it didn't help.

Either you accept that civilisation needs infrastructure to function, or you live like a medieval peasant.
Good related wipikedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_cooling

And a fun old documentary about the building of part of the underground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwRRSJ_wtIg
Hi, thanks for looking at my paper. If you're interested in the relation between Lucas-Penrose stuff and enumeratability of ordinal codes, you might like I.J. Good (1969), "Godel's theorem is a red herring" (2 pages). Can you elaborate on what it is about my paper that strikes you as crankery? I'm a fan of yours so it would be much appreciated.
Microsoft and I believe Qualcomm research took this and did two follow-on versions. They gave a joint keynote talk at ISCA (2018?) on their experiences, but I can't seem to find any slides or video on it.

I recall them saying it looked to give them roughly the same performance as state-of-the-art processors with ~30% less power; but that's a hard gamble for the $100Ms required to get to a product (especially if it requires a new ISA).
Same! Maybe activist short-seller should be my runner-up.
How exactly are you using the terms "push-based" and "pull-based" advertising here? Are you describing "opt-in" vs "opt-out"? I.e. all advertising would be made illegal unless the user explicitly consented to seeing it, which could be done in exchange for free access to services?

It's an interesting idea, but I don't see how it'd be compatible with e.g. the first amendment (especially the unfortunate recent ruling in Citizens United).

And I'm curious as to what exactly your system would look like in regards to such currently ad-supported services as Google Maps, Gmail, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Would your expectation be that most of these would have to become subscription or pay-per-use services with no free tier? Because I don't see any world in which all of the free services would continue to exist as-is without any ability to monetize themselves through advertising revenue.
"Generally speaking, most design patterns reveal weaknesses in the languages where they are found"
Here's a slide deck from Peter Norvig on this, Design Patterns in Dynamic Programming. He shows how many of the 23 design patterns aren't needed in languages such as Lisp or Dylan, both of which have multiple dispatch. No doubt you could apply the same philosophy to Julia today.
https://norvig.com/design-patterns/design-patterns.pdf
It's not just tech making money The data companies collect is valuable because it can be used against you. It's not just so that companies can show you ads for things you might be interested in. Surveillance capitalism means that your health insurance rates can increase because big data shows that people in your zip code eat out more often. The data collected is used to create a secret "consumer credit score" which determines things like how long you wait on hold, what stores will tell you their return policy is (their policies for you are not their policies for everyone else) and can mean you're paying more for identical products at the same website than the person next door. If you want companies to make money there are plenty of ways for them to do that without handing over your personal information which will be used for years to secretly exploit and manipulate you in ways you'll never even be aware of.
Thanks man, i'll add this to our newsletter and blog if its ok?
https://www.whatwhatgoose.com/design
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GitHub wants a lot of silly things. I want a lot of silly things. Doesn't mean we all get what we want.
After working with YAML and JSON (and XML and INI and CSV and so on), it seems like a) JSON is equivalent and simpler for basic structures, b) JSON + jq or a language library is better than YAML's complex syntax (like not being able to merge lists[1]), and c) YAML has too many ways to express the same thing. Writing YAML is basically trial and error.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/q/24090177/96588
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Why is the response time chart missing an x axis? What competitive advantage in the social networking space do they gain by not telling me their p99 request time?
Some things are not meant for the eyes of mortals...
Please provide reputable economics sources saying that USD has intrinsic value.
There is a difference between watching 6 second meme videos and full length content.
Cool yeah. Makes sense.

I mean the good news is it seems like management has gotten better across the board (nobody talked about empathy even ten years ago). So that’s good.

Someone in our company slack posted this re: Katzenberg too: https://collider.com/jeffrey-katzenberg-disney-renaissance-i...

It’s just interesting how our former leaders might be seen in new light (but yeah not to take away from the solid wins they did have and I think it’s awesome she remembered people’s names and details - the average CEO in the generation before would’ve been hard pressed to do that). Perhaps it’s good that the bar gets higher and higher.
It sounds like I was in the same boat as you but I had multiple issues with my left leg.

Saw multiple specialists and had been prescribed multiple different medications all with the same result of nothing but with new issues thanks to some side effects.

One day I decided I wanted to lose some weight and cut down my carb intake down to a very low amount per day. Shortly after making this change to my diet I noticed the problems that I was experiencing with my leg slow started to go away.

I wouldn't say the problems with my legs have completely gone away due to my diet change but it has improved my quality of life significantly.
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"This seems like {{useful but understood thing}} wrapped into a nice frontend"

Sometimes that's all you need to create a real business...

"you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

:-)
Individual people are not trained from scratch. ML models often have to be (modulo fine-tuning) since the field is still young.
Of course I'd be willing to pay for new train tracks. I've wasted days of my life in northern virginia waiting for the track to free up. And they wonder why nobody uses the train!
Meh. That's a sour grapes comment from someone who has achieved little to nothing themselves. All you need to do is watch a few of his lectures. He understands this stuff deeply, he's obviously extremely intelligent, and he, quite possibly, made stronger impact in the field than anybody else by just teaching AI better than anybody else to a much larger audience than anybody else. Likewise Hassabis' impact on the field is not to be underestimated. Deepmind is cranking out brilliant papers faster than I can read them at times. That would not be possible without Hassabis.
To the extent that it's not germane, you're the one who brought it up, and it was fair game for me to reply to. I really thought that was the main thrust of your argument (turns out it's not).
Same. Heard about them once before and thought it was at least an interesting idea. However, if you've spent that much money and generated virtually zero chitchat on various social networks and places like HN, what have you been doing on the PR front?
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Good to know.

I tried to stay under one second and got 25/32 at least two times I hit a wrong button out of reflex.
We're talking about train tracks here not military funding.
You missed the sarcasm. Replied to help you build your sarcasm filter.
Stumbled upon this the other day, seems interesting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind

"Penrose argues that human consciousness is non-algorithmic, and thus is not capable of being modeled by a conventional Turing machine, which includes a digital computer. Penrose hypothesizes that quantum mechanics plays an essential role in the understanding of human consciousness. The collapse of the quantum wavefunction is seen as playing an important role in brain function."
One could certainly contemplate versions of RL with non-linear orderings. I guess the reason people care about linear ordering is because you want the agent to at least understand "this outcome is better than that outcome". How would we hope for a good nonlinear-RL agent to behave in an environment with 2 buttons, one of which always gives reward X, and the other of which always gives reward Y, where X and Y are incomparable?
That’s how they explained it, and yet what they were actually trying to build was something that, like it or not, would compete primarily with short-form mobile content in YouTube, Facebook, tiktok, etc. And I’m pretty sure people sit around on the couch scrolling through that content for hours.
Yep, when I used Decentraleyes it was always fine. Only LocalCDN broke things.
Thanks. I thought it was that some prior radiative heat was being consumed, and wasn't being refreshed by deep water brine. Maybe thats what you said: the rate of extraction can exceed the rate of renewal?
You could use Enpass just on your own computer. You can also sync it online to have it synched to your mobile device too.
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> Google sheets is convenient for making changes and having multiple people editing, but sending an investor a model in Google sheets signals that you are not financially savvy.

I do wonder how many of these 'signals' there are, and what weight they really carry for investors.
Since childhood, I have periodically tried to reason about when the latest moment in time was that a single human could have substantially all the knowledge that humans collectively possessed.

As a kid, it was an easier thing to reason about (wrongly). As an adult, I’ve concluded that it was never possible to both have something we’d think was civilization and for one person to know substantially everything humans knew.
This is cool, but -

Can we promise we won't one day vilify milk drinkers as climate change enablers? I know the "slippery slope" is a fallacy, but it seems ever more clear that normal people sometimes don't call out unreasonable claims when they are said with some semblance of righteous indignation.

Milk drinking is an impressive and valuable accomplishment of human civilization. I hope we create sustainable ways to develop bio-identical milk, but I also hope we don't prematurely outlaw milk in the name of "science" without properly understanding the trade-offs.
It's interesting to think about how modern languages help you squeeze more functionality into those 9000 LOC.
if we allow that this combination of market power (search + ads + channels of distribution like youtube, android) wld lead to mass surveillance, what prevents other companies from arising and abusing this power? Other countries would hv to go along. I don't think trading Google dominance outside the US for Baidu solves anything.
If you make it illegal for Google to pay for it but legal for others to pay for it, then you basically enforced that all search engine defaults will not be the most popular one since they will all pay for that position while Google can't. Then the status quo is much better.
Man, I had an early model Prius for years and we LOVED that car.

The only thing I didn't like was the lack of towing capacity.
This still doesnt make sence to me - the train shipping coal across the country weighs like an aircraft carrier and is about as fast.

This not a last-minute delivery, takes days to arrive, and presumably they know their material demans many days in advance. Whats a few extra hours going to do?

Is my understanding of the system wrong?
Hi, thanks for looking at my paper. I do not assume that an AGI must be capable of performing optimally on all tasks in general--indeed, that's quite impossible. When measuring the performance of RL agents, one must come up with some way of aggregating performance across many environments, but that's beside the point of this paper. The point of this paper is that if you're forced to use real numbers as rewards, you can't even communicate all environments to the agent without misleading the agent. Whether the agent could perform well or poorly in the environments once communicated, is beside the point.
A one way ticket for Tokyo to Osaka (2.5 hrs, 515km) costs around $160 USD. Not that cheap, but you can turn up a few mins before the train, and if you miss it there's another one 10 minutes later.
Yep, I'm with USDS. It's not a problem, I'm glad to help if I can and civil engineering is a bit out of my depth.

Are there anything specific about the formats I should be asking for? I'm assuming there are hundred of different file formats (input and output alike). If I knew more about the file formats, that may make the conversation with the team easier.
Amtrak does turn a profit on the Northeast corridor. It's just that it has mandates to provide a lot of service outside the Northeast Corridor that is unprofitable.
Have you heard of 2fa?

Master password alone won't unlock the rest of passwords.
Maybe, I'm being somewhat superficial but I can't help to wonder that the name of the company/app "Quibi" only hurt their launch and not helped aside from other factors pointed out.

I wonder how many times in talking about the app have people needed to spell it out or say it's pronounced like "kwibee" not "keebee", etc. I actually needed to go to wikipedia.org to see the exact pronunciation.

So much about the branding reminds me of the "Cuil" search engine failure a decade ago. I remember seeing the original name "Cuill" in some of my request logs and thinking at the time that it was some malicious DDOS bot that wanted to see my site as "see you ill". First time that I saw in the news about "Quibi" I immediately thought of the whole "Cuil" search engine failure. Not a great first impression, but that it was.
I used to run NetBSD on all kinds of 68k based VME bus cards, and would occasionally do builds for a friends Amiga. I think he had a 33MHz '030 upgrade, so the 50Mhz '060 was quite a speed bump. The Amiga was cooler, tho. Still have a bunch of the VME kit.
To be honest, I feel like it is a completely fair request for these guys to ask for anonymous demographics (presumably to feed into their research) in exchange for providing this service ad free.

I just wish that their certs hadn't expired before I got a chance to try it!
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Because... ? https://megous.com/dl/tmp/da01875b777013e9.png
I think more of them are at discression than you suggest. Speeding being one of them places I've lived.

Regardless, the point stands I think. The point isn't that cops are handing out misdemeanors left and right, rather that it is fairly easy to dig around and find one that could be applied to nearly everyone.
Same reason as using unsafe Rust to interface w/ C/C++, to wrap the the unsafe bits and make safer API's asap. Nim's macros also making interactions with C API's safer. To be clear, I'll be glad when Nim checks these things by default (the Z3 checker will be great for that!).
I think the whole idea was about short clips on the go, since no one is going anywhere these days ..
The metro/tube in Prague has decent 4G coverage, and we are starting to see it in London
Possibly 3.3V issue? (I don't know Exos affects this)

https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Fix-the-33V-Pin-Issue-i...
So we can expect our ANN’s to yield AGI in a few million or billion years? That doesn’t sound like a good place to put our current efforts then.
Easy to come up with examples using exotic money-related constructions. Suppose there's something called a "superdollar". If you have a superdollar, you can use it to create an arbitrary number of dollars for yourself, any time you want, which you can trade for goods and services. If you want, you can also trade the superdollar itself. Now picture an environment with two buttons, one of which always rewards you one dollar, and the other of which always rewards you one superdollar. Shoe-horning this environment into traditional RL, you'd have to assign the superdollar button some finite reward, say a million. But then you would mislead the traditional-RL-agent into thinking a million dollars was as good as one superdollar, which clearly is not true.
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Does that still apply when they're skirting laws? [1]

[1]: https://mobile.twitter.com/LukeXCunningham/status/1318982719...
I like that the NetBSD user-community has now a friendly and pretty looking forum on https://www.unitedbsd.com/
I feel like in the long run this has to work. This is drawing energy from gravity itself.
I don’t use FB but I use the container feature; I keep streaming, social media, banking, separate, for example. And shopping.
I would vote for yes, Captain Disillusion. See for example videos like [0]. He's great because he follows in the spirit of people like Randi while being at the same time original and appropriate to his era by focusing on dishonest visual effects and editing.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dSp_f0f9gE&t=25s
I don't think you need to legalize anything.

My dad got a parking ticket from NYC. He hasn't left Pennsylvania in 15 years. Someone typoed a plate number. He either had to pay $55, drive over 100 miles to appear in court, or not pay the fine and become a criminal. How many people are victims of another's incompetence? Or get points on their license because they drove five miles over the speed limit on the day a shitty cop was trying to make their quota? Or lost their license because they had points from that situation, but still needed to get to work? There are so many gotchas that, for the middle class, amount to very little. But for less fortunate folks, can ruin their lives.

When you live paycheck to paycheck, the smallest infractions have a nasty habit of snowballing.
Yet you haven't provided any explanation why Google's deals with Mozilla and Apple should be considered anti-competitive. Those deals are not how Google became ubiquitous, neither in search nor in advertising.

Once again, do you think Microsoft doesn't have the same money as Google to pay for default search placement? Or do you think Apple or Mozilla won't take their money? I'm sure Microsoft has the money. They just don't want to spend it on this because they don't earn as much money from their search users as Google does, so Google outbids them.

You keep talking about generalities of Google's monopoly position, but I'm not disputing that their monopoly position is problematic and should be reigned it.

What I'm saying is that this particular lawsuit succeeding will at best be a wash all things considered, and at worst will entrench Google's moat even further if it kills off Mozilla.

Or, if you don't think so, what kind of court-imposed solution do you think will come out of this lawsuit?
ya Facebook is known for serving legal notices to anybody with facebook in the domain name.
Also, after doing that, I had to open dev tools and delete the main node for the modal that was covering the page. After that I could take the test.
Is there any reason not to host a Keepass database on any generic cloud service? That's what I'm doing at the moment. I've never encountered any sync issues or conflicts, and take backups every now and then in case that happens.
I was (I think) referring to the cooper basin project. It was non-viable on LCOE given transmission costs and rate of extraction. I can't find the remediation story links, maybe confused this with other energy/fracking problems, but the do note the fracks made mag 3.7 earthquakes, which may have been played up as a risk-side problem.