skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't. It's a response to the person I was replying to, who called me a liar.
Being a prosecutor doesn't disqualify anyone from office.

However I'm not happy with one like Harris being president. It's not illegal. I just don't like it and voted accordingly. I believe that type of person has a certain mindset. Entirely subjective.

The Iraq war proponents I think speaks for itself. Not interested in boots on the ground in Syria.

Second amendment rights, progressive taxation changes, not a fan. Who knows what other types of affirmative actions or different treatments based on race are planned in an effort to achieve this or that. Hints are: maybe. Don't care for it. I don't believe that works. Subjective, but since you asked. I actually believe Biden/Harris do have a better healthcare plan then Trump who obviously has none.

As for the last part, there is pretty clear evidence at least "some" fraud occurred. Every election of this size has that.

Statistically I find the entire thing a bit suspicious. Gains in house but not Trump? Unlikely. Differences between similar ethnic groups in swing states and not swing state big cities? Possible. Suspicious. The 11'th hour timing and stop count? Suspicious. This kind of thing: https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1325593635996512257? Suspicious. None of this is proof. We will see what the courts say and what is able to be proved. Just... suspicious.

These big rust belt cities have had a lot of fraud. People have been indicted. A bunch. Philly? Detroit? I don't think I need citations on this. So I'm supposed to believe after the past 4 years of shrill hatred and weekly allegations from the left now they don't just this one time?

I hope my point is clear. It's not Trump that undermines the process. It's the way that it went down. He is supposed to just go along with what he thinks is fraudulent? Ignore possible threats to the democratic process?

I hope my point on that is clear anyway, that's how I feel about that.
While generics is definitely an issue, all to often people simply have not learned to use Go properly. They are stuck in usage patterns from their former preferred language.

I remember as a Objective-C developer all these Java/C++ guys complaining. So often it was because they were trying to use Objective-C as if it was Java or C++.

Now as a Julia user I see all these Python guys complaining about stuff which is really about Julia not working like Python.

A lot of people just don’t have time for the language they are using. They just want to bang out stuff as quickly as possible in the way they are used to.

Not saying that is your case but I have seen plenty of complaints regarding generics in Go which could easily have been solved in other ways if one actually understood the language. Go without generics is not the same as Java without generics.
Majority of population likely has pre-existing immunity to SARS-CoV-2
I disagree. All problems you mentioned are fundamentally hard. It is unfair to say that a logistical challenge is easier simply because it involves refrigeration at scale as opposed to research, weapons development, or computing at scale.
I think you're ignoring other aspects of that kind of decision-making. Yes, the feature here is "power efficient, high quality mobile video streaming", but consider that content producers have to encode, store, and serve multiple different formats (plus more licensing fees for the encoders) in order to serve all their users. That's incredibly wasteful and causes people all sorts of headaches on the backend. Both Apple's stuff and WebM do indeed satisfy the user-facing feature requirements, but Apple could have just used WebM and saved content producers a lot of time and money (which often -- but admittedly not always -- translates into saving end-customers money as well).

There's of course a balance to be maintained; if we single-source our streaming video codecs, that will dampen innovation in that space. But I'd hope there's a less wasteful middle ground than the place we're at now.
Could a Peasant Defeat a Knight in Battle?
Thought experiment.

An entity is conscious if:

- it has external inputs and a facility for creating a symbolized account of them,

- it has a facility that stores these accounts,

- it can order those accounts roughly by time,

- it can place or relate a symbol representing itself in these accounts.

The quality of consciousness varies widely, a program that has an object that references itself and can do the above things is very technically conscious but likely nowhere near to the depth of a human being.
> why are we policing this way?

Because we created police forces to round up slaves and then just kept adding more responsibilities to them. In fact, before we had ambulances, police officers would just throw the injured/sick in the back of their paddy wagon and drive them to a doctor. Frustrated with the staggeringly high death rate for people in his community, a black doctor eventually created the idea of an ambulance and specialized paramedics who handle that situation instead of police. It was so effective, white neighborhoods started calling him too and we eventually adopted the idea everywhere.

The idea of defunding the police means to do more of that. Trained specialists for different types of calls who are dispatched based on need. Much like how police will often show up with an ambulance to make sure it’s safe but then leave pretty quickly once they confirm it is, the same could be done with other non-violent calls like the one you described.

This isn’t rocket science, and it’s well steeped in research. We just need to be able to get over our biases.
Show me two IP addresses on one interface with ifconfig. No, alias interfaces do not count.
> I chuckle at Journalists
> Mr. Musk

Found the brainless redditor defending elon musk at all costs. Go back to the_d
Nope. Tragedy of commons means that everybody share a legit right over resources but management fails. This is invasion, burn and plunder by a third part (one that does not necessarily has a legit right over the resource) while the commons are sleeping.

Totally different situation.
Why Pfizer’s Ultra-Cold Covid-19 Vaccine Will Not Be at the Local Pharmacy Soon
I haven't even been a developer long, but I remember everyone was using Eclipse then Sublime then Atom then Brackets then VSCode. This was all within a span of 3 years.

I've been using vim for most of my career but will use other tools when pairing or working with others, the only thing I regret is not learning the intricacies of vim more.

I'm not proficient but every few months I improve more and more, and it's nice to use a tool that has been around for decades and will continue to be around for decades more.
I appreciate your answer and your take on the subject, I'll definitely check VoVNet2 out. I think the practice of taking whatever model is currently achieving SotA results and fine-tuning it on one's data is bringing results, but at the same time it makes it too easy to just blindly apply those models.

I think part of the problem is that it's currently too easy to reach for the big models - why train one from scratch where you can just tweak a few layers and get better results.
Just get a monitor that supports Picture in Picture use two computers instead of one.
From the article:

> Some would argue that editors cannot recognize Pokémon names, but lines in the text such as “a journal publishing this paper does not practice peer review and must therefore be predatory” or “this invited article is in a predatory journal that likely does not practice peer review” would have tipped off anyone who bothered to read the articles. These papers did not slip in under the radar; they were welcomed in blindly.
For the Precursor platform, though, I believe being FPGA-based is a specifically-desired feature. Bunnie did a hardware security talk at Chaos Computer Congress 36 (https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5706) that argued for using FPGAs as a means to gain visibility into the "hardware" to find implementation backdoors.
There’s some cool stuff from OpenAI and Uber AI Labs scaling up neuroevolution (disclosure: these were my former colleagues at Uber). Check out the work from Ken Stanley and Jeff Clune, plus Tim Salimans. They solved most of the Atari suite comparably to the DQN from Deepmind (these are RL tasks).
Making a pen plotter:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3340918
It completely broke down in Victoria, Australia when daily case numbers got into the hundreds, so a full lockdown was imposed.

It’s working fine again now that case numbers are negligible.
I don't know, they are doing something, just not anything useful I think. Over the past few weeks, I had found a group that posts 'deals'...on crap I don't need, but usually promo codes to buy things for a dollar or two. I've become a bit prolific reviewer since my wife and I compete for reviews/helpful/ranks(stupid, I know).

What do you know...Amazon started deleting my reviews. 20 or so deleted so far, and a lot of helpful votes gone as well. If I try to re-review any of those, it tells me I'm not allowed to review this item from my account. So great, I'm a scammer now.

Between fake reviews, and now this - Amazon effectively having wasted my time it took writing reviews, I've been ordering more from Walmart. Sure they aren't great, but they aren't Amazon.
I can speak from experience having built and supported a complex commercial React + Rails GraphQL app over the past year or so. The Evil Martians blog posts were really helpful in getting started.

I have to say though, it's extremely un-railsy and the N+1 problem is hard to solve without creating heaps of extra loader types. The overarching issue is that from the front end perspective all queries are equal, where in fact some are much more expensive than others. I end up spending most of my time optimising the query resolvers to perform well for the set of queries the front end actually makes as it's not feasible to optimise for all possible outcomes.

The front end development experience was made marginally better, but it created far more problems than it was worth. It's harder to debug, it's harder to isolate performance problems, and the Rails documentation and battle-tested experience (not just todo apps) detailed in blogs and on stackoverflow is thin.

Unless you have a really good reason I would steer clear for now. Better to spend your time solving business problems than wrangling an immature framework.
One problem with the current color scheme is what I'd call the dynamic range of volumes. If the input is a mix of very loud and very quiet waves, as often the case in club music, its ACF will look like a stormy ocean: huge slow waves with a lot of ripples on them. ACF doesn't lose this information, but visualizing it is difficult.

Edit. The generated images in fact contain the small ripples, but our eyes don't notice the 0.1% modulation of color. If they did, we'd see bright orange-blue waves with a fine pattern of wavelets colored with a slightly different shade of orange and blue. People who can see 100 shades of orange would see this pattern.
Don’t get me wrong, I think what those guys are doing is cool, but it’s 130nm, a fairly small die, and it’s not a fully custom ASIC. That’s how they’re getting the cost down to under $100K.
“Degree of Customization: Only what is available through configuration of the design template”
I'll add to the cacophony and say that my journey has been IntelliJ (when I was in college learning Java) -> VSCode -> Spacemacs (w/evil mode) -> (Neo)Vim

Over time I've been getting more and more drawn to the trinity of lightweight, control, and reduction of noise/overhead. I don't like having things that I didn't specifically require/install/configure. I really appreciate the philosophy of starting at stock vim, and then add configuration/tools when you realize you need/want them. [ And of course, vim keybindings can't be beat ;) ]
To be fair they are warning you that the portion size might be larger than you’d like.
The problem is the server has a connection to the database that’s infinitely more reliable than the client -> server.

I’ve dealt with garbage REST APIs with tons of sequential calls and in low reliability scenarios 1 call is a massive improvement over a scenario where 4-5 sequential calls need to be made and if/when one of them fails you need to start over.

Now the client has to handle result caching and all the different error states because some server dev couldn't be bothered to batch a few calls and return all the required models.
It's one of the few things Taleb is wrong about.
Depends on your skills as a gardener and your grocery store, I suppose. Some of my tomatoes were better than the best grocery store tomatoes and some were worse. In any case, the claim was not about flavor, but about nutrition profile, and a lot being "missing" from grocery store produce.
Fixed, thanks and apologies for the issue.
It is my position that Amazon reviews are pointless. All I want to know is the number sold and the number of issues or returns and the reason.
Hey, I got one of those too. Tried to report it, but Amazon won't even accept reports about sellers buying reviews. And then the product vanished from the store after a week or so.
For what it's worth, I play MMOs with malware anti cheats on a VM all the time with a Pci-pass-through setup. Event he ones that are known for detecting VMs don't seem to detect me under QEMU. Go figure.
Economic productivity/fiscal consumption statistics strongly disagree with you.

Do you have a metric you think is better than IQ?
> More than anything I suspect this is a result of allowing so much unfiltered spam calls.

Yep. I never answer unrecognized numbers anymore, and nobody I've talked to about it does, either.

Welcome to what society looks like when social trust declines. It will keep getting worse unless and until people discover that the commons actually matters and is more than something to scam and find some way to parasitically monetize.
You know what else correlates to income and wealth? Income and wealth. Why use an intermediary metric?

Anyways, the point of skilled immigration is not to only favor the rich or the only favor the poor. The point is to get above average people with clear proof of success in academia or professionally.

Our refugee system is for those who need sanctuary.

Our diversity lottery system was for increasing diversity in our population.

Each path is for different things, but we don’t have a IQ Visa.
It's nothing like that. It's the convenience that the platform provides that nobody seems to want to give up. FB definitely makes it much more easier to catch up with my peers compared to email/phone.

> There is no need to be "connected" with people on demand 24/7.

It's the the other way around. I'm not after the 24/7 connectedness, but rather for the on-demand information polling about some of my friend's status/life events. This includes messenger and instagram.
Be it Keycloak, Gluu, FusionAuth - I’m in total agreement to pull user management out of your app - even if you are a keeping things as simple as a rails monolith.

The cognitive overload of having to align PM’s, ops, internal support, etc with a custom solution is worth any of the downsides.

If you’d sat through any sprint planning or architecture exercise in a sizable org for auth, these can be a magic wand.
DVI just encodes VGA signal in digital form :( Same for HDMI. Both are still sending pixels at VGA timings, Hsync/Vsync/blanking and all, with clocking locked to PixelClock.

DisplayPort is packetized, but not in a 100% sane way. You would expect that clean slate purely digital interface designers would at least optionally allow sending whole screen update at a time. Alas you are still sending same VGA formatted pixel stream (Hsync/Vsync/blanking), just chopped into TUs (32-64 symbol Transfer Units) with stuffing (aka never used garbage) between them, even when connected to eDP display supporting Panel Self-Refresh (own frame buffer inside display).
Impossible has tried to quantify the total energy and water inputs, and found that their burgers are still only 5% or so of the inputs of meat.

Obviously they could be fudging the numbers, but meat is also really, really inefficient.
I had a teacher that solved this by saying all exams were open book, and then put so many questions that if you didnt know the material you'd just run out of time.

Basically you could look up a very low number of things in the amount of time per question allotted
Both share the same idea, but math is certainly different. Those cymatics patterns are solutions of the u_tt = u_xx + u_yy equation with t modulated by a sine wave and the images themselves are reflections of light in the u(x, y) surface.
Just think of all those now obsolete Slingboxes in homes and warehouses. Mass-produced products such as this really should be treated similar to industrial waste.
It should then probably try to refrain from "liberating" other countries or sponsoring coups that install authoritarian but cooperative governments.
Many corporation do in fact perform basic research. Maybe not of the "particle accelerator" form that you ask for, and most likely less than what you'd want, but it does happen. I don't think a list of examples would change your opinion, so let's just leave it at that.

You are of course right that most of the benefits of new discoveries is of the form of externalities that don't get captured by the discoverer, or patent holder. Moreover, as you point out, we haven't seen too many fundamental, revolutionary discoveries as we've seen in first half of 20th century, to come from private labs recently. That's all true, but my response is that we haven't seen much of those recently from state-funded labs either. Science productivity per dollar is falling all around the globe, even as research spendings keep growing. Maybe there simply aren't too many science revolutions left to have?

If you don't agree with the above, and believe that there's a huge research opportunity with great ROI for society at large, why focus your ire on Apple? Why not blame the government that in your view is supposed to be funding that? Why not reduce hundreds of billions US government is spending on, say, healthcare, and instead spend that on fundamental research if it's as huge ROI as you believe it is? California has great history of publicly funded research institutions, why not just tax Apple more and spend the proceeds on fundamental research? The answer is, of course, that if California did actually tax Apple more, the resulting revenue would fund teacher's pensions and some other high speed rail to nowhere, and even less of the Apple's pile of cash would get used for research than it is when Apple is buying corporate bonds.

The truth is that fundamental research is hard, and spending more money would not necessarily bring better results. The incentive structure of doing science on public dime is already broken as it is, and there's no clear way to fix it. Focusing on that would bring bigger ROI than throwing some of Apple's cash pile into fire.
You clearly missed the facetious tone of that part, along with the entire rest of the post.

So let me simplify - if to use a language correctly requires knowing the full history of the language, along with explicitly eschewing some of the key features of the language (except in certain cases when you need them! And they're not deprecated or issue warnings or similar by the compiler), and even extremely experienced developers using the language still make mistakes...the issue is with the language.
Good luck defining consciousness..
Vegan keto is a pretty small intersection of the Venn diagram of foods, particularly if you're also avoiding refined seed oils.
As opposed to REST which, in practice, seemingly defines the network interface by what was convenient to the database layout?
Packets that still have to encode and adhere to strict VGA timings (Hsync/Vsync/blanking), and you arent allowed to send anything useful between the packets unless its a blanking period.
I had a professor that intentionally asked a question which wikipedia has the wrong answer... Called out and shamed everyone who used wikipedia as a source.
I think it's not just about termination, it's broadly about restricted semantics.

If we had a meta-language like Lisp or ML that had very good capabilities to quickly develop DSLs with very clean restricted semantics for every particular component of a big system, and tooling to automate proofs for said restricted semantics, it'd be much easier to prove the validity of any piece of code.

The scenario we currently have is quite different, so it requires heroic efforts to get any kind of guarantee on big systems (e.g. the Astree static analyzer or seL4).

Citing Alan Perlis: "Beware of the Turing tar pit, where everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy".
I guess the key point is being an “island” is not enough when you have 300M+ people with huge amounts of intermingling, and the virus has already taken hold.

Australia and NZ were able to control their outbreaks (even then with great difficulty in the case of my state of Victoria AU) because the populations are much smaller and the virus was not widespread when the severity of the threat became apparent.
GPT-3 is a new machine learning text prediction model, which has been trained by OpenAI for a large amount of money (translated into computing power). They're providing access through API in a beta program, in which the author of this site is participating. The author has set a special prompt (beginning of the text) so the model is inclined to generate what a Philosopher AI would have said.
The State of the Multi-Billion Dollar Console Gaming Market
Your amounts are laughably low for the person who sparked this topic of discussion. Eric Schmidt has $14.2 billion dollars.

4 million in a stash account is nothing more than weekend
vacation money.

Let's be honest, for most people hiding your money from the government, just means you can't access it anymore---which makes it essentially useless to you. For the current day mega-rich, they don't have any ties to the maffia, or other shady operations that would incentivize them having black-money funds.

Re-invest your money for low taxes, pay your taxes, and you will still be a billionaire next year, and won't have to every worry about black helicopters snatching you from your yacht.
I'm the kind of person who dropped out of college anyway, so it really doesn't matter. But I would have told any professor pulling this nonsense to get stuffed.

This is far less about cheating than petty power tripping. (They should, of course, feel free to abuse each other in what ever ways they find enjoyable. But this is really not my thing.)
It's just a random sound sample I found on freesound.

The demo works on Firefox 78, Ubuntu. However you'd have to set correct sample rate with ?sr=44.1 to match the mp3's sample rate: Firefox won't do resampling.
Get ready for the downvotes
I don't believe in censorship. I only upvote.
Reflections on the late election by Curtis Yarvin
President-elect Biden is a Machiavellian's dream—especially the way it happened.
Found the guy who didn't study any psychology
Your point (if coherent, hard to say) was not articulated well.

The $50k thing has nothing to do with status, it has to do with amazon already possessing a very good signal as to whether or not this account is "real".

It is potentially interesting in the context of whether or not amazon is in fact serious about improving SNR in their review system.
At this point it's not a startup, it's a hobby
No. The original site was a Java/J2EE application, and that's what the small team you refer to helped to stabilize on the rescue. We got it working well enough to make it through that first enrollment year. There was no rewrite into Ruby on Rails.

Later, and over time, key components of HealthCare.gov were redesigned and rebuilt. Rails was used for some, Go for others, and there is still some Java from the original design.
> McDonald's hasn't even made tasty meat burgers a reality

That might well be true in some countries. Certainly not true in Australia.