skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagree. I have had frequent issues with lint and other detritus collecting in Lightning ports, causing the device to no longer be able to charge until it is cleaned out. I haven't had that with USB-C (or any other type of port for that matter).

Also USB-C can charge my computer. Lightning cannot.

The entire reason I want something like USB-C is so that I can do everything with one cable. Lightning is not up to the task.
Interesting on the Twitter front and that honestly is disappointing to hear. I thought the amount of involvement his daughter had on his podcasts was oddly commercial as well. I’ll go check out his Twitter.

Agree - he has his failings for sure. I wonder if that makes him a good example or not... sometimes knowing that even those striving to do better do also fail is useful to humanize their message... similar thought with Cicero for example (vain despite his philosophies - not saying Peterson is in Cicero’s league).

He seems to have recently turned a corner post the health issues. I wonder if he is going to approach things more quietly and more carefully this go around. Sounds like he is wanting to get busy.
Sadly I can't work on many meaningful or interesting physics problems in my apartment, so im stuck programming.
While people do have a million chargers lying around from over the years, almost none of them will work with the new iPhone. The average Apple enthusiast will still end up buying one or more separately.
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I think it also comes back to the nature of social media accounts and not just Facebook. There's essentially no reason you need to delete a hotmail account, you can just completely ignore it instead. That means you never have a devil's choice of not deleting your hotmail account to keep access to xbox games.

Social media accounts are by their nature a large amount of photos, posts, tags, personal info that other people will see including employers, immigration officials, future dates. There are very good reasons you may want to delete it (and prevent future tags, wall posts) rather than just abandon it, so it becomes more problematic if you cannot without other penalties.
It'd take a lot for me to leave Figma for another tool, performances are rock-solid on my 2015 low-end MBP in the browser, granted I'm not working on the most complex UIs but I've yet to see limitations.

I do not miss Sketch one bit.
>Tell that to all the other animals on Earth. Do they not also have knowledge? Do you really think they encode their knowledge in language?

Well, actually, yes, they do. Many animals have elaborate languages encompassing many concepts. Crows can explain to one another what a human looks like, for example.
For something a little different, there's code.world
The cable is a wear item. By the time I'm ready to swap phones (3 years or so), I'm also ready for a new cable.

If I bought an iPhone 12 tomorrow, I would, at minimum, also have to buy another cable, because the one Apple included doesn't work with my existing charger. Not the end of the world, but still annoying.
I wouldn't be surprised to see anything related to type-theory on here. And I disagree that many people doing HoTT today are proposing it as an alternative foundation in anything except (categorical) homotopy theory, and I'd like to know where you see anyone doing that.

Intuitionism in HoTT isn't about constructivity, which I agree is rejected by mainstream mathematicians. It's about the models of the theory. For example, LEM doesn't hold in the category of bundles over the circle (see my other comment on here). If you think of the axiom of choice as "every surjection has a section", then this doesn't hold for topological spaces. (Take the double cover of the circle; there's no continuous section.) I disagree that these examples are uninteresting to mainstream mathematicians.
> I realized this when I got a lot better at whiteboard interviews after a FAANG job for a couple years. A coding challenge that I took the full hour on and bombed out of college was now done in twenty. I just picked up the problem solving intuition by writing a ton of code.

Were you perchance interviewing others while at FAANG or doing anything related to interviewing (speaking with coworkers about it, etc.)? I've seen plenty of people come out of FAANG worse at interviewing than they went in.

The problems I've heard most of my peers solve at FAANG are not really that relevant to interviewing. At least, none of them are like, "Yeah, man, totally kick ass at leetcode now that I've been at Facebook for a year!"
I don't see how it's a "myth" that "whiteboard interviews suck". You never write code on a whiteboard in the course of your day job. The obsession with whiteboard interviews is absolutely idiotic IMO, as is the obsession with asking deep algorithmic questions which the candidate will definitely not be able to answer convincingly if they didn't encounter them before.

It's idiotic that someone has to prepare for a month to do a 5-7 hour whiteboard interview loop that has no relation whatsoever to the job duties. You don't quiz a barbecue chef on Michelin star molecular cuisine, yet this is considered totally normal in our profession.

At a minimum, ask questions that one could figure out without knowing the answer beforehand, and at a minimum let them use their text editor. Better yet, don't do this shit at all, and ask people to solve a _practical_ problem similar to ones they're likely to encounter if they take the job. It still provides a good filter, arguably better even.

As things are now, interviews test for academic credentials, memory, and lack of flight response from candidate's amygdala, not practical technical skill per se.
I did that migration on a very large react project (hundreds of thousands of lines). As I recall, after dealing with warnings for the later 15.x releases, the upgrade was seamless. They're also good about creating codemods to make the transition easier -- something somewhat rare in the world of software libraries.
"population based" means that the control population is adjusted to match the experiment population.

In other words, you could read the line as "Vitamin D deficiency was found in 82.2% of COVID-19 cases and 47.2% of controls, when accounting for age (p<0.0001)."
I realized 4 years of teaching in grad-school precisely prepared me for whiteboard interviews. I literally spent 3 days a week working out problems on whiteboards in front of bored/annoyed people.
Choosing the best alternative rather than the most expensive doesn't mean one is poor.
The value for money you get with each device keeps going up. The update support lifetime keeps going up to the point where devices are getting 6+ years of updates while the SoC gets further ahead of the snapdragon range every year.

I have both android tablets and an iPad from 2014 and the ipad still feels like a modern device with the latest OS version while the android tablets are stuck on a 2015 build of android and feel very slow.
I agree that a major motivation here is that Apple will make a bit more money from some customers who are willing to pay. But I don't really agree with the claim that the environmental arguments are ridiculous. If everyone only buys the accessories they want, and assuming some customers previously received accessories in the box that they didn't need, then presumably this will actually reduce waste. There is still periodic "waste" when cable and charger standards change, which is happening right now, but that should happen far less often than the iPhone release cycle.
Another aside - thanks for the context. It’s always good to get a fuller picture. Something I was unaware of that I will look into - you can learn from both the good and the failings in others.
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Trump got vitamin D infusions in the hospital.
It's also something that taking a daily pill for will not have immediate effects. If you take OTC supplements today you won't see your levels increase for days or weeks.
You mean right now? Gitlab sells itself as a full-remote global-hiring company and there are plenty of others.
With Covid and everything the exception now is being physically in the office.
I don’t expect things to go back to how they were ever.

If you’re being hired for a remote role then at most salary could vary according to time zone, perhaps a small difference due to taxation issues.

Paying 40% more to get the same value from someone living in SF has no possible justification (from a business pov) if you’re hiring for a global remote position (which is what Gitlab does)

If there’s actually a business reason someone living in SF might add more value they should hire locally.

This all sounds like a lame way of ratinalizing paying more to some employees who happen to live in SF (early hires likely) while pretending everyone is treated the same according to some equation.
Ability to collaborate in real-time is not something exclusive to web apps.
You know, this happened so long ago, in 1992, that there may be nothing for Google to find. I mean the web had been invented, but there wasn't much of it at that point.

SMB server was updated eventually, so that it checked user access rights and didn't rely on the client not to request a file it wasn't allowed to see.
SMB1 however continued to be horribly insecure, sending passwords in plain text, for example, which led to SMB2, SMB3 etc.
Even as an Apple fan I found this post to be useful perspective. It is indeed an awkward change for new iPhone users, and those who don’t have USB-C chargers lying around.

Apple ameliorated that by lowering the price on the auxiliary components, and I think it’s a good change overall, but the post still has merit.
Interesting question and I agree.

Also, what are you "unusing" it for exactly that requires it to have power?
Probably because the US is already on the trajectory towards 1. The birthrate today is at an all time low of 1.73 in the US. In Africa it is currently 4.6.
Small claims court
The best I have been able to achieve is a solution which initially requires fully-custom code, and then evolves into something where the most maintenance-heavy parts are data-driven and managed via a web interface by the business.

Trying to make 100% of your solution no-code is a fool's errand at best, and a tragic whale hunt on average. Especially, if you set out to achieve a no-code solution from day 1.

There are certainly trivial problem domains where no-code solutions are good answers (e.g. IFTTT). But, there isn't much money or glory in solving trivial problems.
Similar named product https://www.gethopscotch.com/
Sketch performance feels like a web app. Figma feels native. On every platform. Go figure.
Sure, Apple also might tend to get more money per iPhone customer now, but that doesn't invalidate the environmental argument.
Very cool link. Truly depressing that every video only has 30 views!
The article explains in detail how a pressure difference can create a force, and how the process generates these differences and how the force is felt as suction, but still argues that the process doesn't suck.

A process good at testing applicants should 1) identify the good ones and 2) identify the bad ones. The standard whiteboard interview makes no attempt at (1) and works by throwing almost everyone in bucket (2) regardless of potential.

This is plainly, in general, a process that sucks. It just happens that the way it sucks is not a problem if you're FAANG.
Just have it powered on for my Apple TV, I never use any of the features of the TV, but I did connect it to the WiFi when I first set it up.
> Even with tracing it can be really subtle

The correct way of doing this is not tracing but a hermetic build. If you do a sandboxed build with nix, you will get a specific version of inkscape with a specific hash, which includes will include any inkscape extensions you include. And since the build will only be able to read files in the sandbox, none of the problems you list above can happen -- you can't pull random stuff from the network either.

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nix#Sandboxing
Hang on. The whole chain of reasoning started with FB protecting users' interests through the permission system, which NYU ostensibly circumvented. How is it in the users' interests to indemnify Facebook?
I am in tech, as you might guess ;) I know the type of people mentioned in the parent comment, they go to a handful of schools I could name specifically, and the reason they are that way is that they are either the children of multi-millionaires of billionaires, or are friends with someone who falls into that category, or at the very least go to the school and benefit from the parent donations and atmosphere. That isn't to say that there isn't a drive to do well at other schools in the valley, but it's nothing like "I'm going to start the next big thing", it's more like "I'll make good money at FAANG someday" for most people.
Alternatively, could this be an example of social justice and critical race theory being wielded by corporations and their masters against an independent mind?
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Huh. Without looking, I thought that would be a dinosaur species that someone named in jest. It turns out it's a dish in Aristophane's Assemblywomen.
Disable web fonts: about:config and set gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled to false.

Readable pages and bonus: two RCE vulnerabilities avoided so far.
Get yourself a single braided lightning to usb a cable and it will last you long after lightning ports are gone.
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Same can be said for Python, VB, and VBA.
I lost every time people compare apples and oranges. Do you realize that in case of Zoom and Webex their traffic goes via their global backbones with strict SLAs and in case of the other software it takes the Internet path (unless your company/you have their own backbone network)? The thing about Internet is that no one can guarantee you anything - bandwidth, loss, jitter and most importantly - latency. Today the quality is okayish and tomorrow it is crap - but you can’t do anything with that. That’s the thing you should keep in mind when you’re advising alternatives. Of course if you are using video conferencing to chat with your relatives from the same city (or country if your country is small enough) it will most likely be fine. Things change when you need to have multiple countries in a call.
#2 made me smile because Amazon is so blatantly against this. Amazon gives you their 12 principles and wants you to come up with 36 stories (3 per principle) about how you used these principle at work.

My interviews were far and away the least thoughtful hiring experience I’ve ever had. It was clear each person was filling out a form while I was talking, and followed up with pre-written questions. There was nothing non-traditional, and the 6 hour loop definitely did not respect my time. ~50 hours of prep, 10 total hours of interviews ( 2 hours of screening, 6 hour loop, 2 additional interviews for other roles).

I had really great interactions... after the forms we’re filled out. Interviews went well - I was put into the “recycle” status but never found a role there that really fit my experience.

Nontechnical but still tech consulting, not aws.
Fully industrialized countries already have declining birth rates and modest populations. Having more kids in places with fewer resources isn't a sustainable proposition. If you have a stable rather than exploding population, it's much easier for that population to raise its standards of living in a sustainable way.
No, Apple is telling him to care about the reduction in material waste.
Actually evaluating your knowledge is hard. Picking something to be a rough litmus test and testing that, despite it not being directly related to the job seems reasonable.

It has been 3 years since I interviewed somebody for a ML position. Mostly I focused on knowledge of model execution. Most ML libraries were horrible for use in production at the time and I was more worried that a candidate wouldn't be able to productionize a good model than I was worried they wouldn't be able to build that model.
"Nuns on the run" (Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqXZ9YoRD50
No thanks?

Bodily autonomy is arguably the most important human right.
> Rsearchers can get access to anyone's Facebook data if people enable it?

Yes. Where is the problem?
Edit: The website now redirects to https://donor.watch/ which allows you to pick the political party.
Really? I have been doing research on language models in medical diagnostics even before GPT-2, and found that when trained and applied in certain ways, language models (even much smaller than GPT-3!) are very good at diagnosis predictions, they can compete with much more complex symptom checkers at that.

Proof: Link to my paper (written back in 2019) and a bit less technical article.
http://www.dialog-21.ru/media/4632/tarasovdplusetal-069.pdf
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/language-models-multi-purpose...

I applied for GPT-3 access on the next day since the application form was available, described my research and experience in detail, but there was no reply.

Now, they gave access to these people at nabla, and they just asked a bunch of stupid questions using top-k random sampling to generate answers and claimed that this debunks something. This study debunks nothing and proves nothing, it is stupid and only done to get some hype from GPT-3 popularity.

Ok, I am sorry for being rude, but I am really upset because I spent years working on this problem using whatever computational resources I could get and obtained some interesting results, and based on these I think that GPT-3 should be capable to do amazing things for diagnostics when used properly. Why won't OpenAI give access to a researcher who wants to do some serious but a bit mundane work, but gives it to people who use it to create hype?
It's been shown in other studies that COVID-19 does not _cause_ Vitamin D deficiency, if that's what you're implying.
Moore’s Law Is Dead for DRAM and That Is Great for SemiCap – SemiAnalysis
someone who is currently diagnosed with/ treated for covid, but does not require hospitalisation?
Isn't this mostly TSMC's achievement?

Can't their other clients reach the same density?
When we bought our first family vehicle we were a little nervous about it being the right choice. After driving it for a while we began to notice how many other people drove the same model. Did other people start driving that type of car because of us? No, we just started paying attention to the frequency of our sighting that model, which led us to the conclusion that it was more popular than we realized.

The same can be true with advertisements.

In the last week this has happened to me twice: once, in a YouTube video being posted by someone that directly related to a conversation I had yet to have and a free flashlight offer appearing in an advertisement on the day I lost power from ice storms. Both were more likely coincidences than anything else.
It's not a question of whether it provides a perfect signal. It's a question of how the signal it provides compares to alternatives. Say what you will about whiteboards, but every other interview structure has its own issues, including being artificial, particularly at scale.
Its not really difficult though. When I went in to the store they showed me a row of 4 phones and told me the 11 was the most sensible option as well as the benefits you get from the pro. Picking a colour and storage option wasn't really an issue either.
> I'm working in a small startup team, writing some fairly powerful software, for free

If you don't mind my brusqueness, how are you feeding yourself?
>But I don't really agree with the claim that the environmental arguments are ridiculous.

Their arguments are completely and utterly ridiculous given Apple's other behavior. Environmental considerations clearly don't motivate them a single bit.

If they gave even a single shit about the environment their devices would have easily replaceable batteries and would be designed to last instead of to be replaced every year.

Also this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/07/apple-g...

And this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z17HAA-moY

Etc.
I had already purchased the Oculus and a few apps, so I can't take it back. However, I went into the settings on my phone and restricted facebook to 1 minute a day. Hopefully Congress steps in and stops these monopolistic practices. Bad Zuckerberg. Bad.
The relationship between language and the world is this: utterances both signify and depict objects and events in the real world. So, if I say "I saw Alec Baldwin at the bastketball game last night", then that depicts an event in the real world. And, if and only if the statement is true, an event similar to that depicted was part of the causal history of the utterance itself. The causal history of the utterance determines the significance of the utterance, just as the causal history of a footprint determines its' signficance. To understand a sentence is to understand what it depicts in the real world, and what it actually signifies in the real world. The ability to tell true from false is the ability to detect a disconnect between what is depicted and what is actually signified. That is what LeCun implicity means by language understanding.

So, what does a sentence produced by GPT3 signify, and what does it depict? What it signifies (ie causal history) is that this sequence of words is what human writers would most likely use when producing an utterance containing whatever trigger words the model has been fed. In other words, it's a statistical modlel. What it depicts is whatever the mapping rules for that language tell us it depicts. Since human beings usually tell the truth, a statistical model will usually produce true statements. It will also seem to have the ability to tell true from false, in many cases. But because GPT3 has no model for the significance of its sentences, it cannot be said to have any understanding of language, in the sense humans have it. LeCun's point about flying an aeroplane to the moon is essentially correct.
Depends on what you’re trying to build. It’s pretty useful for generic CRUD apps, which is 90% of business apps when you strip out the marketing speak and design...
> As things are now, interviews test for academic credentials, memory, and lack of flight response from candidate's amygdala, not practical technical skill per se.

Those sound like they might correlate well with the traits desired.
So you prefer to be locked in to a server that really serves someone else? [0]

At least, with Sketch/macOS the code is executed on the device you can control (to a degree).

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
The same goons that peddled the pseudoscience that tobacco was safe are the ones that tried to convince the world that climate change wasn't real.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tobacco-and-oil-i...
Yann LeCun knows his stuff, but he doesn't provide an answer for "What is the upper bound of results you can get from just making a bigger neural net?" The most interesting thing about GPT-3 is that they didn't appear to find that limit. They could keep going. Even if the limit exists in principle, if it's 7 orders of magnitude away, we should seriously consider whether or not the system will be smarter than a human before it reaches that point.

It could be a factor of 2 away from GPT-3! It could be something they already reached, if it is close! But we don't know. And without these answers, this is going to end up being one of the most interesting technical projects in the world.
At a university recruiting event I asked one candidate if he was willing to move to NYC to work with us. Most people say yes, a few say no thanks and move on.

This candidate said "Well my partner is considering a job in Texas."

I asked candidate if he preferred Texas to NYC.

"Not really, they have scorpions."