skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that joke was made without rebuke by anyone in the group means it was a common occurrence. If it was your boss and you didn't notify hr still means you are okay with such a joke so. The decision to let go the whole group was the correct call. Lax enforcement of rules usually results in making rules worthless
Concise Deep Learning Overview [pdf]
This appendix chapter of Algorithms for Decision covers deep learning techniques in a concise but encompassing 17 pages. Algorithms for Decision Making provides a broad introduction to algorithms for decision making under uncertainty and covers a wide variety of topics related to decision making, introducing the underlying mathematical problem formulations and the algorithms for solving them. It is available online for free, but the authors seek to also publish with MIT Press.
No complexity is hidden here. Streamlet is (essentially) in the same setting as paxos. Just like in paxos, messages can take arbitrarily long to deliver.

The only assumption is that clocks are synchronized, which is much, much weaker. (We can actually remove even this assumption. But it's easier to think about this way.)

i.e. I think it's monday at the same time you think it's monday, or I think it's epoch 1 at the same time you think it's epoch 1. or my quartz crystal oscillates at the same rate as your quartz crystal. Importantly, a message sent during epoch 1 might arrive in epoch 3, or never at all.

Paxos is also in the partially synchronous setting - it requires some network synchrony in order to terminate, just like streamlet (For truly asynchronous protocols, there's a whole, complicated literature).
Really good to see Nat Friedman working towards resolving this issue.
The Product Complexity Paradox
It is very likely that the packets of this comment traveled through several FPGAs to get from your computer to my screen. Yes, they are definitely more niche than CPUs. But niche products have really high margins and people willing to pay for them.

FPGAs are already incredibly popular. They're just mostly in things you are unlikely to personally own or know about. You're going to find at minimum one, but probably more FPGAs in things like big routers and other telecom equipment, e.g. cell towers, firewalls, load balancers, enterprise wifi controllers, video conferencing hardware, test equipment like oscilloscopes, sensor buoys, scientific instruments, MRI machines, LIDARs, high end radio equipment, or even just glue logic tying together other components, like in the iphone.
From the earnings call last week:

> Hey, Elon, a question on LIDAR. If LIDAR were totally free, would you want to use it in your cars near term? Would that tech significantly help Tesla on the training of your neural network for FSD?

> I mean totally free, well, I think probably — I think even if it was free, we wouldn't put it on.

https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2020/10/22/te...
I'm apparently old and a quick Google search wasn't helpful. What does "find me a a squirt" mean?

And how could this person have known that "find me a squirt" would return an employee?
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Check out FX-322. This med may be a way to simply cure tinnitus (and more).
Everyone and their dog have a pet theory on the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Let me copy a previous comment of mine.[0]

My dream is a book/blog explaining historic processes with Ishikawa cause-and-effect fishbone diagrams.[1] For history, the main branches of the fishbone could be: Military, Economy, Society, Politics, and Nature. So a tentative diagram explaining the fall of the Western Roman Empire would have:

* Military: weakened army (increasing dependence on mercenaries), fights with the Germanic tribes (in turn, caused by the expansion of the Huns).

* Economy: inflation (debasement of currency), decline in the influx of slaves (end of expansion), lost taxation from some provinces (Germanic invasions), decline in maritime trade (Vandalic pirates), decline of agriculture (excessive taxes), drain of money (trade deficit with the Eastern Empire).

* Society: decline of civic virtue (expansion of Christianity), loss of ties with Rome in the provinces.

* Politics: political instability, overly powerful Praetorian Guard.

* Nature: population decline (Antonine Plague, Plague of Cyprian), soil erosion (deforestation, excessive grazing, soil salinization).

Improving the diagram and making similar diagrams explaining other events and processes is left as an exercise to the reader.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23190738

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikawa_diagram
Well for now you need it for logal reasons of course.

What you suggest is an interesting idea, a total change on how we think about truck logistics. Its certainty possible but I don't know if we will ever get there. By the time the legal things are sorted out, the trucks might just drive themselves all the way to the destination.
Agreed. There are options for low res / narrower FOV lider as well with fewer moving parts / lower cost. At some point for safety you end up with a question - is it worth a few hundred $ to have definitive depth data in some directions.

For tesla's, they have in the past struggled with stopped objects - so you have a tesla going straight into something at 70 mph on autopilot (highway dividers, stopped trucks, crossing trucks). They also suffer from phantom braking which is very disruptive, and the fix may have been to basically to disable emergency breaking in these areas which increases risks if something is stopped there. Lider, even lower rest, would really help in all of this plus pedestrian detection for emergency breaking there (see China videos of teslas crushing mocked-up walkers in videos there).

Google also is building absolutely nuts training data for wide stereo vision recognition if they wanted. They are driving these vehicles generating very hi def point clouds with synchronized video. In terms of a training data set for a vision based system, this is basically a dream situation. Ie, if google wanted to reduce lidar reliance, they may be well positioned for that as well.

Finally, what people want is level 5 autonomous driving. What trucking companies want is level 5. So they are skipping some of the earlier levels but getting to where I think people want this to go. Could a trucking company put a lot right near freeway and waymo get's the truck from lot to lot (1000's of miles) with then last mile hand driven? The savings would be huge there.
They have a conference going on (see the banner at the top of nextjs.org), so they're launching a bunch of new stuff.
And not having any of the plethora of conditions that also put one in a high risk category.
Was working on a 3D game with a programmer who didn't demonstrate knowledge of LA. (Maybe he had it, but he hid it well.) Several times we'd find him multiplying by matrix A and then by matrix A' (or doing multiplications by some random constant and then dividing the result by that same constant to get the sizing correct) because he was in the habit of jiggling things just until they weren't obviously broken.

I always assumed that he was just a one-off, but I suspect this could easily arise from copy/paste and framework usage. (I'm also not sure I think this is universally bad; I think it's great that early teenagers can whip up a Minecraft-ish demo without having to learn all of linear algebra first.)
… and people would look into https://svelte.dev which might be everything you need.
> Verkada board chairman Hans Robertson has said publicly that he intentionally hired a team of “sales athletes,” and Verkada’s strategy is to “make the culture really fun.”
> we're all just autocompleting

That's pretty much it. I do belive it's possible to actually develop "will", but almost nobody thinks that they need to work on such things. They confuse being a programmed robot with being a programmer.
Roll it into Firebase maybe
Is support for nested routes going to be added any time soon?

If I don't want a full page reload when clicking a new tab for example? Or if I want to implement the age old header, sidebar main content layout without importing the header/sidebar in all my routes/components?

I'm aware there are hacks to get around this but would be nice if the standard next router supported nested routing with persistent layouts for those who need it : https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/8193
SpaceX Launches Starlink App
xilinx is the holder of more than 4000 patents.
The big elephant in the room most of these frameworks are missing is partial hydration. Instead of hydrating the whole page, only the interactive parts are hydrated, sending the absolutely minimal JS needed to the client.

AFAIK only Marko has this feature today. Since it's developed and used at Ebay they focused on the best SSR+hydration experience from the start.

Imba v2 will also have patial hydration (confirmed by the devs here on HN).

Other than those two, it seems nobody is really taking partial/progressive/lazy hydration seriously. IMO SSR+partial hydration is really the next frontier in web development.

It's possible to do it yourself (I did it recently with a Svelte project) but it results in complicated setups. We need a solution that does it transparently, extracting the needed components and data automatically.
Taking Ideas Seriously Is Hard
Whoa, lots of excellent artwork! Thank you!
I think it's more like "the vast majority simply don't care, until they do". That is, I think most people think "Who cares if merchant XYZ knows I changed my shampoo brand", but when people are actually shown the full set of data that is known about them, and how that data is correlated with with tons of other data sources, and that data is used to make fairly accurate predictions about your behavior which affects what products and services are promoted to you, that's when your average person goes "holy shit!"

Right now it's just "out of sight, out of mind" and the full capabilities of what is possible with aggregated data is just not apparent to your average person.
The articles are more focused on how the brain works, which imo is equally as important (though not as interesting for me), for purposes of copying/replicating consciousness/intelligence, for example.
> The tax savings are a big deal.

Seriously - where else can you instantly make dollars worth more than $1?
I've been testing this out with a 600 page research paper before the launch of 2.0 and now continuing after. Love the annotations, works very well for my purposes.

Really enjoying the updates so far. The dark mode inverting the actual PDF to dark is a nice touch for reading (and I can toggle it off for visualization heavy portions).
I would have expected a responsible disclosure timeline, but it looks like he didn't report this to MS
Does remind me a bit of "Breaking News: The Suit is Back!" I guess no code is back too. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Hahaha, awesome, the other day playing around with the metrics stuff, I though it'd be nice to have a visual widget of the stats, this is better !
Yes, backtracking still might be an option although has its known limitations in terms of parallel paths. We describe backtracking in this class too.

The LL in the the view of manual Recursive descent is the most used on practice along with combinators and LALR(1).
Maybe a driver would still be in the truck for non-highway situations, but could be sleeping in the cab so the vehicle utilization time is higher and goods delivered quicker on long hauls.
There is a TiddlyWiki plugin for relating different tiddlers: TiddlyMap. It allows creation of concept maps.
I use calibre as my main "library" and used polar as the reader it hooked up to for note-taking + stats

Curious if it's worth moving off the convenience of 1.0 for mandatory cloud storage otherwise.

I would assume it's elastic with storage so I could just continue to use it as a reader and delete books as I finished(?)
Can you run code written in 2015 on the latest version?
I’m curious to know what the processes were that led to this. One or more API engineers either never thought to implement permissions; never thought to ask when it wasn’t in the spec; or did ask, were told not to do it, and then didn’t.

It’s pretty basic stuff.
Sadly, it's not solved in the rest of the world either.

LGBT rights in Poland and Russia are in dire straits. In Chechnya, I think they still deport gay people. In far too many countries, homosexuality is still illegal. Even in the Western world, growing up gay or trans often is associated with a measurably higher level of stress.

Of course, it got better, but it's still not over.
The “Google deprecates stuff” thing is a tired meme that’s obviously not applicable. Waymo cost a ton of money to create. The most significant thing Google has ever given up on was Google+ and that wasn’t until the product had basically been dead for 7 years. Sure, Google likes to shut down dead products and unmonitized side-projects when nobody wants to run them anymore, but there’s no basis for the idea that Google shuts down products more significant than Google+ was in its dying year.
It had logs, but they were not useful.

However reading docs, it looks like my complaint is dated. In version 1.6 (released in 2015) they added the application_name_add_host parameter which sticks the client ip and port to application_name. This allows bad queries to be tracked back to the source machine.

I wish I had had that feature available to me when I needed it...
Can someone please comment his post here? (I don't have fb account and don't want to sign up)
yes, see the `--track-changes` option: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#option--track-changes
Almost everyone uses a “recursive DNS resolver“ provided by their ISP, or one of the big ones from Google/Cloudflare/Cisco. The recursive resolver does all the hard work of resolving the root, top-leevl-domain, the apex domain, the subdomain, any CNAMEs, and finally find the right IP addresses to respond to the DNS client. Recursive resolvers benefit a lot from caching responses at each stage of the chain, the same way your browser/OS/router DNS client benefit from caching the final responses from the recursive resolvers. If you run a full DNS resolver, you have do to all of these steps locally.
... What mechanism is used to perform incremental builds? It is referenced in the article and unexplained from what I can tell. What enables "quickly" for you to determine what needs to be built? Make simply compares timestamps I believe.

... What mechanisms/tricks speed up builds? Or is it just the "simplicity" that is the BFD?

Edit: It sure would have been helpful if somewhere was stated: "the build system of Chrome":-)

That statement indicates a huge difference between some rando build system on someone's personal project, and a build system on operating-system-size codebase that is over a decade old.
Also worth noting that all the Chinese companies that operate popular browsers (Tencent, Alibaba, Xiaomi, and Qihoo 360, etc.) ended up censoring that specific GitHub page because they didn't like it (https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/3/18294030/tencent-xiaomi-ch...).

And the way they did it was so shady. They basically revealed to the world that they are able and willing to replace the content on any website and as a user then you'll have no idea if they did it or not (for instance, one of the browsers made the repo visible but prevented people from starring the repo). CCP could easily order all these browsers (which come pre-installed with their cheap phones) to rewrite the content on any website. Imagine them rewriting the content of Wikipedia articles, Twitter posts, Google search results, hijacking download links to download software bundled with spyware (e.g. if you were to download Chrome), etc.

If they're willing to engage in such shady behaviour and break all users' trust just because they didn't like a repo complaining about long work hours, then imagine what they would do with all your financial transactions. My god. The fact that we're allowing these companies into our markets truly saddens me.
They got the biggest financial penalty in the history of the company apparently, and I'm sure more actions not mentioned here.
Help ML Revolutionize Education
“AI tutors” can give every student greater access to the individualized attention they need.

The inaugural Riiid AIEd Challenge, announced this month, hopes to make that a reality by inviting leading global AI talent to compete on Google’s Kaggle competition platform to create deep learning algorithms for education.

The goal is to create algorithms that can track the knowledge states of more than a million students in the wild. Already, the challenge has been joined by nearly 1,200 competitors, more than 10 percent of which are Kaggle Grandmasters.

Knowledge tracing can model student comprehension as they interact with coursework and is used to predict how the student will perform on future interactions so that a study plan can be adapted to the student’s individual needs.

The winning teams in the annual competition will share $100,000 in prize money and the winning model will be presented at a workshop at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence conference in February next year.

The competition is based on the world’s largest dataset of student-AI interactions, called EdNet, created by a Korean-based AI education company, Riiid.

“As an adviser to this important event, I look forward to reviewing AI-backed solutions that can give educators insightful directions to best coach young minds,” said Paul Kim, Associate Dean and Chief Technology Officer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education.

AI and the Internet hold the promise of democratizing quality education. By focusing the best AI minds in the world on the improvement of AI-enabled education, researchers and teachers together can design a new paradigm for education in the post-COVID era.

Craig S. Smith is a former New York Times correspondent and host of the podcast, Eye on AI. Anyone interested in participating in the Riiid AIEd Challenge should visit https://www.ednetchallenge.ai for more details.
That's interesting, GPT-3 can do classification too? Or did I misunderstood and you meant your engineers used classification to build a language model that didn't perform as well as GPT-3 (which is less surprising indeed) ?
How is Mastodon censored? Specific instances or is the general community actively censoring content across instances?
>You can know that something is the right thing to do but not have the courage to physically harm someone to do it.

In this specific case the "thing to do" is literally to harm hundreds of thousands of people.

The reasoning behind this proposed interlock is that any logic which concludes that it is moral and rational to harm hundreds of thousands of people must also conclude that it is moral and rational to harm the "interlock" individual. Otherwise, it is likely that dropping the bomb would be a mistake.
George Hotz makes some good points about Waymo. At best it's a slower Uber (drives more timidly and slower) with the potential to be cheaper. So let's customers trade time for money. But uber pool already does that and accounts for about 10% of rides - in other words it's not a trade off the market demands.

Then add to that it's had like ten billion dollars of investment. So it needs to turn into an uber sized company or it will be a failure. Not exactly standard Silicon Valley MVP style prove the business model, acquire customers, and then get series A investment.

Even if it can solve self driving, it could still fail as a company.
At the original 60oz/$800 million dollars, would that make it the most expensive bit of mineral on Earth in 2023?
According to the New England Journal of Medicine, 80% of antibiotics in the US are used in animals.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1311479

But that's less total antibiotics, which totals only around 18,000 tonnes. (Assuming that the data are comparable, which I wouldn't guarantee.)
Minute Pleroma
Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to researchers
This is just horrible!

And the bug reporter issue is blocked!
I'm hoping that this is a server-side bug and not by-design.
I would be extremely disappointed to see a widely-used enterprise product by a company with such stature to be designed with such little forethought.
While not a test for the belief directly nor a test of consciousness, I would start with making a sufficiently advanced embodied reinforcement learning agent that can do each of these things on a super basic level, then test for emergent goal setting and seeking.
> But why can't they spin the spacecraft after the sample is secure in the return capsule, but before reaching Earth? Is it precisely in the center of mass?

They might be able to, but there’s no reason to. The purpose of the sample mass measurement was to determine if they needed to try again, however that’s not an option with a jammed container.
It is quite interesting that LeCun is very critical when it comes to GPT from OpenAI. The same arguments can also be said for the current deep learning paradigm and convolutional nets, but you don't see any criticism from him when it comes to this stuff. Look at his arguments when he is tweet-debating with Gary Marcus.
London Heathrow has face-tracking gates. Entering the US has required fingerprints for many years, at least for me.

I can't imagine how an international traveller could in good faith single out China as having "total control" on these grounds in a way that is qualitatively different from Western countries.
Lol, touche. I feel like this problem goes beyond Notion and it is propagating like a meme throughout the developer communities.
How Europe Missed The Transistor (2005)
Algorithms Are Making Economic Inequality Worse
Techno-nationalism is shaping the future of your internet – Quartz
Will robots and AI take our jobs in Covid-19’s socially distanced era?
VCs reload ahead of the election as unicorns power ahead
Then China must not have 2% to 5% cash back rewards on their credit cards.
Google updates Firebase app development tools to boost productivity
Instacart is surpassing Target and Kroger in online grocery delivery
One of the Raft introduction videos claims that there are approximately 12 people on the planet who fully understand Paxos.

This is contrasted with a Leslie Lamport quote insisting that it is so simple everyone could understand it.

I suspect this means that Mr Lamport would make a terrible professor.
Your employer is liable for state and local employment taxes wherever you go. They need to know where you live.
IMO it might be a good idea to store binary assets in Git from a "history management" point of view.

However it's a mess when you have to deal with a lot of huge files. Not especially because of bad-habit but because it's hard to manage on day-to-day and you will face a lot of issues.

One of the issues I got recently is the time required to switch between branches (if LFS-tracked files are changing). It is due to the "checkout" and how git-lfs works (see the Github issue). Actually it copies the file... This operation takes time... Instead it could use hard-link or symbolic-link.
You don't need one to see it.
It is coming soon.

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/10344
Imagine the pickup managed to deviate the asteroids course so that it hits us! You wanted 100 grammes of rock, 78 billion kg incoming! :D
I think your comment and the parent are addressing slightly different points. Your assertion about the destruction and rebirth of companies/societies as good and necessary can be true at the same time as the assertion that that process is an absolute nightmare for the people involved.

I think I agree with you about the Hayflick limit idea, but I also think it's useful to point out, as the parent does, that a sclerotic, moribund empire is probably a better place to live for the majority of people in it than not an empire, assuming there is trade and general stability.